的使用Hydraulic Elevators.
Complaint has been made by a number of persons wishing to construct hydraulic elevators about the action of the Baltimore water board in declining to grant applications. A gentleman who uses one of these elevators writes:
“It seems to be the prevailing spirit in Baltimore to do nothing out of the usual routine that could possibly utilize the extraordinary natural advantages we possess over competing cities, and to allow them to forge ahead of us in everything, when we could, with hut a portion of their enterprise, distance them in many things. We are occupying the unique position among large cities of having expended only $5,000,000 for a supply of water, at a height of over 150 feet above tidewater, amounting to more than five times the ordinary daily use of the same at all elevations below 125 feet by gravity alone. According to reliable reports the water department is now receiving with the limited amount of distributing capacity at present, about $75,000 a year for elevrtor and motor water at the reasonable and fair price now charged, and it is safe to say that in two years’ time that amount would be trebled, if say $500,000 were expended for large extra mains in all localities under 100 feet above tidewater. We have a larger supply now than can he used for ordinary purposes by a city of nearly 2,000.000 inhabitants, and this at present goes over the dam at Lock Raven.”
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