WATER SUPPLY
Mr. F. E. Merrill, clerk of the Somerville, Mass., water board, is investigating the merits of various wafer meters, in anticipation of the probable introduction of a number of them by that city at that expiration of its present water contract.
In its annual report to Secretary Lamont on the condition of the United States Military Academy at West Point, the board (of which Dr. Bryant, President Cleveland’s private physician, is a member) devotes considerable space to the subject of the danger arising to the cadets and officers, owing to the yearly prevalence of malaria fever there, and insists upon the purification of the water by filtration. At the present time work is in progress on a reservoir for the collection of the running water of the Cascade and Crow’s Nest streams during the season of the free flow, with additions, when necessary, from the Round pond. The reservoir is intended to hold 75,000,000 gallons, and, when finished, will give the post a water supply assured as to quantity.
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