WATER WORKS PRACTICE
The city of Youngstown, O., recently conducted an investigation in connection with typhoid fever cases. It was found that the large majority of the cases were in houses connected neither with the public water supply nor with sewers.
The Riverton & Palmyra Water Company, of Riverton, N. J., under the direction of its chief engineer, W. H. Buck, has prepared special tools of its own for handling Leadite in connection with joining water mains. One tool, like a ripper, such as is used on a boiler tube, or virtually a cape chisel, is made on a bevel, so that it will go between the spigot end and inside of bell, and a joint can be cut out with it. It cuts very rapidly. Mr. Buck states that he has cut out a 6-inch joint in nine minutes.
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