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Mail Tribune 100, July 6, 1922 By Alissa Corman Jul 12, 2022 02:26 PM A A News from 100 years ago The following news items were drawn from the archives of the Mail Tribune 100 years ago July 6, 1922 CITY TO BUILD NEW RESERVOIR IN EARLY FALL Council Decides to Construct Reserve Reservoir in September or October—Lid is Clamped Down Hard on Water Law Violators The lid was clamped squarely down by the city council of the permitting of further violating of the water regulations last night, every councilman and the mayor ordering that arrests be made from now on of all water violators. The council is back of this promulgation to a man, and the orders are to arrest, and rearrest as often as necessary all offenders. The council, every member of whom, Messrs. Lumsden, Keene, Gaddis, Antle, Miles and Dressler were present, and Mayor Gates, are determined to break up the water stealing and give all water consumers in every part of the city as square a deal as possible. To this end a change in the watering hours were made, which it is thought will give the people of the West side, especially in the southwest portion, more water. Hereafter water users in the section of the city east of the railroad tracks on their regular water days can only water from 4 a.m. to 11 a.m., and instead of starting in again at 4 p.m. and watering until 11 p.m. must not begin until 7 p.m. and then can water until 11 p.m. Thus three hours of watering is cut off from the east side water users, because they have a better water pressure than on the west side, and the change will work no hardship whatever on them, the council figures. This tree hours cut off from the east side, will give all parts of the west side a much needed pressure. The water hours on the west side of the railroad tracks are just the same on their water days as heretofore, except that west of Oakdale avenue, and south of West 12th street, the water users who because of their extreme low pressure have been allowed to water every day at any time, must water during the hours assigned to the remainder of the West side. Water Stealing Evils Although the evening was a torrid one in the council chamber when the shirtsleeved councilmen began to discuss the water question and the stealing of water, the temperature grew warmer as Mayor Gates and the councilmen, one by one, related the evils of water stealing. Many dark and dastardly deeds of this kind were related, and instances told of where a number of water users have habitually used water as they pleased regardless of hours and required hose nozzle, actually defying the city. — Alissa Corman; [email protected]