1920-1922

2004.014.0001

1. Waterworks Society [?] Convention Here, Phases of Supplying Big Cities Discussed-Apparatus is Shown, Source: Public Ledger, May 16, 1922
2. Water System for Northeast Phila. Is Planned By Bureau, Council Will Be Asked to Provide $2,000,000 for Project, Big Need Felt, Source: North American, June 10, 1922
3. Purifying Water Big City Problem, Removal of Bad Tastes and Odors Difficult Task for Chemists, Source: Inquirer, May 20, 1922
4. Water Pollution Theme of Experts, Modern Filtration Methods Now Vital, Say Convention Delegates, Chlorination Process Highly Successful, Asserts Virginia Speaker, Source: Inquirer, May 12, 1922
5. Frankford Faces Water Scarcity, Growth Resulting From “L” Expected to Make Present System Inadequate, New Plant Necessary, Bureau Chief Says System Needed Will Be as Great as in West Philadelphia, Source: Public Ledger, June 10, 1922
6. Water Meter For Home Brewer is The Latest, Chief Davis Asserts That Law Requires All Distilleries to Have One, Source: Inquirer, July, 22

2004.014.0002

1. Cartoon: The Aqua Purist, Caption: “…Carleton E. Davis’ name has become indelibly associated with the liquid of life…”, Source: Public Ledger, March 17, 1922
2. Water Works Bids In, Improvement to System Will Cost About $326,000, Source: Ledger, March 29, 1922
3. Water-Bureau Engineer Ousted; Neglect Charged, Shawmont Pumping Station Chief Accused of Jeopardizing Supply, Source: Ledger, March 29, 1922
4. Quits Job to Aid Pinchot, One Municipal Employee Believes Charter Means What it Says, Source: Record, April 18, 1922
5. City Coal Supply Will Last 90 Days, Chief Davis, of the Bureau of Water, Believes System Can Be Run Until August, Fuel Stored for Plants, Hospitals, Insane Institution and Other Public Places are Well Supplied, Source: Ledger, April 1, 1922
6. Conference on River, Will Discuss Prevention of Polluting Delaware With Sewage, Source: Inquirer, May 19

2004.014.0003

1. Water-Bureau Pay Starts a Dispute, Councilman Hall Says “Soft Snaps” Are Provided for Those “in Right” Source: Ledger, February 13, 1922
2. Fairmount Dam, Chief Davis’ Report of Satisfactory Conditions Means a Prompt Start on Work, Source not known
3. Threatens to Oust Civil Service Board, Council Finance Committee Denounces “Red Tape” Methods in Use, Snow Removal Contracts and Salary Increase Incident Furnish Basis for Attack, Source: February 17, 1922
4. Mayor Asks About Private Water Works, Thinks of Asking Council to Provide for Purchase of the Holmesburg Works, Source: Ledger, February 27, 1922
5. City May Pay $850,000 for 3 Water Plants, Mayor Proposes Buying Properties in the Northeast and Using City Water, Source: Ledger, March 3, 1922
6. Gloucester [?] Dry for 10 Hours, Water Supply Fails From 1 o’Clock Last Night to 9 This Morning, Connection Uncomplete, Source not known
7. Shawmont Official Fired for Neglect, John H. Miller’s Carelessness Jeopardized Plant’s Safety, It is Charged, Source: Inquirer, March 29

2004.014.0004

1. [?] Ambitious Projects, Additional Piers, New Bridges and Hospital Betterments Are of Major Importance, Source not known
2. More Pay for Some Employees, Source not known
3. Mayor Praises Caven, Water Supply to Be Next Big Enterprise Taken Up, Source: The Record, January 19
4. Water Main Bursts, Main Line Residents Cut Off From Aqua Pura Supply, Source: Inquirer, October 28
5. Council Stirred by Water Protest, Bureau’s Per Diem Employees Seek Relief From Only Five Days a Week Work, Say Chief Davis Told Them Council Didn’t Appropriate Enough Money, Source: Inquirer, January 13
6. Candidates for City Job, Source: Ledger, February 16, 192[?]
7. 250 New Fireplugs, Medium-Size Hydrants to Deliver 1500 Gallons of Water a Minute, Source: Ledger, January [?], 1922
8. [?]ping Plant of Council Bursts, Plumbers Held Responsible for Break in Compromising Agreement, Tearing Up of New Pavement Crime Against Taxpayers, Says Committee Head, Source not known
9. Old Water Works Building Burned, Blaze at Thirty-third Street and Girard Avenue Reported Under Control, Source: Ledger, April 1[?], 1922

2004.014.0005

1. [Loan?] Balance Flatly Contradicts Hadley, [?]es Show That Virtually All of $22,000,000 That Has Been Declared “Unencumbered” is Earmarked for Projects Already Begun, Source: Ledger, October 8, 1921
2. Best Engineer Will Get Big City Job, City’s $4000 Employs to Compete for Headship of Survey Bureau, Source: Ledger, November 29
3. Von Tagen Joins in Criticism of Civil Service Examination Requirements, Source: Inquirer, November 29
4. Water Inadequate Tacony Complains, Delegation Sees Mayor and Director Caven; Some Relief Promised, Held Up in Council, Source: North American, [December?] 2, 1920
5. Director Caven Says Water is Very Bad, Urges More Vigorous Work in Carrying Out Plans for the Disposal of Sewage, Source: Ledger, January 6, 1922

2004.014.0006

1. New Schuylkill Dam Test Borings to Be Made Soon, Proposed Fairmount Structure May Be Located on Site of One 100 Years Old-Power Plant is Being Considered-Draught Holes in Body of Operation Will Prevent Mud Collecting, Source: [Ledger?], 1921
2. Typhoid Carriers, N.J. Health Board Asks Aid in Fighting Epidemic in Burlington County, Appeal Made to Local Authorities to Enforce Strictly State’s Code, Source: Inquirer, September 9, 1921
3. Higher Water Rates, Clayton and Glassboro Company Fail to Get Consent of Municipal Officials, Source: Inquirer, September 9, 1921
4. Caven to Rush City Work to Aid Army of Idle, Jobs for Thousands Loom as Director Issues Orders, Source: Ledger, September 26, 1921
5. Broken Water Main Floods Broad St., Source: Record, October 27, 1921
6. Caven Makes Five Appointments, Source: Record, December 24
7. City Acts to Oust Its Water Riv[er], Council Asks City Solicitor for Report on All Private Works, Rates Very High, Source: North American, October 8, 1921

2004.014.0007

1. City Pay Increases Are Recommended, Mayor’s Committee Report Favors Raise for 550 Individuals and Scores of Workers, Library Clerks Included, 28 Positions in Commercial Museum and 5 in Mayor’s Office Are Affected, Source: Ledger, April 8, 192[?]
2. D.S. Kimball Next President of Mechanical Engineers, [?] of Engineering College, Cornell, and H.P. Liversidge, Philadelphia, Among Officers Nominated by American Society for Ensuing Year, Source not known
3. Tax Rate and City Salaries, Source: Record, April 9, 1921
4. Charges Politics in Public Works Jobs, W.H. Kreider Says Eligible Lists Are Juggled for Director Caven, Mentions Names, Source: North American, [July] 28, 1922
5. City Aims to End Bad Taste in Water, Contract Let for Aeration Flume to Release Cases Blamed for Disagreeable Odors, Source: Ledger, September 20, 1921
6. $800,000 Urged for Fairmount, Mayor Asks Council [to] Strengthen Present S[truc]ture or Erect a New O[?], Source: Inquirer, 1921
7. Twenty Typhoid Carriers Left by Epidemic, One Held Responsible for Two Outbreaks Involving 68 Cases, Source: Ledger, September 9, 1921

2004.014.0008

1. $150,681.60 is Upkeep of [?] Used by City, [?] $1175 Car Shown to Have Cost $2551.32 for Repairs, Gas, Etc., in 1920, [?]ch Cheaper Machine Used at Outlay of $169.50, Council’s Committee on Autos Finds Haphazard Methods Swell Bill for Taxpayers, Source: Ledger, March 27, 1921

2004.014.0009

1. [M]ore Says Civil Service Rules Cause Big Losses, Restrictions Hamper Public Works, He Declares, in Proposing Changes, Source: North American, [March] 19, 1921
2. Mayor Probes Use of City Property, Caven Said to Have Given Him Affidavits Concerning Employees, Source: North American, April 15, 1921
3. Water Main Breaks, Trolley Car Has Narrow Escape From Plunging in Hole, Source: Inquirer, April 21, 1921
4. Labor Favoritism Charged to Caven, Jobholders Advanced Unfairly, Says Ex-secretary of Civil Service Commission, Demands Investigation and Wants Pay of “Camouflaged” Employees Stopped, Source: Inquirer, July 28, 1921
5. City Rents Half of $20,000 Garage at $5520 a Ye[ar], Municipality Gives Ye[AR]ly More Than 25 P[ercent] of Value of Building, Facts Unearthed by Con[?] Sent to President Council, Source: Inquirer, March 31, 19[?]

2004.014.0010

1. $100,000 And 18 Years Leak Away at Ritz Hotel Corner, City Repair Gang Causes That Loss to Passersby in the Ten Days It Has Been Impeding Traffic While Trying to Locate Source of Seepage From Water Main, Source: Ledger, March 11, 1921

2004.014.0011

1. Pay of City Employees, Source: Ledger, February 1, 1921
2. City Urged to Give General pay Rise, Municipal Research Bureau Declares Public Employees Are Underpaid, Source: Inquirer, February 2, 1921
3. More Water Wanted, A Need in Philadelphia That is Common to All Growing Cities, Source: Bulletin, February 25, 1921
4. Water Pipe, 100 Years Old, Still in Service, Piece of Iron Main Dug Up on Exhibit in Office of Chief Davis, Source: North American, March 8, 1921

2004.014.0012

1. Would Use Parkway For Site of 1926 Exposition, Fairmount Park Art Association Presents Plans of Professor Cret, To Beautify River Banks, Chief Object Explained as Desire to Promote Ideas of City Planning, Source not known
   *Note: Plan of Sesqui-Centennial Fair Site on page 12A
2. Warning to Observe Rules Upon Rubbish, Cleaning Streets Made Difficult by Housekeepers’ Laxity, Says Caven, Source: North American, no date given

2004.014.0013

1. No Water Supply Near, Farm House is Burned, Byberry and Holmesburg Companies Have Long Run, Source: Ledger, January 10, 1921
2. Caven’s Men Must Work, Director Declares Every Man Shall Earn His Full Pay, Source, Ledger, January 13, 1921
3. Dividing Up Loan Funds, Many Public Improvements Advanced by Committee, Source: Record, January 25, 1921
4. To Buy Garbage Plant, Council Committee Approves Purchase at $500,000, Source: Record, January 25, 1921

2004.014.0014

1. Fairmount Park Blast Stirs City, Water Mains Dynamited on Site of Art Museum, Source: North American, January 8, 1921
2. Shake-Up In City’s ‘White Wings’ Near, Public Service Asks Caven for Payroll Lists; Stinger Ousted, Source: North American, January 7, 1921
3. ‘Inefficiency’ Will Mean ‘Get Out,’ Vare-Cunningham-Brown Combination Shocked Out of Its Exultant Mood, Thought Clean-Up Ended, Finds Mayor Has Only to Make Charges a Little Plainer to Clear Payrolls, Source: Ledger, January 7, 1921
4. Vareites Cave in to Caven on Plant, Council Committee Unanimous for Garbage Bill, Although Some Complain of Haste, Weglein Makes a Protest, Says Reduction Concern “Has Us by Throat”-Vare Men Criticize Furbush, Source: Ledger, January 8, 1921

2004.014.0015

1. Waste Reclamation Abandoned by City, Dunlap Says Work, However, May be Undertaken During Summer, Source: Inquirer, January 4, 1921
2. Praises Water Supply, Construction Company Engineer Says Filtration Cuts Death Rate, Source: Inquirer, January 4, 1921
3. City’s Health Depends on Water, Says Expert, Source: North American, January 4, 1921
4. Must Match City Work, Director Caven Warns the Street Cleaning Contractors, Source: Record, January 5, 1921
5. Water Supply Cut Off, Break in Pipe Floods Cellars Near Fifth and South Streets, Source: Inquirer, February 21, 1921
6. Civil Service Aids Removed Workers, Commission Ignores Inefficiency Charge and Returns Dismissal Cards to Directors, Halts Mayor’s “Shake-up,” Time, Place and Nature of Poor Service Must be Specified. Vare Men Jubilant, Source: Ledger, January 8, 1921

2004.014.0016

1. Council Assails City Hall Secrecy, Roused by Delay in Purchase of Garbage Disposal Plant, Finally Permits Temporary Lease to Speed Municipal Operation, Source: Inquirer, December 29, 1920
2. Women Clash Over Women For City Hall Vacancies, Whether They Should Demand Places of Dismissed Men is Debated, Source: North American, December 31, 1920
3. Says City Beats Contractors’ Work, Cleaning of Streets Far More Thorough, Neeson Declares, Refuse of Holiday’s Celebrations Quickly Removed From Thoroughfares, Source: Inquirer, January 3, 1921

2004.014.0017

1. Photo: Handling Local Fire Calls, Caption: Briefly talks about the process of receiving fire calls, Source not known
2. Sue to Get Jobs Back, Three City Employees Bring Action Against Mayor and City Officials, Source: Inquirer, December 29, 1920
3. Incinerating Plant Rented for $15,000, Council Passes Von Tagen Measure After Battle With Vares, Lease is 30 Days, Source: North American, December 31, 1920

2004.014.0018

1. To Return Only One Park, Bureau of City Property Gets Only Independence Square, Source: Record, December 16, 1920
2. Exempt 834 From Civil Service Rules, Street Cleaning and Garbage Collection Employees Affected, Source: Inquirer, December 24, 1920
3. Civil Service in Garbage, Commission Refuses to Exempt Men Needed on the Work, Source: Record, December 21, 1920
4. Vare Streets Criticized, Health Director Says He Found Conditions Insanitary, Source: Ledger, [December] 2[8], 1920
5. 129 U.S. Water Power Permits Are Sought, Applications Under Federal Act Look Toward Investment of $1,200,000,000, Source: Inquirer, December 27, 1920
6. Praises Phila. For Parkway Development, Andrew Wright Crawford Terms It Greatest Accomplishment of Last 20 Years, Source: Record, January 3, 1921

2004.014.0019

1. City To Sell Its Useless Property, Mayor to Appoint Commission to Inventory Public Holdings No Longer Needed, Source: Ledger, November 3, 1920
2. Hundreds Lose Vote As Water Main Bursts, Trolleys Blocked Hour While Workers Watch Closing of Polls, Source: Inquirer, November 8, 1920
3. Mayor Favors New Dam at Fairmount, Two City Pumping Stations Depend Upon Old Structure, Source: North American, October 18, 1920
4. City Buys Device to Thaw Fireplugs, 7 New Pieces of Apparatus to be Delivered Next Week, 6 Aerial Trucks, Source: J[P]. American, [November] 4, 1920
5. Davis Heads Fire Bureau, Source: Ledger, December 1920
6. Pay of City Employees, Source: Ledger, October 29, 1920
7. Plan City Hall Annex, Council Committee Reports Favorably on Bill Acquiring Ground, Source: Record, December 16, 1920

2004.014.0020

1. To Check ‘Illness’ of City Employees, Council Threatens to Withdraw Sick-Leave Privilege Because of Abuse, Kills Motion to Add $1,000,000 to Street Repaving Appropriation, Source: Inquirer, November 27, 1920
   City Puts $121,971 Park Land Award Up to Judges, Source: North American, November 23, 1920
2. Fairmount Dam in Bad Condition, Mayor Directs a Survey to Be Made-Chief Davis Wants a New Structure, Has Been in Use Since 1872, Federal, State, and City Governments Have Certain Rights in the Schuylkill, Source: Ledger, October 18, 1920
3. To Extend Water Supply, Contract Awarded for Service Pipes in West Philadelphia, Source: Record, November 16, 1920
4. Lease of Vare Plant Reported Favorably, Source: Ledger, December 8, 1920
5. Mayor Backs Sale of Reservoir Site, Sees Lands at Twenty-sixth and Master Streets as Desirable for Housing, To Name Committee to Dispose of Those City Does Not Need, Source: Inquirer, November 3, 1920

2004.014.0021

1. Photo: [W]est Children Keep Cool, Source not known
2. City Awards Contracts, Water System Provides for Certain Needed Improvements, Source: Inquirer, August 2
3. To Build Big Reservoir, Water Company Will Create Large Lake Near Scranton, Source: Bulletin, August 5
4. Water Bureau Wins Baseball Honors, Defeats Sheriff’s Office at Phillies’ Park by Score of 11 to 6, Nolan Proves Star, Source: North American, August 16
5. Street Workers Flooded, Were Digging in Ditch When Water Main Burst, Source: Record, September 13
6. ‘Scolds’ Magistrate for His Tardiness, Young Woman Held for Reckless Driving Asks Why He Kept Her Waiting, “Judge” Promises to Be on Time at Further Hearing; Motorists Are Fined, Source not known
7. Caven Names Ten New Public Works Employees, Source: North American, September 12

2004.014.0022

1. Now My Idea is This! Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They Know Best, Source not known, 1922
2. Water Shortage Feared by Davis, West Philadelphia Supply Endangered This Summer, Bureau Chief Warns, Belmont at Capacity, Tells Residents and Manufacturers to Be as Sparing as Possible, Source: Ledger, June 18, 1922
3. New Water Station is Pride of Bureau, Mayor to Inspect Fine Plant on Site of Old Cambria Reservoir, Repair, Storage and Administration Work Grouped Effectively Under Plan, Source: Inquirer, August [7]
4. Repair Shop Nearly Ready, City Will Soon Have Complete Plant for Water Bureau, Source: Record, August 17

2004.014.0023

1. Webster to Quit As Survey Chief, Resignation Expected Soon and J.M. Nobre May Get Old Job, Sproul Refuses to Accept Responsibility of Approving Expenditures on Bridge, Source: Inquirer, November 27, 1920
2. Caven Lifts Ban On Bond Firm of Ex-Mayor Smith, Company to Make Good Forfeited Contract for Sewage Disposal Plant, Agreement Ends Eight Months’ Fight Over Black-listing, Source: Inquirer, November 26, 1920
3. Northeast Sewer Plant Fight Ends, Department of Public Works Compromises With Bond Company, Completion of Contract Calls for Extra Expenditure of $350,000, Source: North American, December 15, 1920

2004.014.0024

1. Webster to Quit Survey Bureau, Will Become Directing Engineer of the Joint Bridge Commission, Once Dock Dept. Head, $100,000 Budget Submitted by Engineers for Commission’s Approval, Source: Ledger, November 27, 192[?]
2. Nobre to Get Job, Will Go Back to Survey Bureau When Chief Webster Quits, Source: Record, November 27, 1920
3. To Increase Revenues, New Water Ordinance in Council Will Net $400,000 Yearly, Source: Record, December 15, 1920
4. Fund For Underpaid City Employees Urged, Council Asked to Set Aside $200,000; 40 Per Cent of Workers Get Under $4 Day, Source: Inquirer, December 3, 1920
5. City Loses $5000 Suit, Must Pay Big Damage to Woman Injured on Street, Source: Inquirer, December 10, 1920
6. More Pay For Experts, Contract Extends Services of Griffe hagen Concern, Source: Record, November 26, 1920
7. McCormick Bill for National Public Works Department, Source: North American, December 13, 1920

2004.014.0025

1. Votes, Loss of by Bursting Water Mains- table of contents

2004.014.0026

1. Vare Plant, Lease of Votes, Loss of by Bursting Water Mains – table of contents

2004.014.0027 - 2004.014.0035: Table of contents

2004.014.0036

1. Photo: The Schuylkill Needs Water-Do Your Duty Mr. Jup. Pluv. [Jupiter Pluvius]
2. Fairmount Dam To Be Replaced, City Prepares to Build a Masonry Structure to Succeed Wooden One, Source: Ledger, July 24, 1921
3. City Contracts Approved, Source: Ledger, May 24, 1922
4. Hot Water a Great Eater of Pipes, Chief Davis Says, Confident That Householders’ Frequent Calls to Plumbers Are Not Due to the City Use of Copper Sulphate and Chlorine; Source: Ledger, September 19, 1922
5. Effect of Distilled Water, Source: Ledger, September 29
6. The Schuylkill Supply, The Present Drought as an Argument for an Impounding Reservoir, Source: Bulletin, October 2, 1922

1922

2004.014.0037

1. Anti-Sesqui Body, North Philadelphia Manufacturers Protest Fair as Costly Undertaking, Source: Inquirer, September 28, 1922
2. Water Main Bursts, Source: Ledger, May 2, 1922
3. Caven Adds 8 Names to City’s Payrolls, Five Appointed in Surveys Bureau, Two in Highways, One in Water, Source: North American, September 16
4. Schuylkill Lowest in 6 Years; Water Shortage Possible, Towns Along River Already Suffer as Result of Drought, River Only Pools, Source: North American, September 30, 192[?]
5. Guarding Water Supply, State Health Department Acts as Result of Prolonged Drought, Source: Record, October 3
6. Drought Situation Becoming Acute In All Parts of State, Rivers at Lowest Stage in Many Years; Epidemic Feared, Animals Suffer, Source: North American, October 5, 192[?]
7. 100-Year-Old Wooden Water Main is Dug Up, Source: North American, September 22
8. Long Drought Grips Practically All U.S., Country Rainless for More Than Month and No Relief Is in Sight, “Sluggish Low Air Strata” Blocking Moisture Bearing Winds, Official Excuse, Source: [Inquirer], October [?], 192[2]

2004.014.0038

1. Schuylkill Fish Dying, Source not known
2. Water Shortage Ruins State Crops, Worst Drought in Years Eating Up Fields, Source: Ledger, October 6
3. Water Problem Becoming Serious, Growth of City Threatened Unless Plant is Enlarged, Chief Davis Declares, Source: Ledger, October 14
4. Water Problems, Source: Ledger, October 16, 1922
5. Must Extend Water Supply, Says Davis, Bureau Chief Sees End of Building Boom Unless Pipes Are Laid, Rivers Polluted, Source: North American, October 14, 1922
6. Schuylkill Low at Source, Fish Die as River Reaches Lowest Mark in History, Source: Bulletin, October 24
7. Cry For More Water, Builders, Chief Davis Says, Are Reaching Limit of Supply, Source: Record, February 14
8. Coal Towns Drying Up, Scarcity of Water in Schuylkill Region Causes Anxiety, Source: Record, October 31
9. Refuse in Schuylkill Is Killing Many Fish, Condition Becoming Worse, Says Locktender at Flat Rock Dam, Source: Ledger, October 26
10. Reading Gas Works Polluting the River, Chlorine Used to Purify Water Causes Bad Taste, Officials Explain, Source: North American, no date given
11. Chlorine in Water, Source: Record, November 1, 192[?]
12. Chlorine Cocktails, “Terrible,” Says Limeburner; “Pretty Bad,” Adds Hall After Drink, Source: Inquirer, November [?]

2004.014.0039

1. Northeast Water Supply Criticized, Municipal Research Bureau Says Limited Facilities Retard Development, Urges Series of Mains, Source: Bulletin, November 9, 1922
2. Fear Water Shortage This Winter in Adams Co., Source: North American, November 17
3. Water for The Northeast, Source: Ledger, November 12
4. Phila. Water Makes W.C.T.U. Members Ill, Chlorine ‘Purification’ Assailed in Council by McCoach, Even Kills Fish, Source: North American, November 15, 1922
5. Drought Menacing Upstate Industries; May Halt Mining, Score of Collieries Must Close Unless Water Supply is Replenished, Hauto Power Plant to Be Forced Idle if Rain Does Not Fill Big Dam, Source: North American, November 1[?]
6. Drought Continues, Short Rations Necessary; Many Industries Are Hard Hit, RRS. Feel Pinch, Source: North American, November 22

2004.014.0040

1. Budget To Be Cut More Than Planned, Council May Have to Review Work to Keep Within 1923 Income, Total of $1,450,000 Slashed, 2,600,000 to Go Deeper, Pruning Imperative, Source: Inquirer, November 15
2. Musicians Ask Increase, Source not known, 1922
3. Steel Mills About to Quit; Mines Down As Drought Pinches, Shamokin, Johnstown and Other Places in Sight of Famine, Streams Go Dry, Source: North American, November 23
4. Cambria Steel Co. To Quit in Week Unless it Rains, Source: North American, November 23
5. Disastrous Fire Lowers Berwick Water Supply, Source: North American, November 27
6. Chief Davis Tells What Makes Phila. Water Taste Bad, Mine and Factory Wastes Are Just Some of the Things, Not Chlorine, Source: North American, November
7. Bad-Tasting Water Called Healthy, Bureau Officials Admit Justness of Complaints, but Assure the Timid, Free From Disease Germs, Drought Accentuates Volume of Sewage and Decayed Vegetable Matter in Schuylkill, Source: Ledger, no date given
8. Town on Water Rations, Shortage at Shamokin Results in Action to Keep Mines Going, Source: Record, November 21

2004.014.0041

1. Drought Menaces Cambria’s Mills, 8000 Losing Jobs, Johnstown Will Turn Company’s Water Into City Mains in Three Days, Many Other Big Plants and Collieries Hard Hit, Restrictions Grow Apace as Scarcity Increases All Over Rural Pennsylvania, To Ban Family Washing, Conditions Around Reading “Truly Alarming”-Shamokin’s Plight Worse, Source not known, November 23
2. Prayers Unavailing; Drought Increases, Schuylkill River Dry at Source Except for Mine Water, Source: North American, November 20
3. Streams Set Low Mark; Many Fish Found Dying; Source: North American, November 20
4. Shamokin Water Supply Will Only Last This Week, Source: N. American, November 20
5. Collieries Use Water From Mines For Boilers, Source: North American, November 20
6. Schuylkill at Pottsville Drops 6 Inches in One Day, Source: N. American, November 21

2004.014.0042

1. [May]or Urges Water Service Expansion [in] Northeast Boom, Suggests Council Authorize Purchase of 3 Private Companies, Source not known
2. [?] Offers Excuse for Council, Source: Inquirer, November 17
3. City Fund For 1926 Fair May be Used For Water, Council Called Upon to Take Prompt Action for Better Supply, Many Extensions Needed, Members Say Public Must Show Desire for Exposition Before Money is Given, Source: Record, November 24
4. Taste of City Water Drives Thousands of Families to Park, Carried in Autos, Source: North American, November 16
5. Want Much Better Water and Sewerage System, Would Cost $120,000,000 and Upward-May Resubmit $52,000,000 Loan, For Election of Solicitor, Part of Automobile License Fees Wanted-Ask Merger of Welfare and Health Bodies, Source: Ledger, November 21
6. Mayor Would Buy 3 Water Plants, Proposes Way to Improve Conditions in Northeast, Source: Ledger, November 17
7. P.R.R. Unable to Get Water in Coal Regions for Freight Service, Source: Ledger, November 18

2004.014.0043

1. City Water Makes Fish ‘Flip” Bucket, Chlorine Kills Aquarium’s Hardiest Denizens,-“Rich Flavor” Comes From Trade Waste, Says Davis, Safe for Human Beings, Source: Bulletin, November 16, 1922
2. Bad Water Near Filter Beds, Source: Ledger, November 21, 1922
3. No Law to Remedy River’s Pollution, Commissioner of Fisheries Says He is Unable to Cope With Schuylkill Situation, Deplore Fish Slaughter, Source: Ledger, November 13
4. Water Situation Upstate is Grave as Wells Dry U[p], Exhaustion Nears Because of Extensive Pumping in Pottsville Region, Source: North American, November 29
5. Water for the Northeast, Source: Ledger, November 26, 1922
6. Gold Fish Dying, Blame City Water, Fanciers Say Chlorine “Bumps them Off” More Effectively Than a Machine Gun, Canaries Affected Too, Source: Bulletin, November 20
   City To Ask State Aid in Improvements, Water and Sewage Legislation to be Sought, To Go To Capital, Source not known, November
7. Water When Wells Run Dry, Source: Bulletin, November 25
8. Mt. Airy Main Breaks, Two Salesmen Hurt When [?] Strikes Hole in Street, Source: Record, November 25

2004.014.0044

1. [?]es City Water Supply Must Be Treated Before Use, Too Much Chlorine is Charge of Expert, Who Suggests Other Remedies to Offset Its Effect, Source: Ledger, November 21, 1922
2. Treatment of the Water Supply, Source: Bulletin, November 28
3. Drugs in Drinking Water, Source not known, November 25, 1922
4. High Water Cost Rouses Oak Lane, Smyth Defends Delay, Source: Ledger, November 21
5. Buy Water Plants is Hall’s Advice, Council Leader Asserts Oak Lane Should Have Relief From High Costs, But Differs With Mayor, Source: Ledger, November 23
6. The Water Problem, Source: Bulletin, November 24
7. Auto Sinks Into Water Main Break, Two Men Injured, Residents of Section Face Brief Famine, Private Homes and Public Institutions Temporarily Cut Off From Supply of Water, Source not known
8. No Title, Sentence begins-“A grave menace to health…” Source: Record, November [?]

2004.014.0045

1. [M]ember Was Driest in More Than 100 Years, Less Than Half Inch of Rain Fell During Record-Breaking Month, Source: Ledger, no date given
2. Germantown to Get More Water, Da[vis] Promises to Run Pipes to Roxborough Plant, Dam Discussed, Source: North American, December 2
3. Dispute Holds Up Fairmount Dam, Mayor and Art Jury in Controversy Over Foot Bridge, Councilmen Told, Endangers Water Supply, Continuance of Narrow Streets Up for Discussion in Committee, Source: Ledger, December 2
4. Council Promises Fairmount Dam, Mayor Said to Have Failed to Use Available Money, Source: Ledger, December 8
5. City Water System is Praised by Davis, Chief Says Present Supply is the Best in the History of Philadelphia, Tells Council Extension of Plant, However, Is Necessary to Meet Needs, Source: Inquirer, [December] 2
6. Taste in Water is Not Poisonous, Absolutely Pure and Safe Drink, However Unpleasant, is Verdict, Chlorine Not to Blame, Source: Bulletin, December 2
7. Increased Pressure Causes Seven Water Main Breaks, Source: North American, December 2
8. Menace of Dam Cited, Mayor Says Council is Disposed to Vote Fairmount Funds, Source: Inquirer, December 12
9. Coal Regions Await Promised Rainfall, Source: North American, December 11

2004.014.0046

1. New Fairmount Dam of Greatest Need, Say City Officials, Councilman Hall Prepared to Offer $600,000 Bill at Once, Present Schuylkill Structure Menace to W. Phila. Water Supply, is Warning, Source: Inquirer, Date not given
2. West Germantown is Without Water When Main Bursts, Pipe From Roxborough Breaks; Repairs Found Difficult, Source: North American, December 12
3. Haul Water for Mines in Huge RR. Tank Cars, Source: North American, December 8, 1922
4. City Schools Get Supply of Coal, Enough is Rationed to Keep Buildings Opened for Three to Four Days, One Closed for Short Time, Source: Ledger, December 12, 1922
5. Mines Near End of Water Supply, Source: Ledger, December 3
6. Drought Compels Train Suspension, No Water for P.R.R. Through Freights in Pottsville Region, Shamokin Reserve Gone, Empty Dams and Reservoirs May Mean One-Hour-a-Day Ration, Source: Ledger, December 12, 1922

2004.014.0047

1. Photo: Washout Caused by Broken Water Main, Source: Ledger, December 12, 1922
2. Fix Water Break After 12 Hours, Supply Restored to Germantown and Roxborough by Repairs to Isolated Main, Hunt Through Dark Wood (this article is attached to photo above), Source: Ledger, December 12, 1922
3. Can’t Get Water in Shamokin, Use Milk, Bakery Orders 150 Gallons to Keep Going in Drought, Source: North American, December 9
4. Susquehanna Gains a Little, Source: Record, December 11
   Go Ahead With the New Fairmount Dam, Source: Inquirer, December 2, 1922
5. Shamokin Facing a Water Famine, Source: Inquirer, December 5, 1922
6. Drought Victims Get Little Relief, Fear Freezing Water That Will Prevent Moisture From Sinking Into Ground, Mining Centers Suffer, Tales of Serious Damage to Winter Wheat Come From Many Counties, Source: Ledger, December 6

2004.014.0048

1. Fuel and Water Famines Worse as Mercury Falls, Source: Ledger, December 14, 1922
2. Pottsville Region Dryer Than Ever Known Before, Cold Weather Freezes the Little Moisture That Was Flowing, Source: Record, December 11
3. Mount Carmel Supply Gone, Source: Inquirer, December 4
4. Council to Speed New Fairmount Dam, Committee Rushes Approval of Appropriation to End Menace, Advance Work for Transit Extensions in Northern Part of City Also Pushed, Source: Inquirer, December 14
5. End of Water is in Sight Unless There is Rain Soon, Pottsville’s Resources Likely to Be Exhausted in Ten Days, Source: Record, December 27
6. City Water ‘Sick’ and Being ‘Doped’, Chemist Also Charges it Dissolves Pots When Boiled and Pickles the Breakfast Egg, Hurts Liver Too, He Says, Source: Bulletin, December 22
7. Mayor Says City Water is Not Contaminated, Has Assurance Also That Equipment is Now Up to Date, Source: Record, December [?]

2004.014.0049

1. The Old Oaken Bucket From Which, Source: Ledger, no date given
2. Photo attached to the above article, caption: “…one of the big engines with which Philadelphia’s water supply is pumped from the Delaware River… at Lardner’s Point, the largest pumping station in the world. To generate the necessary steam supply requires 200,000 tons of coal annually at this station alone”, Source: Ledger, no date given
3. 45 Years in Water Bur[eau], Paymaster John Hand, Who [Re]signs, Has Served Under 8 Ch[?], Source: Ledger, December 28

2004.014.0050

1. Philadelphians Must Drink, Source not known, December 31, 1922
2. Photo attached to the above article, caption: “…view of the Queen Lane filtration plant…”, Source not known, December 31, 1922
   Second photo attached to the above article, caption: “Carleton E. Davis, chief of the City Water Bureau”, Source not known, December 31, 1922
3. Wants Higher Water Rate, Councilman Hall Thinks They Are Too Low Here, Source: Bulletin, January 1, 1923
4. Employees in Works Department Will Be Laid Off Because of Budget Cut, Will Save $1200 a Day, Source: Ledger, December 2[?]

1923

2004.014.0051

1. Proposed City Hall Bridge to Have Thirteen Exits, Aerial Footway Plans Roughly Sketched by Superintendent Mills, Source: Ledger, January 1, 192[3]
2. Photo attached to the above article, caption: “Map of proposed aerial footway around City Hall, with the thirteen designated connections between sidewalks and elevated structure. The interior span running through City hall courtyard from east to west is also indicated”, Source: Ledger, January 1, 192[?]
3. Philadelphia’s Water Supply, Source: Ledger, December 29
4. Drought is Broken by Snow and Rains, Source: Inquirer, December 12
5. Mayor Again Urges Water Works Plan, Would Take Over Private Companies to Relieve Northeast Shortage, Source: North American, December 19
6. City’s Water Supply And Its Protection From Raw Sewage, With Improved Methods for Disposal Refuse, Doubt is Cast on Project for Mammoth Sewer, Source: Ledger, January 3, 1923

2004.014.0052

1. Precaution Urged For Water Supply, Davis Advises Connecting Districts Now Divided by Schuylkill, Safety Measure, Source: North American, December 28, 1922
2. Westmoreland Street Water Main Breaks, Cellars Are Flooded and Streets Turned Into Small Rivers, Source: Inquirer, January 12
3. Fairmount Dam, Source: Ledger, no date given
4. Plan Water Improvements, Seek Metropolitan Supply System, With Aid of Sate, Source: Bulletin, January 2
5. Water Bureau Reports Big Profit for Year, Turned Over $6,450,000 to City, $500,000 More Than Controller’s Estimate, Many Get Service Free, Despite This and Low Rates, Water Works Are Run at Fine Profit, Source: Record, no date given
6. The City’s Water Supply, Source: Bulletin, January 6, 1923
   City Water Blamed in Family’s Illness, Source: Inquirer, January 3, 1923
7. Water Bureau “Profits,” Case Where Proprietor and Customer Are One and Same, but People Satisfied With Low Taxes, Source: Ledger, no date given

2004.014.0053

1. [?]ere Fire Raged Unchecked Through Lack of Water, Lack of Hydrants at $100,000 Blaze, Firemen Checked in Combatting Flames That Destroy Valve Factory, Water Supply Reported Far From Scene of Spectacular Fire, Source: Inquirer, January 8, 1923
2. Photos attached to the above article, caption: “Showing damage done by flames…at the plant of John Maneely & Company, D Street below Nicetown Lane…”, Source: Inquirer, January 8, 1923
3. Mayor Investigates Lack of Water at Fire, Maneely Blaze Calls Attention to Needs of Big Territory, Source: Ledger, January 9
4. Break in Huge Main Cuts Water Supply From Half of City, Entire Northeast and Southwest Sections Affected by Accident, Factories Flooded, Restaurants Dry, Post Office Dark; Repairs Are Rushed, Source: Inquirer, January 11

2004.014.0054

1. Huge Water Main Bursts in Frankford, Source: Inquirer, January 11, 1923
2. Photo attached to the above article, caption: …a sixty-inch water main broke at the Frankford creek bridge on Torresdale Avenue…picture shows the tremendous volume of water that poured from the break, which occurred at an elbow on the cast abuttment of the bridge. This is the third accident of the kind that has taken place at the same spot within three years, Source: Inquirer, January 11, 1923
3. An Accidental Drought, Source: Bulletin, January 12
4. That Broken Water Main, Source: Ledger, January 12

2004.014.0055

1. [Cit]y’s Water Needs Accented by Break, Source: Bulletin, January 12, 1923
2. Normal City Water Supply is Restored, Full Pressure Returned 21 Hours After Break in Giant Main, $500,000 Damage Estimated as Result of Flood in Nearby Plants, Source: Inquirer, January 12
3. More City Water Imperative Need, Bad Taste of Present Supply Unpleasant, But Not Unhealthy, Says Mayor, Shortage Real Crisis, Source: Bulletin, January 15
4. $5,000,000 Yearly Asked For Water, Councilman Hall Would Meet Pressing Problem by Fifteen-Year Program, Need Results at Once, Source: Bulletin, January 16

2004.014.0056

1. City Must Seek Water Up-State, Storage Basins on Perkiomen and Tohickon Creeks of Prime Importance, Could Keep Rivers High, Source: Bulletin, January 17
2. Chart title: How City’s Water Requirements Grow, caption: The chart is based on an estimated population of 2,800,000 in 1950, 3,500,000 in 1970 and 4,300,000 in 1990. The dotted lines show the estimated increase in consumption of water in that time on a per capita consumption of 170 gallons without meters and 130 gallons with meters, Source: Bulletin, January 16, 1929
3. Map title: Available Water Sources for City, caption: …Perkiomen, Tohickon, and Neshaminy Creeks would take care of the supply for years to come, source: Bulletin, January 17
4. Map title: Map of Philadelphia’s Water System, caption: Location of the various pumping stations, filtration plants, reserve and distribution areas in plan declared by Mayor to be inadequate, source: Bulletin, January 15, 1923

2004.014.0057

1. Special Analysis of City Water Results in Finding it Safe to Drink, Chemists Asked to Make Independent Tests After Many Complaints and Fears by Physicians That Increased Disease Resulted From Supply, Source: Ledger, February 12, 1923
2. Table title: The Analysis of Philadelphia Water, Source not known
3. Water Storage Needed, Source: Bulletin, January 23
4. Hall Would Rush Broad Street Tube, For a Great Water Supply, Source: Ledger, January 20

2004.014.0058

1. City Fails to Find Artesian Water, Camden System Impossible Here Because of Dissimilar Soil Formation, Experts Say, Tried Using Wells Once, Source: Bulletin, February 2
2. Men and Things, Source: Bulletin, February 10
3. More Water Mains Sought, North Kensington Business Men Ask Protection, Source: Bulletin, February 15
4. What Water Remedy? Local Authorities Should Follow Example of New York and Seek Pure Source for City’s Supply, Source: Ledger, February 17
5. Water Safe to Drink, Source: Ledger, February 13, 1923
6. River Pollution Serious Problem, Research Bureau Calls Adequate Sewage Disposal System Unescapable Duty, Has Comprehensive Plan, Source: Ledger, February 15

2004.014.0059

1. Roper Loses Fight For Water and Gas, Source not known
2. City Contract Data at Museum Probe, Source: Ledger, March 5

2004.014.0060

1. Phila. Water Safe, Officials Declare, Fears Unfounded Despite Bad Taste and Odors, They Say-Compares With Any City, Source of Supply Bad, Source: Bulletin, March 1
2. City Water Carries Danger of Typhoid, Rivers Used to Supply Philadelphia Polluted by Sewage of Other Cities, Source: Inquirer, April 6
3. Photo caption: In City’s New Machine Shop, J. Remer and Harry Duncan repairing the seven-foot impeller for Torresdale pumping station, in city’s new machine shop, at Twenty-ninth and Cambria Streets, Source: Inquirer, April 19
4. Water and the Schuylkill River Dam, Source: Inquirer, March 5
5. Urge Prompt Action for Better Water Supply, Source: Record, April 4
6. Break in Main Causes Street Cave-in, Source: Inquirer, March 11
7. Mayor Asks Water Credit, Report Says Hall’s Plan Anticipated in 1920 Scheme, Source: Bulletin, April 11

2004.014.0061

1. Immense New Water System Urged for City, Would Tap Sections Just Above Phoenixville-Total Cost Put at $135,000,000, Hall Introduces Loan Bill of $5,000,000 to Start, Aqueducts Would Fill Reservoirs Having Total Capacity of 120,000,000,000 Gallons, Source not known, [?] 25, 1923
2. Map attached to the above article, title: Hall’s Plan for City Water Supply, caption:…shows the three stages by which the system of immense aqueducts would be installed to catch the watersheds of three valleys and bring them down to the city…total project would cost $135,000,000…, Source not known, [?] 25, 1923
3. The City’s Water Problem, Source: Ledger, March 25
4. Hall’s Water Pl[?] Old, Caven Sa[ys], Merely Modification of Rep[?] of 1920 Water Commissioner Director Alleges, Officials Talk it O[?], Source: Ledger, March 25

2004.014.0062

1. Photo #1, title: Perkiomen Creek at Greenlane, caption: A sweeping view of the Perkiomen at Greenlane, which is several miles above Collegeville, Source: Bulletin, March 24, 1923
2. Photo #2, title: Where It is Proposed to Build a Big Reservoir to Augment[ation], caption: Icehouse at Greenlane, eighty feet high, which will be the approximate height of the proposed reservoir, Source: Bulletin, March 24, 1923
3. Photo #3, title: Philadelphia’s Water Supply, caption: One of several dams above Greenlane which add to the picturesqueness of the stream that is the heart of the $20,000,000 project, Source: Bulletin, March 24, 1923
4. Engineers Praise Hall Water Plan, George W. Fuller Calls Project to Ultimately Cost $135,000,000 “Safe and Sane”, Mayor is Favorable, Source: Bulletin, March 23
5. Photo #4, title: Scene of Proposed Reservoir, caption: In this section would be created under Councilman Hall’s plan a water supply system surpassing any other except New York’s. An enlarged dam would be erected to hold billions of gallons, Source: Bulletin, March 26
6. $6,000,000 Spent on Water Works, Surveys Made for Tapping of New Sources, Source: North American, April 11, 1923
7. City Engineers to have Outing, Source: Record, June 21
8. House Puts Bills Through Looking to Use of Water, Passes Delaware River and Giant Power Survey Measures, Source not known

2004.014.0063

1. Typhoid Menace Here Seen in Sewage From Two Cities, Reading and Trenton Wastes Carry Germs Into Water Supply, Source: North American, April
2. Mayor Gives Praise to the Work of Mr. Weglein, Tells Business Men President of Council Did Much for Reforms, Source: Record, April 13
3. Men and Things, Source: Bulletin, March 24
4. Houses Flooded When Main Breaks, First Floors Awash and Cellars in Germantown Filled, Trolley Cars Blocked, Source: Ledger, April 1
5. A Tainted Water Supply, Source: Bulletin, April 7
6. Towns Along Schuylkill Move to Stop Pollution, Culm From Mines Has Started to Clog Up the Channel Here, Source: Ledger, April 2[?]
7. New Fairmount Dam Soon, Source: Ledger, April 13

2004.014.0064

1. Photo #1, title: Perkiomen Creek Long Regarded as Desirable Source for an Increased Water Supply for Philadelphia, Source: Bulletin, April 18, 1923
2. Photo #2, title: Fairmount Dam Will be Engineering Triumph 1100 Feet Long to Cost $700,000, caption: The old Fairmount Dam, a section of which is shown in the photograph, is to be replaced by a modern engineering masterpiece 1100 feet long, of cyclopean masonry, to cost $700,000, Source: Ledger, April 15, 1923
3. Culm is Clogging Upper Schuylkill, Source: North American, April 20
4. Mayor Challenges Improvement Plans of Political Foes, Hall Water Supply Ideas Copied From Administration Survey, Source: Inquirer, April 17

2004.014.0065

1. Boat Heist Planned to Save City Water, Elevator for Canoes May Be Installed at the Fairmount Dam, Locks Drain Pool, Source: North American, July 5, 1922
2. Councilman Conferees Indicate Intent to Cut Mayor’s Figures, Leaders May Hold Total at $4,500,000 in Defiance of Administration Needs, Source: Inquirer, March 31
3. Big Waste of Water Laid to Yard Spigots, Millions of Gallons Declared Lost Thru Outdoor Hydrants, Leakage Great, Source: North American, April 30
4. Break in Water Main Sounds Like Explosion, Floods Highway at Fifty-fifth Street and Cedar Avenue, Source: Record, May 28
5. Water Main Break Cuts Off Overbrook Homes, Source: North American, May 24
6. Weglein Lauds City Water Plan, Council President Declares There Can Be No Monopoly of Glory in the Program, $100,000 For Survey, Source: Ledger, April 15
7. Hall Gets $10,000 Start For Water Supply Plan, Council Begins Emergency Measures Anticipating Failure of $5,200,000 Loan, Source: Inquirer, May 12
8. Move For Future Water Needs Urged, Bureau Chief Davis Advises Setting Aside Three Creek Sources, Rivers Polluted, Source: North American, May 8
9. 30 Miles of Water Pipe, Source: North American, May 11

2004.014.0066

1. Photo, caption: Fairmount Water Works. [Photo of engraving by C. Childs, 1829]
2. Philadelphia Requires an Auxiliary Plug System, Chief Carleton E. Davis, of Bureau of Reserving Hydrants for Fire Use Only, Type of Hydrant to Use, Source: Bulletin, no date
3. High-Pressure Mains, Plans as Originally Drawn Provided Complete System, Source: Ledger, June 20, 1923
4. Mayor Blames Council for Scarcity of Water, Tells Frankford Fathers He Has Tried to Get Action But Failed, Source: Record, June 27

2004.014.0067

1. Chief Davis Resigns as Water Bureau Head, Noted Engineer to Quit City Service After 11 Years of Good Work, To Enter Private Service, Will Assume Direction of Indianapolis Company With Much Higher Salary, Source: Record, April 26, 1923
2. City Water Works Chief Resigns to Go to Indianapolis, Davis Head of Bureau Here Since Blankenburg Regime, To Leave June 1, Source: North American, April 29
3. Council Asks Davis To Keep Job Here, Resolution Urges Water Bureau Chief to Reconsider His Resignation, “Unfortunate For City,” Source: Ledger, April 26
4. 16-Inch Water Main Breaks in Germantown, Source: North American, June 8
5. Philadelphia’s Loss, Source: Bulletin, April 26
6. Not Tomorrow, Now! Source: Ledger, May 10
7. Culm Fills Up Bed Of Low Schuylkill River, Source: North American, July 20

2004.014.0068

1. Photo of Dunlap, Water Office Head, Source: Inquirer, May 9
2. Dunlap Water Office Head, Davis’ Resignation Produces Series of Promotions in City Departments, Source: Ledger, May 9
3. Perkiomen Dam Site, 17 Councilmen in Party Favor Proposal After Trip, Source: North American, May 23
4. “$1,000,000 Hole” Yawns Once More, Traffic at Broad and Walnut Street Again Bothered by Break in Pavement, Rush of Water Below, Source: Ledger, June 19
5. City Water Supply Plan to be Fought, Perkiomen Valley Club to Rally Opponents of Project, Source: North American, July 13
6. Dunlap Plans Use of Upper Delaware Watershed Supply, River Above Trenton and Neshaminy Creek to Be Utilized, Estimated Cost of $60,000,000 as Against $135,000,000 For Hall’s Project, Source: Inquirer, July 14
7. Clash Likely Over Hall Water Plan, Weglein Declares Against Project That Will “Merely Dilute Schuylkill Soup,” Factional War Imminent, Source: Ledger, no date given
8. Need of Water, Arch Street Business Men Send Resolution to Council, Source: Ledger, July 22, 1923

2004.014.0069

1. City’s Engineers Making New Plans For Water System, Turning From Schuylkill Tributaries to the Delaware, Source: North American, July 14
2. Dunlap Water Idea Assailed by Hall, Councilman Says Public Won’t Seriously Consider Delaware River Supply, New Plan to Mayor Soon, Source not known
3. Plans for Water System Ready; To Cost $60,000,000, Supply to Come From Delaware and Neshaminy, Will Necessitate $12,000,000 Loan, City’s Needs Then Will Be Taken Care of For Next 50 Years, Source: North American, July 21
4. Say Caven Water Plan Will Save $75,000,000, Substitution for Hall Project, Moore Claims, Will Benefit City Greatly, Complete in Ten Years, Would Eliminate Schuylkill as Source of Supply at Cost of $60,000,000, Source not known
5. Council to Keep Control of The City Water Plant, Cannot Delegate the Work is Opinion of Legal Adviser, Source: Record, July 7
6. Will Make Close Survey of Schuylkill River, City Joins State in Effort to Improve Sanitary Conditions, Source: Record, July 13

2004.014.0070

1. Men and Things, Source: Bulletin, July 13
2. Schuylkill Dries Up, Pottsville Zone Suffers Worst Drought in Forty Years, Source: Ledger, July 23
3. Break in Water Main Floods Market Street, Subway and Pavement Damaged by Early Morning Leak, Source: Inquirer, July 9
4. Tie Up of $5,200,000 Loan Blocking Improvements, City Unable to Lay Water Mains to Supply Hundreds of New Homes, Source: North American, July 24, 1923
5. Low Water Causes Schuylkill Odors, River Too Sluggish Because of Drought to Carry Off Sewage, Annoys Residents, Source: North American, July 23
6. Break in Water Main at Broad and Arch, Streets Were Badly Flooded Before Break Was Located, Source: Record, September 4, 1922

2004.014.0071

1. Ford, Westinghouse Plants Will Boom Southwest Phila., 50,000 Population Increase Seen; Means Outlay of Many Millions, Source: North American, July 25
2. Need City Water For Huge Plants, Says the Mayor, New Concerns Ask Private Cos. In N.E. Be Bought, Council ‘Pickled’ Bill , He Declares, Has Urged Measure to Acquire Corporations Supplying Section, Source: North American, July 31
3. City Water Supply Guards Are Sought, Two Chemically Trained Men to Patrol Schuylkill if Council Approves $3,300 Appropriation, Dunlap Voices Appeal, Source: Bulletin, July 13
4. Water Contract Signed, Outside Concern to Supply House of Correction and Other Institutions, Source: Ledger, July 24
5. To Cut Red Tape, Exemption of Water Bureau Chief in Interest of Efficiency, Source: Ledger, May 12, 1923

2004.014.0072

1. Mayor Gives Water Plan to Council, Outlines $60,000,000 Program to Cover Ten Years, Against Hall Idea, Source: North American, August 31
2. Roper Denounces Hall Water Plan, Source: Inquirer, September 12
3. Hall Won’t Delay City Water Project, Bureau Plan Virtually ‘Scraps’ His Proposal for New System, Source: North American, July 24
4. New Pump Station for Chestnut Hill, Council Acts to Relieve Low Water Pressure in Suburb, Source: North American, July 26
5. To Put $60,000,000 Loan Thru Council, Leaders Preparing Bill; Discard Mayor’s Plans for New Water Supply, Source: North American, September 20
6. Caven Awards Pipe Contract, Source: Record, August 17
7. Bosses Already Plan to Expend Millions, Propose to Start Kendrick Administration With Lavish Spending of Cash, Big Loan Will Be Pushed, Amount Needed to Finance Schemes Will Greatly Exceed the Original Estimates, Source: Record, September 20
8. Water Main Blast Tears Hole at 5th and Spruce, Leaves Cavity 15 Feet Long-Many Residents Are Awakened, Source: Bulletin, August 1

2004.014.0073

1. [?] Loan Bills For a Total of $71,000,000, 2 Bills, Approved for Final Passage Monday Go to Voters at November Election, Provide Funds, Dunlap and Hall in Hot Debate Over Allotment for Start on Increased Water Supply, Source: Inquirer, September 21
2. No title, Source: Record, September 21
3. Here Is a Real Water Supply Plan, Source: Inquirer, August 22
   What of Philadelphia’s Water Supply? Source: Inquirer, September 13, 1923
4. Getting Ready to Spend the City’s Millions, Source: Inquirer, September 26
5. Will Compile Data on Water Supply, Bureau Engineers to Prepare Report on Upper Delaware Project, Surveys Are Made, Source not known

2004.014.0074

1. Millions Needed for Water Supply, $6,000,000 in New Loan Bill Only “Drop in the Bucket,” Chief Declares, Neshaminy Project First, Source: Ledger, September 23
2. Plans for Improvement of City’s Water Supply, Vast Expenditures Necessary to Make It Adequate to Rapidly Growing Needs, Source: Ledger, October 1[?]
3. Should Start at Once to Improve City Water, Director Caven Urges Haste or Supply Cannot be Maintained, Source: Ledger, October 25

2004.014.0075

1. Continued article of “Should Start…Cannot be Maintained” article from 2004.014.0074, Source: Ledger, October 25
2. Harrisburg…Source: Ledger, September 1
3. Drastic Steps to Stop Water Pollution Urged, 128 Supplies in Penna. Affected, Engineers Report, Schuylkill Not Fit For Bathing, Mayor Makes Assertion Before Gathering of 200 Experts, Source: North American, October 17
4. Way Found to End Stream Pollution, State’s Plan Declared by Engineers to Be Best Ever Put Forth, Divided Into 3 Classes, Source: Ledger, October 17
5. Northeast Citizens Plan Water Protest, Will Hold Mass Meeting to Demand Better Facilities From City, Mayor is Told, Source: North American, August 9

2004.014.0076

1. Bathing Beaches on the Schuylkill Were Blocked by River’s Pollution, Lack of Sewage-Disposal System Blamed for “Terrible Condition” of the Stream-State Trying to Purify Upper Reaches of the River, Source: Ledger, October 18
2. Engineers Meet Here to Discuss Pollution, Mayor Tells Them That the Problem is Growing as Fast as the Remedy, Come From Many States, Description of Water Filter Recently Invented Places It in the Front Rank, Source: Record, October 15
3. Kendrick Blazes Way For Big Work, Stresses Need for Extension and Improvement of Water Supply System, Tells Typical “Fishtown” Republican Rally of Aims of Incoming Administration, Source: Inquirer, October 19
4. Hall Scores Caven on Water Plan Rap, Calls Director’s Criticism of Perkiomen Project as Unsanitary “Willful Misrepresentation,” Declares He’s Disgusted, Source: Bulletin, October 20
5. Big Waste of Water and Gas Seen in City by Still Operation, Dry Chief Asks U.G.I. and Water Bureau to Aid Enforcement, Source: North American, November 8
6. Hall Urges Water Survey, To Ask for Commission Early Under New Administration, Source: [?], October 20

2004.014.0077

1. Two Water Projects Analyzed by Expert, Advantages and Disadvantages of Hall-Caven Proposals, Source: Ledger, October 22
2. M’Clure Says City Lets Distillers Waste Water, He Has Complained, He Reports, But No Action is Taken, Source: Record, November 9
3. Water Main Bursting Causes Road Cave-in, Source not known

1924

2004.014.0078

1. [Union?]onizing of City Employees Attacked and Pleas Rejected, Forty-four-hour Week for Water Bureau is Quickly Killed, Council Budget Committee Passes on Many Items During Day, Source not known
2. Dance in Caven Office, Public Works Employees Entertained by Retiring Director, Source: Ledger, January 1, 1924
3. Kendrick Fills Directorships, Keeping Pledge, Picks Biles for Public Works, Krusen for Health and Grakelow for Welfare, All Appointments Wholly Nonpolitical, Consternation Over Intention to Ask for Resignations of All Bureau Chiefs, Put on Efficiency Basis, Three Men in Mind for Transit Head-Gossip About Minor Places to Be Filled, Source: Ledger, December 18

2004.014.0079

1. Adoption of Water Supply Plan Urged, Closing of Schuylkill With Its Chemically-Purified Sewage Recommended, Caven Stresses Need of More Modern Destructors and Incinerating Plants, Source not known
2. Now My Idea is This! Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They Know Best, Source: Ledger, November 7
3. Water Company Valuation Stands as Rate Basis, Supreme Court Sustains Figures Fixed by Utility Board, Source: Record, November 16
4. Let Us Have Water That is Fit, Source: Inquirer, October 20, 1923
5. Rochester Using Iodine in Water to Fight Go[iter], Makes Experiment for Benefit of Thousa[nds] Susceptible Residents, Source: North American, January 11, 1924

2004.014.0080

1. Dunlap and Neeson to Remain, Source: Inquirer, December 26
2. Council Tackles Water Improvement Today, Important Ordinances Will Be Discussed by Committees, Source: Record, January 22
3. Prime Need of the City, Source: Bulletin, January 14, 1924
4. Chemically Treated Water, Source: Ledger, January 15, 1924
5. Water-Power Idea Urged on Grange, Master, at Convention, Recommends State Build Dams and Lease Electricity, Chaplain Flays Lax Drys, Source: Ledger, November 13
6. Davis May Head Water Engineers, City Hall Rumors Former Water Bureau Chief Will Return, Close Friend of Hall, Source: Bulletin, January 24
7. West Philadelphia Water Causes Run on Drug Stores, Odor for Last Few Days So Objectionable Residents Are Unable to Drink It, Source: Ledger, January 12, 1924
8. Hastening the New Fairmount Dam, Source: Inquirer, January 26, 1924
9. Transit and Water Must Come First, Source: Inquirer, January 26, 1924
10. Extending High-Pressure Fire Service, Source: Inquirer, January 29

2004.014.0081

1. Dunlap Ousted From Water Job; Murdock Named, New Appointee Former City Engineer of Chicago, Has Done Great Work, Says Mayor, Fired Chief Declares Hall Has Carried Out Threat to ‘Get’ Him, Source: North American, January 25
2. Water An Essential, Source: Bulletin, January 25
3. One of the First Needs, Source: Bulletin, January 27
4. Murdock is Named City Water Head, “Hall Said He Would Get Me,” Says Dunlap When Told of Removal, Position Pays $10,000, Source: Bulletin, January 25, 1924
5. Photo of Alexander Murdock attached to the above article, Source: Bulletin, January 25
6. Water Main Bursts, Nicetown Residents Carry Buckets for Breakfast Needs, Source: Bulletin, no date given
   Mr. Dunlap’s Case, Source: Bulletin, January 25
7. Mayor to Name Water Experts, J.F. Hasskarl, Former Director of Wharves, Mentioned as One of Five Engineers, Will Improve System, Source: Bulletin, January 26

2004.014.0082

1. Photo, title: Work to Start at Once on New $700,000 Fairmount Park Dam, caption: …Diagram at reader’s upper right shows detailed plan of the new dam. Diagram at reader’s lower left shows style of construction of the present dam. The dotted liens drawn in the diagram of the new dam show the size of the present dam as [?] the new project, Source: Bulletin, January 26, 1924
2. Fairmount Dam Called a Menace, Theodore Justice Tells Mayor Structure Threatens West Philadelphia Water Supply, New Work Starts Soon, Source: Ledger, January 24
3. Council to Speed New Fairmount Dam, Special Meeting Friday to Expedite Passage of Ordinance, To Pay State Bill, Source: North American, January 24
4. Biles Seeks Bids on Fairmount Dam, Works Director Advertises Before Council Passes Enabling Ordinance, Action to Speed Water Plans Comes After Talk With Mayor, Source: Inquirer, January 24
5. Peril to Traffic, Source: North American, January 29

2004.014.0083

1. [Millions?] Voted for Public Works, City Council Appropriates Funds for Fairmount Dam and New Buildings at Byberry, Stir Over Dunlap Ousting, Cleanup Squads Being Formed in All Schools, Source: Ledger, January 26
2. Photo title: To Extend High Pressure Service, caption: Diagram shown above indicates the proposed extension of the high pressure service to take in a larger territory in the central business section of the city as announced yesterday by Director George H. Biles, of the Department of Public Works. The completion of the extension, which will cost about $200,000, will be rushed, Source: Inquirer, January 28, 1924
3. High Pressure Area Extension Outlined, Service in Market and Sansom Streets, West of Broad, Planned, Director Biles Reveals Progress of Proposal to Increase Fire Protection, Source: Inquirer, January 28, 1924
4. Big Water Supply Link, Main Across Girard Avenue Bridge Will Protect West Philadelphia, Source: Inquirer, January 29
5. Roper Seeks Cause of Dropping Dunlap, Councilman Investigating Reasons for Removing Water Bureau Chief, Resolution Asking Public Explanation of Action to Be Submitted to Mayor, Source: Inquirer, January 29
6. For a “City Healthful”, Adequate Supply of Pure Water

2004.014.0084

1. Davis is Asked to Head City Water Commission, Ousting of Dunlap Arouses Roper; Alleged Scandal in Sewer Construction Aired, Source: North American, January 26
2. Dunlap May Get New City Hall Job, Ousted Water Bureau Head Considered for Chief of Street Cleaning Division, Other Changes Expected, Source: Ledger, January [?]
3. Big Broad St. Water Mains to Be Moved, 48 and 30 Inch Pipes Lie in Path of Proposed Subway, Officials Confer, Source: North American, February 2
4. Water Commission Naming is Delayed, Mayor Kendrick Wishes to Hear Advocates of the Delaware, Immense Problem, Source: North American, January [8]
5. No title, begins with “With the building of the Fairmount Dam…” Source: Bulletin, January 30
6. Mayor Says He Favors $100,000,000 Water Plan, Indicates Adherence to More Expensive Hall Proposal in Speech, Talks to Store Workers, Kendrick Addresses Strawbridge & Clothier Relief Association, Source: Record, February 12, 1924
7. More Water For Suburbs, Crum Creek Filter Plant Will Increase Supply Greatly, Source: Ledger, February 8

2004.014.0085

1. Mayor Reveals Full Plans For New City Hub, Vast Concourse Under Streets and Over Subways at Broad and Market, New City Hall Essential in Traffic Relief Plans, Underground Footways on Each Side of Chestnut Street Subway Trackline, P.R.R. Elevated To Go, Seashore Trains to Connect With Suburban Terminal by Filbert Street Subway, Source: Ledger, January 20, 1924
2. Photo attached to the above article, title: The Proposed “Underground City” at City Hall Site, caption:…”shows how the suggested new scheme for a “City Beautiful” will be worked out underground…”, Source: Ledger, January 20, 1924

2004.014.0086

1. Photo #2 attached to the article in 2004.014.0085, title: City’s Center May Look Under New “City Beautiful” Arrangement Now Being Planned, caption: “Here is a conception of what the vicinity of Broad and Market Streets may look like when final plans are put through…”, Source: Ledger, January 20, 1924
2. With Woodruff, No Decision Reached, Commission Confined Work to Discussion of Expenditure of $500,000, Source not known

2004.014.0087

1. Photo #3 attached to photo #2 in 2004.014.0086, title: How the City’s Center May Look Under New “City Beautiful” Arrangement Now Being Planned, Source: Ledger, January 20, 1924
2. Mayor Picks 7 For Water Commission, Says He May Add One or Two; Hinges Upon Compensation, 3 in City Service, Source: Inquirer, February 5

2004.014.0088

1. Kendrick Has Made a Good Beginning, Source not known
2. Scheduled Pay $4 a Day, Men Get Only $16 a Week, Councilmen Tell Kendrick Some City Employees Have Hard Time, Source not known

2004.014.0089

1. Photo, title: Conflicting Projects For Water Supply, caption: The four sources of water supply north of the city are shown on the map issued with the annual report of the city’s water bureau….Length of aqueducts costing approximately $1,000,000 a mile to convey water from the different supply basins to this city are shown in map, Source: Inquirer, February 1, 1924
2. Mayor Has Plan For Water Relief; Parley is Planned, Will Call Round-Table Discussion to Obtain an Early Solution, Dunlap Says Delaware Intake Is as Polluted as Schuylkill Source, Source not known
3. Ready for Work, Source: Ledger, February 17

2004.014.0090

1. Mayor to Protect City’s Water Needs, Prepares Bid for Shore of Supply of Upper Delaware, Will Submit Claim to Tri-State Board on Division of Rights, Source: Inquirer, February 2
2. Water Supply Body, Source: North American, February 12
3. Mayor Names New Water Commission, Manufacturers Told New Watershed Must Be Found and Will Be Very Costly, Might as Well Face Expenditure of $50,000,000 or More, Says Kendrick, Source: Inquirer, February 15
4. Preparing for the New Water Project, Source: Inquirer, February 6, 1924
5. Water and City Health, Source: Inquirer, February 13, 1924
6. Fairmount Dam Bids Are Opened, Director Biles Considering Five Proposals for Only Part of Construction Work, Big Waste in Water Leaks, Source: Ledger, February 14
7. Water Main Breaks, Pipes Part at 23rd Street and Allegheny Avenue, Flood Vicinity, Source: Inquirer, February 19

2004.014.0091

1. A New Water Commission, Source: Ledger, February 8, 1924
2. Mayor Has a Water Plan of His Own to Advance, Not Impressed With That Put Forward by Councilman Hall, Source: Record, February 1
3. Mr. Kendrick Calls in Moore Water Experts, Three of the Seven Members of the New Commission Examined the Water Supply Problem Four Years Ago, Source: Ledger, February 16
4. New Water Commission to Consider Two Plans, Hall Proposal and Dunlap’s Cheaper Proposition to Be Taken Up, Details Are Pointed Out, Defects of Both Proposals Are Set Forth in Statement by Hasskarl, Source: Record, February 17

2004.014.0092

1. Men and Things, Source: Bulletin, February 20, 1924
2. No title, begins “The award of a contract for the construction of a new dam at Fairmount…,” Source: Record, February 22
3. Water System for 10,000,000 Planned, Commission Tells Mayor Report Will Be Made in 90 Days, Start Work Monday, Water Pure; Only Taste is Bad, Source: North American, February 22
4. City Will Pay Water Experts $100 a Day, Four Engineers Will Begin Work on New Plan at Once, Biles Says, Source: Record, February 16
5. Contract Given For New Fairmount Dam, Seeds & Derham to Build a Concrete Structure for $604,000, Thousand Feet Long, Source: North American, February 21
6. Water Commission Has a Long Session, Chairman Biles Says Proceedings Would Not Interest the Public, To Report in 90 Days, Source: North American, February 26

2004.014.0093

1. Extra Water Supply, an Interview with Dr. Henry Leffmann, Source: Record, February 17, 1924

2004.014.0094

1. Photo, caption: New City Water Board at First Meeting, Left to right are-J. Waldo Smith, George W. Fuller, George H. Biles, Director of Public Works; Alexander Murdoch, chairman of Water Bureau; Mayor Kendrick, Joseph F. Hasskarl, S.M. Swaab and Edward Loeb, secretary to the Mayor, at first meeting of Water Commission under new city administration, Source: Inquirer, February [?], 1924
   May Start Dam Work, Authorization to Begin Rebuilding at Once Reported Received, Source: Ledger, February 12
2. Mayor Will Speed New Water Supply, Promises, After Commission Meets, That Work Will Start in Several Places, Report Due in 90 Days, Source: Ledger, February 22
3. New Water Commission Meets for First Time, Mayor Promises Body Will Have Complete Plans Ready in 90 Days, Source: Record, February 22
4. Calls Water Conference, Engineers of Three States to Discuss Supply Program, Source not known
5. Northeast Section to Demand Water Supply, Residents of Tacony and Holmesburg Plan Big Indignation Meeting, Mayor Pleaded in Vain, Council Has Made No Provision for Taking Over Plants of Private Companies, Source: Record, August 8, 1929
6. Poor Pay and Hard W[ork], Councilmen Say Conditions at [Fil]tration Plant Are Deplorable, Source not known

2004.014.0095

1. $550,000 is Voted For Water Works, Council’s Action Assures Extensive Improvements in City System, Many Street Changes, Source: Ledger, March 28
2. Biles Gives Contracts For New Water Mains, Awards Coverning Many Miles of Construction to Cost $352,000 Announced, Source: Inquirer, March 27
3. First Revolt in Council Ranks, Source: Record, March 26
4. Big Sum For Needed Work, Other Projects Need Money, Source: Record, April 4
5. Water Bureau Lost Fees Being Checked, City Wide Survey Made to Locate Unreported New Outlets, Source not known
6. Pottsville Water Co. to Build Huge Reservoir, Source not known
7. Mayor Wants City Water Plan Action, Would Take Over Oak Lane and Philadelphia and Bristol Companies, Estimated Cost, $1,100,000, Source: Inquirer, April 17
8. Biles Wants $3,000,000, Will Present Improvement Plans to Council Tomorrow, Source: Inquirer, April 2
9. Springfield Water Co. Valued at $17,500,000, Certificate is Issued by Public Service Commission, Source: Ledger, April 15
10. Spring Freshet Swells The Delaware at Trenton, Highest Water in Ten Years and Plants Suffer Losses, Source: Record, April 8

2004.014.0096

1. City Will Drop Schuylkill For Water Supply, Source for Next 70 Years Will Be Definitely Settled Within Few Weeks, Perkiomen and Delaware Plans Are Considered, Latter Calls for 18-Foot Aqueduct 25 Miles Long Carved From Solid Rock, Millions Involved in Work, Old System Will Be Used Where Possible-Council Harmony Presages Action, Source: Ledger, April 7, 1924
2. Does the United States Take Full Advantage of Its Natural Resource? Source: Ledger, no date given
3. Source of Water Supply Puzzling, Perkiomen Valley and Delaware River Believed Only Choices Before Commission, Schuylkill Limit Reached, Source: Ledger, April 8
4. Water Supply Plan Enters Final Stage, Commission Discusses Proposed Perkiomen-Schuylkill-Delaware Combination, Recommendations and Report to Mayor Expected After Session Tomorrow, Source: Inquirer, [May] 19

2004.014.0097

1. Buying Up Options on Trail of City’s Great Water Plan, Speculators Said to Be Offering Fancy Prices for Farm Lands in Perkiomen and Tohickon Valleys-Damages on Reparian Rights May Reach Millions, Dam 80 Feet High Would Create Lake 4 ½ Miles Long, Source: Bulletin, May 12, 19[?]
2. Water Co. Asks For a Valuation, Source: Ledger, March 19
3. Perkiomen Protests, Collegeville Editor Says Mayor Kendrick Should Listen to the Valley, Source: Bulletin, May 16
4. This City Assured of Water Supply, Source: Ledger, March 15

2004.014.0098-2004.014.0099

1. 5 Photos title: Views and Diagram of Countryside That May Be Drawn Upon to Supply Philadelphia With Water, caption of photo #1: Where an 80-Foot Dam May Form the waters of the Perkiomen into a lake 4 ½ miles long, caption of photo #2: Map of the Bucks and Montgomery County Districts That May Figure in New Water Plans, showing dams, aqueducts, and the tunnel that may be needed to join the Tohickon and Perkiomen Creeks, caption of photo #3: Nearly All the Water in Perkiomen Creek, Shown Above, Will Be Taken, if plans for Philadelphia’s new water supply involving this section are finally approved and adopted by City Council. The stone bridge was built in 1708. Just beyond is Collegeville, Montgomery County, caption of photo #4: East Swamp Creek, enters the Perkiomen. It too, would be dammed, should the talked of [?] adopted, caption of photo #5: Grist Mill at Perkiomenville, one of the industries that would be dep[?] water power by a dam like that shown above, Source: Bulletin, no date given
2. Broken Main Floods West Penn Square, Fire Breaks Out in Commercial Trust Building at Same Time, Source: Ledger, May 18

2004.014.0100

1. Men and Things, Source: Bulletin, May 15
2. Knock Perkiomen as Water Source, Residents of Valley Say 60,000,000 Gallons are Available Daily Only in Spring, If Then, Warn City Against Dam, Source: Bulletin, May 15, 1924
3. Water Commission Silent on Report, Mayor and Members Decline to Talk After Protracted City Hall Session, Hall Says Land Speculators in Area Suggested Won’t “Milk Taxpayers”, Source: Inquirer, May 14
4. Water Commission Will Report Soon, $70,000,000 Project Embracing Perkiomen and Tohickon Creeks Favored, Source: North American, May 13

2004.014.0101

1. Voters to Act on $40,000,000 Loan in Fall, $10,000,000 Set Toward New Water Plan; Mayor Meets Council Committee Wednesday, Source: Inquirer, May 17
2. $550,000 Approved for Water Dept. Use, Fire Hydrants to Require $50,000 of Sum; New Filtration Aid, Part of Big System, Source: North American, March 19, 1924
3. Men and Things, Source: Bulletin, May 17
4. Men and Things, Source: Bulletin, May 21
5. Church Wins Water Fight, Lansdale Company Ordered to Install Supply for St. Stanisiaus’, Source: Ledger, March 22

2004.014.0102

1. Perkiomen Area Urged as City’s Water Source, Mayor’s Commission Reports Superiority of Selected Zone Over Upper Delaware, Lehigh and Pocono Sheds for Pure Supply Adequate to Estimated, Needs of Next Fifty Years, Cost Upward of $100,000,000 and It Will Require 6 to 8 Years to Complete Seven Dams, With Storage Reservoir and Deep High Pressure Tunnel; Schuylkill Condemned as Polluted, Source: Inquirer, May 24
2. Map attached to above article, title: Source of New Water Supply, caption: The above drawing shows the basin to be formed by the Perkiomen and Tohickon Creeks…Location of the Torresdale station, from where the Delaware water will be distributed, is also shown, Source: Inquirer, May 24

2004.014.0103

1. Continuation of the article from 2004.014.0103, Source: Inquirer, May 24
2. Engineer Defends City’s Water Plan, J. Waldo Smith, New York, Answering Dunlap Calls Perkiomen Scheme Cheapest, Withhold River Tests, Source: Bulletin, May 27
   Here It Is in a Nutshell, Source: Record, no date given
3. All Facts Must be Known, Source: Bulletin, May 28, 1924
4. The Water Report, Source: Bulletin, May 24

2004.014.0104

1. Stupendous Blunder and Goldbrick Seen in New Water Plans, Experts’ Ideas Also Pronounced Peril to Health, Former Chief Dunlap Says Delaware at Torresdale is More Grossly Polluted Than Supply Source of Any City in United States, While Commission Programme is Extravagant, Filtered Sewage and Epidemic Menace Constant, While Projected System is Inadequate to Service Sought; Tapping of River at Yardley Suggested as Remedy With $60,000,000 Cost, Source: Inquirer, May 28, 1924
2. Mayor to Receive New Water Supply Details Tomorrow, Data Withheld From Commission’s Report to be Submitted, Director Biles and Co-Members Refuse Discussion of [Pro]ject’s Phases, Source: Inquirer, May 28, 1924
3. Photo of Fred C. Dunlap, Former Chief of Water Bureau, who calls Perkiomen-Tohickon project a “gold brick,” and describes supply from Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers as “rotten” and “filtered sewage.” Source: Inquirer, May 28, 1924

2004.014.0105

1. Dunlap Scores New Water Plan, Former Bureau Chief Calls It Wanton Waste of Many Millions, Sees Menace to Health, Water Served From the Delaware Declared to Be Only Filtered Sewage, Sticks to Neshaminy Site, “Acting Mayor” Hall Intimates His Plan is Based on Opinion of Experts, Source: Record, May 28
2. Perkiomen, Aroused by City Water Plans, To Fight Invasion, Playground and Bungalow Colony Say Valley Must be Preserved, Doubt Adequate Water, Source: North American, May 26
3. Water Plans Get Under Way Soon, Biles Will Ask $2,000,000 of Fund Left from Old Loan to Speed Work, Repair Filter Beds, Source: Bulletin, May 27

2004.014.0106

1. Perkiomen Folk May Carry Water Plan to Court, Organize to Protest Building of Dams in Upper Valley Region, Northeast Section Will Join in Fight, Residents Assert Delaware River at Torresdale Intake is Polluted, Source: North American, May 29, 1924
2. Electoral Loan Water Item to be $10,000,000, Hall Will Ask Council Thursday to Pass Bill and Enable Early Start on Project, Mayor Kendrick Announces $3,500,000 Available for Extending Pumping and Filtering Plants, Source: Inquirer, May 25

2004.014.0107

1. Publicity for the Water Supply Report, Source: Inquirer, May 27
2. Are We to Drink Filtered Sewage? Source: Inquirer, May 28
3. The Water Report, Source: Ledger, May 26, 1924
4. Water Report’s Critics, Source: Ledger, May 29
5. The City’s Water [?], Source: Bulletin, M[ay] [?]
6. Too Much “Private Agreement” Source: Record, May 31
7. One Hundred Years Ago, Source: Bulletin, February 27

2004.014.0108

1. [?] Report Reaches Council, Calls Critic of Proposed System “Disgruntled and Dismissed Official,” Says he Was Disloyal to Late Administration, Councilmen Deplore Alarming Statements-Pledge Publicity on Perkiomen-Tohickon Plan, Source not known
2. Begin Water Fight at Council Session, Roper Will Demand Publicity and Other Councilmen Will Attack Perkiomen Project, Appropriation Bill Up, Source: Bulletin, May 29
3. Condemned Dunlap Water Supply Plan Months Ago, Member of Mayor’s Commission Attacked Proposal in News Article, Source: Bulletin, May 29

2004.014.0109

1. Wall St. Expects New Year to Go the Way ’26 Left Off, Questions Whether Rising Markets Will Dominate Situation, Source: Bulletin, January 1
2. Main Break Floods Area in Northeast, Source: Bulletin, January 1
3. Photo attached to above article, title: Where 15-inch Water Main Broke, caption: The hole in the pavement of Bristol St. between 4th and Lawrence Sts…., Source: Bulletin, January 1

2004.014.0110

1. New Water Plan to Face Attacks in Council Today, Roper and Northeast Members to Open Vigorous Campaign for Public Hearings on Proposal and Full Investigation, Including Perkiomen Land Deals and Delaware Intake Analyses for Year, Introduction of $10,000,000 Appropriation Bill to Encounter Opposition; Dunlap Again Warns of Waste, Intimation of State Inquiry Into Whole Situation; Hall Pleads Open Mind, Source: Inquirer, May 29, 1924

2004.014.0111

1. $10,000,000 Loan Bill Introduced in City Council, Sponsors of Project Promise Fullest Investigation and Widest Publicity Before They Place Their Approval on Commission’s Suggestion of Adopting Perkiomen and Tohickon Supply Bases, Dunlap Charges Hall Made Threat Before Kendrick Took Office That Former Water Chief Would Lose His Job If He Continued to Oppose Scheme Now Pending, Source: Inquirer, May 20
2. Dunlap Charges Ousting Followed Threat From Hall, Source: Inquirer, May 20

2004.014.0112

1. Hall and Connell Promise Publicity and Full Inquiry, Source: Inquirer, May 30
2. $100,000,000 Cost of Water Plant, Commissioners’ Report, Before Mayor, Provides for City’s Needs Fifty Years Hence, Huge Reservoir Urged, Source: Ledger, no date given
3. City Faces Fight on Water, Valley Residents Rally to Oppose Diverting of Perkiomen, Source: Bulletin, May 24
4. Pure Supply is Ordered, Source: Ledger, May 27

2004.014.0113

1. Mayor to Reply to Dunlap on Water Supply, Homeward-Bound From Canada, he Will Study “Costly Blunder” Charges, Voices his Confidence in Experts’ Judgement, $10,000,000 Ordinance, Says Hall, Does Not Commit City to Definite Plan, N.Y. Engineer Approves, Smith Commends Perkiomen-Tohickon Project-Northeast Disturbed Over Sewage, Source: Ledger, May 29
2. Torresdale First to Be Improved in New Water Plant, Station Will Be Enlarged to Reduce the Consumption From the Schuylkill, $10,000,000 Loan to Give Funds to Start Work, Steps to Supply Funds Will Be Taken Thursday and Dirt Will Fly in Few Weeks, Source: Ledger, May 25
3. The Perkiomen Invasion, Source: Record, May 28

2004.014.0114

1. Council to Hold Public Hearings on City Water, Acts on Measures Providing $13,500,000 to Start $100,000,000 Project, Immediate Development in Torresdale Sought, Bill Authorizing Expenditure of $2,000,000 on Filter Station is Presented, Hall Criticizes Dunlap, Roper Comes to Former Chief’s Defense and Demands Hearing From Him, Source: Ledger, May 30
2. Public Will Hear Dunlap on Water, Former Bureau Chief to Attend Hearings and Present His Objections to Perkiomen Plan, Answers Hall’s Attack, Source: Bulletin, May 30
3. Buy Holmesburg Water Company, Is Mayor’s Plea, Sale of State Fencibles Armory Also Proposed, Resolution Protesting Against McNary-Haugen Bill in Congress is Passed, Source: Ledger, May 9

2004.014.0115

1. Map title: Water Supply Plans From Bird’s-Eye View, caption: The conflicting plans for an improved water supply for the city are shown at a glance in the above diagram…The scored lines bound the plan advocated by Fred C. Dunlap, former Chief of the Bureau of Water, of this city, and reveal the upper Delaware river and the Neshaminy watershed as the sources of supply, Source: Inquirer, May 31, 1924
2. Water Plan Cost Set at $50,000,000 Over First Figure, Dunlap Says Hall Project Will Involve $150,000,000 to Remedy Defects of System and Bring Adequate Supply to Entire City; Promises to Tell True Situation to Council Committee, Former Bureau Chief Accepts Invitation to Give Views at Public Hearing; Says Proposition Would Leave Large Section Unrelieved of Polluted Sewage for Drinking Purposes, Source: Inquirer, May 31

2004.014.0116

1. Phila. Must Get State’s Consent to Water Plans, Approval of Health and Forest and Waters Departments Required, Experts Already Are Going Over Ground, Paying Particular Attention to Availability of Perkiomen Creek Valley, Source: North American, August 31
2. Getting Facts on Water Supply, Source: Record, June 2
3. Camden Avoiding Polluted Delaware for Water Supply, Source not known
4. A Water Supply For The City of the Future, Mr. Russell Thayer Counsels Caution Before Any Comprehensive Plan is Adopted, Source: Ledger, May 31, 1924
5. Water Supply Hearings, Source: Bulletin, June 4, 1924

2004.014.0117

1. Continuation of article, “Water Supply Hearings” from 2004.014.0116, Source: Bulletin, June 4, 1924
2. Oppose Use of Water From Delaware River, Source: North American, June 2
3. Engineers Prepare Answer to Dunlap, “Line Upon Line” Reply on Project Will Be Ready for Mayor, To Push Torresdale Work, Source: Ledger, May 13
4. Council Will Hear Public on Water, Dunlap Again Protests, Source: Ledger, May 30

2004.014.0118

1. Mayor to Defend His Water Report, Will Have Reply to Dunlap Attack on His Return Next Week, Opposition is Growing, Residents of Northeast Section Resent Continued Use of Filtered Sewage, The Two Rivers Compared, Reports Prove Delaware Water is Three Times as Impure as the Schuylkill, Source: Record, May 29
2. Mayor Has Open Mind on Water, Pledges Publicity for All Plans Advanced for Improvement of Supply, Surprised at Dispute, Source: Bulletin, June 2
3. Men and Things, Source: Bulletin, June 2

2004.014.0119

1. Philadelphia Has Battled Over Water Supply Problem Since 1797, Back in 1872 a Commission Favored the Perkiomen, and in 1886 Rudolph Hering Advised Use of Delaware and Two Creeks Now Mentioned, Source: Ledger, June 1, 1924
2. Delaware Water Supply Needed in City, Says Wells, Deputy Atty. General Adds Phila. Rights Must Be Conserved, N.Y. Planning to Get Power by Commission, Penna. Officials Uninformed of Local Needs for Next Fifty Years, Source: North American, June 2

2004.014.0120

1. Lower River Water Has Double Danger Despite Filtration, Sanitary Engineers Find New Peril From Increased Chemical Use, Freeing From Germs Leaves Supply Unpalatable and Corrodes Piping, Source: Inquirer, June 2
2. Mayor to Speak on Water This Week, Expected to Answer Dunlap’s Attack on Plan Backed by Hall, Will Move With Caution, Problem Involving Many Millions to Be Threshed Out by Expert Engineers, Upper Delaware [Fa]vored, Water From Polluted Lower River Admitted to Be Unfit for Drinking Purposes, Source: Record, June 2
3. Fouled Waters, Source: Record, January 4
4. Mayor Announces Hearing on Water, Public Session Set for Friday, Krusen Approves City’s Present Supply, Source: Ledger, June 4

2004.014.0121

1. Davis Endorses Perkiomen Plan For City’s Water, Former Chief of Bureau Here Declares Project Recommended by Commission Will Give Phila. An Adequate Supply, Scores Dunlap Proposal as Giving Only One Source, Source: Bulletin, June 2, 1924
2. Propose Citizens Buy Water Plant, Residents of Northeast May Be Asked to Purchase Holmesburg Works, Valuation Set at $854,610, Source: Ledger, June 3, 1924

2004.014.0122

1. Polluted Water Use Defended by City Commission, Detailed Report to Mayor Replies to Criticism of Lower Delaware as Source of Supply for Next Fifty Years and Pleads Justification for Perkiomen-Tohickon Plan With Torresdale Intake, Kendrick Says Dunlap Suggestion Does Not Eliminate Present Filtration Plant Immediately; Pledges Full Publicity and Fair Treatment to All; Former Chief Davis Upholds Investigators’ Project, Source: Inquirer, June 3, 1924

2004.014.0123

1. Then Why Spend All These Millions? Source: Inquirer, June 4, 1924
2. City’s Water Safest in U.S.. Save Boston’s, Figures Show, Typhoid Mortality Rate Declined Steadily Since 1906; Perkiomen-Tohickon Hearing Friday, Source: North American, June 4
3. An Unsatisfactory Situation, Source: Bulletin, June 7, 1924
4. The Public Wants the Facts, Source: Inquirer, June 4
5. Give Us All the Facts About Water, Source: Inquirer, June 5
6. Take Over the Sectional Water Works, Source: Inquirer, June 5

2004.014.0124

1. New Pollution Ban Gratifies Kendrick, Mayor Says State Order, Issued to Easton, Justifies Water Board’s Plan, Will Purify Delaware, Source: Bulletin, June 4
2. Men and Things, Source: Bulletin, June 3
3. Swaab Answers Water Criticism, Will Never be Possible to Rid Schuylkill of Pollution, He Declares, “Great Expenditure” Hit, Source: Bulletin, June 5
4. City Advised to Act to Stop Water Waste, New System Not Only Vital Point, Research Bureau Says, Source: Bulletin, June 5
5. Specifying The Water Loan, Source: Bulletin, June 11, 1924

2004.014.0125

1. Photo title: Perkiomen Water Project Before Council’s Committee, caption: Mayor Kendrick Addressing Councilmanic Committee, urging a complete inquiry as to the Perkiomen-Tohickon and other suggested sources for Philadelphia’s future water supply before committee action is taken. Seated on the platform, in Room 496, City Hall, from reader’s left: James Caldwell, secretary of Public Works’ Committee; George Connell, chairman, and Joseph Marcus, clerk of City Council. Also pictured are: Charles B. Hall, President of City Council; Mayor Freeland Kendrick; Director George H. Biles, of Public Works; Fred C. Dunlap, former Chief of the Water Bureau, Source: Bulletin, June 7,1924
2. Water Commission To Be Heard Today, Source: Record, June 6
3. Perkiomen Urged as Cheaper Than Rival Watershed, Commission Members Assert $15,000,000 to Equalize Pressure Would Make Neshaminy Plan Cost More Than Their Project; Continued Use of Torresdale Intake Disavowed, Bacilli Tests Show Schuylkill Less Polluted Than Delaware River at Tapping Point; Dunlap Warns of Epidemic Peril in “Sleeping Volcano” at the Chlorinization Station, Source: Inquirer, June 7

2004.014.0126

1. Continuation of article, “Perkiomen Urged as Cheaper Than Rival Watershed,…” from 2004.014.0125, Source: Inquirer, June 7

2004.014.0127

1. Continuation of article, “Perkiomen Urged as Cheaper Than Rival Watershed,…” from 2004.014.0125 and 2004.014.0126, Source: Inquirer, June 7
2. Mayor Will Seek More Water Data, Declares He is Not Fully Satisfied Wants Maps Showing Dams and Aqueduct, No Criticism of Board, Source: Bulletin, June 7

2004.014.0128

1. 50-Year Torresdale Supply Not Fixed in Plan, Hearing Shows, Mayor and Experts Say Ultimate Aim Is to Draw All Water From Upland Sources, Source: North American, June 7, 1924
2. Mayor in Favor of Special Bureau for Water Extensions, Wants One of the Best Engineers of the Country at Its Head, Some One Like Swaab, Source: North American, June 9
3. New Fairmount Dam May Furnish Power to Light Art Home, Park Engineers Negotiate for Small Hydroelectric Plant, Water To End Mud Flat, Source: North American, June 9

2004.014.0129

1. Water Board Plan Best for City, Says Ex-Chief Davis, Former Official Declares Alarming Talk About Filters Without Foundation, Argues Against Supply From River at Yardley, Asserts That Not Cost but Expediency Should Be Controlling Factor, Source: Ledger, June 8, 1924
2. Public Water Hearing Planned by Kendrick, Source: North American, June 13
3. Dunlap Again Scores Experts’ Water Report, Declares Wrong Records Were Given at Last Public Hearing, Mayor Holds Conference, Has Round-Table Discussion on Plans, But Reaches No Conclusion, Source: Record, June 10
4. Commerce Chamber Plans Water Probe, Independent Investigation Decided After Receipt of Many Letters, Action Taken Prior to Mayor Kendrick’s Arrangements for Public Hearings, Source: Inquirer, June 13

2004.014.0130

1. So The People May Know, Source: Bulletin, June 10, 1924
2. Mayor to Consider Next Water Hearing, Conference With Officials Today to Discuss Second Public Session, Connell Awaits Full Report of Commission and Promises No Hasty Action, Source: Record, June 9
3. $2,000,000 Water Measure Approved, Council Committee Rejects Amendment Offered by Hall Setting Aside $50,000 for Surveys, Plans Can’t Be Pushed, Source: Bulletin, June 10
4. City Cannot Jump Into Water Project, Hall Points to Danger of Tying Up Entire Borrowing Capacity, Dunlap Attacks Again, Source: North American, June 10, 1924
5. Kendrick Pleased at Water Report, Opposes City Being Rushed Into Program, He Says After Round Table, Dunlap Renews Attack, Source: Ledger, June 10

2004.014.0131

1. Men and Things, Source: Bulletin, June 5
2. Universal Water Metering, Source: Bulletin, June 9
3. Hall Strikes Snag in Move For Funds to Aid Water Plan, Biles Defeats Effort to Obtain $50,000 for Preliminary Borings, Council Committee Sustains Director’s Stand Against Restricting Funds, Source: Inquirer, June 11
4. Mayor Seeks New Water Discussion, Asks Additional Information of Commission to Lay Before Business Bodies, Plans $20,000,000 Saving, Source: Ledger, June 17

2004.014.0132

1. Mayor Studying on Water Supply, In Shrine Club Address He Says Public Will Be Informed of All Plans, Kendrick Convinced the Delaware Can Be Saved for Future Service of City, Source: Inquirer, June 12
2. $20,000,000 Cut in Cost of Water Plans, Elimination of Tunnel From Lower River Plan Reduces Total to $71,000,000, Hall Indicates Compromise and Final Action Delayed by Council Until Fall; Loan Item to Be Reduced, Source: Inquirer, June 17
3. Plan Gives City Bristol Water Co., Holmesburg Territory Served by Old Concern Would Be Taken Over by Philadelphia, Equipment Wins Praise, Source: Ledger, June 15
4. The Water-Supply Debate, Source: Ledger, June 18

2004.014.0133

1. With Hooch Not Permitted How About Water? Besides Being Fit to Drink It Should Have Certain Qualities for Industrial Purposes of Various Sorts-Interesting Points as to City’s Present Supply and Its Effects on Health, Source: Record, June 15, 1924

2004.014.0134

1. Continuation of article, “With Hooch Not Permitted How About Water?…” from 2004.014.0133, Source: Record, June 15, 1924

2004.014.0135

1. Kendrick Water Project Camouflage, Says Dunlap, Deposed Water Chief Asserts It Will Be Used to Distract Attention From Monuments to Vanity, Source: North American, June 17, 1924
2. City Marking Time on Water Project, Public Hearing Before Council Adjourns for Summer Seems Unlikely, Map and Details by Engineers Promised by Mayor Not Yet Ready, Source: Inquirer, June 19
3. A Water Supply Bargain, Source: Record, June 17
4. Hall Answers Dunlap, Says Attacks Inspired by Former Mayor Moore, Source: Inquirer, June 18
5. Pottsville Water Co. Will Build a $1,000,000 Dam, Source not known

2004.014.0136

1. Water Supply Data Still Lacking, Source: Inquirer, June 19, 1924
2. Dropping of Tunnel From Water Plans to Encounter Snag, Commission to Oppose Proposed Change at Meeting in Near Future, Dunlap Says Tohickon-Perkiomen Cost Need Not Exceed $60,000,000, Source: Inquirer, June 17
3. Officials to Inspect Water Supply Sources, Experts of Three States to Tour Along Hudson and Delaware, Source: Record, June 28, 192[2]
4. Engineers Plan to Fight Call For Resignations, Serve Notice on Mayor Kendrick He Is Violating the Law, Source: Record, [June] 10
5. 3 States Inspect Water Sources, Commission Will Allocate Delaware River Supply Among N.Y., N.J., and Penna., Source: Bulletin, June 28

2004.014.0137

1. Council Forced to Halt Rush For Water Plants, Crossan Asserts Price Fixed by Appraisal is Entirely Too High, Filtered Sewage Served, Eighth District Member Insists That Suburban Companies Will Get Too Much, Source: Record, June 20
2. “Football Tactics” of Water Board Hit, Plan of Commission Worst of Five Considered, Prominent Engineer Asserts, Ledoux Says City Is About to Repeat Altoona’s Error in Tying Up to Pollution, Source Inquirer, June 20
3. No Time to Confuse Water Issues, Source: Inquirer, June 23
4. Dunlap Now Raps City Hall Annex, Former Water Chief Says “Rainbow Chasers” are Juggling City Finances Recklessly, Tart Reply by Hall, Source: Bulletin, June 17

2004.014.0138

1. Dunlap Foresees Raise in Fares, Gas and Taxes, Says Public Is So Apathetic That All Sorts of Gouges Are Being Planned, Too Many Wasteful Plans, Water Supply May Suffer Because of Many Schemes to Throw Away Money, Source: Record, June 22
2. City’s New Sources Contain Hard Water, Industrial Leaders Stirred by Prospect of More Scale in Boilers, Schuylkill Worst, Says Ledoux; Poconos Would Give Softest Supply, Source: Inquirer, June 21
3. Council Votes $2,000,000 For Water Scheme, Bill Provides for New Basins, Conduits and Necessary Alterations in Station Buildings, Most of Appropriation Expected to Be Used in Improvement of Torresdale Filter Plant, Source: Inquirer, June 27
4. While the Getting is Good, Source: Record, June [?]
5. Mr. Hasskarl Reminds Us, Source: Bulletin, July 2, 1924

2004.014.0139

1. Hasskarl Defends Perkiomen Plan, Member of Mayor’s Commission Cites Alleged Disadvantages of Dunlap Scheme, Would Put City at Mercy of Single Source: Ultimate Cost Little Less, Source: Inquirer, July 1
2. Dunlap Again Attacks Mayor’s Water Report, Replies to Hasskarl Article, Showing Commissioner Changed Mind Since 1920, Everything is Too Vague, No Details Given to Public, Except That Cost Will Be Almost $100,000,000, Source: Record, July 2
3. Photo title: Noted Engineer Dies, caption: John C. Trautwine, Jr. One of America’s foremost engineers and former chief of the Water Bureau, who died in the Lankenau Hospital yesterday, Source: Ledger, July 5, 1924
4. Article attached to above photo, J.C. Trautwine, Jr., Engineer, Is Dead, Two Months’ Illness Ends Life of Former Water Chief of Philadelphia, Leaves Widow and a Son, Source: Ledger, July 5, 1924
5. Details of Water Report Withheld, Data Mayor Promised Not Made Public Until Fall, Plan $10,000,000 Loan, Source: North American, July 12
6. Cleveland Folk Rush Springs for water, Phenol and Chlorine in Lake Erie Make It Unfit for Domestic Use, Source: North American, March 7