Improving The Water Works

This morning, at the invitation of Dr. A. K. Hale, the receiver of the Ann Arbor Water Co., President Watts, of the city council, and the Times reporter visited the pumping station to see the inoprovementa that are being made. The air was cool enough to be invigorating and the forest trees just beginning to be tinged with bright autumnal colors, all to. gether making the ride to the station most pleasant. Dr. Hale is nothing if he is not thorougb, and goes to the bottoni of everything he undertakes, and he has undertaken to put the machinery and pumping station in perfect order. The lirst thing that strikes the visitor on entering the building is that he does not hear the bumpty-bump of the eondensing pump that made everyone feel so uncomfortable a few weeks ago. Now the machinery moves off like clock work, smoothly and without any jars, Dr. Hale has been convinced that too much oil was being used for f nel without giving the best results. On his last visit to Chicego he studied the question and the result is that r new apparatus is being put in. So far the oil was burned directly. Now the oil and steam will meet in a red hotiron globe which will convert the oil into gas and this will burn under the boilers. It will be projected against and pass through brick walls with many apertures by which the llame will be' passed all over the bottom and sides of the boiler. Air will be furnished from the sides of the flre box. The gas will burn with a bright orange flame. The doctor expects big results from this new arrangement. After all the maclüuery is in perfect order it will be painted handsomely so that wben all is ünished the pumping station will hardly be recognizable as