TARTING THE BIG PUMP AGAIN.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3234, 1 July 1879, Page 2

TARTING THE BIG PUMP AGAIN.

I (To the Editor of tiio Evening Star.) iSiii, —As a ratepayer of the Thames j&oivms;]! I beg respectfully to suggest t# sffbe" Borough, and Count/Councillors that, I tyafore any more public money is paid for i forking the Big Pump, tenders may be I'n.viteci, and if found desirable, a contract (with security for its due performance) tegkeep the water say 410 feet or 65Q-fte^ hes : ow the surface for the ensuing tHf|&* IQ*|«is~the contractor to find eve^&ing •aiSWo keep everything connectedi^tllj the shaft and machinery in good *epaij, allowing for ,Mg; : . wear and' tear. ' This systett^ may noPfuit the views or pockets o( the •' Old Eegime'' under whose misaianapejEnent, certain perlbns, ships, coals, ' candles,; an d. ironmongery were used exclusively, and cerfain persons had easy well-p.tid billets, resulting in the unprofi; table i-^ponditure of vast sums of public laoweyi .and allowing all fprts of uhcVrk(|*r(sb.al! I call ; it)«Mporation. I i±<af 3juiTcrjj4witk alm^Bt , p'an.ra^ operations the Waib^arili iiuo JJir Pump, and it would certainly be *■" P ls*'a^Vttntasl-* H *-uey started work againj^only if this is (o continue, " Fair 1 "^a."^ must have something to dp wifcb thp»n,_»and tlio principle Lh^LpuUic sliculu bo ezponded only fd^^io^Klblie" benefit', rstrietb^' insisted on by tllose who :\.co as sfrusfo«4iSf r pj|bli*estate ; and ?hc oi iy equitabl^|d'a"nner' llb'which this can bolexFcctcd is t<ftako public contracts for puiiHij «-orkv.—lsm, &Q* Middle Ward, TBames, ** ) Ist Jalj, 1879. •MJTii«-