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business area is now 90 per cent. completed
and he expects that the work of
placing the pipes and mains will be finished
by the first of Febuary. The
pumping station will not be in readiness
at the time, however and so the new
system will not then be available.

It is a noteworthy detail that much
of the construction work has been carried
forward upon the high-pressure system
in a way not to interfere with traffic,
and so as scarcely to attract observation.
Under Baltimore and South street the
pipes were placed by tunneling instead
of by cutting an open ditch down from
the surface. This method of placing the
mains not only avoided interference with
traffic, but, as the managing engineer contends,
was a more economic method than
the open-cut, as many underground obstructions
were avoided by the tunnel
method.

It has been determined that the pumping
station when completed will be operated
by steam and not by electricity.