. Town and city. , as they do now,and the villages on its shore were few and small. Naturally, therefore, Cleveland drank Lake Erie waterfearlessly. More than that, not knowing the risk, — forno one suspected danger of that kind in those days, — 112 TOWN AND CITY sewage also was poured into the lake. That explained allthat followed, for the village soon grew to be a town, andthe town to be a city. There were one thousand people in it, then one hundredthousand, two hun-dred thousand, fourhundred thousand. Atthe same time, eachyear the city used moreand more drinkingwater from Lake Erieand poure
. Town and city. , as they do now,and the villages on its shore were few and small. Naturally, therefore, Cleveland drank Lake Erie waterfearlessly. More than that, not knowing the risk, — forno one suspected danger of that kind in those days, — 112 TOWN AND CITY sewage also was poured into the lake. That explained allthat followed, for the village soon grew to be a town, andthe town to be a city. There were one thousand people in it, then one hundredthousand, two hun-dred thousand, fourhundred thousand. Atthe same time, eachyear the city used moreand more drinkingwater from Lake Erieand poured more andmore sewage backinto it; also, each yearthere was more typhoidfever everywhere inthe city. Finally those whowere intelligent aboutsuch matters began tosuspect that city sew-age was getting mixedwith city drinking water, and they promptly boiledall they drank; but thousands of other citizens knewnothing about such things, and the fever accordinglyspread so fast that soon hundreds had it and Water is Pumped from the Reservoirs INTO THE StANDPIPE, THEN SENT TO THE Homes of Oberlln GETTING WATER TO TOWN 113 By this time everybody was frightened. Some boughtwater by the bottle and by the gallon from men whobrought it from the country to sell; others learned toboil it; while people who went to the city from thecountry to shop dared not take a drop of water fromthe time they left home in the morning until theyreached home again at night. The reason for all this is plain when we understandthe exact situation. Cleveland has two sets of underground pipes up anddown all her streets. One set takes water to each housefrom a point in the lake which used to be about a mileand a quarter from the shore. The other set gathers upthe sewage from the different houses in the city andempties it into the lake at different points along theshore. Now those who understood the subject at the timesaid that if there were any chance to watch what wasgoing on in the lake between the s
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