San Francisco water . at my draught should be the better for that, I pray you answer me why. St. Keyne quoth the Cornish-man, many a time Drank of this crystal Well;And, before the angel summoned her, She laid on the water a spell,— If the Husband, of this gifted WellShall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he,For he shall be Master for life;— But, if the Wife should drink ofit first,God help the Husband then! —The Stranger stooped to the Well ofSt. Keyne,And dra?ik of the water again. You drank of the Well, I warrant,betimes?He to the Cornish-man said;But the Cornish-man smiled
San Francisco water . at my draught should be the better for that, I pray you answer me why. St. Keyne quoth the Cornish-man, many a time Drank of this crystal Well;And, before the angel summoned her, She laid on the water a spell,— If the Husband, of this gifted WellShall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he,For he shall be Master for life;— But, if the Wife should drink ofit first,God help the Husband then! —The Stranger stooped to the Well ofSt. Keyne,And dra?ik of the water again. You drank of the Well, I warrant,betimes?He to the Cornish-man said;But the Cornish-man smiled as theStranger spake,And sheepishly shook his head:— / hastened, as soon as the weddingwas done,And left my Wife in the porch;But i faith she had been wiserthan me,For she took a bottle to church. 12 SAN FRANCISCO WATER January, 1928 San Francisco Water PUBLISHED BY Spring Valley Water Company San Francisco, California 425 Mason Street * Phone Prospect 7000 Edward F. ODay, Editor Vol. VII. January, 1928 No. 1. O. E. CLEMENS AS the year 1927 drew to a close, every±\. man and woman in the employ ofSpring Valley Water Company was sad-dened by the death of O. E. Clemens, Man-ager of the Water Sales Department andOffice Manager. Mr. Clemens passed away in this city onNovember 19, 1927. His illness had beenprotracted; toward the end the outcome wasknown to be inevitable; but his deathbrought a shock to the associates who fornearly ten years had been used to seeing himthe picture of health and vigorous was difficult to apprehend that so vital apersonality had gone. Before joining Spring Valley Water Com-pany, Mr. Clemens had earned a splendidexecutive reputation under William Mulhol- land during the construction of the Los An-geles-Owens River Aqueduct. His task with Spring Valley was to reor-ganize the Water Sales Department to meet jthe requirements of a radical change in theCompanys relations with domestic consum-ers. These had been paying for water on aflat-r
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