Friday, August 13, 2010

Bad Plumbing

In June of 1914, Lee & Bruce were hired to fix someone else's bad work in the Hobart schoolhouse. (Because the article refers simply to "the schoolhouse," I'm guessing it means the high school.)

Bad Plumbing
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I wonder who did the bad plumbing in the first place! The Gazette was kind enough not to say.

The previous month, Hobart's former postmistress, Jane Spray, hired Lee & Bruce to install a state-of-the-art water supply system in her new house.

Jane Sprays house

From the description, it sounds very much like the electric pump/captive-air tank system you might find in any modern house using well water.

And on the plumbing-wars front: two competing plumbers, William Richmond and Claude Clifford, who had previously been solo practitioners, now joined forces.

Richmond Clifford

2 comments:

Unknown said...

i like reading the gazette pages you post. neat to recognize names. been way to hot to metal detect though, hopefully will find something when the weather breaks a little
jim merrell

Ainsworthiana said...

Seriously, it's been too hot to do anything but lurk inside air-conditioned places.