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WATERING THE STREETS
On Thursday June 25th 1857 the
Plymouth & Devonport Weekly Journal reported the
introduction of an 'Improved Mode of Watering the Streets'.
Suggested by a Mr Le Corney, a member of
Plymouth Town Council, the plan had been tried 'with complete success' on North
Hill and the procedure ran as follows:
'A man is supplied with an India
rubber tube, say 200 feet in length, to one end of which is fixed a rose or watering
spout, the other end is attached to a water plug connected with a main, and the water
having been turned on, the man waters all the street over which his 200 yards of hose
extends. When he has done this, he goes to the next plug, and so on, until the whole
of the streets are watered. It is proposed that the men should commence at four
o'clock in the morning, and if they did this they would be able to complete the watering
of the whole town by seven or eight'.
It was considered that this method would
save the expense of horses and carts and would cost but a quarter of expense incurred
under the old method.
Sources:
"Improved Mode of Watering the
Streets", Plymouth & Devonport Weekly Journal, Plymouth, June
35th 1857.
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