Hobart Senior High School - Memories Yearbook (Hobart, IN)

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Q P a Q P Phis splendid and essential plant now furnishes at the minimum cost of actual running expense, ample fire protection, convenience and domestic water supplies and brilliant illumination on the streets, in houses of business and in residences. Hobart is the owner of this approved, modern and efficient water and light plant. Such a plant is not possessed by any other town of equal size in the middle west. The town has a fire department of thirty-two members. They have 1,500 feet of hose, three hose carts and hook and ladder wagons. This apparatus is stored in different parts of the town and the members practice every week. Last year the town board, encouraged by the citizens, decided to construct a better sewer system. After the plans and specifications were drawn up by the town Civil Engineer, Walter (i. Black, bids were received and the town board awarded the contract to V. Graziano Co. The work was started in the fall of nineteen hundred twelve and is now nearing completion. The system consists of six miles of main sewer pipes and laterals to every house. Plans for a new water system which will cover the area now em- braced by the sewer system have been drawn up by the Civil Engineer. The present mains will be left as far as possible and used as laterals. Plans are also being prepared for a filtering plant to be constructed of reinforced concrete, whereby water can be filtered ninety-nine per cent pure. A most potent force in the upbuilding of all things that tend toward the economic and civic betterment of our community is the Hobart Com- mercial Club. The fact that it has more than one hundred members and holds its meetings at least twice a month in the High School Audi- torium is evidence that it is a live wire. Our municipal officers are active members. Especially did the Commercial Club assist in the establishing of the boulevard lighting system, and t he Club has been an ardent supporter of the Town Board in all municipal advancement. Thus, with an incorporation embracing seventeen square miles of territory, our people realize the possibilities of our modern municipal system and appreciate the importance of the tremendous strides already made. RALPH KRAET. P Ci P 21

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THE MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT OF HOBART. Q a Q CD |N APRIL tenth, nineteen hundred thirteen, L had t lie pleasure of visiting the Hobart electric light and water plant situated on Georgiana street between Third and Fourth. Superin- tendent (). L. Shore kindly showed me the machines, explain- ed the operation of the system, and gave me a large part of the statistics I have used in this article. In the summer of eighteen hundred ninety-seven the residents of Hobart decided to solve the problems of illumination and water supply by arranging for the construction of their own electric light plant and water works. The plant consisted of a 250,000 gallon Worthington pump, three miles of eight, six and four-inch mains, thirty-five hydrants and a combined brick and metal standpipe 125 feet in height, with a 60,000- gallon tankage capacity. The mains, laterals, and hydrants had 60 pounds pressure to the square inch. The plant was operated by a 100 H. P. Ball high speed engine; the incandescent dynamo was 37M K. W. capacity, and the arc machine was a 40 lighter. In January nineteen hundred ten a new unit 175 K. W. alternating current generator was directly connected to a 300 H. P. Corliss engine. In December two 6x18 feet return tubular 150 H. P. high pressure boil- ers were installed; 057 square feet floor room was built in addition to the boiler room. A new switch board was put in which is a three panel, marine slate with necessary instruments. At the same time the coal storage capacity was increased to 400 tons. In May, nineteen hun- dred eleven, a new smoke stack 105 feet in height was erected for the plant by the National Fire Proofing Company. The plant now employs regularly, a superintendent, two engineers, and one lineman. The daily output is about 650 K. W. hours, and the pumping of 50,000 gallons of water. This plant at present supplies 85 PI. P. in motors in factories, and lights 18 series alternating current arc lamps, sixty-six 3-light boulevard posts, eleven 100-candle power cluster lamps, besides stores, offices, public buildings and private resi- dences. To the school boy or girl the item of chief interest is the placing of two 5-liglit boulevard posts in front of the school building, one post in front of each of the two main entrances. This piece of illumination, if it does not light the way to learning, is at least alluring to all friends of education when a school play or oratorical contest is on the stage. We may say these lights dispel ignorance, for ignorance is akin to dark- ness. (Z b u b 20

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CLASS PROPHECY. HAVE studied stars and books, Busy marts and quiet nooks, Seeking what the future holds For this short-dozen ’steen-year-olds. Wise the bard who taught me how To prophecy as I do now. Hasten then, we’ll rise and go Where the golden apples grow; Where below another sky Parrot islands anchored lie, — Hunting cockatoos and goats, Banks and Crisman moor their boats; — Where in sunshine reaching out Eastern cities, miles about, Are with mosque and minaret Among sandy gardens set, Edith and Lightner, travel far, Studying art in each bazaar; — Where the Great Wall round China goes, And on one side the desert blows, And with bell and voice and drum, Cities on the other hum, Kraft and Carlson, guns in hand, Walk the wall and watch the sand; — Where the forests, hot as fire, Wide as England, tall as a spire, Full of apes and cocoanuts And the negro hunters’ huts, Roosevelt and Rose are found Until the next campaign comes round; — Where the knotty crocodile Lies and blinks in the Nile, And the red flamingo flies Hunting fish before his eyes, There Ruth and Olive, somewhat vexed, Read a hieroglyphic text; — 22