CLEAN DRINKING FOUNTAINS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2633, 15 October 1909, Page 7

CLEAN DRINKING FOUNTAINS

NO CUP TO FEAR. When Air 11. Baillie, Chief Alunicipal Librarian, Wellington, was in America last year he saw a “notion in public drinking fountains. The inventors had utterly abolished the cup, on which unhealthy, careless and cal.ous users may leave the germs of nialignant disease. The thirsty were given a cool ample jet, to well straight into the mouth without making any splash iO the detriment of starched collar or other apparel. He brought the idea under the notice of the Wellington City Council’s Library Committee, and the result is that now Wellington has two public “drinkeries,” one in the central and the other in the Newtown Library, where the parched ma v <P ia! ‘ and fear no foe. The one at the Central Library has just been installed, and is working well, after some difficulty due to the high city pressure, 1201 b to the inch. The aspiring drinker presses the rim of apparatus fixed to a clean white standard of conver.'evheight. Straightway a little fountain sparkles through an aperture at the top of a nickel globe. Even if the lips touch the globe, a flow of water immediately cleanses the surface. When the pressure on the rim is released, the play of water ceases. The plant was imported from America, and neatly fitted up by one of the corporation’s plurnschools in the United States have been equipped witn this excellent healthy drinking system, which does away with the awe-inspiring intermediary cun. Very many people, who might be disposed to refresh themsolves at miblic fountains, gaze at the cups, and elect to slake their thirst at less risk.