LATEST WATERWORKS ITEMS. Increased fire protection for the Montville plant of the Palmer Bros, company, quilt manufacturers, near Norwich, Conn., has been afforded by the installation of a 75,000-gal. reservoir on a hill southwest of the plant. Water for the automatic sprinklers was formerly supplied from a large tank on an iron frame raised over the Oxoboxo brook, that supplies a part of the mill power. The largest crib ever sunk by Chicago for use as a water supply intake has been placed in position, 3 miles from shore off Seventy-third street. It will serve as the intake for the new southwest water-tunnel, which is to supply the territory lying between Sixty-third street, vVestern avenue, lake Michigan and the Calumet river. The structure is 110 ft. in diameter and has cost the city $350,000. The Ohio State hoard of health now has control of all water supply and sewerage systems…
