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220 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
1890. It cost $40,000, and is a stone building three stories high. There
are three engine houses in different parts of the city.
MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS
In public improvements, Sandusky has kept pace with the times.
Public buildings, waterAvorks extensions, street paving and seAvers have
been constructed and added to as the growth of the city demanded and
no Ohio city of its size can boast more or better public Avorks.
The city's buildings consist of a city hall, located on Market Street,
betAveen Decatur and Locust streets, in which are located nearly all city
offices; a central fire and police station, near the corner of Columbus
Avenue and Market Street; the Avatenvorks and filtration plant, at the
foot of Washington Street; four outlyingjfire stations, well distributed,
and a modern greenhouse, in Huron Para, where all of the floAvers and
plants used for the ornamentation of the parks are raised and kept
during the cold season, from AA'hich the superintendent of parks draws
his supply for the summer.
Added to these are the courthouse, in the center of one entire square
opposite Washington Park; the high school building opposite East Washington
Park; Carnegie Library, at the corner of Columbus Avenue and
Adams Street, and the county jail, opposite the courthouse on Adams
Street. All of these structures are built of Sandusky blue limestone and
are handsomely designed. Within the next year a neAV and commodious
high school will be added to the group about the Central Park and
extensive additions are IIOAV being made to the filtration plant.
The most important of the public works of the city are, of course,
the watenvorks and the seAVer system. The former, operated from a
plant having a capacity of 17,000,000 gallons daily, delivers filtered
Avater to every part of the city and to the Soldiers' Home and county
infirmary, located outside of the city limits. The plant is equipped
with a Holly pumping engine of 10,000,000 gallons capacity and a
Worthington engine of 7,000,000 gallons capacity. As the consumption
has never risen to the full capacity of the plant, or of either of the
engines, but one of these is used at a time, and the duplication of the
plant insures a steady supply of water regardless of accidents to either
of the engines.
Connected with the \vatenvorks plant is the filtration plant with a
present capacity of 6,000,000 gallons daily. This will soon be increased
to 10,000,000 or more. All of the water delivered to the people is
chemically filtered and daily analyses show it to be practically pure.
The seAver system covers the entire city, with numerous outlets into
Sandusky Bay. Within a feAV years an intercepting system will be
installed and all of the seAvage will be disposed of in a bacteriological
disposal plant. This is one of the most important improvements on the
list of those contemplated.
Sandusky has sixteen miles of paved streets, mostly with sheet
asphalt, all of the main thoroughfares of the city being paved. AH