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Mayor Mason's handwritten order bans cigars and pipes until water service is restored.
"Soldiers march our streets," Francis William Test told his mother, "the citizens are
patrolling the squares; every alley is guarded and woe be to him that lights a match or
smokes a cigar on the street after nightfall. Those who have this matter in charge will not
permit any such thing." Various temporary systems were devised to get water out of the
river and the lake, and at least one pump was running within a week, but full restoration of
service and improvements in the overall system, which was severely damaged, came
gradually, and not without some illness from contamination.
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Emergency Measures 