THE BIG PUMP.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3612, 24 July 1880, Page 2

THE BIG PUMP.

(To th« Editor of the Evening Star.) Sib,—Again the question of what an we going to do with the Big Pump is being asked by almost everybody. I would suggest that it be sold for what it is worth,, as old iron. It appears to me useless to feed, the white elephant any longer, unless it is for the benefit of a few individuals who wish to grow rich, no matter who becomes poor. If pimping operations Jrom the deep levels are to be continued, motive should be employed? If five per cent, of the cosfin cooneotion with the Big Pomp had been spent in encouraging other local industies, suoh as the manufacture of earthenware; the Thames would now have something of which to be proud. Something that would have been a steady gold producer, giving employment to a large number-of our youths, who in a few years will not know what to turn their hands to in order to provide themselves with the meant of earning an honest living.. That good saleable earthenware can be profitably manufactured on the Thames can be proved beyond doubt. Then if our local bodies hare more money than will supply their wants, let them apply it to a purpose in which it can be seen in after jean, and not pump it away into the sea.—l am, &c, BtTBOBSa.