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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
" Great inconvenience arises
among engineers and hydraulicians, from the want of
a standard unit, to denote the quantity of water flowing in a given time. The fountaineer's inch (pouce d> eau de fontainier) is used by all French writers…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Three plans were suggested : an open canal, an arched brick tunnel, and
iron pipes. The first is condemned, because of the impurities, which, in its course it
would be liable to gather ;
and upon the whole, the preference is given…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Their example
ought, surely, to have some weight with us, when making up an opinion on this subject. To suppose that they would expend millions of money to procure water from a distant
source, or to raise it from their…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
There were only seven of the city wells which yielded soft water, occasionally
used for washing, and from thirty-three of them the water was obtained by deep boring. "Within a few years, (says the report,) it has become common…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Seymour made a further communication, in which
he states, that the grounds upon which he desires to be understood, are, that his estimate is
predicated on the supposition that he is at liberty to select the site of the dam…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The other pier, (called No. 10 in the general series,) for which a piled
foundation has been prepared, is near the centre of the river channel. The stratum of
boulders lies much lower at this place, and required an excavation…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
From the Consul of Sweden and Norway. Consulate of Sweden and Norway, in New York, October 6th, 1842.
As Mr. Zachrisson will not be in town on the 14th instant, he regrets that he cannot accept of the invitation from…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Timpson, Chairman of late Joint Committee on Fire and Water, said,
Mr. MAYOR Want of time compels me to be brief, and to exclude some remarks I
had intended to make on this occasion. I hold in my hand a…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Design on back, Mazeppa
bound to a wild horse ;
drawn by 30 men, same uniform.
CROTON AQ.UEDUCT. 285
Mohican Company, No. 50. Red and gilt. Design on the back, the city Coat of
Arms ;
drawn by 40 men, uniform…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Gray hairs and beardless boys, mothers and daughters,
both sexes, all ages and ranks were here. Reformed drunkards made good and sober citizens, and these not seen in one or a score but in a thousand faces. The heart beats…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Not a single accident happened in the Park or its immediate vicinity, and great praise
is due to the
parties appointed to keep the ground, for the good dispositions they made.
COLLATION IN CITY HALL. After the ceremonies of the…
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…Aside from the building of the railways, there were not many events
of local importance in Westchester County from tin- completion of
the Croton Aqueduct until 1850. Two new townships were erected -- Ossining (1845) and West Farms
(1840), and the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
From this description of the mode in which the Roman aqueducts were constructed,
it is obvious that the principles and precautions, which, as is sometimes supposed modern
science has discovered and applied to such structures, were known and used at…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
De Sol is, the historian of the Conquest of Mexico, speaking of the magnificence of
Montezuma, and of his works, thus refers to the waters and aqueducts of the city :
" In all these
gardens and pleasure houses, he had many…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The law of the preceding year, authorising the appointment of Commissioners having
expired, itbecame necessary to renew it, and accordingly on the 2nd May, the Legislature passed an act embracing this object, and that of the Common Council, for authority…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
144 MEMOIR OF THE
"It has appeared by the proceedings of one of your honorable Boards, as published in
the newspapers some time since, that, censure has been cast upon the Commissioners for
some unknown cause, and that, in debate…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
In the course of
the autumn, contracts were made for the ten sections of the first division which were
before unlet, and for 27 sections of the second division, making an aggregate of 53 sections, which, with the dam, were…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The same spirit has been uniformly evinced by subsequent Common Councils, in rendering their unremitting countenance and aid to the measure ;
and to these," the
Commissioners add, "they are mainly indebted for their ability to progress thus far with
the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Anderson, Chief Engineer of the
Fire Department, for the detailed statement furnished by him of the magnificent display
made on the occasion, by the Firemen, both of other cities and our own. The procession
was thus constituted :
Escort of Cavalry…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
side of the Engine, two boys, bearing torches and guide flags, Engine drawn by 50 men,
in same uniform as above.
Richard M. Johnson Hose Company No. 32. Two wheeled Hose Carriage, painted
black, striped with red and gold, drawn…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
This Society numbers rising 500
members, and turned out about 200, owing to so many belonging to other Societies. The Officers of the Society are, Nathan Cropsey, President ;
Lorenzo B. Porter,
Vice President ;
John Yincent, Secretary. Seaman H. Wright, Marshal…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
archway, for more than forty miles, at length reaches our magnificent reservoirs, from
298 CELEBRAION OF THE
whence it is conducted by subterranean conduits, extending one hundred and thirty additional miles, throughout the greatest portion of our city. The necessary…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
D. 535, Rome was besieged by the Goths under Vitiges, Procopius,l the
historian of the Gothic war, records that fourteen streams flowed into the city. It was
of course among the means employed by the barbarian invaders to induce…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
In the earlier period of the aqueducts, all the water was for the use of the people,
" that
except what overflowed from the fountains or pools and it was expressly enacted,
;
no private person should divert any water, other than…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Whereas, By an act of the Legislature of the State of New York, passed 2d April,
inst, entitled an act, for supplying the city of New York with pure and wholesome
" it is
water, among other things enacted, that it…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
port, are among the number of these springs ; many of them 3 or 400 acres in extent,
and one as large as a thousand acres. All these ponds are surrounded by clear upland
shores, without any intermixture of marsh ;
and…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
This may be explained, without impeaching
the sagacity or accuracy of those engineer, by the facts, that they had no actual experience derived from the price at which contracts would be taken that the difference in the
cost of land…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
John Anthon was called to the Chair, and John W. Edmonds appointed
Secretary.
On motion of Mr. Daniel Lord, Jr., it was
Resolved, That the members of the Bar will co-operate with the Common Council,
and their fellow citizens…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
personal cleanliness the purification of our streets the consequent increase of public
health the facilities it will extend to mechanical and manufacturing industry the vast
increase of steam-power among us, to be employed in the arts the supply to…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
To complete this notice of wells, it may be added that in our own country, ac-
" From the
cording to Mr. Flint, ancient wells have been found. highest point on the
Ohio, to St. Charles on the Missouri, and far…