Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-02-05
Endorsed. :. Mason.

prlnciplcd institution VIII dare 10 refuse the pay
nient of this If il does, we VIII never quit
it, till il be shut up be it quarter OF century De"
fore the job is accomplished
The CRoroN AaUEpUcr.-Although the last re-
port Of the Commissioners states that this work VIII
be completed by the end of 1913, we believe that
il will be 1915 before we get the in the city
However an immense deal has been done sine
July, 1889. The whole length of aqueduct, arched
complete is l7 $50 feet, running measure, or about
rs miles That complete the LIST Of July last,
was IL 5S7.feet about ii and two-thirds miles,
The increase in this part of the work, since the last
report, is 6O0i3 Feet or about eleven aud onethird
miles
There are now III culverts complete and in
for discharging the water of the several
which they are erected. Their length, in the aggre
gate is 1912 feet The number completed at the
last report was 92, and their length 6,2U feet
There is therefore increase of twenty-five cul-
verts since the first of July last.
The number of tunnels eXcavated through their
whole length is severn and they are, In the aggre-
gate, 2,06S feet in length. There were hve com
pleted at the last report, of ll95 feet in length,
which shows an increase of two tunnels completed,
Of S73 feet in length There besides the above,
nine tunnels in the progress OF completion that have
been excavated, in the aggregate 2, l feet, making
the total of tunnellng up to the 18th of December,
42Ol feet, and of masonry on the aqueduct, within
the tunnels of 2476 feet; being increase during
the last six months, of 1864 feet in length.
The foundation wall now laid, amounts 10 lis, 2l0
cubic yards, and the protection wall to ll43Si, ma
king total of 5ei cubic yards of dry wall,
which shows an increase, during the last six
months of 3,34 cubic yards of wall.
There are twenty -four of these necessary struc-
lures now finished complete. large portion OF
them intended as ventiators to discharge the
superabundant air collected in the aqueduct, and
few of them fitted for waste weirs, for dIscharg
ing the water from the aqueduct If at any time re-
pairs should be required or any other cause make II
/ necessary. There were SIX complete on the first
of July last making an increase of eighteen i'm this
/ desc ription of the work. Besides the foregoing
there has been a great deal OF work performed
which cannot be described with the necessary de-
gree of curacy and planness to make it understood
such as earth and rock excavation, which has been
performed before the grade Of the aqueduct could
] be reached.
There is still about six and half miles of aque-
duct to complete in the county of Westminster,
and about seven and half miles of aqueduct and
pipe work, on the island of New York, making the
| length OF the unfinished work. about fourteen miles
The total expenditure of the past year, from
January, 1899. to January, 1910. including sums
due on the Ist instant amounts to S5.OJ, 4}S d. The
squeduct when finished Will cost fourteen millions
! THEArRcALs The Bowery and the Park are
! getting into Z" the and yellow leaf"-nothing
seems to succeed in the theatrical way but the Olym
| pc-(the Chatham is on trial)-the little shilling
theatre. Some of the newspaper drivcllers puff
|
at the Bowery New, what is the truth Mrs
Fitz has some vivacty but it is so blended with
the coarse and vulgar, that decent females dare not
trust themselves inside the Park during her venings
of performance. Her wit, humor, and style of act
ing-the growth of the low vulgar theatres of Lon
don-are only reshed by the loafers and soap-locks
of New York. As to Signor Nano, he is too unna-
tural a monster to be permitted to appear the
STAGE Theatres al taste is at low ebb when our two
large metropolitan theatres have to resort to such
modes Of filling their houses In fact, the shilling
| Olympic is amos, the only decent and respectable
theatre in town At that bijou oof huse, YOU have
every thing light and graceful, done up in the neat
est style-cheap too TO correspond with the times.
Tonight Mrs. Bailey, formerly the beautiful Char
lotte Watson, takes her benefit, and have
doubt it will be crammed, TO overlooking, with the
most fashionable people Of town. At least there will
be nothing gross and vulgar, in the acting Of Mrs
Fitzwilliam, or monstrous or unnatural as in that
Of signor Nano-to prevent decent people from at
tending