Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-10-21

THAT The greatest blessings can only be procured d.
j. The greatest cost and SACRIFICES:
What is this water to do for Us; II is to protect our
CITY from the awlul confagraons to which II was SUP
ect we nov pay IN premiums one million OF dollars
,nnnui!y 10 insure about hall the value OF our puma
,as uo,ds and challels for are our own uhoer
writer's 10 The extent OF more oil premiunis-heIf
ere tso mons in premiums paid or risks incurred.
he Cruton Works give but half security, you can sasr
more than will pay the whole interest OF lie cost III
lec gentlemen, on the amount OF property consn;n
IN the city, and then consider if we cannot afford
!, 1--WE twelve millions for security. In two days oil DE
cenber 1885 our citizens had consumed ny lire twenty
millions of dollars principally in warehouses and mer
,handize.
irtwenty millions Of property destroyed had consist
ed of dwelling houses, il would have turned iooooo Of
our citizens into the streets
1 do not state an impossible case. state event
highly probable TO have happened for London-a city
bull, of less wooden materals-had at one hre, IN
1906 49, 200 houses burnt which occupied 1876 ncrcs,
and embraced 400 streets, SO churches, and variety
IF magnificent buildings The destruction amounted
value TO fifty millions of dollars The extensive lire
at Ismburgh during the past year, and the constant
occurrence Of fires throughout our country show the
, danger are IN.
Does any individual still say that cannot afford
pay much as this great work has cost: assert
tina. security against such awful caiames cannot he
TOO dearly bought if it is bong hi at the lowest possible
y price.
1t must be had if possible in every community, and
the man who grudges money TO save the city IRON de-
,trucon can be only one who wants security but
tor stocks and dividends aud bonds and mortgages,
and into whose thoughts the welfare and happiness oil
4 his fellow beings never enter.
But does water cost so mucb' London, in 1884, was
srppIied with 81 900 600 gallons, and paid for it
nually ST. $50, 900. Paris supplied with two quarts
per day TO each individually at expense of S7oO,O0o
), per annum. The Croton would furnish eight hogs
heads day to each of our population, at but S6o0oco
n per annum
Ia
distance ancient Rome with her nine aqueducis, some
OF which longer than the Croton Aqueduct, and
together capable of supplying 2oo,0O0,o0o OF
gallons per day But history does not enable US TO say
II all Of them in operation al the same tme nor
B. do SIC know oil the purposes to which it was applied
The irrigation Of the land no doubt among lis
most extensive Nor do we learn whether these
aquetucts supplied million or four millions OF m
h1bltants widely do the accounts OF The population
d of ancient Rome differ.
r The works of Rome were built by soldiers and by
n slaves. Ours voted for by freemen, was con
sructed by freemen; and make the aspiration that
all ages 10 come it may bless reemcn and feemen
/ only!
d But we pass 10 another branch of suhjectit is
the value Of the water for domestic purposes BY The
almost mysterious property OF water, the Croon, with
n out steam power, animal, or human labor, descends
the cellar, aud again mounts into The gnrret OF the
l. loftes house. up the cupoa Of the City Hall
The turning Of cock, fills the tubs and culinary ves-
o sells of the kitchen in moment, and almost as soon
d Tie fifty hogshead boilers Of steamboat. Now the
saving human time and labor III the performance oil
rs these operations is nrnculable The weight of the
daily water is equal $50 900 tons, and goes itself
precisely where you want 1t. Providence has given to
water this ndescrbable property, that by rivers and
streams flows throu ghou the globe 10 sustain every
living thing. While food has TO be carried or trans
ported water Of itself, travels for the benefit of all
creation. The Deity, not content with giving II tins
property cvnpoates and draws it to the skies, that 1t
may again condense and distribute itself on the leaves
a md cn nf Inc KINGDOM,
Tie heathlulness of all water is in proportion to an
absence of all mineral substances or other words,
~ in proportion 10 its purity. Mineral and other SUD-
stances in may act henc claly sometimes, as me.
dicine but constant beverage water is good but
pure water and the Croton perfectly pure that II
apprelendsd may have an influence on lead,
9, which the mineral and other impurities in common va
ter has tendency to prevent.
IF Numerous analyses loo, have shown The water TO be
g. remarkably pure before 1t passed through four
settling and clarifying departments OF the reservoirs
We leave the farther consideration of the security,
e pecunary and practical advantages ofhis great work,
e and pass 10 make one remark on It's moral results
e Filth and crime cleanliness and virtue, are near
kinsfoks the and convencnces for clean.
illness that furnished population, the more in
duslrious and vriuous they will be. TIE more good
d water that is conveniently supplied, the more tempe.
rate will be people because shall now no longer
afford the apology for mixing brandy and rum with water
If that of making drnkaJte; and may hope The TEN.
ID perance cause, with pure Croton water and Croon
hammer floating 10 the breeze, will on the present sys'
D. tenn, successfully cary warfare in all future
y times as make il impossible for them to find subjects
10 fill up that portion Of their corps which now con.
4 ssts Of reformed drunkards.
is To the Fnemen of the city of New York, who have,
r. without pay performed arduous duty than pro.
pey falls tc The share OF any Il" our free citizens, We
d say that the Croton Water Works made empbaii
cay for them; for though other advantages have been
given for its crnsruction yet none had so
Or powerful and controlling an influence as the universal
allegation that the FIRE Department, to enable them 10
prevent the destruction of the city by fire, must have
e full and ample supply of water.
er Frcmen, you have row got it; and think hear
you say-"Wh the Croton wnier for fires and for
,e fre.MES- the auful Confogration IF 1885
10 shall nerer be repeated -
is that in all the expenditures which have been made by
your agents for this great work. the accounts for which
have been regularly setlled-it is not known be.
cved that dollar Of your money has been lost or
1T dishonesty app.;ed.
NJ In handing over to you Mr. President OF the Croon
h. Aoueduct Board and your Associates, the Agents Of
" the Corporation of the City Of New York. the Crotch
Water and the Works this Island which have been
II completed cannot but express my full confidence
III that YOU and your associates will recommendation that
the Corporation will adopt such principles and arrange
ments in reference TO this water, which, while 1t Will
be made TO furnish large proportion OF the interest on
the deht-wIl nevertheless in some measure supply
=, the nestimabe benefits which should How from TINS
" ample supply of "purc ard wholesome water to our
s. whole community In fnr, that you will be just to the
of rich, and liberal To the poor.
To which the following s the reply of Hon. John l..
Lawrence President of the New Board:
is REPLY OF Mr.. LAWRENCE
.Ir President, and Gentlemen
re of the Board Of Heter Commissioners:
/, In receiving with my associates Of the Croon Aque.
duct Board the custody Of the work committed TO US,
take the occasion To convey to you the thanks Of
fellow citizens for the zeal, perseverance and fidelity
with which your duty has been performed, and 10
e graduate you the virtual completion Of TIE work
entrusted TO you and your predecessors in Office o.
the manner in which both have discharged their
specye tasks the results this Gay celebrate speak
l. in mos, emphatic praise. The science and skill of
your able Engineers have excluded all errors of conbi-
r nation and construction, and met The highest expeca.
n NM hanic he