The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-18
New York Correspondence.
Nom York City: It's Fhture-The Water- rorks The
Cemeeries-Inuenti0ns Interesting to all, including
the Ladies' Type Distributing Machine.


Mn Dear Crescent Henry Clay has been here and is
gone John Quincy Adams has visited US IN triumph on
his to his long, narrow home the french deohstra-
ton demonstrated principle and John jacob Astor
dead The rush of excitement past aud TINS great heaf
of the New World begins again to beat with Its
regularity Great heart of the .Ne1 Wortd! Aye anu OF
the old World too for to this point before many ages pass
will the sohoie world refer the source OF civil poy Inc
blood of the universal body polite will yet flow through the
grand organ known New York. ret!culatng Emma
and Japan with its arteries Within lifetime we shall see
Europe look biterwal for laws, France has already
done for an example, and copy from our statute DOCKS
An early generation will Australia follow her example
and Asia and Africa will in after ages learn from them
Inst tell your people South all about this and now
it is altogether know to be the private opinion OF
you New Orleans people, that your city is gong to oVeIop
all creation but do not exactly believe word OF It, new
York cant be beat although New Orleans beats all
the rest of the world
New York grand in her incidents, her subordlnate ana
her resources Her rivers. her mountains her bay hef Isl
ands her waerwoks and her cemeteries her Long saha,
her New jersey, and her seash0es What gea'e eA0e
her great future =.
OF most of these incidents the schoomaste and MS &C.
ography have told you the history but the Water-woks
and the Cemeteries not yet in the schoolbooks lbey
are well worthy of the most particular description anu
regret that give them such they deserve Dfei
notice. however, | cannot withhold
The city them receives the Croon water through one
hundred and ninety miles of pipe. averaging SIX inches In
diameter These pipes with diameter OF three feet conf
mence at reservoir three miles from the CITY, INTO
which the is thrown after being conveyed iory
miles, hills and valleys, through various tunnels ana
across river through aqueduct OF stone and bck
eight feet high and feet wide The bridge by Whch
the aoueduct be carried the Harlem nver Will be-
when completed magnificent structure. Its length will
be about fifteen hundred feet built fifteen arches eight
of eighty feet and of fifty feet Ships oil large
classes and towering masts all atdut and with
all canvass spread under this bridge, the top OF which Is
| nearly one hundred and twenty feet above the water.
The lower reservoirs large and costly works That
on Eighty sixth street encoses surface oil tyVe acres
and contains hundred and fifty millions OF gallons
The one Foreh street imposing structure, being
no more less than immense bowl forty feet deep
four acres broad and holding twenty millions of gallons
The whole body of the CrotOn thus placed at the
command of the New Workers. Its flow estimated at
daily issue of at least twenyseven millions of gallons
nearly twenty millions than the city now requires
The aqueduc has capacity for the passage OF no less than
sixty millions of gallons day, moving with velocity OF
one and half miles per hour, along regular descent from
the Croon DAM of thirteen inches the mile. This dam
of stone and brick hundred and fifty feet long, forty
feet high and seventy feet thick the bottom aperng to
seven the top dammng back body Of five hundred
millions of gallons of water pond some five or SIX miles
| in length So much for the " water works"
Besides the churchyards and burial places, with
which the city well supplied, have three rural and
| beautiful cemetries in the neghborhood.
The first in point of age beauty and fashion, Is the Green
wood on Long Island about three miles from Brooklyn. 1t
truly beautiful place, and commanding, as 1t does,
view Italy equal has been place OF great resort
the lew summers persons WHO CoHtto
the grounds however offer Encouragement to Vsiters
and suppose this lovely place will be pretty much closed
during the coming and future 1t Is to be expected
that purchasers of burial lots will look for them in quarters
where they will Oent officials at step.
The grounds are beautifully laid in curvlng avenues
| along which handsome tombs and monuments are pic
turesquey distributed There two hundred and toywo
acres in the cemetry divided after liberal allowances for
avenues obong lots, fourteen by twenty feet
EACH the price ofwich from eighty to hundred dollars
Otbese lots thousand have been enclosed out OF
twice that number purchased One hundred and fifty mon
umen been raised the grounds and about eighty
vaults have been built besides forty or fifty tombs
Then we have the Rockand Cemetery, situated amongst
the beautiful Kaasand hills the Hudson. sweet place
be buried and accessible by steamboat and railroad
Cheap Lots here also cheap as more ground Is sold Tor
less money than those OF either of the other corporations
The lots sixteen by twenty-five eet aordns space iof
family ottweny five eac-price only fifteen dollars Con
derng that the land amongst these hills WORTH perhaps
twenty five dollars acre, Is evident that Someooay
must be making quite sacrifice tor the comforts Oh te ne"
| York dead.
The third in the list the Trinity Church Cemetery.
Trinity Church-that monster corporation OF religion and
god-that tyran of worship and fashon-that dishonest
steward This cemetery is laid out on the banks OF the
Hudson about eight miles above the CITY, IL Is dlVded iho
lots only fifteen feet square, the price of which fixed at
si1ty sry dars At such price the dust OF good
society secured matter Of some consequence to the
Trinity people,
There is one more-yet to sarted-or Grace Church. in
which suppose no vulgar will be permitted to mngle
with that OF worslppers at that altar, at any price
am told that the liberal minded exclusives of that corpo
ration contemplated the erection of church, in which the
gospel be preached to the poor oil that PARISH "'houl
imposing upon the regular members the humiliation OF con-
tact with the said poor Whether this charitable spirit VIII
extend to the provision of burial ground for common car
cases for time showpobaby not. There no set nor
sect the globe under the caste system oil INDIA
so ridiculous that known in Gotham as the Upper Ten
What more telling sign of greatness be shown by any
| existing city
We are also the grand fountain of inventions This city OF
ITSELF would support two patent Offices on Dettef
scale than adopted conducting in Washn gton
city. Within the week have seen drafts and heard de-
crptions of things enough to turn smaller world than
ours upside down There Others in embyo-here In New
Yok-and near development which will, perhaps capsze
our
to-day saw beautiful patent machine for boring rocks
an idea that will cheat Paddy of many days work
Another for axle that will break wear out
and another for smoothing irons revoutonizlng entirely
should say the ironing branch OF the aundesses and the
housewives business. Burnt fingers will more be known
| in that line.
also saw action for music STOOL by which any re-
oued degree depression elevation may be instantly al
tanned at the will of the performer without stirring from the
seat This interesting TO fIdgey young ladies' ueie
| should be such being earth.
have also witnessed the operation OF dozen bradIng
machines brading thread straw one OF which ma
chimes will do more work within given time than one thou
sand women. Bad that, for the poor workers, but 1t
| can't be helped. | saw the machines.
Messrs. West Thompson of our city, are the inventors
and patentees of joint for all kinds of steam gas or
water pipes which entirely and Immediately supersede
| the use of the flange Joint.
Mr. Edmund Warren of "a Merchants Exchange. cele-
braed for many inventions and Improvements OF agFcuu
raj machines has lately succeeded in peectng the principles
of two instruments of great and demand and OF much
importance to the West These trehing machine and
cutter both superior heretofore known and at
wonderfully low price-not more. am told than nifty dol
lars for the ehng machine and ten or twelve Tor the straw
| cutter.
gentleman of my acquaintance adrafisman and achi-
istingu ability has given me verbal decfp
ton with the drawings of parts he went along OF ma
chine for printing and distyibuting type which he has
vented and which he intends bring out as soon as
find time Hentends also to mature and introduce 10 e
world Reporting machine, which will report speech ex-
acy as delivered without the further aid OF the speaker OF
of any other person. than the delivery of the speech This
will accompany or soon follow, the printing machine The
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