New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-20
NETWORK CITY.
HISTORICAL "REMINISCENCES.


HISTORICAL "REMINISCENCES.
q, rur CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF NEW
MAT Yokk' e. isa By biviD +. v.lrsrn.
IA. animal publication Of Mr.. Valentine is one Of
a.. .,o., ;mportant and instructive issued in the
.on,se Of the year. so far as the denizens of the
.s,-o,oI;. are concerned. For ten or twelve years
10 ~. zone on from much to more, pntil his annual
A.. .xeed from q petty duodecimo Of hundred
n.ses 10 large book of six hundred, embracing
,,st amount Of historical and other useful informa-
ton. worthy Of the shelves Of every well selected
library We have before spoken Of the peculiar
qualifications Of the venerable author and editor for
his work. Holding for long series of years
position which brought him into immediate con-
tact with all responsible sources Of information with
regard TO the city government. and possessing an
extraordinary spirit Of inquiry, he has produced
this manuel from year to year rather as a labor
of love than as duty, which fact stamps it with
higher degree of authority than could have come from
the formal seal Of the authority under which it is
professedy issued All publications Of the kind are
liable to an infny of errors; but cannot recoliect
any one 40 free from them as this. The mistakes in
the present volume are few far between and compare
lively insignificant. As directory to the public nstitu
tons Of the City IL nearly perfect while at the same
time il gives the and salaries Of officers the organ
zaon burcaux and many other facts OF constant value
II will be necessary TO notice the contents in detail
but few leading fac may be set down. We have the
charter or organic law Of the City the City Government
showing in detail all the Offices and officers the Police
laws and names Of ali members Of the Department. the
Fire Department with location and force OF apparatus
the Military by regiments; the names and salaries oil all
persons paid from the Treasury; Financial condition OF
Al, xrttb If
History Of attempts to introduce alter into the City with
amount of Croton pipes Bills Of Mortality for 1885, with
exhibit for 80 years; Complete Manual OF Educational
Institutions including names of all Teachers Asyums
Dypepsares Courts Commissioners OF Deeds, Notares;
Lines of Stages and Railroads. Licenses Laws for Hack
men and Porters; Consuls Post-Oiicei Census Elec-
tiops near and remote List Of Members of the City
Government from 1858 10 1885, Political History since
lsoo; Accounts of remarkable old cdihcos and hundred
matters OF less Importance. Without further comment
we select such pages we have room to PRINT this
morning
CRoToN AQUEDUCT DEPARTMENT.
Csorox AsvEDucT BoAR1, RoIysD, PARK april 10 is5i
request herewith furnish the statistics Of the Coton Aqaedact
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have no reports which entirely ont OF print II
sse his chapter of the Water Chronicle.
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WATER CHRONOLOGY OF THE CITY OF EEw-YORK.
The first item on record bears date
l7I When Corporation, adopting the plan proposed
by Christopher Coles, commenced the CONSTRUCTION OF
reservoir other works the east line OF Broadway,
between Pearl and for the purpose OF supply
ipg the City with water and for defrayng the expense OF
the undertaking. issued paper money amounting 10 Two
thousand FIVE hundred pounds under the o!
Uatr Works Money, and bonds were executed in favor
of certain individuals for land and materials to the amount
Of eight thousand eight hundred and fifty pounds more
he oririnaI issue bills OF
4too Of the value Of si1pence each. .........sro
!eeo Of the value Of one . .hiiI sscs.. s 200
$500 Of tie value Of eish; shilling each... ieVo
August 2. An additional sum of twentysi six hundred
pounds was ordered Of the several denominations follow
70 soeo Of the value Of eight .bllipgs eseh..9I2oo
400 Of the value Of four shllins' each ''''' co.
2tee OF The value Of one chilling esch......" 100
I'VE A spacious reservoir was erected, but in
quence of the war of the Revolution and the occupation
Of the City by the British. the work was abandoned
1885, In April Samuel Ogden make proposals TO the
Corporation for erecting and establishing the waerworks
10 sun.!y the City.
l,es In January the Hon. R. Livingston and John
Lawrence presented proposals for like object The Cor
porson approved and ordered that proposals be received
Inc sense o The people taken and the opinion pre-
vailed generally that the Corporation ought not to
rant the privilege Of supplying the City with water to
Individuals but that the same ought, possible, to be
"underfaken by the Corporation
l5ss The subject again agtated, and an January
the peope peitioned that the plan OF Mr.. Coles be
adopted or any thing that the Corporation might deem
mole expedent
Board that they would make proposals for contract to
surpy the City when the patent for Mr. kumsey engine
was perfected The Board passed resolution inviting
such proposals Nothing further resulted from TINS propo
1850 In February Zebrina Curtis and others made pro-
which were referred to the Street Committee and
there died. go A.. H.
tor and a specific plan submitted by Samuel Crane
10 lead water from the Tea Water Pump through kooso
yelt-.t. Another project was presented by Benjamin
i7es Tn February a Committee OF the Common Council
were directed advertise for proposals and in December
joseph Brown and associates made oilers to supply the
City by means OF pipes 49,.
i;s7 sealeA proposals for supplying the City by means
Of pipes we're erred for, and eight diff
feren applications received among thom one from
Christopher COLES who bad undertaken the work in INA
These were referred TO Committee.
1893 r. j. Roosevelt and Judge Cooper Of Osego made
nav applca,ions To this tine the Water from the Col
lect the Tea Water Pump and wells dug for the purpose
had been the sources relied on Dr. Joseph Brown, IA
communication to the Common Council, recommended
the Bronx River from which to Obtain supply
of GOOD water for the of the citizens. This is the inst
indication record that supply from without the City
was looked to. committee of the Common Council
reported fayorabiy anu recommended an lnye,tgston
that application be made to the Legislature for an
act TO invest the Corporation with power TO effect the
great end they have In yiew and granting them the
moneys arising from the tax sales at auction or by
loan founded thereon, to deay the expenses necessary
10 the undertaking.
1899 Mr.. William Weston, a civil engineer, recon-
mended by the Committee in the proceeding report was
snioyel nv the Common Council to examine and report
on The pracicabiy Of introducing the Bronx River ntc
the civ and in March he reported favcrably only how
ever information gained by walking oyer and viewing
the ground In April, of this year, the Manhattan Com
pspv was incorporated by an act OF the Legislature the
object Of which was declared TO be- to supply the City
with pure and wholesome water privileged oy their char