The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-16

work. for the Success Of which hey eynced sGc
devotion bat that shey abandsas abb TO demonstrate
IL heeeSy governmental undertaking both
Of good Faith Aaa Of sound policy. The result has fully 1
fed this Kno~iedgs and the hope couhdensly shsed
BY Boaresidsns web residents ~ Ashngtsa chat this
partly local partly national, aad ubols magnificent under
taking .ili be prosecuted T. early completion
The design d furnishing the capital % the
nsxhssssibls supply ~ water favorIle project
~ib The earlier il has been with the later Presidents
Out the honor giving form, substance vitality an
enterprise insspsraby connected tbs be safety
and establishment u the federal city ressrved for the
siuintra of the present Executive On the ssh Of No
venbsr, 1885, the hfs sod ia the great supplying
the city o. Washin9ton With from the Potomac wa
BY Prssident Pierce, and IL unforeseen cultie
should and IL the needed appropriations should be
promptly made by the next Congress- have the
saranes Of the accomplished engineer and superintendent
that the aquedact viii be entirely finished BY the lss Of
March, 1857.
The distance from the Great Falls the Potomac to the
proposed reservoir the banks Of the George
town sixteen niles with average grade Of nine inches
the mile The pipe 10 be OF brick nine Zee, In
diameter, which viii allow eight feet depth OF water The
head Of water in the city above idewaer win be las feet
which wiii bring IL to leveI with line drawn fourteen
Jsef ascee shs axle POOR Of tse Capitol.
Considerable work has already been done with the first
appropriation Of Sloo ade bv Congress The crossing
81 the canal al the bead Of the
and abe excavation Of the gaehouse pit three Of the
tannels begun Upon the first mile and half Of the work
much has been accomplished Upwards five hundred
Of tannelag Completed and about feet Of the
brick conduit laid Woskmen engaged near the falls
the Inside h eating About three hundred feet
more Of this rock cutting prepared the brick work
which has already been resumed
With the yiew of saving money facilitating
the has purchased the quarry at Seneca
one miles froa this city from which coping and cut stone
for the aquedact win be taken.
The second and last appropriation Congress ts25o
will allow Of the completion Of OF the heavy
embankmerts them grade preparatory 10 the com
mcneement Of the brick work of conduit The embauk
men will be allowed settle before the eonstruc-
ton Of the conduit which viii be about the last
taken Much OF the line Is light cutting and filing such As
can be accomplished In months. until larger appro-
pFiatons are made. this easy work viii be deferred
The two questions in which citizens feel lively and
immediate interest how much will the aqueduct cost
and when viii IL be finished supposing there should be no
holding back Of the required Appropraons Nine persons
out of ten who have taken trouble to nvssti
gate the subject nry of the opinion that the Wash
ington aqaeduc is TO be another Croton or Cochi.-
uate affar-that carefully prepared plans have been
made for fat jobs and immense consractsthat one Con-
gress after another 10 be bothered bsdgered and
bored into successive appropriations until the sum total
shall have swollen to the respectable OF ten or
fifteen millions Of dollars The energetic superintendent Of
the work, Captain ogs, has carefully and frequently
ned every foot of the entire line and allowing wide
margin for possible contingency he confidently asserts
thar the whole cost OF the work. including
TONS win exceed 81 0OO Upon the correctness 81
this assertion he willing stake his professional
ton; aud 1t should also be borne that in this est
mate OF 81 300 900 il included the OF and stop
c~ks from the intersection Of High Bridge streets n
Georgetown, to the Capitol hayward and other public
buildings applicable TO any plan which may be adopted
The letting Of the work, which place few DAYS since
must have satisfied the most skepca that the named
viii to be rather than under the true mark
There large nuuber of the heaviest
contractors in the country in attendance discov
cred and promptly proclaimed that plans adopted by the
superintendent Of such close scrunixing and eco
aoca character that they felt perfectly indifferent about
obtaining work.
the Washington, Boston, and New lork aqaeducss
Miles IN Janofh 1880
Re.,o, 5000. 00JS
New York 40 l2,WV,Vc
The conduit the Boston aqueduet terminates at the
ervoir which Is miles the city. The conduit Of the
Washington aGueduct win be twelve miles long
III 10 delay should be experienced in obtaining the needed
and 81 coo viii be required the early part
of winter Washington aqaduct be- and will De-
completed by the March, 1851 when the whole
Try doubtless viii join in the congratulations OF fellow
crens upon the completion Of magnificent national work
wh.cn will federal city constant aud everias
ing ay supply Of nearly sixtyeght millions of gallons o.
pure water
Before closing this hastily and nperecsy sketch
the services rendered BY the superintendent Capt.
NJ g. Mcs Of United States engineer corps the ZEAL
fidelity Judgment and ability which he has displayed from
the time the first surveyed down TO the present
ent have been will hereafter identify his name with
te Washington aqueduc closely the of De lit
Clinton now identified with the View York and Erie Canal