Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-03-18

scrlbed on the 4th of that month in twenty
minutes; no one person being allowed to
take more than $4,000 in his own name.
The McKendree Church was completed
and dedicated in 1888 In this year Es-
tll's Union street lotteries were drawn.
Doolittle & Munson's Map of Nashville
was published in this year, also
The cost of the Water Works was re-
ported to be, for ground, superintendent,
engine, &c, about $4,000 In the City
Council, JoHN VI. HILL was chairman of
what was then styled the "Watering Com
mittee," and he devoted much of his time
and energy to the important trust.
Tie first public debt incurred by the city
was for the Water Works. The laying
down of pipe was an expensive opera
tion-especially in such rocky city-aver-
aging, perhaps, about 81 per foot. The
reservoir is situated, according to Mr..
STEMS first report, $500 feet from the
Public Square. The number of persons
that obtained water ct the beginning, was
of course limited; and to this day, the
pipes have not been laid in all of the prin-
cipal streets even in the old portion of the
city. For instance, there is no pipe on
Vine street, from Spring to Union. The
pipe on Union, from Market to College,
has been only recently put down. Owing
to the fact that the city was compelled to
lay down pipe at such heavy expense, the
work was done by piece-meals-a little
here and little there-a little one year,
and little the next. Hence it is that no
system was Observed-the pipes are not
properly connected, and are of various
sizes; here six inch pipe and there three
| inch. &c.
As to the revenue derived from the
Water Works, it has been all the time be-
low the cost of furnishing a supply If
pipes were laid throughout the whole city,
the water tax would be sufficient to carry
on the works; but as it is, no revenue can
be derived from this source. The water
was furnished to so few the first year or
two, that the revenue derived was only
about 81 800 per annum. Now the water
tax amounts to about SIS, 600 per. annum.
1t is almost an impOssibiIity to estimate
the amount of money expended on the Wa
ter Works, owing to the manner in which
they were conducted, the looseneSs display
ed in preserving the reports made to the
Board of Mayor and>Afdermen, &c. We
may remark, however, that they have cost,
first and last, in the neighborhood of half
a million Of dollars. And yet the system
is incomplete South Nashville has sprung
up long since the establishment Of the
Works, and since the annexation, it de-
wolves upon US to furnish our Southern in
habitants with this necessary element of
lfe-thiS security from the ravageS of fire.
As the establishment of the Water Works
is, perhaps, the most important public work
ever undertaken by the corporate authori-
ties the names of the men whose enlighten-
ed wisdom brought about and completed the
work, should not pass from the memory of
the recipients of this great Blessing. Hence,
list of the members of the Board for sew
eral years is given, embracing the period
preceding and following the introduction of
water by steam engines.
The Board elected in September, 1880,
was composed of VIM. Armstrong, Mayor
Joseph Vaulx, S. Y. d. Stout, Francis Por-
terrified, Richard H. Barry, Joseph LittOn,
John Austin, Enoch Wclborn, John S.
Simpson, Henry Ewing, Simon Bradford,
Thomas Calender, and Collin S. Cowardin,
Aldermen.
In September, lS3l-Wm Armstrong,
Mayor; Joseph Yaulx, s. V. D. Stout,
James Erwin, F. Porterfeld, j. Litton, j.
S. Simpson, Stephen Cantrell, Jno NJ. Bass,
Thomas Calender, J. Austin and c. NJ.
Cowardin, Aldermen.
In September, l832-Wm. Armstrong,
Mayor; S. V. d. Stout, Joseph Vaulx F..
Porterfeld, John L. Brown j. Austin, j.
Litton, j. S. Simpson, James Grizzard, S.
Cantrell, Jno NJ. Bass, Washington Bar
row, and Thomas Calender, Aldermen.
In Septembcr lS33-J. NJ Bass, Mayor
John NJ Hill, John Waters, J. b. Knowles,
Larkin f. Wood, VIM. Nchol, J. Austin,
Thomas Washington, Jesse d. March, Jas
w. McCombs, VIM. H. Moore, Thomas
Calender and James Parrish, Aldermen.
Messrs. Hill, Wood, Austin, and Nichol
were appointed Committee on Water Works
for the municipal year ending October LIST,
1884.
In September, lS34-John z. Erwin,
Mayor; John NJ. Hill, S V. D Stout, J.
B. Knowles, Nathaniel Brown, j. Nichol,
j. Austin, j. d. March, c. NJ Cowardin,
Edwin H. Ewing, w. Hasell Hunt, Joseph
Dougal, and Isaac Paul, Aldermen
Iu September, lS35-W. Nichol, Mayor
J. NJ Hi, S V. d. Stout, j. B. Knowles,
Thomas b. Coleman, John Waters, Thomas
J. Read, c. NJ Cowardin, VIM D. Doris,
James p Grundy, Joel NJ Smith, Powhat-
tan Maxey, and James Morgan, Aldermen.
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