New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-04-23

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Engine Of l25 horse power. with pumps 25W %
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This would raise the necessary quantity Of water
wenty feet SO that the pipe that propose running
along the levee would have head Of water nine
liver is high the lift would be less, that the cor
poration could run saw with the surplus power.
MECHANIC"
Although the above is still in my opinion good
plan, yet upon further rejection on this important
subject it is to be feared that owing To the friction of
The water in the ppes deficiency of water towards
the upper and lower limits Of the city might at times
be encountered especially if the river were low and
of the supply engines were to get out Of order
is often the case with Young America" when most
needed hence would give the preference to the fol-
lowing plan, which, will here remark, has been sub
mitted to Major g. 7. Beauregard, of the corps of
U. 8. Engineers, and has met with his approval.
I propose that the city or present Water-Works |
Company should build, say 20 large csterns tanks
made of wrought iron half inch thick about 80 feet
in diameter and 80 feet high i; they would contain
when full l5s 7435 CALLS each, and would cost about
SIS 1854 40-or would hold in all 3174 $40 gals. at
sites and foundations 1912, making in all about
900. They should be distributed in the most
advantageous manner over the area Of the city-say
10 not far from the levee front and the other 10
farther towards the rear of the city-and so arranged
and connected with the present water pipes that each
reservoir shall supply water to its corresponding
tion of the city. All of them would be filled with
water at night by the engine of the present Water
forT 7 iufp hat fhpva nlyvpy
ped at present during the night economizing thus
the cost of new engines and new ppes-and each one
of these reservoirs would stand silent watch its
section, ready at a moments notice to pour for its
protection It's benefcent contents merely by the
turning Of cock. They could be built, few at
time, according to the conditions Of the finances Of
the city, and augmented in number as our popula-
tion ncreased-they could even be built on columns
as ornaments to some of our public squares, with
fountains attached to them.
When the present Water-Works were built the city
contained only about $4,000 inhabitants, and the
pipes laid at that time were ample for all the wants
of such population but now those conditions are
entirely changed, when the population has increased
to about $50 900 souls, and the of the city has
nearly quadrupled in size.
am informed that when the fire in the upper part
of the city was raging, the Water-Works had head
enough to throw water over the cotton sheds, with
out the aid Of fire.engine but when the fire COM
menced at the lower Cotton Press the supply was SO
deficient that they had to pump water from the river
the reason for this was that the friction Of the water
passing through the pipes, and the supplying the city
above had absorbed all the head that had been in
full force at the fire few days before up town. How
different would have been had one Of these csterns
containing l5S, ,743A gallons with head of some 40
or so feet in hight been within block of the Press
when it took fire, with another five blocks distant,
and on, to keep up the supply? In that case the
workmen at the Press might, by connecting to the
first freplu hose, and playing the water upon the
fire. have extnguished it before the arrival of the
first engne for if the present supply from the water.
| works is enough to overcome the friction in the
pipes and supply the city, in case of fire the whole
Of these twenty tanks Cat whatever hight it was
thought proper to place them) could be brought to
bear upon the city waterpipes through all their
ramcations, with pressure at every point equal to
the head fixed upon and due to their elevation The
3l74,S70 gallons (more than daily supply for
every inhabtant at the rate of twenty gallons per
day) over and above the present supply held in re-
serve, could be forced upon any fire without in the
least disturbing the city WaterWorks as at present
arranged.
| The present engines and pumps, which can be
worked up to 200 horsepower at night, as already
stated, would fill these twenty reservoirs in five
hours, thus giving the city the advantage of twenty
four hours supply of water beforehand. This 2OC
horsepower is equal to about twenty such reengnes
as the John Adams or say forty of the best hand
engines thatever built and is far BETTER in my
opinion than pipe with two engines, as contem
plated along the leyee. JOHN Roy.
ROBBERY IN SHREvEroRT.-The Caddo Gazette o.
the 10th, has the following:
On last Saturday night, about 10 o'clock, Mr.. r. S
Parham was knocked down and robbed in the middle
of Texas street, in the corporation of Shreveport
He passed four ,ruffans in the dark, and in an in
stant was struck down by a brass knuckle, which
rendered him iDsensible and nearly deprived him o
ife When he recovered his senses, he was lying il
the road, and almost exhausted from loss of blood
| In his attempt to reach home, he tainted severa
times from the effects of debility. He reached hi
residence before day in state of utmost exhaustion
He has suffered very much from the blow, bnt we arr
pleased to say that he is recovering rapidly.
The officers Of the law have used the utmost vgi
lance in tracing up these Thugs" and fortupatel
for the safety Of citizens, they have arrested tw
men under strong suspicion who are reposing in on
Jail awaiting an examination. We learn thar one
!, the parties confessed the crime, hut alleged in ez
tenuation that he thought Mr. Parham was an Irisl
man.
DR.. Bentley, the eccentric pastor of the Eas
Church, was famous for Juggling into his discourse
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