The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-11-03
THE SHAKING PALACES OF NEW YORK,
Impending Dangers to the Health
Of the City.
THE CAUSES AND THE REMEDY.
&c. &c. &c.

General Egbert l. vele has published very interest
ing work together with valuable map showing the 10,
Biography and NEUROLOGY Of the city Of New York. and
detn ing the healthy and unhealthy sections OF the me-
tropols 1t prove Of great value persons about
purchasing residences building sites upon which 10
erect the same
WHAT THE FEWER AND AGUE MAP SHOWS.
This map shows tho water courses, streams meadows
Marshes ponds bitches, canals &c, that existed and
now exist upon the which New York is built
General Vicle the remarkable fact that when the
cholera yellow fever intermittent typhoid and other
feves fever and and all similar complaints have
lied in the city they have been most general and
yruent within the lines OF these water course
districts
THE CAUSE DEFICIENT DRAINAGE.
This is ascrbed the fact that these water courses
have been filled up with all conceivable kinds OF rubbish,
and that in most cases there been either drainage
at all or that which rs worse than useless. He has
hesitation expressing the opinion that OF the chief
causes mortality 10 be found in the defective drain
age OF certain districts Of the city, and furthermore that
this evil which is increasing the city extends
itself towards the northern portion Of the island and
the elements by which the evil is increased are
tho called city improvements grading OF the streets
and avenues which are now beng carried forward.
This grading consists Of deep rock excavations
These entertainments cross, of course, tho old valleys
of drainage through which flows the drainage Of
large area in most instances thrown
together and called cuIvert for the purpose OF letting
these Streams pass under the embellishments few
months suffice destroy there cuverts as conductors,
and the eubank mcnts become permanent dams,
causing collection Of large bodies Of water n
the island, which in midsummer become sagnan pools,
breeding pestence and disease For the purpose Of i'm
proving lots adjacent to these embankmcns DIRT is
dumped absorb the water which is none the less
present because IL is The SOIL becoming sau
rated, forms a OF sponge through which the water
ascends by capillary attraction, giving out constant
rnasna less fatal to health than the stagnant water
which IL replaced Within the corporate limits OF the
city than hundred have been filed in
where the tide once flowed and material OF this ILL
ing has generally been tho worst description OF earth for
such purpose The fing 10 some cases has been too
foul for description particularly in the area confined by
certain bulkhead river lines The fearful ravages Of
~pccmics in these portions OF the city sufficient ev
dence OF their insalubrity
A BIRDs'-EYE vIEw THE ANCIENT AND MODERN
WATER COURSES. ETc.
brief enumeration OF the water described
previous 1895, may be thus given:-Commencing at
The Battery we md an inlet and subsequently canal
ran through what Broad street. far Exchange
place with branch running through Beaver street. al
teywards known the Old Ditch The Long Island ferry
stood at the OF New trcet and Exchange
place. the serryboat passing through the canal
little north, stream through what is now maiden
man's Park, large tract OF wet land, from which
stream into the East river Next was the Collect
pondA large body Of fresh water, said to have been
seventy feet depth located the basin, the site Of
which occupied by the Tombs On this little lake
Fitch launched his FIRST steamboat stream called the
Wreck Brook ran from the Collect East river,
through low meadow; cmptied into the river NJ the
foot Of what s nov Roosevelt street The main outlet
OF NE Collect by stream, running 70 the North
river, through tho Lspenard swamp, which covered
very large surface, extending from Duane street the
soath 70 Spring street large stone bridge crossed hs
stream at Canal street In the year 1875 project
submitted by engineers 70 the city authorities for
saakng dock basin of the Collect safe narbor
- shppng 70 dram and carry OF the water from
aAat quarter by means az ship canal 80 far hack ~
= sss Cos pond apP reported that was Sed with the
sdes Of dead animals and dangerous 70 the poblic
Ths nezt stream above the Collect, on the North
river side, was called the Mnetts water orig.
aatng IN the neighborbood OF University place
and Axteenth street; IL emptied into che Hudson,
the foot Of Hamcrley street, passing through
what IN Washington square, and creating
opposite side the city Stuyvesant swampsa
very Of low auvial land, receiving the
lies N ih,s rerior The eastcriy side Of the city il
s~ssnpy all the way up from hcre to Kips Bay.
rHE pRAisAGs or MURRAY HILL.
Murray Hill and vicinity were Grained ny consider
able stream creating great deal or swampy land
ing through what IL Madison square and Creamery
Park We see here Eve public located entirely,
Tompkins', Madison and Gramcrcy--scveral Of them
ara.ning tia, remarkably saluhnous locality, Murray
On the westerly side streams oup,ied the Hudson
M Thirty second street and Fourth avenue, coming
AL che way from sixth avenue and creating an abund
anco OF swampy soil There was another stream AZ
forty second street OF nearly the character and
la the nighborhood 81 Broadway Eighth
ana sixiy-s.tond street was uHtl1 recently stagnant
pond emitting the most noxlous odonL II is rar
TALLY obscured by covering Of earth, which Is, how
ever saturated with water stream originating here
the Park "a the OF Fifty ninth
Fth Here miscrably constructed culyert partly
structs and dams back the water Crossing Fifty ninth
street tasser under Fifth avenue, Fifty eighth
street; then again crossing Fynnth street. between
Fourth and Fifh avenues u passes under the Fourth
avenue between Fifty.cgbth and ffy ninth streets,
then crossing Fifty eighth Ffftysevcn,h Fifty sixth
aud Fiffy nth streets between Third and Fourth ave.
MUGS. II into sewer al the junction OF Third
and Fniy fourth street branch II this stream
,asses uDdcr The Arsenal through we'll constructed con-
ui under the Firth and sixty fourth street
where deboucbes the surface and crossing sixty.
third sixty second sixynrs and sXe'h streets ioins
tie main stresm at the junction Of Iouh aeDu. aud
Fifty ninth street
Another large stream rises between Eight ana Nnth
sVepnes and running casterly CROSSES the Park NJ Sew.
~ " fourth street; then crossing Fourth and
1hJrd avenue between Seventy fourth and seventy third
sess; crossing aud rccfossng Seventy nth sireet be
tween Second aud Third avenues; crossing second
and then Seyenyf urth street, near First avenues
Tossing and recroping Seventy fourth Srcef between
q eDue A and First avenue; crossing avenue between
Seysety fourth and Seventy hb streets, and -
hetweon the eta cmptics Itself into the Fast
ris crs This stream II more than tlree miles long A
lnrgs body Of water passes through 10, which
dune turned MILL and the ground throughout ts whole
where are other streams traced in General ve,es man
ruf those described, u 10 singular 10 relate contained
nu,oef much has bern collected from various
Sources on Long island Tor tho Brooklyn water works
secenty CONSTRUCTED
ERRONEOUS IDEA ABOUT TIE Absorption on
WATER.
rbe general suppoetoD tha, when the city n entirely
M, nnon s this water viii disappear not the
The Very material which thrown 10 TO cover Il 10
vpp tya nucleus ~ w Increase, Dgs only retaining