Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-06
Mafer.Hnrks.

As our people asrs becoming somes
what interested in this subject, We copy
an article from the Cincinnati Gazette,
showing what has been done by other
cities, ancient and modern, in that
direction. The necessity for water
works is gradually erowding upon Us,
and we viii have to meet the issue soon,
nolens VOGeHs: mi ssea s al
WATEE. WoRKs, ANCIENT AND MODERN.
The Aqua Martiasof Rome is deseFib-
ed As thirty eight miles in length, and
supported on seven thousand arches,
and, in conjunction with other equeL
duets which the city possessed, il sup
piled daily 3l2, ,000, 600 gallons of water.
or about 3l2 gallons for each iuhabit&nt.
This was before the time of daily news-
papers, those potent iHspirers ard sup
porters Of public enterprises The re-
mains Of vast structures Of wstef-works
in Peru, extending over $50 miles, winds
ing around the sidss Of the Andes, are
wonders of engineering skill, and monu-
ments OF the immense enterprise of an
ancient people who had not the eulights
eminent Of that beacon of progress,
the newspaper press. pss1qsn q
The aqaeduct which supplies the city
of Marseilles is sixty miles in length,
and took twenty years TO build. The
WateF.works at Versailles and Lisbon,
b6ilt by the "effete civilization Of Eu-
rope, are wonders Of beauty and skill
aud public spirit. The Croton water
works Of New York have an aqueduct
forty and half miles long, q river
thirty.nine miles, and various tributs-
ries, With natural lake and ponds, l36
miles long. The first outlay was
Sl2,500000. IL supplies a delivery Of
about Al, ,000, 600 gallons per day. Since
the works went into operation an addi-
tional pair of reservoirs, Of the capaeiGyS
Of l50, ,000, 600 Of gallons, have been
constructed in Central Park, having
water surface of thirty-one acres. A
new reservoir is building in the same
park, with q water surfaces of ninety.six
acres, thirty-two fact deep, a6d q cts2
paeiiY of l,029. .8ss, I45 gallons AM
other Is projected near the. High Beidge,
to contain about 10, ,000, 900 gallons.
We have not at hand any statement
Of the cost Of the additional works, bat
il has probably reached total of SIS,
900, 900. The interest aud . gFadgal
mixing fund ID paid by the water ratea
The tax is ten dollars year for house
Of the average size. The Brooklyn
HaterEorks were constructed under ihe
direction of ]. P. KiFkweed, Chief En-
gineer, who recently made. a. Eurvsyi kot
extending the Cincinnati jwaterworkse
The acqueduct receives its supply from
various ponds, springs, and sllott
streams, the most distant one being
thirteen miles from the receiving rreseFs
yoir. Being confined to the nearly level
surface OF Long Island, the water has 10
be elevated By pumping. The acqueiiuct
is sufficient to deliver 10000 600 gallon
day, bat is arranged for 10000, 600.
The daily consumption in 1854 was
8 ,2s5s 600 gallons with population of
about 200, 900 a str-ll@N se..
The Cochituate waterworks at Boston
cost nearly six and half millions, and
have capacity for delivering 10000.
900 gallons day
The sum Of three millions for sup.
ply Of pure water, and an adequate pro.
vision for future increase of population,
for Cincinnati and surrounding heights,
seem so vast that some Of our journal.
ists, who have fondly classed themselves
IA metropolitan, suspect the engineer
who has reported this result of q survey,
of taking advantage of our provincial
greennesS, and seeking to astbuish as
with his city notions aud figures. Yet
other cities Of no greater population
have carried through works of more
than twice this cost, and that without
making any metropolitan pretentions;
and the metropolis, with a much greater
proportion of poor, housekeeping In
habitants than We have, has invested at
the rate of a million and half or, two
millions 1--WE shall know nearer when the
census is settled) to every hundred thous-
and OF the population, for waterworks,
and the water rates pay the interest ON
the cost, and are accumulating sink
ing fund to pay the principal. -