The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-21

this time conclude upon some uniform mode which
would combine utility and quiet with smoOthness
ana cleanliness and with due regard TO public
economy,
In The matter Of underground drainage, that por-
tiOn OF the work belonging TO this department seems
to be very well attended to. The old system OF
cleansing the streets under contract with Councils
came to termination in the month OF March of last
year and an act OF Assembly having been passed to
that effect the entire control over that work be-
came vested In the Board Of Health, under whose
superintenoence IT has since been attended to.
Water.
The income OF the Water Department, according
70 the report OF the ChlefEngneer was 6sOS 5OS 23.
works during the year was 2 4i4 I52 836 gallons or
an average OF "a 166 07s gallons per day.
The Chief Engineer says that the turbine wheel
and pumps commenced in 1sGS, and completed and
put in operation February IL 1859, perfectly
cessful pieces OF machinery, and valuable addition
The Chief Engineer recommends that Fairmount
dam should be rebuilt from low tide upward, and
raised at least two feet above its original level and
that, as this Improvement would be OF advantage
TO the Schuylkl Navigation Company they should
bear part Of the expense,
Gus.
The quantity OF gas manufactured by the Phfa.
delphia Gas Works during the year was tl63 G2 600
cubic feet being an increase over the year 1865 OF
96,492,OOO cubic feet, or over per cent the total
product Of the works since their erection being
12,6G,s7s 900 cubic feet The greatest consumption
In any twenty-four hours was on the night OF the
S3d OF last December, amounting to 5,3O1 900 cubic
feet, showing an increase the time in the
year preceding Of 494 900 cubic feet -
In view Of complaints from citizens to this oflce,
and OF reports OF the police OF want OF regularity in
the lighting OF the public lamps in various parts OF
the city, recommend change in the arrangement
now existing, as follows VIZ that the time OF
lighting and extingushing should be made public
through the newspapers that those who are TO light
and extnguish shall be employed by the city, aud
that the number OF meter lamps by which the,
quantity OF gas consumed by the city is ascert9ned
be increased so as to obtain a closer average, care
being taken that the burners in the meter lamps
actly correspond In size and Kind with those
on the other lamps also recommend that the public
lamps shall be lighted eUerp might throughout the gedr
without e1ception. The proposed arrangement would
add somewhat to the cost or lighting the CITY, but the
advantages resulting from it would amply remune-
rate the expenditure If there should be inattenton
TO the lamps a corrective could easily be applied,
and the constant lights, in themselves great public
convenience would also materially assist the opera
tons OF the police, as there Is no more efficient ad
junct for the police than light also recommend
that more public lamps be placed on the line OF Della
ware avenue. .slI. la.. ....r, ..
The statistics given in the report OF the Board of
Health exceedingly interesting 1t will be found
that there were 63s2 marriages during the past year.
and there have been total OF H. 7S6 deaths within
the same PERIOD this latter item, in comparing with
that OF the year preceding 1885, is but very slight
increase the deaths reported for the year 1868 being
1855. This, considering the increase in our pOpu-
aon, speaks well for the health of the city In 1869.
There 6, $3.50 children born during the past year.
4a H.f The Poor.
The annual appropriation to the Guardians OF the
Poor for the year 1869 was s43O,31O. Expenditures
at close OF the year. s175216. The receipts during
the year were s26,950S0. The amount expended for
house purposes was s92S,22i'46; for outdoor pur-
GIrard College.
During the year 1869, rs OF the pupils OF this nsti-
tuition were bound out to various trades, expelled,
the ndentures OF cancelled died, and there were
at the close of the year $40 orphans in the college
enjoying its advantages. e., ..rrr
The appropriations to the institution amounted to
s1Z1,675, and the expenditures s165,s19Ts, with
s7s5522 remaining returned to the Grard Fund at
the end OF the year. - ..
AIaAy s. The Girard Estate. "a
rncnnta Of the Cirard estate during 1890
all sources, amounted to s435 O2 the balance in
the treasury, January 1869, was $t12 447is5, max
o 81 College 9
SaaDse Sg n me TSs s9y
The affairs Of this estate, and Of the other trusts
heretofore managed by the @ city, are nov now admins
| to Councils yearly report Of their doings.
| '-'. a ..a-' Fairmount Park. '."J
Upto the 31st day OF December, 1869. the amount
| paid by the Commissioners to owners of land with
| whom the valuation had been reached by mutual
agreement, was s3 125, 44116, and the amount paid
for land for which the damages were assessed by
juries was sSl 1So4O and for charges s5050 making
total for land purchases OF t3,12IOle9S, and fol
properties acquired by the Commissioners embrace
2G3 distinct parcels As rule, the visitors TO this
magnificent domain, OF al ages and classes, have
| duct aud the instances of wilful violation OF deco
rum or wanton depreciation Of property have been
few. The commissioners in their annual report
'0The regulations adopted for the government Of
| the Park have proved most effective, Prepared, as
they have BEEN so as to give all the largest liberty
In the use and enjoyment of the advantages which
the Park Offers consistent with decent respect fol
proprlety Of demeanor, and proclaimed in so many
ways that the most unobservant cannot truthfully
plead Ignorance of their requirements, they have
commended themselves to general favor and have
commanded general compliance. While imposing
restraints designed onlyto prevent unwarrantet
license, the Commissioners havesassiduousy sough
to furnish to the masses OF the people every facility
of access to, and recreation within, the splendid
domain which owes its existence to their liberality
and which is sacredy set apart that they and thu
masses OF the people who are to succeed them ma!
find ii blessing and solace forever"
The gigantic task OF developing and tasteful.
and iudiciously laying out beautifying, and adorn
ing this unrivaed space, quietly and steadily pro
ceeding onward, under the cnarge of gentlemen wh
seem entirely equal to the performance OF 2ll th
duties assigned TO them.
The Fire Department.
In former message which | had the honor &
send to Councils, vetoing bill excluding a certa
tons for the present year (and which 1t gave m
pleasure TO know received your concurrenCe), sug
gested certain reforms OF the proprlety OF Whlc
time and experience have but served TO convinc
me more strongly. aar
Avoiding for the present, and in view OF ou
financial condition for this year, the disputed ques
ton of a Paid Fire Department, a single change 0
administration, II seems TO me, might effect muc
of what its advocates desire, without material in
that question. l allude to change in the mode 0
electing the engineers; and ] again recommen
| that, Ike all other public officers, they shall b
chosen by popular or public authority, and they wi
then be relieved from dependence FOR re-electiO
upon those whose acts and conduct IL ia their dut
TO examine and regulate. A better discipline woul
| be obtained and the summary and impartial punish
ment that should follow disobedience ordisOrae
would prevent the repetition OF those things tina
have brought SO much dscredit upon tile whole Fir
Department. .. W..
Department of steam Boilers.
| The FIRST years administration fully testihes tn
wisdom of Councils IN establishing this department