The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-12-23

and the samples were bea uuiuy clear and bright.
Tho engineer answered variety OF questions. and told
me that 10 provide Tor the increasing demands OF their
district they had been obliged enlarge their dis
inoating works, aud II Is so arranged now that ono
station, OF which there four five lifted with
gines litter beds and reservoirs IL able 10 assist an.
other as occasion may require.
FTLTEaISo wArER
The hlter beds OF tins company are each from two
10 seven acres IN extent ami spread with three
OF gravel, increasing IN coarseness toward the bot
tom, and Two feet three inches OF sand The top.
The water 10 drawn OF after hltraton pumped into
reservoirs covered 10 exclude the light and prevent
any termination, which exposure to light would IN
duce The company Is ready 10 give constant supply
when called to do SO by the public authorities and
has already announced It's intention 10 provide such
supply IN certain portions OF the city and after
10th day OF next December.
rnis company has separate mains tor unhltercd
water ior watering the streets and other purposes
where extreme purity is not essential and delivered
during the last month daily average OF 4le 945 gal
Ions tor such purposes. The whole average daily sup
ply during the moan OF October was nearly twenty
seven million gallons delivered l26 IA houses 10
an estimated population oil goo. 600 The company
has 67S miles OF mains aud II, miles OF mains con
stantly charged with water. IL has 439 public by.
crunts, 2s7 Tor street watering 1000 private and
about fifteen thousand fire plugs. The company also
has wells III the chalk IN addition TO the supply o the
New RIVER and having the exclusive right OF supply
the parishes IN the northern part " Loudon where
thousands oi new dwellings are geiug IL has large
new works at Hornsey and high service rescr-
voir at Crouch HIN which viii hold T. 900 900 gallons
In my CONVERSATION with the engineer was able 10
get any satisfactory idea OF the tho property
that direction was most adroitiy parred and found
true what stockbroker in the city told me-.'You
cannot lind out with any certainty the value OF that
property They know nothing OF shares as We under
stand them. They keep the knowledge Of their i'm.
mense profits TO themselves. Even tue shareholders
themselves arc kept IN ignorance, and II would be
good thing II there were more com panies that followed
their example ana Kept their own business affairs
a secret We know that by the act OF 1852 tho
amount 'sexpcuuedn by the company in their orks.
ihcn IN existence" WIS declared to be 81, $40 g5S
aud upward and this was declared 10 be tho capital OF
AM WIN shurp htch
are sub.diyided aud held by numerous persons. are
real estate, freehold property. BY act Of Parliamcn
in 1866, the company held new description Of shares
10 the amount OF f50o0uo. which declared TO be
personal estate The amount declared available Tor
dividends Tor the year 1917 was f443 III n capital
stock Of fl $50 1855 This rs the very information
that OBTAINED relative TO affairs New
River Wafer Company, Tor II taken from tue gov.
eminent statement
rnE EAST LONDON COMPANY
The second great London water company Is the
East London Company, deriving It's supply iron tho
River Lca ana the Thames sunoury II has faciii-
TIES Tor taking i0,ooO,OUo gallons daily from The
Thames, AID from The Lea practically Unlimited
supply. It's ac,uui supply Tor tue past month has
been more than 20, 100000 gallons daily to Ill g67
houses. 1t Affords constant supply to 81 900 ouse
While there only some 50 900 thus supplied
throughout The metropolis. the estimated number oil
people supplied Is about $40, 0OO It's Tor
storage Oh uhnltercd water nave an available ca
pacity oil GOo, 600 900 gallons, and cover IN
area Of 2aa acres. Il has four covered res
tropois having aggregate capacity OF 10000 900
gallons. II has eighteen engines with total horse
twenty-five engines, with horse power OF lS0I IL
| 1I5 mics oi mains and 900 nydrants The supply is
eIways drawn from the large reservoirs, and during
foods no water 10 taken into them Tho company is
gradually completing the extension OF ts system OF
constant supply In conversation with the enei in
spector oil tnis company asked what he thought OF
the proposed plan o the Board oil Works. He gave Il
his opinion That It would be capital thing Tor tho
companies to sell OUT, provided they could get their
price He thought II might DO good thing, too,
Tor the puU.ic IN the end. He spoke oil the cost
involved in providing II constant supply Tor every
| haue no Rpuru a 4 npt
be done Tor less than 81 tor eacn house, ana IN many
cases 1t would cost much more. He said their com.
pauy supplied ABOUT one-sixtb OF the whole OF Lon
don, AZ tue lowest estimate 1t would cost them
ego, 900, aud the metropolis about 81. 0o0C 1
askcu his opinion OF wells IN the chalk He said he
did not believe IN wells. Alter sinking an artesian
well IN the London chalk aud gong down several nun.
dred feet IL sometimes happened that water
found, ana insanccd the case OF Meux's brewery,
where well was sunk 10 considerable depth, and as
water was found II mad to be filed up again. The
water from tho chalk wells was hard and
however paaiabe II m gnt be and agreeable TO drink
IL might not be as hcalthfui as softer water and Tor
domestic user, as Tor Washing II was to be
pared even with well filtered river water not to speak
OF pure spring water. He spoke oil the oil water
meters and said they were extensively employed by
the East London Company, and re thought all tho
companies would Le mucn better oil II they used
them, great deal OF water was wasted where there
was constant supply. yes, said he, ut would
fine thing tor the companies TO sell out aud get their
price, show would II be with tho New River Com
! panyYn "rhe New River Company Is exceptional IL
| has an immense ana Increasing revenue from other
| sources tnan supplying water" How IS the stock
tionY" its fl00 shares went up yesterday three per
cent the strength OF II, ana are quoted ut 1853 5s
SOUTHWARK AND vArxnALL.
This company comes Ecxt respect Of the number
OF houses and people supplied. It's water goes
population oil 493, 900 living on the right bank the
Thames and into 0UO houses IL furnished an average
daily supply OF about ID 0OO 900 oil gallons during DC
Der. 1t covered reservoirs Tor the storage OF
filtered water. Its large subsdug and storing reese
voirs have capacity Tor &C. 900 900 OF gallons. fhey
are six IN number ana cover an area vi IL acres
he company has ABOUT GG5 miles OF mans, incudIng
m NJ H. al nnUA
acres the water taEen from the thames Ham D.
ton, aud additional reservoirs are much needed by this
company. 50 that IL may not be necessary to take
water willie floods are prevalent The utter beds, ne
IN number, are In course oil reconstruction. The
hah feet deep ana when the works now in progress
are completed and the company provides sufficient
number Of subs'dng reservoirs there Will not DO any
cause To complain OF the PURIFY oil tho water
rmk LAMBETH COMPANY.
A supply Of about fourteen millions OF gallons Is
daily dealt out by TINS company to 1900 houses
402, 500 people. II has three subsdlng and storage
reservoirs, covering thrty acres. and with asgre-
gate capacity Of l25 OO0 900 oil gallons II has inc
cbvcrcd RESERVOIRS Tor It's Uttered water, with total
capacity OF about twcnty-nino millions oil gallons
1t has no MIGRANTS, but about ten thousand nrc
plugs and about i've hundred miles OF man pipes.
IL gets lis water from the Thames, at Molcscy. The
ratio OF filtration ID more RAPID IN too works OF this
company than in any Of the other London com.
panies, aud Is ut the rate o Jour gallons per hour
per square foot OF area IN the filtered bed The
company Is about to provide more enectual nIters.
The water during Oc.ober was very good, put com.
plants are sometimes made Of the purity OF the Lam.
beth water
MIppLEsEx WATER WORKS.
This company has WORKS NJ Barnes, Hammersmith,
Hampton where tue water ~ taken IRON the Thames
Cutnpdcn Hill, Barrow Hill and FincLlcy Road. /
had with the secretary OF this company
Conservative old gentleman and n representative
John Bull He seemed little shy at lrst, but finally
entered freely INTO conversation. He sAd their
company regarded tho Thames as tho great natural
supply, and, alter they baa taken ali tho water they
required there still 400 ,OOu gallons which
flowed through Yoddlnaton Lock daily which might
DC available II wanted he new wcns which The
Board OF Works were intending TO SINK were TO pro
vide Tor drinkng, lrc extngulshng and street
watering purposes only, aud were estimated 20
supply 1G,UU0UUO gallons daily, very small