New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-07

5 july g. IS Csc SS5s 95o 763 7So 76a =.
On the Fourth of July last wear the mercury at
$3.50 D. NJ was go; TINS year at Che same time 1t
indicated So The hottest DAYS of July last year
were the Fourth. with maximum OF 9SI; me
1Ith 9Go: the ljth. 800: the 16tn, 10fo; and the
9th o. Eight days besides these were the only
ones on which the temperature was 9U~ OF above
that to go Four days Of the month the mercury
was below 500 and the remainder OF the tlme the
average was about SO. The lowest maximum tenn
perature was on the 18th and was To-. -.
At the United States Signal Service station, on
the Equitable Building, il was stated last evening
that there stOrm-centre ana that the lndioh-
rainfall for New York indicated ct the station was
35too inch for Monday night and 3ilOO inch for
Yesterday. No rainfall was reported from the other
Portland Me- At New-Oreans 103 inches
Of rain fell. and at o. Portland 'o1 w Jnsh.
The temperature at " D. m,' fo w ash.
Albany, $50: Baltimore, 50 Boston, "a buffalo,
76o +; Cheyenne. Wyoming Territory. So chicago,
73o; CINCINNATI So Detroit, So lndlanaPo Dol
500 Keolluk, Iowa. $50 La Crosse, Wis, ~ !;
Louisville. Kv., SO: New-OTleans, 81 Oswego,
10 Philadelphia, $50; Pttsburg, ~ Portland
" ae'i ovis SO Toledo. 500 Vicksburg 90 The
ninetes were reached only in Shreveport and Yicks-
burg. r
The officers of the City Works Department of
Rrooklvn and other residents of that city were
made happy yesterday morning by a dispatch from
Hampstead stating that the depth OF water III the
storage reservoir bad increased inches On sun
feet - inches; and yesterdayit was feet 3l9
inches Everybody began TO get frightened" said
OF the officers Yesterday ana every NOR morning
storage this morning1 Communicate VIII You, ana
see if there is any improvement now Z so
when the news reached us at o'clock this morn
ing that the depth was increasing there was much
satisfaction shown 49, , =,
v b. Bergen, Assistant Engineer of the Brooklyn
Water Works when asked yesterday by n TRIBUNE
reporter about the amount OF the recent rain and
| Its effect, saidi -, ,.c.,., a.
Hampstead, where we needed it tho most 2loloo
inches fell. and in Brooklyn the fall was 1900
inches Ii has helped the streams also. But this Is
only temporary. 1t is help, but we arc not YET
out of the wilderness. Yesterday and the day be-
| fore being holidays the consumption was not as
great as usual. but to-day 1t will run up again"
" In case the dry weather holds out, what Will be
mot much except to protect against waste II
| we have rains we can probably bridge over until
Fall, but the usual dry season is yet TO come, so
for we have not been Obliged TO shut of the water,
| but if tho storage reservoir gives out we shall
have TO-" .A.ou,, % ohto,r ro+or
| if the storage reservoir fails ~
| Probably. We shall gather in all the water
along the line of our conduit that is now used but
this would not be great deal. The result would
| be that the people would be obliged to
| get along with the 25,o00,000 natural
supply This would be enough tho t9 sTpRy
interests of the city would suffer- ana the sanitary
condition of the people would be- much impaired.
j But when you tDlnk OF III, tnlS NOulu KY
| fifty gallons of water to each inha0ltant. Yet be
iieve I'm giving a city an unlimited supply Of water
| for sanitary reasons especially. BROOKLYN has got
| to do something to increase her water sup
| ply The reservoir at Hampstead Is not
| large enough. There is plenty OF water on the
| island and DO natural barrier between and it {;
| nor would the cost of bringing 1t here be any
| greater IN proportion than that OF building the
| present extensions The plan would be to extend a
| conduit TO Freeport, South Oyster Bay Babylon
| and other places further east, and to construct
| ponds on the streams IN that vicinity"
| " How much water do you think Is wasted IN
| Brooklyn ~
| 1--WE estimate that fully 33 per cent is wasted,
and in nv opinion the amount nearer % per cent.
| Ia Winter the waste is larger than in Summer for
the reason that the water Is allowed to ran to keep
| the pipes from freezing"
| " Has the Hampstead reservoir ever been as low
| as ut present T.
''Yes. In October. 1877, for a week or more. the
water was down to about feet. and on one day IL
reached five feet ten and half inches. This was
late in the season, you see On July OF the same
| wear the depth was fifteen feet.
| How you so sure OF the p, COO, OOO natural
| supply if the dry weather should contInueW
| This quantity Is estimated as the minimum for
Twenty-Five years, OF course. If the season becomes
drer than for this period 1t Will make difference,
| but this is scarcely probable.
| The consumption III Brooklyn Tor saturday was
80 141 900 gallons, for Sunday 2SS74,O00 gallons.
and for Monday %. 100000 gallons. Early yester-
dav morning the supply from tho streams and ponds
was increased that the gates of the storage reser
voIr through which the water passes INTO the con-
duit were closed. At p. IN. the demand had not
been such as to make IL necessary TO open them
| again and Tor this reason IL is expected that the
| depth will be still more largely increased to-day.
In this city the rainfall since last Friday was
given Yesterday by Professor Draper, of the Central
Park Meteorological Observatory. as follows;