New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-01
CHANGES AT CASTLE GARDEN.

CHANGES AT CASTLE GARDEN
The changes which will be made in the lmmi. .
grant passenger business at Castle Garden ,1-.nS
will entirely alter the system which mas eA's ae
been the snuervisor of the interests of the New
York Central, the Pennsylvania and tDe EIe i1 G'
which have had exc luslve facilities at S;o Of
den to see that they had far DIVISION n VI
the ticket business for the last sixteen Yeas
last night transferred all of the properly an !,
der his charge to Joint Agent H. f. BOOM,
the cas- ern agent of the Chicago and Nor'hwester1
Railroad. MIR. Booth will take charge To-Day anu
will be the Joint agent of the three rras mem i0n
above. and also OF the Baltimore aha 0nlo o aua
roads which is to have share Of the business mere,
after. Mr.. Booth already mas mtue " haan
changes. A number of employees have been
S o2ra has aso been reduced to nearly
one-half The new agency will also make changes
outside of Castle Garden. Hereafter no Immigrant
railroad tickets can be sold at any other place tha
at Castle Garden, and each road Is to nave It's az,
iotted percentage All outside offices which nave
sold immigrant railroad tickets will be dlscol,-
tnued to-day and the steamship companies wmc I,
have heretofore sold orders for railroad tickets VIII
henceforth receive only per cent, Instead OF 10
and 20 per cent. Another feature under tne new
system Is that each railroad IN the pool IS 10 pave
its percentage of traffic without regard to the num-
Der of inland passages that may have been sold Dy
the steamship agents; hence tno1gn an ntra1 he.
fore he leaves Europe he may be sent 10 MS US IT,
tnation by any other road II 1t IS found that 'no
road over which he has his ticket mas aTeaaY een
percentage of traffic. Heretofore there mas Deeu
considerable complaint among the railroad COM
panies that through the steamship orders some
roads secured more than their allotted percentage
The Immigration statistics at Castle Garden show
the total arrivals last month TO be $500 against
IL, 242 in January, 1882.
DECIDING IN FAVOR OF NEW AQUEDoCi'
The Water Commission yesterday listened 10 sev-
eral experts. After communication anu soliio i
important matters Charles r. hasw raro dsilv de-
known engineer, said that the average oailS u e.
msnd so far exceeded the water Supply lnau III
order to keep reserve in the Central PARK reseIVo
the gate had to be kept partly closed, thus Ieuuc'ns
the pressure in the distributing pipes 1 ne most
important thing was to procure an Immediate su
ply to serve until additional aQueduct was oun,,
This could be done by placing a meter on ever!
house The new aqueduct should be az leasV
double the capacity of the present one inc aque
duct could be built i'll one year II enough
sent q communication setting forth that the rory
second-st reservoir could be recOnneced with the
distributing pipes at cost OF apo ~ %'oVV non the
first three propositions before them. Mr; Potter
said that they still had to consider what the aque-
duet should be- It's SIZE materials, the manner IN
which it should be built, the cost etc, and the
general question of storage, including the DuldinB
of dams Competent testimony should De nau on
all these questions The propositions acted on were
as follows:
Does the city require increased supply OF pure
fresh water and should the work necessary Tor prOcu
ing such supply he commenced "a soon as proper egsa
ton 10 secure prompt efficient and economical e1ecu
tion of this work can be provided
VIII the Croton watershed furnish sufficient ana tne
best supply for this generation anu shall ths cohS-
sion exclude the consdera OF other sources OF sup
py except so far as they may become available here
after a, additions or extensions and should affect the
OF works from the city 10 and
at the basiui
Should a new, aqueduct be commenced as soon as
proper legislation is providedi
The commission voted unanimously In the affirm
alive on eIch proposition. There was ion! IL
cussion between the commission and Engineers new
ton and Haswell. Mr.. Newtnn thought that new
aqueduct could not be built in year or a year
and half. An aqueduct twelve feet In dame
ter wouId bring IN go. OOO. 900 gallons daily.
Commissioner Thompson sent letter TO the con-
mission replying 10 the charge of James +. Serrell
order to convey the impress on to the public that
there was short supply. Mr.. Thompson charar-
terized this az unfounded and absurd and asked
the fullest investigation.