The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-11-23
NAY BE A WATER FAMINE.
BROOKLYN MANUFACTURERS Nor Az.
LOVED TO USE WATER.

| bhOOhLfN mANUFACTURERS NOT AZ
| LOVED TO USE WATER
| An Order 10 That Eject Issued Last Even
| ine-Poi'cemen Going About rtous House
| to House. Forbiddins tho Use or water
for Washing Clothes To.day-A Hole Dag
| Down to the Broken Conduit, hut Much
| Shovelling To he Dons Yet-The Break
| May bo Temporarily Repaired by To.
night, hut There 10 No Certainty that Is
will be Repaired Even by Tomorrow
| Night-One Mans Body Recovered.
| The break on Saturday In practically the
| only conduit that supplies water to Brook
Ign has so far alarmed the water authorities
OF that city that the following order was 10
sued last evening:
| CRY WORKS DEPARTMENT.
| BROOKLYN, Nov. ~.
ITO Henry Hayden. Police Commissioner:
| i have the honor to request you to send out
Immediately general alarm. notifying:.
"First-All factories that the use Of water at
the city's mains. either for boiler use or other
| purposes. must be discontinued until further
notice from the Commissioner OF Public Works.
Second-Notify all householders that tho
use OF water must be confined to strictly do
mestic uses and with rigid economy. Il must
| not be used for washing purposes tomorrow.
| 1t Ia expected by the chief engineer that
| the break will bc repaired and pumping re-
sumed tonight but the margin is 30 slight that
strict enforcement OF tho above order 10 40.
solutely essential to safety Respectfully.
JOHN r. ADAMS.
Commissioner Of City Works."
ThHorder was reissued last night through
the Police Department. and every police pro-
| cinct received copy. Policemen were then
Orlarpd RI notify hoiaahoidnrc nj
facturers Of the substance OF the order.
Chief OF Police Campbell also notified the
! United States authorities on Governors ISL
and. which receives its water through main
crossing Buttermilk Channel. OF the break in
| the conduit. and requested that the residents
of the island use the water as sparingly as pos-
siblc.
Ninety million gallons of water we're stored
in tho Ridgewood reservoir at 1870 o'clock
Saturday afternoon when the old brick con.
duit was crushed by the falling bank within a
thousand feet of tho pumping station.
Through this conduit came allof Brooklyn's
water supply. with tho exception Of three and
a half million gallons day that was obtained
from driven wells near the pumping station.
When the accident occurred it was estimated
that there was stored in tho Ridgewood
reservoir enough water to Inst Brooklyn
for thirty-six hours and it was hoped
that the break would be uncovered by
| noon yesterday. SO that n temporary sluice-
way Of wood could DO built at that point. At
noon yesterday. however. the water supply in
the reservoir had been decreased to ty-Hve
million gallons. and the gang of 200 men who
were not within fifteen feet Of Il. Brooklyn
consumes flfty-ave million gallons Of water
SommissioneT Of City, Works Adams. reached
down the Biz
that had already been eXcavated. and he talked
Il sas I s
duit vas As rsPairsth before noon Brs9Eyn
trench the lad t fo
the auxiliary mains that they are Lying and
would be required to uncover the Broken ron.
yesterday that they had underestimated tbs
work Mr.; ADAMS re- said. after his examination;
the reservoir was exhausted toby. The stu
alton was go serious that after consulting with
iSn Water Works he decided to issas tRRe order
m5S sgsa nss %ass uD sy
prmpnE sa0n aa nS rom this
day. The Long Island Water supply Com
connected with the brooklyn water Works.
sixth ward and they are able to let BrooIlyn
have only their surplus, This sprpln ,. and tbs
Brookiyn 5.Soo30o salons day ' s'
conduit was crushed in for about Atty feet.
and was filed with sand. Its brick walls were
so Srsst ssnsn4 Of % feet H Ss
falling bank under about forty feet of earth.
j has been a dangerous place since sehs .scci-
cxcavat ion are steep. and there is danger OF
tho banks again cavinE.
been reached. and there was no way Of deter
mining how badly It was Injured except by en-
gin 1 Brigham. with two Italians. made the
first attempt to. enter the conduit at the city
gate about hall mile above the scene cen Of the
in tho conduit above the break. A. shallow
boat was lowered ~ and as the Italas9,s; It:
%a hs tine ad and Vent rs m
d" the sT anRoS aS 10 S"ss iset s
low the break
s f tns hs IF thG hD sensn;
was unsafe and he would not s order any IF his
n to a go int sfs m M w %@n ws aa
sailors. and Thomas Trnvcrs. volunteered to
make an exploration q TIE cGT1dnit m to
s"nsr Tsst as"" S Sit.T W. 5aii y Rea.;
ihc men drew on their long rubber
boots and won't down ladder. in the maphols
to tho conduit. twenty-five feet below. Byrns
and Sinnot tied rene around their waists and
to the place where til. arch had been criislisii
and found the conduit choked with sand anil
' a@S f"a"fS Tfs l That niss srfs1fs
arch had been DESTROYED. and that the side
walls had becn wrecked.
ing has progressed il Is probable that at the
earliest the conduit will not he uncovered so
that 1t can be repaired until about noon TO.
day. Then a heavy plank sluico way will be
constructed. Above thu. city gate the conduit
has been damned and 1t Is full OF water, 50
that no time will be wasted in reinforcing the
reservoir IA soon n the wooden sluce way
has beCn constructed.
In the afternoon the big thirty.six inch
water main that supplies the central district
Of Brooklyn was STINT down. This reduced
the pressure 81, pounds in all the other mains
and cross piprs in tn" citr. Brooklyn has had