New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-15
LOyDON'S WATER SCPPLY ~ 1885,
Slows SATISFACTION IN HIS DESCRIPTION Or
BROOKS AND WELLS.
rron The Evening Standard.

London Of 5es-the cosey. little waeG3in city, Az
with its gates and posterns ana ,s ~ sup et each OF
the principal entrances, as though Iear i oe The
turing far from the protev' mac 20 the vast
mstronolis of to-day In those days the C oehI",f
was truly and literally born WITHIN n tn centre OF
Row BELLS which rang out from me cVnI'T e. o,r
city whose boundaries were but three IhIe Son the
cnmference That portion Of Greater LONDON t,1e
hitiar cry or whose thirsty and unwashed popua-
ton is ringing in our ears had tl ht .astvey nb-
istence In the latter edition OF MS autE ~ -
iisbS An The early years Of the seventeenth cen
fury, Stow complains that "lthoHt ~ no road
be pestered with cottages and alleys eNtn W ,ie
Wnitechapel Church. and for nearly nan d a h,
s@metme i the beauty that Of the eyd 9s
ing encroached upon by tne Duo or Wholesome
for people to walk on foOt s,,hoe,0 and Radcliffe
(RatcliD he laments that here naIn pesa ie co and
in place Of elm trees. small tenements lalse d h
easward also si wheTf 4 possbe however that
the year 1879 these Innovations were not lar az
scientiy salubrious between Aldgate and the Mics
End In the reign Of William me oo dn4u and the
Queen of the Adriac in the possession OF VIA
highways. In addition TO the Thames she 81
Well, Which iowsd between the Thames an9 HI
Ind no less than four brooks. viz. the rect lne
lang or Longbourne, the Hillbourne and the lAttie
, mrr the CITY wall there being no ditch IN
those early days, In Slows tine however mere ere
stream called the rurnmll Brook, or aScouaI i ~
the mills which had been built OUTSIDE "a 5,e S
Wells to become 'choked ana cioye1 a. 10 ue
generate in time TO the status OF humVie ptooN u
The Little Wall Brook had ceased to flow openly
through the streets, having Deen paNtu over GU
made TO flow underground, as the Fieei does II. Ui
day. thus relieving tie good pflor OF lioy in ~
pair the bridge the stream Whlch stOo9 neii
to the Church of All Hallows on the wall N , Broad
had vanished leaving their names only, put IN me
neghborhood of the OidDourne numerous Sp Sn
brought the water bard by every h9gIf IN fha
name familiar enough to modern Londoners-st Sun
yielded a supply of drinking water to the d"tisIs
in the northern suburb beyond Aldersgate, while
gate which formerly fed tne pool wherein; says
drowned herself in the year l2ii was much pat
ronlzed in spite Of its grewsome situation ,r.a,
ent's Inn, in Fleet-st was free to The pupils and
the inhabitants Of the eastern extremity OF !he sly
slaked their thirst at well OF when me iamlnlar
Adgate pump of 1888 may be said to be the iinsal
descendant But in 1898 London was no longer de-
For centuries past science had come TO her aid IN
pr1ng b ner snee he YEAR i water had BEEN
conveyed to the city OF London from the town OF
OF Ihs city and The good Of the whole realm to
W.T. for the poor TO drink and for ne Ech 10 dress
that the rich were not invited To drink the water
reflects UPop It's quality or n2 ya soT NOT 5vcna
In those days. and that consequently, me upper
casses wf , not r IN sne Of H1" o camping their
In i5Ss there was erected upon CornhiIl by Ger
named Mn bT PsF M2G G the Ses 70
of an artificial forcier and conveyed thence TO
churcR.st. then called Grass-st) Thamesst etc
This standard provided with several spouts:
the neighboring streets. Stow concludes his de-
scrpton of It's various operations with words
which are finding an echo (in modern English In
many mouths at the present moment But now no
such matter" he winds up sadly "but by whose
0i Near to This STANDARD at the spot whore cornh
Leadenhall-st., Gracechurchst and BiShopsgato-st.
intersect stood huge ciStcrn called me Iun, on
account Of It's shape This had formerly been iised
pcrsons-a kind Of medieval casual w2rd-but upon
It's being converted into reservoir the position OF
say a certain well of sweet water near BY which
surrounded By a stone coplng was planksd
guests of the city erected thereon the whole being
surmoupted by a plli9ry u seems to have been
erect conduits Of water for the public good ~ yar
o@1 b e o ST. Naho fo@ Xb a
a large conduit of lcal and stone. to which water
S as Of the pa rshoners Of St Nicholas and
of St Mary Magdaien. the whole having been erect
ed by one Bernard Randolph, Common Sergeant OF
the city of London at a cost of $500. =
At the north Of the city near to the New, Gate,
was conduit to which water was conveyed from
a number Of springs by means OF lead pipes over
three thousand yards In length. the public bene-
whose name has deseryedly been mmortalized on
Lambs Conduitst Conduits, az they were always
called were also TO be found in yarl9us parts ot
the city, ana IN the SuDurpn dln" anu
Fleet-st being suburbs In those days. The cstern
T., Eieetst by Shoe Lane was an imposing struct-
ture surmounted by images OF 81. CHRISTOPHER and
Of angels and possessing bells which played hymn
trnes al Intervals during the day and night Nor
were the prisoners In Newgate and Ludgate fails
forgotten for water was laid on 10 both these
nIaces at the end OF the fifteenth century.
The simple minded old ehronieler OF Queen Eliz.
abeth's London surveys with great eomplaeeney
the water supply OF his proper elite" as he would
have called II. but what would his astonishment
he could he he permitted to View the wonders OF the
water supply of London Of 1898 even In those arid
districts where the flaming legend. Water
Water" proclaims the fact that each householder
has been restricted to the consumption OF as much
water ms can flow through his tap In the space OF
four hours?
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