…Surely, we thought, with Croton water to extinguish a fire, and such a body of men to use it, New York will never suffer again from a conflagration. FIFTH DIVISION. Under the direction of Colonel Philbrick, assisted by Mr. James…

…Samuel Stevens, in behalf of the committee of fire and water, CROTON AQUEDUCT. HI that reviewed the whole ground, the various plans that had at different times been projected, and indicated that, which, in the judgment of the committee, was…

…of the Courts. Members of the Bar. Professors and Students of Columbia College, and the University. New York Lyceum. Society of Letters. CROTON AQUEDUCT. 273 Chamber of Commerce. Board of Trade. Historical, Philosophical, Philological and other Scientific Societies. Members of…

…Commissioners of the Croton Aqueduct Board, Water Commissioners, and ex- Water Commissioners, in barouches. Members of the Society of Cincinnati, in barouches. 272 CELEBRATION OF THE Mayors of New York, Brooklyn, Albany, Troy, Jersey City, Newark Elizabethtown, New Brunswick, Princeton…

…The experience of Philadelphia had indicated 27 gallons per head, as an adequate daily supply for the inhabitants, at which rate a popula- CROTON AQUEDUCT. tion of 244,000, much beyond that then contained in the city of New York…

…l CROTON AQUEDUCT. Carb. Lime and Magnes., 1 25 Extractive Matter and Loss, 75 Total, 7 No. 3. A pint yielded 4 50 grains composed of Mur. Soda, 1 Mur. Magnes., - 2 Carb. Lime, 1 Sulph. Lime and Extractive, - - 0…

…authorities and citizens of New York to undertake this noble and useful enterprize, which it was made the duty of their Commissioners to report upon, the effect of bad water upon the health of ' CROTON AQUEDUCT. 13B cities is illustrated…

…1799, repeated expressions of opinion, both by the people and by the Common Council, had declared, should of right, CROTON AQUEDUCT. 99 be exercised only by the public authorities of the city — that of procuring and distributing a supply of…

…estimate of the cost of constructing an aqueduct. This was carried. Next year, a new set of schemes seems to have been started, one was to bring the Housatonic river to New York in an open canal, as well for…

…past the Aqueduct Racetrack (hence the name) to the Ridgewood Reservoir atop the terminal moraine on the Brooklyn-Queens border. Little used after Brooklyn gained access to the Croton System following its incorporation into the City of New York in…

…Whritenour thinks that the of Mahwah (see in New Jersey). A tract located just north of the present-day spelling of Machackemeck sounds much like a Munsee New Jersey state line in present-day Rockland sold by Indians on word…

…Another entrepreneur gave the same name to his Katonah development just east of the place where the somewhat similar-sounding Croton Aqueduct enters the Bronx from Westchester. The name continues to grace the avenue that runs through the present-day…