…We leave with them our efficient and highly esteemed chief engineer, John B. Jervis, Esquire, for whose services in the successful prosecution of the work, the public are greatly indebted. The industry and ability with which he has conducted this…

…Jervis, the second chief engineer of the Croton Aqueduct would have the actual responsibility of designing and supervising the construction of the bridge across the Harlem River. As directed by an act of the State Legislature, whose goal was to…

…Jervis, the engineer of the Croton Aqueduct, being employed as chief engineer. Work was begun toward the middle of 1847, the entire line being placed under contract by sections, and the work was prosecuted so diligently that by the 29th…

…Douglass was employed as Chief Engineer; he proceeded in the location of the line for the Aqueduct and in preparing plans, until October, 1836, when he was succeeded by John B. Jervis, who continued at the head of that department…

…the chief engineer, underscored this concep- tual link. Prior to becoming chief engineer on the Croton project Jervis served his apprenticeship on the Erie, the Delaware and Hudson and the Chenango canals. 6. Weidner, p.26. 7. Blake, p.l32…

…JERVIS, Chief Engineer, N. Y. W. W. 172 MEMOIR OF THE The Commissioners, for all sufficient reasons, preferred the high bridge to the tunnel, and without having in any degree changed their own views, as to the superiority of the…

…Early in this year, 1843, another change of political parties in the government of the State having occurred, the former Commissioners were reinstated, and now have charge of the work without any change occurring in the engineer department, other than…

This may be explained, without impeaching the sagacity or accuracy of those engineer, by the facts, that they had no actual experience derived from the price at which contracts would be taken that the difference in the cost of land…

…This figure was within five per cent, of the estimates of Chief Engineer Jervis. To it, however, must be added $1,800,000, the cost of distributing pipes, the interest, the expense of placing the loans, etc., which bring the…

…Engineer of the Old Croton. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1971. Jervis, John B. Description of the Croton Aqueduct from the Dam to the Distributing Reservoir. New York, 1842. Jervis, John B. "Memoir Presented October 18, 1876." Transactions of the American…

…the above remarks in relation to its future management." CROTON AQ.UEDUCT. 201 No one will fail to be struck with the tone of natural solicitude evinced by the chief engineer in the close of this extract, for the due…

…results ; the water was stopped off be- MEMOIR OF THE tween the Croton and the receiving reservoirs, and a minute personal inspection was made by the chief engineer and his assistants, who passed through the whole conduit, and only, upon…

…of commis ioners to take by appraisement whatever was needed." Major Douglass was superseded as chief engineer in 1836 by Mr. J. B. Jervis, under whose direction the whole work was carried to completion. On the 26th of April, 1837…

…the knowledge of the chief engineer, Mr. Jervis, and on his professional skill and fidelity, that * Duten's Histoire de la Paris 1829. navigation interieure de la France, p. 566, 7, vol. i. CROTON AdUEDUCT. the very first estimate he…

…This figure was within five per cent, of the estimates of Chief Engineer Jervis. To it, however, must be added $1,800,000, the cost of distributing pipes, the interest, the expense of placing the loans, etc., which bring the…

…as a skilled engineer in the construction of canals and railroads. Jervis would go on to oversee the construction of the first phase of the Waterworks—which has come to be known as the Old Croton Aqueduct—so it is…

…PRELIMINARY PLANS FOR THE OLD CROTON AQUEDUCT AND THE Structure of its Engineering Department figure 10, above: Portrait of Major David Bates Douglass, contemporary print from glass plate negative Courtesy The Archives. Warren Hunting Smith Library, Hobart and William Smith…

…See selected bibliography on tlie construction of the Croton Aqueduct, p.57 of this book. 3. John Robison, A System of Mechanical Philosophy (Edinburgh, 1804). 4. John B. Jervis, "Memoir presented October 18, 1876,' Transactions of the American Society of…

…Jervis, Esquire, who, as Chief Engineer, gave Plans and Specifi- cations for the work during its construction. A description from such source, accompanied with detail- ed plans of all the appurtenances of the Aqueduct, with the results of experiments on…

…Jervis who served as the Chief Engineer of the Croton Aqueduct and Supervisor for the Hudson River Railroad. The Aqueduct transformed northern Westchester, shifting popu- lation from the north of the County to the south in the 1840s^^ (fig- ure…

…from the Croton Dam to Sing Sing, compelling those who were willing to work to join them, until they amounted to a crowd of several hundred. By April 10, Engineer Assistant Horatio Allen wrote a letter to Jervis from Sing…

…For instance, in June 1837, Jervis* monthly report to the Water Commis- sion recounted widespread complaints from landowners near Dobbs Ferry, requiring they "suspend [work] for the present."" Similarly, Jervis' brother William (a resident assistant engineer) wrote to him from…

…Jervis appointed Chief Engineer of Croton Aqueduct project Photography invented Old Croton Aqueduct completed (includes structures such as Old Ossining Weir, Archville Bridge, Murray Hill Reservoir, Yonkers Weir, West Burnside Avenue Bridge, Sing Sing Kill Bridge, Ventilators, Clendening Valley Crossing…

…Chief Engineer Jervis arrived within a few hours, evaluated the damage, and reported to the Water Commissioners. Jen/is tersely conclud- ed, "It appears three lives were lost one at the dam and two at Bailey's wire factory."^'' While…

…Jervis appointed Chief Engineer of Croton Aqueduct project Photography invented Old Croton Aqueduct completed (includes structures such as Old Ossining Weir, Archville Bridge, Murray Hill Reservoir, Yonkers Weir, West Burnside Avenue Bridge, Sing Sing Kill Bridge, Ventilators, Clendening Valley Crossing…

…the Croton. The Common Council agreed with the basic outline of the plan and submitted it to a public referendum where it easily carried. On May 7, 1835, the Council authorized a loan and appointed a chief engineer. Major Douglass…

…Untitled Survey of Farmland, c.1835, ink on paper Courtesy Jervis Public Library, drawing #291. Photo: G. R. Farley Bailey, situated on the hanks of the Croton which it instantly carried away, together with their dwelling houses and tenant houses…

…go...They were interested in things like the stone sides of the aqueduct, the fact that John Jervis, who was the chief engineer, and his predominantly Irish workmen put stones along the outside of the aqueduct...The aqueduct was built…

…Douglass was employed as Chief Engineer; he proceeded in the location of the line for the Aqueduct and in preparing plans, until October, 1836, when he was succeeded by John B. Jervis, who continued at the head of that department…