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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The bill thus sent, did not become a law, owing to the unwillingness of the Legislature to authorise the raising of such a sum of money, until it should be satisfactorily ascertained that the object in view, both as to…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
It appears from his report annexed, that the quantity of saline
matter,
probably the salts of lime and magnesia, does not exceed two and eight-tenths grains in the
gallon a quantity, he observes, so small, that a considerable quantity…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Under this arrangement of the work, the whole amount required by this department to bring the water to Murray's Hill, will not differ materially from $650,000, which
includes the settling up the demands for work already done on…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Not expecting to be much longer engaged in the general charge of the work, I have felt it to be a duty that I owed, not
more to my own reputation, than to the interest of the city in this…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…On April 16 , 1902 , the Aqueduct Commissioners resolved to remove the em- bankment and core wall and to continue the main stone dam to the gatehouse . The estimated cost to complete the embankment and core wall under the original plan…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…On April 16 , 1902 , the Aqueduct Commissioners resolved to remove the em- bankment and core wall and to continue the main stone dam to the gatehouse . The estimated cost to complete the embankment and core wall under the original plan…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…On April 16 , 1902 , the Aqueduct Commissioners resolved to remove the em- bankment and core wall and to continue the main stone dam to the gatehouse . The estimated cost to complete the embankment and core wall under the original plan…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…On April 16 , 1902 , the Aqueduct Commissioners resolved to remove the em- bankment and core wall and to continue the main stone dam to the gatehouse . The estimated cost to complete the embankment and core wall under the original plan…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…On April 16 , 1902 , the Aqueduct Commissioners resolved to remove the em- bankment and core wall and to continue the main stone dam to the gatehouse . The estimated cost to complete the embankment and core wall under the original plan…
Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
…for Acqueduct read Aqueduct.
482, note, 5 and 6, read as follows, " 7« 1800, Trinity Church contributed
$500 /or parsonage at Yonkers,'''' to which was added in 1804
the sum of $309.
483, 23, for Hurlbut read Hurlbert.
APPENDIX.
for…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The fountain was in the centre of this magnificent
court. Twelve lions support on their backs an alabaster basin, richly decorated, elevated
above which was a smaller basin. A great volume of water rose through pipes into the
upper basin…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
An act of Parliament, in
1544, invested the mayor and commonalty of the city of London, with ample power " to
enter into the grounds and possessions of the king, as well as every other person and
persons, bodies politic and…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The residue of this paper, which is
signed Alexander Hamilton, relates to the
health laws, &c. After the communication was read, the Board came to the following determination :
Whereas, By the Report of a Joint Committee from this Board, from…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
104 MEMOIR OF THE
Common Council, in March 1826, was directed to inquire whether " water of the best
quality, and in quantity sufficient to supply the wants of the city, cannot be obtained
from wells sunk, or to be sunk…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
In order that your honorable body might see that their
funds were properly disbursed, the Commissioners have uniformly, as has been before observed, reported to the Comptroller a detailed account of their receipts and expenditures
at the end of every…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
But the Common Council did not approve of the substitution of inverted syphons for a high bridge, to pass the water over the Harlem, and accordingly the Board of Assistants adopted this resolution :
RESOLVED, That it is inexpedient to adopt…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…Moses Ward had a stone house that was
also a fort, about where the intersection of Main
Street and the Croton aqueduct occurs. There were
even in his day numerous Indians in the neighbourhood, but they seem to have been…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…18 , 1902 , on the writer's recom- mendation the Aqueduct Commissioners approved a plan providing for the reinforcement of these walls . The preliminary estimate of the cost to construct the dam under the original plan was $ 4,150,573 . This…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…18 , 1902 , on the writer's recom- mendation the Aqueduct Commissioners approved a plan providing for the reinforcement of these walls . The preliminary estimate of the cost to construct the dam under the original plan was $ 4,150,573 . This…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…18 , 1902 , on the writer's recom- mendation the Aqueduct Commissioners approved a plan providing for the reinforcement of these walls . The preliminary estimate of the cost to construct the dam under the original plan was $ 4,150,573 . This…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…18 , 1902 , on the writer's recom- mendation the Aqueduct Commissioners approved a plan providing for the reinforcement of these walls . The preliminary estimate of the cost to construct the dam under the original plan was $ 4,150,573 . This…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…18 , 1902 , on the writer's recom- mendation the Aqueduct Commissioners approved a plan providing for the reinforcement of these walls . The preliminary estimate of the cost to construct the dam under the original plan was $ 4,150,573 . This…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…near Scarsdale
Station, but now fully one-half of the volume of water
has been diverted to the new aqueduct or pipe-line
which skirts the town on the Greenburgh bank of the
river, contributing to the water supply of…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…On the 3d of May,
1839, the Legislature passed an act directing the
water commissioners to construct an aqueduct across
the river, with arches and piers. The arches in the
channel were to be eighty feet span, and one hundred…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
puddled earth are made to receive the contributions of each bucket. The average lift
of the Swape is seven feet, and by a series of these, one above the other, the water
is finally delivered on the summit of the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The line of the river is very nearly thirty-four miles. More than one hundred
and sixty bridges cross it- some of brick, some of iron, and some of wood. There are
about sixty culverts that pass beneath its bed…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Within it, is
laid the canal, about eighteen inches wide, twenty-four deep, and three miles long. It
commences at the bottom of the lofty conical peak of the Corcovado, where the waters
flowing from that mountain, are collected into…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
I am sensible that we should not too hastily
conclude that the above is the total amount of the supply that may be derived from this
source ;
I think it very probable, that from the nature of the surrounding ground…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Chilton, Ackerly and Griscom, which showed it to be of remarkable purity, not
containing more than two grains of foreign matter in a gallon. With these various plans before them, the Common Council received a report from
their Committees of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
said election shall provide a ballot box, with suitable lock and key, and the electors shall
express their assent or refusal to allow the Common Council to proceed in raising the
money necessary to construct the works as aforesaid, by…