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The Sewerage of the Eastern District

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  • Title: The Sewerage of the Eastern District
  • Date: 18 January 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00647
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 18 January 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Thara Michaelis Jeff Hill Kaylen Michaelis Brandi Faulkner Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "The Sewerage of the Eastern District." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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THE SEWERAGE OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT.

The Commissioners of Sewerage are now in session on the plans for the drainage of the Eastern District. So far as we can learn, the bulk of the inhabitants are satisfied with the project in the main, though considerable opposition is likely to be made to the emptying of the main brick sewer at the foot of Ann street, whence the sewage would be washed by the tide into Wallabout Bay instead of down the river.

We learn that the Commissioners, and even the Engineer himself, have become sensible of the impropriety of terminating the sewer at Ann street, and the plans will probalby be altered accordingly, and the main outlet be brought nearer to Peck Slip, whence the sewage would be washed away promptly by the tide. With this exception, we presume the Commissioners will endorse the plans submitted, and proceed to carry them out as soon as they deem advisable.

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