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The Excursion to the Water Works

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  • Title: The Excursion to the Water Works
  • Date: 29 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00651
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 29 April 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.
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  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "The Excursion to the Water Works." 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 EXCURSION TO THE WATER WORKS.—

The party that left the City Hall this morning for the Water Works was even larger than was anticipated. Almost every city official who could spend the time departed to share in the "exercises" of the occasion, and the municipal Palladium1 this morning looked like some banquet hall deserted. The Courts were all adjourned—the politicians were non est2 and there was a plentiful lack of news and gossip. Well, the party have a pleasant day for the jaunt and will doubtless have a good time.

Notes:

1. Municipal palladium refers to a common meeting place, a great hall or office. [back]

2. Non est, meaning absent. [back]

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