A Party to View the Water Works

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Title: A Party to View the Water Works
Date: 13 May 1858
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: per.00658
Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 13 May 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. "A Party to View 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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A PARTY TO VIEW THE WATER WORKS.—

This morning a number of gentlemen, some of them Brooklyn officials, some large tax-payers, and others interested, started from the City Hall on a jaunt over the line of the Brooklyn Water Works, We believe it is a private affair. At any rate "the press" was not notified.