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The Water Supply

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  • Title: The Water Supply
  • Date: 9 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00682
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 9 November 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: Francesca Boston Elva Moreno Del Rio Samantha Gilmore Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "The Water Supply." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00682.xml (TEI)
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THE WATER SUPPLY.—

Our Eastern District citizens, though not so largely of Dutch extraction as those of the Western District, appear to be more largely gifted with the proverbial slowness of the Hollanders. It has been widely announced that the water supply is on the very eve of introduction, and yet not a single application has hitherto been made from this district for the introduction of the water into houses. In the other district there have been already 86 applications received. The mains are now being laid in First street, which completes the junction between the reservoir and the Eastern District. Who wants the water? Come forward, gentlemen, with some applications.

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