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contract—thus giving Cornell & Co. control over their third of Barren Island, free from obligations to the city

That the Water Works of the city, if they operate at all, as there is no doubt they will, will confer

a benefit on the city far exceeding their pecuniary cost, both by raising the value of property and

twelve millions of dollars worth of benefit from them, that we are to pay more for them than they were

the wealthy, the wise, the good, of the city par excellence .

The city has therefore a right to expect from such men, so appointed, an administration of pre-eminent

Oysters in Old Rome OYSTERS IN OLD ROME— The Roman ladies were so enamored with oysters, that they were

question of the constitutional right of the people to govern themselves—of the inhabitants of this city

now at Albany, understood to be designed to place the control of the water works and sewers of the city

the allegations of unconstitutionality and tyrranical interference with the people's rights which were

The water works were to cost $4,200,000 Including the half million for the closed conduit, they will

probably cost the city a million and a quarter more than that sum by the time they are finished.

Spinola—authorizing the city to borrow $29000. By Mr.

Ostrander, Epenetus Webster," and their associates To run over the Brooklyn City railroad track, from

In the city of Brooklyn; thence along First street to Division avenue; thence upon the track of the Broadway

intersection with South Sixth street, to and cross Union avenue to and through Montrose avenue to the city

Why the water of the city of Brooklyn should be "distributed" in the county of Queens, is more than we

except the single one of the sufficiency and adaptability of the works to the purpose of giving the city

They are satisfied, from the very much larger sums paid by other cities for similar works, that the price

that his interests have been well cared for—that the changes of construction which have been made were

command of the best materials, and the most critically overlooked workmen—no work more worthy a proud, populous

, ambitious and opulent city, full of the spirit and the means to do as much as any city upon earth has

do we think there has ever been anything superior in ancient times; the Roman Aqueducts and Cloacæ were

home to our immediate presence, we have such a work, in its sort the peer of the best of any other city

We have drank in all part of North American, at Niagara, at the Straits of Machinaw, the Missouri, the

of Brooklyn who have investigated the matter in an impartial spirit, are quite unanimous that the city

cry raised for election purposes about "taking control out of the hands of the people," "putting the city

Notice was circulated in this city on Saturday evening that the Water and Sewerage bills would be discussed

before the Committee on Cities and Villages on Monday evening, and Mr.

without his knowledge and consent and that the meeting could not be held, as most of the Committee were

In the cars, the Water Works and all appertaining thereto were so loudly and volubly discussed, that

The Grand street railroad bills were before a Committee of the Assembly this afternoon.

life affords a profitable lesson of the course, influences, and tendencies of the vortex of New York city

are justly open, of being designed to establish an irresponsible and all-powerful triumvirate in the city

, authorised by the Legislature to spend the city's money ad libitum , without as much as saying "by

These, with a provision guarding the city's interests more stringently in the matter of the proposed

We were the first probably to christen the water Ridgewood, but we are not so obstinate as to persist

.— We yesterday were shown the impression of a medal to commemorate the introduction of water in Brooklyn

If girls were taught the general principles of medical science, they would not only be free from the

Our printing office will be here, but we wish a publication office near the City Hall, and an editor

Doggett's New York City Directory, for 1850–1851 lists William H.

.— The "donkey engine" which figured in the preliminary introduction of the Ridgewood Water to the city

About a million and a half gallons of water are already daily used in the city and the present depth

CELEBRATION The celebration which is proposed for the 27th, in honor of the introduction of water into the city

, promises to be the most imposing demonstration ever witnessed in the city of Brooklyn.

Scarcely a manufacturing establishment in the city is there but what has indicated to the committee an

strikes us as somewhat strange that none of the many Temperance Societies and organizations in our city

At the meeting of the Committee this morning, applications for places in the procession were received

If this be so the city has been swindled by the commissioners, Engineers and Contractors to a fearful

They were informed that six or seven hundred feet of the loose stone fence, which constitutes the only

Now, however, when we are told that the vast expenditures of the city on this Reservoir have been thrown

They seem to have come round to Alderman Backhouses opinion that the city has had enough of Welles &

The cars were absolutely crowded down, either one way or the other, during the whole day, and the facilities

of the line were not sufficient to accommodate one half the travel.

In one corner of the empty reservoir a half-dozen vagabond boys were engaged in an energetic game of

intense desire among those who visited this building to have a look at the pumping engine, but they were

the wells are completely covered in by a large wooden shed sort of arrangement, the doors of which were

nor related to the Oration—but rather the Star , and that "Ode" which was first palmed by it on the city

A number of the idle boys were playing around the basin and climbing up the marble jet, and it was generally

The fountain in the City Hall Park was tried on Saturday, and a jet of water thrown to the height of

for all citizens who can do so, to entertain some of the distinguished visitors who will crowd the city

The "boys" were busily engaged yesterday (they must be excused, this time, if it was Sunday) in polishing

Morris, 144 Fulton street, this city.

History of the Introduction of Water into the City HISTORY OF THE INTRODUCTION OF WATER INTO THE CITY

As early as 1835, public meetings were held on the subject of a water supply.

relied upon as sources of supply for the city.

were to be laid, and eight hundred hydrants provided for the then wants of the city.

On the 27th of March the report of the committe were adopted.

yet complete and full history of the preliminary movements for the introduction of water into the city

, which we published yesterday, was compiled from the City Clerk's manual for 1858-9—a work which contains

Bishop, whom every well wisher of the city, irrespective of party, desires long to see occupying that

position in the city government which he so competently and creditably fills.

to any of the rest, and which at first, before we learned the circumstances of its authorship, we were

The following were among the guests who went out: HARTFORD, CONN.

There were also some fifty prominent officials of this city.

Speeches were made after dinner in reply to various toasts in honor of the guests, proposed by the city

Wickware, of Jersey City &c.

This Company were the guests of Engine Company No. 9.

It is an event to which the people of this city have looked with absorbing anxiety, and which the residents

of other cities have regarded with friendly interest.

labored to create the works, to the aldermen who have striven to make the celebration worthy of the city

For all these are citizens of Brooklyn; it is their own city which has been beautified and glorified,

To the delegations from other cities, and the visitors from abroad, we may indeed be grateful.

are many families and much furniture coming this way and there is very little of an exodus from the city

So far as we can learn, there never was a former year when anything like so many houses were engaged

connection to state, that ere the sun goes down to-night there will literally be thousands added to the population

Each newly formed Board of Aldermen of the city of Brooklyn is in the habit of introducing itself to

Last night the old scenes were reenacted, with accessories There was the foul insinuation covertly launched

This is the general practice in great cities. —[Exchange.

anxiety greater than that which he would bestow on his own property, the progress of works which the city

through a mile of his own property—once an old hilly farm, but soon to possess incalculable value as city

For the days are passed when high social standing advances a man politically, in our large cities.

Secretary, we find the following: The last case I shall mention is that of a gentleman with whom you were

, has again and again been disgraced by being placed on the list of arrested "bummers" sent to the City

Were such cases rare—had the gifted Freeman Hunt been almost the only man to whom the existence of an

Ex-Mayor Lambert of this city is one of the Trustees, and by him, or Mr.

I am rather gratified to find that my first sketches were generally recognized, and their fidelity admitted

He is not deficient in public spirit, but until laterally has hardly shown that interest in city matters

Some of our hard, matter-of-fact people, who never talk or think of anything but dollars and city lots

enterprise which, if carried out, will confer untold benefits on the north eastern portion of the city

Many men who are now well to do in business, were started by him; his was the capital—though he is not

the presence of which is most to be feared, and the use of lead pipe may prove more hurtful than in cities

their action, complete inflation taking place only on the other side, affords a sufficient reason, were

former portraits have not been high colored and flattering enough to suit the people for whom they were

He is best known to the public from his services in the Common Council, where high expectations were

His impulsiveness—rashness I had almost said—has often offended, for the time being, those who were the

I hope at no distant day to see him again in our city councils, or in some more extended sphere of public

And there is no more hard-working man in the city than my subject, who labors unceasingly for the good

aught I know, what Fernando Wood was in New York about the same time, vis, the best abused man in the city

Dunstan and other holy men painted him, and I must confess, for my part, that I know in this city very

Henry Ward Beecher is tremendously popular in the city of ours.

in general questions, but attending strictly to the concerns of his own particular portion of the city

one of the leading men in the city councils.

does for the public gratuitously more work than almost any man who receives a large salary from the city

Though not a native American, he possesses in a high degree the best qualities which are “to the manor

A short, stout, dark-haired man, who formerly sat in the City Councils with the two above mentioned.

He dissents from his dominie in theology, from his political party in their local policy, from the city

with a purse as light as when he went in, but at the same time rich in the universal sentiment of the city

progenitor and namesake falling upon him, have played no small part in the affairs of the village and the city

As it is, the consolidation of the two cities, and the erection of a seperate separate ward out of the

21 I turn now to another part of the district, and select for portraiture a man of whom, though I were

And indeed he is popular all over the city, or else he never would have been elected as he was, when

all his associates on the ticket were so utterly overthrown.

He was the most faithful and industrious legal officer that the city has had—he filled the office of

any number of other renewals of the same trust from the same constituency—for I can assure him they were

kinsmen, my subject is engaged just now in developing the resources and augmenting the prosperity and population

If the object of the New York authorities were to increase prostitution and depravity, they could not

The police of that city neither vigorously put down all such places, nor tolerate them, under inspection

favor of their Borioboola Gha Missions elsewhere; but to call the attention of the police of this city

" of their brethren in New York are having the effect of driving the frail sisterhood over to this city

becomes a mere tributary of the mighty flood which pours from all parts of the Western District past the City

Respecting Mineral Substances mentioned by the Ancients; with occasional Remarks on the Uses to which they were

They were acquainted, however, with a large number of minerals, their uses and properties, and the two

Statues were painted by the ancients with minium, and hence were called miniatures .

Of combustibles, sulphur, bitumen, naptha, amber, gagates or jet, were all well known.

There were also bony stones or fossils of various kinds.

accommodation for the people; and if his efforts had been properly seconded by the representatives of the city

Into the demonstration made at this end of the city on the occasion of the water celebration he entered

eventually remunerative as well as successful, to cheapen and improve the means of access to this city

If I were writing sketches of all the good men, I should have to include at least some clergyman; but

Among the various questions to be decided by the Commissioners for locating parks in this city, we regard

If parks are to be "breathing places" or "lungs" for the city, let them be large enough for a good-sized

With a wide expanse of water on three sides of the city, and an illimitable expanse of open country in

Also, an inspection of it shows that no other spot of anything like the size could be found in the city

Add to this the cheapness of the land, and the accessibility of the place from all parts of the city,

Attendants were present to preserve order and minister to their wants.

were under restraint of limb.

Of the rest some were amusing themselves like children, others were lost in apparently profound meditation

, and some were afflicted by a cacoethes loquendi ; but none were dangerous and hardly any were even

Hardly any of the patients were colored people.

.— The New York Times pretends that there is yellow fever in this city, because the Captain of the Brig

in the summer, as if there was no danger to public health from any cause but epidemics—as if there were

regular and constant sanitary reforms and obligations to be introduced and enforced throughout the city

There are practices carried on, which are destructive to the salubrity of the city—there is a general

below those of almost every city of similar size on earth.

What then does Brooklyn need, in order to guarantee, that in her limits, density of population shall

of popular institutions while refusing sympathy to popular excesses, to embody the opinion of the American

school boys yet unborn, as it is by thousands now living, his reputation at the first of living American

He tells us that the defects of Murray were strongly impressed upon his attention while he taught grammar