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Lea diagrammes suivants iliuatrent la mithode. 2 3 1 5 6 MICROCOPY RESOIUTWN TEST CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) ^ ^jPPLjEDjVHGE_li jaf- 1653 EosI Main Street SVa ?°f^'";!,''; Ne» York 14609 USA •SSI (716) 482 -0300 -Phone SS (716) 288-5989 -Fax inc on THR OFFE SUP] BEFOI PUBLISHE PI mtltm m^itt Maxk, *i SFECmCATIOSS * ESMATES OF THR THREE SUCCESSFUL COMPETITOKS FOR PREMIUMS OFFERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL • , 7 FOR THE BEST MODR OF SDPPlTIIfG THE CITY WITH WATER; TOGETHER AVITH THE REPOET THEBEUPOir OF T. C. KEEPER, ESQUIRE, PUBLISHED. BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL, FOR THE W FORMATION OP THE INHABITANT. HAMILTON : PHmES AT ™k SPKOTAl'OH OFKICK. COURT H0U8S SQUAB*, 1856. PLAN No. 1. To Robert McElroy, Esq., Chairman of the Committee on Fire and Water, of the Council of the City of Hamilton, C. W. SiRp-The City Council have proposed for " Plans, Specifications, and Jistimates fbr supplying 40,000 inhabitants with water from Burlington Bay." I respectfully submit herewith Papers and Plans, embracing the arrangement for this purpose, which under the circumstances, I am mclined to propose for the supply mentioned. These papers consist of remarks on the system of Supply Pro- posed, Descriptive Specifications, and Estimates of Cost, and are accomppaied by a General Plan, showing location of Reservoirs, ^ngme House, Force Tube, and Distributing Mains and Pipes, I Jan of Engine House, Pumping Engine, Distributing Reservoir, and Pumping Reservoir Culvert. The terms of the proposal of the City Council limit the investi- gations on the source of supply to the use of the water of Burlington Bay, and its elevation by means of forcing machinery It is to be presumed that a supply through gravitation from inland sources, is, either from want of sufficient elevation, inadequacy of amount, objectionable qualties, or expensive access, placed by nature out of the question. Our attention is therefore to be limited to the waters of Ontario and the intervention of the Steam Engine, The fact that the source of supply is thus imperatively fixed, is by no means, in my opinion, to be regretted. The economy of gravita- tion supplies is a principle not fully established by practice. There are numerous instances on this Continent as well as th» other going to shew conclusively, that the adoption of this principle has involved large preliminary outlays, the interest of which is largely m excess of the annual cost of a supply by pumping, and the arrangements of the works themselves, much more inconvenient, with an inferior quality of water. In all large bodies of water there is a constant tendency to self- purification. The principle of subsidence operates on the mechan- ical impurities, and in connection with the chemical influences of the atmosphere, with which it is constantly brought in contact, the water of large rivers and lakes is, in many cases, much perferable to that of snrincra rxr Tirnob-a fny ^Un rv,n^: SH Now Kivor CV, /.omioi'i." ["liXfiO seino, I'uris l'>o(i Artesian AVcll, OroiiinV.'.'! 9.'8« «vrotoii River k, g.j «cliuylkill Rlvor ." slgo .. ", llurtKon River rtjjo -Mohawk River ',.'. y'^JJ • Jenesce liivor .ll.'A ■• ,'! l^uke Ontario, Roclie3ti'r!!l(xoo •• !,' Jll^ll°'f°" "'' '"""."'y '"^ '""'" ""«'« »iii> » view to it, s'fo^vs czJnc:^ °" "■■■ '-"^« *- -"- ^-v*: The City of Hamilton is located on liie briin/nv f<.,.,.o, i, Bch nd the city a second terrace rises al)rui-,tlv -n an .!„,!.• ; nearly 400 feet, where it meets the lev" o^the inl»n1 T °' The extension of the city southerly tlltnled ?! ^i- "I""'-''- devaUon On the we A siJeT s a so 1 ir^ ed t tltlT Marsh, which is separated from the Bay for son,,. Z.! L f Md and picturesqL promontory kSnasZi,^,'^^^^^^^ S'ZaK\Set;a:d'°ii^\,,rh:=et^'«#v^^ cepUen of a few villi h^ni,. on thfs'C o^n-'Sthr t^LS' .s so varied as^ .n^e this ratio s^LXtlZl^i^TCu .»c»x^;:enX^^^^^^^ lJ^n'!?:£^r"'TT.'!'^''^''^' ""'inthiycar 1849 maybe ac^n^iedS'by^fclarir.rt'.T"'"''''?" r.Ti^^,«?*''^.-^cosS.C;rS'hS":rr„4'tas ••"""' ^"" ^"'^' ''^^^ Precaunons are taken to prevent waste. The saiiKT ox tion supi the wate Thofc nf the la Koi Jul' The av« .18.58 wii As the greater, I and machi supply of! which is, I desired to oonsiderati saving in t crease in tl Another the Council the expens( Not feeli subject, I h; as I presum these plans may be det there are so are others r rather than with a propi prefer. REMA] The syste description Machinery, ^fi locating water may b( mid that used inalyses : ^ gallon. view to its could h.ivo Lake shore, wo narrow • from the race above 3 its level. Jevation of 3 country. Ws abrupt tie Dundas (ice by the 1 Heights, Bay, and th the e.\- 'n terrace, ly supply "•ge cities of doubt, acter and -^aste. In 'e gallons !ar 1849, rule, this however, of New sumption e supply t to nave ste. The sniii Dftf (' i>r.:i. 1 11. ' i'liiln(leli)Iiin. For the year 186(. ' T}tt u '^"'*''"' I8o:; !;: ., 5J.2 1851 •.".•t'? .. 50.0 1854 -fit .. W-? and iiia'chine ^a -a oof ,0 ^1 bn ?f' '''-'u "'"'^ "^ '^' ^^^^^^ supply of 2,00'd,000 Sills foT -r it^^ "'i \^'^-^'y which i.s, I believe abnnf I,.lf f '-'^^' ^li. present population o,' •lesired to be nadl Qn th s noL";'i; 7 '"7'''^'^ P''^^'-'''^" - consideration, that whatev" r you^ tV ^f .lif, {r^'"^" .^^ f^"'-^ aslVjsu,nerwSnilit..ti ho'"'T''^' ^'^ "^ '^■^P^"^'*"^^. thes^plans^^aybornllrt:.^^^^^^^^^^ .lay be desired, without affecting the". jl Diameter of Cylinder /.. kI ;„ i Diamoterof linger \ :::;::::::::::;:; ^^ Vert.0.1 pressure of K.,rc3 Tube, per b.i. inch. ... 70 46 lb« Fnction of Engine, hssu.uo,' .'i '"^J '';; ,,„. Average P«ton pro.sswro .! 20.H(5 Fbg Dirv. Water raised , •> iko .>-«<■* n Friction of Engine ..:.;;.:: ^•IJfvi'f '^^ '^''• of ForceTnbe .'.'.'.'.".**.". .7.' m.'sifl 2.768.623 ft. Ibd. iiortie Power HI V2 The several sizes of the general parts of tho Engine are deter- Kt '^ '^%t'^ '^'^' rS^™^*^' ""'^ *^« ^-* Fa tic of our Engineers. The style of Engine admits of some dissension although experience in my opinion, is very conclusive on this point.' The Engine of Thomas Savery, was invented in 1098 for pumnincr water and has done to tho present time; steam pumping En^uie^ have tTZ TT/ "''' "u^ '^^^' ""'^•"^•^ ■'' ""^-^'"^"™ of effective TJty beyond that of any other application of machinery. ^ The extensive and varied experience of a century and a half has shown practically and theoretically that the arrangement of a Pump- foL o'!-^'^' should be of the simrlest possible character, and that the form of Engine, which is single acting, working with a counterbal- ance commonly known as the Cornish Engine, with a slow motion, a long stroke, and a high ratio of expansion, is the best adapted to this purpose. Various other forms of Engines have been tried without equally favorable results. In the de^ment witlTw^ch 1 am connected we have the largest double-acting-beam Pumping Engine on the Continent, and I speak from personal observaUor! When 1 say, that it is by no means as valuable for this peculiar purpose as the style of the Engine shown in the accompany ng drawings-a style which has received the sanction of 150 yS ITZT i".f«««°«y preparing the plans of the pumping mal „]4 V'j"-"" .'V""7 'I'Wy ^-i •iu,uuu,-v;i;u gaiions, Uie ibrm of Engine adopted IS identical with that above mentioned, although I believe 1/ il LOCABON ,)[,■ DlSTnmUTIim BISKBVOIB. Bel" ™lf "iKS/r'*.?"™' P-'"" f-"- "-e location „f .his 1700 fcpt anrl Jino fV,« ^ *!: P ?^ -'i'Dgine, the distance be ng but for»popukUonJf 40"?0 '"■y""'" """ "'P'^'y ""^ranlages Burlington He,- Jits. "'"''°'"' "^ "I"™"™ "bove that adopted „„ honi3K?,elt dSi/ii'^nSt'hrr/ 'ff "^-^ ' ««^ The experience of W Wefpht %ef Y^rt T^"' London and other Jamc eiti,.« .],™. il j "''' Boston, olovation of .„pp,,2 ^Se e°th tStvTTSi'Y "° for protection from firo win.r«,f „ ".^-cessity ot a department convenient arrrgment if hvZL^ complicated, expensive, and in- beyond a oertain^Sum ^nvX^!. \".^'?'* ^ the distribution and ser^'ioo .? 7 additional risk of accident to expensive guards XreverLdT,/"? ^^P^' ^"'"^ ^^' ^ore Axrj.:i- i-- ^^^'^^ver used, without compensatine benflfif, ^^ha. .u^arguraent is forcible in the case of gravitation supply it recei I>y pun of repa seriousl therefor ral feati I The 8 at York street b Distribui inch pipe water. Tho a distributi peopled J Tii^ider lim Railroad 1 for and k cases, and In these inches in ( similar lin being entir pressure. this point, j than to pa^ in cost not 1 An error ii economy, is after the pi| I have als cost of Distj pipe. I am advising its ; personal obs <^ntinent an It is found velopo in use Pwta, and th plumbago j a tubercles, in •liminished au This is the in a Report o: which theyst •wve been pari i United Stntes, e vitality and ovide for in the •resent, and the if the increase Iter than two ocation of this jlieve to be at on the broad y towards the f distribution, ice being but iture time the ned suffioient a capacity of 2 days, at an bet above the 've the inter- hat of James I spire in the he southerly to elevation, ection of the •ises rapidly a Reservoir * Hie distance to its use in • advantages adopted on the highest all practical k, Boston, nt, that no department ve, and in- af elevation accident to : for more benefiL tion supply I it receives additional weight fi.n,„ tu by pumping, the dutr^fhe Zne' T''^''''^''' '^'' '" « «"PPly ' ^-- Of the wor. and in ^ the cause of Pipe Yard of ipe, furnishes tion of tuber- i capacity, is surface : — the al coating to years, have aulic Cement, id the United 1 Towns have i iron plates, being by an lent, and the eternal corro- 1 use as force in some cases ckness of the itrength ; the ne, by sleeve regular water point, under e trouble or cement lining hen properly lamination of sported and price at least . view of the professional comparative orthy of con- r adoption in Distribution [uded in the 11 ^eU^^^^^^ practice, lately becoming general of II' ^'?''^'- ^ ^^^^^ ^ the water used and to be pfid^for bv f Jf *«"«»«'°g the amount of meteor which registers tC weekly^r^oS"'^''' ^ »««««« of a to each. In Boston, New Ynrt PuT ^^^thly quantity of supply method has been ^dopfed t^a ,ar^^^ beneficial results. It is a fLure ho^eTer'Lr.-"". «^*^'^*' -"^ the present investigations, though woX of ° J- ''*'^ '"^^^^''^ ^'^ The following schedules embrl^e Z P J'"*'i'" '*"*^ ^"ention. systems of Distribution, in Si a, n.'^"''/ *"^ E**««ded giving the lengths and diameters of th? I ^^T^ ^"'^ estimated, the streets through which they "re laid, ""^''^^ ''''' <>f PiP««. and SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION. HEDUCKD DISTRICT. Gannon Vine ;::::;; Gore ." Merrick ][[ Rebecca ... Market King W/'iiam!.';;!" Napier Market St. West. King Street West..*! „ ,^ '' East.... Aiaiden Lane Tyburn.... Hunter Peel .'.'.*."."" Caroline Bowery and Bay!.'.';; Bond Park :•':••• Charlee.... McNab James .'.'.'.'.'.'" Ilughson ...'. John .' Oatherine Mary ' York, 8460' 18 »' 2.480 1.400 1.900 1 4ao 1. 100 1.100 1 3.T20 "2.646' ■■ 2-W I 4.120 8UUXART. 6 "' 1.3W 1.100 1.260 1.40O 300 1.40a 830 1.600 1.360 l.IOO 90O 460 2.T20 1.800 900 1.200 2.T20 2.620 2.580 2.870 TOO 6 inch Pipe, . . . 8 " " 34.610 feet 10 " " 4480 " 12 " " 4120 " 16 " " 2.040 " 6 " Stopcocks 3-460 " 8 " " 16 10 " '. s 12 " " 3 Hydrants ....*.'.'.'.' 1 . f 4 " Connections '*.'.*.* , a!^ , 1.060 feet. 12 SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION. EmcNDXU PISIBIOT. Name of Street. Diameter of Pipe. Brook 12" 10" 8» 6" 1.830 780 480 1.120 480 1.110 440 8T0 1.110 1.8S0 an 1.8.W 1.100 1.260 530 S.820 1.400 1.420 300 1.600 1.450 1.860 3.820 1.800 2.820 900 ■tuart Murray Btinaon Concession Barlow Colborne '* Sheaffe .... Und Mulberry Cannon 9.400 Vine " Gore Merrick ., Napier . .... Rebecca King William East Market Market Market, Weat.,.. • • • • ■ ■ ■ ■ King , 2.880 1.900 Main, West Main, East Maiden Lane Tyburn Hunter ""430 2.820 Peel .... Bold '. '**'**•' 480 ,1.070 1.070 750 1.700 2.800 8.580 1.800 1.670 1.300 4.750 Augusta Oatharlna JUrla Railway Caroline 1.000 Bowery and Bay Bond Park Obarlea MoNab James 6.240 3.800 Hughson 5.930 0.860 6.700 7M 1.000 670 670 m John Catherine '. Mary Walnnt t Cherry Nelson Cathoart Spring Wellington 860 York, 84B0 16" 2.040 a.040 8.0T0 12.880 74.250 SUHMARY. 6 inch Pipe t4.25# 8 " " 12.860 10 " " 8.0Y0 12 " " . 2.040 16 " " 3.460 « " Stopcocks, 10 8 " " 8 10 " " 3 liJ *• •• » 1 146 feet The Sj the sever 1. 2. S. 4. 5. 6. Hydrants 4 " Connections , . 2.190 feet. Grubl] Excav Emba Puddl Morta Masor As thei works of quantity, for the er which can The latl careful pit responsib] This point From structures saplings, I remeved i Chief Eng lands or p All necc other mate including permanent These ej for all fou tiie same, placed. T the work a damage to be used fo: earth bein Engineer, keep the w building, si Under tl backfilling material es 18 SPECIEIOATiONS. The Specifications descriptive of the manner of cousti-uction for the several structures are managed in the following order : 7. Pumping Reservoir Culvert. 8. Pumping Reservoir. 9. Engine House. 10. Engine, &c. 11. Distributing Reservoir. 12. Distribution. 1 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Grubbing and Cleanng. Excavation. Embankment. Puddling. Mortar. Masonry. As there are at present several methods in practice of contracting works of this kind, either by a specific sum for each material and quantity, or by letting an entire structure, or by making a contract for the entire work, I have not drawn up the form of contract which can be readily made to suit the plan adopted. The latter system of contracting is becoming general, and under caretul plans and specifications, with proper superintendence, and responsible Contractors, I consider it the most advanta^ous. Ibis point, however, must be left for your future determination. OBUBBIW* AND CLBARINd, From the ground required to be occupied by the several structures of this work, including embankments and walls, all trees saplings, bushes, roots, wood, and perishable materials shall be' removed and burnt up or otherwise disposed of, as directed by the Chief Engineer, care being taken that no damage is incurred to the lands or property adjoining those taken for the work. '■... .'.;.:'-,:/;::"', '•'W KXCAVATION. ., ',. ' All necessary excavation and removal of earth, sand, stones and Other materials, shall be made for the construction of the works including all excavations under water, and for all temporarv and permanent structures. These excavations shall be niade to the proper depth and form for all foundations, the earth being properly cut and rammed for 1 ^T^^'mu"^^^ necessary shoring and plank shall be provided and placed. The excavations shall progress with the several parts of the work as required, and be so made as to avoid all unnecessary damage to property along the line. The material excavated shall be used for embankment and backfilling as required, the surplus earth being deposited agreeably to the directions of the Chief Jingmeer. Under this head all pumping, bailing, and draining, to keep the work free from water, while the mechanical structures are building, shall be performed in the most efficacious manner. Under this HaatI will a.]an V' iwiu/^f.^ nil — v^-' * j backfiUing made within 500 feet of the excavations, from the material excavated. i \: »-:if^ ilk ji^i 14 KMBANKMKNTS. «h,lfbe taken to i'ttet, % tS^.'lt^eS'Y'^""'"' ""« the centre of the bank, of the fu^ Sh „?Yf I °'"°« '"""■■* other precnations to prevent slips ""'"■ "^ '"■'k Proposed, with banto'elrcare "rfist^brtS'en^S' T ."""'""" "'"" ""- em- the other >k order rentrfth^ rerfin™? r.tf "" '° thSrTt™ rtf fer:- fl^ ™T' ^— snitaWe conveniiil aeeess. Prevtonr^^th? „„ ''T'^"''' i" "«' """"i. of l.ankn.onts, where reSd shaH heT'"*',"'' "'""^ "»*«>■= em. prevent washing by Sorl,tt™,V.'''°''"'^ '""** ^ ^°"'*''' '" Under this head will be inr^ln/lari on ..veral portions of .W IrSLli'dElS: .^tS'^t-f '"'' PUDDLING. . In all parts of the work whpm r,,,AAv used for this purpose IhaH S of p^roo^/nf Jr.''"^"T'^' ^« '"^^^''ial layers, each^of Vhich must t^tCoi^^"^^ T^^*^ ^'^ ^^in and worked so as to incorporate each S {« w th S ''"^^'"'^ ' Care shall be taken to carry ud th? LJ 7 • *^°^® adjacent, prevent checks and ensure ?[f tiltnl^t ^S. '".•'"""^^*'^"' *« position of the puddle-walls mLrll a . T^ dimensions and Chief Engineer ' ra^tenal, &c., to be as directed by the MORTAB. subjected toprope?testsVf ilfSnL^flnf '.^'""'u^^'^^ '^^^^ be it shall be mado"^ of equal parts of o '-2^ '^T^'^,' ^^ ^et work places of two parts s^nd to ont of ceSe^ M'^°^' T^^ ^» other ascertained by careful measurement Ttri;.!, P^^PO'^t'ons being protectthe cement fro. the w^her .^ZZtZle' '''''' '^ shallt^foptt'^^^^^^^^^^^ — grained, and tion'ir^\e°^reV'dVXV^t%T^^ *^-^^"'-^ P-Po- used while fresh, mere iout^?- ' ^^^"^ «o«sistencv .,d above described, and kept ifblk VT'''^ if "^"^* ^^ «'''"^« as No mortar shall be Tsed "^1;^^]^^-^^ . _ pruvcut 11 iroiii properly setting. ° ""-"-* -"ffiwuudy coid tc Conen k adding th i each part ] mass. T, : in diameti \ prepared being tak( be ramme concrete e layers to Dry a quarried inches thic the bed ar spalls. T bond. Bubble described, vertical jc spalls beii wet before Dressed laid in a ft inch. Tht a depth no The fac( arris. Th face stone. Cut Stc color, laid joints beiti ceeding -\ < and set bj plans and Brick M sight must burned; tl must be of They mi bond in a i bed being , laid on tite and stretcl 16 ion of the several ind materia], with ted by the Chief »red as described ibankments care sloping towards proposed, with the em- work to I with of the ivhole. avation suitable • the same, of le work the em- id or sodded, to skfilling for the ixcavations." 3» the material -vorked in thin id tempered , hose adjacent. Jonnection, to nensions and irected by the ork, must be hich shall be In wet work ind in other Ptions being be taken to e. grained, and red propor- istency nd e mixeu as 3d. i-ly coid tc MASONRY. Concrete Masonry shall be made of mortar as above described, by I adding thereto five parts of durable broken stone and gravel' to i each part of cement, and thoroughly mixing and incorporating the S mass. The concrete stone or gravel shall not exceed 2> inches ; in diameter, and shall be cleaned before using. The material thus ! prepared shall be immediately laid in the place intended for it, care being taken to provide a bed well rammed. After laying it shall be rammed until the mortar flushes to the surface. When the bed of concrete exceeds 12 inches in depth, it must be formed of successive layers to the proper height, each not more than 12 inches deep. Dry Rubble Masonry shall be made of sound, durable stone, quarried out in regular beds of a proper area, and not less than 6 inches thick. The broadest and best bed shall always be laid down, the bed and vertical joints being levelled and filled up by suitable spalls. The work to be well tied with headers in a substantial bond. Rubble Masonry shall be laid with stone of the quality above described, _ in similar manner, in a full bed of mortar. The vertical joints shall be grouted or filled with mortar, chips and spalls being put in aft^-ward. The stone shall be clean and always wet before laying. Dressed Masonry shall be of the material above described, and laid in a full bed of mort ir, with a joint not exceeding f*'''. of an inch. The top and bottom beds and end joints to be squared for a depth not less than 12 inches. The face of the stone shall be made with a tool draft around the arris. The headers in the bond shall be equal to one-fourth the face stone. Cut Stone Masonry shall be of the best material, of uniform color, laid in regular courses, the top and bottom beds and end joints being squared not less than 15 inches, and the joints not ex- ceeding -\ of an inch. The large stones shall be properly limited and set by machinery, and the work carried up agreeably to the plans and directions for the same. Brick Masonry : In this work the bricks used and not exposed to sight must be of sound, durable quality, regularly shaped and hard burned ; those exposed to sight after the completion of the work must be of the best quality efface brick of regular form and color. They must be well soaked before laying, and placed with a good bond in a full bed of laprtar, with struck joints inside and out, the bed being grouted ,whi» required. In arches, the beds shall be laid on the radius hue, with uniform joints and alternate header and stretcher courses, where the thickness of wall admits. # 10 I'UMPING RESERVOIR CULVERT screen aud gate chamber, with aTuIk heaS r^"'*^^*^ ^^"> * ^'PPe'" band wheel, and other neces^'^'p^';,^^^^^^ -row sh'aL, After the excavation through said ^r»u 7 . which a firm double track bridS sh7l f^^' i '' T*^«' i^^'^'" temporary use,) coffer dams of shfet SJ i'"'^^*' ^''•*°*«^. ^r be constructed as herewith proVS ^ embankment shall , The foundations of the culvert sJinll K„ r inches deep, laid 141 feet bpW i °^ concrete masonry, 12 planking of sound Lk% tlZ iZk'Zl 'D '^ "^^^^ «-- thickness and covered with a bed of rnM 1 ' ^"'^ ^° * ^^""^^^ deep. On said bed the bulk head on th« r, It ""T"'^ ^^ i"«h«s shall be built 15 feet high, comiectW ^1^?. ^""^^ °^ '^« «"lvert arch, which shall be 12i feet Se k" d sll S\^"^^«f ' walls and arch bemg 2 feet thick. On the s^.h %^\si^ '« the clear, the nainate in the Pumping Heservoir w^ J ?^'' '^^ ^"^^«^* «hal ter drawn, to protect the Lbankments ° '^^^^'^ ""^ ^«"«, «« ro^of ;C';;rg*;5l„S tcf^^^^ ^"^'^^ P-tected b^ four —., and supplied att: ^A-^s^:^^:^^^ PIMPING RESERVOIR. ;: ,J '; . sho?c?ftt:;;^^^^^^^^^^ and the original Sbop, marked LnZe Cral pl^'f '''^' ^'^'^'^^ MacCe West shall be excavated to a depth ofV^^l* T^V ^^^ ^- ^"^ther me of the Bay, the sides beinJ^?Sed tH «? 5«^«w low water to one. "« wormed to a slope of one and a half ^roiT'j'LirZl::t^Zn^% embankments shall be formed the Chief EngineerTtKi^e^W^ ^-g^^t designated by The embankments on the Toul ?;. ^ ^ ?'P"''*^^ ^ *^'^««ted^ to prevent the Aowof sJrftL^'r^f^ ^to^^^ --t-cted as Under this head will be includp^Ti! Tl ^""'P'^S Reservoir. wia .orapiutea in months. " ' ' ""^ "^'^ or contract. TheE Pump \1 The e: feet belo' 30 feet vi round spi from cent enough tc Mow. "V level, oak with 2^ in Concrete, worked in oak plank on which t Said ma arch of 13 the Pump work on th line and w£ To be pr &c., for the a white pin prevent eva perforated t built in CO and appurte oak stair-wa The found piles driven row, 3 feet 1 4 being driv To be cappc filled in with piles, the top base. On tl and 2 at top. The dimen ternal, 80 fee Boiler Room, The Engin Boilers, shall rammed sand, ported by cas 17 r11 be construct- !d with a copper es, screw shafts, is made, (over as directed, for •ankment shall e masonry, 12 )n which cross d in a double >nry 18 inches >f the culvert ert walls and the clear, the v^ert shall ter- "Dg walls, as ected by four the concrete d ribonds, as directions of J to be com- i completed the original >ad Machine ft. further iv^ low water > and a half 1 be formed ignated by M directed, itructed as Reservoir. ibankment iog of the the Chief contract. I SNOINK HOrSE. P.5 ^tC: h::s ^ffiS's «^«" ^« '-^^ -th a reefb:^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ be made to a point 15 30 feet wide by 29 feet on^ IJ ^^^' ^^^ foundations being round spruce pis 0/^2' !S. aV^ u riu^t^'^, ''''"^'^^' - from centre to centre each wavTnd «K 7on /*' ^"^«" 3 feet enough to be driven to a „S', ''"^ ^° ^^^ ^«"f?. or long How' When the ^le have "be „ "dri^e^f f '"^ i"^*^ '' '"^^ ^^^^ , leveJ, oak cap timbers of I2 inches b v fl V'h^k'"' ^"^ '^* *^« P'-^P^r ! with 2i inch treenails and hf inf 1 ^^ ^''''^^'''^d on them : Concrete, flush wi^^ heTl 5'he t^fl^nif '^'^^ ""^^ '" ^^^^ worked in firmly around the head.oAlf ^"J ^^ "'«h«« deep, oak plank 6 inches thick shall bftrlln«f't. o?" ^"''^ *''"t>ers on which the masonry of the ^r;^^^;!^,-^^, V^l? *^^^"^"«' arcKlTS Ses'dlamr; rT^' ^"'^^ ^^^^^ ^ ^"-ed the Pump Well and EnJTnt k ''"^ ^•'^« P'^ra to the levels of work on tL Easl frfnt o?'the EnTe H?" "J^^ P^^'^ ^^^^'e hne and water table, to be fac:dlr drSrA^atn?/" ''' "^^^ ^5orX7o;%t^^^^^^^ groLs, cheeks, a white pine flooring, 3 incTes Tck fin.H ^T"' T^^^^^^ed with prevent evaporation into the Engine £" %' ^^'''«« ^« 'o perforated to favor this purpose^ llfXp,'^" ^t ^^" being built in connection with the bear inii «!i^TP ^/" ^"'''^ to b? and appur^nances ; accesst t hair he t;"/'!; ''' ^."^'"« oak stair-way 4^ feet wide ^'ne Room by an P^^^:SZ:^^:i^^^ouse to be bunt on row, 3 feet between centres acrosr/nrl^f' !"/" ^^'°^^« ^^^^'e 4 being driven at each corner TlnT ?,/^^V^"gthwise the wall, To be capped with 6 byT2 inoh on P''"?^ ^« ^^^"'ed necessary filled in with Concrete, 1^ nche deet tn.l' '"'''' ff ^°^" «»d piles, the top of the Concrete bein^fi fj^l ^^''^H^ ^'^^^^ the base On this foundati^ rubble m'sttuT ?« T^^ t«ble and 2 at top, shall be built to the waTe "ajfe ItT "''' "' '««« P, ^S'S^^lj^e^f^^tTT ^f '' 'y '^ ^-t ex- Boiler Room, 40hyS2teZff^,\T} "?" ' ^"^ '^^'^ of the The Engine and L!f P .'^ '^' *°P"^^"*''^ ^«"- Boilers,, sh=airbetag^:i'^,^,^««--^^^^^^^^ i^e Engine and m is The walls to bo built of brick iimsonry l(i inchos thick with 4 arched doors 10 feet wide and 12 feet "high in the clear 'and 16 windows 8i by 4 foot .wide, and 9 windows 7 by 4 f,;et, fitted and furnished complete. The chimney to ba of brick masonry on piled foundations, with a 10 inch wall to a point 32 feet above water table, the entire height being r.3i feet above water tab|e ; the flue being 3(5 inches s([uarf, curried up vertically. The .lit stone work to consist of the water table, window sills anu lintels, chimney water table, and cap, rustic blocks of the doors and corners, and the centre pier of the working beam of the Engine. The roof to be composed of an iron truss, with wrought iron principals, tie-rods bolts, nuts, jack rafters, &c., and cast iron braces according to plans for tlio same. 'I^ho principals to be placed not more than 8 (oet apart between centres, and the jack rafters not more than 10 inches apart. The whole to be covered with the best quality of blue Vermont Slate, not less than 10 by 16 inche'. secured by lead nails to tho rafters ; to be provided with a cast iron Cornice-Mouldmgand Gutter, and six ^-inch tin leaders, fitted and erected complete, the loaders having cast iron Kpouts. All the work on the Engine House and . appurtenances, to be ac cordmg to the plans and directions of the Chief Engineer and the foregoing specifications, and to bo commenced within days after date of contract, and completed within months. KNcilNK AND MACHINBBV. _ One Condensing Pumping Engine shall be erected in the Engine Room of the Engine House, on the foundation to be prepared for xt :-built with a cylinder of 8 feet stroke and 54 inches bore, and a plunger of 26 inches diameter. ' The engine to be provided in every respect with the valve chest condenser, air-pump, force-pump, parallel motions, bearings, stuff"- ing boxes, glands, connecting rods, guides, bolts, nuts, oil cups, and wirkmanshr^''*''^ appurtenances, of proper size, material, and o/^ ^T * i°"^^^ ''^'^ '''^" ^^**'"' '•onnected with collar-bolts 24 feet long between centres, and a counterbalance che^t attached to the plunger, connecting rod or beam, adjustable to different loads of the engine. Ju^^u^s To be connected with two boilers by a sufficient steara-pipe, the boilers being properly built of boiler plate iron not less than 1 of an mch thick, properly riveted and caulked, with all the steam and water guages, man holes, hand holes, plates, grate bars flues bridges, stays, safety valves, steam drums, stop ;alves, and all o her appurtenances necessary or ordered. To be of the " 'double return drop flue variety, with sufficient fire surface and pt«am-cr«n«.af;.!. power, the Disi per min j inch, cut ; nected t of the otl necessar of 6-inch' as to be Detail purtenan( mspectior The iro in dimens the appro of the besi piece to b< gineer, du thoroughly proper plj Under tl force tube with four cl nuts, &c., ] ness, durab The abov of contract, The Diatri ground bord dum Streets, feet front on It shaU be nected with « copper wire s cession from shafbs, colum nances. It shall also to each apartt copper wire sc arranged so as bottom, and an connecting wit '■a thick, with 4 clear, and 16 fv'ot, fitted and asonry on piled it above water tabjo ; the flue e, window sills cks of the doors 1 of the Engine. \ wrought iron sast iron braces, ' be placed not jack rafters not ^erod with the by 16 inches, led with a cast 1 leaders, fitted pout-i. xnces, to be ac- ?lneer and the M days nouths. in the Engine e prepared for ches bore, and le valve chest, •earings, stufl!"- i, oil cups, and material, and h collar-bolts, iheat attached Jifferent loads i ! :eam-pipe, the 5S8 than fy of he steam and s bars, flues, and all other double return rS.tlrt^^tr^t <^«ily. into per minute, witi an avm''e cvlinirn " "'"« "^«''^'^« '^'^^^'> inch, cutting off at Uhe stroke r .?'''""■' °'^^^'^'- P^^" ^^^^ nected that^oither ,iay be fed 'or stnfJ't?'''^^-'^"^'^' '''' ««<'«"- of the other, and to be provWed ^ ffi 'h^"8'"« independently necessary. To be nrovidnd «,:!k » Ir ^7"^ ^°<''''' shovels, <&c., of 6-inch bore and 2^feef frolcf so' ^^^'•;''T»*«" " 'team pump as to be used as an auxiliary? '"""'*'*^ '''^^ *»>« force'^tube Detail plans for the several parts of tbn Pn • n ., purtenances, slmll bo furnishod hv ? /^ "S'"^' "°''^''-''. and ap- Section, alteration or^re^ oYtl^rSC'eef ^^" " ''' in d^e;:L\i^rra:;^,erfo r'r 't'^ ^"^ ^^^'^^^ --^^ ^ the approved plans and K ons of tho Ph f7'"r'' '^^^'^''^'"^ *- , of the test quality of matoriir^l Inll ^^'^^.^^gin^r, and made P ece to besubject at aTS i , '^'^"^'^"^''^P- ^ach part and I gineer, during its constrrHl ^,/r / ''^''^'^^^ of the Chief En- ^ thoroughlv terras tot Sss^. „"' wh " '" ^'T'' ^"^ *« »>« proper place. ' "^'^' ^^'^f'" complete and in its forS^Jartomle^AS SSrihi!- ''^^"^^"^^''^ " ^-« of with four check valvcf and alT ?hl t distributing Reservoir, nuts. &c., laid comp]o^c!and uSccSl tT"^ J"'"*^' '''*"r«' ^^'^^ ness, durability and stren-rth '"^J"'*'^ ^^ proper tests oFits tight- UXSTRiBUTiNo RESERVOIR. dum Streets, the structure WsIofoUf ""1 ^''^'f ^^ »"°- feet front on Dundurn Street ^' front on York, and 400 uec^'^Jth'^tj^fetin^g ^^7^ ^^'^ ^- ^P-tmen^ con- copper wire screen and thTeT^ i^.!' r^,"""^' ^'''^'^'^ ^ith a cession from the surface to t£&. ''"^^'^ '° ^' *« ^'^^ in suc- shafts. columns, hand wLs and 7l' "'Jk ^''""'^'^ ^^^^ ^^^ew nances. ^^''' ""'^ ^^' •'ther necessary appurte- ^.e.,ratl„g | "-eCbg with the m^h:^^,^^^^^^^ ,! ers; f I* If, jiilil 11 so nJJ*^l"l^'il2 '*^-^f' *' ^"'?'''' f'^'' ""'^ « P"--^'"" °f the North ..deofthe Wvoir to consiHt of an wnbankment, fumed from .the material excHvut... , i8 feet high above the bottom level, 10 fto 4 mches thi^k. The inner .iope of said eukbankmecL hall be- liued V, .th bnck masonry R iuchos thick, built on a slope ot one t^ one ; the outer «lop. ,imll l.o one and a'hnif to one, ZplTd b\ a wall of rubble m^>„ry, about 6 feet high abc've tfe ground ithi;Thir'''T h"" ' '"'''"? "^ ^'» «'«»« 2* feet >vide b^e nches thick lo have a central wall of j.uddlinc constructed in benc^hes, l,emg 10 feet wide at base, -I fee't at top^ aSd S^feet n height 1 ho retaining wall to have a foundation of .wrotV 5 feet three feet thick, with n batir of one in six. Pip^e' V^Jl';" ^VanI^'^ -M "l"^""' ""^ ^ "^'^ "^''^^t^' *« ^he Central npe Vault, a Vau t will be consfruoted inside of said retaining' wall, forming a Chamber feet high and 7i feet wide^ w^h ,', arched roof; through which the force tube and drainaie pfpe wu! connect with the Central Pipe Vault. The retaining walffl em tt'cSl^liter.'-''^^^^'^^^ ^--^^^^'^« the%7ctiorwTh fion^i n f^'f^'^A """"u'^*" ^' ^""^ °^ '•"'^ble masonry, with a sec tion 10 feet wide at base, resting on concrete masonry 12 feet wide Zf t^ T^u f'^P' '"u^ ^ ^''' ^ '"^^^^^ ^' top, the sides being 2I fee thick, fi led in with puddling. On said wall a flag copinB 4 feet wide and 4 inches thick shall be laid. ^ ^ ^ ^' rni?v!} ^''^ ^'"■'^ ^i'"'"'* ''"''^ the Central Pilaster will be built of rubble masonry, faced partly with dressed masonry and pa tly w h cut stone masonry, per plan. The side walls at the junction wi h the earth embankment will be carried up plumb on the sides with a thickness of three feet, and a face bati?of one in sx to the vel of the top of embankment : the central portion will b^ of cut stone masonry, with a face and side batir of one in s^x beinL 20 feet wide at the coping. To be surmounted with a copL 3rfa S'hil to'^«;:. <^-''e«ted on either side with anTSnls Zty^l J""? *^" "''P'"S of said walls, and to have an entrance ornamented with cut stone jambs and lintels. The who"e to have a rubble masonry foundation on a concrete bed. tJl^ 'Tfu''"" ""^ *^® P"««ter to be of r,.!.l, c n.„r,irv 3 feet hick, with the same face. %atir, and connected wUl'ti c ter bv a stone arch of 3i feet radius, on which the c-.^'^.e^Hfrndlh^ The full, ai efflux. Und Inches House, laid a| n acted This directic To bo :.. oomplei Throi be desig hydraun as direct The n^ than 4 fe a sufRcie; carefully after the The se are mai'e gineer. buting Re with each All the the Chief date of C( The est in the folio on of the North t, fornie-d frori) iir. levol, lOfeot , 4 fijfft wide by traem hall bo slope ot one to ', supported by -ve tno ground 'eot wido by 6 constructed in and 31 feet m concrete, 6 feet ound, and to bo to the Centra' ' said retaininr wide, with an lage pipe will f wall and em- junction wjtli 81 ry, with a sec- y 13 feet wide des being 2^ J coping 4 feet ill be built of y and partly t the junction » on the sides, in six, to the will be of cut six, being 20 jping and pa- iron railing 3 ) an entrance rhole to have .ssoriry 3 feet ' enter, by a ii.'igand the ■11 to Connect lux, and dis- pects accord- ch distribul- embankment resorvd her mav The water chai tjers ol full, and so arrani-od that efflux. ^ - '"".* ^' "»<'« tor either influx or inch™ L' £if jrpS;i,"'.tL 1 fr 1 1"'""' rr ■= To b. • • ■ • ••• , • • • • t 0. 200,00 460,00 96,76 10,08 56,00 386,00 1,380,00 186,00 140,00 160,00 180,00 1,500,00 860,00 400,00 600,00 15,833,83 7,200,00 1,080,00 0,000,00 117,280,00 1,662,00 116,00 117,60 11,80 642,00 244,00 3,000,00 480,00 400,00 30,00 4,600,00 486,00 76,00 100,00 806,00 100,00 1,628.00 160,00 72,00 80,00 20,00 820,00 400,00 6.000.0O II' U Vi til y 120,668,30 24 I ESTIMATE FOR ENGINE AND MACHINERY. One Cornish Pumping Engine, Cylinder, 8 ft Btrk>ke, 64 inch, bore, plunger, 26 inches diameter, condensing, with one copper- lined Air Chamber, 8 feet diameter, 16 ft. high, and two Boilers, fitted and erected $ c complete Force Tube, 16 in. diametre, 1,7 00 feet.'.'.". !'.'.' 6 00 * " Check Valves, (4) 40o'oft "*' Land, and Right of Way ,. ' * * ' ESTBiATE FOR DISTRIBUTING RESERVOIR. Excavation, 63,600 c. yds „t n on Puddling, 14,260 c. yds ";'.■.'! 040 "" Concrete, 620 c. yds q'qq ' Rubble Masonry, 5,500 c. yds ! ann Brick " 1,400 c. yds ::;; lo'oo "" Cut Stone " 40 c. yds 1500 "" ;; Coping, 106 ft .f. :: %l ;■■■ Door Lintels Konn Jambs soon Flagging, 8,620 s. ft. ^'"" 4,600s. ft ' Iron Railing, 86 ft .'/. " Stairways \''' Flooring, ,00 42t,0i.t 1,000,00 500,00 2,400,00 1,060,00 80,00 1,400,00 160,00 12,000,00 7,000,00 $100,163,000 ESTIMATE FOR DISTRIBUTION, 6 Inch Pipe, (74,250 feet) ' ) ....... (12,860 ( 8,070 8 10 12 16 6 ■ 8 10 " 12 " Hydrants, Connections, 4 in.. Proving Press, Ac. . . Labor," Ac, Proving Cartage, (2,160 tons) Laying Pipe, (100,660 feet) Pipe Yard, " \ 60,00 .... 1? •• •< ) \ \ "^"-00 .... Hydrants, { 148 80,00 .... Connections, 4 in., 2,199 feet) ^^,:f, ' ' ' Proving Press, (fee. "'^^ ■••• Labor and Proving •• • Cartage, (2,160 tons) .,'..'.'..'.'..*.*. ^ "•• Laying Pipe, (100,660 feet) .■.'.■.'.■■."■.'. !'.„ ••■* Pipe Yard, &c "^-^O .... PiPB.) . $59,400,00 16,420,ijO 12,106,00 4,488,00 13,110,00 8U0,o0 401V0 210,00 80,00 6.840,00 J, 204,60 2,000,> 3,000,00 2,160,00 40,264,00 1,600,00 $162,071,60 ESTIMATE FOR DISTRIBimON.--(CA8T Iron . REDUCED DISTRICT. JlnfHPipe, (34 510 feet) „e *0,98 .. 10 " " I Till « ■•■• MO . 6 " Stopcocks, 6 •• ^^.00 .. 10 " " } ? { ''0,00 .. 12 " " / , I 70,00 .. Hydrants, } 70 { ^^'^^ •'■ Connections, ( i,060 feet) .' .' .' .' ;:;••• '^JSn ' " Proving Press, (fee "'^0 ... Labor and Proving.... Cartage, (1,250 tons)., !*.'.'. ii , „ •'• Laying Pipe, (48,660 feet... '.'.'. „' " ••• Pipe Yard.. ..! 0,40 ... Pipe.) . $33,819,80 7,078,00 9,888,00 6,120,00 17,260,00 240,00 400,06 210,00 80,00 2,800,00 736,00 2,000,00 2,000,00 1,260,00 19,420,00 l,600,0» $104,890,80 r^ I. < / Ki It rf to mm ' IH 1 V I Wn '" fl ; H si 26 6 Inch Pipe, 8 " tt 10 " it 12 " a 16 " «• 6 " Stop 8 " 10 " 12 " ESTIMATE FOR DISTRIBUTION.— REDUCKD DISTRICT. (34,610 feet) (Indistructible Pipe.) Hydrants, Connections, 4 in,. Proving Press Labor and Proving Cartage, (1,260 tons) Laying Pipe, (48,660 feet) Pipe YardC ( 4,480 ( 4,120 ( 2,040 ( 8,460 ( 6 ( 8 ( •'i ( 1 ( 70 ) -! ( 1,060 feet) at 10,80 1,20 1,60 2,20 3,80 40,00 60,00 "70,00 80,00 40,00 0,55 1. 0,40 $27,606,00 6,816,00 < 6,180,00 4,488,00 18,110,00 240,00 400,00 210,00 80,00 2,800,00 677,60 2,000,00 1,600,00 1,260,00 19,420,00 1,600,00 186,879,60 SUMMARY OP ESTIMATKS. Pumping Reservoir Culvert.. ^ »• Pumping Reservoir 1,470 19 Engine House 4,820 Engine, Ac ..!...!.'.'."..". ^'^^^ ^^ Distributing Reservoir..'.'. 13,450 I/istribution, (Cast Iron Pinei 26,040 16 * ' 48,386 V. 8 6 Less for Indestructible Pipes. ^97,807 10 9 ' 7,867 2 6 Engineering and Contingencies, (IC p. c). "^^89^*^ * ^ 'i ^£98,984 9 1 WITH REDUCED DISTRIBUTION. Pumping Reservoir Culvert.. ^ «• i>- Pumping Reservoir 1,470 19 8 Engine House '..', 4.320 o Engine, &c ' \\\\ '"' 6.140 16 6 Distributing Reservoir'.'.'..* 18,460 Distribution, (Cast Iron Pi'nV^ ^6,040 16 ^ ' 26,222 14 Less for Indestructible Pine. ■£76,646 4 9 ^ 4,602 16 6 Engineering and Contingencies, (10 P.O.)... . "^^^'If'^ ^ ^ '••• 7,114 4 11 •£78,268 18 2 In the c'sely as Supply 1 best ada By th: the wate and othe ther. It which, ai House is which foi voir. Tl above the 1,700 fee giving a 1 the City, at the foo by this el and well, of lifting by clrcun of 50 gall large for i Theag; affected b extended t tem, to £7 The cos tendance, i and extens the extent made. A and are o annual cos plated, I si very libera 600,000 ft. is, in many The n,vArn.< 638,300'ft! TiBiE Pipe.) 87 • • . . t27,608,00 6,816,00 6,180,00 4,488,00 13,110,00 240,00 400,00 210,00 • • • • 80,00 2,800,00 677,60 2,000,00 ■••• 1,600,00 1,260,00 19,420,00 1,600,00 186,879,60 £ 8. li. .. 1,470 19 8 . . 4,820 • • 6,140 16 6 . . 13,460 . . 26,040 16 .48,386 £97,807 10 9 7,867 2 6 £89,940 8 3, . 8,994 IJ, £98,984 9 1 £ 8. u. . 1,470 19 8 . 4,320 • 6,140 16 6 .18,460 . 26,040 16 26,222 14 E76,646 4 9 4,602 16 6 :^1,142 8 8 'i.lU 4 11 76,266 18 2 I CONCLUSION. By this Plan the water is taken from the Rov af « . • . , which forms the best and shortest linf to thfDistrib.Hn' T'"" 1,700 feet long, and at an elevation, above the Bav nf ?^n f I' bv7lf;f2 .• ^ ^f*'"f ^^''*««' "^^'^^ a'-e "ot fully commandP^ of 50 gallons each to 40,00rinhabtnr a cS^^^^ 1' TS^ large for a period as yet' belonging to the'futu?e "^ '^''""^*"^'>- .ff^!i^A^F^^u^ ^'^'^ °^*''^ ^«^^' ^^ ^i" be observed is materiallv affected by the system of distribution preferred i^Mh!2 tem, to £78,256, mcludmg a contingent allowance of 10 per Siit The cost of maintaining the annual supply will be for fn«i ' * plated, I should co„s°d/r an ^LZ *;™f'"«'""'. supply contem- 638,300 ftTlbs: '^' "' ""^ ^""'P"'^ «"g'"«« I «nd To be ' i *'! II, I i ! J, i n- The average cylinder pressure required is 20 Qii iv,. 39.75 cubic fee. «^i^KT&;^ZT4'tir2SsT' K^"?" per minute, to be supplied bv thA K«i ' ^ a ^^^-^^ cubic feet pressure at 30 Ibs.Jt is neLsL to p^^^^^^^^^ *^« ^* to mal•«- attention they are entitled to ciZ T^'^^ll^K^^ and receive the further to ask. ''^*^''" " ^^^0"^ tbis I have nothing I I consider this competitor should Mo 'SAMUEL MoELROY. receive the/ra/ premium. THOMAS a KEEPER, f NTRKAL, Dec. 23. 1854. To the J Gentlbik The your app advertise for suppl Bay. '^'^" As yoi water is t method oi From purest, an eligible p( of a Corn feet bore, Bay. The Re for 40,000 each per d cubic feet, The wat pipe throuj street, will ordinate fei lishing Hyc at the plar ideas in this The dt< at the inters cient for all force for us pressure un labour of w to be given 5 lbs. per square 3 an initial pres- stroke, will be J8.19 cubic feet ming the boiler bicfoot of water he cylinder the 3 cubic feet of Joiiers properly th 1 lb. of coal ; we have '>'>•l^ 4888,8 pounds er day, covers, aning fires, and lese plans, and com extending part. I, the difficulty e apparent. I ;ure3 will pre- nd receive the have nothing loELROY. remium. . KEEFER. 29 PLAN No. 2. IlAMitTON, Nov. 10, 1864. j ^ TotheFirJand Wafer Committee of (he City of Hamilton, C W. : i Gentlemen, eligible point, «c propose to lalto our supply, and force it bv JL? f« bore, to » storage reservoir at a level of 137 feet .bo™ the J^«%tsi;;.:s, t°/:;?LTt\r?aTe'Sf ?5r'°" f T^'^ each per day, amounu'ng in all^^; a oJS ^^^rtroH^^^^^^^^^^^^ eubio feet, or »,000,000 imperial gallons available ™™1,-'"''' Ihe water will be distributed throuirh the Pit,, i,.r T ■ £»»ke-i-£S?S=i ordinate feeders. Prov sion is madp fm- <, Pi,.« "J^uis, or sub- lishing Hydrants at the .n^^oTt px n -ipd^lS^ \2t at the plan of distribution on '• Street No 1" will k A^. Ideas in this respect i^re fully and clearly. ' "^'^ ""^'^^' °"'' The dter will be served under a head of not less than fin fc.f - b. gucu .0 It oy ihem will only be the difference between the '1, i ' 'C 80 Hie topographical features of the Citv nrepliul*. thJ^. -u-i-. without any addiuinTcMt eiM?.! '!'"">S'"*'"g »f ««>, obtained ^. Of ..«,„» ,„o ee«.i„ ,.o.„r'™?d^!or?;rr;iro'f power s in action nnrl K„f i;^n ''i'l^"''^f'"- v. .iist the motive pressure i, Centty iu e ed t^a^ /„?" *"'" 'h^'P"' "«■ extent. Then Urn mTZTlr aa '''°™<"» «" ■» « con- may elapse before Vv i;;;*::^^: SSe'.' "' '^^'' "°- ■■-" Its irregular! esSar'(iJ^™l!? ff "««"« e^P^'s eaused by inere Jit be/o^niThlt'o}''!-':^"^^^ J.^^ wer_e soon '^"^ «° forit' L° Si°dt;rL'r;roniTzc-;So"„nf '""" ■'^°™'°" any inUirruptiin or dismember nrXr it k id"! " '"."T SlCptlSi^ '" "''*'. IbfJins cTfbt ^'ntin^it of t-routirXf:;:'!;^^ ,rp±ir;jftT""? " *- ^- pose to furnish it fmm n .In a PP^^ '" *"^t direction, we pro- t a sufficiently l' h'^ie^arnt iLurT7?rr<,*; 't^'"''^' being supplied by asecondarv mn,-„ v ^"^e flow— the reservoir wher^e it enters ^he longer meC^ '''^fSmain and lower head the works \ltuhJ r ^^'^ f^'*^™ "^ » ^%b bility of their being life. " ^'""^''' "' ''^^^^ '« ""^ P°A- I ra^ur:;s^:t^^-s:^^;t^g^^ I from that point, without thppnS !i • • ^^ °^ * constant supply | to that height c^nTlnuaUy ^ ''''"^^ *^^ ^^°^« ^^ the ^ate? J This th'd tend in actioi stop-coc to any ments f) diameter be for ti\ power is terms of of fuel tl Having propose t departmei of the Ba Althou^ points froi obtained, with the p so obvious it is not pi it is the CO vessels whi a deleterioi ( bottom, by I It mayju I the whole ( from the Lit limits of thi all their att< from any p( The wate: the city, but tern, for th( entertained 1 The We« grounds and tions of pur any other pc The bottoi quite free fr( portion of th This itself * when it enters shine. the possibility Jntain is chosen 1 many respects ;reased cost, in ion, and conse- mtlay. tion, that were 'fires, obtained jally, it would '■ ordinary pur- the rupture of stant service," scarcely needs, ky ing mains Mith torage cistern. St the motive the pipes, the lid destructive such as a con- st, some hours has, in many ses caused by ioon found to pie provision ig it to cause for. As the ^ continued so i at the base ion, we pro- sighborhood, the reservoir i rising main ra of a high is any possi- 81 This combination has bpon t,-;^A i the tendency to rupture in the servi.''"'^. "P^T^*^ «^ '" Practice • ^ in action can easil? be avoid d y rtiSCd?''' ?'^ ? '^««-« ^^ stop-cocks, se as to retard the veiS S ? "^ "^^ neighboring to any amount at ^vill. As to the of'hl ^•'""'^'"^ ^"^'^ «f head r l?«"ts for extension, the mains mx' C P'''"'"'' ^^ •^"'' «"-«nge- diameters and minimum velo ie ' olhll [^^"^7'^^^ "^«-^'"^""> be for hve times the proposed number ,7^*^'^ ^-'^ serve if need power is also at present^alcuXaft^^^^^^^ The motive , terms of daily working so tha h! • ^-^'^ operatioii and short I of fuel they Jill re.^ylJ^l:^:^-;^^:'^ ^^^^^"^n I Havmg thus glanced at the leadhTf ^'^7'"°"»'- ; propose to go more fully into tl mrnn^-/ ^"'"^' ""^ «"'• design, we f depart ,^ and shall the'^rete iTen e' bv'^ «^ -<^V"^'''^""l of the Bay which will be our '"''"'"''"'^^ V choosing that portion POINT OF SUPPLY. Although Burlington Bav i^ th^ points from which a" comSthelvV''''''"' /""^ P'-^^^^ts '"any obtained, still, as Jzzt^\r:::?n^',''z^^^^ with the present, the choice of the pZcr?nr-'^t"''^« ^9"^":^ soobvious as might appear at first Sf Nn-''^. ''. ^^ "« "'^""s 1 IS not purified by a current, is u„f. 1: thlZ'^'"''^ "^'"'''^ ^f'^" It IS he common cess pool fo'r al t l/il 0?^^' ^"'^'""^h «« vessels which pass throucrh it s/pn;;^ I ^^^ ^^^a^ves and the adeletenousett. through the 'Sr'^ofjhV" Pr'^*^^^^' '^ bottom, by the action of the paddle wted? ''^""'"* ^° ^he fs^r rsy^ o^nThr^{~^ "e«^^ all their attenda/t shippLg,^' tha t XCf' obj'- "'^'•^- ^"^ from any point within Lte limits ctot'^e usSS"^" ^ "P^^^ Ihe water eastward of the cifv ;« f^^ ^ v "^^'• the citv, but likewise fl L^; II . ted it'?"*'- "f ""'^ ^^"^ !f "lA-: ?« '<^- of obtaining'a sJonW tT'.^^l'''^' ^^ - cis- n be tempo- | itant supply i f the walte'r - entertained7or;momTnr"""" ' "'^^^^ ''""^ '^^^ quarteTt'oTe' The Western extreme of tin. ttn, 1 . grounds and the Desjardin Cana nos2^.« i?'''' ^"'' ^^«°^Pany's tions of purity of element, ard\CveSlenr''''-^^ ^l^^^'fi^- any other point, in reference to thLsubjecr P'''''"°' '^^^O'^^ The bottom of the bay at this nnint Jo „ i quite free from the aquUc v geCn Af r T^y ^^^^^1. ^nd portion of the rest. vegetation which poUutes the greater This itself is one great featnrA jp jh^..... B ,r. .to lavuur, insomuch 1.1 as vege- ': I'' m h 83 tation not only pollutes the fluid itself, but by harboring reptile life in great abundance, defiles the water beyond iho clqansing power of mechanical filtration. As to escaping navigation and all its attendant filth, the chances are as ten to one in favor of this ])oint. The high precipitous na- ture of the shores forbid the idea of wharf accommodation, whilst the narrow formation of the table land above gives security against future pollution by sewerage. Its situation is such that it can never be used as a channel for the passage of craft of any description whatever. ^ The current of water through Burlington Ray is from west to east, passing from the Dundas Creek through the Desjardin Canal eastward, and finally entering Lake Ontario by the Burlington This motion of the water secures for the position in question the first flow ot the fresh water, and prevents as well the possibility of defilement, by the passage westward of the navigated water. Its proximity to the city and elevated ground is thj crowning reason for selecting it above any other. Whilst acc;>rd'ng to the present survey of streets, a rising main may be taken direct to the site of our Reservoir, thereby avoiding all uunecessarv friction arising either from distance or curves. Having thus selected the point of the source from which we take our supply, we shall pass on to the consideration of the next most important point, viz, : — STORAGE RESERVOIR. The leading point to be observed in the arrangement of this department, is the obtainance «f sufficient head as near as possible to the points of supply and distribution. The position upon which we have fixed as the site of the Reaer- voir, is a block of unimproved land on the crown of the ridge towards the western end of the city. The block, as may be seen from the plate, is bounded on the north by Governor Street, west by Princess Street, south by Oxford Street, and east by Lock Street. ^ ,\^ill^^ ^^^^^^^ ground North of the Mountain, being at present full 117 f.-t above the bay level, or 45 feet above the intersection of James and King Streets : the depth of our reservoir will add 20 feet more to this head, so that 65 feet of head pressure will be available at the last mentioned point. This we consider quite suf. fidwit for all ordinary purposes, and is in fact fully equal to that I of 'fths of the works at present in operation throughout the United States. The Reeervoir is designed in two separate departtnente, whfch may be i I will. Tl f iaconven The h( ; case of a reducing confined t /jressure i inent in e may bo ti present p years mus amount, si in one def the increaf There is nection wi inent of su allude to tl Were th than protei would then of the sumi (where ther tering the p dispensable. The heavj extent, the c ing will em galvanized ( wood and ir louver board I sun or wind, The sides < i'irst next th^ ness of one ir brick coursin hind the conci according to ( an earthwork retaining wal Our reason fo is the great lo forming an im high value. I for obtaining ijquaJ. rboring reptile cl(;aQsitig power Ith, the chances precipitous na- odfttion, whilst necurity against hut it can never any description s from west to esjardin Canal, the Burlington in question the possibility of d water. thj crowning 3Curd'ng to the !fi direct to the 3ssary friction :om which we >n of the next [ement of this »ar as possible of the Reser- ti of the ridge anded on the ith by Oxford :ng at present i intersection i^oir will add esure will be 3er quite stif- qual to that It the United nente, which 38 may bo used in connection with f,^„h «»i, ; will. They „,ay also bo erlSdaTi^^^^^^^^ , inconvenience. """ ""^ .'"" ^^ '^''''^ the increase of the'populaCmSered it ah T ^\ ^''^ ''^'' ""^'^ ? There is another ooinf tn ^u I ''^''^'"tely necessary. nection with t^d'epa tme^t'te'^S^^ attention, in'on- nient of such works elsowhTrp h! T ^ '" ^''° g^^cral arranre- allude to the covering ofTh/^^^^^^^^ tha^p^lL^^^^^^^^ would thereby be overbalanced But wl ^' ^'*^' ^'^^ ^^P^nso of the summer sun in not only inoZ^tj" Z "r''^'' '^''^'^^ where there is so large a ouanHfl , !u .^ ,.® temperature, but wood and iron fuming. ^Kdo^lV "" i'^*^' combination of ; louver boarding, so as o allow ft ^^- ^'^'"'"'^^ «^ moveable [ sun or wind, at will ^' admission or exclusion of the ness of one inch upon alternate cS^ofoTh ^'!? ^ •^'^^ ^^'^k- brick coursing, bedded in a kycr Tli^^^^^^ ^ hind the concrete is a layer of nuddlod .? ^'^ Immediately be- : according to the depth at wh ch^?t is ioi7' Tfi''^ ''" '^'^k"««« an earthwork embankmenT hnli • ^ ■■ ^'^^""^ the clay is .retaining wall, which foSs the outw'a^^^^^^^^^ Y the stone-/ork I pur reason for substituting the stone ^1^-!^^'^ ""^ *^' ^'^^''^• is the great loss of space which is Sceltdf ^S*."'""^ ^^'thwork, forming an important consider" ion Xl .^ *^' °"*^'''^'^ «lop« high value. Besides with the fapimip«^ ?' F''""'* '' ^^^d at a I for obtaining stone, the cTs? 'r' ""iS^'.^f ,^'*^ -P--«- j^^quai. i" ^'-'"g jraxd of each wii] bo I ! 84 -lope of H i, 1, ti ,,„ iTiccabU?^"''' '"""'' ""'"' *^'*" ^''^ "^"«' the fluid which it 8 dSd t. ft'"l? " ""T" ^? "•• '"^ f««* '>"'" mediate strata mist neTeel I v -' "" ^''" *^"'« ^^ t'"' ^''l'''-- destructive to it "^^'^^^'-''^ be in a state of saturation highly both or either rwiVbtlllow'T''' ""' ""'^ ^'''' '^'^ "«« '>'" both, and carried if ren nr!^ f ' •''"*''" '" ^^' «'"'^ "«' <"■•«"> befo;« proposed undr So £ '«-'- «^ pipe will prevent the wa?or r^ ^ "''' f tension. An overflow cistern. A valve n and tooT^ "^"'u- '^ ^''P'' ^^^^^ '" ^he connection with the cistern ^'L 'n^^"** ^« ^'^^^ "^^^'g"^'! "' ing the sup,ru either wi'fhTh '" -'^^^ «top.cocks for regulat- th? internfidilltly^^rbere^ln^^^^^^^^^^ ^' ^'°^« ^^^ ^^S"'^^'"« th:2::;n;;™£Sir:;ifrsvi(S'?s^ ^-^ rr« «^ 3itaX^r ^ ^i"4 - - ots, t^t: oi m, « '""K Wide. deep. .ub,:?e!!! "-185 + 160 + 20 = 592,000 cubic feet storage, and gslloL, whichrmultjlied bfi'div ^7"" t °' = '.""COCO 7.000,000 g.non.-l full LolTriJ^^rr ui'"'''''^' """■" inff to 4nn nnn In ^ demand, we have an overplus amount- DISTRIBUTION. the hours of™ai2r„,hS™„r™ .?""' u""" W'^' '«''*•'»" pipes must be such aVSot onlv ,„ 5' v "i", •""' "''""''"y "' ""^ quenco anieters when th quantit} to any s and edoc and aflei The n • single pi] f same art > smaller j one. Th the same the dianu 4 hour ing the wl Then *' o, per second Tbon 3.; per second Even at reduction ( the followi] sections of levels ( m King Pearl Rao Queen .... Iloes Caroline. . , Bay , Park McNabb..,. James llughflon . . . John Catherine. . . Mary !^ objection to the a than the usual i puddling clatj object of jMifi- npentieable, w« r 30 feot from of the inter- ;uratlon highly i^ice pipes and ives the use of shut off from »her level, as An overflow 3r level in the '^e designed in ks for regulat- for regulating a rectangle of ig 20 feet of 9s, to allo\T of storage, and be equal to ms in both, of 26 impe- = 1,000,000 pply, makes f, 7,400,000 luB amount- in favour of nearly one les between city of our t, but like- by causing t in conse- 80 when the daily supph to be dollrL h'^ "''"""^^ ^«" ''"••. «o that 'I'iantity, the n.ainV, '.ay .X iS ""'^ '"""'''^'^ '" '^'"^ '^' to any sensible am. u,t Thi^' wn .1? • ^'^"'"nR the head pressure and edective than ..aking the ULT/lu ;:/""? ""'"' «^'^"°'"i^'« and afterwardH u.lding another XiSne^doi^ ^' ^''''''' ^''^'^^^^ . ^''« '•.''ason is that the same cuantit v v.V s'ngle p.pe of largo diameter, dorr,.!.'".?"'''"'! ^'"•«"«h « same amount of friction as it doe '- ' '*"^ '^ ''''" **''' smaller pipes which, oolleetivelv hav« Vh I ^"'""^ '^'"^^g'* ^^^o one. The cost of small piS; also n "?•" "T "« '»>« l«''gcr tho same amount is deliveJed The ?..f '^"'^'^""^'^ '"^''e *hen fh° <''a"'eter and velocity (,f I'bw ? ,11""? ^^"''*'*' ^^'" ^'^I'ihit 4houM. f = 40,000 i)er hm— of .u . « ing the whole in 4 hours if needed ' "'' '' '''''''■ Then *':»oo_hourir,upp,y. p^. 8.8(J0 lecoDds in mlnut«r f — 11.6 Cubic feet fn Vi« J i- per second ; or nearly. °® aolivered Then "-^ P*"" second. ' . __ por socoff" "'""""""'•' ~ "■" '"'* "'""■'J' ""-""gh mains Ihc following TaWe o^hibit?„„ % ?m" P"'" "'""'^ Mn bv levels of King Street, at the "intersections of cross Str««* Ca.cu,a.ed_for a Ve.oC, or 8.3 feet per JL ®*"**»' STREETS. ACTUAL HEADS. HEADS. PIAMETERS King.... I Feet. I'enrl... 30.63 Rao ....: 21.22 Queen... 20.22 Hoss.... 28.91 Caroline...'.!.'. *'-86 Bav.. ^^-'3 Park....;;.:; ^^-^^ McNabb ^^2 James ' *'4.49 Hughaon. ^'^•29 John.. 85.29 Catherine. ". ".v.: ::::;::;---i t^/i^ "^ ' 69.92 Foet. 29. 6 19.T2 17.80 26.50 37.40 47.00 50.80 62.60 56.70 56.50 54.60 53.50 54.80 Feet. 2. 2. d 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 1.10 1.10 n '■: a 30 servoir along Lock Street fo I Sre ? and f '" ^'^ *^« «- tlu-ough the centre of the City ' ^ *'"''"' ^^^"co down Sub-mains are carried from if ;»» ^u deemed necessary, and an-leioinfsnnd." ''*°^^ streets wherever "SO opposite each street""whfre waJo '• T^''' if ^^'^ ^"^urc Hydrants for fire supplJ aTe pL^'r ) * T^'^ "* P^^^«"t. wherever the water seVviLTs £ '"^''^ '^^ ^'''^'' ^-l^^-k "We have not made any nrovi^in,, f measurcment-oftheQuantifioTif / 'i"/ general system of the high price of meterT is a rions'^or' ?'^ V '^' '^^'^^^ « quite sufficient to collect a "oSvv.fcf' V^«« been found mited use of the fluid. Indeed anon'tK*"' '"^ '^"^^ «» ""li" of the water is rather to be oncouraSHi' ^""T- "'"^^^^ '^' »«« fector es, however, or any large pSie oZ f'f "'"''• '" '"«»"- •siderablc quantities are takenf wo^ vonld «? • ''^JT'"*"' "^^^'^ ^O"" tcnng meter. We have nnt I.i ?i '''^'?^® ^^'^ "^^ of a rejris- there\ro numerous patent for n '^ ""' '?.""^ ^''^^' bocau e at any time ^ *''" ^''" P"''P«se which can easily be had As the Water from Burlington H..V nf .u • „ propose to take it, is snmS^.fnllV^VoTJ'''^ ^^''^'^ ^« deemed ,t unnecessary to incur thVexpenlo of fil^-^ "'"''' ''"'''' drinking purposes it may require to b« L f""^' ^"^ «« for cxhib t in our details a di^awiig of a verj sin^So'' f d ^^^^^ ' ^« t^'^^':>. *b« -vice pVs fr^wS ,fi««'-^ ^'^er ; '^ '" wiir (leiaila n draw n" of a vo^ o!- i l'"""ra wc for atta.hmcnt lo the service nipo, frZ^Jf 'j,.""^ cfflcientVjtcr Upon fountains, or " Jets d'Pn.i » u 1 1 , Street Gore, and Market Suar^'theteTd^ ^' ^^"''^ "' '^' ^^'""S W.11 be suflicient to raisc\he jet abo„f foT^ "\\'}''^ ^^'^ them m our estimate of the cost ''^^' ^« include Before closinsj our remarko nn tUi j dor the amountlixed "pon a^t" tuy'Z^'f "« T" ^-«-'- compansou with that of other citie 7]l t^? {,. 1 "''u P^''^'^"' '"' various sources we subjoin : ^'^'^'^ collected from CITIES. DailySuppIy each porson. Ivip.Oallom. New York Boston '.*/_ Philadelphia ....T. Nottiiifrham ,', Plymouth 60 66 35 70 10 CITIES. Detroit London . . Albany . . Paris .... Hamilton I DailySuppIy each person. ' \^'np.Qallon9.\ 23 28 31 20 26 Tho> sefjuent 9 advanta nccossit clayey i whilst ii TIamiltc it may 1 business In the pormeab is altoge it collecti moiit of 1,500 pel Extcns ground, li The an general a' Its natu with most mum rate TH The suj water, has riments ox Cornwall. In some raised 1,25 which has i The part the Single cxpansivelji of 1,000,00 ©f coals. This amc basis of our elevating oi; In order ( mcnt in ma( of one large for 40,000 ii days in the i their time of ' I'.' of sorvico main :en from the Ro- 3111 thence down streets wherever s left for future 'cded at present. 53 of each block 5neral system of y the takers, as t has been found 1(1 allow an unli- classes the use cted. In manu- ents, where con- use of a regis- dotails because an easily be had from which we ic use, we have ig- But as for purified; we i efficient filter i cd or common j ed in the King It these points Wo include 3 will reconsi- wh person, in collected from DailySiippIy oach person. j^mp. Gallons. | 81 20 2S 87 Tho variable results ovh^lli^f.rl h,r n ^ . ^ .sequent upon the peculiar' f Teh Cit'^Z'"^.^''''^' ''' ^""■ advantages, but 1 kowiso to ihJu T ^' -^^ """^^ "^ ^« '"^tural nocossity for an artiS . >]v isT'n '" """^"^'^^^ures. The clayey impermeable si, S 0^.1?.^ <^"S'aonted by a atilf whilst in the case of a iih sa ndv or 'I n "^"'■T'' ^^« ^^''^^^^ riamilton, the natural sSy from wd Lif ^ 'f''' T^ '' '^''' ^^ •t .nay be in the densely ,Zuh Id nV *^"'^,". f '^'^''^'"t, unless , business streets. ^ I^^pulated portions which surrounds the i is altogether suriaco' waJ . S.^ ^^^itj'' '''^'- '"^^ ^^''"^ It collects in its cour^o tV. y *''® '"ipurities which llie amount upon which wo have /iv,.,l f,,,. tt ••/' . general average, according to uK^st ddos "=""''*"» '^'^'^out the THE MOTIVE POWER AND CONVEYANCE .expansively, the dnty of wliteh , mv ?ii; l? ^' ."^'"« ""^ *»'n ^ M^,000 pound/of watetS ^ ^ ^^^ ^^^ ba:i^:fri:^;;li -^;;-;Si^ '^-«^^' -" ^rm the elevating our water supply. "'"^ '^" '"""'"« ^««* ?««• ^^7 of ni tma^J^^^ T ^"o^o^;'^ of stoppages, through derange- of one large one. Bv „S the on' -'""^l '"Si"cs instead for 40,000 inhabitan 'I i 8 ho- r,nf^? ■''"''' -^^^^ ^''^'^ «"PPJy davs in tho w«nl. iZ J".t / '^-'"''""^' *""« P«r dav for « their time of working ' "^ ''"" '"' ''''"^'""' '^^ '"^^^^^i^g 38 Therefore, as the weekly supnlv—i 120 nnn i,-^ raised in 48 hours, we have ^M^ ll'Z '"^'°/««^^« *« bo hour, or nearly 389 cubic feet ,fer minme. ' ""'"'^ ^'^ Then, to find the necessary horse r^nwJ r.e u . " "■« '- °f " --ke» per z,r:tTmT;^r''-^ .ft. 11.™ «3 the stroke ofp„„,pi. Si f,,,_^ .;7''»<''' the ™ of pu,„p-„,.ie, „„, .,,„,j ,^ ^ fe:?.-;„'r:::t; feeltvSj: L° piperara ™To"r '.%=, '»' f-'- V adding 2i 139.5 fee,, the thSd ", ^I ^X^ "f' Pe"«o?d, we favf raised to. ° "'™ ™e water requires to be ^S'ol'^LlZll^^^^^ gives .79.0, the column. Then, 52^731 x 625' t '"^'^^ *^«"*^«ts of the whole foot of water, g ves 3205687 5' l\ ? r^''[ ^^ P«""*^« i" a cubic of horse pow'er' gives ofs!?; n'eS tof '^ ''''''^ '"^^ "-" the whole supply. As the fH^finn 5 100 horse power to elevate dition of oneK, it wil aLoun'o ?2oT^'"'7 ^^'l"'^- ^^e ad! . or two engines of 60 hors^T^e,- ea!f ^"T ^ '?' ^^^^"^ P^^^''. ^ feet of water to a height of Kri;l''4Kr '•'''•''' ^"^'^ i cuS:<^iti^i^j :^: Itz r r ""^ - ^^- bounds ^ Six^y^i&rctt:^^^^^^^^^^ ^our Hundred and As provision against fires Z h. . t P'"'' ^°' "^^^ P^^«on. block, wherever S pipes eJeJn ' '"'""'^ "* *^« «"gJ«« of each the number of 82. ^ ^ ^'"*^' Hydrants of double Capacity to wiltVeXTpal^oI^tVe^llir'^^^^^^^^^^ f'^' '^^'^^^^^ engaged about the Ta^k in orderf' ^^^ ^ '" ^"' ^"'^"^^"8 those pleasure, from any district ^ "^^' *° «"^ ««" «"PPlies at Co ace I To be I No. 3, ar The S J coureed i ■ rior of tl ; having al I laid level \ formed i stone, in 1 ' of 2 feet, will be b well burn porated tc the wall, s with a nes courses wi The ear; portions, a drawings. The era! as they are placed in tl earth must may be dir The pud Reservoir c No. 4; The pudd not more th The conci fresh lime, i corporated. lime being fi ■'J "1 uu iubic feet—is to be J bio feet raised per J^^engine, working y = 195 nearly, at each stroke or = 3.G3 feet cubic, 2 inches diameter et, by adding 2J second, we have r requires to bo gives 279.0, the Is per minute = le area of a pipe ts of the whole jnds in a cubic * i3.000, the unit 1 ower to elevate | equires the ad- | le whole power, I M20.000 cubic Nine Pounds ord of wood— 60 lbs of bitu- • Hundred and T each person. angles of each le capacity to he sub-mains eluding those ff supplies at 39 SPECIFICATION accordinc, to the accompanZgPlml '" ^''^ '^ ^^'^^'^'^'^ RESERVOIR, ;-'or of the wall will be fonned of rl^^ "''' ^'^'- ^he inte- ' having all the stones dresseTto recta^^^^^^^^^^^ '^^^^' ^^rk, laid level The Cornice or Strirj^Sri nt™' ^'^ *^^''- ^eds formed of two thicknesses of £h hf ' ""'""I the top, will be s one in lengths of not less thlilVanToTfh'^ and tooled free of 2 feet and 3 feet for the under and "15 *^' ""'P'^*'^^ will be built of mortar commtd n? ^P^"" "°"''««- The wall well burnt lime to twoVr3 clan 2"' ^''i f *« ^^^^ ^^esh porated together. Mor^r o L weH tLT"^' *^°'"".«^'^ '"««r- the wall, so as to be quite solid ^1 1 T. "P '"*° *^« ^^ntre of with a neat finch tap^e joint unonfh?rnT°' T" ^« ^^^^h^d off- courses will be set in putty """'^ ' ^''^ "PP^^ t^« drawmgs. ^ "'^'" tfte tank according to the as Ihe^-^tSiT s ':^:7^i:;rt ^^^f ^^^ «--°^ ^^y- placed in the works mu t be^hnrn m '"'^^ '^°''^' ^^«^«ver it is earth must be removed from the sife /nt'T''^' . ^" ^"P^^^^^"' may be directed by the (^^AthoJuies ■^^^' '"^ ^'''''''^'^'^ ^^ ReM^hetKi^a^d^^^^^^^^^^^^^ interior of No. 4. " aenoted by section on Plate Jtrfe°„^S f-°S^, »»^ed with p,»., of w,ee. i„ f«* iir:Sed'!;i^h%r=*„f r •™? "f *^ •>-'«" burn. LI .ii| !-Wi!. V H 40 draulic cement. ' '"*^'"g the joints made with Hy- The whole of the interinr nf ..„ inch coating of HyZt^Z^eSTaTol ""'! '^ ''''''' ^'^'^ «" thickness each. ^«i-ient, Jaid on in two coats of haJf inch The sides will be formpri n« r, i boarding filling the inteSs betwe'cn^ ft' ""''^ '""^^^^^^ '«»"« boards will be connected together bv^jf' '"P^r*-'- ^'^ ^°"v^« The whole of the wood work bofh • V ''^"'"'^"^ '"^^• with three coats of tKst ^1 S^ ""^ proved toning colours. ' ^^^ ^'^^ ""«eed oil, with ap- ENGINE HOUSE AND WHARF a sSm tafint ltd by' ST '^""'^"^^ ^« '« ^^ '^-en to 1800 lbs. weigit faSSg trn'lXSZZ ?T%^f ^ ^"^^ «' of hardwood of the necessary lenS a/rf If''*" ^^ P"<^« *« bo or less than 10 inches diameter '^ThAni ""f"^ *^^" ^* ^"<^''^« •ng w, be driven in four row^at Vt.S^^::^ "^"^ ^^ ^""^- cloIrunrttThcSTar;'^"^^^ ^^^^ -«^« ^^imney to be piled pinnedri!^i?srto r;;^vS^r^ °'^ feet high above ^iaH^TLThZVT. 'f "' ''''^''^^ «nd 4 om and at wharf level thSfhlytS.: f ''• ' ^''''''''' ^«*- timbers. ""*'"v joined by framing to the other to SpTnrX^r Zml '"" ^ P"-P -" - engine house d.ula?^aveworffi;jLl;:;C2^^^^ circular stave work bound by irlT'^'^'''^ '^ ^''^ '" dirr. ■ staves will be 12 feetTleSl fn Th"!"' T"^ ^ ^««* ^' in iength, 2 m. thick, and not more th run; the than 6 in. * n " i Bay.. 1 Jamea i et run ; the re than 6 in. 41 sound, wrought .ccordfcj 'to the varr „"Jff " '" 'i f "' ''■'' ""'' ■nost workmanlike mann^ Thew&f T »"'' f'"",'. !° ». and ou^ is to be painted in ftrec cZ oi^oi tu^ Th ' "f ° are to be g azed with thp bp*«- a^r.r^ \. °°'*^""- The sashes fix all ne&ssarvTon work recm!7'•'^'f ^'"''- P'"^^*^^ «"d building. "^ '^ '''i""'^ '" ^^^ construction of the ^^^^^J^^^^^'^rZ^ laid th«ngi the 81«,t. STREETS WHERE LAID. SPACES OF LAYING. Lock « King Bay . . . McNab Park .. James . Uughson . John .... Catherine , Mary Engine House Reservoir Lock Street McNab Street James Street Hughson Street John Street Catherine Street King Street Hunter Street Maiden Lane King Street Gore Street King Street ' Tjrb rn Street ' Main Street ' King Street ' King Street Tj'burn Street •' King Street to Reservoir " King Street,..' •' McNab Street .. James Street , . Hughson Street " John Street Catherine Street, " Mary Street... Cannon Street, , Cannon Street. , ' Cannon Street.., ' Gore Street ' Xind Street ' Tyburn Street.. ' Augusta Street . ' Lind Street ' Lind Street , . . , Catherine Street. Henry Street.. . Rebecca Street.. DIAMETERS. ft in 2 2 2 1 10 1 8 1 6 1 4 1 2 6 8 u 6 I 10 1 8 8 e ] 10 8 8 6 Uf LVetfvl^'-^lIron Wl "r„Jt°" V"'^" f "'»*"«' of bore as mentioned rLTeioingibrTZ':;*'' .'T^" of tlie depths and ransea a. sdn ,{ "™ P'P^"" bo laid streets, upra Plate 2 bSt nrwl* „ ""^Foljle sections of the ' than fiicLt from .he topsT? ^Xr^'fellhr '!"'r''°' B--.. vonaitiua as It was lound at first. f- rrJ^^y^P^ogioinia to be formed as exhihif.^ • ^ . ., rhe jointing wiU be first caulked ^itjf ^ I '" ^'>'^' °'^ P^^te 6. portion run in with me ted ead tTl f ".T' fifi'"" ^^e outer wards well caulked. *'' ^^'^ "^^P^^ ^^ 2J inches, after- inc?:^^^^^^^^^^^ to a square ^nto t£s department <^^^ZC^iI^ ^^ S^^i" toS^rdT,^?^^^^^^^^^^^ pipes are and secured to pipe bvwroLht Son nnf^,' ''^''^^''^^ ^'ater-tight cocks of the proper dfameters tb Z^n^^^''^' '''T ^^^'"P^- Stop- unction of each of the sibordi m\« ? ^F' *'>\^'' ^" P^^'^^d «* the Street, and likewise vLrf dTn^ ^ '^' "^^^" ^^ King another not shewn in the desS i^p? 1"''^"" f'^ '^« '•'^««"•°»^ rising main, in the engine housf Cl ^'¥^ ^' '^« ^«"om of brought up through a faucet ?nto asfnn. ^'^''^ fP|"^'«« ^'^ *« be of the street. The opening in stomal ^"l '""'^ ^^'«^ ^he level cast iron cover. ^ ^ ^^"'^ "''P ^« ^^ closed with a heavy taiKT^^^^^^^^^ ;tdt^r;u'mb^ ^f ^^^^^ ^'^ ^^« ^- of the different street, as Lllu. *'^i;;Se;;ie1 K *'' ^"^^^ COST. The works as Ave have designed thpm in fi,^ 1 . cations are of so hea-y and pS^anenf « ? *''^P^«tf ^nd specifi- involve a much greater outlay '^^^1111^^ ^0"1e erection of one a of the Cornish t to do the worlv, "ded, in the form rhich scheme may ion, although the ;ruction of works land, still, in the more extensive jects as these are the calculations neration, but be the probabilities int. ervants, < GNISSIMO." ond premium. KEEFER. 45 PLAN- No. a ne Ckairman of Fire and Water^o.^utUe, City Hall, HanuUor. I "non quo, SED QUOMODO." i REPORT AND SPECIFICATION OF PLANS ''tt::^^t:z^:^ ^^ ^^« ^^y «^ «-'•- with pilS:Sl:j-?;;^E^.::^;^|;^-dSub.n.ain, .., Servic. of part of the City of Ham '„ t hi v^'"^^"? '"'^^'^'^ ^^l^ Reservoir, Eneiue Houle SfZ^ Ihe pos,t,on ot the Distributing and the height fftLwatrr'i^h^R^r' ^"•\'' "^'^? ^^°^" ^^ereon; at their intfrsectionTl^'Svenin^eT^^^^^^^^^^^ SITUATION OF RESERVOIR. th 's:.tf "o? the prrrt'rofs^Tir'^ V^ 't ^'S'^ ^-""d ^o entire Block boundeTrvFlorene ^n"" t"^'. '* «'^«"P''e« the Streets, and is slightl/undu .S S Mn 7h' ^"'^' '"^ ^''''''''' or .hioh deviates int;:^^^:^^-?^;^^^^^ CONSTRUCTION, ETC. thorough clean'sing JeiC^ZlJt^^^^^^^^ th« other, or interfering in any de™ wUh hp f . "'"P^^^'^g the water. The EmbLkmeSfs a?e pro^^ed trbeT^^^^^ a retentive quality, an abundance of whil .. k ™,^? ""^ ^'^^ "^ in the neighborhood. The oSer 1- T,.^' ''^'^"^ P^«*="'"^d I'alf to one, and the inner at H^J^f /f* *''" '^^' «^ «"« and a and inner s ope to be ?ned w tb Lrd l 7?-*^ ""^' ^^« b««om edge, and grouted w th hydrauH^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^"''i <>« thepen.£iono?rer'^|h^^^^^^^ "iij picvcnred. — ■" "^ cuectu- /i.lh ; I i, 11 46 SIZK OF RESEftVOIR, ETC. lonl'lnTl^SSSrtK'iLT;" > «^ ''^ -^-^'-N no feet height of the waterXvethViv^erL^^ 21 feet: the feet. The capacit v ni'.nl '^^«'^««« 'e vol of the Bay will be 1 44 the entire quanUt/of . ^31?^*^^ ""' '^ 2.02{433gano s mperial ga'uons, Jr 4,85^ K SSrAJ".'^ ''''''««« for more than four davs to 4n nnn • i ff*'^°"«' affording a simply tity to be supplied toiac. at ri"--''^ '^'^■ standard American gallons ^'"^ «''"^"^' P^'* ^ay, or 36 SUPPLY pipe; &e. Pi^tm S^S:;:E;;:!^;^^^- -P-te in^uent or Supply on the Drawings. ThirnLTLnllr '''•'''''■ ",* ^^' Point indicated arranged in such a way K IZ *''' "' '^ ''^'''"^«'- «f masonry, rectel upwards, a d ^^i£;^Va, k'E"' 1 7'^'^'' '^'^''^'^^ '^ ^^■ otherwise injuring the bo«oro f thp R^^^ '^ ^''*'"' ^'"^^'""g «^«y o'' ease when the R^servo r £„ llf ' ^^f''"'^'''' «! '« frequently the Engine, and when noTrov' siL of^L if- V '' 1^* «" ^''^^ ^he the force of the curren from thn hn^. ^'""^ 'l"^"^« ^^'^ ^'^erting preventing the current fron?dsh,rH-"' ' '<^ ^as also the effect of happen to be at the boSn of L "7? '"^ '^^""«"* ^'''^h '"ay otherwise become mixedt^S\^ ^HL^^U^ :?t:^^lSf VALVES, s or i,? ' ' ^''^^^' *^°'^^«- The apparatus for raising 0. oS'th' ? rx"?'"'"'^ «^><^*«- the Ground .Floor of this BuiSg §,?l^o f ' ) t'' '' P^"«^^ '« shewn m sheet No. IJ.) so as fn\i f ^ ■ ?^ ^'''' apparatus is tendant. "' '^ ''^ ^"^ '^e easily within reach of the at CLEANSING PIPES, &c. throSgh^irCi^Sy TtmBuSS^t'''''r'"''^'' ^^'^p^^^ y tms Building, and are provided with valves, nicate w torn of I this well Valve f When it of one 01 ing them received the Clean the Main arch ovei and for re I'lio De that the w, or from be The orifice screen of s for filling t grosser ma the deliver ! similar to t Main of 18 I of these, as I plan and de CONNECj In order t i connecting p i bedded in o j opening or si i structed at tl frame, suppo I wall, serves t to the attendi the timber co be necessary . When the v I (which is I fo^ 'aterJine, 170 feet 1 bo 21 feet : the e Bay will be 144 2,022,433 gallons: will be 4,044,866 alFording a supply irra^ing the quan- -> per day, or 36 1 fluent or Supply point indicated iber of masonry, therofrom is di- ivasting away or is frequently tho let on from the de for diverting ilso the effect of nent which may tid which would ' water therein. that when the water cannot e effected upon coding. Each Valve (shewn Engine can be s those of the jreater conve- ssary objects. ■s is placed in apparatus is ich of the at- nt, also pass rovided with 47 VaJve Houso ,0 a receiving'^wc] l' ,' ',' '^'IM;^'"^ through the VVheniti.requiroJtodrawofl-tl :J; '^ '-"^t"^" ''•« buOding ot one of the compartments for tt n m'" '""^^.^ '^"'" '^^ ^"tto?; 'ng them, tho \'al^e being om^HtT °>f'*^"''=^ «'' ''^Pair he Cleansing Pipe into tho rcee h , ' " '*''" "^'*3' through MLU'ERY FROM KESEUVOIli. . tv-oacrvoir the embankment,) and 48 still continue!) to flow ji-om the Fncrit.^ »u- i line ')' SUIii'ACE DUAINAGE. MODE OF DISTRIBUTION &c mains proceed down McNab L)m..« \r„.. Jrir ,, ^^"'' '^"'^ to the North shor^of the Lako U ^5 ^\''"'^ Wellington Streets Streets crossed by the e Sub .naint ..r' .'"''^'"^^'^^'«" «^'tl>e several curves of 16 feet radir- XI ''•''' -'^ P'P'" *'**^ «"ached hv the Map, towarls the East fn "SnT/'^l^ ^'T''^^ '' '^''''^' «» the groS;d on whicriTaSon Isl to' r ^'^Lf "^^'' ^''\'' several intervening bio. ks these nin^lnt^ • ^"f P«f ^'"g the east of that from which fhVv .t^N 5 I '"'""''■ J"'"^<^ *« ''^^ "^ai". the former at a eve \Z Ti ' 'i',^ '!" T'^"^ '^^^^ ^''^^ ^^ach whence they f rs? proc ede7 'Sl ilJ V.'J'^" '^"^ ''^ '^' P^'"^ to fiow downwardrhS of ir ''^^"^^''^ ^'^t"' '^ thus made by the pressure of ?he head Bv ^hu' "^^^'^^ ''^' ''^^ P'P^^ currents are avoided and Iv 5V 1 «"'angement all return a great measuruilt^r FolramlThe":!/","""'"^ '" James Street Main bv Up ^L,1 d-P ' , ^^^^"^ ^^^vwp the Street, reaches t^Mary St eet Ma n on t^ "' '^'' T^'' «^ ^'"g at a level of 3G feet 6 LheTbI?i?s W.r 'T''^?'"''^ ^''■^^^' ^ain, the junction of the Ser^c Piie out"o Ih^ !f''' ^^ Street, at the corner of Cannon Z B^^^Strtt ^^^Z!:^ James I Street ] distribui tcchnica vice Pip pipe.) w are iuvu prejudicii sive to n whicji tht CHMioil, th extreme i than four a novel oi for a City is uninterr the furthes OUTT/NC The man with the M, ^ in Sheet Nc I Hervice witi ' "farest side ■"Service at tf Main anothe is also an en Pipe. Wh, the upper si thus cut off i none odn oiite opened, the v ret'eptacle be) connecting Cu admitted, so t he taken up o are enclosed ii crown of the t The mode oi bottom of such of the uneveni: IS water rising in nto the water-ba^ lotFinto tho main e *■ n '■' '** to some pvf..nt r" """"^'^"^^'-''"'^ ~'— . .0. «dmitted,%o that til. w . « ''''**''' '««^«s the ^eJvtn t- ' ""^'^ CLEANSING AULA^s^ ^^ The mode of flean<5in,r fi, xr . i '"^ e*""na. IX c(lnn.» -v »s. 's shewn yuenoe '« Sheet No:?3 A 60 K J MMf cUansing pipe of not less than 6 inches diameter is attached to the Mam by a sleeve; this cleansing pipe passes through a man-hole or well, in which is placbd a sluice cock, by opening which a quan- tity of water is rapidly drawn from the Main, carrying with it the silt or mud laying in the pipe, which falls into the water bag in the receiving well and passes thence into the Sewer. HYDRAxNTS, ed. The work- any slight wear" 51 cannot affect the tightness of th. . m the Mains tends o^nly S do, thf nl Vl '"^ ^''^'"*^'•"«' P'«««ure Provision is also made for a oTdit fl& I'' "/}'«" «" the screw remains inside the tubular pluTSn .1 T ^'^^''^^t' «« "o water passed a short distance above^the nn.f ' ' '"^ "' '^' "^ifiees are tube always flows out. SoDeninr ^"^ ''"^' ^^^e water in the one turn being sufficient to eleS "r'?''''" " ^[ •^»«'"derable pitch the gradual action of the scre^ pTeve^f f^'^' ^^"^^""•^J'^^^^^^^ sudden shock from the rush oflJI^ r^ ^^^ occurrence of any he communication with the Ho Ph' ^^ '^"'^ P'P« '« required brass tube screwed at ea h em? F'ri"''''''^y '^''''^ V a shon' g^ore is required than oiie of the smaM l^'"'",^ ""^ ^^^'^'^g- nothing Brigade, so that no delay can oor.r? '''"' ^^'^^ "««d by the Firf PO'nt of economy, too^t J hZIIT ^''''"^ofproper keys C most others, as where hey h^ih.fn ^^'f ^'^^ advantages over been supplied at about £l ^tS/eS."''' '" ^"^^"^"^ '^^^ ^ave PIPES.--SJZE, STRENGTH, &c. intfnde'd?ote%td';?';;?'"l.''^''^^"^^^' ^"^ ^""•'"ons of the Pi„. ^-ofthese^eTAa^rS^uSfa^n^St n figures on the enlarged Map a i^Sv "7'""/'^'^' '^''^ "marked thickness of metal of tlsc pTp^estm te t^'^ "" ' ^"^^ ^^at the 1'™.^^^"'°^ 2, 3 and 4 inches Sub-Mam « 6, 7 and 8 " ? ^"• ^f'"^ " 10 and 12 '< i" MODE OF JOINTING PIPES, &c. enJ^sS Na ""' ^^7 ^' •*«< ^^ -iH be seen by refer packed with hemp and leaded 7Z"'" f '^'" ^'^^ Socket Jo^L the lead to run in^to and h '' enluZ\\7^}''' '" *^« ««ckS This method of jointing waterrunnTv »• ^'1'^ ^^-^ter-tight joint ticed, and is no doubt dfeSro ^ ^ P'^^" ^'*''' been much Dra«L' disadvantages of gitter'::srmt:"tiSr '^^ f^''-"' ^"t uZZ difficulty of removal should tCe eve "I '" ^^•^"^' ^"^ ^^t''*'"^ with the less expensive easier la.VI !«! ' '"'^'^^on, as compared ^placed Fiange^oint PipeTSd lh™r/*^^^^^^ removeS ani Perch* packings, and bolted\ogether a, i"^"" .^"bber or Gutta jand which, therefore, on fJ,« r^-_f^^ shewn m Sheet No. - ^-.ing and removal; I^propoie Z ^^^ i^S^^^^y M »H. H^ i .1 -■ > ' 1 i /^ri fj 1 1 . i'i i ;■ ;■'*•! , m \ V rli 52 STAND PIPE, TOWER, T^ ^"^'ne. The single strokl of the sll'm cvMnder S P'f'""' ''' "^^'^ «t a be remembered that th^spSd of h "p^"'"P-P'""='''' ''"^ '^ '""^t stroke of the piston s 71?] ftin^lff ? "''^ •'''°^' «"^ «"« purpose only \he steam is Ipoyefencefr''"'/"^ ^''' ^^'^ ^sS^ftheES^—r^^^ Engine has but one wEg CrTl^ T^ ^Zl^Tt^ '' '^'"^ the steam cylinder will be 15 sing e strokes orlo / t P"'"" '" per m nute, giving the pump aTelocTty ^90 feefn '. ''''^''' contend with sudden rrsisZc:MhT:o;kt'd'^ "^^^^^^^ nery bemg perfect y uniform in consennpn.^ 71 ■ '"««''•• pump. On reference to Sr^wi^No f irwiH bl' "''T ""^ '^' the pump piston is deliverim, thp wof ' ^^^^^'^ ^^^^ while and &,rou\? the valvotri 'tH.^'Z^tlfll''^ T^ ;ng through the valve marked " suction valTinioth7TJo '', l"^' vacuo by the ascending and descendin ^^e sluice be laid in a channel excavated t the beJ J !kT ^^" P'P« ^o and protected from the water duriL 1 '^^ ^^^' surrounded Coffer Dams of narrow width «,T-^ ?? P'"°^^^ of laying, bv the most convenient To manLT' "^1 W '^ '''''" ^«^"'d by a P;Srd Cir CTc^e^ it' T ^^^--in^at:! this pipe will fall into the welljus "desorfK T''. P*'''"^ ^^rough be conveyed by a brick-bS tr„?f''-^' *^*^ ^'" ^om thence within the EngiL House " "^'^''"^ ''^^^ *''« Auction Well «uJ^;&^:?lC^ :^^,^-f ' ^'^^^ plan fbr fied m the adverti'sement, T woufd bernt' •"" *''' ^^"'•^^ «P««- t'on to the essential requisites for com nli™""''." *^ '^'''^ct a"en. It has been my object to smfre In&TT f ^ *''^°'«"«)^ ^hich probable rate of increase in th« , ^'"'^ P^"*'®' booking at the jupply has been bS on double^r f ""' /"^ e«timate^for he tants ; and in order that ?he sunnlvt/T"* °"™''^' of Inhabi we Us private purposes, the SL^^rni"^^ for public as at the maximum. In the second pC toL''*^ ^^^ ^^^" *«k«n be an uninterrupted supply and to H .^/^"'•e as nearly as may S6 i and fitted with 1 throw «o gallons gallons per day, consideration the irposes and fires, It of the Engines, 3 Specification of > annexed to this 5 water from the ws : a well will ^ap, of suitable ed in the Speci- Cast Iron inlet yards. This rough the sluice - The pipe to ay, surrounded ' of laying, by 3 shall be found 1 pumped out protected by a it after being be terminated ssing through 11 from thence Suction Well , this plan for source speci- > direct atten. iciency which ooking at the imate for the er of Inhabi. >!■ public as been taken 'arfy as may ' practicable inseparable I have not nes and two sets of pumps, but also to have each Enffino of «„«;«:„ . perform the needful w-rk alonp wnrU- fu t. • ^°* P*'*®'^ ^ Jnd regularly, and so hav r^^rFn "^ J"^'"'' alternately ways in perfect order anS^niserveftfr'nnv""'^ " ''' "^ P"'"?' *'• arise. In the third place I hiZl f'l^r^.'TT"'^ ^^^^ "''^y Pipes as to secure L comolete a,^! .• *""' '"•'*'" Distributing water as possible, kLwS? tlL vtirtT""' '" -"'"'^r «^ ^'^^ of the water is often muhde'eioraed at 4f ?''''"" '^^ 'l""'''^ that both in England and AmZoI l^ ^''''"'' P^'^^s, and works of WateSpt have hp.n' '''''''y f^'^'Z^^^ well-designed omissionofths preventative tlT'".t '? '^'f^^'^^^^ bfthe endeavoured to make fd nr;viiinn f ? P^*^'"' * ^"^« «"^'«"«'y a abundant sup^tite^^r" Jj^^ ^^^'-S ^f repairs, fo^ aged, for flushin^|s^ewerrstVeef ^t L. and 1^1, ''.f ^^ T""' in all Public wrks'art'r" t:;:^^^:^^!^^:^'^^' rsid^tir^"^^' '' '- ''-' ^'"- -n^rytit ttS \' 1 1 ''^ 1 ' 1 \m 1 . ' B t^i 1 i 'i U i - 11 ti I'WHr i ■ tfilfl ^1 1 M 60 I! SPECIFICATION filling up the depressions of thLurfaceti''''n '' ^' "'^^ '" consolidated in layers of not more Zn i « " . I '^"""^^^ «»<^ retaming embanlfments are beTu„''''"Tl' if I' *f ^ before the formed agreeably to the PJan«,.l^".,f I "^^""^"^^"ts to be outer slope to be^orm'd to an h elit ^n^'''''^''''''^'^^ ' ^^e he inner slope to two to one he F nh l'"''^ ^"'^ * '^^^^ ^^ «"« ; inches high from the levenf th/3 i- 1"'''"'"^' *° ^« 22 feet 6 the outer Einbankmen to be fee wid«""":."^ '^' ^^^-^^i-" 5 one 6 feet wide, to be formed to hU ''"•^^^ ^^^5 ^^^ «'^"tra more than 18 inches'thidr of chv or > ' ""i?'^'^ '" ^'^^^''^ ^^ "ot well worked and beaten to^e'her aL ihol ""m ^ * '''^^"^'^« inaffr.» a,, -l , hard burnt clinker Tri ^ |^fo„^S^ *« be paved with joints with liquid mortar c„no,yi ^T\'^ ''«'^^«en ihe sharp sand in proper propoSs ^^^'^''""''^ ^ime and clean The Cleansing and Receiving Well-- fj,„ n- Valve [louses, and all other LV^il ,^AhP'\^*'""^^^ Crete is exhibited in the Plans'^ a H^ '''i:^ '" ^•^'^f' Con- r..unded with Concrete me in the .7''" '° '"'^ ""'^ ""''■ Concrete to be composed of uncreenedhir"^' "^"""'^•- :-The first approved of by Ihe E.^Jinrr ^ , w "f ^'^'^^ ('" ^e burned stone lime, one partf ht' ime to Ik"'^ ""^ fr^^h\,\U powder on the premises wh Lt unslacked rh. '"'" ,"'' ^'"•^""^ '^ be then thoroukly mixed nthf' .^''® gi-avel and lime to and in small qnaatL^at a t "me hfir/r ^ """'[''"^^^ above! with as little water as posS anr h "''"'"^ '^''''g ^''^^l^ed diately after mixing to be thrown or H """'""Ti "'''' ''"'"°- (constructed by the'contractor To"a3 to f^!7fo !^""l ' '1'^'"^ vided for its reception from AJlhtrf f! '° '^"^ ^'■^"'^b pro- of concrete to beV such hickne fas the e' • ' '"^' ^^^ ''^^- and extending the whole width ^fth!? ^"f »^er shall direct, rammed before any masory is laid upon 1^"'^ 'f '' ^^ ^^«" livery and Cleansing Well Valve Hnnl , ^^ deceiving, De- and all other masonr? clnecte? with t a R?'^ Stand-Pipe fewer, of the dimensions and formrarsheuMit.? ''''"'''' "^'^ ^^ buil of the same. And all thTex^^d po JilTf^^''^ ^•"^^'''"^^ built of regular coarse ma^onrv h^ S a ^^. '"*''' ^^''^ to be perfectly t^ae, both vertS ]y?„d tS^^ -""f 1 '^'^^ ^'-^^^'d ,stones, in all cases to be laid^n th rnatuml'bed/^"! "^ f '' '^- headers and stretchers, thr, beds to h« nnM ,r ^'^'''' alternate and the courses not leis than 12 tche h ihl^h^'.'"'''^^ "'■<^«. the very least 1 foot 8 inches lon<" Th ^ ■ ^^^^^^^ to be at shown as rock-faced nllr^ i ^u^din Jthrnirr''"' "^, ''^« ^^--k larches, and quoins of Valvf Kote tV be „? r\'''"'i^^'-'«"'»>«. with a tooled draft of U inch wide fo?,ll- ! ^''^ ^''^e-stone, arris The whole of the rest of The mason J"? '"'^ P''Wi"g theRftsprum,. „.,-i „.-_ . ^^^ ine mason work conneotfiW ,..-..? ,arris The whole of The ^-e^ of The mason \i''? ^"'^ P'^Wing the Reservoir, and also thl-R. • • , ^^^^^ connected with Sluice Cock ^X tt bilitriL"^. nelt'ind"f^ ^^'^ -^ hammer-dressed to a fair surface Za 1 ■ '^*'S"'«'' course, [true both verticdly and horLoSv A hh'"'"^' t" ^' ^'««« and ,with the best rubble masoTr? on;ri it ,^o'''^'^^^ ^''^'^ natural beds, and the whole pVopeH^Lid and bS /f ^'" '''^''• compounded of one-third well bu?nt stonl Hm ?^^ '" "^^'-^a'". clean sharp sand, well beaten and careful H'*? '''''''^'"^' °^ parapet, cornice, mouldings, pHntT wSnv IL ?'' ^'"If '^^- ^he House to be of free stone walinaf'S u^ *^""'' ''^'« ^^ Valve the beds and joints as befoTe d "ci-S^et Z f" "'T'^ '''^^^'^^- hd the window sills 12X6 ""'''' "'"'^-''^^ door sills to be l2x 8, L\ I i, 1 M The iriMonry of the Engine House and SUnd-piw Tower to be executed iri the manner hi rein abi.ve described, and in strict accord- ance wuh the drawings of the same ; such poriions as are not shown in rock masonry are to be executed in tooled ashlar masonry Jhe mam shaft of Stand-pipe Tower, the flues, circular shaft Jf fh^ . K Tk^' ""^ '*' ".''^"'" ""'"''^ *h"^» •" brick, to be built oi tt: B^tfersrlXrr' '''''-'' ^'^^ ''' ''''' --^' --^ A Well to be sunk in the position shown in the enlarged Map J^ rece. vmg th^ wa^.- fi-onri the Pipe into the Bay, will be built Si hard bncks laid m Hydraulic Cement on a Cast Iron Curb, with ' «nH T^,h ?^^ downwards, the soil to be taken out from the interior^ the brick' ^n 'h "^' 'n Y''^ ''^'' '' ^''''"'''^ "P '" Proportion-: the brick to be moulded so as to radiate from the centre of thd thick. The Well to be sunk to the depth of 25 feet below th ground level : proper openings to be left in the side nearest th Bay for the insertion of ^he cast iron Inlet Pipe. The back of th Well to be properly puddled. An arched Brick Culvert to b carried from the Well to the Suction Well of the Engine House 1 ENGINES, PUMPS, &c. wirfT,-.^"^'"^?!^""* ^'""P.' *° ^^ constructed in strict accordanc with the several Drawings thereof annexed, and as hereinafter mnr part^ularly specified, viz : The Cylinder of each En^Se to be 2 inches diameter, having a stroke of 6 feet ; to be of fine hard ca iron and accurately bored and fitted in all respects ; the cyHnde cover and valve spindle-gland to be bushed with fine haS gu metal and also the bottoms of the stuffing boxes. The PisZ to be fitted accurately with two brass rings,%hich are to be ac upon by hemp in the inside of the same by means of a plate a screws. The Piston Rod to be of the best f^gotted WrougS Iro ??/?.K'P"\^"'^'"*'' the cross-head, aS^secured l^yfcolt The Beam to be made as per detail Drawings, having the main an smaller gudgeons truly turned and fitted. The Air Pump tX\ fine hard cast iron, and truly bored and fitted with a piston of th same description as the piston in the Steam Cylinder and th bushes and gands to be of the same descrfption'as those in Steam Cylinder. The Air Pump Bod to be accurately fitted in the gland of the Air Pump lever and attached to the back links ' the motion. The Condenser to be cylindrical, and of the dTm nsio. and form shown m the drawings, the joints to be all accura e faced and properly furnished with bolts and nuts. ThTlSS Cock to be made of brass, and fastened to the Condenser by mea« of a flange bolted to the side of the same, and to be provided wif spindle floi Walt hown in lecessary ruly bore ;he workii nest cast ilunger tri ;he work in 'rank to tted into ;ey8, and iruly turne •ell fitted i ihe crank i ;urned as p he dimensi ^Ae Connec ;he Drawing vith the ne ihe large or irasses trulj >y the coltei iection of its lix arms ; tc Tought iron •y wrought i his purpose, [ing on both 'Ceentric Put lecured accor :eyed on to t lard with bal >olts, and of 'tod attached, •ut and finish( iraensions sh ' Valve, leavi [i-uly fitted an «t iron, not i lolid ends fiti lead of wrougl fhich is to hA\ adjusting the i tnt} girders to 1 l"gs, and to be vr (,: pjiown, and fasti m iii.i ( nd-pipe Tower to be and in strict accord- poriions as are not )led ashlar inast>nry, es, circular shaft ol brick, to be built of brick casing round B9 > the enlarged Map, Jay, will bo built ot It Iron Curb, with a; It from the interior,! up in proportion- al the centre of the] bricks (18 inches, 25 feet below the] he side nearest tk i. The back of the, pick Culvert to b le Engine House. n strict accordanci IS hereinafter mon Engine to be 22, e of fine hard cas ects ; the cylindei ith fine hard gui xes. The Pistoi ch are to be acte ans of a plate am ted Wrought Iroi jured by a colte. ping the main aiii Ur Pump to be th a piston of t.. Cylinder, and thi 1 as those in th jrately fitted inti the back links of the dimensioL be all accurate!] I. The Injectit idenser by mea be provided w; spindle and handle for reinilfltin» thr. i /. , Uot Water Pump to be o7Cr^«nH 7^^^.''^ ^"J'°^'°" ^ater. ihown in the DrLLs fitted whhf ""^ "'^ ^"""^ ""^ dimensiona -eceasary pipes f,, TcI^^LTIZ'-T'' "'"T ^ "" ^^« .ruly bored, and having a rod jointed o Vhl *'" '^ ^« "^ '«'«''. he working beam, fhe ColdWaierpJ^ T?"^ ^'"^'^'^ '^ inest cast iron, as hard as that of the CvS '^ '•'"'^' °^ '*'" 'lunger truly turned, and cor necked fn n^"^"'!. ''"^ '"'^'J ^'^h a i« working^eam, at thelsta et hew^Tlfe D '' ^""'''^ ^^ ?rank to be of tough cast in.n the e^ n I P^^^'^S^- The 'tted into the crank shaft and s;cured To thp """v'^ ^'"'^ '^"d ■eys, and not to be shrunk on foth« I r. ^T^ ^^ ^^'« «"-ong :ruly turned to the dinSons show^ n fu''^^' "''^"'^ P'" ^^ be jell fitted intothecrunk a dLte^^^^^ ^"^ to be ;he crank and pin. tL Crank ^t7 I^T ""I ^ ""''^^^^ ^^'ough mrnedas ?^r ir.^i/gXvZ^^^^^^^ of cast iron, truTy ^e dimensions shown in the ifrawinr !^ I " ^^^ P'''^'"" «"d ^t mConnecUn, Pod to be of cast i"^^^^^^^^ observed. !k i"r'"S»; the small ends to be fi'tted w^th 5 1""" '''"^" '" 'I'lth the necessary brassps nmo „ / , "" continuous straps he large or crank'endTb'e^oHd hav'l'T' '" ^^''^^ «"«' brasses truly bored and fittedTn o th« i® P"? ''<'"«d o»t and '7 the colter. T'A* 4 S^A J? o £20^'^ '"l'° '^^ '°'^^ "P°° .ection of its ring not le^ss Than 28 inches andn"^^^i'T''■'^^^"g« « arms; to be cast in three pieces and s^^^^^^^^^ ^T '^'"^ wught iron rings shrunk on to the «^m! t. ^^ ^^® "'^^^ ^7 two '7 wrought iron straps shrunk on to TcJ f" "f ^ '\^^ ^^^'«°^ h purpose, and bolts to pis SrouKe ilT'^lr '''^ ^^'"^ ^o'' k on both sides^a Drawbrhermf .!T ^ ^^"'''^"'•'"g the ^ccentric Pully to be of isT ron „n?l • ^'^ ^ f^'-nlshed. V/4e kured according to °he Drawin/ t S""^ '^^ f^'"°^ ^^^"'•^tely teyed on to the shaft. T^Ec^Imc tr?^'l^ ^?'^^ °"' ^"d lard with babbit metal J.A f.. I "-^ ^ ^^ °^ brass, verv ;olts. and of the form Lhown Te n'^ -^^ "'l*^ '"« "»ts 7nd iod attached. The wZlWJ^t Drawing, with the Eccentric ;ut and finished, ha vinfhf Steffi r ^' wrought iron, truly set tensions sho^n on tie Drlt ^ '??.l2;'^"r"«'g^ o^f the > Valve, eavinff the «.mn„r,f 7i^" / ^""'^ ^^"^^^ to be a lone ruly fitted and i^apedTo'a J opTr tuXr ''^ .""r'^S^-tlZ ia^t iron, not too hard, to be wSd bv t-r'^ '." ^t"^'' °f fi'^e loJ'd ends fitted with brasses a^^Hpou/ '"'"^'^od side rods with lead of wrought iron «nH ?h . '^' ^""^ attached to a cross Jicb is to hfve nu s on'e theHroVtle f' T' l'^^' «P'"^'^ .adjusting the travel of the vllve tI. nT ^"'i^' P"'-P'^'*« ^C he girders to be of the dimension, ../ f ""T" ^"'" «"PPorting hgs, and to be firmly fLtenedfTZr ^°''"' ''^°*" *" the Draw- lbr.n.iMo,. ^f *u.. '^"'7. fastened to the transverse Dlafo h..ib ; r. ! t '!£ ■»>if 60 girders to have cheeks and chipping pieces cast on them so aa tn Ee able to get up a true bed for'the Plummer Blocks T'ca'rv n« the mam beam gudgeons. The Plummer Blocks to be of thoirm and dimensions shown-to be very accurately fitted in every rLpecT and the brasses to be of good tough gun-metal lined with babbU rnetnl, and htted with suitable lubricators. The ParalU I Motion, the mam hnks to be of the form and dimensions shown f^eTwiii; hard gun-melal brasses, accurately bored, with distance deces o bs and colters complete. ; the back links to be open-ended havinc hard gun-metal brasses with distance pieces and keys well filed the paralle bars to be round, larg-r i'n the centre th^anlt the nda and of the dimenuon shown in the Drawin«s— thev are not tn \„!„ straps, but to be fitted with brasses and'keys t'ith cupffoHubd catmg the workmg parts : the Radius Rods to b. of the^ame form very accurately centred. A Blow-through Valve to be prov"S utrVl \«""^'""^"t P«!I f^r the Engineman to use^wkh the eve s of the startmg geer. The Larye P%mp to have a Cy inde? IV mches in diameter and a stroke of three feet, with an air vessel to each a drawmg of which will be furnished hereafter : the Cyl n de to be of good hard cast iron, very accurately bored and fiued ,^f . ?!"" ^'^^ ^"^t description as that described for the CyN inder of the Engme ; the Cylinder to be 1| inches thick to hi fitted with Valve Boxes and Valves ; the ValvesTbe of iWth^^^^ w.th a thickness of vulcanized India Rubber at the back of he £' the two bemg drawn together by bolts passing through two iron plates ; the Valves to work upon metallic hinges, and this desS tK)n of Valve to be employed in all parts of this pump a detail Draw.ng of which will hereafter be furnished: the Va ves r^us have checks fastened on the inside of the Valve Boxes'and so plTced that the Valve sha I not open too far ; all the joints t^ be very t?ul v faced, and the Valve Doors to be planed on the joint surface a„5 £1'^.^ '' '\ Valve Box; the'piston Rod o t 3? nc^^^^^ th.ck of the very best faggoted wrought iron. The Puml cZZ be well fitted to the pump flange, and thoroughly bolted^down must have brass bushes and glands. A set of open Valves are a so to be provided ; all the other parts of the sat^e to be as ner Drawmg, well bedded down to the bed plate which Tto canv IL\ this and the Cold Water Pump. The^Piston to ie work J b v a rod attacl^d to a parallel motion before described, and worked "bv the arge beam. The Boilers are to be tubular, and four inlmber ' thTZr '""'TVu^ ?"" of the form shown in the Da^n«' t'oT^^f'rSh^^ 'A ' ''-) i^e fl^pll' thir'th^e'^Srke^Bt^ to be of i Sheet Iron of the dimensions and form shown and fitted I wuh a door ms.de~the Tubes to be not less than 60 in number, of I 3 inches be of til of 150 1 tened in Smoke slightly same. ! as showr plugs an also, on a glass V, must be municati* will herei with a wc to this eai of the wa by damag thick, pro protected the effect 1 are to be inches diai in this Spe manlike m and all Pa Engineer j is further but shown and actuall slight altei by the par said works- pense of thi of the said on them, so as to locks for carrying to be of the form d in every respect, ined with babbit Parallel Motions — jhown, fitted with itance pieces, gibs )ded, having hard well fitted; the 1 at the ends, and are not to have ih cups for lubri- if the same form, to be provided n to use with the have a Cylinder ith an air vessel ifter : the Cylin- bored and fitted, bed for the Cyl- bes thick, to be to be of leather, »ack of the Ram, irough two iron md this descrip. pump, a detail he Valves must 8, and so placed ] to be very truly oint surface and be 3^ inches 'le Pump Cover / bolted down ; pen Valves are ne to be as per s to carry both •e worked by a ind worked "by I bur in number, the Drawings, f the Boiler is 1 Id pitch; the the one at the i he Smoke Box own, and fitted in number of I 61 of 150 lbs. bv Steam of MO lb, I,! j * .f""'"' '° " P"*""" m^iction beS any of .Te fl„iZ T .Tn""'?'"* ""^ <^'""- n .hi,Spe„i&.,o„, ,0 1,0 U.oroulhTyio'i^JK fpSf;^^^^^^^^ manlike manner n evorv rpnr,pnt oil *u. i •* l'<="et,uy woik- Engineer appointed for that purpose by ,he Ci rCoS & ■? js tother to be understood/lha't all detail, noY herein Lntt'td' but ahown upon the Drawing, , r otherwiae intended tobe sneSl' and actt^ally necessary to be made, are to be undertaken St slight alterations that may hereafter be decided upon fjr the bes{ m 14 t, I ffj 63 AN ESTIMATE Ofth, Co»t of the Work, herein reported upon and to be *,,« / ^ u. accordance.,, the I^ra.i./and Pial\reJ,^Z^^^^^ mUbear^r^g the motto, "NoN quo, a,D .uomodo." * Reservoir, Land and Appendnffes « f "• »• i-unp^, Ace *' f 8,000 Mam Pipes, and Layinir ^ Sub-main ami Service Pipes ' ^^'^^^ ^ Engine House, Tower, Welji&c.i. *.;;'.'. "/.".'////^g'BOO " £66,000 I) fhVpi -^v' ^ 'H° ^"'"''' ^"'•ka as delineated on the Plans, but as the greater portion of thTabove amount woud be expended in laying the pipes through districts, where, trom the sparfene" f fhe needed, the amount is of course verv m.w.h okI ^ ^rnn.y V ;".®, S'"^/. Ihis amount n ay be verv greatly diminished. My Estimate fo- fhe mS Sub.ma.ns, and Service Pipes to supply the area north^by Stuart Street, the west by McNal^ St" eet and the east by Wellington Street, including the Reservoir, Engines, Stand Pipe, Hydrants at Z intersection of every street and aII f^I^ appendages, is ^ ' ^^ *" ""^ "ecessary It is also right to state tVaVai;hoVghVhV;;;;7tL^^^^^ ^ ^ norl. I'P.'/' '-'P'^'^"^ '^"'^ desirable, yet it is ma V hfi .'^^."^^r"''^' '^' ''''' therefore (£050 t^^sum ' ^'"" ''^'^ "™"""^' ^h»« maki.2 £25,450 November 10, 1854. WILLIAM HODGINS. I consider this competitor should receive the ^A.Vrf premium. Montreal, 23rd Dec, 1854. ^"^^- ^- REEFER. «3 nd to be trecutfd txeith tubmitltd, £ 2,500 8. o. [• 8,000 .26,000 .30,000 . 2,600 -66,000 0,400 9 ',450 )DGINS. aium. KEEFER. REi'ORT OF T. C. KEEFEK, ESQ, tj ,, T. Montreal. January m, 186J Robert McEtnor, Esq., Chairman Fire and Wa/.. r Corporation of jJumiUon: CommtUee, Sir,— 18th of September iJt. ^"''' "^''"^ ^^ ^''«= City of Hnmiiton "n the Plan* numbered 2. i and i «., ♦u the Engine House of 'the Great \Ve,t .' n a^l "•;* ^"f'T ""'^ ^""'P» near the elevated plateau of ground IvinJ J 7' *°*^ V'« Reservoirs „po„ of the remaining three^wo nla^e fh ' X?./-? '"t*^ ^""''"^° ^treeC; Wharvec and the third neartU Ore.t vi 'ir;fr ./I ^"^:'' ""^ F«Ikner',^ c. Q^^ree.; and aU p,ant their IJi^, '^ .^.^.S^TSS ^^^^^ be selected for the Reservoirs whLh nllit?.?, j ^ ^''''^ ^'^'^''i «'»o"ld clear that if a point be assumed wh oh ?lS '^ '°",'''°' "'*> «"PP'y ? It i« the City limits^uch an eleTation may hlll^TmZ^r-'- ^"''^'4 ^'^^^ adequate supply of the greater part of the fS. ^ '"" '" "^'^'^^d for the d. ure be oaT/e J for_in Engine Eower and ^ I* "'." »''"''**'" ^^P*"' wise be needed. *^ ^ ' *"'* maatenaace-than would other- RESERVOIRS. ^hether by gravitation or otherwise Spends ^,nlr •"' T"'*"- «"PP'v. Reservoirs as near the centre of the distribEn?. .-"v? '"""Sf* Stor^"g the Reserve- 8 should be as lartre as can bl !ff "" /'"."^t'eabTe. I„ all cases sufficient to carry the City h f Lh anv tt-tf""'"^' \'^ *° ensure a supply tarn the head for ordinary Sumntinlft''''' 'k"''"'^'''**'""' and nlii,^ ceased, as well as to give some onnoTn^? r *"" '"•'i' """^^^^ ''emand has subsidence. Such RlservS SShlVVr-^"''}''''' "^ '»>« ^^ater by unless the ground on whiTrl "-T p'latdlslol'eVf ^ excavation. Sidelong and rocky ffro,ir./„«!»i ".*"'«' ""^'j 'evel and easy of fore rapidly dimiDish^thecaSS/ofES'"J^"^ »''^<'°»t. and th^,^- CMO. a SDecififl «!iin oalv e»-! »-- .V' "?''5'^*'oir8, where, as is eeB„r^i\„ *u^ .. -.i_i jaiy caa tr= auorasa loi- tui» object. " ' "' i I 64 the highest villtt8-even if it were advil?! V "![''"''. 'V" «'»"'"'a"d the CJify to such a point_e ther to suppVv thll vifl"'"'' "" '"'"''. '"'''^'^ ^"'- upon the louse serS-the fitZ.« InVTlT '^.brought to bear directly pipes presenting th^ls , nflvSirconit on,''?"':,"^ "'* distributing of the Engine, while no opSStv is 21 Z S'/''%'"'8"'r Y"'"^'"» the Reservoirs. F^onujicy is g,ven the water for subsidence in the^rgiSt^oStreVh^lXw be 1%''""'' .'"-'^" "'« ^^^ ""^ and tlfenc; be drawn off frSl"°ll^?u^P"'"P«^ aStand Pipe.) while, if the ReserVo « are amnTr„T 'T'"^ *^' ^^*^* ''^ for an improvement in the charactrof'tLTat^VsEdeS " ""'''''' about 12.800 feet and 8,600 Lt. re pecUvelV«„rr"w ?," ''" P'*^"'' King and James Streets. 4.300 feet and 8 Bon fl^V i^f'^V" ",''' *=°''"^'' "^ Engfnes and ReservoirsVlaced ^n the HdZ't= ^^^^^^^^^^ '^' and 1, are 1,700 feet 2.800 feet and 3 OOO fJlt rll ^I'^l""""' '",Pl""s 2. 4, theao Reservoirs, to the corner of Sondj/m/^^^^^ through feet, and 4,8m0 feot.-making the ofal !istal« Ti • kT^' ^'^^^ ^^^^^ «'3''0 (on the assumption that the !upply, not taken S'h • •''"*" ^''' '^''^ ^eet in the former case-as comSd S. jbou? ^ tl ■T^^ f'"'") ''•«"« mode of comparison is taken because il Lt, H,« 'm '^'^ "> .the latter. This a par. as to efficiency, with those at DuSi,^ Thf^iff "'" ^'T'''' "" eet of length, to a common centra? pi nfthe dkt -ib uion"?n m'"^' '■'"." ing and descend ng mains, bv the twn ,, " I ' •'^'^^''^"V "' '" ^he ascend- main pipe of about £16 000 in favor of n 1 '■ ' f l"'^'"'^"' *" a saving in Main of 24 inches -i both case and^ivfn.! ' '°u!'" V'% ^'t'' «" "^^""'^d voirs. The difference of about iS 000 eo^tT ?"p.'' ^''^ *'*' '^'° ^^•^^«'^'-- distance between Engine and lie L^vot ' in favm o"f n'"n ^ ,""'^ '•• '" '^'' only reduces tiie power roouired f,,, M.'J "^"^f.^. H'° I>""Ju'-'' Site, not risiig main, but. Ts The ffleTal wlys c^rr ^ mo" ' t'^l ""^ "'^ ^'V".<' ^'^^'^ the pumps, and tho flow in it is ,mf c^ T/ " ?' «*« «"' *'t'' it from shou'ldal^ys be larger tT.a:tl?e disc nS-t^^^^^^^^^^^^^ being diminished by an increase of diamctm Tl.l ^„ • ■ '" '^''ction to the greatest pressure .nd se verest X n " i P""'P"'S ,«"«'" ia exposed pipes, and therefore thesl.orter it fslfe C,U^ k^r^^^ '? ^f^ *•'"'" *''''«'• and Mie larger it cm bo afforded Thus a short .1, T "! """"te"«noe. Reservoirs secures u more efficient mmmin^ • *? •• '^"'*''-'* '""'« to the these Reservoirs guarantLfSg^^TaK^rthrm'^ ' '^'"""'' "*« ^"^ Every change of direction in a pumping main calls for increase of diameter or lacreaa meter affo curvature. With re this can on sideration calls for gr stores — inc muiii. and | districts — I Bti-euts witi Where the on tiie disti where nece ground for commanded sure, and ni for by a re given bjf th tlio annual ( I to phmt the enipUiyed, t manifestly i meet the gei cireumstunci siderable po service were ble— if sufli( raise the wh of di»tributi( advantage ol secured, and a diminished At llamilti house fi'om t ground for ec the increased ancc — leave i Dundurn is tl portions of tl separate Rese I have ung and disulinrgi already been capacity of tli all future resii the cost does ferable to pun pressure, supf ing sites could whereas, if nc the upper Rei tions, and the By a small I ot the desired and thug great k an economical site liich will commaiid 10 wliole supply for lerease the prasouro ovation is selected, iv of the Reservoirs d the City. IP must be pumped scending pipe — or, e first case you are lereased power for o wliieh the water )iF the rising main, lught in the distri- ht to beor directly of the distributing e regular working [• for subsidence in wee.i the City and ito the Reservoirs, mrtakc's of all the is concerned; the rving the office of •tunity is afforded idence. plans 3 and 6, to 'ed on the plans, f to tlio corner of those between the urn, in pluns 2,4, y; and, through , 6,700 feet. 6.3i)0 water must flow iing main) 17.000 the latter. This in Reservoirs on ence of say 8,000 'n, in the ascend- nt to a saving in with on assumed r the two Reser- 2 and 3, in the mdurn Site, not d the Slime sized air with it from ending mains, it nee from friction main is exposed leak than other of maintenance, ct route to the ivorablo site for ease of diameter l« curvature. *^. "vercowmg the disadvantoges of unavoidable HIGH SERVICE. stores-increased la.gth cost r k a nd .v , e ''"•"""'' main, and perhaps a so. lewhai im.rl.^i' ''r'^ '""'''^*'''""^'« "*''''« "^^'^8 diatricts-fut it wouin;;iy e X^^ '" " V"".""^''' "'« '"^«^ streets with a pressure wh oh w.n 1,1 ?' ' ' ^■"'"'1'""'' »''« ^'"^c'ly built Where the sup ,|y i« by gra ,aio t^T^ ""'""^''' *"'• «■'« extinction, on the distributing pi,-;es the m ," 'dcsi a 1 " ^TT'' "^ '?'' '" -"" ^^^t where necessarv, to 250 or 300 t.t \t ti ; '!"•'' "" """>' •^^ '""C'rHased. ground for Ro,ervoi.-;i ol ta e. or o 1 '," "''^'''"""' -'f '^'""^y «'"t«l^"« coMimanded. ()rdinarynhl ml7,«Vnr^ sure, and any increase fuTl e ti.i knes of thlT ,"""'""• 'm'.'I ^'"' ''"'' l^''^*' for by a reduced size allowal ° '"'*''''''"''''' ^''' ^ecompens .d givenV the greate Lad wi e e tr?"^"?'" '^ "'*' '"''""'"^ ^'^^^""'^^ the annual clmrge is so S.t that t «,) '''' { '/ ''."'"•'^"^ ''>' ^'"^<-''' 1'°^^' - • to plant the Re,trvoirs o as " se . n-o 1 fi^^^^^^^^^ ^"''""•' H.oground plnnits) empU.yed, the cost incron.es wUheervW 'r'T'''''-^ ^''' ''^'''' «^<-'""i *« manifostlyinjudicioustolifttre vh. I •'.Sv' '''?""• '-""^ '* ^^""'^ ^'^ meet the general requirenu.nt8 of I e n ,?V °^""'V' ''"'"* ^'""'' ^^""''^ , circumstances whicl.warrn nted Ui, i 1 ol'^ '" i' ""'':'* ^''^''"^ ^^ ' "'''«■• ' siderable portion of the po, u t on ZlTuot !><.' "'Tt' ?'"^- "' « <'«"• service were adopted — sin cet u.,« ,...? .1 , snpplied unless the higher ble-if sufficient yelWrtedlrmi 1 nl^^^^'^ ?;''' '' '"""^^ ^' «^^^'«»- raise the whole stfpply to the^h g ' d Jnd tSS"""" "l^ '"""■''*-*« of distribution, wi I reservoirs of u„e m„l nU ♦ ^^'^^^ "''*"^' *'^° ".'"fems advantage of a fire pressure on tbi- "'"^*'= l-ecause, the add tional secured.^and some compensatio"" fo trin'-T"' ^T °^ ""^ *"^^'" '^""'J «« a diminished size of sulfratn. and soJvLe nijer ""'' "'""'' ^' »"'"«^^ ''^ hot'S So t:ter'trnul^:i;."^Tr''" 7"''=^' ^^-'«' -'"-""^ ''--y ground for economS Storag'To^ rti tf"" ffidl'/'^t''''' "''"-"'''' '' »'- the increased cost of construction nndTrLlr^ capacity, ns well as ance-leave no room for do bt un-,n ,r,^ " J 1?""" '^'f'^'"^*' "^ mainten- Dundurn is the proper site .ryoi^rDUrtfn.PeV'" '°"'"" J^!""^"" "«"«• portions of the City not conimaiZd S t' Lit^ I "'"m 'i:'' ""'^ ^''''^ *'•«»« separate Reservoir^nd separate SribJtSon ^""'^ ^' '"P^"'"^ ^^ » ani 't;^i::^:To:t^t '^ztis^j^'f''' ""^^ ^"'^-"^ '''-""on. already been proposed as one of e ou c of f^^''"^"";.'^^'-''. ""^ which has capacity of th'is Spring should as I ,rb^"!5.,%«' ""'f *'"'i«V If the all future residents above le^nVue c^ofHln '"•,''" ''!.*''*''''^ *^ «"l'r''y the cost does not prove objeioJirihb sour ""?"'"" ^^.^^^''^^V^. ani ff fcrablo to pumpin'g; because thcsetgl te .^^^ rf'^ ''« P''?: pressure, supply ng the ui)i»erns woll o7l »l„ ", ' "'"" '"'^''^ " f" 1 ...K sites coulS L occnpiod'Sout Krif V'""T'' T'l'''" '"«''«•• l^»''ld- whereas, if now suppl ed fi^ n the Enf i, f J:''^'^"'-'^"^ 1 ^^.ant of water ; the upper ReservoiV would naturaujf 'elected fo?'' "'^"'''f' '''' ^"^ tmns and the extension of the supply t^ hi^t^^'p^KTrura r^^^^^ By a small Reservoir for the uimer "..m.ifo.il.. >:-...■, ^"^^-^i^- ot tile desired extont could be thrown aTwiir""nZ„ "i=t,"ct. a nre pr«w„re I n 6« PUMPING INTO THE DISTRIBUTION thousand gallons ^aoh.'^ranLlTOtoo^^^^ '° '.'^L** ''""'^''^d tions, -hs a reserve sinMjIy-and of d unmi^ I. ' '^.' '"•*'. "" ,*^'''^?'''"'^ ^'e^''" pipes-but as the pri'n'cijie o^de^.S "i' Z„fc^^^^ "'' distributing the supply and requisite oreLuiP U i f Z . e''g"'e-power to inuintain and is sometimes re omm^rdS f^r ts n C--'^ '" '"'"" '• "Tf'''^' '^^''k^- notice Moreover, as a comparison of fCZ? ^ 'TT^'' '' '^''^'''' ^"•no water from the Engbe 2 l"e ZL, v„ L , ?. ' ^'f ""'" -"""^^''^d by the day; and unless the power of the En^nhnH- ■f\'" f"""" hours of the su.h as to deliver thfs ^00! • L fSt^l?if •^'^ "" °^ '^ P"'"P'''g "'«»"' nro ciency of water, and a g eat LeiuSi? ^i /theToJi:'''' 'H'' '""^* b** ^efi- or small tanks are usef instead o'aTmmi I oJerv^^^^^^^^^ PJP«^ to prevent a sudden loss of iicad durinrthehour« of 1^! f . ''"* '"'■'^"'■■'' Again, where the Engine works direotk- ntl t ,°//.';^'^*?«' consumption. Summit Reservoir ^o"'^ t^ distr bSn "s suttif!^^^^^^^^ ^ the Engine, the impulsive actionTthl nnmna f ^^^'^ ^°' ^ ^^'^"d Pipe at whenever the dratfghriudd nircea esTa^Vak^^^ shock at the "deadends" nn/tpn^inl, ♦! k }.? '^<='o8<'d, producing a ' distributing pipe near thXb^^^^^^^^ aIso. wheL ^ an immediate Acceleration of^^sJLd [rthe PnS /'.•'•.°^Pu'"'''"'"««""««^ suddenly by the action of ?heCe voirs aU of'whi '* " ^'^'J^''* "P «* the Cornish Engine increase thTrf,lrnf„' i . 7^"^''' Particularly with given to the floKy Ster cSrentfand re^^^^^^^^^^ t''^ <^''«°k impairs the efficiency of the r.«mn!ntm^^?'''''^'°" of water, very much distribution beforreUing ufe ScSo^rT "'^'''''' '' *=°""^^*« ^'^'^ "'« int?trd"tribXnisl1d'^^^^^^^^^^^^ system (by which a cerStu-dtf ' wattis Z^lZVTr''^"' stated days), which is not in usa in AmlV;l .i \ supplied to each tenant on and the iifficulty the, efore less fnd n nrl' • """^^ 's tolerably uniform been oxtensivelyVacti^ed on tTe'otheride^of Klflal-AT"^*' ^''"^ »'"' and a so the immense diffflr«n„n ;„«i .''"'''°' ^bis distinct on— cases-is often overlooked consumption per head in the two By adopting Reservoirs at Dundurn, in preference to ih. m„ * • •. you have the least cost for endues and nCmnInt 1 • 1° ^"""t"'" site, expenditure in reservoirs will ^?lV.i^ pwmping mam, becai the same wo^rk a comparat^lVTm Jl'po';' r teadl^?h\^::t^^"'^^ ' '''« >•"" '" the day, instead of a Lwr and mor^ 11,17: throughout a longer period of to keep race with the eTremedrr,o.lfin^'"'° ^J?^',"" T*"'*''"*^' irregularly of theUaller '. niouS'^RetS, in'cJIe^^ffir'r '''' '''''' *'^^''^^"°" CONSUMPTION OF WATER t}.;. ,j J- .!-_' •'. . !!'"'"" uLcessary tor daily eoni(unir>t^<'>'< • '"- •■• The usu companies ceeded tlii " constant raer, when the consul Undoubtec reached 90 perience tl public exp- of our Sum The adv( average da an element their provii will take m required su quantity in ber of days' in the other. wise involv I have thi form, and ar the competil The quest important ii quires some The pointe fixed are, tl within whicl voirs. If th< Eower will c eight, than former case Ij sons :— If the hour (24 or 4 not uniform, between 9 a.r if there were ments of the average hourl meet, withoui the four morn It would ni pages were to risk and cost, will be prudei supply 111 12 pacity to main provision of p the hot weatlK With referei pend on the pi ing. The mosi smaller ones, pumping, in t in the different J .. f^. uid, to a certaio ; the upper district imping, can only be ON. B plan proposed by to three hundred >, on different eleva- to the distributing i-power to maintain le pumping works, y, It deserves some ce travelled by the ection of King and "Mountain " sites, rising main is not I'inditafed, and the 3 reservoirs, wliero nter portion of the • four hours of tlio pumping main are ihere must be defi- where stand pipes f sufficient surface itest consumption, ition, and where a or a Stand Pipe at ery joint and pipe osed, producing a is. Also, when a of pressure causes t is brought up as particularly with Lastly, the check water, very much connects with the sj'stem, pumping e "intermittent" to each tenant on tolerably uniform merica what has this distinction — head in the two le Mountain site, becai the same ill f able you to longer period of •king irregularly rapid exhaustion 67 comp:rsttrwaterTpon"K '^ItlZ'fT''' ''??."«"- "^f-'^t^ ceeded thirty gallons per head of th. "*^'^™^"cnt system," have soltfom ex- " constant " supplj Kmerf, „l„l?"^^ ■ '^"^ '\'' experience of the raer, when the'i^^4test benefits of In ah ,^!,'''''"^/''' ''"' "'°"'''« "^ S""* the consumption has doubled ani ?n "^""^i^^^e «f ^'ater are experienced, Undoubted^ therrhas been ick?ess wasriir'^M '%'''-f ^^'^ '^ reached 90 gallons per head of te po m la^it"' tt 1?"^' '^""^"'"Pj''"'' ''»« perience that where w.iter is sunnlLrl.ni ' . ^''^''e '* ah"ndant ex- public expense, a more libe al piT i fon £ "olT ^T'T'- """^ "' "'« of our Summers, will be demanded ^ '''' ^'''' ^^^ '"^ense heat an element of considei^tion in annraisi.f^ 1,» . , '^TP^*"*"'*' ^«e°™" their provision on this head vSnT ?m isr^n^ 'I?"™'*' ^I?"^ ^^ ^"^ w.ll take more Engine power an/ o?I oT.; f I''.'" f'iT,", ^f course, .it willtike m^' Eg 'power S2l t " ■' ':.'' ^'''''''- Of cou^ ' t required supply fof40,K:h:±?l'^.^."r,,!^°?^^^ ^^'^f^ (.t'- required supp y f^f^o OOOinhaTtant ' f .n ''^^°'^?^ ^'^"^''^ •^""y th, quantity in the^same time S^^^^ ^^ S"^"""^)' ♦'>'"' t° ™«e i^^thal Ser of days' supply ^^1 be do , hi! ♦1.'''''''^'"'.*° <='^"*''''" ^li^ same num- in the oth-lr. ffikSr suppl v wi II J^' ""^uT^^ '" '^' ""' ^"^'^ '^'^ that wise involve a greaS loss &' jfead '"" ^"' ^''^'' "^''^ P'P''^' ^' °"'er- form'rdtrx"edlt^'i^'thL'Je^S^.'-l" f/""^ ""^ -*--^- '"^o tabular the competitors will be readil^ ^eTeived^ ""'""' ^^' ^'^'''''^ ^'«*« °^ ENGINE POWER. . The question of the amount and character of tl,« p„„- ^ important in its bearings on the X.inn,! ^ . ^"8'"° P°^er is most quires some explanation ' efficiency and cost of the works, and re- fixIS^'^^^te^^ntSf T/"i„f - &rted"??^''i? ''"^ ^— - "- within whichthisquantity m to beraLnf^^f."^' *''* .""n»l>er of hou.-» voirs. If the Engine works uninte. rnn «!fr ?. ^''^^ capacity of the Reser- powerwill of course TerenuiS to 'ra;^!^,'"'''"^^ ^'^V' 24 hours, less f eight, than if this effect ?s^o be prodTced „ /a or Tu'''''^ V^' ''T former case larger Reservoirs oughtKe provided for /^.°"'/i=i ''"' '" ^^' sons:— If the consumption be A«..m„,i nt P'^''*"'ea w the following rea- hour (24 or 48 gallonsTer diemTitTs f .,fn?"' "' ^V S''."""^ P^'* ''ead per not uniform, fut that three ?imL„!l^.'" P'"''"^*' ^hat tin's draught*^ is between 9 a.^., arid 1 n m as rfLV'' "• •" *^'?'*"*"^ P^"" ''""'• '« drawn if there were n^ Reserfoh-s the En J L ^oZ"*^ ^''7' "* '''« ^'^ • «° ^hat. ments "f the distribution "hSdbfr J :":hat^:^^^^^ '''' '''^''T average hourly consumption wore j.umDed „tn n ^^ "ecessary it the meet, without too great a loslof 1 ea7t«ivf .'?■''''"''''' i'"'^*' ^"""K'^ »« the four morning hours °'* "' "^"'^' "'" extraordinary demand during - P«ges":eierbe;ttSt°K^lreni"1T^ «-° '^ - «top- ri«k and cost, as it i "v-d cfthe "Z^^a^^^^ ^^'!'' «'-e«tcr wil be prudent therffoiA ♦«,!,,„. i',. •'* """°'e staff of empbyees; it smaller ones. Kivine the same IZv^ZTI.a "'1° "*^^® J^fKine instead oJ two I \ ! ■» vn': 68 ?e?daV;fp„t! there' .•?"SvV.iS^1^"*^^>''^« *° ^^^ * ^^^^^ or longer that/tL Reserve r"ouKr,u,arVh/^r^^^^^ 7.*!"'""^ " '''PP'^S^ ever, be constructed for a pnh of PnSnl • 15^ ^"^""^ House should,' Aofv- for the commencement, if t^.e aniount^to i L ' ,'" °"' ''""''' ^' «"«'<=ie"t posed expeaditure. in the advert sLpnln ^' '^ n° J'^'itation to the pro- to the policy which thrCi"vshoudTi; ■ TP'"^*"-"* <^''^^'' «« '""^'l' "« number of ^„llons require f- a^dl nIavTl '" ''' P!'"""''^*' ^« '" *''« '^''''y a course. In doiu^. bo, Wove e Lr^V,3 ""''• ^ "''^"-''^'^ ^^ P''"P°»« as well as the requ'ire^eats of the Oty ^ '""'* '""""'' ^' '•^^'^"'•<=«« • bids d.:;;;f ;? t^i^ir" :oni;!;t ^""s ^^^"^^ i -«*- --^« ^- done; but it is also innnifrt hTr^^v- 1-''' '? '^'"'^ "'"^^ be well mined. The larger the Se o rs Tl '""' '""." '' °°* "" ^"^^''^ ^'e*^«r- numerousthe fittfngs. tl e nTore efficie ^{:!fM^^^^^^^ '"ore comple'te and amount of ,noney may be expended a 1 Lli *'" .''!fP'y ^ ""'^ " '"^'^ works; but perhaps the firsTSSion L-lh^w n.^.f "'^ -f' °" '■'''^"^ "^^'^'' expend in order to make nn o^f!.!tL "'"'' '* "^ necessary now to extension. withou\7Sud?crt^oxistirgT.r^•^'^^' "''' p^"^-'^<^ ^- ^"^-« gallons ;:r hea^d'iirbrre""^ ^^^^ ^""-T^^"^" °^ "^ ^^^ «« tion will reach 4O.()0O yet „ ? ;, noml.V " -n''^ "''"rt time thopopula- some time after the wo;kVure i oprra*^ i 2^^^ ""* ^'"^'^^^ '^''' ""^il will not be reached until a still X; ^^th tt 'u^"?nT''^" f'-T^"?^"^ pipes are extended into every inhabited stre7t,> t' If '^ <3'«tnbution the preliminary outlay on the balir, mw.«l • TT J ""'."ecessary to make of pipage. pnrLularly, w ch V lV3fo u" '''' advertisement. The cost re,jui'red ou'tiay. is an^elen, o ^ea e aiS'rnZt'"" "' ?° "''"'« quired will probably be dictated tr,f»,Jr-^' , the amount now re- Council as to'the strict first to be si'nn ed if.'"'" ^f '" '''^'"°" "^ ^''^ can be effected without fin^ndalfncrvenlVnce """"'''^«'^^«"«'«" ^''--«fter ec^i^Jru:^ i^^tt:;Sf;';sri;:S;]iir""f -i ^/^-'-^^ to is comr arntively small and coS.l tf tl 'L*^'' *"^""' «««* "^ ''"'"e power will w'ork the l^rge Kngine as ?h. m ,. er o f. , if"^ ^''" '"'"« »»""• will be proportional tf the work doni if therP i, t'f ''T""!^''"'" "^ ^"«' power at the commencement the Fnrn.'Jiii . 'V'e'-«f<"'e an excess of Advantage of surplus ,wer enlbll ft to TJ/'"'!'''"'*."''''^^ ^^''''« »>•« in all eases of emergency "* '" "^"-run the ordinary consumption at£nS:d"'S:e'?;r S Ji;,!j!:!'r'"' ''''' ?;f^«.--omy should be ated ; and by adopt g H,e fSLi^!' Hf* i^, ''''" ^^ ""'"ediatcly app.eci- first instanci in prS^oS't' 'ei* 'ZpTc J' TC^r^f,-^ ^''-^^ ''' ^"« pipage an mportant reduction in ft I „ P"°'t3- «"» in the large item of tant^nay veVv pror^rrrbrmade "^^"^'"T Prov.sion for4H,00., inhabit venture on specific est inS b, t ?^2 fi "^'r" ''"."''^ ^^ imprudent to opinion that the noees ." roxnenditurfi ' '"'^T'^^T ''"'''^'^' ^ ^^^ "^ meet the full reqnireme/L Xe -ftv LK? " "first class supply, to need not exceed ONElJuNDRKnTnn.^lvnP^^ completion of the works, stim should be ,,rovil;/r"hl|"r^'.^'''*-'T''«- •'- ^^^ »«* think a les^ for a thorough supply. " "' '" ^""> " °^^'' eoneitler tiiat gum too mach The h about £i rule, the of the po the popu warrant ii be suppli< closely bn With re of the Cit ascertaine the whole It by the li tlie punipi small resei until the n site for the ing main distributioi supplying hour or tw In one o "iiidispensc of its eootio speedy deer covering. ] result veget Each Hese of coverin;^ covering oui cmintry^ It shallow resei of soot, wlii( in those vqm vegetation fl without a sill and it would would have t is provided ti area is more : reet proporti< to make the li Where liesi will take plac provide an efl temperature, long enough from that of t with referenci is not so gener the Dundurn i ing a ridgo gn ground more ! business— this purities in the ge to ^vfl A i^r^et or 'equinng a stoppflpc House should, how- would be sufficient !S an object, a cheap consumption, could Engine is erected, ling power now re- I, it is one of finance, :ch the City is now iiitation to the pro- i-s differ as much as ises, as in the daily ;xpected to propose insult the resources if water works for- ione must be well not 8() easily deter- ore complete and ipply ; and a largo a, on really useful t necessary now to provide for future ion of at least 50 t time the popula- •obabl^ exist until lumption proposed il the distribution necessary to make sement. The cost lion of the whole e amount now re- le decision of the tension thereafter ot be desirable to «t of horje power Tlie same staff isiimption of fuel fore an excess of hours, while the nry consumption omy should be idiately appieci- A cheaper in the le large item of )r4",00o inhabi- itt drawn, and le imprudent to Torded, J am of jfftss supply, to of the Works, ot think a less t Bum too maeh 60 .l^ut iSSoto^To" il SSed^^er^P'^ "' f'^'"' -"'<^ -I"'- rule, the cost of the distributi^£. nin., T " '"T °^ ?'""''■ ^» ^ B^-'eral of thepom,lationforXtSbe.^i^i^^ ./",'''" '^ -''■ p''" ''"^"d the population scattered hrouri^i'.hoL^'''* I'' "'^^y" '^« " ?<"•''"" ^^ warrant an immediate extensbn^f f . ^T ^i'^-'*"^ ^""^ the'mains to be supplied from welll S^ Lt r, ov n ' •- ''T '^''"''''' ^'""^h ^i" closely built streets. provision will of course be in the mo-e ofrc!?i;:S:3Src:?'u.SS" T'^' -^^.t^^o^e portions ascertained whether this sunnlv -il L nff ^ ", Reservoirs, it is first to be the whole, by gravita on or Ev n,', 1 • r:^^''' '"'''^ advantageously, „pon •t by the ikttlr^nod " 1 °aVa' SS co, 'T "'" "" "," ^^i^'-'^y ab^out the pumping „,ain where ft entTu' nn" /' ^^ ,">«""« «/ « hrancf, (from small reservoir under the MointainTil""'.. ^.^«=«<^""i''«) leading to a until the n.unber to' e tovS for on .t '°''°* ^ >«''« <'«"""t be estilnatod site for the Keservoir seated aif^tlTe si'^enf^n'^'\\"^"H"^ '^'^ i"g main thereby determined nd tl,« L ^f "'• °' ^''^ branch pump- distribution ascertained As i'uffioL?!.n-""^ "* P'P"^^^ ''^l""'^''! '" tl e supplying the lower iTLrvdrs Tn a, Ju ifhirdlilv'''' \« P-''^<^'i f-' hour or twocould be devoted dailyr,"eyeifrrhe'a^^^^^^^^^^ COVERED RESERVOIRS. "indis^Tnslfe." feaStontuie m T^ f"P"^'' ""'^ --''^-^^ of its economy-hut t^s found that fhl!,'"r '•««r.'"'"''«^ *'" ^'^'^^^^ speedy dccay^f this mater al anfluJlTJ^^'"] "^^ ^« water causes the oover.1,g. l^ven slate Tes not' effe'ct / S.X. t fe lidit''';!;'!'^' ?''t'''^ rcsu vegetation i. not prevented ; on tlLltfmtt .'ft pTti^d"'"' of ':;':;!:r7::::^S mt ^^.*?r r -- rri^^' -^^e cost covering out of the quLion ev^n if I ' '""' '''^"'^' ^ •=°"^i'^«'' "'"^es c.nntri' It has bcTSnd 'advisable in fI^"^^ Tf '''''t'^' ^"'' '^ '" ^LiB shallow reservoirs, su.Tounded w th , hf'.nn ^"S'""*'- *"'• «"'«!' ""J generally of soot, whi..l, be on ir dtolTed i^t^^^^^ in those reservoirs whei-e ftl^^fi" f"? " ^f "'' •^''^.^'^ tlie water ; and vegetation flourished Th;,,rn!,l ^■7«t'-"«V."" in the first place, without a -"ciifi^e 'iiich rti ;'^i^t^'::Zeti„V'''I'"^ '"''^^ '•*'«'^'-"'''« a.Kl it would be ..bie.ti.inaWralw u'« o / «/?'""K. in.l'racticable ; ^ould have to dini.ish h arel o?„il" i^;'/ "V^ "'*^"''i' '^'"^'-"'y ^' IS provided to prevent veL'Pt7if o,, „„^ i .• . '^^''^ " sufficient depth ar^us more inlpoKa.'t tlia d p i/^^^j'-^'ri^Sn'''*' T"™*^'' ^""' ^"'•''"^^ rect proportion 'to the nun.ber of ^leswU, ''!,!' ''TT' " '" ^i" to make tl. heaviest draught npo^^l^ S th^\ertTo7s'of tS' ''"'' win !;:;[: ^c""i;r :;;: cnt! 'i!;;/::;;^ ^''-'ir^T oonstruoted.„o vegetation provide ail efficient co^o^ i:f„,f;' ^^, J^ ''J.-^ "^ the year, nat,fl-e will temperature, either in wi-.tcr or sum r er h 1. «/ '^n''''^"'"/'"" "'" ""* long enough in them to undeivo ^.^J !? • I . ''■'" ""'' °*^'^" 'e'-'ain fron of coal the Dundurn reservoir's mr«favorn£ A '^' " *'"''"• *'"' «'*"«*'»" of ing a ridge greatly eIevatXbovrtl?„ ^^■«''Py'»f " "arrow n. ck, form- ground mn.a li J.'f,. - ( - 1 -^ !^ surrounding district, and com,.ri.ir,- business-lth'^^s siie^'b\.t'lliXtlv evnol^^^^ residences than manufactories or pnritiesi„th.urroundL?^S,2-^i;rte:StS:SZ^:^ :..v . 1 Si li i ) 70 tion superior to oovereVo.a: S "dV.u.til'''" '•«««''V";r8 in such a posi- to the tumps ai..i ecZZy)nZ£notiT' Z"",^^^ "'.*'.'"'*-' "' P'-^^'-'ity reservoirs under the mouriXreeSer^v^o^^^ ^' TT'^^ ^^ and aid ia precipUating the dust af/d^S I'l^L^^ rnl'tllrdty" fct^'""""^' wifirprSd.''" "'"' '"' "" ''^ "''"'^•^ "^"'« ^— i" - -erflow FILTRATIOX. Similar objections maybe ureed to thp «vatom , r t?t* *- >.. . . the difference of laica we canno ' , oK f„l i °\M>''''"y.- "Howinp: for l.nno L'allons or S-^m ; .t„.r "';<''>^»'»« ^e*^ than one half-penny per gaii^,^rrAS^-c ; T^^,r ;;.;:;"•- ^"7-babic cost of ^terii;^ about £1800 /,e."an«un. exchSe of e ttTil^fT'^L" /"'""" '^''^' ^*" £17,001) for a daily consumption of 80 pa^ 1 -f? "^'- «»'^"".«i."\'»t growth and consumption < • the ci v 'S i'T f r "'*"''''*^ ''''^'^ ^'''^ Better appli,,! to thi constru tfo, oVa sub ^J n 7 ""■- '""' /''""'^ ^^'^ [int., which 'he water would oXbe^dm mi *. 'ieserv. ,r at ihe pnn.ps U,. annual cost of filtering be thus avSfri,r'''"'^°r* '^""•^i''«'0 and take pUoe inuaediatolv 1.5,,,! . ".I.T °'*^u^- J. '^.^ ':"":'."- ""^ perfect.should :perf ould ning Jets as are, cohime, tetnporary and disappea7wirh;"cal'm''rirrnn|-'''"J.''f '' ™P""ti«3 ^--e ..'!,„„j »..^.Ai. , ""^|.'acaim, It is mani„.s that no provision for than any artificial ones can be maintainedilflnd t? t. • •^''''**.''''' temporary and disappear with a calm it -manif "' "''"' ""'^"'■'*'*'^ liltration need enter the plan of supply' for Uaiilto.. CORNISH ENGINE. is tu;lVn"aftJe:i'ng7;I'^i,tr oJ^Z 'T^^' recomn.„ded been adopted in re.ent^:^^^:^^X'j:'i:^^Z '"^'"" ''''' '^ ^'^VV^y'o^\ZX7IZ^:'l:t::^ Co. at Thames Ditton. for forcing '/supply of lO,on,MM ^1^' faik' H^ f'"'''' ' "'"Ployed i" lengtlf, and to\:height'of ea 1 " , ,"' ' ' ^ " '"" ' '"' '"''"' '" not been selected, VovLtTa^-^L'^' '^*'') ''« Cornish Engine hai fully .li^cussed. hi superiority of* 1 1 -o'-T'r''*^- '5"^*^'''" ''"'' ^'^^'^ admitted. These works weieSlvco,lVnT'\iV'«;''« '« ^'y "« >"eun8 of themo.tc.xpenenced W Krk-rr i V^^'" '^^^ .*''' ^""P«°". «"« crystal palace at ^y^lenham (t le p7oti„S ^ ^of't r''\'^^^ "^r' "'*^"'^''« "^^ exhau.tld the talent of EnLwa. d)'l a hi" «n it -^ ^"^ ''"^^ ^" '"'^-e rai^ing watertoa height of S S . d ral c . S U, "'"' " '',""«' ''T^'' ^"'• the pr..sent year, the New | done in a sing] must be made and therefore high pressure i can be carried greater ratio t proportionate i 8umed--becau( water at all tei ome ogitation of the voirs in such a posi- i those of proximity >t be poaacsded by 'orm a back ground, le city below. !crroir.i an overflow i)t;'at!on— •which .'i * Ue g .'eRl ' St an ' ' of a penny per iiiiy : Allowing for 3ne half-penny per "cost of filtering 60 Id entail n cost of beds, estinmvt'd at creasing with thfl ;r luij:. yculd ].,(■: ';ir at i^ie pumps ooii L'ondition] and • bti perfect.should lipes — and should rable, a straining ied at tht outlets I as expeditious as lingtou Bay are, iieir great volume, eir impurities are ' no provision for ine recommended 3 Engine that haa s. lames Ditton, for ;• is employed in iiin ten miles in :'nish Engine haa estion has been is by no means \h: ^ilnp8on, one tice then, the new be said to have large power for plan; and during in London, has It Ditton. The 894 lbs., raised ides the friutifm .forking the nir cor.densatioii." 3, or 976 lbs. ia I doing higb.-st duty :_ • . . . Millions 102.7 10.1.8 ■•• " 87.2 ... " 770 7(5.0 75.2 74.9 73.5 71 0D« hour ; which, for 600 horie Dower m^*. « .. of coal per horse power per hoSr Thi! 1 "'^"'""''P*'*''' '"'^J*'" 1 2-3 lbs 1863,- wheal visitld the Srin J^X^ ^Z Ai ''"'"' '""'^ '" '''"""'T the regular consumption of coal did nJt excid ', ?' ''"'^'?''»'''-«J "'e that hour. ^Attea . lus. per horse power per 1 find from "Brown's Pnmiuli Pr...:»» r> and 20th AovenibL" iSl^t tv!). .'^X?: "^ '^'T'' '''' ^<^'"»'- I l.u«'"«8 was (18.400.000 lbs. raised out foot Lv 1,1 '"' ^°'.""'' P'""I'i"g coal-and that the average consum.Z , of ^ ^-■'■''SMmption of n^ lbs : power per hour. ^ tonsumptjon ol ,oal wn.^ 3 1-2 ibs. per horse The performance of the Ditton Engi'iesnnotni i ■ with a consumption of less than 1 ff s of ol? ,'' ^"'- '^•'''•''' '»''• was ascertained and u certified l.s^Mr I, .l^n il^ !", "'? P"'"'^'' P^'' ''""O Son), who tested them on b J.alV.^- ul 1 bcth ' , ^"•*^«' '-'"'. Field ^ peS:^;::i^;t,f]i;i;^^^ lowey Consols, 8U in. Sinde . rar Consols, 8o in. " ' '" Great Polgooth, 80 in. " Pembroke and East Crinnis, 8oVn."sinele" ' West Towey Consols, 60 in. • "^ " ' Par Consol, 72 & 36 in.. Sims' combined . ." " Treawney, 60 in. Single I^embroke and East Crinnis, 70in.SingleV:::. '■ 7, « th i thl'S!trE*isLr^nd7hr;ii;ti7rtoT '"^'^^^ -^^-^^ ^"*y ot er six give fromin to twenty-?lSe2io„' les^ '""' ''''"' ^''"'^ ^''« E.igmesontheCornishsingi.I ngprincnfe bnt'lh'^ '""''' T"''''' ^^orks ations of no less importance wh ", , mv' ,!)' '^«''«,'"-« other consider- for Water Works purposes, to the CorlVEfer' '""'^ ^''^"> P'-'='-"»^^«. buriu. STpumf/^|;V> h'ltun !: '"'^r'' "^'^'■''-*« -''ene^er a pipe in which cafe tirptrgrmTy dLe'dwira^^^^ beams. This Engine, therefore Squires um.h .In '" .T"« '' "" ^''« SP'-i"g actmg ones. A|ain. the intermkte t ,t' ream of wnl '"]'?" '''"" <^«"*^'«- Corn,sh Engines, causes much morTs a fon^i.f J^, f^^.^^^'^^/ed by the the continuous stream from a double-acti"g Ldne '^ ""^ P'P«' '^^^ ^^^:^s:^i^-:'t!^tH'" '" ^-^ '^"^■•-3-is the pump valves; none o^he numn vnl5? l-n'^'^r' *'"^ duraSillty of outforrepair. although ^^"^^I^'e^^S:^-:^::^-^^ The greatest economy of fuel Lnhfl",' u^^ "u°"^ "^ '^« 'l«f«'t-''. ployed !nd expanded tl the utl^^lin t"' I^ tl" 'r' '"^^^^ ''''^ '« '""■ done ma single large cylinder wh eh w "j. «. *''^ Cornish Engine this is must be .nade strong in ZporUon oTl . ^ ^ other part of the Engine, and therefore to the amoEof economv in&"- ' "i * " "Z*^'"" employed high pressure steam results fron^th™ <^"el a.med at. The economy of can be carried, and to 1 e facT t latT n?"^'"* *? ^'""''^ '^' «''P«''«^'on greater ratio than it, ,1.n";., i-.l *''r.P'^«?«."r« "f steam increases in . proportionate quantity of water to bT«r«nl'f '*!'''■'■ "'« P'-essure the les^ sumed-because a given qu^ ity of Lelwm "11 ""? * ^ ^''' *■"«' "'« '^<>^- water at ail temperatures ^ '" evaporate the same weight of .1 1 A-'.- ^ 'i ■Ij* 1 - ; ' 3 •% J 4 ■ji h ! f >., 72 Thii high preMure 8t«am cannot be used without the interrention nf ma«» of matter to be hvtt set in mot on ir» oidef to elieuk thill a "' • by f,l.e initial exce<« of atea.a nre.^u.o whe.ev^J ^-v great te.rof T*'^ «ou u aimed ut. In Cornwall tiiis mas, of matter L fun" lied bv H 'P""- rod... descendmg 500 to l.Ooo feet into the minc«.and t .i rceasurv w'ii?; gave rise to the exteusiou of the expansive principle and thn 12 *^'" suiting theridroin. ' j^wutipie auu tJie economy rc- For Water Woi'ks pumping the Corui»h Engine is nwossmilv 1,..^ i ■ , many tons of metul which is lifted by the steam in7in-i ^ "«ded with by its weight the water to be pun.pi:!. Tht.r ' wi u' strtlir^; ""''='' stroke, ex. remo strains, on the tti'st admission of stettnito a f„„u 7*''->' cy bnder. w.th the.r wear and tear, friction, Ac. are u ,a oi'Uie^ ' '"'«''' In the Di ton Lngn.es the expansion is effected in two cy de% whpr«h the action of the steam is rendered more uniform and as ti.n .1, ' ''^"^^V are avoided, the weight of the parts n,„y be n/rd^'i "„',;;: ^'l;!--'™"^^ diminishing friction, wear and tear, dic. If any aceid.M.f . / : . pipes or valves, the speed of the lingino which nmv £;„ " "'I" .*" "'" }or a stroke or two. is' speedily chec^l^ri.J th 'g^e^nioV. ' wlT^'l^'rt^^^ similar circmu-tances, with tie Cornish Fnf,iim,..ilr "'"■"•**. ""der hand, a break-down i^ risked ^ ' ""'''' *''' «"endant is at The Ditton Engines beinjr double-actino' nn/l o/>n/i;»„ of water into the^nni..s d'o not reV-i. e X.fd p p^ ^Yet^^^^ Engine, raising water by the weight of a loaded 011^., ,"" economically under one particular hlt.to whioir ti7S nnri"'^ T'''^ ed; and wherever wate/is pumped thVough a long li^ ''o ^a ' hettt variable in consequence of the friction int"-easinir or ^Imi, : ,1""'.^"*- '"' >» tion to the squar^ of .the speed. So whrrtfr's pZp ^di"tKT:to the service mains, with the Corn sh Emrine a UnnH \i;^l' • • . ^ ""'^ The theoretical advantage of any civen de^reA nf nvrvo.,.- • ..^ whether effected by the Co'rnish si^e!:" tt^'o^bll^CrPn,^^;: 'Th! extent to which it may be carried will denpnH nn Xi J-ng'ne. fhe which it may be advisable in each cale o eSoy but VtT.Tf ''T'" Wolf in his double Cylinder Engine carrieHL' n.. n • . ^."'"^'' "'*' nearly twice as far as It has been Ked riny ngfe Cornisht '■•'^'"^•"" With Reservoirs at Dundurn. tlie Cornish Sine wonhn f ^i ^'.'''' . most favourable conditions for its efficient Sn/thfnr,!'"'!'^ '". ^^ Reservoir doing away with the necessity Tor Tsiandn'^nn {"7 v ^l'" Second Reservoir for i higher service is to be LnDvShv^r' ^"* '/ ^^' sider a stand pipe will be^equired with a Cornish F^^ ^(T^'"^' ^ '■'"'■ assumes l,0o(^(.00 lbs. as the fair averse of hdutvto\»''l"Cl'''''' tlxe Cornish Engine, and another estimatTit as sJ o^U oTK So Z The performance of select engines at certain mines in "'^wa ' c-annni be taken as a criterion of the averaee workimr nf thl ■ .7"\}}' «annot supplying a town. because\he circStancLIdttlkrih ' ttf'""' I" arc different. From the best information I can obtai^ t' o i t ^"""^ the Wicksteed Cornish Engine, at the East London Water Work^T"" "f appear to have equalled that of the Ditton Engines either in ^ i a^^ ""' fueUaved, and the annual cost of repairs m^usTC ^Sy'V fit/the hea^ Sitdrt t.s\TgSs crnffhSn:"? T^-if high character, are applicable to double acuJ^jSn!"^ and 1/'""'*^^^^ expansion is concerned, it can be carried much fanheri',. ^lA f!" "' ,*•'* Taking into consideration the fnnh fjiof thft -Btna o!» J j vi ,. ■ Eugiae does double the work of the Cor.l.i'^'eo^S'tht^'^ ?o'£ut * One of til objections.' struct i bio." extent, and The princij) a peculiar e is supplied ; been made i for so many that the wal effects in tht purity of th a patent arti than as a gn and branch j will be any should be ex^ pipe, before | price for 24-i: can conceive tages as cast economy witl strength, dur material whe could be equa It is stated durability int trans nit the v concrjte. very the Romans — 1 the effect or ra is preferable t( the subsidence streets, denian I sure of any rec additional strei from oxydation respect to the c not think this already had wi isolated and ex( of air or watei rapid, is a quesi and all wrought [posed to the act Lastly, the of! excellence of thi sliip, neither of 88 in the ease of k will adhere w [mined when it is i ^ 73 811(1 first cost, safety of wnfLi'n^ , your City. """"^ ^""' "^ l"""p.ng J-„g„,e f^^ t,,^. ^u^jpijl'^f CEMENT, OR " INDRSTUUCTIBLI.: " i'lF-fi-S One of the coinpotitors considors tlu. I.-,, f . • object.on. and 'e.-oMirnend. 2a *s£t :^, .'V;^^ ' """ '"f""^ " "P''" ^o grave .true .ble. - whi.h are.tafed to bo n^ v v " i^i''"'""' '''^•■^- ^'""^''1 " '"'lo- 1 be pr,„o,,,al oLjeetfon to cast iro h'i^ , Id , ,,;:;'; ""'''">'.«''' '« ""^ «t"tcd. a pecnl.ar CIS., arising out of the qua v ^ ^ '" *-'-^l'r'"''"''^ "fitoston- JB anppl.od ; bu, I a,„^„„t aware t „t n^. 1 '^1' '•" '"^'' ^^•'''^■'' ""^^ ^'^1/ been u.a.le in the nu.norou. cities and tow 'vl """"*'' '^^■--•'»l""e"t« bave for so n.any years. A„, does it am ear Vo.n I '" '"-^ "'"" ''"" '^'-'«" '"ed that the water of the St.-Lawreuei S\ ' ' i ■'"''"V'''''^""''"'''^''- ^o^ns. efteof^ in the interior of the oi„es as ]!■ ■ ' IV"'^'"^^es such deh'toriotis p..nty of the Coehituate w i Tht "In"'^.' ^'"'^"'^''' *■''•"" "'« ''■''ce "' a patent article, of at least do btf.fl'XTr' ;; ^"l''r"> '''' £4-. .000 on than as a great experiment Tnk- 1 n 1 T' f '""''' ^♦•' viewed otherwisA and branch pipes. 'v„lve:fitti"'";V''? ri't,''^"'"""'-'' -i"' the ou ved I' in""^ "^vantage on the^scofei^^^^l' "/■<=•■>' '""'^^^^ should be ex-eessively high. I was , .nil ^ ""'*''"' =''« P'''c« of iroif pipe, before purehasfng L the Mo t -ea Viier fe' 'T "^'''"'l' ^"'' """« P«t-T price for a4-inch cement pjpe wus h !hin M % "'i'''' "'"^ f""i"' ^'"''f'^ «« "'""y «dvan- econoiny with which any required cnn 00^. ^ ^«' «"PPly. The facility and strength, durability and tiAtes/ "''' ''"" '^'' '"'"■"'ed. of e<,ual mater al when broLn Lst'e^^^^^^^^^ ecu d be e,,ually obtained wiUi the cJmct.^^1^^^^^ which I cannot see It is stated in favor of tliA " in )„ ♦ '•"'V.'J 1"P*^- durability increase ^UhaV/lT when'*; '''''"'\ ^''f^." t'-'-fi'-nmoss and tran. n.t the water without^'contami m to.i ''^ frr''V;-^'''''l ^^'^'""'''^ "''^ tb"y concrete, very th.ck and short, a. d of veZ' ±„ -'''^^ "^ P"''« «<""e"t or he Homans-and there is uo doubtof the /d -it''''''^'^ '^'*-'''« "««' ^y the effect or rather absence of eff^, f in ^ durability; and with resneetto " preferable to metals ut LfstLZ:" "^'\'-'\' ^'""'^ '■«'"^''t «'• c'ncre tie subsulence of ground. She a^tfon o/ fn.st" S 'o/T "'*' ^"^J-^^d fr^m t eets demand a greater strength than s nctwf^ '"7 ^'"^^ ^^ ^''0 8. re of any required head of water VLroi^ ^ "'" '•i'"»^'° P'^^' additional strength is obtained hv„ ^'."'T*^*''.'^". >» 'I'o patent nines thi« fromoxydationly interna and exf^nT'''".-''"" '"■ «''«^' iron, ^EecS I respect to the rf«ra6eVtW /^" eo^« J^^^r '°h "1^' "^ """^'-'^f « ; and it is w Uh not think this q«estiof/ca brc?n?/r '•''^'^P'-''''^"''^ already had wit^hiseom^^sireV-^^'ti:?,^ by the experience "olated and excluded. V'^'^'arA^ a'' JS. tbe sheet-iron is completely of air or water, in w(f;,.i. " T"' .. J"}'^^"' f»om any nossiblo Lr,,.A isolated and excludedV^a;^;^''^^/^ '•'•''.''" ^'^ ^''-^et-'ron is ^of air or water, in wff '::^tr1?ae '"'L"? .'"^f "^ ^-^«^ •on of the first iinoortano^ '?'' '^f. ^.^-^t''"-^*' (rapid, is a question of he first ,nZ^'' ^"'"^3 ^^s destruction Wst bo" land all wrought iron, oxidizes ,3 m or ' ^ ,i' ^'-'" ''"«^^" that "heet Iposed to the letion of water '' ''"P'^'^ ^'^"'^ <='»st iron, when cx- b:Jl' i'''^.' T'^^outS "o tt of arro^iL^wtP;^^^^ "fgood^Sl? jmined when it is too late to repair the' errorTade. '"" °"'^ ^'^''''- = I have the honor to be, Sir Your Obedient Servant t THOS. 'c. KEEPER. i; m\ I 05 < r o A, 74 I c CO m o ss *l *>! ^ C- ^» 7| r^ 00 't* o (**» o ^ 00 U^ IM ■^ ^" ^ ^ ^ US O IN 5 t- « M 'aonnq|j)g|(i paonps.i •"'J ssdij JO jaa; jo -ofj •oonnqiJjtid nnj io; sod|4 ;o )»»; jo "on Its on s; '83u|8aa i" JOilO,! puB 00|)J|J3B»a O o ^'i ^ 3 g § •— * S 'jO t- ^ »f i> o lO lO I-H S4 5 <=> C lO •» rj,H . (M 1 -H ri ^ * £ o g o •"• «c o lO '^~* "■ rt C4 >a «5s^-p=r't5- from the city „ .„ extjidt" dZ/ar.'Jr.i'i'';' '?"■'"' <■« » '-^ •ible. The .coond queslion liir,. ,.,„n.. i.. ■, "". '''■'"»• «• '«r aa no.. dr.iMg, of . „pidi; m. ™„bTtrrrtl S'rtf'"."' ""2 '«'" f" i .ro .nc ,n«d to beiie„ih,t will, proMr or«o,^?.i™. "u"*"' ""«' '"'"•». I oW oclion would »ot hold good "^ Pi'»««'"'oii>, u abo.e.ia„ii„„^^ tU, not loo much, .nd „ the caleul.tioL ,h„"K„t b^ t /"'■'. '''"^'tm,t. i, U .ho„M tl.o/bo|K, ind".] 2" toS pTtSi* "-P"" "«'t.r! ■^^"•"^'"•™"j""'""»"-um,,uwo„]j"r;-,;Q,; SIS. >, July 19, 1864. itie» of f/i.> waters T marked (f)) w«8 ittor left on evapo- fallon. ""tifyofioditticnt » ro»j),.ets the U8e The quantities of i; — Hon. 71 doSbt whether it iZ^\TdZ\ZZ S^^^^ '" ^«'»- i the poMibility of it« then «Ptin« .... .» i' j ^ ' '"•^"'«'' o" aocount of SJe. not aet «n thmii "^ *'*'* «•>« g'om.o/. alts in the gallon .ev'e':x:i;:;tr:S;eLS witi;;:''.', ' *".•?'' '^^^' y"- »"-'-"= :^2^t:a------^-S--^^^^ I have tho honor to bo, Sir, D . « p T, ^''""' ^e'y obedient Servant ROBT. McElboT, EbQ. II, .»■,,/ lUiiNRY CROFT. iority, although )y boiling. I am 'f sodiniout for D And leav.ja ,-« ti7 lime, chloride of traces of those iuinstnnces hove 'ont till,,.. 2nd. i The quantity pm a river, the ished along its rried out so far 18 as far as poa- ' to how far the infitforuso. I Mentioned, this ' . It has been ^ inhabitant, is h reference to ' or 4 times its springs could ou must be so Je expense, be allowed to ^nded matter, a on your at- 'OJM a Want of ■ think, be un- it requisite, it . by mAano ^f fould require