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Fountain at City Hall Park, 1842<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      In these days of bribery and corruption and political jobbin\u2019, when it seems to be a rule among politicians of all stripes to look upon the public treasury as a cow to be milked (all the milk to go into their private pails), it may be a novelty to relate a fact\u2013for it is a fact, as the official records will prove\u2013that a big job of public work was once\u2013remember, I only say once\u2013carried through in this big city of ours\u2013the scene of so much public robbin\u2019–in first class style for about one-eighth of the original estimates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The man to whose honesty, as well as capacity, the public was indebted for this startlin\u2019, because money-savin\u2019 sensation, was the late Edward H. Tracy, who was engineer in charge of the Croton Aqueduct at the time. He was a smart engineer, as well as an upright man, this Tracy, and the matter I allude to was as flatterin\u2019 to his head as to his heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He lowered two lines of thirty-six inch pipe in Fifth avenue, between Thirty-fourth and Fortieth streets, without breakin\u2019 bulk, and at a cost of less than $13,000 ($12,633), when the work had been before that estimated by several bidders at over $100,000, almost eight times as much. This engineer Tracy was one of the most conscientious men I ever knew, and his skill secured him the position of engineer-in-chief of the Croton Water Department when Tweed took charge of the Public Works, a year or two before the Boss went down. Tweed made up his mind that there should be no mischief in a department so important to the people as the Croton water, and, as Tracy often told me before he died, Tweed used to let him run that one department on first class business principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Strange to say, the Water Department was about the only department where \u201cthe stock wasn’t watered,\u201d as they say in the lingo of Wall Street when there is any shenanigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am reminded of these points by observing in the papers that the big bugs and property owners up-town, the Vanderbilts, Webbs and Astors, have got one of their pet bills at Albany passed at last, and that the old reservoir of Croton water on Fifth avenue between Forty-second and Forty-third streets, known as the Murray Hill Reservoir, is about to be taken away and converted into a pleasure park for the swells, or perhaps into somethin\u2019 else that may suit their purposes better. It really won’t be much of a loss, after all, to the public, as the reservoir there is no longer absolutely needed; still, it will be another old landmark gone, and puts me forcibly in mind of the high old time old New York had years and years ago, when this old reservoir was new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Murray Hill Reservoir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      People have got so used to Croton water nowadays that not one man in a thousand stops to think what a time there was in gettin\u2019 this Croton water into the city and yet it took just about seventy years to get this great city of New York its present system of water works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Old Christopher Colles, some of whose descendants are now livin\u2019 in New York, was about the first man who got up a scheme to supply New York City with water. He proposed a reservoir on the east side of Broadway, between Pearl and White streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Other prominent old New Yorkers had their hands and heads in schemes for furnishin\u2019 the metropolis with water. Such men as Samuel Ogden, John Lawrence, Samuel Crane, Benjamin Taylor, Joseph Brown, R. J. Roosevelt, Judge Cooper, Zebrina Curtis and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Once Philadelphia kindly offered to attend to New York’s water works for her, for a consideration, usin\u2019 Rumsey\u2019s engine, which was then, like Keeley’s motor, a big thing\u2013in idea. This was very kind, indeed, in Philadelphia, but the scheme didn’t pan out any better than Philadelphia’s idea for selling off the old Centennial stuff to New York for a World’s Fair has panned out lately. The Philadelphians are all too disinterested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Robert Macomb offered to furnish the city with water from a dam or reservoir on the Harlem River, and he offered to do all this, too, without any expense to the city. All he wanted was the privilege of selling the water to the public. But the public didn’t see it. All that remains of that idea is the name, Macomb’s dam, with which all horsemen and old residents are familiar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      By-the-by, the people of old New York used to sell water to each other sometimes, and turned a good many honest pennies by doin\u2019 it. Some wise men and women got big cisterns and let the rain water fill \u2018em, and then sold the rain water at a cent or two a pail-full. The more rain there was, of course, the more money there was for these prudent people who were thus enabled to make, as it were, \u201ca point on rain water\u201d or \u201ca corner in clouds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      By-the-by, there used to be wells and pumps all over old New York, and some of these old pumps used to be regular places of public resort. The old pump in Pearl street used to be quite a meetin\u2019 place for a young men and maidens\u2013in the good old times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But after a while, all sorts of schemes and all sorts of fights between the different schemers, and a big quarrel between the New York Water Works company and the Sharon Canal Company, it was found out that of all schemes the best, because the most practical, was the supplyin\u2019 New York from the Croton River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Then there was the old Tea-Water Pump, near where the Tombs now stands, from which the old women in the neighborhood used to get the water for their tea. This was almost as great a resort then as the Tombs is now\u2013only for a very different class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      So the city got hold of the Manhattan Company’s charter, which embraced the counties of New York and Westchester, as far as the right to supply \u2018em with water was concerned, and formed the Croton Aqueduct Board\u2019s charter out of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The Manhattan Company started originally as a water works company, and in order to keep its charter it had for a long while a sort of \u201cdummy\u201d reservoir in a house on Reade street. Out of this company the Manhattan Banking Company was formed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Well, at last, after about seventy years\u2019 circus, the water works of New York got fairly underway, and once started kept right on till they were finished. John L. Lawrence was the president of the original Croton Aqueduct Board, and J. Phillips Phoenix, and old Van Schaick, and Samuel B. Ruggles (who is still livin\u2019) were members of the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Strange as it may sound now and funny, it is a fact that quite a large number of the voters of old New York were dead opposed to the introduction of Croton water\u2013while there were over 17,000 votes recorded for it, there were nearly 6,000 votes against it. There were three wards in the city that didn’t want the Croton water at all, and three pretty big and influential wards at that, the old Ninth Tenth and Thirteenth wards. This makes curious readin\u2019 now, but then the old rounders in these wards in those days hadn’t any idea of what a big town this New York of theirs was going to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Then the big freshet took place, after New Year’s day week, in the Croton River and carried away a part of the dam, and smashed things generally, destroyed thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of property and two or three lives, then these old rounders in the three wards that had voted against the Croton Aqueduct shook their heads said \u201cwe told you so\u201d and prophesized all sorts of mischief before the Croton water ever got to New York. But these croakers didn’t have any more accidents or disasters to feed on. This was the only one, and at last, on the 4th of July, the first drop of Croton water got into the Murray Hill Reservoir just at sunrise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      What a time there was! The reservoir was all covered with star spangled banners. A band of music played, cannons were fired, and the crowd went wild. Then the temperance societies, who saw a chance in this excitement about water to work their cold water racket, came along and sang temperance hymns, and then some temperance orator made a speech and asked everybody to endorse the temperance platform. Just about this time the platform on which they were standin\u2019 broke down, and a man who was sittin\u2019 underneath it was crushed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cThe temperance platform\u201d proved too much for him. He nearly died of it. It broke his leg and injured him internally. There weren\u2019t any more temperance speeches made that day. It rained, too, durin\u2019 the day just a little, and the wag said that it was perfectly shameful that on such an occasion as this even the clouds had taken a drop too much. Altogether there was a deal of good-natured fun and excitement, but the great fuss over the matter took place some months after, when the water had been introduced all over the city. Then all New York, for the first, and I guess last, time in its history went wild over water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      There was a big parade. There was a sort of fountain carried along in the procession, and all the public fountains\u2013especially the fountains in the City Hall Park and Union Square\u2013were kept goin\u2019 at high pressure. The military turned out by the thousands, and the crack regiment of the parade was what was known at then as the \u201cHighland Regiment,\u201d preceded by bagpipes, the men bein\u2019 all in Scotch kilt and stockin\u2019s. Then the firemen came along, all the hand engines and hose carriages covered all over with flags and flowers. In the parade were all the New York pilots and the naval apprentices, and the workmen who had been engaged on the aqueduct, and who went through the mysteries of layin\u2019 pipes, in which they beat even the present pipe-layers up in the Albany Legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then the Governor of New York State came along in a carriage, and two other carriages came right behind, carryin\u2019 seven mayors of seven different cities. Then a pretty carriage came along with the British Union Jack and the stars and stripes, twined together, round it. This contained the British consul, and made the boys crazy with delight. Then the silversmiths marched in a body, carryin\u2019 a lot of precious frames and pretty things, which brought the water to the women’s eyes without the aid of any aqueduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      And last of all came the butchers. Every butcher in the city turned out on horseback, or in a cart, in full rig. Before the butchers was borne in triumph a mammoth stuffed ox, and after \u2018em, in carts, came sheep and calves under charge of butchers\u2019 boys, who were in the olden time quite an institution in the city of New York. The procession wound up with a big car drawn by richly caparisoned horses, containing the priests and minstrels of the Ancient Order of Druids, which at that time was very popular. These Druids were dressed like the ancient Britons are in the Opera of \u201cNorma,\u201d and looked very picturesque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Altogether it was a very different and much more interestin\u2019 procession than one is likely to see in New York nowadays. When the parade was through the Sacred Music Society sang \u201cA Croton Ode,\u201d by Gen. George P. Morris, which was a little bit too long, and made everybody glad when it was over (one fellow in the crowd said the city \u201cowed\u201d for the Croton quite enough as it was), and then New York went home and everybody had Croton water at dinner to put into their whiskey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      There have been some items of interest connected with this reservoir, among \u2018em two suicides years and years ago, and an attempt at a duel. But, on the whole, its history has been very quiet and respectable, and pretty soon all that will be left of it will be this chapter and a memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Editor’s notes: Several civil engineers took part in the creation of the old Croton Aqueduct, but Edward H. Tracy held the position of Chief Engineer of the Croton Water Department. He died in 1875 and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in the Bronx. No images of him can be found.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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