The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ment amounted to $25,000. During Mayor Lincolns administration deeds of several tracts ofvaluable wood- and other land belonging to the citv were discovei-edand the property taken possession of. The sources of public water supply of the city at this time were asfollows; The Allen, or Spring water, supplying thirty-seven differentpai-ties on Main street by an aqueduct two miles long from a sovircenear Adams square; Paine spring, from Laurel hill, supplying 125parties on School, Union, Main, Thomas and Summer streets througho
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ment amounted to $25,000. During Mayor Lincolns administration deeds of several tracts ofvaluable wood- and other land belonging to the citv were discovei-edand the property taken possession of. The sources of public water supply of the city at this time were asfollows; The Allen, or Spring water, supplying thirty-seven differentpai-ties on Main street by an aqueduct two miles long from a sovircenear Adams square; Paine spring, from Laurel hill, supplying 125parties on School, Union, Main, Thomas and Summer streets throughone mile of pipe: the Rice aqueduct, supplying sixty-one familiesnear Grafton and Franklin streets; Bell pond, or Worcester aqueduct,which contributed the more general supjDly, on which the citv reliedfor water in case of fire. This aqueduct had been transferred to thecity by the company, which was incorporated in 1845 to construct it. For ten years previous to 1864 the pressing need of additional had been impressed by successive mayors. The necessity of. PHINEHAS BALL. The Worcester of 1898. 43 some action finally became imperative, and consequently, on the iSthof Januar\% 1864, the question, Shall water be introduced into thecitv of Worcester by authority of the city, in substantial accordancewith the report of Phinehas Ball and the Joint Standing Committee onWater? was submitted to the people for a yea and nay vote, receivingan affirmative majority of 582 in a vote of 1,146. The Citv Council adopted an order in February authorizing themavor to piirchase the right to the waters of East or Lynde brook inLeicester, and to proceed in the work of introducing said water intothe city, at a cost not to exceed $110,000. Early in March work wasbegun in the construction of a dam and the laying of pipe. FromMvrtle street to Gates lane a sixteen-inch pipe was laid, 13,162 feet,and from this point west 1,946 feet an eighteen-inch pipe, making16,162 feet, a little more than thr
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