. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . 18 OFF-II AND GIUARD COLLEGE. Shortly after which we see, on our left, the Fairmount Water-works,and although a notice of it is not strictly within the range of thiswork, it may nevertheless prove interesting to many to learn some-thing of its leading features, especially as it was the first establish-ment of the kind ever erected in the United States; and, in pointof boldness of conception and romantic profile, probably inferior tonone in any quarter of the glob
. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . 18 OFF-II AND GIUARD COLLEGE. Shortly after which we see, on our left, the Fairmount Water-works,and although a notice of it is not strictly within the range of thiswork, it may nevertheless prove interesting to many to learn some-thing of its leading features, especially as it was the first establish-ment of the kind ever erected in the United States; and, in pointof boldness of conception and romantic profile, probably inferior tonone in any quarter of the globe. The first water-works were commenced in 1799. A steam-enginewas placed in Chestnut street, near the Schuylkill, by means ofwhich the water was elevated to a basin in Penn square, and fromthence distributed to the city in wooden pipes. The quantity ofwater thus obtained was soon found to be entirely too- small to supplythe increasing demand, and the works were abandoned in 1815, afternearly $700,000 had been spent upon them. In 1816 the works atFairmount were commenced, the water being again raised by steamto an elevated reservoir. Steam
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