. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . the inhabitant*residing in the neighborhood. No person was allowed Ihe use of a well untilhe had contributed a fair proportion of the cost. About the year 1750pumps came into use. and a general act was afterwards passed to enable thecity to raise a lax for the construction and keeping in repair- of the publicwells and pumps. About the year HiJO there were, say, a dozen public wells in the city,standing all of them in the middle of the streets. In 1748 there were manywells. Inil
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . the inhabitant*residing in the neighborhood. No person was allowed Ihe use of a well untilhe had contributed a fair proportion of the cost. About the year 1750pumps came into use. and a general act was afterwards passed to enable thecity to raise a lax for the construction and keeping in repair- of the publicwells and pumps. About the year HiJO there were, say, a dozen public wells in the city,standing all of them in the middle of the streets. In 1748 there were manywells. Inil a portion of the inhabitants preferred to send --out of town to theFresh-water Spring—thru, ami fora long period afterwards, known as the Tearwater Spring. This spring was situated near I he present junction of Chathamand Roosevelt Streets. Shortly before the Revolution the neighborhood of thespring was made into a fashionable place of resort at which to procure beveragesmixed with pure water. A pump was erected over the famous spring, orna-mented grounds were laid out around it, and the Tea-water Pump Garden. TEA-WATER lLMP. held forth its attractions unaer the most seductive influences. The water ofall the other wells and pumps (and there were many scattered over the city)was almost unfit for use. Before the introduction of the Croton, water was one of the chief commod-ities for barter in the city. It was delivered by contract as ice now is, orhawked through the streets at a cent or a cent and a half a pail. In somehouses this was an important item of expense. Sixty years ago Mr. Davis, ofthe Grapevine, in Greenwich Avenue, had an establishment at Beekmanand South Streets. He was furnished with forty gallons of water a day fromthe old spring in Franklin Square, and his bfll was thirty shillings a week, orone hundred and ninety-five dollars a year. But Knapps tea-water, drawnfrom a spring close by the old White Fort, was the most popular in the oldentime, and gave employment
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