NEW YORK’S WATER SUPPLY.
The Merchants’ association, of New York, has appointed a committee to conduct an investigation iuto the conditions surrounding the water supply of the city and to determine, if possible, what is best to be done for the future. The temporary chairman, Mr. William F. King, appointed the following committee of six, to be known as a committee on plan, scope, and organization: Rudolph Hering Professor F. J. Goodnow, Horace E. Deming, W. A Marble, M. E. Bannin. and E P. North. The work will he subdivided amongst an engineering, a municipal fire and public policy a legislation, and a fire protection and insurance committee. The officers of the special committee are as follows: Chairman, M. E Baninng; vice-chairman.D.Le Roy Dresser; secretary, S.C.Mead.
Chairman John F. Washburn, of the water supply committee of the New York board of fireunderwriters, lias addressed a letter (thesecond of the same kind) to the Merchants'association,of New York, in which he says that ” this committee can entertain no doubt whatever of the view of the New York board on the following three points: (1) That there is a necessity for an additional water supply in the city of New York ; (2) that it is important that such supply shall be independent of the present aqueduct; (3) that it shall be delivered in the city under a much greater pressure than is possible from the Croton basin
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