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FIRE AND WATER congratulates Mr. Garret A. Hobart, of Paterson, N. J., on his election to the office of Vice-President of the United States.Hobart先生在所有水工厂的人中众所周知，是Passaic Water Company和Exacknonck Water Company（向N. J. Passaic市提供水）的总裁，也是East Jersey Water Company的顾问。
新水管铺设在第五大道,this city, has revealed the fact not only that whole blocks of that thoroughfare free are unsewered, but that the location of the existing water pipes, conduits,sewers,etc., is not marked in any map. This will all be altered, and the work has been begun of preparing a chart of the section between Forty-third and Forty fourth streets. It is known that on that block there is. near the east curb line, a telegraph subway, and, farther on, towards the opposite curb, are a four inch gaspipe, a six inch gaspipe, and eight-inch gaspipe, the new foity-eight water main, thirty six twenty-eight, and thirty-eight-inch waterpipes, a new twelve inch water pipe, and eight inch gaspipe, a wire subway, and a four-inch water pipe. It is believed that this line of pipes will be found to continue up to l ifty fourth street, and that an additional gaspipe will be found there and a steam supply pipe farther up the avenue. ’I he public have but the very faintest idea ofthe amount of underground piping in New York—there are. for instance, seventeen gas mains in use on Third avenue. Of the $1,000,000 appropriation for laying the new fo'ty-eight-inch water mains Commissioner Collis has been authorized to apply a part towards asphalting Fifth avenue, so that not only will it have a smooth and noiseless pavement, but the location of the various underground pipes,conduits,and sewers will be accurately known for the future,and the plumbing and fitting of the water pipes and relaying of the house sewer pipes will have been so carefully looked after as to remove any necessity for touching the pavement on that account for at least five years.
