纽约市的供水。
在纽约市长麦克莱伦（McClellan）的制造商协会的讲话中，敦促每个公民为他在立法机关中引入的水委员会提供供水委员会。他坚持认为，需要紧急救济，以便该市可能会避免严重的不便 - 也许是困难。尽管有哪个，他还提出了该法案，以使该法案脱离政党政治，但他确认，国家委员会的努力将使该市的直接必要性从属于该州的紧迫要求。五年前的另一个干旱季节将意味着不便。二。苦难；三，灾难。预赛已经浪费了太多时间。一旦获得水，就必须立即获得水。市长说，他的法案是有两个主要目的的提取的 - （i）速度； (2) to put the work on a businesslike, unpartisan basis. “This scheme (he added) will take many years to work out, and will involve the spending of $100,000,000. There should be a continuous purpose and continuous administration, which can’t be had if it is the shuttlecock of politics.I don’t care whether it's my party or any other; let this be kept out of politics. Let us get something tangible as soon as possible. There’s a great danger menaces us. The Burr commission has reported that the people of all the Hudson Valley, including Albany and Troy, will use 50,000,000 gallons a day. To conserve their right, we are to be deprived of the right to use 500,000,000 gallons a day. Assemblyman McKeown has introduced a bill to raise the embargo on Dutchess and Suffolk counties laid upon New York city against acquiring water rights in either. The bill confers upon the Supreme court the power to grant appraisal commissioners whose duty it shall be to appraise and condemn lands adjoining streams, the possession of which is desired for the extension of the water supply of New York. The bill also makes it unlawful for any corporation organised for or engaged in the business of furnishing water to any municipality in the State to acquire the right to use for the purpose of furnishing water to any municipality in the State, any stream or waters, outside of such municipality, that afford the chief source of power to a mill or mills in any city or village of the State, whose inhabitants are chiefly dependent on such mill or mills for employment.
1904年，加利福尼亚州萨克拉曼多消防局救济协会无需支付一分钱的福利，而1903年为473.50美元。
