St. John and the province of New Brunswick. (Eastern provinces guides) - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...of various sizes. There are 49 free hydrants for the use of the poor, 276 fire plugs, 3,733 service pipes for house supplv. Total length of pipes of all kinds, 66 miles. Total cost to Dec. 31st, 1881, $998,000. Factories, mills and workshops supplied with water in the city, 304. Portland, 85; total, 389. There are few cities more favorably circumstanced than St. John in the item of water supply. In amplitude, in elevation, in proximity, in freedom from engineering difficulties, in purity, in flavor, in color, and softness, the waters at its command are almost unrivalled. i. Sewerage. The elevated character of the site of Saint John ensures perfect drainage. The rocky formation entails heavy expense in the cutting of drains and sewers, however. Almost every street has a sewer throughout its ( entire length, with branch drains from each house. The sewerage system is being constantlv extended, and a stranger arriving in Saint John at certain times would imagine he had struck a western mining town. Fire'Department and Fires. There is not, probably, another city in America which has been visited so frequently by extensive conflagrations as Saint John has been. The first year after it was founded the whole peninsula, and the country north to the Kennebeccasis, was burned over; many of the newly arrived settlers lost everything they possessed, and if their needs had not been supplied by the British Government the whole of the colonists must have perished. In 1823 a fire involving the destruction of over 40 houses and stores, and the loss of £40,000 sterling, broke out on Disbrow's Wharf, and swept both sides of Prince William Street. In the following year as many more stores, etc., were burned; January 14th, 1837, 115 houses, and nearly the whole...