Excerpt from Water Works and Pipe Distribution

In preparing this pamphlet it has been my aim to collate, in condensed form and by systematic arrangement, such important information regarding water-works and street mains as is usually to be found scattered throughout the pages of extensive treatises on hydraulics and water supply, whose authors generally and, perhaps, naturally give more attention to domestic service, potableness, etc., than to fire service.

Technical phraseology has been, as far as possible, avoided, in order that the property-holders of a city may understand its recommendations when considering the introduction or improvement of water-works. Impressed with the value of a thorough canvass for the criticism and opinions of others, such as was made in the case of the Universal Mercantile Schedule, the writer decided to send the pamphlet in proof to Hydraulic Engineers, Fire Chiefs and other experts throughout the country, with the result that he is under obligation not only to the gentlemen quoted throughout the pamphlet but, also, to many others and especially to Mr. Freeman, to whom he has been largely indebted, as numerous references throughout the work indicate. Indeed, so wide has been the writers canvass for criticism and so materially has the article been improved by drafts made upon the wisdom of others that he feels more like a compiler than an author. Whatever he may lose in credit for originality, however, will be compensated by the gratification of an honest desire to furnish valuable and reliable information, in a concise form, and by the conviction that those who make use of the treatise will rely more thoroughly upon its statements, for the reason that it involves the consensus of judgment of many able experts, rather than the individual opinions of one man.

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