Recommendation 1st.-That no boy be permitted to take hold of the rope of any carriage, at any time or in any manner to assist or participate in the duties of firemen, as connected with company arrangements. Recommendation 2d.-That no Fre or Hose Com pany's apparatus be removed from its location, between sunrise and 10 o'clock, P. M. on Sabbath days, nor on secular evenings, between sunset and 10 o'clock, P. M. unless the State House Bell shall ring or unless it be positively known to an accredited member that there is a fire. Recommendation Sd,-That no person be admitted as a member of the Fire Department under the age of 18 years; and no person of any age, whose habits are believed to be irregular and disorderly, and likely to bring the department into disrepute. Resolved, That as the labors of firemen are materially embarrassed at fires by the crowds of boys and others, who render no assistance in arresting the progress of the flames, the Delegates do earnestly recom mend to all parents, guardians and masters, having children and youth in charge, to prevent them from leaving their homes in times of fires or alarms, and also to prevent them from congregating in the vicinity of Engine and Hose houses, by which the peace and the quiet of our citizens are disturbed. Resolved, That the foregoing be signed by the President and Secretary, and a copy thereof be sent to the President of each Engine and Hose Company in the City and County of Philadelphia, with a request that the same be submitted to the action of the Company over which he presides, and that t..e Preamble, Resolutions and Recommendations be published in all the daily and weekly papers. By order of the Board of Delegates. PHILIP GARRETT, President. ANDREW BUTLER, Secretary. THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT, To the Mercantile Library Company. In obedience to the requisitions of the Constitution of this Company, the Board of Directors submit the following report. The course of events during the past year has not produced any changes of con-equence to the interests of the institution. It has been tranquilly moving forward in the path of its usefulness, augmenting the sources of information, in proportion to its means, and the Board cherish a confidence, which they believe to be well grounded, that the objects of the company are in a safe and sure train of gradual accomplishment. In pursuance of a recommendation at the last annual meeting of the Company, that the Board of Directors should endeavor to procure more commodious appartments for the accommodation of the visiters to the Library, this subject has engaged much of their attention. It lias not been found practicable to obtain such a situation, as would unite the advantage of spacious accommodations, permanence and a central position, convenient to the greater part of the stockholders and subscribers who visit the Library. That a change of location is necessary, the Board are abundantly convinced. But they are of opinion that the change should not be made, until it can be done upon a footing of permanence, and so as to render any future removal unnecessary, at least for many years to come. This can be done only by the purchase or lease of a property suitable for the purpose; and in the opinion of the Board, the former would be the most desirable.From information which they have obtained in the course of their inquiries into the subject, they conceive that opportunities may present during the coming year, by which their successors in office may be enabled to secure a suitable location for the library, and they would respectfully recommend the subject to their particular attention. Several subscribers having neglected to pay up their subscriptions, and refusing to do so when called upon for that purpose by the collecting officer, the Board have caused their names to be stricken from the list of subscribers, in pursuance of the provisions in the con stitution to that effect. While adverting to this subject, the board takes occasion to say, that the advant ages of the institution would be much increased by a more punctual attention on the part of the stockholders and subscribers, to the liquidation of the semi-annual payments due from them. The expense of employing an agent to collect these sums, is considerable. If saved, it could be appropriated to the purchase of new works; and the want of punctuality in the receipts leaves the treasury sometimes bare of funds. To all who feel an interest in the success of the institution, the mere statement of the case, will, the Board believe, be sufficient to prevent its recurrence and to insure greater punctuality in the receipts, The number of members composing this company at present, 570, of whom 475 are stockholders and 95 subscribers. There remain on hand twenty-eight shares of stock. The number of volumes in the Library is at present 4,489, of which 325 have been added during the year which has just expired. Of these, sixteen volumes were presented to the Library by C. N. Buck, Junr. and five volumes were presented by Thomas P. Cope, Esq. During the past year there have been loaned out for perusal 12,311 volumes, There are seven daily newspapers, and eleven monthly and quarterly periodicals, subscribed for by the company. The receipts for the past year have amounted to $1,299 and 60 cents. The expenditures for the same time have been $1,323 and 36 cents; leaving a balance due from the company to the treasurer, of $23 ard 76 cents. The receipts for the present year are estimated at $1,325. The expenditures at $1,020, leaving an estimated surplus of $300, applicable to the purchase of new books. The Treasurer's Report contains the details of the several items of reeeipt and cxpenditure and the ground of the estimates for the present year which is herewith respectfully submitted. Several points for a new location have been suggested to the Board, and their advantages and disadvantages have been particularly examined and discussed. In The objects of the foundation of this institution were some it has been found that the rent demanded was of the purest character-calculated to afford, to a wide higher than the present resources of the company would spread and most interesting circle of society, access to warrant. In others, not subject to this objection the standard works, in the current literature of the day, and security of the Library, the value of which is daily ap- the records of passing events, at a reasonable expense preciating by the addition of new books, was not con--creating inducements for the appropriate employ sidered as great as its present location, evidenced by a demand for an increase of premium on the Insurance against loss by fire, while in other situations which have been proposed, the advantage of a central position in the more densely populated portions of the city was not to be attained. ment of valuable time, to the acquisition of knowledge. It has been a source of unmixed gratification to the Board of Directors to observe that its advantages have been appreciated, and that a large number of visitors have availed themselves of the opportunities which it has afforded. With the best wishes for the success of your enter1 remain gentlemen, The increase of the Library widens its sphere of use | A glance at the map will afford sufficient evidence fulness, and adds to its attractions, for all those who are that the plan is not only practicable, but one which anxious to inform themselves; and the Board of Direc-will be beneficial to the community, and profitable to tors, in surrendering their charge over its interest to the capitalist and stockholders. their successors in office, express their warmest wishes for the continued prosperity of the institution, and its increasing influence upon the welfare of those who embrace the opportunities it holds out for improvement, and the good order and happiness of society. All of which is respectfully submitted. By order of the Board, THOMAS P. COPE, President. prise, [Signed,] Dec. 27, 1834. Your obedient servant, HENRY R. CAMPBELL, Live weight of thirteen sheep, raised by Jesse James, of Westtown, and weighed on the 14th day of February, 1835. Number 1 weighed, 66 2 66 230 lbs. 214 66 5. 66 8 Thomas P. Cope, John M. Atwood, Treasurer, JOHN FAUSSET. WEST PHILadelphia RAIL ROAD. Extract from the Report of Mr. Henry R. Campbell, Engineer, upon the routes proposed for the West Philadelphia Rail Road. With a wish to furnish the committee, with all desirable information, three lines have been surveyed, which com mence at a point near the permanent bridge, and form a junction near Hestonville on the Lancaster Turnpike, the first of these is the centre line, which runs nearly parallel to the Turnpike. The country through which it passes rises rapidly from the shore of the Schuylkill river to an elevation of 101 feet, which is overcome by a uniform grade of 50 feet per mile, the grading being generally heavy and expensive. This part of the hue is 34 miles in length. The southern line extends down the river bank into an ascending grade of 23 feet per mile for 13 miles, passes east of the alms house, and enters the valley of Mill Creek at Maylandville, which it ascends by a grade of 30 feet per mile, to its junction with the northern line above mentioned-the distance being 44th miles, and greater than line No. 1 by ths of a mile. The northern line runs from the same point before mentioned, near the permanent bridge, up the Schuyl kill river to a point near Fairmount Locks, and thence curving to the left it passes up a small ravine to an intersection with the centre line near Hall's tavern. This line is a mile longer than the centre line, and ths of a mile shorter than the southern line, the grade will vary from 20 to 40 feet per mile. In extending the levels and surveys from Hestonville to the Columbia and Philadelphia Rail Road, but one route presents itself as practicable, which is in the valley of Mill Creek, and rises at the rate of 40 feet per mile for a distance of 5 miles to a junction with the Columbia Rail Road, about 2 miles west of the Gen. Wayne Tavern. The estimate for grading the centre line $120,000 and the cost of lay. ing a double track of rails will be about $80,000, making the cost of this route $200,000. The estimate for grading the southern line is $125,000, and the cost of laying a double track of rails 100,000 making a total sum of $225,000. PUBLIC SALE OF REAL ESTATE. A Lot of Ground on Hanover street, Kensing- A Lot at the corner of Beach and Hanover A Lot on Hanover street, 80 feet by 49, A Lot on Coates street, west of Ninth street, 36 feet by 154, to Melon street, on which it fronts The morning of the 9th was the coldest I have any record of in this place, being 120° colder than the hotrest day last summer, being at one time 101 degrees which was five or six degrees warmer than I had before known. A. W. T. The length of the proposed road by the several lines N. B. A thermometer should be placed in the shade, is as follows. By the centre line 84 miles, by the south-free from any remote reflection, and detaclied from The estimate for grading the northern line, is $130,000 and the cost of laying a double track of rails $85,000, making a total sum of $215,000. ern line 9 miles, and the northern line 83 miles. Respectfully, any building.-Beaver Argus. RECORD OF THE WEATHER. Feb. 16. The streets and trees covered with a glaze of ice, rain having fallen and frozen. - 21. The Delaware opened and some vessels came up. 27. A snow storm commenced last night, it fell 3 to 4 inches deep. March 1. Severely cold all day, and the night nearly as cold as any we have had this winter. 2. At dawn of morning the mercury only 4o above zero, the rivers again closed for the third time this season-a very rare occurrence-the navigation of both rivers continued obstructed till the 9th instant. 10. One of the most stormy days we have had this winter. It rained in the morning-from 11 till 1 o'clock, it hailed, and then began to snow. The snow fell in greater quantities, and more rapidly than we ever recollect to have seen-notwithstanding the bad foundation from the preceding rain, the ground became soon covered, and in about an hour the snow had fallen to the depth of three or four inches, it ceased about sundown, and left the surface covered to the depth of eight or nine inches. It was decidedly the greatest fall of snow the past winter. Wood became so scarce as to command for oak $8 to 9, and hickory 11, during the period when the river remained closed; the price has now fallen to the old rates. Of which about 7000 were for account of the preceding year. The rental of the city property for 1835 is computed at $40,221 00. THE WATER WORKS. We have received the annual Report of the watering Committee, from which the following particulars are derived for the present week. In a future number the report at length, and such of the statements as are most interesting to the public, will be given. The expenditures in 1834 were $65,163 36, viz: For distribution, For iron pipes, For buildings, For Fair Mount works, and balance due The amount paid into the Treasury in 1834, from water rents and for articles sold is, The estimate for incidental expenses for 1835 is, For permanent expenses, Total, $4,930 42 22,322 64 6,047 00 14,599 81 10,965 90 2,182 49 875 10 S,240 00 $65,163 36 $85,524 32 14,000 00 30,000 00 $44,000 00 The extent of iron pipes laid in the city in 1834, was 15,597 feet, making with those previously laid 271,355 feet, or 514 miles, and there are 30 miles in the districts, making 824 miles of iron pipes. There are 741 fire plugs in the city and districts. $90,531 00 The amount of water rents for 1835 is, The number of water tenants is 14,595, and about 2,500 families use the public hydrant pumps in the city being equal to 16,895 tenants. The quantity of water used in the city and districts, averages 3,400,000 gallons per day-or about 200 gallons as the daily consumption by each tenant. The daily consumption in London is about 180 gallons to each tenant. During the drought in July and August last, the consumption frequently exceeded 5,000,000 gallons per day. The whole cost of the permanent parts of the Fair Mount Water Works including real estate, water power, buildings, reservoirs, iron pipes, &c. from their commencement to the 31st of Dec. 1834, was $1,264,292 36 of which sum the iron pipes cost $530,343 46. The increase of water rents in 1834 was $4,991. In 1803 there were only 77 water tenants, and the revenue was $537; now there are 16,895 tenants, and the revenue for 1835 $90,531 0J HAZARD'S REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE. VOL. XV.--NO. 12. EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD. PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 21, 1835. No. 376. be wanted. REPORT OF THE WATERING COMMITTEE. sing, to have the sixteen inch iron main carried along To the Select and Common Councils of the City of Cedar street, from Broad to Eleventh street; in that Philadelphia. case, should the application from new water takers The Watering Committee, in obedience to the estab-justify the expense, a further sum of 7,500 dollars will lished regulation of Councils, present their annual report, with the accounts necessary to elucidate their expenditures, and proceedings of the last year, and an estimate of the sums which will be required to carry on the works of the present year. The amount of the estimate of the last year, and the sum granted by Councils for liquidating the unsettled account of Thomas D. Grover, for repairs of the engine building at Fair Mount, and for laying iron pipes, not included in the estimate, is as follows:- Of which there has been ex- per accounts Nos. 2, 3, 4, $52,933 00 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, as follows, For the distribution, For iron pipes, $4,930 42 22,322 64 For Fair Mount Works, and -$66,933 00 2,182 49 875 10 3,240 00 -$65,163 36 Leaving a balance in favor of the works, of $1,769 64 The Committee have the pleasure to state that all the work contemplated to be done as per former report, has been completed, and although many additions and improvements have been made in the progress of the work, the expenditures are still within the esti mate. The expenses of the distribution, which embraces the necessary repairs of keeping the hydrant pumps, fire plugs, and other devices in order, must gradually increase with the extension of the pipes of conduit, which, during the present year, have been carried along Chestnut street, from east of Schuylkill Fifth to Beach street, along Beach street to Pine street, and along Pine to Willow street. Pipes have also been laid on both sides of High street, from Schuylkill Eighth to Fourth street, and in Seventh and Schuylkill Sixth streets, from near Chestnut to High street, and in Schuylkill Fourth to Filbert street, and down Filbert from Schuylkill Fourth to Third street. These, with pipes laid out included in the estimate, amount together to 13,597 feet, which, added to the account of pipes laid in former years, from 1819, exceed fifty-one and a quarter miles. There being but few applications yet made for the extension of the iron pipes the present year, the Committee have only estimated the sum necessary for 1835, at 8,000 dollars, but it is presumed that an application will be made by the Watering Committee of MoyamenVOL. XV. 23 During the last summer, a general repair was made and fences, regulating the grounds, building a wall on to the works at Fair Mount, by painting the buildings Schuylkill, and paving on the Upper Ferry road, on Coates's street, and Fair Mount street, and the walks of the garden plot. These improvements, with the additions and repairs to the fences, and putting 3,132 yards of rubble stone on the dam, have placed the works in a safe and handsome condition. The engine building, which had stood in a dilapidated state since the erection of the water power works in 1822, have, according to the resolution of Councils, been repaired. At the time the estimate for this object was handed to Councils, it was contemplated only to repair it partially, but after having commenced with taking out the old walls, and timbers formerly applicable to the steam engines, it was found necessary, for the support of the floors, to connect them with the framing of the roof, and to go further than was first intended; and finally, it was concluded that unless a perfect repair was made, the estimated sum would be uselessly expended; consequently the estimate has been exceeded by the additional work done, and by furnishing the saloon. The increased demand for water, necessary for the supply of the city and the four districts which receive it, induced the committee to recommend in their last report the placing of another wheel and pump at Fair Mount. During the present year, this work has been done, and the new machinery was put into operation in November last. The Committee, in reporting on this part of the works, take pleasuse in stating that the execution of the wheel and pump No. 6, made by Levi Morris & Co., has given perfect satisfaction, and it is believed that this work excels any other of the kind that has been executed at Fair Mount. The Commissioners of the District of Kensington, with whom a contract was made for supplying the citizens with water in 1833, have not yet made arrangements for receiving it, it is presumed that they will commence laying pipes early this spring. The suit existing between the city, and the Commissioners of the district of Spring Garden, in relation to ground on Coates's street, has not been settled. It is presumed that the case will be reached early this spring; so soon as this controversy is determined, it will be expedient to finish the ice breaker and guard walls, for which no estimate at present is given. In the estimate of the present year, a sum is embrac ed for finishing part of the reservoir No. 4, which will contain about 3,500,000 gallons of water. The Com. mittee propose, with the sanction of Councils, so soon as this work shall have been accomplished, to proceed with the completion of the remainder of the reservoir, which will cost 30,000 dollars; after which the embank. ments and ornamental parts of the whole mound at Fair Mount, may be finished in a style that will surpass for beauty and convenience any other work of the kind extant. The Committee not having succeeded in obtaining a suitable design for a fountain to be placed at Fair Mount, propose advertising for plans and estimates, and have embraced a sum which they deem sufficient for the object, and for finishing the head pier of the dam, in the estimate of the year. The amount paid into the city treasury for water rents in 1834, as per Register's accounts No. 2, and the sum paid in by the superintendant for articles sold, is To which add balance remaining in the treasury in favor of the Water Works for 1834, Being together, From which deduct charges against the works in 1834, for incidental expenses, viz., working machinery, painting, and other repairs, and for the distribution, &c, Leaves, From which deduct, in aid of the sinking Leaves, $85,524 S2 1,769 64 $87,293 96 14,000 00 $73,293 96 17,000 00 $56,293 96 The cost of the permanent improvements of the Water Work, viz., for iron pipes, new wheel and pump, for paving footways, and street pavement in Coates's street, building wall on Schuylkill, &c. in 1834, was $51,163 36. The amount of the duplicates of water rents for 1835, as per Register's account No. 16, is From which deduct, for the incidental expenses of the Water Works in 1835, as if these amounts had been permitted to be applied as was proposed, a surplus of $3,225 75 would have remained in the treasury, after the payment of all the debts due by the works in 1834. The Committee are led to believe that the difference existing between the city and the Schuylkill Navigation Company, will shortly be settled in a friendly manner; but should they fail in their expectations, it will not be for want of attention on their part. The Committee, in closing this report, take pleasure in stating that the works are in the best condition, and that should no casualty or deficiency of water occur from drought, or by a diversion of it from the works at Fair Mount, they flatter themselves that the income from the important trust committed to their care, will be increased during the present year to one hundred thousand dollars. JOHN P. WETHERILL. Chairman of the Watering Committee. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 22d, 1835. $90,531 00 17,000 00 For finishing part of Reservoir No. 4, and 15,000 00 31,000 00 For the extension of the iron pipes, inci dentally, 8,000 00 per estimate No. 12, $14,000 00 And in aid of the Sinking Fund, Leaves a balance, which may be taken in aid of the tax fund for 1835, of It is proper to notice, by reference to the report of the last year, that the committee stated that 52,933 dollars would be necessary to carry on the works in 1834, as per estimate, and that they had retained from the surplus of the previous year $7,201 26, to settle the account of Thomas D. Grover, and appropriated the remaining sum of $4,758 85, for laying iron pipes in streets where applications should be made for a supply of water in 1834. These sums, with 3,500 dollars previously appropriated for the repairs of the engine building, together amounted to $15,456 11, instead of being reserved for the objects mentioned, were taken in aid of the tax fund; in consequence of which the committee, in December last, were compelled to apply to Councils for an appropriation of 14,000 dollars, when, Superintendent of the Fair Mount Water Works. December 31st, 1834. Statement of the cost of the Permanent parts of the Fair Mount Water Works, continued since the last report |