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THE WATER SYSTEM At the first meeting of the Directors, held at the house of Edward Barden, Innkeeper, on April 11th, 1799, the following Directors were present: DANIEL LUDLOW, JOHN WATTS, JOHN B. CHURCH, BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM LAIGHT, PASCAL N. SMITH, SAMUEL OSGOOD, JOHN STEVENS, JOHN B. COLES, JOHN BROOME, AARON BURR, and RICHARD HARRISON, Recorder of the City of New York, Ex. Officio, the only absentee being William Edgar. Daniel Ludlow was chosen President, and the following minute was made:
Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA Translated from the Greek of ARISTOPHANES Illustrations by Norman Lindsay [to be added to the next edition] FOREWORD _Lysistrata_ is the greatest work by Aristophanes. This blank and rash statement is made that it may be rejected. But first let it be understood that I do not mean it is a better written work than the _Birds_ or the _Frogs_, or that (to descend to the scale of values that will be naturally imputed to me) it has any more appeal to the collectors of "curious literature" than the _Ecclesiazusae_ or the _Thesmophoriazusae_. On the mere grounds of taste I can see an at least equally good case made out for the _Birds_. That brightly plumaged
The principal object of this incorporation being to obtain a supply of pure and wholesome water for the City of New York. RESOLVED that Samuel Osgood, John B. Coles and John Stevens be a committee to report with all convenient speed the best means to be pursued to obtain such supply. [Illustration: OLD WOODEN WATER MAINS] On May 6th, 1799, the water committee was empowered "to contract for as many pine logs as they may think necessary for pipes and also for boring the same." [Illustration: Contemporary Cartoon] A number of wells were sunk, reservoirs and tanks built, and the distributing system extended generally through the city south of City Hall. About 1836 the system was extended north along Broadway as far as Bleecker Street, and at that time the company had about twenty-five miles of mains and supplied 2,000 houses. [Illustration: MANHATTAN COMPANY RESERVOIR ON CHAMBERS STREET]