History of Springfield, Illinois, its attractions as a home and advantages for business, manufacturing, etc. Pub. under the auspices of the Springfield board of trade, by J. C. Power.

ITS ADVANTAGES FOR MANUFACTURING. or
ter issuing on all sides, in the form of the Cincinnati water works. The engine,
spray, from the ornamental work at the pumps, statuary, and all the ornamental
top of the stand pipe, and falling over iron work, was made at the foundry of
the swans into the vase; from there it is Miles Greenwood, in Cincinnati. The
connected by pipes to the four dolphins construction of the work was superinbelow, and from the mouth of each of tended by John C. Ragland, of Springthese a stream of water spouts into the field, under orders from the commisreservoir. In order to conduct the wa- sioners-John Williams, C. W. Matheter to where it is wanted for use, there ney and Dr. H. Wohlgemuth. It was
is a fifteen inch pipe laid from the re- commenced June 1, 1866, and completed
servoir, under ground, about one mile July 1, 1868, at a total cost of about
into the city; and where it is necessary $460,000.
to branch off, ten inch pipe is used, and In addition to supplying the dwellings,
again four inch, and so on down to the business houses, hotels, factories, etc.,
small pipes, leading into the different with water, fire plugs are placed at conrooms of the houses. venient distances from each other all
I have said that the ground on which over the city. With the two splendid
the reservoir stands is eleven feet above steam fire engines, this affords ample
the city, and the water in the reservoir.protection against conflagrations; so that
twenty-two feet higher, making thirty- a fire very rarely extends beyond a buildthree feet it will rise-when the pipes ing in which it originated.
are properly placed in the houses-on All the additional expense necessary to
the principle that water will find its le- supply a population of fifty thousand
vel. Some of the buildings are higher persons will be the additional supply
than this, and in order to supply them pipes to convey the water where it is
with water, the pumping machinery and desired.
pipes are so arranged, that when the en- John C. Ragland continues to be the
gine is running at the river, water may superintendent.
be forced more than eighty feet above SEWERAGE OF THE CITY.
the surface, five miles away from the The southern one of the two ravines,
propelling power at the river. between which the old North Carolina
These works are constructed with the hunter pitched his tent, has for many
view of supplying a city of forty or fifty years been called the Town Branch. It
thousand inhabitants, and as Springfield runs a little north of the Governor's
contains only about eighteen thousand, Mansion, passes between the old and new
there is danger that too much water will State Houses, and running in a northbe pumped up and overflow the reser- westerly direction, empties into Spring
voir. This, however, is guarded against Creek, as already stated. Within the
by an opening in the stand pipe, a foot city limits it is all arched over and the
or more below the level of the embank- ground leveled up above it. The openments. This opening in the stand pipe ing is about ten feet in diameter, and is
is connected by a smaller pipe, passing the main sewer for the drainage of the
down inside the stand pipe, and out un- city.
der the embankments, to the artificial The system of sewerage is very elabolake with the islands in it, around the rate, having already between twenty-five
reservoir, thus preventing an overflow and thirty miles completed, ranging in
and supplying the artificial lake by the size from two to ten feet. The sewerage,
same operation. like the water works, will require but a
The. whole work was designed by Mr. little extension of pipes, mostly smaller
Henry Earnshaw, jydraulic engineer, of than those already laid, to bring it up