Show wooden pipes ever since the ogden water anater works have been in operation anxious anxious p people eople have been indulging in n apprehensions that the wooden pipe used would not eland stand tho the wear and tear of time As example ia is ft a better instructor than precept we clip the following article from the august augus t number of the american artisan which may disperse some of the fears of pessimist people some recent excavations in berkley square london england brought to light one of those curious relics relies of old london which are overy now and then being bein exposed in its streets in III the sixteenth century london was supplied with prater from the thames by meana of wooden pipes invented by one peter 31 morris orris or maurice a dutchman who ia 1580 obtained a right from the corporation to erect machinery to supply what many householders had bad been compelled to purchase a tankard at a time from the water bearers maurices works were erected at old london bridge and his water pi pipes p e s were hollowed out of the stems of r trees tightly fitted into each other much aft after erthe the manner of the common sewer pipe of today to day some wooden piping of the kind devised by this ingenious dutch man has recently been dug up in berkley square but it was probably a part f the works of theNe the new river company which so far adopted maurices plan that it originally supplied water through pipes formed of the tile sterna teni of small elm trees denuded of bark drilled through the center and cut to lengths of about six feet some nineteen years ago 0 a considerable length of this wooden pi piping ping was exhumed in pall mall |