This water was really just as impure as
that which had before been taken from the wells, and it was not long
before the new water-works were known to be a failure. Then the company
gave all their attention to the bank, which had in the meanwhile been
started.
[Illustration: Reservoir of Manhattan Water-Works in Chambers Street.]
This company of Aaron Burr's was called the Manhattan Company, and their
Manhattan Bank has been kept going ever since and is still in existence
in a fine large building in Wall Street.
So you see Aaron Burr this time got the better of Alexander Hamilton and
his friends.
If you turn the page you will read more of Hamilton and Burr.
CHAPTER XXXIV
MORE about HAMILTON and BURR
The dawn of the nineteenth century saw 60,000 people in the city of New
York and the town extending a mile up the island. Above the city were
farms and orchards and the country homes of the wealthy. Where Broadway
ended there was a patch of country called Lispenard's Meadow, and about
this time a canal was cut through it from the Collect Pond to the
Hudson River. This was the canal which long years afterward was filled
in and gave its name to Canal Street.
[Illustration: The Collect Pond.
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