Morning Herald

Mr. Bennett,—Sir: In No. V. of your "Modern and Ancient Aqueducts," published this morning in the Herald, you state, under the head of "Water pipes through the city," that "the pipes now laying, have been examined by a person engaged in the foundry business, who states that the iron constituting the pipes was too hard to admit the drill. This may cause much trouble hereafter, when introducing the water into the houses of our citizens."

Now as it so happens that all the water pipes laid down by the corporation since the month of June last, have been cast by us, and as the quality of those pipes is a matter which concerns our reputation, we take the liberty to inform the "person engaged in the foundry business," that if the 12 inch pipes which the corporation are now laying are those which he thinks are "too hard to admit the drill," he is grossly mistaken.
Every pipe which we have furnished to the corporation may be drilled or chipped, or filed, should those operations become necessary; they are all cast in dry sand moulds, and being made of a mixture of Scotch and American pig iron, re-melted, they are stronger at first, and will resist the corroding effects of the water within and the damp earth without. longer than any other pipes which the corporation has ever laid down in the city.

Please insert the above, and oblige

Your obd't serv'ts,

Ward, Stilliman & Co.

Novelty Works, 17th Aug., 1839.