over it. A very beautiful and expensive colonnade has been built over
the rock by the "High Rock Congress Spring Company." This company was
formed in 1866, and was inaugurated under favorable auspices and with
brilliant prospects of success. But though _founded on a rock_, it was
not successful in withstanding the storms. Whether the rock was too
slippery, or the Spring rains too severe, or what was the slip-up, or
rather slip-down, we do not presume to say, but the company failed,
and the spring was sold at auction during the present month for
$16,000.

Those who invested their dollars in it sank them in a _well_, and
unlike "bread cast upon the waters," they do not seem to return again.

A new company has been organized, and under their direction the spring
is being retubed. With honest and careful management it ought to be
profitable to the owners and conducive to the health of the public.


FOOTNOTE:

[A] A lecture on Water by C.H. Chandler, Ph.D., delivered at the
American Institute.




PAVILION SPRING.


A few steps from Broadway, in a somewhat secluded valley, though in