AUGUSTA, GA., May 9, 1872.
  *  *  *  I am so much pleased with your hydrants in regard to ease of working , simplicity, and, consequently, probable durability, that I propose to use them in all future additions to our works.
THOS. W. CUMMINGS, Eng. W.W.

New York has had by official estimate three-fourths of all her hydrants frozen, and upwards of 300 unfit for immediate use, when opened at fires, during January and February (1875) only.

BROOKLYN, N.Y., March 20, 1875.
I take pleasure in stating that we have 126 of your hydrants set, and but one of them was frozen (which was attributable to carelessness). In this respect, as in all others, I deem them reliable.
JOHN H. RHODES, Water Purveyor.

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., February 18, 1875.
Yours of the 15th at hand. We have set in this city 281 of your Mathews' Hydrants. The weather has been unusually severe. Three hydrants were frozen---two of these had been used to fill cisterns, the water running from them for an hour or two very slowly. The other hydrant was used at a fire; cap was put on and hydrant not turned full off. Aside from these not a single one of your hydrants has been found frozen, nor do I think they can be frozen, provided ordinary caution is used in the Fall to see that the valves are in order, and when put in, that branch-pipe is at sufficient depth below surface.
Very Respectfully,
THEO. W. DAVIS, Superintendent.

Boston kept fifty men constantly employed this winter in thawing hydrants.
The Water Commissioners of Concord, N.H., say, in their Annual Report, they

"Take pleasure in testifying to the superiority of R.D. WOOD & CO'S Fire Hydrant as adapted to such unprecedentedly cold weather as they have been subjected to during the last sixty days."