THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



D. General Biology, Ethnology, 

 AND Anthropology 



Vol. VIII JUNE, 1913 No. 3 



FRANCISCO DE CARRIEDO Y PEREDO 



By Alexander E. W. Salt 



(From the College of Liberal Arts, University of the Philippines, 



Manila, P. I.) 



Three plates and one text figure 



By common consent Francisco de Carriedo y Peredo has been 

 called the greatest benefactor of the city of Manila. To his 

 foresight and benevolence the inhabitants of Manila owed for 

 over twenty years the possession of an excellent system of water 

 supply, which they had lacked for over three centuries, and 

 though, with increasing demands, it has now proved inadequate 

 and has been largely supplanted by a newer and more complete 

 system, it still remains as a valuable asset in time of emergency.^ 



While, however, Carriedo is recognized as a benefactor, the 

 printed data as to the man himself, his charitable wisdom, and 

 the progress of the work with which his name is associated is 

 scanty in the extreme ; ' and he is commemorated only by a 



' This was notably true during the severe drought of April and May, 

 1912. 



'Blair and Robertson, The Philippine Islands. Cleveland (1907), 52, 

 320, has only a footnote of 12 lines copied from Vindel's Catalogo, and 

 there is no mention of Carriedo in any of the current histories in English, 

 Spanish, French, or German. The only existing monograph, Carriedo y 

 sus obras. Manila (1882), by Francisco de Mas y Otzet, was written 

 expressly for the inauguration of the water supply, and is mainly de- 

 voted to the attendant ceremonies. 



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