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HEW YORK'S WATER
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"The Store That Rights the Wrong
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COST CITY MILLIONS
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THE ' OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND. FRIDAY:; EVENING. JUNE 12. 7 1903.
150 Miles From Kanhattan Greater Supply
' ; ' Wilt Be Required In the Near Future.
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BY FREDERIC J. HASKTJf.
".' (Copyright, 1(08, by Frederlo J. Haskln.)
, Just dow there 1b being conducted In Now York etate a gigantic en
gineering enterprise that is second In magnitude only to the buljding of
' the Panama canal. It la the construction ol the Catskill water supply
which was begun a year ago In answer to New York city's cry for a
solution ot Its big water problem, and in response to a call for 4,300,000
gallons ot fresh water daily in addition to Its present supply.
The work Involved Is ao enormous as
to be- almost incomprehensible to the
lav mind. Hundreds ot miles of topo.
cranhin aurvuvi had. to be made. In-
numerable holes were drilled Into the
earth or the solid rock to determine the
best end most economical location for
the (treat reservoirs, dame -end aque-
iiiirtflC Kamnlea of SOIL aand. gravel.
mnA a tana u mil of rock from cor
borings, were obtained for study and
. analysis. All this detail Involved the
hrxt ffort of eminent engineers, geolo-
arista, chemists, specialists la aeration,
filtration end reservoir making-, and o
vxoerts In the mechanical work of re
ran structlnar railways and highways.
" Villages, churches, schools, hotels,
homes, railways and highway will be
moved from the pathway of this slant
project as the Judgment of the engineers
decrees, and since a land option ring has
thriftily acquired the rights to most of
the property suDject to ' conaemnauuii
' proceedings, the amount to be paid out
of the city treasury for land damages
and weter rights alone will approximate
t .6.000,000, the total claims niea si-
ready segregating between 18,000.000
and 120,000,000.
- j Greatest to World.
' When completed New York's water
. ntn will ha the arreatest ever under
taken bv any city in Che world. The
fathering- irround for the water Is 130
miles from the city hall and 150 from
the lower end of Btaten Island. Four
creeks, Esopus,' Rondout Schoharie and
Catskill, have been levied -upon as the
main sources of supply. The total
area of the watersheds will be over 00
square miles, snd their combined re
sources when fully, develoned. will ex
ceed 800,000,000 gallons dally. The
water ts to come from three great res
ervoirs in the Catskills, being- carried
in aqueduct that will dive-under the
' Hudsom at Storm' King to a depth at
700. feet or more, and come up on the
other side. From there it will cross
gullies and pierce hills in three conduits, '
and n aqueduct will then carry.lt un-;
der East Elver and New Tork bay to
Brooklyn and Btaten island.
toiwf e meserrolr.
The main features of 'this glent work!
are to be a principal Impounding reser
voir the Ashokan, a storage reservoir
the Kensico, the largest filtering
plant ever built a distributing reservoir
and the Catskill aqueduct, 80 miles
long. There will be a dam 220 feet high
' across Esopus creek, and this with other
dams and dikes will form Ashokan
reservoir. Besides the waters of Esopus
this rea-srvoir will receive those di
verted from Schoharie-creek by a 10
mlle tunnel through the mountains, and
those from Catskill creek and adjacent
small - streams through another aque
duct. The Aahokan reservoir will be It
miles lore- and 2 wide with a water sur
face of 10,000 acres and a capacity of
120,000.000.000 gallons a plan tor con
serving water as great ss that which
the Emperor Constantino realised In hia
- -underground r-aiace tnat noias ion
stantlnople's reserve water -supply as
safslv now as it did 15 centurlea ago.
The Catskill aqueduct will carry the
water from Ashokan to the distributing
reservoir In Tonkers. No pumning will
be needed and from there It will be dls-
tHbuted by gravity throughout Greater
new lorn. mis aqueauci is larse
enough to accommodate an ordinary
railroad train with ease. - The. famous
aqueducts of -Rome pale Into slgnlft-
son dally. 40 more per capita than
Home, formerly world leader la this
respect, now supplies her people. Ex,
perlcnre has proved that the waterworks
of all large cities, if reasonable rates
are ehara-vl. have aufflcient earning ca
pacity to pay for their operation and to
replace the sum expended In their con
struction. Therefore, New York prac
tically only lenda Its credit for the con
struction. The cost of the present Croton sys
tem, which, when fully completed, is to
supply 125 000,000 gallons oi uniuiereu
water to the borough of Manhattan and
part of the Bronx, will approximate
80.000,000. The contract ror tne Asno
kan - reservoir has been let. and it la
generally believed by those In char;
of the work that the avatem will I
(atari mm fur the oresent Croton
reservoir In five years. It . will be
more than double that time, however,
before the aqueduct under East river
and New Tork bay will give Brooklyn
and Btaten island their much-needed
relief.
Must Go Partner.
Even then the problem will be only
partially solved, for the city's popula
tion is aiwaya increasing issier man
its Improvements, and by the time the
Catskill system Is completed New
York's demands will have .outdistanced
the supply of water, and It will be nec
essary to go far beyond the CatakiUs
and build reservoirs In the Adlron-
dacks. The present plan Is to send an
additional supply of between 600,000,000
and- 00,000,000 gallons of water dally
to i the five boroughs which constitute
Greater New York The total consump
tion Is 500,000,000 gallons a day, or
hlch the Croton system, when com
pletely developed In 1S10. can be relied
upon to furnish 125,000.000. It Is esti
mated that by 1915 the population of
Greater New York will be 6,260,000. and
its water eonsumption 710.000,000 gal
lons, 150,000,000 above the present water
supply. By 1930 the population will
have increased to almost 7.000,000, and
ft
ranee beside It, for it will carry nearly
three times as much water daily as did
the combined aqueducts of the imperial
city In the great period of the empire
when , tier clvio improvements had
reached their senith. Wherever the
water flows at hydraulic grade the
aqueduct will be constructed, of concrete,
Where It is necessary to cross those
deep glacial gorges, barely Indicated at
present oy tne small cnanneis or eucn
stream as Rondout and Moodna creeks,
tunnel wm be- onven in solid rock
tar Deiow tne surface or tne ground.
i These will be lined with concrete and in
then the water will flow under pres
sure, dropping down into a deep shaft at
the northerly end of each pressure tun-
- net and rising again In a similar shaft
at the southerly.
' Enormous Cost,
: The cost of the entire system has
been estimated at $162,000,000. Despite
this, it Will not be a heavy burden per
capita. There is no doubt that by the
time New York Is enjoying the benefits
of the new system, its population will
rropably have reached 7,000,000, Twenty-five
yearly payments 'of DO cents per
person will defray the cost. In return
the new system will supply water for
private, manufacturing and public uses
at the rat of 150 gallons for each per-
the consumption of water to over 1.000.
000.000 gallon dally.
Supposing the consumption per cap
ita remained precisely the same, the in
crease of population at 10 to (5 per
cent each decade would mean that the
uantlty of water muat be doubled In
ree decades. But the quantity of
water used per capita is Increasing rap
idly, not only in New York, but In all
laree Kuronean cities. New York is
less wasteful In the use of water than
many other large cities. That city uses
about 125 gallons per capita each day.
There Is leas waste in leakage in New
York a water pipes than Is generally
supposed. A prominent engineer ts au
thority for the statement that if every
tap In New Tork were metered, and
all the measures needed to prevent
wests were put In operation, but five
gallons per head of population per day
would be saved annually.
BUI Introduced.
The water bill was Introduced In the
state legislature of New York in 1905
at the request of Mayor McClellan. It
specified certain civic bodies from which
the commissioners in charge of the
work were to be selected. This pro
vision made the measure unconstitu
tional, and It had to be amended by
lodging the power of appointment In
the mayor. He established the prece-
appolnting on this, board a
dent of app
member each from the chamber of
commerce of New York, the board of
rire underwriters and the Manufactur
ers' association. J. Waldo Smith, the
expert on aqueduct and water supply
engineering wno- i cnier engineer on
tne wora, araws a salary or iis.uuo
year as a measure of his competency.
He Is only 40 years old, and since leaving-
college ha devoted bis entire time
to tms Drancn or engineering.
The water situation in New York has
been critical for some time, Substan
tiaiiy every oorougti or tne great city.
according to a prominent engineer, is
in grave danger of a water famine,
which can only be averted bv care and
strict economy In dry seasons, and by
ins greatest expedition - in constructim
the works for the new suddIv. Shouli
the Croton reservoirs be empty at the
close ox eflry season, the supply would
5 cut aown one sixtn, closing factor
es. and increasing the danger of fire.
The city remembers the time only 10
years ago when Brooklyn endured a
water famine without precedent In
American History. Houses on unner
leveis went wunoui city water ror aay.
fuoiic louniains were cut orr, horse
roughs empty, street sprinkling discon
tinued and the sunnlv of water only a
day ahead, was so low as to be dan
gerously near the lines of contamina
tion ana disease, to avert such disas
ters in the future New Tork la a nam
ing millions on her new system.
MEN'S SUITS
A collection of fresh, high-grade Suits,
hand-tailored; have shape -retaining
fronts, finished with fancy cuffs and
other late novelty effects now so popu
lar. These suits are sold everywhere
in this town for $15.00. Our price only
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MEN'S :SUITS
A bargain indeed. This line is of the
finest Worsteds, serges" and fancy che
viots. The materials will please, you
so will the tailoring, but what will please
you the most .is our low price of only
$14
AH Utraw Bats at Oieatly
Seduoad Vrtoes.
We are selling THE FULLWORTH HAT, "The Name Assures the
Quality." All styles, shapes and popular shades, f eg. $3 val. $2.50.
Chicago Clothing Co., Sol. Garde, Prop.
' 69-71 THIRD STREET, BETWEEN OAK AND PIKE ..' . .
Jured his hands, face and arms and
sent him to the hospital for a month.
The company In defense asserts that
Heave became excited by a hammering
In the pipe and shut off the steam,
causing such heavy pressure that the
explosion followed. The accident Is de
clared his own fault.
N0EDICA LEAVES '
FOE LOS ANGELES
(Spedsl Dispatch to The Journal.)
Parma. Idaho, June II. Madame Nor
dlca and a sister, who have been at the
home of E. H. Brumbach, near Snake
river, left Wednesday for Los Angeles,
the home of the sister, to spend the
summer. Madame Nordic gave a re
ception to the ladles of Parma Tuesday
at the Brumbach home.
Jim Castle holds the record for
catching; the largest' sturgeon of the
season, one weighing 26S pounds and
another 160 pounds. They were caught
In the Snake river near Castle's ranch.
In Oregon. Madame Nordlca had her
ploture.taken with these fish, so as to
show ner friends In the east, 'who, she
said, might be permitted to draw their
own conclusions as to who had caught
them.
All the world lovts and welcomes the
new graduates.
PROUD BOY LONGS TO DRIVE
' WAGON LIKE HIS BIG FATHER
It's the one who does his own think
ing who Is the happiest.
His daddy was just the finest, great
est man In the world. On Saturdays
and other days when he was not In
Ichool the boy, who Is six or seven
rears pld, never mined an opportunity
to ride about Portland and vlow the
wonderful sights which had become so
commonplace to the father.
AU day, when the youngster was so
fortunate as to have the chance, ha
lat on the seat beside the "dad" and
tie couldn't help- but wonder and marvel
it what a wonderful ; father he had
f Jer - eJL , . ' .
It was a common occurrence for the
-boy to pass some ef his schoolmates
en Morrison or Washington streets, or
In other parts of the city. Almost tn-
vanaoiy, i aeeraea, ug cnuaren walked
None Of them : was fortunate enough
to ride and the boy almost felt aorrv
! Rstjr MM rear wmrhl TJneareW" for
atret nmiiDi rd. uwiaaanirair cvrea er .VoaiscB
cwarrti djrppi. I think a wora of praiM u
J have tak.s soiDerons otber soallaA. raaedtae
'Imi without Til an4 I tad tkat Caaeareta miave
t Mcuasa ns asner m-'.nf uuy, . t,
for the unlucky children whom he h.t
met in school.
And he thouarht It all nut n,v,n.
" . I . t . Q
inar ahnnt thm i,w t r . . .
go"od fortune touotn n,"1 the
world except the ability the lnireniiitl
and the girt his father had of gett ng
along better than all others! Every""!
-Vhtt "reet me" to look at "daW5
his falce lpre"lon ' Admiration on
For didn't daddy drive a great bfa
In the world? Tn v5m4".? 21" !"?"
So"m 8Hn Wi.th hwlra Whenever "he" 'couldT
And XL'tJ"" 4V tSSf.
mr was nis ideal of
l&i". " bould be. He didn't
"7. "Wl- Daddy had
idmii ri3enIT h'ral Everyone must
&t.erry.terV,m
JS1? t Could It
drive. fc -garbage '
SCALDED BY STEAM
IN GAS C0MPANY PIT
damVTJf m, J"'' tor 110.000
hearlnv nf tun.. jury oegan the
LHeave .r wverek S,TJ,
iP,anE,ref,m .2?.. Pf that" Wm
had been In-Kii" W.RP
fi Ven.ergan, to draw the water l.
i2 .h1'' Kp f'et long led
to the pump and Heave claims thai the
company failed to provide proper sup
port for It er to put In trane to aen.
arata water, from steam. When the
urainnoci was opened Heave was lur
rounded by e, buret of steam that In
1 sisaltteM
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yU The Dowels ; -
Pmaa. VlMa potent, TtMfmtt, Denned,
T - r iofca, t a.a er IjHh, lac, aOa. h.vr
la lu.i. Taa ralna laulat staiupa4 OCti,
VitMrKUMI.tialMf atoatf tics.
C rlin( Remedy Co., pbicaco er N.T. S9t
r:::is:LE. tes k:lu:sx3u$.
How Syracuse Woman
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Out in Three Nights
AFTER MASSAGE, AND BEAUTY
SPECIALISTS HAD FAILED
"Made Me Look 20 Years Younger"
Bays Cincinnati Xdy Who Tried It "How rest 40, Bat lj Complexion Zs
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The Discoverer Offers to Oive Particulars Pree of Charge to AH Was Write
Her Within Bszt Ten Says Exacts promise of Secrecy Treatment '
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the Znowleare of Tour Host Intimate Prlend.
Fiver since woman's beauty held
sway over man and brought her power,
influence and wealth, she has sought
a wav to atav the processes of Old age
and banish deep lines and furrows
from the brow.
rbemfsta. heantv doctors and skin
specialists have for centuries past vain
ly tried Xo fathom the sealed secrets of
nature and find a way to keep the
beauty of youth , in a woman's ' face
and form.
uni.t uTata v,i no exception ; to
the general rule of women. Trouble
and worry left their' unsightly lines
and marks upon her face. She saw
the beauty of her youth giving way to
the heavy Imprints of coming age.
Her first resort was to iaciai mas
sage, cold cream and steam In pots:
then next to beauty specialists; but
all -in vain. The wrinkles seemed, If
anything, to grow deeper and deeper.
uaaaM ana aDDeared to stretch the
skin; more wrinkles came. : Bhe had
spent all the money sne coum wiom
spend, and was ready to give up In
..n.ir when one day a friend made a
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set to. work on the thing herself, and:
nnniw h&rrl la.hor and
almost endless experimenting, she suc
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and her wrinkles were practically gone.
A third night three treatments In all
ana ner - wrmaies naa ennreiy u
appeared and her skin was soft, clear,
rosy and smooth. : 1 -' ' ; I ' ' ' '
- MsJiy others also nave usea xnis
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Mrs, Moran Elmer, ; of ew Tork
city, writes: "Tour , treatment re
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Mrs. Turaham. of Seattle, Wash., says:
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for what your treatment has done for
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Miss Gladys Desmond, the actress,
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"Those who have used cold creams,
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T guarantee my treatment will In
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Syracuse, N. T. I will send everything
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