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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 19, 1907.
Pail of New York's Great New $162,000,000 Pure Water System
iBW TORK. Hay U-Condem nation
proceeding, hare been begun br
the eltr .uthorltle. to acquira
larvl for the b!g Kenalco reser
volr that is to be constructed In
Westchester county In connection with Ni
J i k gigantic rew ttiinr avKtem.
I'ew persons appreciate the Immensity of
th.s system which, when completed, la to
de liver each day ioo.om.ouo gallons of pure
wiiRT from tiie heart of the Catskllls, 100
miles away. Into the homes and hydrants
ot II e t"'"T city. The reservoir In We.t
ti. ester county is ouly a link In the 1U2,
OK','." cLain, but It la a very Important
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t'here. In (he very heart of the county, a
iake la if be constructed mote than four
bunt himself a beautiful home, will be
completely Inundated.
The general shape of the lake will be a
"T." with the tall extending north. This
tall will represent the flooded district up
the branch of the IV-onx river, one arm
will be the present Kensico reservoir sec
tion and the other arm cf Eeargutter and
tha Rye pond section.
The new darn will back the water of the
Kenalco reservoir up Into Rye and Little
Rye ponds. The water from these ponds
finds Its way Into the Kensico reservoir now
through an open channel about a mile and
a half lone;.
The Rye ponds ara abrut fifty feet higher
than the Kensico reservoir, but the new
dam will raise their flow line fully fifty
feet. Tha two Rye ponds now cover about
wit ot cusines, one on me "I "tid tha
other on the east side of the lake. The
city will have to construct a rmJ on the
weM s.de of the lake from Ynllialhi M
Armor.,, a distance of fcur miles- H is
planned row to build the; roads on the
J0-foot strip of land which the city wlil
acquire alone; the waterfront.
One cf the good things whi.h Weste heater
county folks think they tan see In tie dim
future Is a big driveway snvind this lake,
a distance of twenty-five or thirty miles.
This driveway would connect at Valhalla
with the Bronx Parkway, which U im
posed In a bill now before the legislature.
This parkway, according to the picscnt
plans, will mend from the Uroiix park
up the valley of the Bronx river and will
wuciitti at its southern end with tha
tr.tle, In lenirth and averalr.g about half a 0 acres. The present water sytem in
mile In width. II wilt be the stonige reser- Westchester count has a storage capacity
.. m 1 W .. . A isTb nnllnna
voir for the Immense volume of water mat i o"y -.-w e.".
Is poured down from the Catsklll counties.
It will hold 40.tX).'Art,()O Rations, which Is
8.000,000,000 more than tho capacity of the
trreut Croton reservoir.
To build this blR lake one rntlre town and
part of another will have to be wiped out,
while many farmers will have to give up
their homes, r.ut for the Inconvenience
According to the engineers' figures about
I,2tX) acres of Wewtchcster county will be
flooded by the new lake. This will, of
course, Include the land now under water.
Altogether the city will have to acquire
about 3,000 acres.
In the Island alone, which la now the top
of a hill between the Beargutter and
another stream, will be 400 acres. Of the
V'lch Westchester folks suner ene win u lhree petijn,uUB w,,lrh wlll Jut out into tho
pvAnrensated many fold by having a lake of Iaitf frt)m ,ne (ltrn KhoTt. the cty will
pieat scenic beauty. acquire enough to Inmire the protection of
8on-. Idea ef the Immensity of this atorage the waterfront from contamination,
reservoir Is afforded In the fact that It wlll Mot of th(, ,aT)l1 whch ,g t0 he flooded
be thirty miles around Its shora line. That ,a rocBT but gom(, of It Is good farming
Is a good deal farther than a man would country, as a whole, however. It would
want to drive for pleasure on a Sunday be hard to find a section of the state so
afternoon. It will contain an. Island more t)eftr New york which could be acquired
ihan a mile In length and three beautiful wltn tt, little expense and destruction of
peninsulas ranging from half a mile to property.
one mile In length will Jut out Into Its cryt- Tne c,ty naa nad trouble In former yoara
tal body. ' In extending ita water system. The people
This lake will be located In the townships up n the section where the big Croton
of Mount Fleaaant, Harrlaon and North reservoir waa built raised a howl wh2n
Castle. It will begin at Valhalla, where the city atarted to condemn their land,
the present Konalco reservoir dam Is lo- and ao did the people who lived In the
rated, and will extend north through val- preaent Kenalco reservoir district. For
fnm, hv an arm of the Bronx and the most part, however, the property own-
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era of Westchester county are taking a
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The above panoramic view snows un ' '"
present reservoir and dam and the hills on pared to move out as soon as the city
" j tvaiwai 4 Vi ot-rt what Kat rrAnorrv tea wnrt Ti
either aide. The water In tne new reservoir -
will come up just about even with the hill Richard C. Keeler. who Uvea In the Rye
top that I. seen over on the Valhalla aide. Pond "ctlon ho. a. good emu., to grum-
Th. new dam. which will be J.000 feet long bl. m wiybodr. HI. family got a grant
at the ton. will extend acroa. the valley cf land from the king of England In 10S.
- - . . , int. grani inciuaea au tne tana unaer
along the line of the rcMr visible In the ow Ry, pona.
picture jusv ini w. "2" v.i When the city acquired the pond a few
year, ago Mr. Keeler had to move back
800 feet from the water', edge. Four
year, ago the city pushed him back half a
mile, and now he", got to go away back.
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Before It pets to the storage reservoir It
will take another plunge down Into the
bowels ef the earth when It comes to the
new Croton reservoir. The engineers will
go down In this place until they strike
The city will have to have 1 acres there.
Thl reservoir wilt be known a. the Hill
View reservoir. It 1. the highest site that
could he selected.
From the distributing reservoir the water
ro-'k. Just the same aa In the crossing of the -i gn In mains to different part, of the
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Hudson. Thus billions of gallons of water
will go racing under other billions of gal
lons, all of which eventually will go to
quench New Tork's thirst and keep It clean
and safe.
Tho present system now supplies the city
with between nV)00,ono and 500,X.ono gallons
a day. The addition of the Catsklll system
wlll more than double the supply.
city. One trunk line will plunge down
under Hell Gate nnd cross to the borough
of Queens, meander down through Brook
lyn and then cross under the Narrow, to
Staten Island.
The Vonkcr. reservoir will have to be
constructed, as there Is no natural basin.
It will cost more than is.ooo.ono.
v The estimate of 1112,000,000 for the entire
sf.c"ijoj ot: eves iag z u cxi
twenty buildings In the lower part of Val
halln. Including a hotel, three or four .mall
tores, the New York mater supply eta-
and several nouses, win do wiji
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hat remains of the lower part of the H n h, ,ne original grant given
village will lie right under the shadow ot
the great dam
to hi. ancestors, and he will show It to
The Board of Supervisors of
Westchester ha. already voted to pay 26
per cent of the cost of the parkway. If
all these plan, are carried out it will be
possible In future years for a man to
start out on Riverside drive at Seventy- condemnation roceedln have been be-
second street and continue on a drive over !n the cajMS of the Eeopus reservoir,
the best of roads up to ane around the lt expected that It will be finished
Dlotureaaue new reservoir an back, a rile. ... . , . . m , -
you aod tell you he thinks It la a dlng-dlng . . ... m,ur9
Borne of the residences up on the hill- iname that he can't even fish In the pond . . , M ta completed,
side overlooking the present lake also will now without renin a permit from Com- wThe n,w Bico reserroli wffl be fed . The aqueduct which will feed the Ken
be swept out of existence, and the members muMrloner O'Brien. 7 by an venteeii and half feet sico reservoir wlll follow the west bank
of one of the town churches, when the new what the cost of thfe new storage reser- " EWKnl mna lrao ae, -wtucn win or the Hudson down to Btorm King. Wtter.
reservoir Is completed, will be able to voir will be hasn't been determined with xt3nd lxty mUe from reat collect- ever lt Is possible the huge cement mala
stand on the front doorsteps and throw any very great definltenesa yet It I. estl- ln reservoir at Esopus. This aqueduct will be laid in the side of the river bank,
pebbles into the water, to .ay nothing of mated that the big dam at Valhalla and - togcr than the single bore subway At Btorm King the aqueduct will cross thj
A, inI the dyke on the west side of the lake will tunnel under the City Hall park. A roan Hudson.
The construction of the reservoir will cost about J7.OOO.0OO. It wlll coat the city tnld almost drive a team of horses and A shaft will be sunk on the west ban
Include the building of a dyke on the west at least $500,000 more to rebuild the high- furniture van through It. The above pic- of the river, between 600 and 1,000 feet
side of the present lake about 1,000 feet way. that will be destroyed and construct ture shows a cro.s-.ectlon of the aqueduct deep, until .olid rock Is .truck. Down thl.
lone and twenty feet high. There I. a new bridge.. It will be made mostly of cement and will precipice the flood from the Catskllls win
depression there, and the water would spill There are two roads which will be put be covered all the way down from Ebopua. plunge, then through a horizontal tuonai
over the crest if something of the sort , ' t
nufti't done.
Th new dam will rise the flow line ot
th lake 110 feet. The flow line of the
I repent reservoir, which Is a little over
a mllo In length and about one-quarter
of a mile In width. Is 246 feet. Tills mean,
that part of Valhalla wlll have behind It a
wall of water about 356 feet high.
Kensico, at the northern end of the pre,
ent reservoir, is the town which will be
' The water will leave the new Kensico system Is $12,000,oeo more thun the estimate
reservoir through an aqueduct as large aa that waa made for the Panama canal. By
the one which brought It down from the many experta lt la considered a much mors
Catskllls. It will be carried, according to difficult nnd daring engineering fent. The
the present plans, to aome point between work is In charge of J. Waldo Smith, who
White Plains and Yonkers. probably in the haa under him a staff of 400 or 600 en
vlcinity of ScarsJale. where It wlll be put glneers. Merrltt Havlland Smith I. the de
throne a huge filter. New York a present partment engineer In charge of the con
water supply Is not filtered at all. structlon of the new Kenslqo reservoir, and
This Westchester county filter will con- the other work In Westchester county,
slst of a bed of sand covering sixty acres. Including the filtration plant and the Yon
with a fine gravel bottom. This entire kers reeervolr.
expanse of sand. If the plans of the water The engineer, will not attempt to say
board are carried out will be roofed over. wth any deflnlteness how long it will take
The bed of sand will be two or three feet to complete the ay.tcm. It took the city
deep and the layer of gravel about one foot thirteen years to build the great Croton
thick. The water wlll trickle through this dam. and It Is hoped to have the work at
and then be collected undearneath. Kensico finished within ten yeara It la
From the filter it will continue on Its expected that the aqueduct will be laid and
course to the now distributing reservoir the Esopue reservoir finished by that time,
that Is to be built at Yonkers. This reser- The new system will bring water to New
voir will have a capacity of from 000,000,000 york 170 feet above the level of U.e existing
to 800.000,009 gallons. The place selected system, which means that the ster will be
The great reservoir at E.opus, which under the river to the east can, where lt
will be formed by the damming of Esopus wm rlB0 gjnOn through a perpendicular
creek, will be ten or twelve miles long and Khaft and contlnu. on itM toward the 10 8WWUWW syn. w.., - -
half a mile wide. There also will be sev- ZlZ"?J?ZZ ' " " U 0Uth ' Bmi4re U" foro ttp " "
era! other reservoirs west of the Hudson,
collecting water from fourteen watersheds.
Gossip and Stories About People of Note
ark Twain and (he Bicycle.
T BEE MS a good while ago," re
lates Mark Twain In the North
American Review. "I must have
been rather young for my age,
for I was trying to tame an old-
leaves of a book, and some of the doctors
said lt was quite remarkable.
I was full ot enthusiasm over this Insane
amusement My teacher was a young Ger
man from the bicycle factory, gentle,
kindly, patient creature, with a pathetically
grave face. He never smiled; hi never
made a remark; he alwaya gathered me
tenderly up when I plunged off. and helped
me on again' without a word. When he
had been teaching me twice a day for
three weeks I Introduced a new gymnastic
one that he had never seen before and
wlpfd out. It consists of about twenty-five fashioned bicycle nine feet high. It Is to
bui'dings. me almost unbelleveable. at my present
The problem of how New York people stage of -life, that there have really been
hall get drinking water ha. been a thorn people willing to trust themselves upon a
In Kenslco'a side for a good many yeara dltxy snd unstable altitude like that and
When land was acquired for the present that I was one of them. Twlchell and I
reservoir back In the early '90s, Kensico took lessons every day. He succeeded snd
had to move itself back a few hundred became a master of the art of riding that t last a compliment waa wrung from
feet from the lake. There was some wild vehicle, but I had no gift In that dl- nlm thing which I had been risking
rrumbllng then, but the city paid for It. rect'.on and was never able to stay on mv life toT daV to achieve. He gathered
And now comes the announcement that mine long enough to get any satisfactory
the place is to be pushed off the map view of the planet. Every time. I tried to
altogether. But the city wlll pay for that steal a look at a pretty girl, or any other
also. kind of scenery, that single moment of In-
It i. the expectation of the engineer, attention gave the bicycle the chance It
who are working on the Job that J. had been waiting for, and I went over
Pflster'a grocery store, as shown In the the front of It and struck the ground on
above picture, or the spot where lt stanjs my head or back before I had time to
near the four corners, will be covered by realise that something waa happening. I
about 800 feet of water ten years from didn't always go over the front way; I
now. And the place where the Methodist had other way., and practiced them oil.
church .tanda now will be Just about as but no matter which may was chosen for
deep tn the lake a. the grocery .tore lo- me there was alwaya one monotonous re- Mr ujiiock ln hjg Vvuln wag n tek-grarh
cation. sult-the bicycle skinned my leg and leaped oper,tor and waa am ng the finst to re-
up inio ine a:r ana came down on top oi
tne up and said mournfully: "Mr. Ck-mens,
you can fall off a bicycle in more different
way. than any person I ever saw. before."
Money Maker and Spender.
Rufu. Brown Bullock, ex-provernor of
Georgia, ho died near Albany, N. Y.. a
few days ago, was a big and easy money
maker, but he spent hi. Income as fast
as he earned it. He was cari-f::l, however,
to carry a large life Insurance. H. motto
was to make good money un.l live well,
protecting his family through Ins u rune
"What is it." said one of Kenslco'a Meth
odists, "that the Bible telle us lUmi build
ing our house on a sure foundation, so that
when the winds and the rain come thty
won't wash lt away? I guess beck in thce
times they didn't have any New York water
system to deal with,"
The Mthod'st chrrch ha. been existing
on Its present M-i f r several years by the
grnre ( t th" water enrd. It is within 30
feet of the present tes rvoir. aii!c'i It the
shore line J:ti,nce kept free of aii br.Ild
ins by the eiiv. n tX'-'t-tlon ss made
in the cane of the i hurch. but now it will
have t jo ut h ss t' e congregation decides
to set It up en a isft.
C: of l- ! tt'.e Mis back of Kens'ro. on
which llol.. rt Froth iishum of this city has
me. Sometimes its wire, were so sprung
by this violent performance that It had
the collapsed look of an umbrella that had
a misunderstanding with a cyclone. After
each day's practice I arrived at home with
my akin hanging In ribbons, from my knee,
down. I plastered the ribbons on where
they belonged and bound them there with
handkerchief, steeped In lotions, and wa.
ready for more adventures next day. It
way always a surprise to me that I had
so much skin, and that it held out so
well. There wa. alwas plenty and I se.on
came to understand that the supply was
Eoin - to remain mfTiclcnt for all my needs.
! turned out that I had nine skins, In
layer., one on top of the other like the
ceive rapidly the Morce code? ln d )ts and
dashes. When he was an operator in Phil
adelphia, the telegraph business of the
country was done by numeroua small com
panies. Il was at his suggestion that these
small concerns were un.ied in one larce
company and this waa the baala lor the
Western Union.
Roosevelt's first Sptrch.
I'rcsldetit Roosevelt made his T.rst set
speech when l.e was 10 years old, reports
the Washington HeralJ. At that time he
would a bold sailor be. He had read all
the murvtious tales of the sea, and his
ambition u to sail the occan blue tn
command cf a stanch craft that would
carry him to the uttermost psirts of the
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Old utcfa
Cleanser
Old Dutch Cleanser quickly removes the
hardest crust of grease and grime from pots
and kettles. Easily loosens and removes the
hard, blackened substances from burned
pans, and keeps all kitchen utensils clean
and bright
Excel! tut for cleaning cutlery and glassware.
Old Iut-h Oeanser cleanses, scours, scrubs and pol
ishes wood and stone, tiling, marble, painted walls
windows, etc., with less work and better satiuactiou
than any other cleaner.
No acid or caustic and will not
scratch.
Sold la Large sifting
top cans at ail
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earth. He was permitted try his
to spend much time about the wharves of
New York, and he thus became personally
acquainted with many of the most famous
skippers of that ,time. Chief among; his
heroes was a certain Captain Doane, com
mander of the clipper ship Rival. This old
sea dog used to fill the mind of the future
hero of San Juan with astonishing stories
of storms at sea and hairbreadth escapes
from a aepulcher in Davy Jones' locker.
It fired the Imagination of the youth, and
stirred his ambition. In IKS the bor. wbo
Is now president, raised a fund by popular
subscription for the purchsse of a I'Jjrary
for the officers and crew of the lirvsi, all
of whom were bis friends. At the head of
a delegation of youngsters he visited the
ship when lt next came Info port and with
due ceremony presented the library, coo
slstlng of forty-five volumes, to th. skip
per. The presentation speech wis made by
Mr. Roosevelt. When reminded, a few
days ago. of this event by an old friend,
the president said he remembered It per
fectly, and that frequently he had wo
de-red if any of the officers or crew of the
Rival were still alive, and If so. If they
remembered his speech. "I thought It was
s rolphty tine speech," said he, "and so
did Captain Doane."
Kerens of Miaaoarl.
According to cable advices from Rome,
Klchard C. Kereas ut 6U Louis, wbo ta
uow sojuun.ing m the Klerna, city with
hi- family, utsnea to asalxt in financing a
K-heine wneieu the ruunda of the Vati
can can be eicned lo the; jj.d:lerranean
by the purtiiase ot a simji of Und tlxty
ine n.ta 41.1.(4, "inJ ihM re.itvtt tne holy
au.t. o. t..t Luul oL.jectli n le l.an lu lm
put,uiiii.ti.i ai li.e vast cci.iinta of (he Vatl
e.un. Cwionil Kerens appi-ars to have lost
iii.tri in poiittc a.i,e.e lui dettat for the
i-tnale in Mi-ouri after me republicans
-arr.ed thai tat ln i.-, aas trie Wash
nieion Herald, and it Is sa.d that he In
tel. da to ei. vote to Hie church ih attention
laud money he formerly gaxe to politics,
i'or bevtral ytais he w.i.e t ue Jiissourl
I. t;.iher of the republican national com
n.iue and was prominent ln al party af
t ir. lie is a thoroughly self-made man.
-i.i lr.ji.man by birth, he came to this
c it. u early tn life and after the usual
trust..!,, established a livery bjhines. at
l-.it Keith, Ark. Alwaya a republican, tut
(t cred in the prouta of the mail and star
ruute contracts In the southwest and by
means laid th foundation for his
present enormous fortune. He was om of
tr.e chief promoters of the St- Louia at
inn Franci&co railroad, now affiliated with
the Rock Inland sstern, and was for many
ears one of toe controlling factors la that
property. He has btn associated with
Senator Klkins ln many large bustDeaa
ventures and from these ha. added greaCa
to his wealth. Colonel Kerens and Arch
1 bishop Ireland are great friend, and ft as
said the Miourlan is one of the dtsttss
Luitl.td prelate s most ardent supportats)
, for promotion to the cardlnalate.
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