The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-31

formed into lakes each capable OF holding billions
OF gallons Of water. IN ancient % In modern eras
no WORK OF use TO mankind can be drought INTO
comparison with 1t.
THE cARMANsvnLE RESERVOIR,
near the High Bridge. on the New York side OF the
Harlem Is new but quite small when compared
with others further south. IL will IN few weeks or
This Will contain about six millions Of gallons. Near
this reservoir tower now In course OF erection,
win supply the residents on Washington Heights:
Into this tower water will be pumped up many ieee
above the level Of the basin at s feet The vane Of
the tower, octagonal In FORM Will be nearly four
hundred feet above nigh water mark.
GOING NORTH.
At certain seasons the aqueduct, for two or three
days volded OF NE water which 1t receives at the
OF Croton lake, and q thorough inspection is
made, and wherever leakage Is found or any i'm
ct work and the mighty channel presently made
almost as good as new"
Now, II we were to follow at the time appointed
necessitated to walk upward Of forty miles in con-
tpuous chamber, and this chamber or pipe connect
lake Is formed Of brick and cement often raised to
great elevations and sometimes found passing
through mighty lodges OF rock OF almost granite
hardness But we Will take our reader by
PLEAsANTER ROADS.
BY the Harlem he can accompany US to the station
York and, no accident happening, may be trayersed
In q lew minutes exceeding two hours. The Harlem
road ls lald In an exceedingly beautiful country
limited, to the British s0ldlery In the days OF the
Revolution, meanders playing ''hide and seek" with
the road, now running its sinuOus courses across
Its bed, now parallel to 1t, and anon shooting far
away from the rail- and losing itself entirely In the
trees that line its banks, or else diving into dark,
unknown places where fnny inhabitants, II the
Bronx have any OF magnitude above mlnnOw,
hold high holiday. The Bronx is a bold, shy. laugh
doxical stream that is what it is) until 1t finally
dwlndles into mere nothingness, and 1t isn't much
more at any time, owing to the abrupt nils near
Mount Klsc0 From this station to
CROTON LAKE
is declared by the natives to be about three miles,"
1t Is terrible road, however. The passage Of the
Alps or the Rocky Mountains or even Mont Blanc,
hardly surpasses 1t In rOughness OF character and
danger to life or limb, and yet for these three miles
and odd the Jehu has the impudence TO rob you, on
the highway as 1t were, OF dollar. Only dollar
for the privilege Of breaking your legs your arms or
your neck, IN attempting the passage OF the KiscO,
which lies between the station and the lake. Should
you select the
HUDSON RAILROAD ROUTE
you are carried from New York to Sing Sing, from
which highly moral place you can by liberal exhi
bition Of 1.-THE rocks" induce mountaneer with his
pony and wagon to attempt the terrible passage OF
seven miles from the Hudson to the lake. flake
either horn Of the dilemma and you are quite GER
tain to regret you hadn't gone BY the route you
with some caterer near at hand, for
for quarter Or So an hour and wholly i0rsetfu
the world and the rest Of mankndn dip your INES,
the hooks attached tReTe!9 wel eaited and .go
Pine's bridge go up or down the lake. Up, and the
zephyrs tavorng, you are gently waited to Katonah,
from which place you can ''pedestrnate" to the wa
ter course; and then, made Of stuff that never
tires follow It. up for twenty'three miles and some
MAGNIFICENT DAM
that is to retain the waters within the bosom OF the
new basin that when necessity calls may be poured
by the billion gallons into Croton lake.
And now for
tits this:-There ID al this moment SUFFICIENT water
(,rOtOn lake. although IL has not ralQeQ TO the
depth Of half an inch in the hills OF Westchester for
six weeks to supply New York city for SIX months
seven inches lower than 1t is now, and not.
outstanding the immense drain on It 1t is not
includes the evaporation that necessarily goes on
over Its surface The sum- every one Is aware is an
exceedingly dry ruler and It takes vast volumes OF
Aqueduct Department has been quietly and even
persistenty praying for the present continued
drought for some years, that they might have an OPP
portunity Of repairing the flooring at the foot Of the
great dam. The work has Just been successfully
t ana they are ready T t. quite
Phiadelphians for a visit from Jupiter Puvius.
In combustion we advise Sunday excurslonists to
vicinity This now almost unknown region will in
time be filed with beautiful villas. We are more
than surprised that 1t Is not now. Possibly the
great difficulty experienced In reaching it from the
city is the leading reason, for the absence o
those ARTIFICIAL ad3rnments SO necessary even II
pretend to the rednemenis which civilization de-
SUNDAY ExCURsIONIST,
however this wlldness of the landscape Is the CHIEF
attraction. The scenery contrasts 80 widely and
violently from that to which he is accustomed that
ne will be delighted with IT, He will feel himself for
the time in that wild nature which "unadorned Is
adorned the most" and the silence OF the hills
which, sometimes bare and rugged and at Others
clothed to their SUBMITS with evergreens-with the
pine. the heml0ck and the cedar-he can, as In an
ilimitabe cathedral whose roof is the heavens and
whose pillars Ge the r0cKribbed hills hit his voice
In gladness and thankfulness to the Almighty Dis
penser who has added TO His gifts that most indis
pensable Of all His blessngs-the life-imparting
sOul-strengthening element-pure, sweet, thirst.
assuaglng water, without which the world would bt
void OF all that Is beautiful mighty globe trembling
like an accursed creation In the endless rounds o.
time, Obectless as the fields Of space.