New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-17

Generally the water obtained is so full OF sediment
that it cannot be used even for boilers as ~
causes scales. He said that no record was KEPT
in any city department OF the location or numper
of artesian wells in the city, and for the reasons
stated above, he did not consider the sinking pl
such wells to help out New-fork's water supply
advisable. He mentioned as an instance that tiic
owners of the Fifth Avenue Hotel sank well
1000 feet some years ago, without striking water
fit TO drink BY his anxious inquiries about the
expected amount of rain, he showed that NJ
thought that this was the only hope Of relief for
the city.
WASTE NOT ALL STOPPED.
Despite the scarcity Of water, Lenox-ave,
Seventh-ave., and St. Nichoas-ave. were so penti-
fully sprinkled by the watering carts on Sunday
that the dust was not only laid but converted
into thick mud. One man who was out driving
between the Park and nehundred-and-twenty-
ifth-st. said that the mud few in shower beneath
the horses heels. But then even il water is
scarce. the men who stuck by Tammany during
election, must be rewarded with the spoils
The reports received at the Department OF
Public Works yesterday morning were that the
Middle Branch reservoir, which is supplied by
other streams than the Croton, was dry. The
Boyd's Corners reservoir had not a gallon OF re.
serve supply. In the main reservoir in Central
Park the depth of the water yesterday morning
was only thirty feet four and One-half inches.
loss of two inches In the old reservoir the depth
was seven feet, against seven feet SIX inches
on Sunday. The Forty-secondst. reservoir had
nine feet. three inches yesterday morning against
ten feet seven inches on Saturday. Last Sunday
was the first one that passed without the reser-
voirs showing gain on account OF the snutting
down of factories and other water-consuming es-
adjustments of that kind. Instead OF gain, they
showed loss.
LOOKING FOR DRYENFORTH.
General Dryenforth, who was expected in town
Yesterday. to shoot rain out of the sky, had not
arrived nm TO n late hour last night. In his
absence, the weather officials did what they could
without explosives, but all their conjuring failed
to have much effect. The bedraggled pedestrians
who fonndered through the slime and Ooze yester-
day with q sweet patience born of the hope tina,
the drizzle would increase the water supply will
feel like kicking themselves when they hear that
the rainfall up to midnight amounted to only
ten hundreths of an inch. There will be light
rains all day today according to the Weather
Bureau. but they hold out no hope of heavy
downfall.
The storm centre IS now over the lower Lake
regions An area Of heavy rain is over the upper
Lake regions, including the lower part OF Canada,
and extending as far as Western New-lork.
Heavy rains are falling there, and light rains
east of the Mississippi Valley. The weather OH
cials fear that after to-day no rain may be eX-
pectcd for three or four days as the cold wave
which has lowered the temperature in the North
west to from SO TO 10 degrees may move over
this REGION and will possibly drive the rain away:
Although rain was falling in the vicinity OF
the Kensico reservoir all day yesterday, Keeper
Glendenning reported that the water in the reser-
vOr had fallen two and one-half inches in the past
twenty-iour hours. Superintendent Lord recon-
mcndS that the inhabitants of the Twenty-thlrd
and Twenty fourth Wards, who are supplied from
this reservoir he most cautious in the use of
water. There are only thirteen feet nine and a
many portions of the lakes bottom are exposed
to view.