The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26

bring the Croton water to the city is ono of the
curious system OF driven wells by which Brook
Ign has hitherto drawn at least one-third of
q novelty. and a remarkable one Mt that.
That a city could be supplied by driving
tubes .a LESS than three inches n, in dir, aism ,ss, int nMG
connecting them with pumps Is not infrequently
supposed to be an impossibility, by the nnin-
formed when the matter Is mentioned. One OF
the improvements in administration which Is
certain to be effected by the consolidation is
Ign; The, supply runs up to eighty gallons for
each head of population there, but because Of
waste there are often complaints of famine.
The report of the factory inspectors for 1904
contains n most interesting table for tho citizen
OF the Greater New ork; In that year the In
Island and Staten Island. of which practically
all were within the Greater New York. In these
the number of factories visited was q. 294 and
the number OF hands III Dab. This is not the
total number OF factories by any. means. but it
gives an inkling of the number II not the varie-
ties Of industries that flourish in the me-
%tropolis. While on the subject of indus
fact that New York WAS once a great ship
building centre. 1t would be one now but for
the fact that strike inaugurated fifty years ago
or so drove the industry away. while the fear OF
them keeps 1t way. No place. not even the Del
building. while the commerce that demands
the ships and the requiring Of ships is here.
Delaware not so long ago for an overhauling is
a matter that ought not to be overlooked. The
fact should be mentioned That enormous dry
docks are to be found In the Erie Basin.
Naturally every citizen is proud of the metrop-
oils as a centre Of literature and art. French
men do not come here, yet TO complete their
Paris and Rome. But no Now Yorker despairs
OF tho future of the city in this respect. Tho
growth of knowledge among the whole people
In this matter must be apparent to every one
West have occasionally derIded the metropolis
for a lack OF what they call public spirit. IL
nNxuk. nj ninht IN lnviSn new krhAmpA fnr al.
vertising and booming the town. Nor do they
arrogantly ostracize one who criticises features
Heine monument.
So, too, people are proud Of the schools from
primary school. but this does not prevent their
seeing that the schools are inadequate In num-
TIE private colleges and schools. The people Of
Spanish America send their sons to New York,
and especially TO the schools OF theology, med
that as d school in politics the Greater New
York under Profs. Plat and Croker can give
points to any other schoolo the kind on earth.
As a summer resort and as a place for All out
ing, curiously enough. the second city OF the
ever. Other cities have bathing beaches within
easy reach, OF course; New York has Coney
Nor should the resorts Observation-Disclosures Bay
on the Sound and south Beach on staten Island
be ignored. To these places the people resort
Very likely more than $4,000 people go to
them on a hot day In August. while the quiet
nOOkH Hnu wv Nhlolk hIilL tHb "lAlt HuI-
urban belt that extends from Spuyten Duyvil
around to tho east ana south and west and
across Gravesend Bay to Staten Island furnish
rest and recreation and beer to tens-perhaps
TO hundreds of thou,Rnds more.
One laughs at the Engliohmlen who have now
and again landed in New York with rifles loaded
ready Cor buffalo. deer, and grizzlies. But tho
cockneys were mistaken, only In the choico of
weapons. A good Birmingham shotgun WAS
the wenpon they needed. 1t is a curious fact
that out OF 800 and odd birds found within the
limits OF The whole nation nearly n half are set
down rs residents or migrants within the limits
of this the second city IN population IN the world
"A city where the population averages s.2Dr ) to
the square mile. In the lagoOns back OF Rock
away Beach may be found in tho season ducks
in great varsity sometimes In great numbers
even rcdheads and cnnYasbncks. More inter-
esting still, the Canada goose hOnks low above
those meadows, and the brant comes to the de-
cOys. There are shore birds that nest among
tho frozen deserts Of the far north and pass
their winters south OF ths toTrid zone that call
by the way TO give sport TO The hunter who lien
In walt within the limits Of the Greater
New York. There are ,quails. too, and
English snipe and wOOdCock IA whirrinR host
for the upland shooIer who knows where and
how TO look for them. There are owls In the
common variaties-the screech and the barn
and the short, horned owls, Of course, but more
interesting still il the great boot or great horned
owl, who, with his silent Night, comes when the
shadows OF night deepen, aud carries nf the UNI
wary fowl, More remarkable still, the great
snowy owl he who lives ordinarily beyond the
Mohawk and delights In nothing more than
snAtChing specified trout through a hole IN tho
ice over an Adirondack stream he has been
known tOCOmt within the limits OF the Ameri-
There are hawks. too the sparrow hawk and
the cO0per,, and the sharp-skihed and the duck
e. fierUe- winged robbers, that grow TAT On
mo .rupolitan birds ~ weak OF mould, and even
Tie bald eagle Is sometimes seen. ThAt the fish
hawk comes l. u matter OF course.
tAlO, the elk, the deer. and the antelope are, OF
c0uTns. stem only In the menIgeTle. but u