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into it. The estimated cost is $4,000, 900;
the height 800 feet. Of which $50 feet Is
above the bed of the Croton River. The
width at the base is 200 feet, from which
the structure tapers to twenty feet at the
top. Across the top is a space twenty feet
structed.
The amount OF stone and materials used
is estimated at 100000 tons. To build
the structure to it's present state has
required more than 100000 days OF labor
performed by an average Of 600 men EN-
ployed nearlyevery working day in ten years.
II Is probably safe to say that such a stu
pendous pile Of masonry has not been
erected since the building of the pyramids
OF Egypt, The steam and machinery
equipment has eoualled that of an ordinary
railroad, for besides the many hoists and
derricks, there are in use several miles OF
tracks and fifty locomotives and cars Of
the dinky type used in hauling earth and
stone.
The new dam will increase the storage
capacity OF the city water supply by 49,
900, OOO,00o gallons, nearly doubling II.
The present storage capacity in the Croton
watershed Is given as 1900 600 900 gal
Ions. 50 that the new dam will increase the
capacity 70 a round 5000 100000. Presi-
dent Ten Eyck estimates that the capacity
OF the new dam is so great that should the
city use water from IL at the present rate
Of consumption, the supply would cover
the city's needs for about 276 days. The
new storage capacity will. in his opinion.
give the city an adequate water supply for
fifteen years.
The city has about $4,000 900 planted
In the Croton watershed and a drive over
the territory Is both interesting and in
structive. The best starting point is from
Yorktown Heights on the New York and
Putnam Railroad, which connects with the
elevated at i5jth street. 1t is best to start
from Yorktown because the station is sit
uated at the head Of the upper Croton
Valley. where the watershed reservations
begin; v.-. 49,, ,
State road winding along the Croton River
and lake. On q bright, sunlit spring
morning, ride over the Croton water.
shed cannot be excelled for the beautiful
York.
For the past ten years the city has been
oondenning the farms and homesteads all
through this region over an area Of twenty
square miles until now there are large
sections which are almost uninhabited.
The country for miles is dotted with the
foundations Of buildings that have been
either torn down or burned.
The condemnation proceedings have in
Guided everything in the region. Not
even the churches and schools have escaped.
a Quaker meeting house and tore Il down,
and the congregation has since erected a
new one costing Sc, 900 and located it out
side of the watershed line. At another
place, Yorktown, an old Methodist church
has been obliterated, while half a dozen
country taverns and grist mills have been
RACED.
Two Of the most famous inns OF West
chester county have recently been con-
demned and will also have TO 60. One OF
them Is the Pine Bridge Hotel in Yorktown,
where Gen. Hustled. known as the Bald
Eagle, was first nominated for the assembly
and where he used to hold his conventions,
and the other is the Palmer House, near
the old Croton Dam, where United States
Senator Chauncey M. Depew received his
first nomination for the Assembly more
than forty years ago and made his maiden
speech. Senator Depew visited the old
hotel last fall when the Republicans held
. convention there, and standing ON the