Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-06

John D. Crimnins is endeav"rlilS 10
arrange for the exhibition III Ne"
York City of the Irish exhibit AT the
st. Louis fair and has called a meeting
of gentlemen interested In the matter.
So confident is Mr.. CrimminS that ne
will succeed in the project that an OPP
ton on a building for the housing or
the exhibit has been obtained for the
latter part of December, running
through January and February. The
exhibit is of the greatest interest to all
Irishmen and friends of Ireland be-
cause it illustrates the progressive
spirit which the country has displayed
in spite of the disadvantages under
which it has labored. The exhibit,
moreover. brings into view the posi-
biIity of developing a market i'll the
United States for those products In
which ireland eXcelS.
4 heroine of the stormy time of the
draft riots, in 1863. Lizzie Gallagher.
was about to be diSpOSSeSSed of her
tenement home the other day, when
policemen of the Twenty second street
station which was burned by the riot
erS forty-one years ago. made up
purse and paid the old womans rent
for six months. During the war Liz
Zie Gallagher lived near the Twenty
second street police station.
Lizzie said: Sure an it was a
small thing l did.
Il never did like rows. and whin
thin draft rioters come tearin' down
this street way forty years back,
hOWlin for the blood av tn p'lice. l
just slipped down to the station.
Most av TIL boys had been sent
downtown. where the trouble was
worst. an only a few young fellows
was over there. Boys ses I, I ses.
there's goin' to be murther done +
ses. Now you slip through the side
door and upstairs to my place on the
second floor next door. You'll find my
clothes there, an some av me
brothers. Dress yerselves anyway ye
like. but fir Yer own Sakes git rid o.
them brass buttons. That crowd is
just hungry fr brass buttons.
AN. sure. 1t was a simple thing I
did Whin the boys We're well through
the side door into the hall, l goes out
} the stoOp of the station an handed
GU line Of talk. told the crowd
that they should lave the p'lice alone
1t wasn't their fault that they was po-
licemen, and most likely the boys WAS
mighty sorry they was plicemen just
then.
THE crowd got ructious. though
they listened to me fir a while, an
then they set fire to the station. Ses
| to meself, Lizzie Gallagher, this is
nc place fir you. an SO I stopped talk
in an come off the StoOp. BY this
time the p'lice had got rid av their
brass studs an got away themselves.
Sure. an it was a small thing /
did
The Herald gives the following facts
about the new Croton water supply for
New York city:
Plans for the new system began in
1857.
Work of excavation and quarryins.
1892.
Work to be completed 1905.
Original estimate, $4.0O0,OOO.
Additional expense to complete,
SO, 200. 900.
Area Of entire watershed, 800 square
miles.
Capacity of old reservoir 49, OOO, 0OO.-
900 gallons.
Capacity of enlarged reservoir. IS
900, 100000 gallons.
Number Of gallons daily for each
person in New York. lit to 1:5.
Gallons wasted by each consumer
daily, 40 to 60.
Daily intake Of enlarged reservoir.
l,300, 900. 900 gallons.
Length of reservoir, 10 miles.
Width Of reservoir, from 200 feet to
two miles.
Length of new aqueduct to Yonkers,
20 miles
Length to Central Park reservoir.
New York, 81 miles.
Elevation OF reservoir above tide
water of Hudson, 200 feet.
Length OF new Croton dam proper.
LIES feet.
Length Of Spillway, 1000 feet.
Total length of masonry, 2,16S feet.
Thickness at base OF dam, 206 feet.
Width of roadway on summit, 20
feet.
Height of dam from Croton bed 1856
feet.
Total height Of masonry from bed
rock to summit, 29S feet.
NuUlDtT OF mel eIilplOyeu On WI n,
900 to 1890.
Average daily pay roll. $4,000
Estimated cost to produce pure water
in New York city. including mainte-
nance of system, interest on water
debt, etc, So per 100000 gallons.
Brooklyn can boast of other things
than its maze of trolleys. 1t has
maze of pavements that probably no
city official can name offhand, ana
new ones are being added to the list.
While many miles of its streets are
still covered with the round coopie-
stones, Of which even the Oldest m
ha bitants forgets the origin. others are
bein. paved with asphalt, Belgian
blocks, Baltimore blocks. etc. Al tne
intersection of one of the South brooA-
lyn corners four different styles are
shown. something after the manner u
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