Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-12-01


pure and felesn, nd ehe'g.eaS aoue-
ducts ii9s 81 ;Siatt ls ds iPsa Ei ipi
1 SaHt the IIiRHi 1ssll T ISi6t IS
tain D'Eurc. gsifS' hes Sfay, tssthSi
baths OF Diana; What the Emperor
ClaudriS tAdsSs4iefi 4le carried the w;iter
from TIE ,KHiAnsahsndowno 20 the cap.
itRl of the Caesars, which aqueduet
stu bears Aks-patIe1Yh9tgKin Sole
mon did MkJn- le1 b1itt His three IA
nous pephsafgonYs-ps sclI reservoirs he
carried the NysstfS ~ S1bterrufean pas
sageS to-tsfr-rfrS--Y 'S.T-SrafcfrIS wharf
Tarquinius PriSa, did COO years be-
fore Christ WHOM nc built Che famous
canal Cloaca .AIaXiIaa, the Oldest and
the most fs4noRs drainage canal IN the
world aud which is stu used to carry
the refuse-out OF the city OF Rome TO
the Tiber, the great engineers on an
enlarged scale are doing for our own
cities. These engineers may. not have
the title M. H." affixed TO their names.
but they are the greatest OF all prevent
ers of disease. Truly t4ey have done
their WORK well. ''-.i 5ao n
atRdSrsround works. I-J
II yoAoSo otlreaEzc k,iW wen they
have succeeded, then stu6y.s under
ground ,SeE- York or Chicago or Phil
adslpAiaa pr S., Louis o. Boston, Star
velous, staggering, wonderful and al
most inronceigalae Gtest.Ics sIgAtsEySn
there Gao Witness. Some wears ago II
was my psistiese IA sa1 akdetgfoulldI
New Forlz--be4Rg-es.e a~atetl--fer-tl,e
great sRFFsya raibreaa. have seen
the nden Qhicss@ trainaEe eanai,
built Il me expense ~ many millions
Of dollars. Ny faFeEitef walk when al
student upon the banks OF The hudson
was oser fHe'qpsis ! Rsros6Ag ;,SsseSa nct d
fhrouehWVlhc oil ah snRa tely MAS hro,Itht,
from ese utirtg adlc suawaSnto qlieneh
the tAiSStE9f ithe3 4 s9, Gs4Oa hlghabitants
or the metropolis. BGt,,after- all. the
S Sae@y tgi IaaEs tPs Egw xa45ork un-I
foreground railroad Impressed me more
than all the engineering feats I ever
saw. As loalg6 CpT1HnHo those big
subwaYS y always felt. as though /
were III q cltft NJ. rbr,ii ami seeing
the sdrseons EnTfc- cuttr1g ITS way, !
Those excavations iuserestoi me n vast
laparo8A9 o3era5ea gqe9nr tlle great
city ofASs& A5ckL II dnl LAW GNH
There l could see hundreds Of pipes I
running in EVERY "a set tioiIS Water
pipes, sewer pipes, gas pipes were all |
there expSSsi 90 o. toVaE1hose different 1
pipes seeEksY ;a0bsoAemble tlle. blood /,
vessels and tahAad lpsaltAry ,canalgof,
the human frame. They seemed more
they seaS zAssstRa seat laHg stems
or lilies lifting their heads above the
FOUL wateqp&1 pond lhese stems 90
down, down, d5wn.- untifdtteyi graY3rIic
their hncnoragcs II nc mud ana Draw.
sustenance from tite>eartAc beiew. And
so l coda see these ,gpss the sewer
pipes and 'thss fs'erzaI5patrTs ri eSt run \
ming through the soil and rock on
which the city is built. ghey reachel
out until at last, "a sf9yeIgers, they
emptied their rcfoscs Ito tiie te5ths of
the se8ganJlsy Pqrchea out until, like /
the stems of the lilies. they gathered |
up life eeifi - istfaagfb from the far
away SslOion lalIsd On this Thanksgiv-
ing d4$l let eSisa esg,l aana1ail thank Cod !
for seier tiff asraihSs = anai seweraeet
and tor pipeg seint42, bring 10 us pure I
water Thank 'Cod fog water whit