The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-15

Manhattan Euland 20 Q dopgh Of about
% feet The maximum depth will be
about 10 feet. and the average viii be
50 feet. The total AREA Of water surface
will be equivalent 10 al q Manhattan
Island below 1Ooth street. Its ah0re line viii
be about forty miles in length.
Ono OF the incidentalB % ne construction
will be fhe building OF about thirty miles
Of new highway, Another will be the
finding Of q new location Tor the Ulster
and Delaware Railroads thirteen mile
strip that runs across the basin Of the
reservoir.
Il also happens that nine Vlllagss Ne ID
the tract that wall soon be auhmsfRpd. ThG
CONSCIOUSNESS Il that nine aRgrag3lions 81
villagers will b. Obliged 20 pack up their
things and 20. The places which viii
be Destroyed long before the food comes
along, have q winter population OF 100,
augmented In the summer time by I ,O@
boArdeB and visitors. Eight churches
| lie in this territory. Il took q good deal
OF diplomacy and no small amount 81
reimbursement % make these people
ready to change their places OF habita-
ton.
THIRTf-FTVn cEMHTRRrmg DIsPLACED.
In this tract Ne thirty-llvs cemeteries
! Naturally u occurred 20 the commission
that, laying aside al sentiment, u would
not BE- expe(sient 10 permit these burial
grounds 20 remain, 20 u was decided
70 remove every one Of the 1850 bodies
buried In these cemeteries.
Il didn't need much thought 20 see that
u the removal was left to the relatives Of
the deceased there was no sure way Of
knowing that the removal would be made.
Also In many cases Il would be impossible
70 lind any relative, a. q number Of the
gravo9 arG very old and the families have
@ther died out or moved away. Besides
u was q little unfair 10 put the country
people 10 this expense Arbitrarily.
The commission decided about q year
ago 20 allow slS 10 relatives for the re-
mOval Of body and % for head and foot
stones. Out Of this arrangement have
arisen many curious circumstances. The
commissions engineers have had 10 be
on the lookout all the time. There were
any number o. persons ready and Wiling
10 derive whatever PROM they could make
over and above actual expenses on the StS
One Old man applied for permission 10
move ne crave o. . two months old IN
taDe who died In 1854. When the engineerA
aaked BIN about fiE claim the Old fellow
SAID that the baby was bis great-groaf-
uncle. A httls investigating showed that
he Was mistaken.
Eysn In oaasa in which ire olairas are
vel established the sis u an induce-
mant, and without Il the engineers are
certain that a great many Of the bodieg
would b. permitted 70 remain until
November I next. when tfe commission
itself win move all bodies that have not
been claimed. Advertisements have been
isglsd throughout the locality and every
effort is being made 10 find any remaining
relatives. A burial ground IL TO be-
started q short distance from the reser-
vOir and here an accurate record will be-
kept, 20 tnat II any claimant tiIrne up IN
the future there will be no difficulty abOut
proper Modification Already nearly
300o bodies have been removed from
the CEMETERIES within the zone.
A local undertaken has made q pretty
good thing out Of the general transfer 0f
graves. He has placaniei the barns
and fenceg ot tho neighhOrhOOd with tbs
news that be has 90 choice lots TO sell In !
q neighhorinE village. In some CASES Re I
drives q bargain with the poorer % the |!
inhabitants. He n III transfer a body and /
Sc that i n buried in the new camstery |
u the relative Interested viii ave him 1be |
lls that the city allows for the removal ]
Doing this ON q whOlasaie basis. be a 1
never the loser, any more than h the /
farmer who simply bitches 90 his farm I
wagon and does the Nhole job.