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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
eeping Germany Busy on
II The Western Front

Now, don't make the mistake of thinking
that we are trying to recover large amount
Of territory quickly. That is not what is
going on on the Western front. That is
and has been carefully explained in The
New York Tribune. What is going on there
on the part of Great Britain is to so assall
the Germans that they will be forced to
throw vast number of soldiers and ammu-
milton on the lines, and that so many will
be killed and rendered unfit for duty that
they will be forced to retire.
Those minor affairs mean very little. What
does mean a lot is what happened at Verdun,
when for months and months the Germans
pounded and pounded and were so harassed
by the French that they finally had enough
Of It, and they abandoned Verdun.
There are some people who think that
the Germans are n sentimental nation
about all the sentiment that they have is
for our copper, iron or lead!
"You would find that England is a changed
nation. We have altered our habits and our
diet We have food control which is rigid
ly enforced We are allowed certain
amount of potatoes, meats etc, and far from
the health Of our people being impaired
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
THE Water Is Rendered
L Free of Impurities

Before the water reaches the city II Is
practically sterilZed and the gas is entirely
neutralized and dissipated. In addition to
this, there is provision for filtration plant
two miles below the Kensico Reservoir.
Every precaution is thus taken 20 insure the
purity and palatabilty Of the water.
This city tunnel was in itself a truly re-
markable engineering undertaking. IL in
vowed tat u.o O. taousaId Of tons Of dyna-
mite, which had to be handled with utmost
care owing to the enormous possibilities OF
friGhtful disaster in so crowded city. Yet
the work was carried out without serious
accident to any citizens, and the general pub
lie had no knowledge of the work other than
an occasional mufIled blast under foot.
Prom the terminal OF the tunnel in Brook
Ign there are two branches, one of which
consists Of a steel pipe line that extends into
Queens, while the other proceeds through
Brooklyn to Staten Island, crossing the Mar
rows in a 36-inch hexib!y-jointed cast-ron
pipe that is laid in trench in the harbor
bottom. In the shafts in the city tunnel
there are bronze riser valves 10 inches and
IS inches in diameter and section valves Sc
inches in diameter, also of bronze. The for
mer are located about 100 feet above the
top of sound rock and are designed to close
automatically in case of an important break
in the valve chamber or in the street mains
causing an abnormally large flow of water.
They can be closed from within the cham
bers at the shaft tops The section valves
are located across the main tunnel and will
permit the tunnel to be divided into parts
and drained in sections without putting It
entirely out of commission.
"The new system is entirely independent
Of the Croton system, although the two may
be used in conjunction. The Catskill water
is delivered into the Hillview Reservoir at
295 feet above tide, while the Croton water
is delivered in the Jerome Park Reservoir
1874 feet above tide level or 161 feet lower.
The Croton water could be delivered into
the Catskill system only by pump. but the
Catskill water can be turned into the Croton
Reservoir where il crosses at jerome Park
or at the 135th Street gatehouse, whenever
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
Prevent Wormy CheStnutS

To keep chestnuts from becoming wormy
and unmarketoble, the entomologists Of the
United States Department Of Agriculture
advise that the nuts be fumigated.
Put the nuts In a large water-tight barrel.
: Into pie pan on top Of the nuts pour an
Nounee Of carbon disulphid for each bushel.
Cover the barrel Immediately with a piece
Of oilcloth or heavy tarred paper 10 keep
IN the fumes. Allow 10 stand under fumi-
cation for fifteen 20 twenty flour hours.
Remove the nuts from the container; air
them thoroughly for about one hour. This
fumigation kills any worms which may be
present and thus prevents their further
growth. IL will greatly reduce losses IN
transportation and storage and will not
affect the edibili,y or appearance Of the
pYoduct.
Curtin: Carbon disulphid is very in
fafnmable and can be ignited BY match,
Iantern, cigar or ppe.--From The Weekly
Nens Lefter Issued by the Department Of
Agriculture.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
It Is Hard to Form an Idea
L Of the Reservoir Size

at was a bold stroke of engineering, this,
of building vast lake in the Catskill Noun
tans, and constructing an artificial river bed
which would carry these waters down to a
city 100 miles away. By building 55 miles
Of dams and dikes in the Esopus Valley q
reservoir was made with a total capacity of
$4,000 100000 gallons. This is too large a
figure to give US any conception Of the size
Of the reservoir. 1t may help US to con-
ceivc Of the amount if we make mental
transfer OF the water impounded at Ashokan
70 New York, when we shall find that it would
be enough 20 cover the entire island of Man
haitian to a depth Of 30 feet. The lake is 10
miles long, with an average width Of mile,
and it covers the sites of seven villages.
Two thousand inhabitants were moved from
the submerged area and $500 bodies were
removed from the 32 cemeteries found in
this locality. The building of the lake in
volved the relocation of IL miles of railroad
track, and ca miles Of highways had to be
discontinued.
"On It's way TO the city the water has 10
pass through long lines Of steel ard concrete
conduits and through many tunnels driven
under mountains and rivers. The water is
driven on It's entire course by gravity, for
the Ashokan Reservoir has O head of 500
feet above sea level. Had it been necessary
70 pump this quantity Of water TO the city 70
the same high gravity pressure, the cost
would amount TO something like 100000
per year. As IL is, the water is carried into
the city without any cost Of transportation,
and such small amounts Of power as are re-
quircd for the aqueduct equipment and light
ing some Of the structures are generated By
the fall of the water from the reservoir into
the aqueduct.
"Fifty-fvc miles Of the artificial river
passes through a cut-and-cover type OF con-
duit. This is constructed Of concrete with
out steel reinforcement and cover ed with an
earth cmbankment. 1t is Of horse
shoe shape, in cross-section measuring In
eide n feet high by in feet wide. Where
hills or mountains cross the line Of the
aqucduci tunnels have been driven through
them, which are also Of horseshoe shape
but somewhat smaller than the cut-and-cover
conduit and Of sleeper gradient 10 com
pcnsate for their smaller waterway. There
are IL miles Of such grade tunnels. Steel
s.phons carry The water through some Of the
valleys, but where the valleys are deep and
broad, and there WAS suitable rock beneath
them, rressurs tunnels were driven into the
rock ana Lined with concrete. There are II
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

saw their ricks burning-then they began to
subscribe 10 the loans.
I know the difficulty of dealing with the
prosperous people-they are all so optimis-
tic. The war has done much for them-it
has made them prosperous, they get more
for their wheat corn, meat, etc. They read
about the wonderful victories we are hav-
ing-about the hundreds of submarines that
We are snking-that Germany is without
food or anything to wear-that she is hay-
ing internal revolts, ETC., and they take 1t
all in-al Of 1t untrue.
OF course, you people can't realize that
we are at war; because you are so very far
away You don't see the soldiers come back,
you don't see the wounded soldiers, your
homes and property are not destroyed, and
Of course, you can't realize those things
until they are brought home to you.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
Beware Prepare Hold Courageousy, Counsels Northcll

had been for years. We found paper, On
them showing they had worked for this war
and had provided their government with
valuable information for some time.
We are a nation like yourselves We
were a most unsuspicious people-the most
unsuspicious in the world. We took people
for what they seemed to be. We for a long
time let these people stay in our country
and 90 about their business, not realizing
the harm they were doing against u.s.
We couldn't conceive that the German Am
bassador, whom we thought high-minded,
honorable gentleman, would busy himself
with plots Of revolution, burning our num-
ton factories or ships or other plots, when
he should have been busying himself in
strengthening out affairs between our coun-
try and his. We are nation, as | said
before, like yourselves in that respect.
Believe me, when these soldiers come
home they are going to rule the people to
a certain extent. They are going to over
rule these politicians who have given US
rotten deal 1t will be an awful hard thing
for any one TO get any of US in war in the
future when this war is over. have talked
with our soldiers at the front who have
been there and have had three years Of this
horrible warfare.
They are very determined and have very
strong ideas of capital, labor, rule and ell
the various questions that are paramount In
the public minds to-day. They will be in
position to dominate to a certain extent
many of the communities in which they will
reside. They have q strong feeling Of
brotherhood.
They have seen their friends and rela.
tives die, have seen their homes destroyed
and their families destroyed. The officers
and men are dressed alike and they act alike.
The officers talk with their men and there Is
q very strong feeling between them.
This war has done lot in drawing peo-
pie together, and our soldiers are going to
come back banded together with a very
strong bond. II will be very difficult task
for nation to wage another war, as stated
before. The United States and Great Brit.
ain are very close together. If we two peo-
pies keep together we can, | am sure, see
that there is never another war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

necessary although this, of course, would
waste the advantage Of pressure due to its
higher level.
The cost of Catskill water supply develop
ment has, so far, amounted to $l39 900 600.
II Is estimated that the Schoharie works will
cost 500, 100000 more and the estimated total
cost of the completed system will be about
SIT, O00."
Much has been said about the construc-
ton of the aqueduct; relatively little about
the men who have carried the work to it's
successful conclusion. All Of this work,
says "The Engineering News Record (" has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
Aunt Jerusha's NO-Cake

"You never hearn O. no-cake? Wal, that
was parched corn paounded up in mortar
an eat wi milk eff they had It, an ef they
hedn't Jest mixed up WI water. They
rarnt that of the Injins, an they lowed
il 'ould stan by man longer'n any other
Injun corn fxin's. Then they ulster make
samp in the plumpin' mill, big mortars
they was, at went wi spring pole, an
they'd change off ontu samp when they got
sick o. no-cake. Hasty puddin' an johnny
cake they couldn't hev, 'thout gittin' the
corn ground tn regular mill, an them was
mebby forty miles off."-From Rowland
Robinson's Danpis Folks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
THE Supplies Needed in
L Transporting Troops

You will have to transport an army equal
in size across the Atlantic. In that army
you have TO have every possible kind Of sup
plies-food for the men, food for the
horses, motor cars, motor car trucks, horses,
ammunition and supplies for the trucks, etc,
to say nothing of airplanes, machine guns,
etc.
This might give you some slight idea of
the work and care and planning that il will
take to get you across to the line Of fight
ing. You will get an army there. There Is
no doubt or fear about that-when we stop
to take into consideration the steps you
have already taken just to raise an army
almost in a night.
That is the way a democracy does things.
However, there are very few people who
realize the work that the army behind the
army is doing. So you see that it Will take
many, many ships. You ought to have so
many ships that you do not mind if they
are sunk.
have seen the results of submarines.
What did see? Some eight hundred dead
horses-people killed-supplies destroyed
all very valuable in war-to say nothing Of
q great deal of ammunition, machine tools
all of which is a great loss of tonnage and
efficiency in war. II you will read care
fully and notice, you will find that the Ger
mans distinguish between ships and ship
ments. They have the means of knowing
when a shipment leaves this country.
II is really very simple thing to get
news to Germany pnd they are very thor
ough IN their methods, as you all we'll know.
II is gosS ,asy for people to send kilograms
to Germany, and the Germans get them
tho next day The United States is not at
war with England. message can be sent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
By Lord NorthcliHe

~ NE Of the most important things for
YOU TO remember in the considera-
W ton Of this war is the fact that you
people absolutely have 20 depend
upon the Atlantic for your transportation OF
your soldiers, your munitions and your food
supplies. You had a slight misfortune last
week-it was really an accident
What the Germans are after are the ships
containing cargoes of food and munitions
not merely passengers. Now, what they are
after is to let you get your men over there,
and then destroy ships containing munitions
and food supplies-and if you aren't careful
you will find yourself in the position of hav-
ing large army marooned in France un-
able to get supplies.
The newspapers have shown the enthusi-
asm Of the people in raising the Liberty
Loan. which will 20 long way toward the
building Of machines, supplying ammunition
and building the machines for fighting in
the air. The Liberty Loan propaganda is
being conducted ably, and find IN this en-
thusiasm further means to get these things
to the Warwick is very necessary. OF
what use would ammunition, big guns, etc.
he without a means TO transport them over
to Europe?
You will find this war is very different
proceeding from the old-time warfare,
where men enlisted, took their rifles in hand
and marched to battle, where they met their
enemy face to face. This is not a case where
the soldier is the most important or essen
tial factor in the war. 1t is case where
the farmer the miller, the butcher and the
'munition factory men are just as important.
You must remember that your army and
our army arc in entirely different positions.
Your army is in the same position as the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
l. Jew YoRK'S thirst for water ha

FEW YORK'S thirst for water has
e been met. On October % the
Catskill Aqueduct was officially
turned over to the city, with suitable cere-
monies, marking the completion of one Of
the worlds greatest engineering projects,
which has been pursued for the past ten
years. 1t involved the construction of
deep rock tunnels of unprecedented length,
enormous concrete dams, huge steel
siphons and even pipe line laid in a
submarine trench. For the last six months
a stream of water has been flowing out Of
the Catskill Mountains into the heart Of
New York City, supplying Brooklyn,
Richmond and large areas of The Bronx,
Queens and Manhattan. Water from the
Catskills has been used by the city ever
since 1915, but the flow has been inter
rupted since May, 1917, until it was taken
up again and completed.
The bold stroke of engineering is thus
described in "The Scientific American"
for October 27:
"The Catskill aqueduct extends 12O miles
from the great artificial lake at Ashokan to
the Silver Lake reservoir at Staten Island
It can now be depended upon for at least $780,
100000 gallons daily in the most prolonged
series Of dry years likely to occur. The
weight Of water it consumes each day is
about eight times the weight Of its nhabi-
tants. The city is at present using $4,000
600 gallons day, but as its population is in
creasing at the rate of $4,000 year, and as
each person will require about 100 gallons
of water day, il will be necessary in time,
to increase still further the supply of water.
Already steps are being taken to develop a
second Catskll watershed by building a dam
across the Schoharie Valley at Gilboa and
turning the water back through a tunnel un-
der the Shandakin Mountains TO the Ashokan
Reservoir. When the watershed is developed
500,000,0O0 gallons of mountain water will
flow into the city each day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

been kept free from suspicion; no ones
honesty has been challenged; also it has
escaped ugly controversy over the capa-
bility of the designers or the quality of
the work. "The Engineering News
Record" pays high tribute to j. Waldo
Smith, chief engineer, and his engineering
staff. 1t writes thus, in part:
1.-THE New York Board OF Water Supply
was organized in June, 1905, and at once
selected J. Waldo Smith as its chief engi-
neer He had had long experience in water
supply work and had displayed exceptional
organizing and executive ability as chief
engineer of the Jersey City water supply
system, which, including the Boonton reser-
voir and a long aqucduct, bears resemblance,
though on a smaller scale, to the Catskill
scheme.
Sensible of the magnitude and intricacy
Of the task, Mr. Smith saw that none but
superlatively good organization could sue
ceed He therefore selected with the great
est of care the nucleus of his staff. the men
whom he expected to assume the major re-
sponsibilties and become his department
heads. Not only did their technical attain
ments have to be high but their views as TO
organization building had to agree with those
of the chief Upon these men he depended,
in large part at least, for the selection OF
the other members OF the engineering bureau.
These men--sevcn in number, including the
deputy chief engineer. the division engineers,
engineers in charge of designing and the
consulting engineers-were exempt from
civil service rules. All of the other mem
bers of the organization, however, were sub
jet to civil service competitive regulations.
This makes the story more interesting and
the lesson more valuable"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

An old fellow on his deathbed, in max.
ing his will, murmured to his lawyer
"And to each of my employees who have
been with me twenty years or more be-
queath $4,000" "Holy smoke What
generosity" the lawyer exclaimed. "No
not at ALL" said the sick man. "You see
none Of them have been with me over a
year; but 1t will look good IN the papers
went it?"-Ltpeypool Post.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

n IAN wants put leedle bier pelOv
wi Und wants dot leedle Dutch
Der wishes vich | wish, l know,
Are NIGHT so fiery much:
Choost Europe, Asia, Africa,
Der Western Hemisphere
Und a coaling- station in Japan
Dot viii pc all dis year.
Htlee, hi-lo, der Winds deg plol0
Choost like Die Yacht am Rhein;
Und Uat iss mein belongs to Ne,
Und Uot ISIS yours iss mcini
Jah also, When / vloat aroundt
Mitin mein royal yacht
I see so much vat ISIS NIGHT Dutch
Dot--nch, du lieber Gott!-
1t gif me such shtrange distress
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

Der marin Rule or Bust
You cannot 1creck our skyndicate
Yen Colt ISIS in der Trust!
Being elm kviet Noodral Power,
/ know mein chob, you bet
/ bray for Beacc, ind hope for War
Und keep mein powder wet;
Put ven I've holdings else to do
Put shtandt aroundt und chat
Den der Right Divine talks nonsense
trough
Mein military hat
Hi-lee, h-lo, der vinds deg plow
Und softly visper dis:
Der Kaiser he iss more as yet
Und all iss right vat Iss~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

Canadian army for this reason-the Cana
dams must get their supplies across the At
lantic, although they can get some of their
supplies from Great Britain. You have TO
bring every ounce of material across the
Atlantic. | wonder how many people in this
country realize how large a force have
in France?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

This is the major portion of a
speech delivered in Kansas City Ocfo-
Der IS, upon which occasion Lord
Northcliffe's audience was composed
of editors from five Middle Western
States. II is a speech which has
stimulated a good deal of discussion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

IL is improved, as the English people, ike
yourselves ate entirely too much.
And now there is one question that
would ike to ask you, and that is: what Is
TO prevent the Germans from coming across
the Atlantic in large numbers? They sent
one submarine over to report-iust to give
q gentle hint that they could do It. Nha'
is to prevent them from coming across the
Atlantic? One mistake and they would De
across. II mistake had been made by our
men in council, there is no doubt but that
they would have been across the Atlantic
long ago.
| can see no reason why you can have any
hone that we will have short war. OF
course, we could have a peace tomorrow,
but It would be short peace, and 1t would
mean a more terrible war than we are IN
now, for you can rest assured that Ger
many wouldn't make the mistake that they
have made in this instance-of having so
many people against her.
You know what she is after7 The people
who have the goods. She has an attachment
for the country that had the coal and iron
and many other valuable resources, such as
Great Britain and the United States. There
is not much sentiment about German war
fare.
We are very wealthy in Great Britain
as YOU are In the United States. She didn't
want tiny little country like Belgium. SO
don't make the mistake of taking her word
that she is having internal revolutions. no
food nor clothes, etc. That would be fatal.
The work Of the I. W. W, the German
propaganda in your country, the burning
of your stockyards and the destruction OF
your muniton plants-sll these are proofs
that Germany had planned a war against
YOU and was working as carefully in your
country as she was in ours before the war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
England Had Her Own Troubles
L Over Enemies Within

We had many Germans at the outbreak OF
war in our country. Many Of them held
high positions of trust and honor-such as
mayors of towns, etc.-and we were amazed
when the war broke out to find that most
of these men were working against us and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

miles Of such tunnels outside Of the city
limits. Within the city itself there is
pressure tunnel Is miles long, running hun
dreds OF feet below the surface.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

/ cannot understand
How volks gan lif in happiness
Mitout no Vaderland!
Hiee, hi-lo, der rinds deg ploW
As I sail round apo1tt
To gif der Nations good adioice
Uad saiasages und krdut.
Each hour | shange mein uniform,
Put ! never shange mein m;ndt,
Und efery day | make Elm spooch
To penift mankindt:
Race Soosancide, der Nations Pride,
Divorce und Public Sins
| talk so much like Roosenfeldt
dink We must pc twins,
Hllec, hi-lo. der vinds dey plot0
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

across rough ground and swamp land on
two lines of rollers, according to "The En-
gneering News-Record." The barge,
which was grounded near Copalis, Wash,
last March, was being used to haul
supplies for the government railway in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
A Few Words From Wilhelm

~ H by in 5an dby
t reminds Professional and
tn latter benp The
by E. w Kple
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
Moving a Barge

THOUSAND-TON barge that had
been beached in a gale was re-
= Gently raised and moved one mile