The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-06
Committee Hopes to Raise $l,000,O00
to Garry Out Project Embracing
Highest Peak in Adirondacks-
$4,000 Acres Available
for Purchase ,
for Purchase

later years it Is not unlikely that New
York city will have TO go to the Adj
rondacks for its water supply. AL
most half century ago it was pre-
dicted that eventually the city would
have to build an aqueduct from the
Adirondacks, and many authorities
believe that this prediction will be
realized within twenty years. The Sc
robustness of this statement, and the
likelihood of the prediction being real
lied, are better understood perhaps
when 1t is said that the combined total
capacity OF the Croton and Catskill
aqueducts will be 890,000,000 gallons
day. The city now uses about
6o0,000,000 gallons a day, leaving a
surplus Of 100000 gallons in imne-
date prospect. At the average ratio
OF increase in the population of the
city the limit OF the Croton and Cats
Kill aqueducts will have been reached
IN about nineteen years. The historian
Nerplanck Colvin wrote this about the
predicted aqueduct forty-slx years
ago:
Although this source of water sup
ply cannot. for various reasons, be
made Immediately available, yet, I'M
less action be taken at thfs time and
the forests protecting and purifying
The water be preserved and them
selves protected. there will be no op-
portunity in the future to accomplish
this great work. II this acme
duct were commenced in these DAYS.
long before its completion the failing
water supply would rouse the people
-
ished. For the present, the protection
OF the forests Is all that Is required,
and unless this be done we shall incur
me merited scorn OF posterity."
The plan for vast memorial park
10 commemorate the victories of Amer
lean and allied soldiers was conceived
by officers and members OF the Assoc
citation for the Protection Of the Adj
rondacks, which for several years has
roen Interested in all efforts TO pre-
serve the majestic beauty of New
forks most famous and most beauti-
ful mountain range. 1t numbers among
It's officers and trustees such men as
John G. Agar, William G. Rockefeller
j. Pierpont Morgan, Archer NJ. Hunt
'ngon, Robert w. de Forest. I,ouis
Marshall, Henry Fairfield Osborn ana
George Foster Peabody. All of these
men are interested in the plan for the
Victory Mountain Park and mean In
carry the scheme through to a sue
cessful finish.
The Victory Mountain Park Com
mittee is composed Of leading men in
every walk OF life in New York state
Gov. Alfred f.. Smith has accepted the
honorary Craftsmanship OF the com
mlttee, and DR., John II. Finley. State
Commissioner OF Education, is chair
man. All OF the State officials ara
members. and others on It's long mi,
include such names as Irving Bach
"ller, the writer; Daniel c. Beard
naturalist and author; George Cor
don Battle, Thornton w. BURGESS
John Burroughs, Cleveland II. hLdge.
Charles w, Eliot, president sxs,,<itus
OF Harvard; Abram L Elkus. Henry C.
F'rick Robert II, Ingersoll, Otto H
Kahn, George +, Kunz, Norman ID.
Mack, Rev. William T. Manning, Louis
Marshall, John Mitchell. William Eel
loves Morgan, Morgan J. OBrien,
Ma jorGen. John +, Organ, Alton d.
MARKER. G~d'Pinchot. Charles II.
Sabin, Herbert l.. Satterlee, James
Speyer. Henry W. Taft. Henry van
Dyke, and many others of equal
prominence.