[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] granite way from one house to the other, a few feet below the surface of the water, which divides the reservoir. By the breaks in the house the gates are open and shut to the great pipes below which supply the city with water. There are openings, or gates, all along the lines, by which the pipes can at any moment, and at almost any point, be cleaned or repaired, so that no stoppage of any magnitude can possibly ocean The system of water supply of New York has grown with the growth of the city, and various reser-voirs have been established at other points. Danger of water famine has compelled the city to make en-deavors to increase the Croton supply. According to the plan recently adopted, a dam is to be built at Quaker Bridge, about two and a half miles below the present dam, to be about two hundred feet in height above the level of the Hudson River, and to increase the height of the water thirty-four feet above the present dam. The cost of building the new reservoir has been estimated at :S7,7!H1,.">$<>, and the aqueduct at $16,664,808. The new reservoir will receive the en-tire, drainage of the Croton water-shed, and thirty-two billion gallons of water above the level of the aqueduct, and can therefore supply two hundred mil-lion gallons per day for one hundred and sixty days YORKTOWN. it:: without recourse to the flow of the river.