[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] WILLIAM H. ROBERTSON. Democratic party back to power. Judge Robertson's part in the political strife of those memorable times has been reviewed with great fairness and discrimination in a public address by the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew.1 In theVear 1880 works for increasing New York City's water supply from Westchester County were commenced, which are still in prog-ress; for although the new Croton Aqueduct was completed in 1891, 1 See Smith's Manual of Westchester County, 95. 614 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY the great dam, which is to convert the present Croton Lake into a body eleven miles long', is not yet finished. Complaints about the insufficiency of the old aqueduct began to be expressed as early as 1875, but the city officials were slow to embark upon the necessarily elaborate and costly enterprise required — a new aqueduct from the Croton River. In 1880, however, the ancient project to obtain a supply from the Bronx watershed and the Rye Ponds was revived, leading to the construction of the so-called Bronx River Conduit from the dam near Kensico Station to the receiving reservoir at Williams's Bridge. This work was con-cluded in 1881. The quantity of water thus provided, however, afforded only incidental relief, and it was recognized that a grand new aqueduct was indispensable. On the 1st of June, 1883.