New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . onstruction. Upwards of 3,000 people are employed in it. In 1892 it received nearly 400,000,000pieces of mail matter, and the business of the money order department alone reaches a total of nearly$120,000,000. The Post Office receipts for the fiscal year of 1892 were $6,783,202, and the expenditures$2,568,700, leaving a net revenue of $4,214,502. After the Brooklyn Bridge, and before it in importance if imperative necessity be considered, is thegreat Croton Aqueduct which supplies the city with water. It is the greatest and
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . onstruction. Upwards of 3,000 people are employed in it. In 1892 it received nearly 400,000,000pieces of mail matter, and the business of the money order department alone reaches a total of nearly$120,000,000. The Post Office receipts for the fiscal year of 1892 were $6,783,202, and the expenditures$2,568,700, leaving a net revenue of $4,214,502. After the Brooklyn Bridge, and before it in importance if imperative necessity be considered, is thegreat Croton Aqueduct which supplies the city with water. It is the greatest and costliest tunnel in the is thirty-three miles in length, took ten years to construct, and cost $19,612,000. The Croton River, a small stream in Westchester County, about forty miles from the city, with a numberof small lakes in the vicinity, is the source of the supply. In 1842 an aqueduct was constructed from the laketo the city, built of stone, brick and cement, arched above and below so as to form an ellipse, measuring 8^4 XXVI NEW YORK, THE JUSTICE. NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. XXVII feet perpendicularly and yi-^^ horizontally. It slopes about 13 inches to the mile, and now carries 75,000,000gallons a day. It runs to New York in a southeasterly direction, and across the Harlem River on the HighBridge. In the Central Park, four miles or so below High Bridge, is the retaining reservoir, with a capacity of1,030,000,000 gallons, and immediately below this is located the receiving reservoir, which holds 150,000,000more. This supply as the city increased in ]X)pulation was found to be altogether inadequate, and in 1883 acommission was appointed by the Legislature to construct the new aqueduct, which starts from Croton Lake,350 feet above the dam, and follows a general southerly course through Westchester County and the Twenty-fourth Ward to a point 7,000 feet north of Jerome Park. The estimated capacity is 318,000,000 gallons everytwenty-four hours. LTnder the
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