. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. Gas Com-pany of Oceanside, Calif., has a novelmethod of heating the water for a saltwater natatorium, which it runs as amoney making venture. The plant,equipped with two engines, one of 125horsepower and the other of 70 horse-power, furnishes electricity for lightingpurposes to Oceanside and the San LuisRey Valley, as well as power for irri-gation pumping throughout the valley,which gets its name from the pictur-esque and historic old Mission thatstands on the brow of a hill near Ocean-side. The pool, which is housed under thesame roof as the en
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. Gas Com-pany of Oceanside, Calif., has a novelmethod of heating the water for a saltwater natatorium, which it runs as amoney making venture. The plant,equipped with two engines, one of 125horsepower and the other of 70 horse-power, furnishes electricity for lightingpurposes to Oceanside and the San LuisRey Valley, as well as power for irri-gation pumping throughout the valley,which gets its name from the pictur-esque and historic old Mission thatstands on the brow of a hill near Ocean-side. The pool, which is housed under thesame roof as the engine room, is 40 by 60feet in dimensions, and ranges from threeto eight feet in depth. Tt is filled withsea water pumped directly from thePacific by a centrifugal pump and circu-lated through coils of pipe in a eon-denser, where it is heated by the steamcondensed from the exhaust of the en-gines. Thus the water is wanned at prac-tically no expense, and yet the incomefrom the pool is no little item in the com-panys statement of annual The Bridge Over the Reservoir at Kensico One-Hundred-Twenty Miles for a Drink By ARTHUR MILLER Photographs by the New York Edison Company The greatest of all aqueducts is aboutto go down in history as remains but the lining of the city-tunnels, the finishing of the Kensicoreservoir and the construction of thecrossing under the Narrows to ren-der the stupendous Catskill water sup-ply system for New York City anactual achievement—a dream cometrue. The last headings have met andthe long bore is ended, but it will bewell along in 1915 before the first rushof water will surge through the tunnelfor New Yorkers to quench their thirston the water from the shady glens ofRip Van Winkle land, 120 miles awayin the Kaaterskills. This anxiously awaited moment cancome none too soon for the presentsources of water supply have aboutreached the limit of their Croton Watershed, which suppliesManhattan and the Bronx, and the a
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