Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . erformed. Three hun-dred acres have been filled with a mean depth of 15 to 18 feet. Abouteighty acres remain to be filled. And whilst some distress and dis-comfort to Flushings people may havebeen occasioned thereby, much of thegraver huge mosquito peril has beeneliminated and will within one and one-half years be entirely effaced. TheDegnon Contracting Companys workimmediately adjoining on the northhas been conducted quite free ofnuisance and
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . erformed. Three hun-dred acres have been filled with a mean depth of 15 to 18 feet. Abouteighty acres remain to be filled. And whilst some distress and dis-comfort to Flushings people may havebeen occasioned thereby, much of thegraver huge mosquito peril has beeneliminated and will within one and one-half years be entirely effaced. TheDegnon Contracting Companys workimmediately adjoining on the northhas been conducted quite free ofnuisance and will contribute alarge quota in the matter oferadicating another extensivetract of mosquito-breedingland (278 acres). The long open, highly of-fensive, sewer trench at thefoot of Grove St. is now hap-pily a thing of the past. It hasbeen changed in its course bythe construction of the NathanManufacturing plant andpiped, a distance of 1,015feet by corrugated 48-inch metal piping downto the Creek outlet, anda branch of 500 feet of24-inch metal piping. The boxing of MyrtleAve. open sewer for partof its length, some fewyears ago, was a highly 24. Kissena Lake Views FLUSHING AND VICINITY desirable and efficient pieceof work, and its full extensionto the Creek outlet is eager-ly and expectantly contem-plated. Sites are beingsought, and appropriationmade therefor, for a moderngarbage destructor on theoutskirts of Flushing, whichwill relieve the necessity ofdisposing of garbage in thecrude, insanitary way ofusing same to fill the neigh-boring lowland. Thanks to the most as-siduous care and thoughtgiven to the Gutman Swamp The Niantic ciub proposition by our Commis-sioner of Health, Dr. Haven Emerson, contracts have been alreadyawarded for the pipingand drainage of these 129 acres of inundated landdown to Flushing Creek, well to the rear of the Forest Hills section, andthis highly desirable and most important work will be shortly accom-plished by assessment upon the benefited prope
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