Show WATERWORKS OF ATHENS Menus of Supply of the Ancient Acropolis Have Lately Been Unearthed Oroclnn water works ns well M ureclan poetry have survived to serve the piowmt age Prof Dorpfleld tvhllu I pursuing archaeological re marches In Athens with tho purposo a unearthing tho fountain of Ilsls trains discovered a number of small water galleries In the vicinity of the iciopolls More especially beneath tho road lending from the market PItteD hi Athens and serving as the route for the processions of the Panathenea he recognbcd a series of conduits composed com-posed of a pair of pipes of pottery placed OUP over tho other From tho same point the azora other similar pipes of a square section covered with slabs of baked earth radiated in the direction of tho smaller streets The antiquity of this system of canalization Is beyond doubt Insomuch as the character of the works In con nectlon with It is as old as the Homan and Byzantine epochs Much knowledge knowl-edge also was obtained respecting the supply of water to the Inhabitants of the capital from the many experimental experi-mental cuttings and trenches The aqueduct of Ilslstratus sur namcd tho Tyrant was found to pass the Theater of Bacchus and then terminate ter-minate In a basin where nine conduits dlsclmrged their contents contiguous to tho fountain of Kalllrrhoo situated situ-ated at the 1uyx This fountain Included In-cluded a couple of pools one aboveground above-ground wherefrom water could bo drawn directly and a second below acting as a reservoir and also as an overflow allowing Its surplus water to pass through a pipe Into tho city for the use of the public In the aque duct of Plslstrntus the water was transported In round pipes of pottery pot-tery with joints carefully fitted If this acqueduct should fall to be of further fur-ther service that of Hadrian serves at OIL present time for a supply to tho nlan Inhabitants |