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Show ENGINEERING FEAT FAILS TO ATTRACT OMAHA, Jan. 2i". New York City's municipal waterworks system cost j more to construct than the Panama j canal, yet this remarkuldi engineering feat attracted very little attention at thfl time. R. E. McDonnell ot Kansas j City, member of the firm of .Burns and McDonnell Engineering company, asserted here Tuesday, In an address i before the Nebraska Deaguc of Muni-olpalltlea. Muni-olpalltlea. Mr. McDonnell declured that the problem of providing America Amer-ica s metropolis with an abundance ot good, pure water, brought to the city from the Catskill mountains, had required re-quired the moving of entire towns, building of dams, tunnelling (or a i length of 4,000 feet beneath the bed ol the Hudson river and constructing conduits more than 100 feet below the streets of N'cw York City. These engineering feats, said be were the work of a dozen years and are comparable to the Roman tiquo- i ducts which required centuries to I build. rm |