Show TO BUILD IMMENSE RESERVOIR preliminary surveys to increase yield of ney york watershed new york 7 preliminary surveys by engineers in of the city are being made and reports hava been submitted to the aqueduct commissioners ners to increase the yield of the croton watershed by building therein another enormous reservoir nearly seven miles long and which it H estimated would store more than ten thousand million gallons or use in manhattan it is estimated that should the plans be approved and developed with a smaller supplementary reservoir at cross river they would furnish an addition of gallons balij to the present supply of croton amer twenty five feet would be the greatest depth of water stored in the reservoir at pauling tho water would be from 10 to 15 feet deep aad over the present site of the little town of paterson which rests in a hollow with 1000 inhabitants three hotels churches and a cigar factory the croton water would pile up to a depth from 17 to 20 feet the operation would hood acres or six and a quarter square niles about one third of roughly speaking Is improved property ever thing in the town of paterson would have to bo taken by condemnation proceedings ce with the farm lands and many fine homesteads to the south of paterson not a few of which date back a century and a quarter university OF CHICAGO GETS PRIZES go oct 7 president harper has been notified by the committee of awards of tho louisiana purchase exposition that the university of chicago has been awarded four grand prizes for its exhibits no other educational institutions won more than two tho prizes are tor the work of the university press the yerkes observatory display for professor Nichel soils exhibit of instruments for research work in physics and tor general excellence in the exhibit as a whole for the grand prize for general excellence cel lence and completeness chicago was given the preference over yale harvard columbia the university of michigan university of wisconsin and university of neton |