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5. (a) Silver Lake as it was in 1896. Photograph by Otto Loeffler, en- 



larged. View is from the northeast end, looking toward the 

 south, 

 (b) View from approximately the same point as that from which the 

 above mentioned picture was taken, showing the trees cut down, 

 the water mostly drained off, and the sides of the basin raised 

 and graded in order to convert it into a reservoir. Photograph 

 by H. H. Cleaves September 29, 1914. 



6. Silver Lake Reservoir, completed and filled with water. Photographs 

 by J. A. Rundlett October 8, 1917. 



This reservoir is now the southern terminus of the Catskill water sup- 

 ply system. Capacity = 438,000,000 gallons. Area of water surf ace = 54 

 acres. 



(a) View from the northeast end, looking toward the northwest. 



(b) View from the northeast end, looking toward the west. 



The reservoir is constructed in two sections. The northeastern section, 

 shown in the foreground, was made by erecting a dam across Logan's 

 spring valley. The southwestern section, shown in the background, is the 

 old Silver Lake basin in which the original water level was 200 feet above 

 tide. By the erection of a dam across the natural outlet at the south- 

 western end the level of the water has been raised to 228 feet above tide. 



7. Logan's spring. Photograph by William T. Davis, November 30, 191 1, 

 enlarged. 



The site of this formerly well known spring is now at the bottom of 

 the northeastern section of the reservoir. 



8. The Hessian Springs. Photograph by Edward C. Delavan, Jr., 1902. 

 These springs were located in the valley of the Jersey Street brook, be- 

 tween Jersey Street, Westervelt Avenue, Fifth Street, and Crescent Avenue, 

 New Brighton. They were formerly an important source of water supply 

 for the neighborhood. 



9. Views illustrating the growth of population in the section of Staten 

 Island nearest to New York, from the time when local natural springs and 

 shallow wells were adequate sources of individual and neighborhood water 

 supply to the present time, when it is necessary to bring water through an 

 elaborate aqueduct system from a distance of more than one hundred miles. 



(a) Steel engraving, entitled "New York from Staten Island," from 



" The Picturesque Beauties of the Hudson River and Its Vicin- 

 ity, etc.," published by J. Disturnell, 156 Broadway, New York, 

 in or about 1835-36. The view is from the top of Pavilion Hill, 

 with New York in the distance and the shore front of Staten 

 Island in the foreground. Only four houses are shown, ex- 

 clusive of the old Quarantine buildings at Tompkinsville. 



(b) Two views taken from the same place and showing the same 



section occupied by hundreds of dwellings, apartment houses, 

 stores, warehouses, public buildings, etc. Photographs by Wil- 

 liam T. Davis, September 29, 1917, enlarged. 



