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Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



STATEN ISLAND ASSOCIATION OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 

 Catskill Aquedect Celebration Exhibit 

 in co-operation with 

 The Sub-Committee on Art, Scientific and Historical Exhibitions 



of 



The Mayor's Catskill Aqueduct Celebration Committee 

 . Preliminary List of Exhibits 



1 . Wooden water main, made by boring out the centre of a log. This was 

 part of the public water supply system in use in lower Manhattan during the period 

 from 1 800 until the introduction of the Croton Water about 1 835. 



The water was obtained from a well located at Reade and Centre streets 

 and was pumped to a reservoir on Chambers street, from whence it was distributed 

 through the wooden mains. 



2. Specimens described in Dr. Arthur Hollick's paper on some Botanical and 

 Geological Features of the Silver Lake Basin. (Read at the meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation October 17, 1914, and published in the Proceedings, vol. 5, pp. 60-65.) 



3. (a) Silver Lake as it was in 1859. (Photograph by H. Hoyer.) 



(b) View from appioximately the same point, showing the basin partly drained. 

 (Photograph by H. H. Cleaves, September 29,191 4.) 



4. (a) Silver Lake as it was in 1 896. (Photograph by Otto Loeffler.) 



(b) View from approximately the same point, showing the basin partly drained. 

 (Photograph by H. H. Cleaves, September 29, 1914.) 



5. Views of the Silver Lake basin, after the water had been drained off, show- 

 ing interesting botanical and geological features. (Photographs by H. H. Cleaves, 

 September 29, 1914.) 



6. Views of Silver Lake reservoir after the Catskill water had been turned in. 

 The background in each shows the Silver Lake basin. The foreground in each 

 shows the artificial basin made by constructing a dam across Logan's Spring valley. 

 (Photographs by J. A. Rundlett, October 8, 1 9 1 7.) 



7. Logan's Spring. The site of this formerly well-known spring is now at the 

 bottom of the northeastern part of the reservoir. (Photograph by William T. 

 Davis, November 30, 1911.) 



8. The Hessian Springs. These springs were located between Jersey street, Wes- 

 tervelt avenue. Fifth street and Crescent avenue, New Brighton. They were for- 

 merly an important source of water supply for the neighborhood. (Photograph by 

 E. C. Delavan, Jr., 1902.) 



9. (a) Members of Stater, island Battery, Veteran Corps of Artillery, at Head- 

 quarters, Ardsley Sector, Catskill Aqueduct, September 1917. The Staten Island 

 Battery was Battery A, First Provisional Regiment, New York State Militia. 



(b) Hon. Howard R. Bayne, Staten Island Battery, Veteran Corps of Artilley, 

 returning from inspection of culvert under Catskill Aqueduct, while on guard duty 

 at fixed post No. 8, Ardsley Sector, September 14, 1917. 



1 0. Photographs of the pumping stations and reservoirs of the several water 

 supply systems on Staten Island. (Contributed by the Dept. Water Supply, Gas 

 and Electricity. John W. McKay, Borough Engineer in charge,) 



1 1 . Catalog of works and articles relating or containing references to sources of 

 water supply for Staten Island. Twenty-eight titles are listed, all of which are in 

 the library of the Museum. 



12. A newspaper account of the Catskill water supply project fourteen years 

 ago. (New York Sun, October 1 1, 1903.) 



