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NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENTS SERVICE FLAG 



© Paul Thompson 



The police force of the city is ready for any emergency. It is said that fifteen thousand 

 civilians can be called to arms and action in an hour. Every precaution has been taken to 

 insure the maintenance of law and order in the face of any aerial or submarine attack. 



THE EONG FIGHT FOR AN AM PEE WATER 

 SUPPEY 



For generations Gotham has had a 

 hand-to-mouth water supply, as is the 

 case with other municipal requirements. 

 The gaunt specter of water famine, with 

 all of its attendant train of gnomes — dis- 

 ease, uncleanness, crippled industries, 

 beggared homes — ever lurked in the shad- 

 ows of the immediate future. 



Finally, there arose a man with a vis- 

 ion and with courage. He foresaw all the 

 evils of water famine and never did the 

 great Roman senator repeat his famous 

 dictum "Delenda est Carthago!" more 

 persistently than did Charles N. Chad- 

 wick his doctrine that "New York must 

 have an adequate water supply." One by 

 one he won supporters to his idea — now 

 the Manufacturers' Association, now the 

 Merchants' Association, now the Mayor, 

 now the Governor of the State, now the 

 legislature itself. 



It was a long fight. City administration 

 prejudices against a non-partisan contin- 

 uing board had to be overcome, the Gov- 

 ernor had to be won over to the idea that 

 patronage must be left entirely out of the 

 question in the expenditure of nearly 

 $200,000,000, and neighboring counties 

 had to be induced to surrender their op- 

 position to the project of an outside city 

 exercising the right of eminent domain 

 within their territory and stripping them 

 of large supplies of water. 



ENOUGH WATER TO SEAKE THE THIRST 

 OF THE WORED 



But all these difficulties were overrid- 

 den, and today there flows down to New 

 York from the Catskills an underground 

 river deep enough and wide enough to 

 carry drinking water for the whole world. 

 In size, in length, in the volume of water 

 it will carry, as well as in the cost of 

 construction and the engineering prob- 



