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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph from the New York Edison Company 



COLUMBUS CIRCLE ON A RAINY NIGHT: NEW YORK CITY 



Northward the star of New York's business empire still moves. The financial district is 

 anchored downtown, but "automobile row" has selected as its place in the sun that section 

 of Broadway above and below Columbus Circle, and automobile row has a way of blazing 

 the trail of business into the heart of the residential district of many American cities. Also 

 the gay night throng that once found Times Square the northern boundary of its peregrina- 

 tions now wanders up Broadway to "The Circle" and Central Park. 



intervals of five and six feet in these pipes 

 are nozzles which send up columns of 

 water from forty to sixty feet in the air. 

 Breaking into fine spray, the water de- 

 scends almost as clean and pure as if it 

 had been raised by evaporation and pre- 

 cipitated again. A fountain three acres 

 in area, surrounded by deciduous and 



evergreen trees, is a charming sight and 

 forms a rare introduction to this Gotham- 

 made Como. 



After receiving its air bath, Ashokan 

 water is ready to begin its long journey 

 to New York. The aqueduct first leads 

 it to Kensico Reservoir, 75 miles away, 

 and on the opposite side of the Hudson. 



