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Photograph by Paul Thompson 



KEEPING A TUNNEX SECTION OP THE CATSKHyly AQUEDUCT FREE OP WATER 



In excavating the tunnels for this aqueduct, thousands of underground springs were 

 encountered, and electric pumps had to be installed to prevent accumulated water from inter- 

 fering with the progress of the work. 



influential people were born outside its 

 limits. 



THE NIAGARA OP AMERICAN PIPE 



New York is indeed the Niagara of 

 American life. As over the great falls 

 the waters of the continental basin rush 

 down to the Atlantic Ocean, so through 

 this city passes the vast river of human- 

 ity that seeks the sea of opportunity in 

 the world beyond. It has been said that 

 standing at 426. street and Fifth avenue 

 long enough one will see every American 

 who does a worth-while thing pass that 

 busy corner. Certain it is that all the 

 currents of human achievement in Amer- 

 ica do flow in that direction. 



Below the falls is the whirlpool. As 

 one stands above Niagara's gorge and 

 watches the swirling waters, seemingly 

 bereft of all sense of the direction where 

 lies the sea, he wonders whether they will 

 ever break the spell of the moment and 



find the channel they seek. So, also, 

 standing at the vantage point of Times 

 Square and watching the confusion of 

 the rush hour, with its swirl, its eddy, 

 and its drift, the onlooker marvels that in 

 every drop in this whirlpool of humanity 

 there is purpose. 



Any story of New York begins with its 

 people, and in its vast aggregation of hu- 

 manity there is a wealth of interest. 



Let those who have been pessimistic 

 about our immigration study New York. 

 It seems unbelievable ; but if every resi- 

 dent whose parents were born in America 

 were to leave the city its standing as the 

 second most populous center in the world 

 would not be affected. In other words, 

 the number of immigrants and their chil- 

 dren resident in New York is almost 

 equal to the combined populations of Paris 

 and Philadelphia and greater than the 

 combined populations of Chicago and 

 Berlin. 



