THE NATIONAL, GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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Photograph from Edwin Eevick 



A SECTION OE THE BIG TUNNEE THROUGH WHICH CATSKIEE WATER PASSES UNDER 



NEW YORK 



The man in the middle distance gives some idea of the tremendous size of the stream of 

 water required for New York. The small streams flowing in are from underground springs. 

 These were ultimately dammed back by grouting placed between the concrete lining and the 

 solid rock. 



which even the waiter in a quick-lunch 

 room scarcely deems worth a "Thank 

 you" ? Yet the world's loftiest building, 

 its crowning cathedral of commerce, was 

 built out of the small margin of profit in 

 ten-cent transactions. Who considers the 

 dust in the street? New York has built 

 up sixty-five acres of ground, valued at 

 several million dollars, out of street 

 sweepings. Who feels the dust and dirt 

 that adhere to his shoes ? However, more 

 than seven tons of the housewife's enemy 

 is carried by tramping feet into the sub- 

 ways every twenty-four hours. 



THE COSMOPOEIS OE CIVILIZATION 



One scarcely knows which to wonder 

 at most — New York, the cosmopolis of 

 civilization, or New York, the metropolis 

 of the western world. It has more Irish 

 and their sons and daughters than Dub- 

 lin, more Italians and their children than 



has Rome, as many Germans and their 

 children as Leipzig and Frankfort-on- 

 Main together, while its Russian popula- 

 tion by birth and parentage is greater 

 than the combined populations of Riga 

 and Dvinsk. 



But New York's appeal is as much to 

 the people of the United States as to 

 those of the outer world. Glancing at the 

 list of those born elsewhere whom Uncle 

 Sam found living in the metropolis when 

 he last counted noses, we discover that 

 there are more Jerseyites in Gotham than 

 in Passaic, Princeton, and Rahway com- 

 bined ; more Connecticut-born than in 

 Danbury ; more people of Massachusetts 

 birth than in Taunton ; more Ohioans 

 than in Chillicothe ; more Pennsylvanians 

 than in Allentown or Altoona. Every 

 State sends a quota of its people to be- 

 come part and parcel of New York life, 

 and perhaps a majority of the city's most 



