1925 ASHOKAN Reservoir DAM New York HUDSON RIVER Tunnel

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ORIGINAL11 -page ARTICLE (not a copy) *** from Vintage Magazine - 1925 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** HOW CATSKILL WATER CAME TO GOTHAM The Story of the Greatest Aqueduct in the World by Jerome W. Howe Very interesting, very informative early article - filled with facts, details and events....making this a rare and valuable piece of NEW YORK HISTORY - accompanied by great early illustrations which include: KENISCO DAM in Course of Construction ESOPUS GORGE, Looking downstream View of SHOKAN and the Valley The Water Takes an Airing - The ASHOKAN AERATOR A Part of the GREAT DAM Completing the HUDSON RIVER TUNNEL - 1912 etc. etc. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** "... t is no feature of the whole aqueduct more fascinating than the Hudson Pressure Tunnel - a tunnel that man cannot visit nor view, a tunnel without portals, without light, without air - a deep, subterranean rock-bound river flowing always full, flowing crosswise and far underneath the Hudson....." "...when you stand by the outlet works of Ashokan and admire the play of water in the aerator, which duplciated at the Kenisco Reservoir nearer to New York, affords to Catskill tourists a scene of aquatic playfulness....." "....for considerably more than half the distance to Kenisco and part of the way below, the aqueduct has the form of a giant horse-shoe seventeen read more

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