ROWING-Continued. Oxford and Cambridge Races. Record of the Oxford and Cambridge contests from their commencement. The course, with the exception of some of the earlier races, has been from Putney to Mortlake, on river Thames, England; distance, about four miles: Winner. Oxford. bers. Shooting grounds, Dexter Park, Jamaica av. Shoots held on second Wednesday. Fred Greff, Pres.; C. H. Luhrssen, 424 Van Brunt st., Sec. Falcon Gun-Dexter Park, John Moller, Pres.; J. N. Herrmann, Sec., 734 Broadway, New York; Charles C. Doscher, Treas. Shoots held on fourth Friday each month. 25 members. Fountain Gun-Incorp. 1877. Membership, 50. Shooting grounds, Dexter Park. Shoots are held on dates fixed by the club from time to time. Abel Cook, Pres.; John A. Carney, Sec., 93 Nassau st., Manhattan. New Utrecht Rod and Gun-Membership, 85. An- Cambridge. get shooting 1, 3 Sat. Phoenix Gun Club-Shoots at live birds 5 times Cambridge. Unknown Gun-H. Knebel, Pres., 715 Myrtle av.; Oxford. Oxford. April 3, 1852 Oxford. April 8, 1854 Oxford. March 15, 1856. April 4, 1857 Oxford. Vernon Rod and Gun-Org. 1892. Incorporated. Dr. Wm. A. Little, Pres.; W. W. Spadone, VicePres.; E. S. Huskinson, Treas.: Dr. Adam Schauf, Sec., 698 Vernon av. Live bird shoots at Dexter Park on 1st Sat. each month. 40 members. MANHATTAN. Cobweb Gun-2277 3d av. Org. Feb. 18, 1893. 85 members. A. C. Bage, Pres.; George W. Thompson. Jr., Sec. 130 E 124th st. Wingate. Pres. Cambridge. Oxford. Oxford. Cambridge. Trap and Rifle Shooting Clubs. RPOOKLYN. Brooklyn Gun Club-Brooklyn. 47 members. Shoots at clay birds Saturdays, at Unton Course. J. S. S. Remsen, Pres.; John S. Wright, Treas., 318 Broadway, Manhattan; Geo. B. Patterson, Sec. Brooklyn Revolver Club-110-112 West av.. Wallabout Market, Brooklyn. Org. 1897. 78 members. E. F. M. Wendelstadt, Pres.; Effingham Wilson, Sec., 571 Madison st. Crescent Athletic Club-Shooting matches on grounds at Bay Ridge. (See Athletic Clubs.) Emerald Gun-9 Madison st., Manhattan. Grounds, Dexter Park. Org. 1882. Membership. about 50. J. A. H. Dressel, Pres.; L. Schortemeier, Vice-Pres.; B. F. Amend, Sec., 119 Nassau st., Manhattan; John H. Moore, Treas. New York German Gun Club-12 St. Marks pl. Shoots at live birds at Dexter Park. 3d Wed. Fred. Sauter, Pres.; F. Kronsberg, Sec., 593 Bushwick av., Brooklyn. Org. Rifle Club of Manhattan-427 E. 9th st. 1897. 86 members. Hans Weigel, Pres.; Paul Kossek, Sec., 418 E. 23d st. Club-Org. 1888. 40 members. Carteret Gun-Garden City. Org. 1883. 100 members (limited). Henry A. Gildersleeve, Pres.; W. H. Mead, Sec., 67 Wall st., Manhattan. Fahy's Rifle Club--Sag Harbor. 65 members. Theodore Biechele, Pres.; George Finckenauer, Sec. Huntington Amateur Rifle Association--Huntington. Org. 1891. 25 members. Wm. McBrien, Pres.; Geo. A. Powell, Sec. Oak Island Clay Pigeon-Org. Aug., 1895. Shooting grounds on Oak Island, near Babylon, L. I. Geo. B. Magoun, Babylon, Pres.; Lewis Cornell, Vice-Pres.; James B. Lowerre, Sec. and Treas. Ridgewood Gun-Ridgewood Park, Org. 1890. members. Charles Deckleman, Pres.; Anton Newberger, Sec. 30 Rockaway Point Rod and Gun-(The Cuckoo8) Shooting grounds Rockaway Park, Rockaway Beach, L. I. Membership limited to 12. C. Glier, Pres.; J. Steinbreker, Vice-Pres.; Edw. F. Bourke, Treas.; E. J. Meyer, Sec., 257 Flatbush av., Brooklyn. Steinway Gun-911 Steinway av., Long Island City. Org. 1890. 10 members. Jacob Schumann, Capt.; Charles Knueppel, Sec., 911 Steinway av. A Billionaire. John Bight of Kimberley, South Africa, is re Erie Gun-352 Van Brunt st. Org. 1890. 25 mem- puted to be worth one billion dollars. / RAINES LAW OPERATIONS. Comparative table showing the number of licenses issued, and net receipts under excise boards for the year ending April 30, 1896 (Old Law), together with the number of tax certificates in force and net receipts for the year ending April 30, 1899 (New Law), in every County in the State. Grand total.. |33,25727,274 2,917, 124 01 | 33,437) 27,372 2,921,268 62 11,648,956 15 3,901,932 00 7,747,024 15:3,901,932 00 11,648,956 15 State Canal Department. Superintendent of Public Works' financial report for year ending September 30, 1899, shows: For Salaries of Superintendents, Deputies and Assistants and traveling expenses For salaries of Section Superintendents.. $30,000 00 For salaries and incidental expenses, Collectors and Compilers of Statistics, and Inspectors and Measurers of boats. 30,000 00 $49,033 03 Cash balance on hand Sept. 30, 1899...... 2,061 76 THE WATER SUPPLY OF NEW YORK CITY. The total capacity of the water works owned by the entire city is 302,000,000 gallons per day and the average daily consumption 386,000,000 gallons per day. The total cost to the city has been $113,300,000. In addition to above there are thirteen private water companies and four real estate societies in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond, with 526 miles of mains and a daily supply of 36,000,000 gallons. BROOKLYN. The water supply of Brooklyn is obtained from the streams that drain the portion of the southern slope of Long Island lying to the west of Amityville, supplemented by wells driven into the saturated sand at different points in the same terriFrom these streams and wells the water is tory. delivered into iron pipes or brick conduits, which conduct it to the main pumping station at Ridgewood. Here it is raised to the Ridgewood reservoirs, having a capacity of about 300,000,000 gallons, and from them is passed into the distribution mains supplying the greater part of Brooklyn. A portion of Brooklyn, near Prospect Park, gets its water from the Mount Prospect high service reservoir and tower, located near the park, the water being raised to this reservoir from Ridgewood by an additional pumping. The supply system includes 71⁄2 miles of brick conduit from Massapequa pond to Millburn engine house, 41⁄2 miles of cast iron pipe from Millburn engine house to Smith's pond, and 121⁄2 miles each of cast iron pipe and brick conduit from Smith's pond to the Ridgewood pumping station. From the Ridgewood engine house six force mains lead to the reservoir. Along the conduit lines are fourteen driven well stations, one pend pumping station and a station at Millburn that raises the water delivered there from the east to a higher level. The gravity supply is obtained from twelve ponds having an aggregate storage capacity of about 1,170,000,000 gallons. Within the limits of Brooklyn are about 580 miles of distribution mains with 4,600 stopcocks and 6,200 fire hydrants. The main pumping station at Ridegwood has ten engines, with an aggregate pumping capacity of about 140,000,000 gallons daily. The oldest of these, a beam engine, was built in 1869 and has a capacity of 15,000,000 gallons daily; a Davidson engine of 15,000,000 gallons capacity was built in 1884, and the rest, all built by Henry R. Worthington, were installed between 1890 and 1899. Their capacities are: Five at 10,000,000 gallons each and three at 20,000,000 gallons each. The station is provided with thirty-four boilers and has its own electric light plant. In addition to the main or Ridgewood system, there are four other plants of considerable size within Brooklyn, which were built by private companies, all deriving their supply from driven wells -the Long Island Water Supply Co., supplying the 26th Ward, the Flatbush Water Works, supplying the 29th Ward, and the Gravesend and New I'trecht plants, now owned by Brooklyn, supplying the 30th and 31st Wards. The Long Island plant is located on New Lots av., at the head of Fresh Creek; it has two engines each of 1,500,000 gallons daily, about 45 miles of distributing mains and a reservoir of about 5,000,000 gallons capacity: the average daily consumption is about 3,000,000 gallons. The Flatbush Water Works are located at the head of Paerdegat Creek; there are one 3,000,000-gallon and two 3,000,000-gallon engines, a standpipe at Franklin and Washington avs., and about 50 miles of distributing mains; the verage daily consumption is about 2,000,000 gallons. The New Utrecht plant is located at E. 14th st. and Av. V; there are one 1.500,000 and two 2,000,000-gallon engines, and 35 miles of mains; the consumption is about 2,000,000 gallons daily. The Gravesend plant is at E. 17th st. and Av R; it has two engines and 17 miles of mains; the average daily consumption is slightly over 2,000,000 gallons. The average daily consumption from the Ridgewood system in 1899 was about 94,000,000 gallons. MANHATTAN AND BRONX. The water supply of Manhattan is received from the Croton watershed, thirty miles north of the borough. The capacity of the aqueducts and reservoirs is 380,000,000 gallons per day. In Bronx the territory west of the Bronx River is supplied from the Bronx an1 Byram River watersheds, through a pipe conduit 15 miles in length from the storage reservoir at Kensico to the receiving and distributing reservoirs at Williamsbridge, from which the maximum capacity is 20,000,000 gallons per day. The Williamsbridge reservoir has a capacity of 140,000,000 gallons. The territory east of the Bronx River is supplied by the New York and Westchester Water Co. The work of constructing the reservoirs and mains was begun in 1835 by an act of the Legislature. The system was completed in 1842 and the water was turned on on the 4th of July of that year. The conduit from Croton Dam to 135th st. gate house is 30 miles. The new Croton Aqueduct was opened July 29, 1890, and has a capacity of 300,000,000 gallons. High Bridge has a reservoir with 10,000,000 gallons. The reservoir in Central Park will hold 1,000,000,000 gallons and the receiving The reservoir below it 150,000,000 gallons more. system of water mains in Manhattan and Bronx now includes 850 miles of water mains, with 11,000 fire hydrants. The combined storage capacity of the reservoirs in the Croton, Bronx and Byram River sheds is 44,000,000,000 gallons. RICHMOND. There are four water plants in the borough, only one of which is owned and operated by the city. This plant is located at Tottenville. It has a capacity of 864,000 gallons per day; capacity of stand pipe, 140,000 gallons, and the daily consumption is about 44,000 gallons. The water is drawn from three driven wells. The system has 5 miles of mains and 61 fire hydrants. The other three water plants are private enterprises and comprise the following companies: Crystal Water Company at Stapleton, which supplies the village of Edgewater and the towns of Southfield, Northfield and Middletown outside of incorporated villages; the South Shore Water Company at New Dorp, and the Staten Island Water Supply Company at New Brighton, which supplies the villages of New Brighton and Port Richmond and town of Northfield, and the West End Water Company, covering the town of Westfield outside of any incorporated village. The Crystal Water Company has a pumping capacity of 5,000,000 and daily consumption of 2,500,000 gallons. The South Shore Water Supply Company has a pumping capacity of 90,000 and consumption of 36,000 gallons per day. The Staten Island Water Supply Company has a pumping capacity of 8,000,000 gallons and consumption of 4,000,000 gallons per day, and has 70 miles of mains. The water comes from artesian wells. There are in the borough 128 miles of water mains and 960 hydrants. The city pays $30 per year each for 404 hydrants and $25 per year each for 556 hydrants. QUEENS. In this borough there are six water plants owned by the city, three in the 1st Ward (Long Island City), three in the 3d Ward (Flushing, College Point and Whitestone). The total pamping capacity is 16,000,000 gallons per day, and the capacity of the wells from which the water is drawn but 5,000,000 gallons per day. The public water system includes 84 miles of mains, 606 fire hydrants, 454 stop cocks, and 7,200 houses are supplied from this system. A considerable portion of the borough, however, is supplied by private water companies. The city pays to these companies at the rate of $20 to $25 per year each for following hydrants: Queens County Water Company, 263 hydrants; Woodhaven Water Company, 307 hydrants; Citizens' Water Supply Company, 298 hydrants, Jamaica Water Supply Company, 395 hydrants. The water supply of Jamaica has its source in driven wells located near the village. The daily pumping capacity is 3,500,000 gallons; daily consumption is 2,000,000 gallons and annual consumption is 750,000,000. The system has 60 miles of mains. The water supply of Flushing is derived from 26 driven wells at Bay Side and also from Oakdale Lake. The capacity is 2,000,000 gallons daily, and the daily consumption is about 800,000. The water supply of Newtown is derived from driven wells. The village has two pumping stations. one with a capacity of 2,000,000 gallons daily from 15 wells, and the other with a capacity of 6,000,000 gallons per day, from 55 driven wells. The average total consumption per day is about 1,000,000 gallons. MANHATTAN ALTITUDES. [1900 The following table gives the elevations in feet above city base-mean high water-of the present surfaces, at the intersections of the principal thoroughfares in Manhattan: ALLEN ST. CANAL ST. Eighty-sixth st... 45.67 | Ninety-third st.. 111.08 Division st........ 38.42 West st... 5.16 Ninety-fifth st.... 7.00 116th st..... 37.63 39.04 Greene st.. 10.00 118th st.. 33.39 SECOND AV. Elm st... 11.93 126th st. 26.92 CHRYSTIE ST. Mulberry st.. 28.91 Houston st... 89.80 145th st.. 20.00 Division st..... 40.47 Bowery 45.39 Fourteenth st. 27.51 147th st. 19.00 Broome st.. 37.67 Twenty-third st... 17.33 148th st. 18.50 Stanton st........ Forty-second st.. 50.58 149th st. 18.00 Forty-ninth st..... 20.67 150th st.. 17.50 Sixtieth st 67.00 151st st.... 17.00 Hudson st.. 14.48 Bowling Green.... 14.30 Cottage pl.. 18.83 Seventy-eighth st. 40.00 152d st.. 16.50 Exchange pl.... 30.89 Wall st..... Macdougal st. 20.81 Ninety-eighth st.. 11.09 155th st. 15.00 33.52 108th st.... Sullivan st... 23.53 7.00 Bulkhead, Harlem Pine st.. 34.73 Greene st.. 29.42 129th st....... 5.75 River Cedar st.. 33.48 Mulberry st. 42.34 THIRD AV. Maiden la. 80.79 NINTH AV. Elizabeth st. Fulton st. 31.58 Park pl... Barclay st. 33.19 Bowery 35.34 Mangan st... Worth st.. Walker st.. 17.14 Varick st.. Canal st. 10.57 Greene st. Grand st.. 18.07 Broadway. 18.07 Broome st. 23.30 Bowery 32.84 Spring st.. 80.25 Allen st.. 39.04 115th st........... 45.24 Sixth st.. Houston st. 40.79 Attorney st.. 38.65 FOURTH AV. 126th st.. 26.00 Fourth st.. 39.72 Lewis st.. 19.56 Sixth st... 42.42 Astor pl.... 86.99 East st.. 4.68 Nintn st.. 39.31 CENTRE ST. Fourteenth st. 40.65 Twenty-third st.. 38.25 Fourteenth st.. Forty-second st... 55.00 Walker st...... 11.56 Fifty-ninth st.... 76.33 Broome st........ 30.72 Forty-second st... 50.00 Sixtieth st.... 77.33 48.00 Eighty-fourth st... 87.00 BOULEVARD. BOWERY. Seventieth street. 75.00 Ninety-first st..... 103.00 Sixtieth st... 77.33 Seventy-ninth st.. 70.50 Grand st.. 82.84 Eighty-second st.. 90.80 96.30 Ninety-third st.... 101.50 116th st. 138.00 Ninety-second st.. 94.00 Delancey st.... 38.05 Ninety-third st.... 115.00 118th st.. 126.00 100th st.. 86.00 Rivington st.. 120th st.. 26.29 126th st. 41.43 20.00 118th st. 134.25 Stanton st... 45.10 135th st....... 5.00 145th st. 127.00 129th st. 22.00 Fourth st.. 147th st.. 40.57 127.00 FIFTH AV. 150th st. 111.00 Sixth st.. 148th st. 40.64 127.00 Waverly pl.... 28.11 149th st. 127.00 153d st... 136 00 WEST BROADWAY. Twenty-first st.. 40.37 150th st. 127.00 ELEVENTH AV. Vesey st....... 162d st.. 158.00 Park pl... Warren st.. 170th st. 183.15 Canal st.. 8.73 Twenty-third st... 16.89 Forty-second st... 21.92 Fifty-fourth st.... 7.47 Seventieth st.... 38.25 151st st. 127.00 70.00 152d st. 130.00 60.83 156th st 144.00 80.00 161st st. 164.00 172d st.. 203.75 Fort George av... 200.50 "(surface of ground).... 230.00 SOUTH ST. Whitehall st...... Bleecker st.. 28.03 W. Third st.. 28.61 Eighty-second st.. 82.42 173d st. 188.00 109.50 181st st. and Wash Ninety-third st. 96.00 ington Bridge... 163.47 HUDSON ST. 120th st.. 23.32 190th st...... 197.00 Chambers st...... 21.76 135th st.. 11.44 BOULEVARD LAFAYETTE. 4.00 Jay st... 12.26 Pike st.. 3.50 North Moore st... SIXTH AV. 17.80 156th st.. 106.00 Canal st 7.10 Carmine st.... 17.00 158th st. 85.80 Clinton st.. 6.36 Vandam st.. 15.58 Twenty first st.. 33.25 165th st. 94.75 Average water front, about..... 5.00 W. Eleventh st.... 21.56 ELEVENTH AV. Twenty-third st.. 31.08 Depot rd. and 177th 59.25 st 79.00 59.33 181st st. 118.50 WEST ST. Fifteenth st....... 3.59 The highest point, Battery pl.. 4.85 Thirtieth st..... 9.75 Murray st.. 3.21 Fortieth st........ 18.17 SEVENTH AV. nearly opposite 26.24 190th st. extend W. Twelfth st..... 5.46 WEST END AV. Twenty third st... 25.19 ed westerly. 147.92 Average water front, about..... 5.00 Sixtieth st...... Forty-second st.. 53.00 Kingsbridge rd. & 23.00 Eighty-ninth st... Fifty-ninth st........ 54.32 Dyckman st..... 20.67 78.00 110th st. 32.50 82.00 116th st. 95.00 126th st. 22.75 159th st.. 116.40 William st..... 24.95 103d st. 110.00 145th st. 26.75 165th st. 138.00 Broad st...... 21.43 107th st.. 104.00 147th st 22.42 170th st. 173.60 KINGSBRIDGE RD. 148th st 20.33 177th st. and Depot PARK ROW. 162d st....... 163.00 149th st. 18.25 rd 196.50 173d st.. 16.17 181st st. 213.50 Chambers st..... 30.83 187th st. 14.08 The highest sur Spruce st... 36.88 Neagle st... 33.00 152d st.. 12.00 face is near Fort Baxter st.. 16.89 155th st.. 7.82 FIRST AV. Fulton st. Barclay st. Franklin st.. 14.03 9.06 Forty-second st.. 86.00 6.00 Twenty-third st... Forty second st.. 44.67 Sixtieth st..... 19.29 43.33 76.33 Washington av., on the estate of 181th st......... THIRTEENTH AV. 50.00 Canal st.... 7.27 Seventy-fourth st. 27.00 Eighty-fourth st.. 106 00 Bank st.... 265.00 3.36 115.00 15th St. 4.58 |