RAINES LAW OPERATIONS. Statement showing the results under the Liquor Tax Law, for the year ending April 30, 1898, as compared with the results under the old law for the year ending April 30, 1896, in every County in the State. 33,257 27,457 2,917,121 01 11,638,189 67 3,897,114 40 7,741,075 27 3,897 114 40 11,638,189 67 The net receipts for the year ending April 30, 1898, are arrived at by deducting from the gross receipts the amounts paid for rebates and for County Treasurers' fees. *Reduction in licensed places between year ending April 30, 1896 (old law), and year ending April 30, 1898 (new law), 925. Total benefit to Brooklyn for year ending April 30, 1898, over year ending April 30, 1896, $1,394,575.83. +Reduction in licensed places between year ending April 30, 1896 (old law), and year ending April 30, 1898 (new law), 1,071. Total benefit to New York City for year ending April 30, 1898, over year ending April 30, 1896, $4,413,375.41. Excess of benefit to New York City over amount paid to New York State, $36,655 88. THE WATER SUPPLY OF NEW YORK CITY. BROOKLYN. The water supply of Brooklyn is obtained from the southern Island 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 consumpThe water is drawn tion is about 44,000 galions. from three driven wells, two at a depth of 84 The system feet and one at a depth of 57 feet. part has 5 miles of mains. The other three water plants are private enterprises and comprise the Crystal following companies: Water Company satu Long slope of lying to the West of Amityville, and is furnished by streams and wells driven into the rated sand, disbributed Over the western of Long Island to the necessary elevation to deliver it to the receiving reservoirs within the city limits and then has to be raised again by pumping for delivery through the distributing mains. Five different systems are in use for the supply of the city. The Ridgewood, Long Island, Flatbush, New Utrecht and Gravesend water works, the last four named supplying respectively the 26th, 29th, 30th and 31st Wards. The system includes 22 miles of brick conduits from Massapequa Pond to Ridgewood Engine House; 23 miles of cast iron conduits from Milburn station to Ridgewood reservoir; 22 pumping stations between Gravesend and Massapequa Pond and 578 miles of distributing mains, with 4,570 stop cocks and 6,138 fire hydrants. The Ridgewood system, located at Ridgewood, is the oldest and largest of all the systems. The buildings of the old pumping station were constructed in 1859. The station was first equipped with two engines. No. 3 was completed in 1869; No. 4 in 1884, and the five Worthington engines were placed in 1891 and 1893. The pumping capacity of engines 1 and 2 is 13,500,000 gallons daily; of engine 3, 17.047,214% gallons daily; of engine 4, 16,968,000 gallons. The five Worthington engines have a capacity of 57,100,000 gallons daily. The Mount Prospect pumping station is part of the Ridgewood system. The Long Island water supply plant is located on New Lots avenue at the head of Fresh Creek. The population supplied by this plant is about 48,500. It has two engines with a pumping capacity of 1,500,000 gallons daily. The Flatbush water works are located at the head of Paerdegat Creek, near the intersection of New York av. and Avenue E This plant has three engines with capacities of 3,000,000, 5,000,000 and 3,000,000 gallons daily. The New Utrecht water works are situated on the corner of East 14th st. and Avenue V. They were built in 1880 and formerly known as the Coney Island water works. This plant has three engines, two each of 2,000,000 gallons and one of 1,500,000 gallons capacity. There are thirty-five miles of main. The Gravesend plant is located at 17th st., between Avenues R and S, about one-half mile from the New Utrecht plant. This plant has two engines. The average daily consumption for the entire year is estimated at 1,900,000 gallons. The average daily supply received and distributed in the entire borough is about 92,256,432 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 and 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 Legisature. 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 and brought into use 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 reservoir below it 150.000.000 gallons more. The system of water mains for distribution of water supply 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 at Stapleton, the South Shore Water Company at New Dorp and the Staten Island Water Supply Company at New Brighton. There has also been incorporated during 1898 a new company known as the West End Water Company. It has as yet no plant. The Crystal Water Company has a pumping capacity of 5,000,000 gallons per day. Its daily consumption is 2,500,000 gallons. The South Shore Water Supply Company has a pumping capacity of 90,000 gallons, and its consumption is 36,000 gallons per day. The water is received from two driven wells, each 45 feet in depth. The Staten Island Water Supply Company has a and consumption of 4,000,000 pumping capacity gallons per day. The water comes from artesian wells 130 feet in depth. There is also a small pumping station, completed in December, 1897, which is owned by the city. 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 pumping 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 1,600 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, and to 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 of the station is 3,500,000 gallons. The daily consumption is 2,000,000 gallons and the annual consumption is 750,000,000. The Jamaica 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. A corps, A How an Army Is Constituted. An army is composed of three corps. three divisions. A division, three brigades, brigade, three regiments. A regiment, three battalions. A battalion, three companies. A company, 100 men. The above figures represent averages, and are subject to changes. Major-Generals command corps and divisions. 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