Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 66
s to the square incli, the com-bined output of all the pumps in both thesepumping stations being estimated at something over 30,000 gallons of water a minute. Althoughthese pumping-stations arc located on the river-front, it is not salt water that is used in extin-guishing fires, as the majority of… … FIGHTING .\ 1 lUi; Willi able, each station is also connected with the riverby means of an inunense pipe, or intake. as itis called, so that, should the Croton supply giveout, or any accident happen to the fresh-waterservice, the pumps can be shunted, or switchedover, to this intake, and then draw…
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