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LYN DAILY EAGLE Readers wlshlna; a eroaf oa antnhed alter of an pielare a thle aerlloa eaa nhtala or within dare, eoaaou, rrlta name and al-dreaa. and eeata per ftp, to Pletare Kroaklya Dally Raffle. arraphe of all Pie-torea eoatalaed la th Emmie, wklea car the "Earle lm-arlat," cu ob-talaed for a nominal price at the Easle Job Prlntlna aflh floor, PICTURE SECTION. 2-TEW YORK. FRIDAY.

DECEMBER 13. 1907. PICTURE SECTION. DRIVEN WELLS IN A BROOKLYN STREET TO SECURE WATER SUPPLY THE ROOK anew akaa i Sixth street and Fourth I I avenue half a dozen wells have been sunk In an effort to demonstrate that ihere ft III fx exists in the heart of the city a practically Inexhaustible supply of water. Silas W.

Titus, who has demonstrated 1 at Jameco, near Jamaica, the success of his system of driven wells, by which he has secured a large flow of wator, Is conducting the undertaking on Sixth street, und is instiling a similar plant In Forest He experts' to be able to furnish a dally output of some 10,000,000 gallons of water on Sixth street when he has about twenty wells in operation there. The city, some time ago, signed an agreement with the engineer' granting to him ninety days, from October 10, In which to demonstrate the existence of this supply 'of water, Mr. Titus has; been bending every effort toward ul-' filling the terms of his agreement, although, be has faced almost Insurmountable: obstacles In the form of adverse 'money condition, bad weather and other hindrances. The engineer Is installing the plant at his own expense and the responsibility rests en- tlrely with him, the city merely agreeing to pay him $55 for each million gallons of water that he shall add to the supply for a period of five years, at the expiration of which time the city is to acquire the plant Itself without cost. lit ii, i JIM- 3J IB Silas Wright Titus.

9 Drilling Well for Water on Sixth cr-- 'US -i -'a Mffiri V.i 1 Va: if. I 'iOTiMlu1 ill E- vai fli A la fl Ml a 'I II III .5 bbb si 1 J- 'I JlMif atf One of the Jameco Wells. Machine to Drill Wells. Central Receiver from all Jameco Wells Leading to the Pumping Station. ers.r5.ifrtfTf-r3 PRINCE RE WEDS WIFE, THE CZARINA IS IMPROVING.

RETURN GF AN ENOCH ARDENe a 6 if .1 'SSL a-h iff i I IKINCE EOBERl DE BROG-I LIE has announced his mar Si ujil iiinfiuviiiiiiriiL in iriJinu'u I In the condition of the Em If press Alexandra of Russia, the fever having abated. riage in Paris, on December 10, to Estelle Alexander. Alfred Fields Rhodes, whose friends believed he had been killed In a battle with Filipinos while he was serving as an enlisted soldier, has returned to Brooklyn after ten years. In search of his wife and child. He has learned that his wife has remarried, but will not molest her.

He wants possession of the child, however. Rhodes says he was badly wounded in a battle with natives and after his recovery was assigned to sentry duty. Hekilled a Filipino while trying to prevent a row, was tried for murder, and although nine members of the court voted for acquittal, General Grant, he declares, overruled the verdict and he was sentenced to fifty years in military prison. He served five years and was pardoned several weeks ago. They were first married in Chicago, In August, 1900.

The bride was the divorced wife of Sydney B. Veit of that city. After the prince's father succeeded in having the union declared void by a French court the prince served notice upon him of his Intention to remarry Miss Alexander under the new French law. The Frince and Princess de Broglie are well known In New York, where, last year, the princess sang In vaudeville theaters, while her husband conducted the orchestra. The court physicians are treating the empress for anaemia and ueurulgia.

No bulletins rr-gard I tig hor condition have been Issued. The Czarina has been in poor health for some time. When Secretary 'J'aft was in Russia recently on his way here from the Far East, she was unable to be present at the reception given by the Czar to the American. The Illness of the Cznrlna is due, it is snld, to the efforts she has been making to reduce her weight, which has been increasing steadily of If V'SJ (5 i 57 (tjp CJa.JriAg'M-9J Princess de Broglie. Alfred F.

Rhodes. The Czarina. ERECTING TOWERS OF THE MANHATTAN AND ISLAND BRIDGE. J-Hhw -h" aaifa.jiafa Wv- 4 Uar4--a Work on the Towers of the Blackwell's Island Bridge. Erecting Towers of Manhattan Bridge.

HE work of placing in posi and the one on the easterly line of progress. The towers of the Blackwell's Island Bridge are the largest and heaviest ever put Into a cantilever bridge, and the greatest possible care has to be exercised In handling the various parts. In the case of the Long Island end of the steel work It was decided by the engineers that it would be better and result in more rapid work If the steel section between the pier at the water's edge responsibility without aid. The tower on top of the pier at the river's edge on the Manhattan side of the Blackwell's Island Bridge has been completed and two panels of the river section are in place. tion the heavy steel parts that form the towers on the Manhattan and Blackwell's Isifiiul Bridge is now in Vernon avenue was erected before the tower was started.

That has been done and the tinishetl work will act as a balance to the tower until it is completed and ready to assume its.