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Fifth Avenue and 42d Street in  1S4J.    This view shows the  newly completed Croton Reservoir.      Chaunccy M. Depcw was eight years old when running water was thus
introduced into the city.   This gives a startling idea of how near we still are to a primitive village.    The Public Library now occupies this site.    No city has ever changed so
 

primitive village,
greatly and in so short a time