n Island, which
is the site of a preparatory school for West Point.

For many years the Island was the home of the Misses Anna and
Susan Warner, authors of "The Wide, Wide World," and other
stories popular with children. Through the generosity of Miss
Susan Warner, who survived her sister, and Mrs. Russell Sage, the
island was presented to the government a few years ago, and is
now part of West Point.

We pass on the west bank Crow's Nest Mt. (1,396 ft.) associated with
Joseph Rodman Drake's fanciful poem, _The Culprit Fay_. Two M. farther
we leave the Highlands through the "Golden Gate," where Storm King Mt.
rises to a height of 1,340 ft. on the west side of the Hudson, and
Breakneck Mt. to a height of 1,365 ft. on the other. Near Storm King a
tunnel of the great new Catskill aqueduct, carrying water to N.Y.C.,
passes under the Hudson at a depth of 1,100 ft.--a depth made necessary
to reach solid rock at the bottom.

N.Y. City's Catskill Mt. water supply system is the greatest of
waterworks, modern or ancient. Three-quarters of the project has
been completed. The waters of the Esopus Creek in the Catskills
are stored in the Ashokan reservoir, an artificial lake twelve
miles long, situated about 14 miles west of the Hudson River at
Kings Mt. From this reservoir the aqueduct extends 92 M. to the
city's northern boundary, and supplies about 375,000,000 gallons
daily. From the Croton watershed New York receives a supply
almost as large--336,000,000 gallons daily. Construction on the
Catskill supply system was begun in 1907, and the total cost will
be about $177,000,000.

The river now widens and turns to the west; on the further bank is
Cornwall, near which is the estate of E. P. Roe, the writer, and
"Idlewild," the former home of N. P. Willis, likewise a writer of
importance in his day. The home of Lyman Abbott, editor of the _Outlook_
is also here. The proprietor of Bannerman's Island, which we now pass,
is a dealer in obsolete war material; he has built on the island a
number of castle-like store-houses of old paving stones taken from the
streets of New York.

58 M. BEACON, Pop. 10,996 & NEWBURGH, Pop. 30,366. (Train 51 passes
9:56a; No. 3, 10:17a; No. 41, 2:29p; No. 25, 4:10p; No. 19, 7:06p.
Eastbound: No. 6 passes 7:50p; No. 26 8:09a; No. 16, 2:22p; No. 22,
3:48p.)

Beacon was incorporated in May, 1913, by merging the villages of
Matteawan