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Debt Of New York Municipalities: In this "egion, too, railroads had been long enough in jperation to demonstrate that their presence was i matter of life and death to the community. Trom cities of the magnitude of Baltimore to imall crossroads everywhere, municipal and town >r county aid flowed into the securities of connec-ions and extensions. For example, by Jan. 1, .875, the debt of new york municipalities of New York municipalities in-urred in aiding railroads totaled $26,698,677. tfter the Panic of 1873, disillusionment with [overnment aid set in, and in the country as a vhole this policy fell away. But it did not dis-ppear.
After voters had ejected the corrupt Tweed ring, Green served as city comptroller (1871-1876) to stabilize city finances. After years of advocating the merger of Manhattan and adjacent municipalities, he was president of the commission that prepared the plan of 1897, which incorporated the five boroughs as the City of New York. For this Green became known as the "Father of Greater New York." As trustee of Tilden's will, he secured merger of the Tilden Trust with the Astor and Lenox libraries into the New York Public Library. His life ended tragically when he was shot outside his New York City home on Nov. 13, 1903, by a lunatic.
The water requirements of air conditioners have become so heavy—a 10-horsepower compressor, for instance, requires about 1,000 gallons per 8-hour day—that many municipalities have strict ordinances which require the recircula-b'on of such water. In New York City all air-conditioning systems of 6 tons capacity or more must be equipped with a water-conserving unit, such as i recirculating device or a cooling tower, and )ther places have adopted similar conservation neasures. |
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