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  The growing pains of this great city are as an uproar of
dynamite--for every ten years it adds a Maine- New
Hampshire- Vermont population.
   My fears were grave on how the natural demands could
   be supplied with all this
immense population to feed and quench the thirst.
   But one need never wish a drink of pure water in New
   York, for they have the most
wonderful piece of engineering in the world.  And as a
result could slack the thirst of the whole world.  The
story of how New York city gets a drink of water, is
worth telling, but we must pass it by.  But rest assured
you may drink without stinting yourself. As there flows
down to this city from the Catskills, an underground
river big enough and deep enough to carry drinking water
to the whole world.  A days supply would fill a cistern
100 ft. wide and two miles long.  Each human being
inhabiting the earth could get 2 1/2 pints of water
every 24 hours.
   Next to getting a drink our greatest worry on landing
   in New York was to get food.
There were all ready six millions in this vast city to
feed.
   Every day the city eats 200 train loads of food,
   2,160 carloads of cereal and flour, 200
of meat. dressed.  Picture a food train 76 miles long,
drawn by 200 engines, that is New York's food supply.
   But come lets go down town shopping.  For every one
   seemed to look the glass of
fashion and the mold of form and we had traveled on to
New York so unexpectedly we needed to shop.  Of course
we only think of Wannamakers, but the smart thing is to
go to the little shop.  Fifth Avenue from 13th to 59th
street is the specialty shopping district.  One store
has nothing to offer but lingerie and laces, another
only perfumes and a little French corset shop where only
French is spoken and the elect (such as we) welcome. 
Than a Parisian jeweler store and a little further along
only leather goods and on still your gloves or a few
dresses and so on.
   You can buy anything in New York.  A hobo can be
   fitted for a song and a big bank
account, without the song, will furnish you anything the
heart could wish.
   But let us hasten back to our landing place and
   before we take flight from the city let us
stop in the ten cent store of Woolworth's.  The greatest
shock New York City ever had was when Mr. Woolworth
decided to put up a ten cent store on 5th Avenue.  But
women who do their shopping in imported cars and have
chauffeurs and footmen love bargains as well as those
who travel by streetcar and airplanes.
   We are growing very tired you and I, with all of this
   sight-seeing.  But just to think of 
going over 79 acres of ground covered by the Grand
Central Station and watching eight hundred daily trains
a day come in carrying 100,000 passengers.  Then
watching a day at the New York Stock Exchange, where the
Bulls and Bears fight it out.  Then try to cross with us
the Brooklyn Bridge with two million other people in the
rush hour. Trying to count the windows in the big
Equitable Building, the building with the most windows
and offices of any building in the world.  We wished so
much to go to Manhatten Island or go over to Brookyln or
down the Avenues and over to Jersey City and up the
Hudson.  But our plane is ready.
   Such a dream as I had only to waken and find I had


   been in Columbus Grove all
the time.

COUNTY W.C.T.U. AT OTTAWA
   Wednesday, April 28, the Putnam Co. W.C.T.U. held the
   midyear institute at the
M. F. Church, Ottawas, Mrs. Jennie Ash presiding.
   Meeting opened with devotionals and prayer by Rev.
   Sears of Ottawa. Roll call of officers and members of
   executive committee.  Reading of minutes,
Mrs. Frances Beach Sec.: Mrs. Nova Pontius of Napoleon,
State Parliament: gave a short address, then with her
chart on Parliamentary law, gave a most interesting
drill.  The ministers present and the ladies entered
into this parliamentary law, with a great deal of
enthusiam.
   Mrs. Myrtle Grifiths read a state paper prepared by
   Frances Ensign Fuller, in which
she told of the many things accomplished thru
prohibition.  The legalized saloon is gone. The treating
habit which formally caused so much drunkenness is gone.
 The Keely cures and similar institutes are closing
their doors for lack of patients.  She spoke then of the
wet organizations, and of the bill they are trying to
have passed this fall, to legalize the manufacture and
sale of light wines and beer.  Asked the question of
where would be the distributing centers, in our
groceries, or drug stores or would there be a saloon and
saloon keeper as formally?  Mrs. Fuller says if this
bill passes it will be because of the "Sleepers in
Lion", simply the indifference of our church people. 
General discussion.  Noon-tide prayer.
   After a splendid dinner given by the Ottawa W.C.T.U.,
   the meeting was again
called to order.  Following a short business
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