The water for that place has to be towed to it in barges. The station is on Staten Island. There is no water supply on the island available at the present time for the use of the quarantine station. which actually is the greatest quarantine station on the continent. one which on occasions has to shelter from 2.000 to 4.000 incoming immigrants. who have been in contact with typhus or smallpox or yellow fever. or whatever the disease may be. The water for the use of the quarantine station has tobe towed in tank barges down the bay to Staten Island and pumped out of the barges. One of the items which are included in the $500.000 proposed to be appropriated is to extend a certain pipe line across Staten Island. which will bring the water supply directly to the station from an entirely reliable source.
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