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Did you ever see a house move?
If you have not, you have missed a very funny sight.
Imagine driving along a country road, and meeting a three-story house
making a journey along the highway to new quarters.
There is a good deal of this to be seen just now at Katonah, New York.
A year or so ago the Croton water, which is in use in New York City, was
found to be impure.
A commission was appointed to go and examine the Croton Water-Shed. This
meant that they were to examine the little streams, and brooks, and
rivers, and lakes, which supplied the water to our aqueduct, and see what
the trouble was.
They found that along the banks of these streams and lakes, in villages
and out in the country, a great many dwelling-houses and shanties had been
built, the occupants of which were in the habit of throwing all sorts of
rubbish into the water, making it unfit for drinking.
In consequence of this, all of the houses were ordered to be torn down or
moved away, and one small village of shanties was destroyed. Among others,
the inhabitants of Katonah were ordered to move, that the banks of the
stream might be cleared of dwellings.
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