How the Middle-East's original railroad met a Jerusalem Water Shortage

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ct: From ‘Die Warte’

To: Steve Sattler <sattler31@gmail.com>, Ehrlich Sybil (home) <sybil4903@gmail.com>, Melling Chen <chen.melling@gmail.com>
p.270. 21.12.1907. Letter from Jerusalem

‘’… in the year 1900 there was a dreadful water emergency, which meant here the opposite of a flood. As a consequence the Government arranged for the water conduit from the old Solomon Pools to be refurbished with iron pipes, the main pipe of which led to the Haram esch-Scherif (Temple Place), a subsidiary pipe to the Sultan Pool opposite the Jewish Montefiore Colony on one side and ‘Zion’ on the other. But even this flow of water came to a sudden end this year, because in the past winter barely a half of the usual amount of water fell, so that even the springs for the Solomon’s Pools failed and the supplies in the cisterns were used up earlier than usual.

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Shouldn’t that be “Ethiopian Queen”?

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I don’t know that history well enlugh to answer you. Possibly someone else knows, but I’ve usually found Steve Sattler pretty accurate on the sort of history.

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I went back and checked Acts 8 in my RSV to be sure I remembered right. The name as normally spelled (and used as a girl’s name) is “Candace” and it was surprising to see it spelled as if no one recognized what it signified.

A bit like the way nobody gets the “Barabbas” reference at Easter time because it’s left untranslated, or the sense of ‘maskil’ in the Psalms.