The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-07-26
ISAAC W. CLEvENeER
LAMBERTyrLLE. July gath. 1889

To the Editor Of the LGmbertgtlle Record ::
:. If am traducd by tongues. which neither know
Ny faculties or person, yet will be
The chroniclers of my doing, let me say
lis but the fate Of place; the rough brake
That virtue must 90 through. We must not stint
Our necessary actions In the fear
To cope W 18th malicious censurers which ever
As rayenous fishes do a vessel follow
Inat Is new trimmed but benefit no further
10 Rna M. srai,niy longing What we Oft do best
Not ours, or no. approved What worst as oft y
Hitting grosser quality, Is cried up
For our best act. II we shall stand still
In fear our motion viii be Knocked or tarped at"
So wrote the immortal Shakespeare,
years ago, aud how true now as then.
Men of small minds lived at that time as
they do now--.jealons, sour and fault
finding. Now have had no intention of
writing single word 10 reply to the bonn
bastic utterances of I. W. c., but
inasmuch as he has wilfully and ma
liciously misrepresented the Freeholders
from the LIST and I'd Wards, now say to
him GOOD morning, and after I have
had my say will bid him Goodbye"
inasmuca as he has placed himself outside
the journalistic warfare by making as
sertions that are not true.
In the first place he was determined
that we should lower the bridge two feet
at the place originally built. We refused
to lower it from the fact that a high
creek and river swept 1t off few years
ago. The Board of Freeholders ordered
1t put up to its present height Since
then the water has never quite reached It.
To have lowered it would have been un.
mechanical and a piece of Stiffness entirely
inexcusable. Any person of but average
comprehension can see at glance tina.
we acted right in refusing to lower it.
He then goes on to say that the property
owners were willing and offered to pay
the expense of lowering it, To whom
did they make such a proposition l
asked Mr.. Foran and Mr.. Miller, and they
say nothing of the kind was even limited
in that direction. I never heard of it.
Then why does he come out before an in
telligent public with such wishy-washy
stuff Again, Twenty families are de-
pr;ved of water from the creek on account
Of an abruptness of three feet on the west
side of Swan street." The abruptness On
either side which troubles him SO much,
are but myths and only exist in his half
crazed imagination. The road ON each
side is far better than ever before. As to
their need of water from the creek, l in
quired of nearly every family in that To-
cality. All say that they have an abun-
of good water. What kind of water is
there in the creek Three sewers empty
into it at the Union street bridge, four at
Main street and two at Franklin street.
Some of these sewers are filthy in the ex-
treme. In addition to these, we have the
washings from the gas house and
slaughter house, and probably 100 water
closets, that have outlets above the point
where he says they get their water. The
very idea is prepOsterous. He says the
work cost over $1,000. understand il
was about $500, or thereabeuts. Nothing
like marking things up high. He would
try to make people believe that people
about that place were being ruined
almost. The further he gets in the mud
the worse he founders. would ask, Is
there sane man living that believes he
was injured? It was inferential as to
himself, but all the same, the impression
he tried to convey at Pennington, and in
the papers, was that his property was in
jured. He also whines over the deprecia.
tion of the Water Company's lot. The
truth is that since the bridge was repair
ed, that property has advanced so per
cent. Mr.. Mcdowell told me that he
offered 800 advance on it in cash. All
the properties have been greatly benefit
ted, even Mr.. Ramsey himself. The
work done is a credit to the county and
to the city, and as Mr.. Herr said In his
remarks to the Board at their regular
meeting, twas wanted and has the APP
probation Of 81 of the people of Lam
bertvills." Mr.. Asa Heath, John Sproat,
Capt. Horn and almost every body In the
LIST Ward wanted the bridge fixed up
right, and everybody is satisfied except a
few soreheads. l once heard of man
that got rich by attending to his own
business. If there is any one thing more
despicable than another, 1t is the habit
some people have of meddling with affairs
that do not concern them. Trusting that
no "dead men may be found In the
sewers" drop the matter finally.