The daily gazette., 1883-03-16
SEwEa SCHEME KILLED
COUNCIL MERELY ADOPTS "a
SYSTEM
NO WORK TOBE EvENTHOUGHT OF
A supplementary Report Thrown Aside
The Report of the Finance Com
mittee.

that the cOn0itlOn oil Market street where
grading was being done was not as 1t had
been represented. There were from TO 12
inches of stone and dirt and not enough
stone would be obtained to make a pike.
The report recommended that Council meet
at Twenty-fourth and Market streets at
o'clock Saturday afternoon. The report,
with the exception of the suggestion for
meeting, was adopted, The Finance Com
mittee reported as follows:
Your committee report the following bids
for the sinking fund loan for S12,0O0, au-
tborized to be funded March 10, 1888:
Elliott, johnson & Co., $110 17-1O0; Gl-
rard Life and Trust Co., S1Os9S; John Nc
Dewitt, $1O5; R. P. Gibbons, $10s; Sarah
Ann Fell, 5000, at Sl05; Lewis Eel
heimer, 5000, at par; H. F. Pickles,
$10S 1-lO0.
Your committee recommend the giving Of
the said loan to Elliott johnson & Co., at
ITO 17-100, thus obtaining 1920 40-100 pre-
MUM for the city, making about ~ per.
cent. interest.
Your committee congratulate this Coun-
Gil as well as the citizens at large on the
credit of our city which is brought about by
the fact that our bonded Indebtedness is in
excellent shape and under the working of
the sinking fund scheme our bonded debt is
being paid without apparent burden upon
our taxpayers.
Mr.. Eastburn gave notice that he would,
at subsequent meeting, introduce an ordi-
nance regulating navigation In the Christiana
the depth of the water and the size OF
vessels to pass through Market street bridge.
The Clerk then read portion of the re-
port of the Committee on Sewers, printed
copies OF which were furnished the men,
bers.
Mr.. Talley moved that the part read, from
the first to the twenty-ffth line, be adopted.
Mr.. Paynter asked for a copy of the re-
port, declaring that he did not know what
he was expected to vote for
At the suggestion of Mr.. Talley the por
ton was re-read. That gentleman moved
to amend by striking out the following
words: "and we urge the execution as soon
as practicable of that portion of the work
mentioned as the Central District, compris-
| ing the intercepting sewers along the
BrandyWine from Rattlesnake run, and
along the Christiana from Shipley run, with
| the intervening pipe-sewers, amounting in
all to 20 miles, and to cost S205, ,000."
Mr.. Bailey did not understand, and said
| 1t looked to him as an entering wedge to q
system he deemed altogether impracticable.
| He thought the work could be done much
cheaper than by the plan proposed.
| Mr.. Talley said the question was whether
/ the system should be adopted or not.
Nothing was said about doing the work
| yet.
Mr.. Eastburn thought Mr.. Talley was
right and the report ought to be adopted.
| Mr.. Talley said the city wanted system
| by hich to build sewers. They had been
building sewers without any plan and it
wasn't advisable.
| Mr.. Paynter thought the system was a
good one and he was prepared to support
the report, leaving the question for action
open for future day.
Mr.. Garrett asked whether the present
sewer could be worked In with the new
system if desired.
The 25 lines, with the exception of the
five stricken out, were adopted by vote oi
IL to 8, and are as follows
"Your committee, after very careful de
liberation, recommend the adoption of the
plan embodied in the report, on the Sewer
age of Wilmington, of Mr.. Rudolph Herring
Among the numerous very clearly stated
reasons In the report Tor the necessity o.
sewerage system we would especially cal
your attention to the one relating to thu
preservation of the purity of our drinking
water. The intercepting sewer alons
the Brandywine, from Rattlesnake rur
to its temporary outfall at thu
mouth of this river, would re
ceive all the house, brewery, and othe
sewerage, and the subsoil drainage from tn,
northern slope and from the cemetery, a
once relieving the race from the impurities
, now flowing into it, and which must in
crease year by year as the slope becomes
more densely populated Another very i'm
portant point made is the sub-drainage o
the lower levels and the springy soil in SOM
of the higher points of the city by means o
drain-tiles independent of the sewers lait
i. while the work is progressing and whicl
| discharge at intervals into the sewer
through the man-holes. The effect of TIL
sub-drainage will be to lower the water ia
BILE below the cellar bottoms, thereby ren
dering healthy many houses which hav
hitherto been otherwise. In addition, you
committee believe that the Christiana woul
l he relieved of many tons of insoluble matte
i which is now washed into 1t from morocco an
q other manufacturing establishments an
!. which would be excluded from the pipes Q
2 a properly inspected sewerage system"
y The remainder of the report was stricke
q out.
e A supplementary report was then pr,
sented by Mr.. Talley and read as follows
Your committee on sewers desire to ca
" your attention to the fact that our drinkin
e water should be protected from sewerage {
well as from sub-soil drainage; and as yor
com mmittee is of the opinion that our supp
OF drinking water must De ODJalneu lrOl
its present location for many years to com
g. they beg leave to recommend that the inte
cepting sewer designed by Rudolph Herir
r. and laid down in the plot prepared by hi
NJ be constructed from point east of the fiol
mills on the BraHdywine to Rattlesnake ri
ha estimated cost $4,000 exclusive of rig
~ of way.)
Your committee believes $4,000 wou
i be ample for this purpose and would recoT
q, % mend that the Law Committee introduce
y, M bill in the present Legislature before 3
T" time expires for the introduction of su
business, for the privilege to borpC
'lr seventy-ive thousand dollars (S75 ,OO0)
re- said sewer construction or as much as shi
A. be required to complete the same, provid
1t shall not exceed the above amount
re SIS, 900.
liP Your committee further recommends th
ue the proposed sewer shall not be construct
or the bonds sold without two-thirds maj'
is ty of the whole Council concurring. The {
y, iect is to have the authority while the Gt
%, eral Assembly is In session, SO If 1t shou
ar be deemed advisable to construct the sal
VS., within two years your honorable body cot
do SO without being compelled to await
Or convening of the General Assembly. Yc
W. committee also recognizes the fact that
n fore the said sewer could be construct
N there would occur an election for COunt
hn men, and the people would have an opp
tunity, by their voice at the ballot box,