The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-13

We do not know whether we are d ceiy-
ing ourselves or not, but it seems to us
that healthy public sentiment in favor Of /
q change in our water supply is awakening.
The water the people of this city are COM /
demned to drink is as filthy and unhealthy |
as it well can be; and with three or four
growing cities on the banks Of the river
from which we drawit, it must of necessity
become worse rather than grow better in
the future. That two of the largest cities
in the State should consent to keep on
poisoning themselves With it when tie
most magnificent watershed in the world
is within their reach, is not credit either
to their enterprise or their intelligence. An
article which appears elsewhere in the
TATTLER shows that if those who have the
best right to the natural resources of the
State do not appreciate this beautiful ex-
panse of healthful drinking water, other
cities do, and New York has set her covetu-
GUS eyes upon it. If we are not careful it
will be stolen from us right under our eyes
while we are making up our minds whether
it is worth taking, and then, after it is
gone, will go to kicking up fuss about it
AS in the case of our great water front.
It will be too late then.
The number of people who are annually
drowned in that part of the Hackensack
river " hieh constitutes the west boundary
of Jersey City would surprise who might
Most of them are victims of the bathing
mania. Yet why people should cathe in
such dirty, muddy, swift-running
and dangerous stream as the Hackensack is
difficult to imagine. OF the danger they
may of course be ignorant, but the foul
ness of the water shows for itself. Pos
sibly there are times when the Hackensack
is clear, but we confess we have never seen
it in that condition, though more or less
familiar with it for many years. People
who desire salt water bath should go to
,ha sw;nn,;na ha.h - uoholon - tal
tr;, - con.o 1s,ana ,nhoro t,,orara :.
5Aa,t s,,~a 80 o,oo,, ,vota, Tha uao,,a,,sao1.
i soorco,y worth tbo 1;vos - costs ava,,,
Summer. But there is no way to prevent
the s.cr;f;cas apnna,lv made somo mo-
nla cannot 500 streo,, sf woto,. ,v;tbort
axnar;enc;no an uncomfortable ;noI;nat;on
10 nlunoa into Il
-
Altar East NewsrL bo5 1,aon aavastataa -,
two or three t;res she made ~, ber mind
that II was abont time 70 loot abont for
means of nrotect;on and arranoon,ants
ware made nv which for a moderate roo
omnensa the Newark t;ren,an aoraad q 70.
snond 70 alarms on this side of tba river
a faw avan;nos aoo tbe tiron,o,, ,orlod 81
a fra .nd after N ov bad cone AZ Koorro,,
Record. the local nanar If East Newarl.
asaailed +ba;r rordr;sm Tba exa,nan
climbed mn On tba;r DIGNITY and soveroIlv
and collectively resolved not to attend anv
more East Newark FIRES The alarmed tax
PAYERS denv all sympathy with the Record
assault. and by way Of, showing their an
nrec;ation of the fire ladd;as bald an IN
dignation meeting "Wednesday night at
wnlen the Record was roundiy denounced.
Inns VIII probably prove a balm to the
wounded spirits OF inc nremen' and they
Will probably respond IN the future to East
newark nre alarms as emcienuy as they
nave IN 1ne past,
The excitement occasioned by Vice Chm
cellor Van Fleets dvsnent;c resnonsa 70 q
unsettled claims4of the depositors of the
broken Newark SAVINGS Tnst;tut;on has
drawn out a temperate letter from the
Chancellor himself The Vice Chancellor
implied that the Trades Assembly. to which
his letter was sent had asked sattiaro ant
with the noorer denositors at the exn.nsa
of the riel, ones The ;mnl;cat;on ws. nm
- w -, ,Nss e''o', - 'Ao A..u n'u DeeAl
I1S N0is a'Aou :. ~ was no'
pe.se. ~ lAaAe = i''ie sacrince IMAM 70
Va. -os ea'' ~ es0apo ~ aniol
-, ~ ~ Aa' Se0 ~ ioo' on inses' a'ion
snA' W. 9n@Oi0 n.ln " ilaAe an in' ens
'sp'S " 'no = duee 0lon.
So Sullivan and Ryan have selected either
Jersey City or Hoboken as the scene of
their encounter on the 26th inst. In the
recent prize ring contest in the West both
the gpugilists gave bail when arrested
then went on with the tiobt as thouoh the
courts had not interfered with them. II
remains to be seen whether the authorities
hereswill content themselves with such q
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