Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-11-22
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WHERE THE SHOE P1NOHEs.
The Park ConmissiOn's Obstruction
10 n Needed Public work.

10 AZ Neeueu FuDAC WDfks
The Board Of Health met in special
session Friday night to consider the urgent
necessity of having the nuisance ahated
caused by the draining refuse and other
matter into Crooked run and thence d.
rectly into the Brandywine at point
close to where the city drinking water ia
obtained. This is an abuse Of long
standing In 80 far as the action of the
Board Of Health ia concerned and now
the members see no alternative but
to act to the full extent OF the powers
given them by law.
Representatives Of the Hartmann &
Fehrenhaeh Company were present, and
also of the Street and Sewer Commission.
Upon ascertainipg from the city solicitor
their legal standing in the case, the board
Instructed its secretary to order the brew
ing company and the Street and Eewer
Commission to abate the nuisance imme-
diateiy. A very large territory Of the
city is influenced to parilous degree of
inaRnitation by the condition of things in
and around the neighhorhood of Crooked
run and the acreage bagin of Its water.
shed. -
II was ascsrtaiusd with great satisfac.
tion Friday night that Messrs. Hartmann
& Fehrenbsch are quite satisfied to act
| with the authorities in remedying the
nuisance according to any Tsssh they may
select as suitable, even to Wv extent Of
paying half the s1st. Similar oo.opera.
!ion with the Board of Health has always
been evidenced by the street directors
And as far as can be asoertained Che only
obstruction to publication of the drink,
/ fv,ry xIyate,v- 30 hn 6traatfaV1 Of the
/ Park Commission.
1t il understood that the contention OF
the last mentioned beard Is that the
drainage from Crooked run ia not dele.
teFious to the drinking water aud that
they quote certain authority who an
Glyzed the outfl1w of Crooked run into
the Brandywino in 1882. stating that it is
not harmfIl. The only offi,iat records
existing in the city show an analysis in
1882 by Professor Leids of Philadelphia
whose verbatim report upon the Crooked
run outflow into the Brandywine is a.
follows "Orooked run, refuse from the
Hartmann d Fehrenbach brewery, sioken-
ing, May 9th, 1882"
The plan suggested by the Board Of
Health is to drain Crooked run and Its
unhealthy surroundings into Rattlesnake
run, which is conducted by sewer al
ready existing into the Brandywine at 9
point below the headgates. from Whence
the public drinking water 10 obtained.
BY this method the public will be ensured
a. far as il possible q supply of practi.
cally pure drinking water. Unfortu-
pstely, however, this plan would entail
the necessity OF trespsssing upon the
park lands, an idea which the commits
sioners look upon with horror. 1t ia
supposed that this objeotion of theirs &C.
commits for the commissions high rating
of the purity Of tho Crooked run outflow
in the probable interest of some ideal
system of park drainage, or other theory
TO be realized in the far future. And
therefore the citizens must be victimiz ID
with impure water, with typhoid fever
and oil other dangers and epidemics fol.
lowing the continued perpetustion Of the
Crooked run nuisance.