Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-02

ness and death from malarial causes is mainly on the northern and easterly sides
 of marshes
 The reason is that during the warmer
 weather the wind comes from the south and southwest, loaded with the miasmatic exhalations of the marshes over which it
 has passed, ,and deposits them in the dwell ing places and lungs of the inhabitants dwelling in it's course. The only sure and permanent remedy IS to remove the inhabitants or remove the marshes.
 The marshes on the west side of the river are not now within the city lines, but with the extension of the city limits as here proposed, or even without such ex- tension, the municipality of New Haven l may be authorized by an act of the state legislature to condemn and take possession of the whole of the marshes, and sufficient of the high upland, on either or both
 sides, with which to fill the marshes up to | 8 level above the highest tides. The
 marshes, as they are now, are not only | nearly worthless to their owners, but are such standing menace to the health, and 1 6 source of so much actual sickness of the l inhabitants of the western part of the city, ] that they might properly be condemned as l nuisance and ordered to be abated and l filled up at the cost of the owners. But a
 better, cheaper and quicker way is | to first bring the whole of the l marshes under the municipal con- trol of New Haven, by the extension of the city lines as herein proposed; then, under an act of the legislature authorizing the work, condemn the marshes under
 the law of eminent domain, or as @ nui-
 sance, pay the owners their present little value, fill them to above high tide from 1 the highlands on either side, and then sell 1 them for manufacturing sites and lumber l and coal yards, and for storage sheds and
 yards for storage of the freight cars of the
 Derby railroad company and it's connect l ing roads.
 | believe that such @ course will free
 the city from this constant menace to
 health and life, without loss to the finances of the city and to the great gain of the
 whole city in the promotion of the health
 of the~inhabitants, and consequently of
 it's growth.
 Without any positive information, but l judging from certain matters of obseIva-
 tion,I am led to believe that the New York | and New Haven railroad company will,
 during the next summer, begin the con
 struction of the easterly part of their four track road at and from the New Haven end
 towards New York. The tracks will be | SuuC10nClv eloVaGou dCTOSS w eSG ddVeu CC l clear all the street travel. The plan is to
 cross the West river at the level of the
 present tracks and begin to rise near the
 West Haven shore of the marshes.
 The tracks now grade downward from
 the New Haven passenger station to West
 river think it is quite within the re
 zion of probability that arrangements car
 be made with the railroad company to star
 the rising grade at Lamberton street bridge
 that is to carry the tracks over West Ha
 ven streets, which would elevate tht
 bridge over West river channel iron five to seven feet above the height of thu
 present bridge. Such an arrangement
 with water way sufficiently wide, vii
 admit the passage of large canal boat
 and barges laden with building materials
 as stone, brick and lumber, and coal pi| , and bar iron, holding sand and cotton ant , wool in bales, oils and other bulky mer
 chandise for manufacture or consumption
 and allow their return empty.
 In connection with the removal of ob structions to the normal growth of tn
 city, and as absolutely necessary aids il all efforts to promote it's rapid growth, ar
 the means of safe, rapid and cheap loca , passenger transportation, the lighting c , buildings, by gas or electricity, and th
 distribution of plenty of good water fo , public, manufacturing and domestic use They are all very important factors i } the welfare of the people and the growt l l of the city.
 , All the public corporations of the cit
 Complying these necessities) appear to l. 3 serving the public fairly we'll in all rt : spects, considering the conditions undo B l which they exist, and the present relation 8 between the people and the suppliers , l Whether these conditions and relation
 shall be changed with view that the pui f lie as whole, and the people individual, - shall be better served or the service r rendered at lower cost, or both, is fe f the people to decide, first through the !. own action or that of their municipal rel |, resentatives, and then through the sta v legislature.
 t Those who preach cooperation from u
 pulpit or otherwise, and those who b
 1ieve that cooperation will be adopted (
 should be adopted in the early future, ms y successful forms of cooperation, in flu j. nishing these necessaries of city life by u V people to the people, they being sole ow, :. CT, sole operator and sole customer. TT # necessary capital will be promptly SUI s piled by willing investors, and the worl }, arc already in successful operation, read d at hand.
 Ibeieve that all works of public n :, ture carried on mainly within the bound Q of municipality and for the purpose supplying the inhabitants with certai 9 daily requirements of civilized life, and T. 2 quiring special rights of eminent domai to distribute their products, should be ow1
 ed and operated by the people, and in tE sole interest of the people.
 The necessities and activities of moder business and social life in cities absolutel , require the use of the product of sue
 works. No inhabitant is secure in healt
 l who habitually drinks water taken frol :, the ground on which populous cit stands. No man, no city, can keep u Il with the front rank in the industries an ! proper social pleasures of city life and nc : make use of the best known means of loc, . and rapid transportation.
 2 This distribution of lightly gas throug pipes, or by electricity on wires for pr
 vate use is almost positive necessity i 2 i tribution, and plenty of it in the street :, is not only public necessity as to trave . but great protection against immoralit and crime. So necessary are the product ! and services of all these works to the pet : pie that the owners of them enjoy pra'
 tical monopoly beyond, and secure agains
 any competition. A new corporation il variably joins with the old, and the thum screws of the doubled monopoly are tur1 Z ed up tighter.
 | The advantages of the ownership ( \ such works by the people, and of their ol eration by the people through their m1
 nicipal agents, would be many, and the
 arc obvious. Among them are the follow ? ing: The profits would go to the peep1 themselves, the only customers of th works, to be used in the payment of th .. indebtedness incurred in procuring th works, or in reducing the price of th B product. The service would be better an
 the product cheaper if owned by and sul 3 ject to the constant inspection and crit g cisms of an intelligent and exacting pet t pie. Ineficacious, sluggish and antiqu, 7 ted methods of production or of servie l ! would not be tolerated under ownership b ] the people of New Haven; the use of a ? streets for purposes of travel, whether c l foot or by carriage or by street cars; tn g placing and maintaining on streets and O :: public or private buildings and yards ( t the wires and poles of the worl v 1 vacations in the streets for and the layin q of water, gas, steam and sewer pipes. an t the selection and laying of street and cs ] rails would be under the control and supel Q vision of officials responsible to the peopl, f Instead of retaining the normal growt 6 and extension of the city by the tard, @ lageing and unwilling extension of stree 1 1 rail-car tracks, and the too infrequent us
 of what are already laid, and by the T, fusal to extend underground supply main - into localities not immediately productiv 8 l or large profit, as is now the case if a l these public works were owned by th