The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-09-30
WHERE THE TROUBLE is
No Plan Known to Make
Sewage Flow Up
Hill,
PACKER BUSH'S STATEMENT
Says They Empty Water Into the
Streets, but Nothing That Can
Choke Up Sewers or Re.
ceiving Basins.

The sewers In the vicinity of Henders
son, Steuben and Morgan streets are come
pletely choked. Waste water is not car.
ried off, cellars are foo ded and COM
plants are being made to the Board Of
Street and Water Commissioners to the
effect that Bush Brothers, provision
packers, at Morgan aud Henderson
streets, are the direct cause of all the
trouble. The condition of the sewers in
this vicinity is such that residents fear
an outbreak of some disease, while prop
erty owners claim that their houses are
being destroyed by having the cellars
constantly flooded with water, the odor
of which is sickening.
L. #. Duyer was for months bothered
with refuse water in his cellar. Deter
mined not to be made sick by the stuff he
filled in the cellar. and many of his
neighbors have followed his example.
Bush Bros. in their packing business,
empty into Morgan street immense guam
titles of what the residents say Is greasy
hot water. This water co0ls off quickly
and the grease sticks to the sides of the
sewer. So much of this water has been
daily dumped into the sewer for the past
few years that at the present time the
sewage sometimes backs up into the
street.
interviewed Mr.. Samuel Bush con-
cerning the trouble. He said: eve do
dump q great deal of water into the
street, hut it is not greasy water, and the
water we do dump into the streets will
never atop up the sewers. The whole
trouble is this: The Morgan street
sewer, instead of going straight
to Henderson and is supposed
to empty into the Steuben street sewer.
The Steuben street sewer is one foot
higher than the Morgan street sewer aud
there is where the trouble Is. Refuse
water from Morgan street cannot be car
ried off by the Steuben street sewer. IL
runs to the Steuben street sewer and often
backs up on to the Henderson street
and is carried of down Bay street. How
any person can expect sewers to be kept
clean when water has to take such q
course as that, don't know.
TROUBLED FOR MANY YEARS.
''For the past fifteen years we have
been bothered with this sewer and all
most weekly / clean out the Morgan
street sewer on this corner at my own ex-
pense. Only yesterday put my men at
work and TOOK from the sewer ten barrels
OF solid dirt and can swear that it was
not grease The sewer should be straight
down Morgan street and until 1t Is so,
cellars will be flooded"
Mr.. Bush became excited when he
learned that he was blamed for stopping
up the sewers and intimated that he
WOuiu nbN0 6h NJ oCdCAo WAeA OOLIAAAo-
sioner Dugan at once.
Commissioners Somers, when Informed
of the condition OF affairs existing in the
neighborhood, started at once for Presi-
dent Edelstein of the Board of Finance,
intending to show him the necessity Of
money with which to clean sewers.
"We have no money" said Commis-
sioner Somers, "to clean sewers with. If
the Board of Finance will give US the
$1,000 we have asked for. we will clean
every sewer in the city, The sewers
need cleaning badly, and
have no doubt but whRt we will get the
money we ask for. When we do get it
we will clean the First street, the Morgan
and Steuben street sewers first, because l
believe them to be in deplorable con-
dition. was not aware, however. that
the Steuben street was higher than the
Morgan street sewer"
The matter will be looked into thor
oughly by the Commissioners and II
Bush Brothers are considered the direct
cause of the trouble some action will be
taken to prevent them from emptying
grease of any kind into the sewer.