The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-07
VOMEN'S VOICES.
Raised to Condemn Water They
Can Neither Drink, Cook
With, Wash Clothes or
Faces In.

| While the opinions of men are of value
| in a question of the necessity of a new
water supply, no one will deny that the
ladies have more opportunities to OBJ
serve the quality of water used in the
household. They see whether or not the
water is suitable for washing or cook
ing, and consequently their views are of
| infinite value at this moment.
| "The Jersey City News sent one of
its representatives to secure the opin-
ions of we'll known ladies, and some of
| these, while denouncing the water vigor-
| ously, We're reluctant to take part IN any
| matter publicly. From all there was a
remarkable unanimity in favor of a new
water supply. AS many of the ladies
are property owners. their words have
| additional force.
| Mrs. Solon PaImer:-'sI think it is
| wrong to expect people to pay such enor-
NOUS water rates when the water is so
| detestable. The rents are all being low
| cred, because people will not stay to
1
| can move away to some other place,
| but the property owners have to stay.
1 don't know who IS at fault. but
| know that there has been talk of nice
dinners held and nice little excursions
| out into the country, all on the city's
/ money Yes think we should haYe
| good water before the summer, and I
would willingly sign my name to pet-
tions for it forty times over
Mrs. A. ]. Newbury:-"This dreadful
water. I think it is wicked to expect
US to use it. Even straining will not
| make it fit to bathe in, and one cannot
| drink it, I wonder people move here.
l think we should have pure water, and
4! at once.''
Mrs. G. W. Cler.hew: THE water rates
| are outrageously high for the poor quail
! ity, and the city should have water as
| expeditiously as possible It should own
| It's own water
Miss Bradford of the Whittier House,
I think we are drinking typhoid and
every other kind of germs with every
glass of water. I wonder how we live
I consider it simply murderous to com
| pei the citizens of Jersey City to drink
such water We should have pure water
before the summer, but I do not think
it wise to get a supply quickly, without
| being assured it will he better than that
we are now using. Yes, / think Jersey
City should control it's own water sup.
ply I do not believe in monopolies.'
| Mrs. DIR. De Hart:-"The water we are
now using is bad, dirty in appearance
and odor and Injurious The supply
| should be changed Immediately, as it
| is much worse in summer than winter,
owing to the low amount of the water"
Miss Cecilia Gaines:-sIn my opinion,
no one should pay his water tax until
! we have new water supply. The water
l is filthy and utterly unfit for use. |
think the water question is second to
| none and money should be appropriated
| for that before any other. 1t seems
to me that it would be better to let
| the New Boulevard wait until the water
has been obtained. If they don't look
out there will be no one to drive on the
| Boulevard when it is finished, and it
will be used only for the funeral process
sions of those who have been killed by
| the Passaic water.
Miss Coffin of Glenwood avenue
"There can be no doubt that every wom-'
an in the city thinks that the Passaic
lswater is filthy and almost useless. We
L
/ drinking and cooking water, but we are
obliged to use the Passaic for washing.
1t has often, especially in summer,
4 come from the pipes in black strings"
i Mrs. Kinds of Bergen avenue:-"We are
obliged to buy drinking water and we
| boil and filter water fer cooking, using
the Passaic only for bathing and laun-
| dry purposes. Often the water is so
black and greasy that we have to filter
it before using. We think of getting
filters for the faucets. 1t is getting worse
now than it has been during the win
| ter"
4 Mrs. E. v. r. Clifford of Bergen ave-
nue:-"The water we have is filthy; it
comes from the faucets in black strings.
buy drinking water and get cooking
water from a spring near by; but / am
obliged to use Passaic for bathing and
laundry purposes. Many of our tenants
have left the city on account of the
| water and i do not blame them. i
| wouldn't come to such~a place as this
if didn't live here We have to carry
all the water to the third floor, now"
! Mrs. C. c. Stimets of Crescent avenue:
sI buy drinking water, because the Pas
sale water is unfit for use.'
Mrs. Negus of Varick street: I'VE
buy all our drinking water. I generally
find the Passaic unfit ever. for wash
ing
Mrs. Vim. W. Muirhead, of Van Worst
sQuare:-'T cannot use for drinking pur-
poses the Passaic water, and have to buy
other. I think it is wrong that I should
be obliged to pay heavy water rates, and
| then buy water for drinking"
Mrs. Ellins, of Mercer street:-sI all
ways use the Glen Spey water, so we
are not affected by the bad drinking
I water. think. however, that a new
water supply should be had for the bene-
fit of those who have to drink Passaic
water"
Mrs. R. G. Lyle, of suydam avenue:
II use filter for our drinking water.
The water has not been very bad during
the winter. but it was terrible last sum
mer. and Is now getting black again
Mrs. p. ]. Koonz. Of Communipaw ave-
nue. we boil and flter all our drinking
water. but even then It is not good. /
find the waiter unfit for use n the laun-
dry and that Is an important item IN a