Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-30
ROCK CREEK SAFE
Kensington Sewage, Will Not Pollute the
Water,
Public Meeting Last Nfght-Committee
Recommends a Filtration Scheme
of Observation-Disclosures.

A public meeting was held last night In
the Noyes Library. Kensington, for the re-
ception and consideration of the report of
that committee which was recently chosen
to consider the question Of an extension Of
the local sewer system The sense Of the
meeting was that Rock creek shall not be
polluted by Kensington sewage. The report
OF the committee advised against. it. and
the meeting approved the report Although
the session was scheduled to convene at
30. the citizens began to gather rather
earlier, and from the flavor of the con.
verse the impression seemed to prevail that
washington was a sparsely peopled settle
ment somewhere in the suburbs of densely
populated Kensington.
Mayor Thomas r. Martin called the as-
semblage to order After explaining the
character Of the meeting he made reference
TO the publicity into which Kensington had
p peen plunged. Her domestic affairs had
world The attention which Kensington
mad received from The Evening Star and
the baiumore Sun was significant, as indi-
Friends at Washington were needlessly
alarmed Much of the comment was un-
warranted The people of Washington
can come to Remington and get pointers
on good government. Kensington, in its
ardent, glowing youth has solved the prob
lens OF suffrage and sewer facilities, great
problems, which Washington in its matu-
rlty, had not done" AS the applause which
Martin continued by extending an invita-
ton to the people of Washington to move
10 kensington, where, as he said, beau
.lIui scenes charmed the enraptured eye"
NO maryland town would pollute Rock
door. ' 'eis
He concluded by saying that Washington
mad better suffer from the ills of her own
fal t,xao
ny al others that she knows not Of
The Committee Reports.
Then the report of the committee WAS
presented by DR.. R. B. DERRICK, chairman
OF the sewer committee, and read by Sec
rotary f. A Ziegler, clerk to the city coun-
Gil. The report disapproved of the sug-
gestion to empty the sewer indirectly into
ROCK creek The salient feature of the re-
port ran thus: That owing to the objec-
ton OF Mrs. Ray to the conveyance of sew
age into the creek running through her
land, and that owing to the strong oppo-
sitlon manifest to the drainage of sewage
into Rock creek. your committee deem it
not feasible to extend the sewer as con-
templated." The report closed by RECON-
mending the adoption of the sewer farm
plan OF filtration, modification of which
Chase.
DR.. ]. L. Lewis advocated the plan. 40
did William H. Terrell, DIR. DERRICK, J,
Howard Fishback, George Townsend, Mar
len Dorian, c. P. Smith, Alphonso Hart
and ]. NJ. Scott The secretary read from
consular report of the successful opera
ton of the Berlin sewer farm. Mr. Hart
was thankful that water could not run up-
hill. else Kensington would dema nd protoc-
ton from the pollution of Washington On
motion of Mr.. Townsend, the committee on
sewers was continued and directed to fur
Their investigate the subject and to report
at public meeting on next Friday night
jeremiah Blackburn and George Duval
were added to the committee.