The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-25
EDITOR DENOUNCED
DR.. Quimby Relieves His
Mind Before the Street
and Water Board.
DEADLY THIRD DISTRICT SEWERS
The Physician Says the Passaic
Is Healthy and Does Not
Breed Disease.
DEADLY THIRD DISTRICT SEWERS

The Street and Water Commissioners
were royally entertained this morning
by the members of the Third District
Citizens Improvement Association, par
ticularly Dr. Quimby. The Doctor start
ed to talk on the fearful condition OF
the sewers in the district where he owns
SO much property, but when he wound
up he was at his old subject, hammer
and tongs. It was water ,and the Doc
tor was full of it, and full of facts con-
cerning its purity and healthfulness
Water would not have formed part OF
the Doctors talk had not he been given
a copy of New York paper, in which
there have been articles upon the hithy
condition of the Passaie for the past
week or two. The Doctor read one par
agraph which said that the city was
compelled 10 keep men employed at the
intake removing dead dogs and cats
and offal
DENoUNCES THE EDITOR.
'eThat statement is untrue said the
Doctor ''and the man who wrote 1t
knew it to be untrue. 1 tell you. gen
tlemen, if we permit a foreign press to
make such statements our city will be
depopulate6 and ruined. Those articles
are prompted by miercenary reasons, and
I am not afraid to assert that only
subsidized press viii make such scan
daIoGs and outrageous statements.
ut has been charged that our ciIA
is full of typhoid fever by reason Of
the use of Passaic water. I am a ply
sfcian, connected with one of the largest
hospitals in the city, and 1 wish to deny
the assertion. Passaic water never hurt
any man or woman. The typhoid that
we have is as much due to the con-
sumption of bad whiskey as anything
else. If the patients that have come
under my notice would drink a little
Passaic once in while they would not
have typhoid fever
WANTS THE PAPER INDICTED.
sWe should have the editor of that
paper indicted and without delay. If
that editor is going to be in heaven 1
don't want to go there, and if he is there,
when I get there I am going to leave"
The Doctor continued by declaring
that the effects of bad water are dys
entery, and he defed any reputable
physician to say that there had ever
been an epidemic of that disease in the
city.
The Doctor next took up the question
of bad sewers in the Third district. par
ticularly in First, Second and Third
streets. He made -about the same speech.
concerning them that he did at the meet
ing of the Third District Citizens I'M
provernent Association, which was held
in Haas Hall last week and fully re-
ported in 1.-The Jersey City News"
He said the whole trouble was that
the Second street sewer was connected
with the Fourth street sewer.
Its natural course down Second street
to the river has been deserted by the
Pennsylvania Railroad and the only way
to get the relief that is necessary is
through the Pennsylvania Railroad prop
erty In conclusion. the Doctor read
the resolutions adopted by the associa-
tion at its last meeting and which We're
THOSE BAD SEWERS.
A petition asking for the immediate
reconstruction of the First, Second and
Third street sewers, and the improvement
signed by:-F E w Payne, Edward psrai Frai-
John. Hayes, John o'co.nnor, william
William Howeth, John Smith, A. Kantro
wick, Peter Fowler, Chris. Gruber, Louis
Stiger, David Harper, William Bender,
P. j. Murphy, DR.. A. j, Kristen, Peter
non, Peter Sherry and Louis Inness. :,
James N. Braun addressed the board
and said the trustees of the churches.
the teachers in the public schools and
Second street. all complained of the
stencil from the sewer. He said it was
slowly depopulating that section of the
city. He hoped the sewer would be re-
ton of the gentlemen would be given
, careful consideration.