The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-29
need of sewer; the water company

need OF a sewer; the water company
would not lay their pipes through there
On account OF the expense that would be
lncurFe1 IN blasting through the ledge
ana ne thought the City of Deering
should not be put to an expense tbsye
was no need Of; the aldermen seemed to
think so-also for the petitioners were
given leave to withdraw.
The need. for the sewer still existed
however and a petition for a sewer COM
menoing at Oak street on sStevens Plains
avenue, thence along Stevens Plains
avenue to sMaple c street, down Maple
street to Forest avenue, alongsForest ave-
nue. to and connecting with the sewer al
readysin operation on Oak street, was
presented and voted lfavorably upon by
five of the aldermen, the chairman and
one member of the committee on sewers
opposing the section thus included by
the proposed sewer does not include all
OF Morrill's corner as many were led to
believe
The reason given for the opposition Is,
that the plan of the sewer as proposed is
not in conformity with plan for sys-
tenn of sewerage for the entire city of
Deering, laid out at previous time, no.
cording to "hich the proposed sewe.
should connect at the foot of Pleasant
srest with the one already constructed
passing along Forest avenue; this plan
was embodied in the petition first pre-
scented and which the petitioners were
given leave TO Withdraw.
The Mayor in an elaborate document.
introducing letters from several en-
gineers, tending to show that the plan of
the proposed sewer was not in accordanc CO
with the only plan for the system of
ferred to, vetoed the order authorizing
the construction Of the sewer. The Back
bay commissioners were interviewed to
see II the authority vested in them by
the State was not sufficientsto have them
forbid the building of the sewer, in fact
no stone was left unturned that would
serve as a block to it's construction.
An order for drawing of plans, etc.
for the building of the sewer was Npassed
over the Mayors veto. the same five
mem bers of the board as before, voting
IN the affirmative; in Justice to them /
am convinced that they were actuated
by the desire to provide temporary re-
lief for what is an acknowledged neoes-
s1ty. until the city was ready to make an
outlay of some $40, 000-whioh at the pres
emit time they deem unoalled for; in their
'ase the wheels were all in sight.
The plan as proposed, does not inter
fere with the..carrying out, at anytime In
the future. of the only correct plan for
sewerage OF the entire city upon which
SO much stress.has psen laid; at any
time the connection through Forest ave.
nue. from Oak to foot of Pleasant street
can be made.
The chairman of committee on sewers
still declinedssto make any move Edwards
building the sewer on the ground that
the order as passed Was not legal with
out the Mayors signature; this position
is not renable; the order being passed
over bis veto made 1t legal without his
sign allure.
At the last m Getting of the board an
attempt was made to have special COM
mittee appointed to build the sewer, but
1t was defeated; perhaps after we have
an epidemic of typhoid fever such as
was required to bring the town of
Brunwiok to it's senses and cause them
to build their present sewer system, or
still nearer home, the experience which
Knightville at present seems to be hay
ing from the same cause, lack of sewor-
age, it may be found that individual
theories, legal points. etc., are second
airy to the public welfare.
SEWER