The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-11

lasts from early ummer until there
said hat was so,
Property in that neighborhood, Mr..
Doremus said, continuing, had depre.
GATED more than thirty. per cent. in the
places which could not be sold now fol
what they cost twenty years ago, before
they We're improved as they are now.
DR. Marsh asked Mr.. Doremus If Inc
out the shores of the river. He mad
read something to that effect in the pa
pers.
A loud chorus Of NO.. no., from all
parts Of the room greeted his inquiry.
Mr. DOremus said that the ffeshets de-
Posted the muck and refuse higher up on
the banks and left it there TO tester in
the sun and emit sickening stealches.
The next speaker was H. B. Simmons,
who has lived along the river for the
was In the business of gathering ice from
the river. There was nothing objections
able about the water thea, and when
pie used to cut holes in the ice and drink
the water. But now the Ice gathered
there is only fit for storage purposes. The
muck has been washing Up on the shores
mere and more during late years, and
the f~reshets do not carry it away and
s when the e. sun s,g strikes i gives oSt q bad
been a marked increase in .malar-
hood Of recent years which iifl he attribatea
to the foul condition of the river, and
i was getting worse and worse every
year. He thought the dam of the
Dundee Water Company had much to do
the pond or lake, he said, dropped three
feet between Monday morning and Satur-
Gay noon when the mills shut down. until
MONDAY morning again. There was near
bis house a large expanse which when
the water was thus lowered became dry
land covered with the mass of filth which
comes from Paterson'S sewers. This
would rot and tester in the sun until the
stencil became So sickening night and
day that they could not stand it. In
cause they lave to keep their windows
down and their doors closed to keep out
the stencil.
statement about the depreciation of prop
erty, and said that men could not get
today what they paid for property twenty
years ago without improvements There
for. residences, he sad, and he drew a
striking contrast between what the vicin-
ity Is today and what it was twenty years
told OF how the fish was all one except
a few carp which no one could eat, DR..
Marsh said that he had read in a news
paper that a man had been arrested for
fishing in Dundee Lake with a net. Some
one said it couldn't be that nan was ar
rested for fishing in the lake. but because
he was angry, thinking he could not catch
any fish there. Mr.. Doremus said that
they, used to catch fish there IN abundance.
Shad used to be taken about where the
dam Is now and perch and bass were
but carp. Even the cells had left.
Mr.. Martin, the Chairman. said there
was not much to say on the subject.
He had lived at Garfield for eleven years
and during the past two he had noticed
that during the dry hot weather stenches
came from the water that were something
awful. He presumed that they came
from the sewage in the river, and that's
all there was to it. Mr.. Doremus said
hat he thought the East Jersey Water
Company was taking too much water for
Newark from the tributaries of the Pas
sale.
Mr.. Gardner thought that if some citi.
zen like Mr.. Doremus. for example, should
go into ehancery and complain of the
nuisance. he could get an Injunction re-
straining Paterson from emptying her
ewage into the river. Mr.. Doremus was
exceedingly skeptical.
The Chairman said the question could ee
easily settled by tearing down the Dun
dee dam. which caused a lock Of pain to
pass over Mr. Gardeners face. After in
viting any or all present to send any
thing they wished to say IN writing to the
Beard the meeting adjourned The Com
missioners expect to meet in Jersey City
next week