The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
MAYOR HOOS' MAIL.
Loaded Down With Ideas
for Jersey City's Water
Supply.
cRANKs IN THEIR ELEMENT
West Hoboksn Citizen Suggests
Artesian Wells-Another Ad-
yises Salt Water Chem
ically Treated.
cRANKs IN THEIR ELEMENT

Mavor Hons, mail. now that the question
~ nar,ranent water supply is upper,
most contains usually suggestions OF al
saw.sana s,zas from the genus crank one
inyenious Individual a few days ago sue
gested bringing water from LAM p,an
cong in travelling tanks anu SUN -,
he thought would do away W. tanks
ss,ve pipe lines. The fact hat the tam.
would pay toll to the rallroau N~H;aarea
was not for a moment to be consloeie
he naively said. ,rota ,v
Another person who appropriate
signed himself ''Ignoramus thousn ~
if big pipes were laid TO tne "s 40
New York Bay at Communlpa" -
salt water could be chemically treated ~
free it from the salts. the Guy
pure water and in any quantits.
The latest idea came TINS hori1n "a
q West Hoboken gentleman VINO uses ns
~ medium of his eloquence. His
idea is as follows:-
WEST HoBoKEN, Aug. IL 1884,
zsavor Hoos. Jersey City e,11
nesr Sir2Jersey City can get a ault
water supply of the very pes. m dred large
at home. by sinking a few hunoreo RE
artesian wells in5 2,n fn and in the North
Taroen svamps. The water is cieai
orvstaI nure and cold as ice. A peaiS a
river runs IF the
swamns, The supply is large enoIgh tbe
Ave cities like Jersey CITY. iad nv
houses in the swamps are suppneo
such artesian wells. ,,i+b these
facts so publicly known that Jersey dd IL
should talk of spending mliaona 70 get
lars to go for a gg aea. If at home, and
Z o,ality so good that no river VIZ
can equal it, and running away onn.
the surface of the eartn, whG = Tlet Ter
80 nn;nation can possibly reach II. Ley nc
e. Wv Inv a few hundred acres OF Ine
!, ms west of the Hill and SINK Ia "a
p or is inch iron pipe arteslah W. indeo
feet deep, and the city VIII ovar
nendent Of water SPECTATORS forever
Yours respectfully, ,y>1ovuc
p s-Ahhough the above hlnl may
prove worth millions OF do, naf TO give you
~ 'o ams a. / don't want it In the news.
napers. 1t is sufficient to say Ina west
a large property owner IN p and if the
a;tn If Jersey City will adopt my sussISa
tion I shall feel amply rewaroso ~ GOOD
fact that I have done ITS peepie Ihet If
+urn and personally in the 1act ltde
Iii ,ncrease the value of real eslats 81
ovar the county, Go and examine Inese
artesfan wells o n the Secaucus oao west
continuation Of Paterson psn hSTn Creek,
H0hOKeu. dll0 NAoA5 -..-- md ar
snuth Of the bridge at anu ere a.
Halls coal yaTd; H or9eTd trolley 9h zine line,
sel onnv1rce Yourself. See and drink
the water. that's the best test.
.svhat are you going to DO with these
lions? p. the Mayor was asked
by a News representative.
His Honor smiled. and replied tnal ne
really didn't know what to do with them.
He feared that from now on ms nan
would be loaded down with all KINDS o.
ideas. The water question at present.
he added. was at a standstill until Messrs.
yermeule and Ferris completeo in
plans and specifications: When W WEI u
were handed in to the street and hegin-
Should they be- approved b.. that Board % ac1
they will go to the Mayer e I9f n1 for pro-
nosals viii 90 first to the Board OF FL
nance and next to the Mayor.