The Jersey City news., 1906-12-05
From J. B. stanaway:-
Requesting the repairing Of curb IN
front OF $50 Carried avenue.
Received and ordered fled.
oFFICrAI, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
From DR.. @. <. Dickinson, chairman.
ct al. submitting report of result of in
vestigation of the watershed.
November 10. 1906
Te the Honorable. the Members ef fhe
Board of Street and Water Commits
eaoRers,. Jersey City. New Jersey
GeHtlemen:-In pursuance of your re-
quest of the 3rd inst, the undersigned
have investigated the Source from which
the city is now receiving its water We
were accompanied by MreJohn J. Egan,
of Hobeken, head OF the Egan School of
Business. as sfenographer, and Mr.. Well
den Griffin as guide. Ia the sub-joined
report we ealdeeyor to state conditions
seen and such observations as are. self
convincing. Althpu9h 1t was impossible
for this body to investigate every portion
Of the large watershed ia detail, vet we
feel convinced that the more important
nllisances received careful attention, to-
wit
PROPERTY OF Mr.. ]. Fl. BAR
TON, Morris street. top of Dover Hill
IN this house it was reported there
was conyalescent typhoid fever patient,
and the only one ackpowledg d to be
existing in the town. Stool DISCHARGES,
it is claimed. were put into. the privy
beck of the house without receiving anti
septic treatment This Driyy is about
thirty. feet back of the house on a slope.
Into it go the OBJECTIONS Of four people
1t is IN ordinary excavation. nen-ceInent-
ee sal Of solid exerement, fluid additions
/. o. flowing pool. formed from same
ahor't fFe fset distant. One thousand
fest from the priyy is brook. FIVE feet
vde SIX inches deep. running rapidly.
i II dn from the house to the brook IS
ahAtit ffty to seventy-fve fe t. Ths lis
! tafsee fGrYn the tearesr point in the brook
! tt Evseia II reaches h river is about one
MIL
rT-cFNF COOpERtS HOUSES.
siy hoHses with one family each on First
Fifty feet back of the,hoases are the
pr yles with overfiowing liquids; full of
excrenent: natural drainage toward the
br29flef with steady flow Of water To-
words Fpml's Pond, Said brook is pro-
tectEd from sunlight by ap over-hanging
4 bark md growth OF veg on.
9RffF PARKS HOUSE. Byron
far second streets
4 hae and priFv IN rear of hol1sa.
IN rear Of str ~ sPrfvF adfaiping
enaa+n6 Nat5rsi s7rainaoe TO-
q Ford's Pond q inina solution put
il ak in house appeared 10 drain under
This also drains towards Ford's
4 L. lN RENEE HOUSE, Second street,
Pl.5yE in rear about SIX feet deep. on
the edge Of the bank. eight feet high,
WEsin a bout eight feet IF the brook SIX
hrrdrsd feet from Ferd's pond. FoT d s
ad is about eighteen hundred feet from
Il point where the eoDueqfjng stream
els pfies INTO the river, anAsreeeivfs the
ara drainage Of ~ amptheatFe
ahst one half 4 mile vide will uumer-
o. 8ifsgs privizss ara stables.
Ra1Ss EsS HOUSE. Canal street
ftopl
2riyy On bank of canal. Urinine test
pcs sFjFe. Solution filtered through under
ground IN rear running into canal ten
feet distant and six feet below. Urinine
thrown into the sink in the house came
ont Immediately into the canal -Four
hoHses with four families here all drain
into the canal
sEfsH AR DS0N. BOYNTON &
! COM NY IS WORKS (Dover):-
nlploFs six hundred men, Toilets
raF accommodate a dazen men at q time
ExfTement drops into a ca 1T running
Hnder same md left there Hnfil it be-
eoTnes fslll. or, in Spite Of chloride Of lime
toQs 0dNFoHs. Cart stands in ground
water several inches Deep Distance TO
river is Sly hnparad feet 7 he preDr5e
Tor Of the Rifilardon Bovnf0n and Coan-
Pailsl Halys caDtraffs fer the remaval
af u is excremen ard does not know
KheTe Il Is taken In fhe area around