The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-14
ASK STATE
TO CONDEMN
ICE CROP
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--tHHf $3.50 fr@ A-L tHHEaH I.N-
spectors, which led to the passage of a
resolution by the commissioners stat
ing that 1t was impossible to prevent
the circulation Of contaminated ice
through the city as long as it was cut
or could be procured. 7ef
Health Officer Chambers statement was
made when he was told of the declaration
of Joseph Castle, of Irvington, who con-
trolls Durand's pond, on Springfield aven-
nue., %Irvington, that thes Ice on the pond
would be cut, despite any action the New
ark Board of Health might see fit to take.
Mr.. Castle said that the ice would be sold,
but would be used for freezing i% cream
in his plant, and that under these cireum-
stances would be no detriment to public
health, as the ice would be impregnated
with mineral salt to such an extent that its
use for domestic purposes would be rem
dered impossible, and children would not,
as has been stated, pick up pieces to eat,
for the salt made 1t unpalatable.
The ght against the harvesting and
selling of ~Irvington ice because of the
water from which 1t is cut being impure
and laden with animal and vegetable
germs as well as foreign substances detri-
mental to public health, was started by
the Newark Advertiser and taken
up by the. EVENING STAR when 1t
SupGICedcu The lOIIltT pdptls anu ltouiNSA
in the local Board of Health making in
vestigations and having analysis made that
sustained the contentious of the STAR
that the ice was unfit to use and might
have been the primary result of the spor-
attic case of scarlet fever that broke out
through the city during the last three
summers, because of the fact that the
colon bacilli, the primary germ of con-
tagioue and communicable diseases, was
found in great numbers in the specimens
Of ice by City Bacteriologist Connolly in
the tests he made.
The local board at a meeting in the
spring placed a restriction on the sale Of
the ice. allowing 1t to be sold in this city
for storage purposes only, and a short
time afterwards, when 1t was shown that
the ice was In worse condition thar was
at first thought, n that the orders Of
the board restricting its sale was being re-
peatedly broken by dealers, an order was
issued preventing the sale Of the ice from
the ponds in question from being sold in
or carted through this city. Because of
the fact that the ice was cheaper thar
good ice, INSCRIPTIONS dealers Journey to
Irvington and, according to the report Of
Health Inspector Brady, who was on the
case, procured 1t and sold II. in this city.
A number of them were caught and
rough Detore the Board of Health and
released after they had confessed to buy
ing the Ice, and telling where they pro-
cured it. These admissions by the men
will be presented al evidence to the State
Board of Health in the application to have
the crops of ice condemned and destroyed
II 1t Is harvested
The ponds in question are BRAKES upper
pond, Durand's pond, brakes lower pond
and Drake's little lower pond.
With the exception Of Durand's pond the
ice is controlled by the Union Ice Conf
pany and Mahion Drake, after whom the
ponds are named, and who is a member of
the Union Ice Company, said some time
ago that the ice would be harvested but
the sale restricted. The dam Of brakes
lower pond was washed away by a freshet
this spring, and it has been rebuilt and the
Ice houses repaired preparatory to holding
ice.
The ponds are in the Elizabeth Valley
section and are fed by the Elizabeth
River, and the ponds are natural depres-
in the valley, with a dam to fill
them up. The river. before it reaches
brakes upper pond, the first of the string
Of ponds in question, receives the drain
age from several portions Of the Oranges
and the Vailsburg section, and before
the EVENING STAR crusade 1t received
the offal from a slaughter-house on South
Orange avenue, and at present receives the
from innumerable stables and sew
eral cemeteries, and is the termination
Of many blind sewer bitches.
The matter was brought to4the attention
the State Board-of Health last year, but
was allowed to drop when Drake prom
isedSMr, Chandler that ice would not again
be cut on the ponds. !