New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-06
CHECK TO PURE WATER.
MetS Wants Light on Filtration
Darlington Reports on Typhoid.

Whatever plans the Water and Health depart
ments OF this city may have for the Improvement
% the water supply OF this city, they VIII not be
gbls 10 do anything without an additional. appro-
priation OF money end Controller Metz IS unwili-
Ing until he gets further Information, TO unloose
the citys purse strings To a reporter for The
Tribune yesterday he explained his opposition 10 the
request for an appropriation from the Water De-
partment for 100000 for first work on the fltra-
zion plant which the department purposes TO install
at the Jerome Park reservoir.
7 want more definite information" the Controller
said. Il have received no assurance that thls
work win not eventually cost S2eye'Vo ana "He,e
are we 10 get the money from? Moreover Is
filtration the hest method OF purifying the wafer
According 10 tie reports have received the ~oi 4
VIII cost all the way from $4,000 tc $9'oV'o ana
ihRt is zoo vague. We want pure water anu We
want tho best system Of purifying! but We il3'o O'
gone far enough into the question.
when Mr. De Karona, the chief engineer OF INC
gValer Department, was told OF Mr.. MetZs a'utuue
he refused 10 discuss it. lie said that ne ha1 SCI
reports regarding the necessity Of hirauon 10 TIC
Board OF Estimate and Appordonment. win est-
mates OF the cost etc. lie said further that Lie
experience OF European and American cities shower
that duration was the only practical way OF Sc
curing pure water supply.
DR.. Thomas Darlington. the Health CoInIhls-
sioner, sent a report 10 the Mayor on he typhoiu
outbreak Hstonah and The Italian camps a
Cross River Dam tho other day. and the report
came up before the Board Of Estimate and Appor-
uOnmenE yesterday Tho Commissioner ISpoi'SN
shat he had found ten cases at katonafb TWO Of
which he attributed TO the water, six - the mix
supply and one 10 the eating OF oysters This was
On his iiTst visit he also SAID tina; the water IIoi
The watershed showed no evidence or me typHolu
SDi VS. u IN Ia sn gs f onIirstion lie SAID
thai the Italian camps were il nygenic condition.
Rnd that II The recent prec 1utona We're carried OF
no oangsr was TO be afpreheDae1d rom III, Ina.
reporter for The rribune that he now had no aouD5
that he water supply as being contaminated ana
that the disease gs7Tas were entering tAs el's
Water Corninlssi6r~- C'I8rier ais. sent IL a re-
and said that the cases there had not oeea con-
cealed from him HI wanted more inspectors 10
make security doubE sure. lie had asked for
more inspectors last June, but bad been pat OF.
IN the watershed especially at Mount Ilisco.
The correspondence between tbs Heath ana
Water departments has bee, largely taken Up I3F
Ehe last three weeks with the typho.1 danger;
As soon as Ar. . Erien had been fully lnsorTe or
the situation, he communicated with DR.. Darling
ton explaining what The Water Department had
done and especially calling attention TO the dan
gers OF pollution from otle: sources lhil al ratio
nah and Mount kiSco. one OF The places men
toned was tie Montefiore Home Bedford. where
me y atef i1epal tieHl iia' Hlcies qus 10 pieNl.
the flow Of sewage into a brook feeding the water
Tie chairman OF the sanitary committee Of the
home, Julius Robertson. of No. 81 Spruce street,
having plans made for q comprehensive sewage
disposal works, and that in the mean time every
utary brook near tle home was being taken.
To-day there viii be visit Of the authorlties TO
This city. cannot do anything 10 correct matters
that the State Board OF Health could compel better
sanitary precautions AZ Mount llisco hut had done
nothing As stated IN The Tribune Sesspoos are
tl1e Croton supply. without lei or hindranee.
are on the increase The cases can no longer be
said 20 De sporadic. physician told a reporter
pearing in unusual numbers in the upper part Of
Manhattan, which receives the Croton supply, re-
ports show that the disease IS extending down into
The more populous districts.