New-York tribune., 1908-09-28
WAR ON IN MT. KlSCO
TROUBLE OYER SEWER.
Drainage System WI Cost Much
More than Expected.

There is a fight up in Mount Kisco against the
new sewer system voted for by the village year
ago This begun by a faction LED oy IoWh-
send Matthews, declaring that New YORK CITY
should stand the of the necessary drainage
construction The third round of the fight Will be
on Tomorrow unless there is an adjournment. The
first round resulted in a temporary Injunction The
second was by the village and resulted in the
removal of the Injunction. Mr.. Matthews has been
a sort of continuous political opponent of Isaac w.
Turner the president of the village. 1t was expected
that when the second round was Mr. Matthews
would rest but he was up and at the village again.
and the set for September 2S at White
Plains
When Mount Kfsco voted for the sewer it was
not expected that it would cost quite much as
the contract calls for $4,000 And this will not
include the expense of the house connections, which
may up to $4,000. The disposal works, which
the city is build have cost about $4,000.
They will cost all of s25O,o0O, it learned yes
terday.
The contract for the has been let TO S.
Amanna AS the temporary injunction was
removed the contractor got his men and materials
together and work was begun There are now deep
trenches in the flats of the village and the roads
away from the centre of population. Italians
doing the hard work, but their presence is not
feared from a health point of view, they
compelled to live hygienically and the course of
the sewer has wiped out Italian settlement
which a perpetual source of contagon in the
years of its existence
The legal fight over the sewer has held up the
cooperation of the city for the present The
commissioners condemnation proceedings
hard at work when the conflict begun. They
had ftythree parcels of land under consideration,
land that the city has to have there will be no
disposal works But the city will get the parcels.
There is no doubt of that Under the old law the
city compelled to build sewer and disposal
works, according to the villages Interpretation.
Mr.. Turner tried hard to make the law operate in
hiatt but was
by the New York City Corporation Counsel.
Last winter bill passed enacting a law
establishing a scheme of cooperation in sewer
building with the villages in the watershed. 1t is
under this law that Katonah is also preparing for
a Soon after its passage Mr. Turner and
the Department of Water, Gas and Electricity OF
this city got together to solve the Mount ksco
drainage problem. The village was a grave
menace to the purity of the Croton water supply
1t was the intention to get work at the earliest
possible time, that this menace might be re-
moved Mr.. Turner said yesterday that but for
the opposition OF what he called a "dlsgruntled
few the sewer would have been ready for the
laterals in January. The contract now calls for
it to be ready in March.
The upper flats of the village from which a brook
pushes its way TO the Croton are still in dubious
condition. The drainage bitches there contain lead
and sepia colored water. Near these mats are
many small shabby houses, with Uttered ana
weedy yards Outhouses drain into the levels'
The president Mr. Turner, has co-operated with the
Health Department in wiping out this nuisance A
row of workmens houses is stretched across the
fiat AS the whole level stretch drains into the
watershed stream this row is not looked upon
with favor by the village the city 1t may
be bought and removed soon as the sewer ques-
ton is settled
1t has been realized in Mount Kisco, since ITS
contribution to the typhoid menace to this city
eighteen months ago, that it pays to be clean
Mount Kisco has so many advantages that there
are few who oppose the project that Mr. Matthew's
is fighting There is probably not another village
or city in the country that can boast OF having
temperance and a license section Inc village HeS
half and half in the towns of New Castle and BED
ford Bedford went dry, but New Castle relnalheu
wet The dividing line runs through the heart OF
the village. AS leading citizen SAID yesterday,
a man can get drunk side of the street ana
carry his weight of liquor to the other IN denahce
of the feelings of the dwelers in the dry section.
With fine sewerage system Mount l>lsco VIII DC
able 10 combine attractions that no other village IN
Nestchester can boast of.