The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-14
EAMES SAYS ESTIMATE IS NOT EXCESSIVE Figures Submitted by Sewer Commission Based Up- on Thorough Inves-
 tigation. PROVISION MADE
 FOR CITY
 OF 100000
Is Confident That Plans of Commission Will Be Re- garded With Public Fla vor When Question Is Full lv Understood-No Need for Hurry.

! The sewer cOmmlSS1Ou IS iloI Jop- ping the city and none of it's member. have an ax to grind" said George M Flames of the commission this morning when asked about the report of the
 commission as compared with the re- port of the engineers. Herring & Fuller
 The former makes it appear that the cost of the sewers will be $1. 900. an6 the engineers say the cost will ulti-
 mately be approximately $3,OOO,O00 ''There was no intention to mislead anyone" continued MT. Flames, 'the expenditure of $1. 1.750. 900 the commission finds will be necessary for the prelim- mary work. The commission when it started had to provide plans for the city for 50 years to come. We est1- mated that the city would have a population of 300.000 in that time and advised the planning of a system to accommodate city of that size. The engineer found it would ultimately cost three millions and that the cost of the work needed in the early future would be $1,750,OOO. This early work is the foundation for the other system. If a man was building a foundation for a building that he intended to increase in size he would put in @ good founda- ton wouldn't he? That is what we tried to do.
 'The commission was instructed to formulate a sewer system to meet the present and future needs of the city. It secured the services of the best sanitary experts in the world and It has secured the plans for a sewer ser vice which will always be available to the city whenever the city is ready to go ahead with the project whether It is this year or five years from now. It 6S af1 to think that the city has already spent about $2, ,O0o,600 for the kind of sewers it has, and that the expenditure covers the sixty odd years the city has been incorporated is it. too much to ask s. 900 900 for sewers of the most modern kind during the next fifty years.
 'I feel confident that the city will eventually make use of the plans which the commission has provided for we little know how soon the state or the Federal governments will step in and tell us that we have got to stop the emptying the sewage into our har- bor. The great movements for santa tion which are being carried on about the country are demanding better con- dition everywhere. We know the mag nitude the fight against tuberculosis has reached and there is sure to be a campaign against unsanitary cond1- tions We know the condition of our harbor now because it is the outlet of our sewers and the evils are not going to lessen if the city increases in popu- lation. Everyone knows the harbor has been bottled up with a breakwater. You can't take a bucket and keep dumping things into it without it run ming over, can you? We'll there is go- ing to be time when we will need the sewage carried out to deep water. When that time comes the plans will come into use. The commission has done it's part in the matter. It realizes that $1,75O 900 is a great big bunch of money. but if we continue to build sewers as we need them we will spend a great deal of money which cannot be worked into the system ultimately Isn't it better to begin right and spend the s1,750, GOO on the foundation of the system and have something to build on in the future.
 "There is no need for any great hurry in this matter and the problem is one which the people should think over carefully. The reports explains every thing connected with the proposition thoroughly"