Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-22
new ~ENGLANOERs
HEAR MARSHALL'S
RAP At GOVERNOR
Says He and Creede We're
Sighted Because of Their Ac.
tivity in Commuters League.

Something quite like a sensation was
sprung at the dinner of the New Eng
land Society of Orange last night, when
Howard Marshall. president of the
Commuters League, remarked that
though Governor and Mrs. Franklin
Fort have invited 500 odd guests to
BANQUET in honor OF Governor-elect and
Mrs. Wilson at the Women's Club, East
Orange, in January, his name and that
of Thomas r. Creole had been entirely
omitted from the list. When he added,
the intimation that this was because
Of his activities in behalf of the Com
muters, Leagues interest, all the trans
planted New E~nglanders sat up straight
In surprise and Governor Fort appeared
annoyed.
Save for this little acid touch the
banquet went off swimmingly. Gov
ernor Fort was principal speaker, and
almost every member Of the society,
with numerous guests, were present
at the Essex County Club to listen to
his and the other toasts. These were
answered by Mr.. Marshall. who said
the Commuters' League put most of
the ginger into the last State CAM
pangn; by the Rev. w. Warren Giles,
of the First Reformed Church, East
Orange, who spoke of "Things 1 Have
Thought and by Herbert Knox Smith,
commissioner of corporations Of the
and labor department, who
talked about the Corner Stone"
There was all the usual eloquent
praise for the f~orefathers and for their
descendants of the present generation.
and under the guiding hand of Toast
master Lawrence A. Norton, president
of the society. the banquet came out a
fine success.
Following, in part, is the speech Of
Governor Fort:
In the past our State has made some
vital mistakes, the first and foremost
ton of our rivers. No city or town
should ever have been permitted to
sewer. into a river or stream. 1t has
state and its municipalities. In the
early history of the State when the
population was small it's serious con-
sequences were no realized.
The great trouble with government
tai action Is that 1t seldom anticipates
future conditions. Public officials are
too prone to think only. of the present.
Ition of the Passaic, the Delaware. the
Raritan and other rivers and streams
of the State, tho water supply Of our
municipalities WOulQ nave Deeu III tnclI
very doors and the costly experience of
going back to the headwaters OF these
streams for pure water for potable pnr-
poses would not have been required.
1t was this pollution of the streams as
they came nearer tidewater which en-
Outraged private water companies to
go back into the hills and acquire
water rights in our lakes and rivers
sale.
We have a law requiring all poliu-
tion of streams to cease by 1915. It
horse has been stolen. but we should
lock 1t nevertheless. We should both
purify our rivers and tax over all
bampered by our STATE Constitution.
The Legislature can only do this by a
vote of the people. Massachusetts has
pointed the way. At a cost OF s4l,-
State, a metropolitan water district,
tcomposed of Boston and thirteen other
towns and cities; condemned and taken
over all their water supplies and gone
and conserved 1t for the cities. She has
been able to do all this and provide the
pay the interest charges on a charge
to the cities of $40 per million gallons
for the water, and at the end Of the
bond period, of less than forty years.
she can supply the cities at the mere
cost of maintenance.
Jersey City and Newark have their
own supply. The cost to Newark has
been $4,000, 900; the cost to Jersey City,
5000, 900. Paterson. Passaic, Eliza
beth, Hoboken and Bayonne are sup
piled by private water companies.
Montc1air and a umb of smaller
towns are also. Orange and East Or
ange have their own supply. This
State should make a great metropolitan
district covering all these municipali-
ties and condemn and take over all the
water rights of these cities, and con-
denim and take over all the rights of
the East jersey Water Company and It's
subsidiary companies; compel the aban-
donment of the Morris Canal and take
over all its water rights and then AXE
to itself all the headwaters OF the riv-
ers and all the fresh water lakes In
the watershed districts of North Jersey
and control and operate all for the
benefit of all our cities and towns, on
the principle of the Massachusetts sys-
TEN.
If this were done, in less than half q
century water could be supplied to all
these municipalities for $40 per mil
lion gallons or less. at, in fact, the
actual cost of maintenance.
The committee in charge of the din
ner included Congressman-elect Walter
T. Mccoy, chairman; Thomas R.
Creole, Ira A. Kip, jr., Richard G.
J%enkinson and John R. Everitt, treas