The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-13
LIVINGSTON OFFERS TO MANAGE GARBAGE PLANT
 FOR PROFITS IT MAKES
But City Must Purchase Property, Increase
 the Plant and put Him in Charge
Mayor Buckingham Much Opposed Cs Buying of Plant Ground That Would be Nuisance-Ciy Attorney Serves Notice Preliminary to Suit


 us expense and trouble. and numerous breakdownS for all of which the city is legally responsible to this com pany.
 "For years Mayors. Boards of Health, health officers. inspectors and weighers have had their attention call- ed to this rubbish, and all would throw up their hands and say it must be stopped. but that was the last of it. Patience has ceased to be a virtue. :. and feel we have been imposed upon long enough I know many Bridge port business men who agree with me.
 Last March the Mayor and presi- dent of the Board of Health came up lat my request and looked at the large accumulation of cans. etc. and ex- pressed horror. and at the next meet ing of the board it came up. but as usual nothing was done. I waited until could see there was no improve ment, and decided it was time to bring an end to it. So much for. that fea- ture of the case.
 "Now. as to the utterly unwarranted Cutcry in the newspapers that we have suddenly and without warning. thrown verge of summer.
 Doubtless. you are not responsible for these statements. for you know very well they are without foundation. The ostriches who have had their heads under the sand for the last five months. in disregard of our warnings and notices, nave forgotten the obvious and we'll known fact that the special committee now advising the Board of Health. was appointed in December to deal with this very situation. That swas the object of their creation. They had before then MT. Boardman, who is attorney for MT. Severance. and our own attorneys. Messrs. Marsh & Stod- dard., and were made fully aware of the entire situation.
 ''It is true that after the company failed to secure a location at East Lyme, for which several citizens of Bridgeport are responsible, the writer decided he could not afford to con- tinue in charge of the garbage plant, as it was not large enough to war rant paying him what he could earn in other lines of business. After thus deciding. he advised MT. Severance. who had then become owner of the plant by foreclosure. This was last December. and very shortly after it came out in the papers that Con11nis- sioner Kelly stated the Board of Health would not continue with our plant, and would ask the Board of Alp portionment for s75,000 to build incin- orators. When this came to my mo- tice. at once called on Dr. Ober. and told him I expected to give up the management OI IQe pldIlt. dtlu IcdNc Bridgeport, and if they were going to build a plant, I felt sure Mr. Sever ance would sell as I did not believe he would run the plant without. me. even if the city wished him to assume the contract. Dr. Ober said he knew nothing of asking for S75,000 for an- other plant, but if he cared to make a proposition, to do so. and I wrote MT. Severance to send one. also saw Mayor Buckingham. the exact date of. both of these interviews be- ing December 11th. 1909.
 'tMr. Severance made a proposition to sell for $40,000. I stated all these facts plainly to everyone interested calling personally on every member of that committee, including yourself. but they took no action for the reason. as I understand it, that they thought Mir Severance was 'bluffing' them. Al least that is an expression you have fCOntinued on Page 2)