The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-21
DREW WANTS
TAX DISTRICTS
CONSOLIDATED

Editor of Farmer:
Sir-The member of the city govern
ment who raised the tax question,
deserves medal of honor, if there
second district boundary line should
be relaid I adhere to my statement
to the council, made April II, the IL
mill tax should go as far as the sewer
system, likewise the fire and police
service be limited to said line.
y building lot is worthless without
the sewer, and / am censoring the
authorities who allow cesspools and
outside toilet vaults, and there are
numbers of these in direct violation
of your laws.
The city government is very much
to blame that sewers are not in the
streets, as this stops building UP of
the locality, stops increased valua-
ton. I am saying to the much es-
teemed veteran Judge (the next G. A.
r. Commander.
There is no farm land in the Bridge
port township. 1t is building lots,
and that only. and his honor to pro-
mote the occupation of these lots
should see that a five cent trolley fare
is establishes to the north line of the
township from the City Hall. A ten
cent fare will kill the sale of all lots
and choke off the rapid accumulation
of the second hundred thousand. To
the other eminent and learned judge,
the forty acres Of land. five building
lots TO the acre, two hundred lots,
these will readily bring $500 each, this
is one hundred thousand dollars.
There should be no protest from the
owner at IT mill tax on the present
assessed value. 1t is not necessary
for me to say the only direction that
Bridgeport can populate is north.
Now I am criticising and consoring
the city government in this way. You
GET a so-called expert, give him a five
YOU that your sewers are pollut1ng
Long Island Sound. You go without
any reference to the real estate own
ers to Hartford and ask for mort
gage for Sc, 00o coo to reclaim the night
soil
Now I will submit a problem to
show the utter absurd ignorance Of
this matter. There are 100000 people
with one call to the toilet stool. The
water tank holds six gallons, this
EQUALS six hundred thousand gallons.
equals nineteen thousand barrels The
water company will tell you this esti-
mate is too small, it will take nearer
thirty thousand barrels. Now a pint
of solid matter, on an average. is
much in excess. This is three hun
dred and ninety-six barrels; that is,
you take thirty thousand barrels of
water to wash away three hundred
and ninety-six barrels Of night soil,
and you are polluting Long Island
Sound.
Do you drink this water? Do you
cook with it? Do you put it in your
steam boilers? Can you taste it in
the various kinds of fish you catch
in these waters?
Now If you had five hundred thou
sand people. the same relative proper
ton of dillution remains. Now I am
not saying a word as to the ebb and
flow of the tide twice in each "a
hours.
Now I will call your attention to a
very grave case where this night soil
reclamat ton comes in. All around the
reservoirs in the north end Of the
Bridgeport township and Pequonnock
River and all the other sources are
hornesteads, barns and stock yards.
The storm waters carry the overflow
from all privies and vaults directly
into the water you daily drink and
cook with This night soil retaining
applies all over the United States where
the water down stream is for house
hold lrse.
Now here is where I stand Or fall,
that is whether three-quarters of the
voters will support me. The Second
district line should include all the
Black Rock district, should go up
BrooElawn avenue to its junction with
Park avenue, then over Savoy to Mad
ison, up Madison to Thorme street,
east to within two hundred feet Of