The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-18
GoodseI| Again
 Riddles Herring
 Sewer System
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without any added expense
 MT Phelan continues: T have never understood that the adoption of the new system would mean any added burden to the taxpayers of the city, and furthermore, I have never con sidered the projected system any more expensive than the present system ' How can this be so when for nine teen and a half years past the total cost for sewers in our city has been $566, ,00O, whereas Mir. Herings pro posed sewer system for the next five years calls for an expenditure of $1,- 150,796.20 and for the five years fol- lowing, an additional expenditure of $1,144,261.25, an average cost for the last nineteen and a half years of ESQ., 900 per year against $289, 505.74 per year for the next ten years for par tially building the Herring system as per his specifications, without adding interest charges or up keep each year for running the same.
 Do the taxpayers want their money experimented with and wasted in this manner? I doubt it very much.
 I honestly believe if the suggestions of MT. Phelan were followed it would make the best of campaign capital to be used later in the heat of a po- that every possible issue is used by the opposite side to influence the minds of the voters. You can easily say it was not intended in a political sense, but the material furnished would be used just the same, and es- pecially so when the last Republican administration refused to entertain in any manner the acceptance of the Herring sewer system and as Ex-Mayor Lee so clearly stated, it would mean certain bankruptcy for city of our size.
 So far as MT. Phelan is concerned he may not have foreseen that it would sooner Or later become a political question, but the manner and way in which these particular sewer bonds have been crowded to the front ever all other bond issues makes a pres ent to the Republican party of still more excellent material to use against the present administration.
 These sewer bonds granted by the Legislature were tagged with a pro- viso that the money borrowed upon conditions that the Herring system should be built with the proceeds.
 This tied up the hands of the AL dermen to this particular system, cer- tainly placing them in an unfavorable light before the public. Remembering that no other issue of bonds was tag ged, Or stated who should be the en-
 
 schools, bridges, almshouses,. firehous- es, etc. or what particular plan or method should be adopted in the use of the other bond issues.
 You know no other board of reput- able citizens would stand for such interference. Then, why were these committed parties so anxious to tie the hands of the aldermen and not those of alf other boards? Is 1t be- cause they cannot trust the aldermen, of believe that they are incompetent to fill the positions to which they were elected by the majority of the voters in their several districts?
 The members of the Honorable Sew CT committee had already expressed their honest convictions without any outside influence on present sewer conditions, so if the money from these sewer bonds could not be used in any other manner than specified. the par ties interested planned that they should not be used at all.
 It is very fortunate the city is not suffering for special trunk sewer ex- tensions this year. We can easily wait until another legislature con- venes, when the Board of Aldermen can ask for a bond issue if needed, for the extension of Our present sys- tenn without being handicapped through the influences of committed parties. St..r e.
 If the members Of the Board of AL dermen sense the feeling of the pub lie in regard to the position they have been placed in, they will not accept any such advice Or be placed in the same unfortunate condition the sec ond time.
 Is this the correct way to railroad scheme of this kind because commit ted parties personally favored it? Is it the right way to serve the best in- terests of the people?
 believe that citizens of Bridge port do not want any part of this Herring system laid in our streets. I believe they are perfectly satisfied notifications that have already been suggested. I believe they are much better satisfied to have all the waste water used in their homes emptied into our present combined sewer sys- tenn making a good and sufficient flowage to keep them thoroughly cleaned, and when the rains come they furnish additional flowage and flushing.
 I believe they do not want to dig trenches for laying 8 inch sewers when it costs no more to dig trenches for 15 or 20 inch sewers. The principal expense in digging deep trenches is the IaDOr Item. IT the Herring system is adopted, it means digging double trenches in most of our streets for small sized sewers, which will be much more expensive than our single combined sewer system costs today Double trenches call for extra taxa ton on all property holders. in the city, besides the personal cost to the property holders fronting on streets where sewers must be laid for dou- ble system in each yard.
 I believe our people will not gloss over the fact that our paved and macadam streets must be eventually double trenched again for the Herring system. How will such condition appeal to our business men and prop erty owners? It will not only affect their retail business for a time, but they must also take into consideration the enormous expense that will be incurred in the rebuilding and the re- paving of our streets.
 I believe most of our citizens are heartily tired of continually digging up our streets, because if the Herring system is adopted, it will make general destruction and rebuilding of our streets over again.
 IfHhe present administration adopts the Herring system they ought to make a thorough job of it. They cannot very well adopt small portion or a half Or three-quarter sewer system All sections of the city and it's peO-