The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-10

perative'' system, what has Bridge port suffered? The backing of water into cellars is due not to general sew age Aconditions but to peculiar local conditions. The Pequonnock river and Yellow Mill pond are carrying off the sewage What offence there is comes of the dumping of sewage upon mud flats The flow of water in these bod ies is ample to take care of the sew age and even with the further growth of the city if at any time these bodies of water become a nuisance, it is simple to discharge the sewage into them with the ebb tide The flow is one foot per second Within 4 hours the sewage could be we'll out into the sound.
 Speaking of the oyster beds he call- ed to instance the case of Baltimore. The trouble there was that the sew age was being dumped upon the oys- ter beds and destroying them, and then they built a system that would carry the sewage beyond the oyster beds Here the city proposes to build system that will carry the sewage into the oyster beds
 Mir. Wilson said that the bugaboo of a National Board of Health interfer- ing was not to be needed, because the creation of such body is not likely and that even if it was created it would have no Jurisdiction unless the matter became an interstate nuisance and the Bridgeport sewage flowed in to New York bay where there is no sewage whatever except that of New York city. sp
 As far as the state board of health is concerned, it has no Jurisdiction, he said, because the legislature at this very session just closed had refused to delegate the power of acting in such matters to the state board kI- ~@<~4 4k-l- . sewage upon the harbor front is not to be regarded as convincing. argu- ment. The city could dredge away ev- cry year as much sedimentation as would result, for less than $500, he said M
 MT. Wilson said he had respect for business men as specialists. He hin- self is businessman and is proud of 1t. But the truth from a messenger boy, he said is as good as the truth from king and the truth from an al- derman is as good as the truth from the president of the New Haven road or the president of the United States And because seven leading business men on the one side advocated the Her ing plan and three businessmen re- garded as perhaphs not so leading were on the other side at the former hearing the aldermen should not be convinced that the seven are right and the three are wrong.
 He said that the business men were successful specialists. But because MT. Cooper is successful merchant, he is not good physician. He wouldn't be called in to doctor sick horse, much less a sick baby And there is no reason why he should tell the board of aldermen that it must use this Herring system because he is a suc- cessful business man.
 MT Wilson rpTrir16a6 fha qldorropn that it was some of these same men who had sadd1ed upon the city the 20 year water contract. He then said he cared to say no more along this line to refute the claim that these gentle men were infallible because they were successful business men
 He took occasion to brand as piece Of unsupported impotence that state ment of newspaper that he was writ ing the communications presented by Mir. Goedsell to the council{ He said he did not know the sewages question as MT. Goodsell does, and. that he has implicit confidence in the sincerity and patriotism of MT. Goodsell and he isS convinced that if MT. Goodsell's ideas do not prevail and the Herring system does prevail it will cost many a hard earned dollar from the pockets of the people who own little homes, for the cost of sewers is charge upon the land and not property
 Zalmon Goodsell took occasion to point out the vast growth of the cty in the vicinity of the Maplewood ave- nue sewer which was laid 20 years ago and tapped into Dewey street, and since then that sewer has been called upon to take care of all that section between Dewey street sand Park ave- nue north to the Rooster river. Over BIO, 900 has been added to the 1st from that section. During that time