The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-01

A sewer, 14x21, was laid on River street The original plan was to build a brick sewer, 36x54, up River street along North avenue to Trumbull road distance 4,5U0 feet, cost $8 per foot Total cost, $40,000. From this main trunk, when needed, a 30-inch brick sewer should be extended up Reser- voir avenue and Chopsy Hill district Another g30-inch brick sewer should extend up Trumbull road and another branch take care of Glenwood ave- nue.
 By extending the Wilmot avenue sewer from Elmira street 4,000 feet, to Boston avenue; -38X54, at $S per foot. would cost $36,000.
 Reorganization Due.
 Thompson street and Porter street sewer, north of the junction of Por- ter and Main streets, should be re- laid; present trunk sewer size up Main street to town line for North Main street section.
 pitulation for trunk sewers inn medfately needed:
 Northwest section. ...-.... $75,00G Lindley street section. ..... 38,80C Island brook section. ....... 4O,O00 Wilmot avenue section. ..... 36,O0O
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 After this communication was pre- scented and read before the comm oD council, other parties presented En- gineer Hering's modified sewer system to the same tribunal and advised it's substitution for the Scofield plan. Since January 30, 1911, to the present time 1 have. advocated the original Scofeld sewer plan. thoroughly believ- ing it is in every way the best suited to conditions existing in Bridgeport at the present time.
 I presented communications bear. ing upon this sewer question to the common council on January 30, April 24, June ,, August ', September 5, September IS, October 2, October and November 6, in answer to propo- sitions advanced to change our pres ent sewer system.
 If you would carefully read these communications I believe you would be thoroughly convinced by the rea- sons and arguments advanced as to the soundness of the Scofeld plan; that the present sewer conditions in Bridgeport, properly conserved, are ample for the next 25 years. If you cannot spare the time, Attorney F.. B.. Peck and ] would be pleased to ex- plain the most salient points at issue to you at your. convenience.
 Republican Pledge.
 The republican platform pledges It. SCH to Ill the once OI clly engineer with an engineer who will be eXperi- enced in sewer construction and the installation of a sewer system that is approved after careful consideration by the most reputable modern engi- neers of experience.
 At the common council hearing on the sewer question, October 24, 1911. MT. Herring frankly admitted in re- sponse to questions addressed him by Attorney Eugene B. Peck, that with out the intercepters and the pumping carrying out of his ultimate plans, his sewage system possessed no advan- tages over the present system of sew age used here.
 Alr Peck also asked MT. Herring, tWhat benefit can there possibly exist in the sanitary sewer over the com- bined sewer without the pumping sta tion and the intercepters?"
 MT. Herring replied, "I would not say there is any,
 Mr. Herring also said he had found that there were only two cities in the whole country that could show a bet ter bill of health as to typhoid than Bridgeport.
 In MT. Peck's communication to the common council of November 6 he calls attention to statements made by Colonel William M. Black, U. s. A., a most eminent authority on sanitary engineering, who was appointed to in- vestigate the pollution of New York bay, and who, being an officer of the