New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-26

cost nearly $4,000 The exact figures as
given by the commissioners are ;792, i66 81.
The engineer was George r. Byrne. o.
White Plains. and the sewer is considered
a highly creditable piece If up-to-date en-
cheering
The only antique feature Of the Bronx
sewer plan was the attempt 70 put the
raw. untreated sewage into the hudson
River. When il became known that the
commissioners not only contemplated doing
this. hut were unable 70 do otherwise un-
der the original statute, there arose howl.
The cry began in New York City, ascend
cd along the Hudson River and Is still
audible. The engineers had tunncllcd the
outlet sewer straight west along the out
skirts of Yonkers two hundred feet north
Of the New York City boundary line. Tn
fortunately. the engineers could hardly
have chosen n worse place for the drain
age 90 empty into the Hudson Edmund
D. Randolph. treasurer of the New York
Life Insurance Company who lives d short
distance south OF the spot where tho sewer
comes ont. said the other day:
1T is "a shame. The commissioners ought
10 have devised way Of sending that great
body Of sewage over into tho Sound There
are nearly one thousand people who use
private lighthouses in the immediate W.
cinitv. besides the public baths up at Lud-
low Dumping sewage into tho Hudson
River without first purifying it is certainly
"A step backward"
South Of Mr. Raudoph's home b. nee o
orphan asylum which has between two
and three hundred children. North 81 DO is
tho Academy Of Mount 81 Vincent. the
home Of more thau four hundred young
Girls and Sister of charity. II IS said TINT
i'm the summer time two hundred persons
a dav usc its uathhouscs. Bayard Living
ston Peck. OF New York. tho academy s
attorney. has fought tho scver commits
sion over since its inception IN gas.
Tho Ncv Yorh city boundary linz runs
for several hundred feet on tho dividing
line between the Academy Of Mount -.
Vincent and its northern neishbor thu
Ieake and Watts orphan House -Ihe
latter institution commodities two hun
drcd children. The outlet sever runs I'M
dor tho land Of this home FOR orphans. Its
attorney. John Mason Knox. of New York.
fought the commission vigorously as soon
as il VA discovered that the plan was 10
discharge INC ldN sfN AZ iii'' 80" '''
Resides tic taXpsy er's lawsuit aud the
o,nosifiou Of tho Academy Of Mount ~.
Vincent and Of the Lcako and Watts
orphan House. the commissioners nave
had an active opponent in Edward Hatch.
,r chairman Of the committee on harb"r
noIlution of the Merchants Association.
Mr. Hatch for the last five years has slept
with one eye oren. He has waged an un-
ceasing war against the Bronx Valley
sewer plan. 70 lump raw sewage into the
Hudson. He began the fight IN 1905, before
the bin was passed. and he has been fight
ing ever since. His office contains a shelf
Of hooks filled with Bronx Valley sewer
data. When he nights. Nj. Hatch believes
in a twemtv-four-hour day
AR Hatch was Victorious in his fight
against untreatcd sewage in the Pa-salc
valley proposition. and hc expects to force
the Bronx Valley commissioners to erect
am adequate publication plant. Speaking
~ The Bronx sewer. MI Hatch said re-
Gently.
NO one denies that the trunk sewer IS
=, GOOD thing. n did seem unnecessary.
however. 10 force thc outlet over into the
uudsor since the Bronx Valley naturally
drain. toward tho sound The federal gov
ernmcnt viii insist through The War Dc
r3rfment that tIc ecns-r must not be Ic-
IeTcd in the hudson River in us raw
tate believe raf factor, rurihcs''1
rl4nt would cot romcrl.-c between 81 o.
c'o and i-on ono 70