The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-07
Stratf0rd
STUPENDOUS ENGINEERING
 FEAT AT FRESH POND.
Gigantic Sewage Disposal Plant With Side Issues Will Cover Stratford
 and Bridgeport.
(Speciai to The Farmer. )

| Io1uc issues Wul OOVcT OCIfetAOA0
 and Bridgeport.
 Especial to The Farmer.)
 i Stratford, March 7.-One of the
 most stupendous enterprises ever con- i ceived in this part at least of the state is booked for this town In the
 near future if the plans already for
 mu. u.ated do not fail and it is hardly
 possible that they will for the men
 behind the scheme are equipped with
 the money, brains and push to carry
 out most any enterprise no matter how large. Information has Just i leaked out concerning the formation i of a company to dispose of the sew
 age of the town, in sanitary man ner and to utilize the elements usual ly lost in the depths of the Sound and i replace them on the soil. The hrst session of the legislature to insure a monopoly of the sewage of the town for 50 years by special charter. Rep-
 resentative w. H. Crawford, who is also a director of the company has i promised to do this and Representa- | tive Charles H. Peck has given his
 word that he will assist in any way possible. With the influence these two members of the General Assem- bly are known to have in that body l it is believed that this will be easy: The distribution of a few shares Of
 the $5,0OO,OO0 at which figure the new company will make it's first issue Will do much to further the scheme. Ine i special statute sought will Pron1plt i the dumping of sewage in the Housa- of canal from the river to Fresh Pond in the south end of the town
 which will be used as the storage 1 basin of the company. A tentative contract has been made with Edward | Roberts of this town, president of the To 1 Fresh Pond and another with J. E. Beardsley who will cement the 1n- terior of the pond after it has been pumped dry. A contract has also been made with w. B. Booth of the
 Booth & Platt Go. of Bridgeport. to
 install a battery of his bottle ma chimes recently invented right on the ground and bottle the water pumped from the pond and place 1t on the market. It has been known Tor years,
 even to the aborigines long; before the ne white man landed on the shores or Stratford that the water of Fresh
 Pond was a natural aperient rivalliEg the famous Carlsbad water and In flavor and odor esembling very
 much the waters of the Saratoga across the neck of land between the Fresh Pond and the Housatonic river will necessarily cut off all communl- cation with the light house at Strat-
 ford Point. Capt. Theme Judson, the
 keeper of the Stratford light and his
 family will be affected by the change but he has been induced to waive his rights by the offer of a large block of the stock in the new company.
 Briefly the company proposes to pay
 for the whole hole ot engineering tga a1sy frem rea5 the pond. As the pond is 75 feet deep in it's shallowest spots there will be enough water to furnish every man, woman and child in the coun- try with a pint bottle which at the uniform price of 25 cents per pint will bring quite a revenue. The inn proved machinery invented by MT. Booth makes the manufacture of bot ties a mere bagatelle when compared
 with methods now in vogue. One machine will turn out four complete bottles filed and stoppered every sec ond. A half turn of simple crank brings out a pint, a whole turn, a quart or any size up to five gallons A meeting will be held this week by important matters, among them the selection of a name. Wells Hollow Tunnell and Reduction Company" will probably be selected. This com pany was brought here by the Bridge port Board of Trade but the members o fthe local board will be allowed to invest at par if they feel so inclined. Several of the members of the local organization have already asked to be allowed to invest. One of the fea- lures of the project will be the erec- tion of an immense sign bearing the words Brought here by the Bridge port Board of Trade" in letters large enough to be read easily from the passing steamers on the Sound and from the Long Island shore. Attorney Ivan Warehouse has been employed to draft the charter which will permit the company to do most anything be- lieved to be of advantage to the new company. An offer will be made to the city of Bridgeport to dispose of all it's sewage which if brought to the Stratford line underground. It is estimated that the pond when turned into a receiving tank will dispose of all worry over the disposal of the sewage of the two towns for the next century at least.