The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-06
IN REPLY TO MIR. GOODSELL

Editor of The Bridgeport Farmer:
 My attention has been called to the published letter on the subject of the anti-polIution bill by Zalmon Goodsen of this city
 An expert engineer. referred to by MT. Goodsell, whose opinion is fortf- fled by other competent engineers and based on a wide experience on such subjects, stated to the Legislative com mittee that a sewage reduction plant for sewage could be constructed under the latest methods at an average cost of two cents per person per week. Mr. Goodsen has the temerity to assert that these experienced sewage experts do not understand their subject It's like a newsboy criticising the works of Plato.
 He next profoundly states that re- duction plants are still probIematical. The Boston experts have demon strated that the reduction of Boston sewage would cost $750,0O0 per year, and that the commercial value. as fertilizer of the by-products would produce one million dollars per year. For many years past, Holland, Germany, France and Eng land have made large profits from the reduction of sewage.
 He states as further objection that many towns and cities have no large
 areas for the deposit. Why, my dear
 Zal, such 'sareas" went out of vogue
 many years ago. Reduction plants no 1 longer consist of ''areas'' at all. The 1 sewage is separated into solids and liquids. The solids are for fertilizer,
 and the liquid product is sterilized and turned back into the great sea. He asks if the waters of our Connecticut | oyster grounds have been analysed to | ascertain their purity. Many an
 analysis has been made, both by the
 growers and by the federal govern | ment, and the impurity, and to an ap-
 pa1ling degl ee, made apparent. | He further states that oysters are | being shipped from all along our shore | front to all parts of the country for consumption. By reason of poisonous | irnpurity of Long Island Sound from l the millions of gallons of putridity emptied into these waters, not an oys- | ter, except on a small area at South NorwaIk, is matured in Connecticut
 waters, but by reason of the green color of the oyster, it is absolutely
 unsalab1e, and no one would think of eating them.
 He has been told that easter l lv storrnD are washing up oysters | along the shore and are gathered by a vast concourse of people who line ] the shore, catching them as the gale
 waits them in, and fattening upon the
 delicious gifts of the Gods. Please | inform us, Zal,Where Lhls oyster snow | CT is to be found.
 You say there are thousands of peo-
 ple to be seen fishing and digging | clans along our shore. Why, clans 1 these days on our shore ana | hens teeth are equally scarce Milford beach formerly gave forth
 it's thousands of bushels I have as a boy, dug two and three bushels at a tide I will challenge you to go | there and get two quarts at any t1de | todav what has eliminated them, but | the filth of sewage?
 You also think you see people by | thousands as you say, fishing in oul T streams and tidal waters. Aside 1 from a short season of harbor blues there are no longer any fish whatever
 in Connecticut waters; all gone undel the horrid irnpurity of human excre- | ton and acid products from manufac- | tories. I can remember when the Hou' satonic river was full of fsh-shad anc
 bass. Not fish is now surviving 1T l its waters. The filth, and particularly l tha acid nxoducta of the naanufactordaf