Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-09
URGE ORANGE To
OBSERVE GOLDEN
RULE IN DISPOSAL
Council Begged Not to Put I'm
hOff Plant Into Belle
yiIle's Back Yard.

Urging the officials of Orange to
obey the golden rule in determining
plans for future sewage disposal,
DELEGATIONS of citizens from Orange,
Bloomfield and Belleville appeared
before the Common Council last night
to protest against the establishment
of an Tmhoff disposal plant at
Belleville.
That the vigorous attack upon the
proposed Independent disposal plant
at BelleVille for Montclair, Orange
and East Orange made a profound
impression upon the Orange officials
was apparent. After the arguments Of
those favoring the 1mhoff tank system
are heard at a meeting on Septemb Der
II and the ordinance authorizing Or
ange to join with Montclair and East
Orange is offered it is considered
more than probable that the quietus
will be given the independent plan
and Orange will seek to re-enter the
Passaic Valley plan.
President John c. Fineran last
night publicly stated he would NOT
vote for the Imhoff plan. and MS col
league from the First ward, Council
man p. Allen Smith. declined to vote
to give a hearing TO those who favor
the plan. Councilmen are opposed
to the plan of another sewage exper-
iment, and they also dislike the plan
of transgressing the properties OF
municipal life by putting the dlsposai
plant and it's consequent doors on
the property of a next door nelghnor.
Hugh j. Brady, who was omar niah
of a sewer committee OF the Com
mon Council years ago, cautioned the
council that the best plan of sewage
.disnosal was to carry II on TO tide-
lvafer and not disturb ones neigh
bors He said that towns with
iTnahoff plants would very quickly go
~ fidewater if the geography OF
their section permitted them so to DO.
After stating the moral and legal
aspects of the present problem ne
told how when he was In councii,
Engineer Bassett gave an estimate
of $3.50 900 as cost for sewers, but the
CITY spent more than a million and
quarter of dollars and nearly bank
rl1pted the city He said the same
emba rrassment should be avoided t
this time.
Absalom p Bachman made a char
acteristic speech and told Orange 8
council do your dirty work in your
own BACK ydr0. lie Sdlu IL he WEI z
a Belleville resident he'd get out an
injunction against the plant. He
said that carelessness of employees
would repeat in the Imhof plant
the shortcomings of the present out
let in Belleviile and pleaded for OBJ
servance of the Golden Rule.
Mayor William Hauset. of Bloom
field. who was accompanied by q
delegation of residents, made an i'm
FASHIONED appeal against the Imhoff
plant and its proposed location in
Bloomfield and Belleviile. which he
described as immoral. indecent. I'M
american and un-Christian. He
warned against duplicating the use
of a by-nass as at Batavia, n. Y.
and said the Sewerage Commission
would never stand for sending $4,000
1000 cubic yards of filth in the Passaic
river. condition that surely would
be created, he said.
Mayor c. Lyman Denison, of Belle
willie. said he wished TO contradict
the published statement that Orange
could not get in the Passaic fiume.
He said only a vote of the communl-
Ties in the Passaic flume could de-
termine that