East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-04-26

New York, April 26.-(Special.)-l
Plans for a great sewage disposal
plant which will involve the building
of new island three miles out at
sea and the expenditure of more
than $37,00O,000 for its completion
and the publication of all the city's
waters have been completed here,
which when they are finally put into
effct will give this city the most ef-
ficient sewage disposal system in the
country. At present the city's sewage
flows into the rivers in which a great
part remains, carried back and forth
by the tide, instead of going out to
sea. Under the new plan, however,
this will all be done away with.
Broadly speaking this remarkable
plan calls for twelve foot tunnel un-
der Brooklyn to an island to be
built in the shallower waters three
miles out at sea off Coney Island.
Through this tunnel the sewage would
be pumped to the new island where
all the impurities would be eliminat-
ed before it is finally allowed to flow
into the ocean. The location of the
new island has been approved by the
Harbor Line Board as 1t would not
be in the way of navigation nor have
an injurious effect on the harbor.
The cost of building the island has
been placed at $615,000 and its di-
mensions as now planned are 1900
feet in length by 1000 feet in width
giving an area of ABOUT forty acres.
A harbor will be provided for tank
N1,Nx- ae
carriers of the sludge removed from
the water before it is allowed to flow
into the sea. In connection with the
great water supply cystem now under
construction. this new plan should
equip the city in a manner superior to
any other in the world. incidentally
the new plan is certain to receive the
enthusiastic support of all bathers
at nearby beaches at which times the
water is so full of garbage as to make
swimming extremely distasteful.
New lines of organized graft have
been developed so rapidly here since
the beginning of the investigation or
the police department that it takes
something out of the ordinary to make
New York sit up and take notice
However, the discovery of organized
theft among the drivers of the deliV-
cry wagons of the city's merchants
amounting it is believed to $2,OOO,OOO
a year is attracting much attention
and the barring of the whole situa-
ton will be closely followed. Assist
ant District Attorney Brothers has
hn
of the statements or one man who
confessed to receiving stolen prop
erty amounting to more than $5O,O0O
| and revealed a system of thetts 10
| the district attorney which would ac-
count for the more than $2.OOO,OOO
worth of goods the Merchants asso-
citation says is stolen yearly from re-
putable business houses here. In ex-
planning the manner in which he per-
suaded drivers to steal for him the
confessing witness said: "Oh, that
| was easy for me. / became acquaint-
ed with these men easily. because
had been a truckman myself.
made IL my business to know them
and once 1 got one who would steai
| for me always tried through him TO
get others The drivers go out to
make a delivery and when they come
back thy raise a hue and cry and say
that some of their load has been stol-
en- Most of the time, hewever'the
goods have been delivered to the
fence with which they deal. That
is the way the game is worked. l
reckoned that our profits in the busi-
ness would amount to $4OO a week if
we had not been caught, because we
did thousands of dollars worth OF
business and not one legitimate dol
lars worth" As the case is develop
ed it may incidentally afford consid--
erable amusement provided the names
of the customers who finally clothed
themselves in the stolen goods are
made public.