The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-29
G0ODSELL TELLS
 HIS VIEWS ON
 POLLUTION BILL
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 After easterly storms have washed up hundreds of bushels of oysters along Fairfield and other beaches at extreme low tides. you will find these beaches lined with people gathering these oysters, which they take home for family use. Is there any known instance of any member of all these different families becoming sick or their health injured in amy manner from eating these oysters?
 Tt Is a well known fact that dur ing all the years the oyster. industries have been in the business, the set of oyster spawn has been uncertain as to results. Some years there has been large set of oyster spawn and other years a poor set, the causes of which cannot be attributed in any particular to the sewage conditions along our coast
 They say a large portion of the oyster maturing grounds formerly used in this State have been temporarily In what special instances has 1t been shown that the shellf1sh industry has been badly crippled?
 "Au the available property along our shores during the last twenty years has been bought up, cut into small summer homes. There is probably am average of one hundred summer cot tages built and occupied to-day, where there was one occupied twenty years ago, which means there are thousands of people now fishing and digging clans continuously along our shores, where formerly hundreds of people used to fish and dig periodically. This explains the scarcity of fish and clans and the same argument applies to our rivers and inland streams. Besides there are thousands of people bathing Sva he SoI Tar r,Cp Long Island Sound where formerly a very few enjoyed the privilege. How many Of these peoples health has been injured by taking a morning and ev- ening dip in the waters of Long Island Sound?
 Where does this garbage come from which is being spread along the coast It cannot possibly come from cities that collect their own garbage the same our city does, and are having the same properly taken care of at reduction plants. It must come then from the hundreds of vessels sailing in and out of our harbors, such as oyster boats, canal boats, tug boats. yachts and all classes of sailing craft. The owners of which purchase all kinds of supplies in our cities and towns for the support of their employees, and necessarily the watermelon and musk melon rinds, the orange, lemon and banana peelS and all the trimmings of the vegetables and the bloody wrap
 ping papers in which market supplies gre tied, are thrown overheard in large quantities from all these vessels. which garbage is afterwards scattered upon our shores by the action of the tide. Although it Is a well known fact that this waste material, after being thoroughly soaked in salt water is as harmless to do injury to the public health as lot of wooden shay fngs would be, still the scatterings of this garbage along our shore infu- ences the minds of many people that they personally must be in a sense in- jured by the polluted condition of the waters bordering our coast, when Ma ture for generations past, has always provided right at our doors a large and ample body of salt and a;ntiseptic water for the protection of the peo- ple's health, and to think that Mature in future years cannot be trusted to give us the same protection. is the height of folly.
 Where is there a single instance of death from ep1demfcs caused by the pollution of the sewage emptying into the waters of Long Island Sound? You will find that as far as polluting the waters of Long Island Sound is con- cerned, it is inf1nitesimal, in it's per centage, and when conditions become one-twentieth part as bad as has been painted it will be ample time to give this matter consideration.
 "A11 sanitary sewer systems up.to the present time have been erected in the line of. tests and experiments for in land streams, but not for cities and towns bordering on Long Island Sound or where large bodies of water are available, and where these new sewer systems have been installed on inland streams, engineers of these several systems have different methods for planning and building sewer plants for these different locations.
 Up to the present time, no sewer system has ever been proved or test ed that will show one-tenth as good results as Nature has provided for us in the cities and towns bordering Long Island Sound. If was a, Senator or Represen ntative from one Of these cit ies and towns located on our coast should never want to face my constit- uents again, if I voted to clothe the members Of the State Board of Health witk unlimited powers to order and di- rect the construction of new and ex- perimenta1 sewer systems in these cit les and towns.
 The cities and towns bordering Long Island Sound could easily. spend in the next ten to twenty years fRom $50 900, o0O to $1Oo oOO, ,0oO to reconstruct all of their present sewer systems and build experimental sewer systems to please these Oyster Industries. And after every city and town along our shore had met with these require ments they would find when too late that no material benefits had been de rived or the death rates 1essened in any particular, or the cultivation of oysters improved, but the tax pay CTS who own small homes in all these