The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-21
ADMINS lSTRATION'S BIG DEBT PROGRAM REvlvES
 MANY COSTLY PROJECTS
Advisory Body Considers :. Proposition That If Adop- ted Would Plunge City In. to Legal Limit of Indebt
 edness and Cause Monster Future Obligations.

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 pudiated Before, is Re
 vived By DeVer H. War
 ner-Park Extension Pro
 ject, Hitherto Conducted
 on Cash Basis, Also in
 Bonding Scheme.
 -The advisory committee. which May or Wilson has called in as a drowning man grasps at a straw, to help him put over the bond issues the people refused, is thus far dealing only with very old projects, most of which have been before the people for yearss and some of which have been badly beat en- two or three times
 The Park Board has a familiar, but ambitious scheme to enlarge the park system. by bond issue. The boule-. ward to Black Rock. which has been defeated by the taxpayers during 20 years or more, is in the plan, which also carries as a new feature the ac- quisition of Steeplechase Island. which Park Commissioner George R. Eamess informed the advisory com nittee, at it's meetings yesterday. would become the abiding place of some oil company. unless the city buys it.
 De Yer Fl. Warner, who is a mem Der of the advisory committee, brought forward the Herring repudiat- ed plan for sewage disposal which has been repudiated byl a ma original report, and which, had 1t been carried out as planned, would have been a ghastly mistake. because the demand for a large ancrnt of bonds for sewers is based upon the theory that within ten years the state will order all sewage out of the Sound's The Herring plan, as op- posed by he Farmer, provided for taking the sewage further into the S0und, and for the expense of con- demhirg oyster beds-s
 If all of the projects before the ad-1 vfsory committee are tecomn ended, it W III mean that the eop1e will have be- fore them projects for the expenditure of from $1.5o0.0O0 to $2.o00,ooO from fhe proceeds of a bond issue.
 -Of all the problems that are to coIne before us,sa said DeVer H. War ner, tsthIs problem of the disposal of the sewage will tbe the most vital one and yet, probably, the most uninter- estiag to the public. Yet we must face 1t. and recommend a system of sewage that will last for years to come.'
 ~S Mayor Wilson said that inside of fen years he believed an cities on the sound would be compelled by the IeRfsIature to dispose of sewage In some other way than by dumping it into the sound. The question of| 0vl1ether or@not the oyster beds might be condemned, or bought by the city and the custom of dumping far In t11e sound was discussed Most Of the corn1nissi oners were of the opinion hat the state would not sanction the destruction of the oyster industry Tn tffs vicinity in favor of sewage dis posaL
 City Engineer Terry was asked to prepares figures for the cost of con- struction of great trunk sewer systems m the east and west sides of 1he iT3eouonnock river with the 1aterals which Engineer Rudolph Herring rec- commended in his report some SIX years ago. MT. Terry said that some y,aT-ta of the trunk sewer lines which Fngtneer Herring recommended had all ready been constructed but that it would take a. $1.0OO,0oOz more to com7 plete the lines. He will furnish esfl- mates on the placing pumping sta lions at Henry street basin and near steeplechase Island
 ssThe men who solve the sewage problem in this city ought to be blessed by future generations" said Commissioner Warner
 
 T. King, but they will probably be
 Engineer Terry said it was neces- nary that some arrangements be made at once to relieve conditions at State street and Iranistan avenue where the sewer backs, up and floods the street at unusually high tides or during heavy storms. Sewers are, needed at once in the Black Rock district, Rail- road avenue, Howard avenue, Walde- mere avenue and other sections The sewers which the Remington Arms
 M. C. co are installing in the East End must soon be paid for by the city.
 MT. Terry said that the city paid one-third the cost and the property owners two-thirds but owing to the fact that assessments for trunk sew CTS cannot be collected until the lat erals running into them are p1R&g gcted payment is often delayed several years
 He said most property owners were very dfIafory in making payments on sewer assessments. There are many are known in the heart of the city. MT. warner said that it would cost 20 per- cent more today to construct sew- CTS than when Engineer Herring made his estimate, because of the advance in the cost of material since then.
 For the park commissioners, George S. Flames said his board desired money enough in the next two years to ex- tend the Seaside park boulevard and wall to Fayerweather's island, build a 1 bridge from the island to Fancher's dock to reclaim the land west of the l park to the island by pumping sand 1 Into the marshes there and then put 1 tinzr loam on top and planting trees. l IrhiS will cost s400, 900. Mir. Flames said E khat the park commissioners had |