Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-07

you would not give ten c.a,
five thousand dollar cottav."
shore of lake where Won y.
use a boat. 1t Is needles.
that proposition. The evidsnss
ed, and they all admitted =
any possible pollution from D
or fishing was in infinitesi,.sS 4
of what the general pol,u,ias IA
that lake. Up on the nortbsa
of the lake is North Auburn
village without any Sewers
with a natural drainage risss
into that lake, which the an..
who control this water dists;a
not seen fit to stop. That ~
evidence. Any number Of NJ
who inhabit these cottages %
to the shore of the lake ana =
! the shore of the lake-all wssI
for everybody-and this law NJ
| prevent it. Why an expert MT
the greatest experts in the 49,
came before us with the tes,'s
that any possible pollution
boating and fishing, as sbor,
| the evidence introduced. wonn
be more than 1-100 part of N.
eral pollution from other so,rs.s =
Now that is the situation nm
On the shore of the lake. M,X
! ponents of the measure-I al,
good many questions during ~.
ternoon. and the proponents - 4
/ measure stated that on an Az.
in the summer time at the he's
I the season, it would ayera,s
boats that were out on that
! Auburn Lake. Now you think MI
pollution from six boats on an
! age n day. when in Sebago z
| from which we draw our watt, ]
ply, there are hundreds on /, "
today and every day until II 4. y
up next fall. hundreds every !
Nobody has ever suggests s.
thought of it, but gentlemen u
| trustees OF our water distriot
/ trustees of the Augusta watt, II
| trict, the trustees Of Other u
ter districts in the State
, gone to the sources of pol,.
namely, the cottages on the shr.
the lake, and they have either ~.
them. or condemned them and W
paid for them. And | say IA "
gentlemen of this Senate, that NJ
nothing more or less than A pns.
tion on their part-and | am INF 3
solely from the evidence, withol' 4
feeling in the matter, without an, q
terest in the matter, but jr a
solely from the evidence-thX
nothing more or less than 81
on the part of the trustees Of
water district to go to work and -
to boating and fishing, and then II
can buy these cottages at Their Y
price. There is nothing more n
| There is nothing less to it. MI
the whole situation in a nut-shs
have just as much interest hi
health of the women and childruE
the men. of everybody, of all the n
zens, but | tell YOU that that al
ton does not exist. Here isa
ton, signed since yesterday noa h,
$50 citiZens-Some of the most r
inent business and professional II
of the cities of Auburn and Levi
against this matter. And | III
talked with several Of the mos II
tinguished citizens-I don't he
to mention Arthur G. Staples, d:
of the Lewiston Journal, who II,
me there was nothing to It. HI.
My family drink it and Thru
much of my family as anybody II
is unfair. 1t is a most unfair ~,
position. gentlemen. Let those
pie so to work and condemn III,
property if they cannot buy Il q
proper price. and when they ~,
denim it and take it and own N,
shores of the lake, then I woul
the first one to vote to close fM
boating and fishing. 1t is MI
question of boating and fishing I'M
1t is a question of this Legish4
confiscating seventy five to
red dollars worth of property T..
out giving them a dollar in retu
Mr.. CARTER: Mr.. President II
the time l was sixteen years IN
up until 1908 / owned a cottaaX
the shores of Lake Auburn. h
old days when that cottage was
the lake was the water supply 81,
the city of Auburn, and 1t wiA*
that time closed to bathing. ~
seen almost all the cottages u
surround this lake built there. A
they have all been built since thy
when Lake Auburn was a water
ply. These cottages have all
built and used and occupied knos1
that at some time it might OIL
condemned or set apart by the -,
power of the state and be clossH,
boating and fishing, as it was q
to swimming. Now since that kH
what has been the condition W,
prevails. No one would thlnS
buying 4 cottage on the sea sheNz
they could not go in bathing ",
one would think of building 81,
tage on the shore of Mousam EA4,1
they couldn't so in bathing or m
ming. For thirty years there
never been any bathing in LAKE
burn. Why is that? Because
the police powers of the stae NJ.
thought they had better not We
the tub from which they ~
These cottages have grown up ~
and they have grown up Me
just what the conditions were
and it would take a very lartes
of money to purchase tnat 49,
i have heard it said that
cost hundred thousand dollM
more to condemn the land ana
the cottages back from the snas
the lake. which would be yer!
1t certainly would be fine -
drinking supply of the innaM-
were protected by condemnauoa
ceedincs and no drainage OF any
going into it, but that would e.
lot of money. 1t would cost NV
tees of the water board OF Lew IA
and Auburn from 100000 to A
at this time to buy the shole
Lake Auburn. and to condeml Il
property. Therefore, this iees
in it's righteousness says TO u
habitants Drink the water ID
is contained the eXcretions Q,
who use 1t for the pleasure o.
Ing"
Mr.. CRAM of Cumberland
President. may the Senate
formed who signed the repoiN
and "B."
The PRESIDENT: The Chal
state that report AZ" is slsn.S FL
Wing. Holmes. Maher, Martin
Hussey; the report "R" is SIZE ss.
Hinckley, Hale, Hamilton: m =