The evening world. Newspaper, November 29, 1915, Page 3

whe aS a $1,900,000 YEARLY SAVING "INN Y. CITY IN MERGING THE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM Ashokan Practially Completed at Cost of $176,000,000—No Neces- sity of Schoharie Extension at Cost of $30,000,000 More. The Ashokan water supply system, constructed at a cost of approxl- mately $176,000,000, is practically completed. All the tunngl work has been done, the reservoirs are filling up, (i within @ short time this city should be enjoying a dally supply of 500,900,000 gallons of pure mountain water flowing through the mains under pressure suMctent wplift it by gravity te the twentieth story of downtown butidings, This upply will be ample for the needs of the city for at least fifteen and possibly twenty years to come, Despite the fact that New York has Teached a taxation crisis which !m- perils real estate values and all secu- rities based on real estate, there has been adopted by the Board of Water tion of all rules of economy to spend money for something that is not | needed. The city does not need any more Supply and the city # plan to spend | Water. When the Ashokan reservoir $30,000,000 more on the extension of ‘the system to the Schoharie supply, which is considered inexhaustible, ‘This contemplated expenditure of $30,- 000,000 is for something the people will not need until the infants of to- day are old enough to vote, AN IMMENSE SAVING TO THE city BY SIMPLE LEGISLATION. It would seem in the light of condi- tidns confronting the taxpayers that the Schoharie extension plan should be deferred until ther@ is some sign of @ strain on the supply furnished by the Ashokan system. Such a proced- ure would require legislation Involv- ing a merger of the Board of Water Supply with the Bureau of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, thereby reducing materially the payroll cost of the first named body. Of course, if the Schoharie exten- sion plan is deferred until the city needs the water, there will be no ex- cuse at this time for incurring an ob- ligation to expend $80,000,000, There- fore, there would not be Issued $20,- 000,000 in bonds as a starter, and the city would save the interest on these bonds and the funding expenses as well. All this would mean a direct saving to the city of approximately $1,650,- 000 the first year following the aban- donment of the Schoharie plan and a rapidly increasing saving each year as the working force of the Board of Water Supply transferred to the Bu- rean of Water Supply, Gas and Elec- trielty was reduced, In attempting to put through the plan outlined above the city would meet with the determined opposition of tbe Board of Water Supply, the members of which cannot see even the beginning of the end of their Mbore and their $12,000 jobs before " 1922, However, the city ta confronted with an absolute necessity for econ- omy, and cev@iinly it 1s a direct viola- a |DRINK A GLASS OF REAL HOT WATER BEFORE BREAKFAST. |Saye we will both look and fee! clean, eweet and fresh (and avold Iliness, —— Sanitary science has of late made pid strides with results that are of Sihola blessing to humanity. The lat- est application of its untiring research js the recommendation that it is as ‘ecessary to attend to internal sanita- ion of the drainage system of the hu- body as it is to the drains of the Whose of us who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when we arise, jtting headache, stuffy from a cold, by; openin, ey each morning. and flushing out the whole of the internal poisonous stag- nant matter. Ewery one, whether ailing, sick or well, should, each morning before breakfast, drink a glass of real hot -water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it to wash from the stomach, liver and bowels the provicas day’s indigestible waste, sour bile and nous toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. The action of hot water and limestone phosphate on on ret stomach is wonderfully in- Tt cleans out all the sour fermentations, gases, waste and acidity and gives one a splendid appetite for breakfast. While you are enjoying your breakfast the phosphated hot water is quietly extracting a large volume of water from the blood and getting ready for # thorough flushing of all the inside or; ¢ millions of people who are both- ered with constipation, bilious spell stomach trouble, rheumatic mitfne! others who have sallow skins, blood disorders and sickly complexions are urged to get a quarter pound of lime- stone phosphate from the drug store. This will cost very little, but uf cient to make any one a pronounced crank on the subject of internal san- itation.—Advt. Sunday World “Wants” Work Monday Wonders, system is full it will hold enough water to feed the city with its full daily flood of 600,000,000 gallons for eight months without the addition of @ drop to the supply. The only pos- sibility of a water famine 1s connected with @ breakdown of the distribution syatem somewhere between the Asho- kan reservoir and the city, The Sco- harle storage extension, being beyond the Ashokan reservoir, would be of ho relief in such a contingency, A PAYROLL SAVING OF A MIL- LION A YEAR. | The roster of employees of the Board of Water Supply on June 30, 1914, carried an aggregate in salaries and wages of close Jo $1,000,000. This total does not include ‘the apparent it of the police system, ‘ding to the Board of is being materially contract works © limits are abandone roll of the Board of W Total ..... ‘ : These figures include a putation on monthly pay. There ts still a sufficient police force and there are other expenses chargeable to the Board of Water Supply to make the total expense $1,000,000 a year, not in- cluding any expenditures for work done by contract. Of course, if the Schoharle exten- sion plan is carried out this big pay- roll will remain practically intact. The great force of engineers in the Catskill! Mountains which, in some districts, has occupied most of the hotels to the utter exclusion of the summer boarder, will continuing en- gineering work, And the board will keep right on making requisitions on the city and the city will continue to meet these requirements without a question. The immediate discontinuance of the Schoharie extension project would mean a complete change in the work of the Board of Water Supply. There would be no further necessity for ex- ploring and surveying engineers in the mountains beyond the Ashokan reservoir. The whole work in tion to the plan of supplying New York with water would be bound up in completing the loose ends and | turning the water into the pipes. | CITY LOT PRICES ON COUNTRY ACREAGE WOULD DRop. Aside from the possible saving al- ready pointed out the city would profit in suspending the Schoharie project by putting a sudden and marvellous decrease into the value of the lands likely to be taken over for reservoir and water shed purposes, Farmers, residents of villages, in fact, all land owners in the region which’ is to be taken over by the city for water sup- ply purposes, have plastered city lot values on thelr holdings, Uxperience has shown that they will get very much more than their land ‘s worth, Then, after they have sold their property, they tax the land held for water supply purposes and tho city, after paying them exorbitant prices for thelr land, proceeds to pay most of their taxes, If the Schoharie extension pli abandoned and tt ts announced that the city 18 content to rest for the present with the ample water supply at hand, nine-tenths of the values of lands in the prospective reservoir and water shed region will fade away into thin air, But, if the plan is carried out, the elty, being committed to the extension, will be loaded up with these Alctitious valuations and damages as well. No matter how long the city might defer taking over the Schoharie water shed there could be no doubt of the ultimate acquirement of all property in that vicinity needed for the water supply of this municipality, The right of the city to take a source of water supply is protected by the constitu- tion. In this case there is another factor which insures the Schoharie water shed to the city of New York for all time: no other city in the State could utilize It, A merger of the Board of Water Supply with the Bureau of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity should decrease the $1,000,000 payroll 25 per cont. by the very fact of merger, Two of the three Water Supply Commis- sioners could be dispensed with. One should go into the new merger to su- perintend the turning on of the water, and the work of distribution and con- siderable of the old engineering staff would have to be retained until the system was in working order, Here would be a saving of $260,000 a year, The merger and the abandonment of the Schoharie project would pre- vent the issuance of bonds amounting to $20,000,000. Here would be a saving in Interest of $1,000,000 a year, And, assuming that these bonds would be issued on a proper funding basis for fifty years there would be a saving of $400,000 a year In addition Swift # Company's Aen Gcaee Ta valent ‘pate Beat, 10,70 cents per pound.—advt, Save World’s Babies From War’s Ravages; ((\VERNORS URGED 22.2 ee i ewer ins b } . Motherhood Knows No Frontiers, Says Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, Leader of Hungarian Feminine Thought—A Physically Weakened Genera- tion Will Have to Bear Staggering Burdens of Greatest of All War Indemunities. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. “Men invented nationality,” observed Mme. EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29 A Woman Pacifist ’s Plea for Early Peace BY FORD 10 MAKE {Sse aan at Sertens LOM PPL TT LT Rosika Schwimmer, ————— body's poking fun at him, He be- leven the slogan, ‘Get the boys out will do more to help the pian than a more dignified appeal, And one thing i he says he of—the boys in the | i f he : in ure ‘ | trenches will not be among those who , , mock at the scheme.” {¢ - | Mr. Lochner added that Mr. Ford {not taking Richard Bartholdt along ———— | because he {# pro-<German, “Mr. |Even If They Go Only as Far|Bartholat nas said that Germany ) , | would weicome peace if she could be as Norway lheir Prestige assured necurity. Now let Mr ¥ Hartholdt add his influence to ours, Will Help. |he aald ix Mr. Ford's idea | Mrs. Ford sent out only 6,000 tele- | ee \ grams afking people to telegraph | ; ar tee ' President Wilson to urge peace, Mr SIX NEW “VOYAGERS. |rochner dectared, and fully 40,000 muck | 5 ee, telegrams were sent to the Prosident | P |. |-sall at the senders’ own expense, {Leader of Project Does Not] Gov. Arthur Capper of Kansan tele- oe . graphed: “I regret I cannot possibly ° Mind Fun Being Poked accept your invitation, I am heartily BEL eo . |in aympathy with you in your under- ’ at It, He Says. * |taking, but the laws of this State : | make no provision for an acting Gov. | Absolutely Removes ernor in the absence of the Chief Ex- six new namen were added to-day ecutive, It ir Impomibie’ tor me to | LAdigestion. One package to the thirteen who have already| ave. I hope your plan wilt be «| proves it. 25cat all druggists. bs success.” 4@|Joined the ny of Henry Ford's d ‘ompany o| ‘Bios Other Gavernors, notably those of peace ship, Oscar 1, The most cheer-|ygaho ankPot Ohio, also telegraphed ing news received by Secretary Louts| their aympathy. P, Lochner before he took the two) "Mr. Ford is going to try to get as o'clock train for Philadelphia to con. |™any Governors as possible to go fer with John Wanamaker wae aj‘ eWay) § wet Loobnet: exe night telegram addressed to Henry | Diatned. fen if they © Ford, It read: to the end, the mere fi “Aamire you of aupport of Parents’ | Crossing the aea with Association of New York City, As |¢trand will have a big effect, the President of the Federation of ; - Parents’ <Associations of the Public} CURES BICHLORIDE POISON. Schools of New York City, the largest _ — parents’ brganization in the United! CINCINNATI, Nov. 20.—Phyatotans States, 1 piffer you thelr support and | at the Cincinnat! General Hospital have encouragement in your great work, | discovered an antidote for bichloride of Ready toico-operate with you in any| mercury, | one of the most corrosive 4 poisons known, vay. Will get up onater mans sine Bie Lali ats A few days ago Miss Birdie Talbott meeting if you desire . took four of the deadly tablets, She} This was algned “Gerald 8. Grif-| was taken to the City Hospital writhing | fin, President, West One Hundred and/tn_ agony, The physicians gave her} |Twenty-ffth Stree’ k Terrace | copioun doses of a combination of drugs | Kast, Manhattan; telephone 6133 Au-| discovered by Martin Fisher of | dubon ‘etary office, Seymour! the medical department of the Cincin- — | Ro dale, No, 1269 Broadway.” nat! University, To-day the woman laws require that an illegitimate ohild| ‘The new acceptance of invitations | lett the hospital entirely cured. shall be supported according to the|to go on the peace ship were: |soclat status of the father. In my OWN! Conant, Willla G. Tarrytown, N, ¥. country of Hungury the ‘mother may | (ye eee ee nathee, require support of the man, but the al javertc outs, Winnetka, Tl, |lowance 1s tegulated by her social stat-| Hosteller, T, A. President Sunday us. You know the man of high social! school Association, 3339 Bigh- or financial position does not betray | |, % the high-born baroness but the ua-| teenth Street, Washington D. C. | protected shop gil and when the| Shelley, Rebecca, Detroit, Mich, | \child’s maintenance 19 based on the| Stearn, Dr, Moses, No. 324 South] status the future citizen Gets | Fie Avenue, Philadelphia, | The natural chia] Wales, Miss Julla Grace, No. 209 of the millionaire must be given by | West Gilman Street, Madison, Wis the father the ene Dery Agee er gh “Ten moving picture nouses have 0 . ca dik of proving immorality on the [xed 0 be allowed to send thelr \ Hart of the mother does not work, It|operators with us," sald Mr Lochner, is enough for the woman to establish | "but only one will be taken. Moat of that he might be the: father of the|tnem offer to pay. Mr, Ford thinke child, and if he introduces evidence that other men may be similarly - | of taking whatever they pay and any able and proves it, the only good it does him is to compel them to share his burden, “Fundamentally the Norwegian {dea ts right, Mme. Schwimmer added, | Try Correct Glasses For Those Headaches! 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Primartly,| “because the state's main concern | women are mothers, and motherhood knows no frontiers. “I am a Hungarian,” continued the foremost feml-| (soy, nist of the Magyar race, “but I join hands with the) “In my opinion the Norwegian tdea women of the belligerent nations who are fighting the) Dual Empire, and plead with them for peace, because I) o¢ poly LS | feel that the babies of the world must be saved—the) At this point an Englishwoman who | Hungarian babies, the French babies, all the babies of} The cry of one new-born baby) mer stop the confilct in Europe. T was not in sympathy with this futile pilgrimage; I do not admire Jane Addams as a Mrs, Partington trying to sweep back the sea with a broomstick any more than I commend the mistaken energy of her illustrious predecessor in the role, And yet you cannot talk with any of the women peace delegates—and particularly you cannot meet Mme. Schwimmer—with- out appreciating their splendid, if mis- taken, motives. Mme, Schwimmer received me In the early morning, and in her flame-col- ored kimono, her black hair flaring above brilliant eyes, she herself looked like a flambeau—the symbol of life itself which It is woman's mission to| pass down the ages. | WHY WOMAN 18 THE PATRIOTIC) CHAMELEON, “Don't you think,” I asked Mme. Schwimmer, “that the reason women are not #o patriotic as men—we might | as well admit that they are not—is because for centuries woman's na- tionality has been a shifting value, Sho is American to-day, French to-mor- row, Serbian ten years from now, ac- cording to the color of her husband's soul. After all, you can't expect sta- ble patriotism from an international chameleon.” “That has much to do with it,” Mme. Schwimmer answered me, ‘but even without the foolish law that gives a woman the nationality of ber husband women would know that the one fixed value of life is the child | and that the frontier which divides | one nation from another {a an arti- ficial, really a superficial, thing. In Europe to-day men may be English or French, Russian or Austrian, but the women are simply mothers, The women of Europe speak with one| voice—the voice of Rachel weeping, weeping for her children—the child- | ren now born, the children who never will be born because of this war, and the children who will be born erip- pled or diseased because of the In- juries inflicted in battle upon their fathers.” I asked Mme, Schwimmer which ot! war-shattered Europe. should be powerful weightier than all the reasons of all the Cabinets, White Papers, the Gri whatever the foolish thelr foolish excuses and justification: I saw Mme. Schwimmer in New York just before she left for Washing: | per cent.” ton and, with Mrs, Philip Snowden, the English Suffragist, joined the group of pacifists who asked the President last week to make one more effort to) ny Papers, the Green Paj which they print|!en who have be Narvey W. Wiley, Director Good =— = Hounekoeping u of Foods, | died al- | Manttation and th, two popular thoorles sho accepts us| y, 0 sl er sald, “the | [iad defining the probable position of wom- | fl en in Europe at the wa “Do you think that the war, which has forced many w their own fee compelled th men to stand on| all y t economically and has; weakened or crippled children, That,” m to work, will leave) them better off than it found them, | or do you believe that the war as a} — world reversion to the idea of force as| AMERICAN SHIP WAS HELD. argument for everything may send us all back to the harem|'The Wico's Cargo Taken by Ger- eventually?” “At first I belleved the end of the! war would mean the triumph of fem- Schwimmer answered “But to-day I am not #0 sure—women stockholm with a cargo of iMuminating ‘The supply will oil last July, arrived to-day from Ham | be greater than the demand both as) burg and Kirkwall and reported having wives and workers"—— “Will that maan polygamy as many |{h« oil was dischar persons fear?” I inquired, 1! MONOGAMY TO DECLINE; NO|| CHANGE IN MARRIAGE LAWS, = !") trying to ay will be so plentiful, “It will mean even less adherence to ker Atsel the ideal of monogamy than prevails the Wico proceed in the world now,” Mme, Schwimme ill be any formal change tn the mar- S89" to Sp riage laws, but | think the state will rn child’s right to be ¥ Irrespective of the Jegal torney elect alker will k at a meeting of the , mbodied in the Gr cnovich ville, Improen Non 6 system. Consequently it is not habit-forming and may be } t. tormarre' ors taken in any quantity without harm. recently enacted in Norway de: mother, 1 uld be the welfare of the child. | @ morality of the mother is a side embodies the future policy of all the ates toward the children! had taken part in the eraation | interposed to say M Schwim- 1 do not with you that ser this war. It {s| practical polygamy will have to the Yall in Europe after the war j he | re 300,000,000 people tn oh, this huge number the few million > been or will be Killed before the war ends will be a neg- ligible quantity, not more than one THE PURE WHITE MINERAL OIL Approved by Mine. Schwimmer dissented and a long argument followed, in which she alled to her aid the mighty 4 of the great dead who have 1 on the flelds of Burope. | = east and fittest this the | and for » the greatest of r indemnities will be pald by = ‘8 end. | %9. oncluded, “is why the mothers | Furope say that this war must ease.” CHEER UP—BRIGHTEN UP A NY doctor will tell you that “‘the blues’’ is frequently a symptom of constipation and its attendant evil, auto- ntoxication. Take care of constipation and ‘‘the blues’’ will take care of itself. 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