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for at least twenty-five years under the existing- conditions. If how- 

 ever the proposed sewer system should be put throug^h, it would at once 

 increase the amount of house sewag;e and storm water drainag-e, which 

 now enters the bay, by about 50 per cent, and would immediately be- 

 come a serious menace to the healthfulness and attractiveness of the 

 harbor and adjacent shores. 



The "drinking" places, where oysters are kept for a limited time and 

 fattened for the market, are condemned in the most unqualified manner. 

 In reg-ard to the well-known locality at the mouth of Lemon Creek at 

 Princes Bay the report says: "Samples of water and oysters taken from 

 the mouth of this stream have been shown by our analyses to be g"reatly 

 polluted v" while in regard to another locality the report continues: 

 "Another, and if possible, more dang-erous "drinking-" ground is situ- 

 ated at Tompkinsville, Staten Island. The stream which furnishes such 

 fresh water as this place affords, flows from a thickly populated area 

 of 2,g6o acres. The sewag-e which is discharg-ed into the Kill von Kull 

 on both sides of this- place, within a distance of three miles, exceeds 

 7,000,000 gallons per 24 hours." There is apparently some discrep- 

 ancy here in regard to the last named locality being at Tompkinsville, 

 It may be a misprint for Tottenville, or it might refer to some locality 

 on the north shore of the Island. — A. H. 



III.— "Report of the Staten Island Committee of the Municipal Art 

 Society," Ernest Flagg, Chairman. BulL Municipal Art Soc. N. Y., 

 No. 25, Sept., 1905. 



This is an octavo leaflet publication of eight pages. The report, 

 which is signed by the Chairman of the Committee, was apparently 

 transmitted to the Society on September loth and submitted to Borough 

 President George Cromwell by the President of the Society on Septem- 

 ber igth. 



The report begins with a statement to the effect that "Since its ap- 

 pointment it [the Staten Island Committee] has given its undivided at- 

 tention to the proposed new street system," and then follows a brief 

 statement of familiar facts in regard to the Island's topographic features, 

 and how they have been modified in many instances by commercial and 

 government works. The necessity for considering a park system in 

 connection with any comprehensive street system is touched upon, and 

 the necessity for a broad general plan of main highways in advance of 

 the details of minor street locations is urged. Special attention is 

 called to the unsuitable location of St. George as a great traffic termi- 

 nal on account of the topographic features, which require an ascent up 



