out sewage farms as the Germans have done at Berlin. Then, 
those of us now living will see miracles — will see the typhoid 
death rate decrease until we shall look back upon these pestifer¬ 
ous times as we at school looked back upon the Dark Ages and 
the great London plague. We shall find that the sewage farms 
will not only pay for themselves, but take from us the whole cost 
of cleaning the city into the bargain. Our water fronts will 
once more become as clean as the Spree about Berlin, the Thames 
at Windsor, or the Seine in the lovely suburbs of Paris. And 
finally, when the ships that are to gather together in honor of the 
discovery of the Hudson three hundred years ago, shall churn up 
the sewage and scatter disease among our guests as they pass 
Arough the Highlands, let us give them the joyful news that 
although in 1909 they must still hold their noses on our noblest 
river, their children will live to see a purified Hudson from the 
Canadian border to Coney Island —a blessing to millions of babes 
unborn and a tardy justice to a stream second to none in natural 
beauty and commercial value. 
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