The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-07-01
TIE PAVING ORDINANCE. Sc

Our distinguished neighbor, the Judge,
must have been slightly touched with hydro
phobia last week. His disappointment at
the non receipt of that job from the Commits
sioners must have sent the mad coursing clear
through him, and he evidently felt like snap
ping at everything that came in his way.
And he Is, too, so unreasonable in his mad
ness, in the matter now under consideration.
The Town Council gave him an ordinance
to publish, and pell nell he rushes into a
state almost, indeed quite, bordering on fren-
zy at itsrequirements and what are these re
zens, owning property in certain portions of
the borough should pave in front of their
residences and lots Did the Town Council
take this step of their own notion? Certain
ly not. They took it only after urgent peti-
ton of citizens who owned lots in the neigh
borhood, and would themselves be compelled
to pave at the suggestion Of others. In doing
this they but exercised an undeniable right,
and were, probably better able to judge
whether there is "a street in town to-day
that is not easily passable in any kind of
weather as it is, as is our hydrophobic
neighbor.
! 1t is an easy matter for the Judge to thus
attempt to stay the march of improvement
hereabouts and so truly consistent, especially
when it is remembered that when he essays
to play ''AIy Lord Lofty" in a stroll from
his Office to his dwelling, or risn rersa, he
can do SO on paved paths, provided by his
predecessors in borough affairs by just such
an ordinance as he so vehemently denounces;
and he can swing clear around the circle, if
he SO minds, without allowing his feet to
touch anything but smooth brick and stone
Aye, but he desires to remind our citi-
zens that there is a pressing want that should
be satisfied And what is that want q?
| Why new school house to be sure. And
what has this to do with the paving asked
for? Just nothing at all. Our citizens, as
body, have nothing to do with the paving
except to use it when passing through the
portions of the town where it is asked for.
1t is the work and expense of the owners of
the property bounded by it, and of them
alone, enforced by the power of the Council.
We might advance theory for our neighbors
school house sensitiveness-possibly several
of them, but we forbear for the present.
But our neighbor asks-''Why don't the
Town Council first build a walk up the
Academy hill!' Because, we answer, it is
not the Town Councils business to do So
They have no legal right to do so. They
can only enforce its being done, when the
School Directors and other property holders
interested ask them to do it. Our neighbol
was in position to see this done the want
was before his eyes every time he went tc
and came from his home for the last eigh
years; as School Director he had power in the
premises. Why did he not exercise it? Anc
failing to do it, what right has he now tC
open his mouth in complaint? But why
pursue the subject. RS we said before the
whole article smacks Of hydrophoba of mad
ness and a disposition to bite some body
1 We hope he feels better now-that he has
recovered his equinimity- that he i;
! prepared to clamly seat himself before glas,
and, looking straight aud with judicial stern,
ness at what he sees within, say, when
: mourning over ''our poor cid tumble down