The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-02-12
Correspondence.


FEBRUARY Sth, 1915.
As have not troubled you for long time
with letter, shall note Il few items for your
valuable paper-l say valuable, for | am always
pleased TO get Tile -Dgis, and read the Hartford
news. As have not been in Hartford for over
three years, | can not comment upon ANYTHING
pertaining to ii.
sCoTCn BALL.
On the LIST instant, | attended, by invitation,
the first Scotch Ball ever given in this city, at
the Masonic Temple. 1t was given by the Gale.
donna CLUB, ana was one of the finest | ever at.
tended in this country. This order is composed
entirely OF Scots, and is yet in its infancy. 1t
was started in the fall Of 1878, by some twenty
Scotchmcn, in strict accordance with an ancient
order of The Scots, having for its object the pro-
motion of poetry, literature, songs, games, &c,
and the customs of Scotland. 1t now numbers
over one hundred members, who appeared at
their ball i'll the full Highland Scotch dress.
Their bagpipe dancing was perfectly grand, and
the entire affair was quite novel sight to those
who never witnessed nythipg of the kind and
the genial courtesy shown to the strangers, won
for them the admiration ofall present
HARD TIMES.
Times here like everywhere else are extreme
ly dull; but very few business houses are maxi
ing their expenses. Most of the business places
are working on half time.
l doubt II there ever was such great want or
actual suffering among the poor of this city be-
fore. Last week was called to see sick child.
one of seven, and while i'll the house two of them
were crying for Something to eat Their mother
told them she had nothing to give them. learn.
cd that she had nothing to cat and no money.
so gave her dollar and next day had her pro.
vided for by the Poor Association This state Of
affairs is almost daily occurrence-the poor
people can not get work enough to keep their
families provided for.
NEW BIRTH AND DEATH LAW,
Our physicians have to record and report every
birth and death in this city, which think ia \
good thing, as it will protect many children from
being cheated out of their brth-rights and the
physician can always sec exactly how many pa.
ticnts he has killed and how he las killed them.
BASIN TUNNEL.
We have now before our city council plan
"by Milo w. Locke, one of the contractors of
the Union Tunnel, and who is well known i'm
Hartford to tunnel the Basin, which has for A
long time been such nuisance to Tic delicate
olfactories Of our citizens.
He proposes 10 tunnel the Basin at cost of
SGo5, 900, and by the aid of steam, which will
cost $50 per day 10 the city ever after, he pro-
posesto Keep up II running stream that will
completely empty the Basin in three DAYS, there
by forcing into the bay all the filth that now re.
mains and has 10 be eXcavated by the mud ma
chine and boated off. BY reversing the engines
he claims to be able TO keep the Basin full of
wafer Whenever it is required. Mr. Locke
claims that This plan will SO purify the waters
in the Basin that in q weeks time fish can be
caught with hook and line off any of the
wharyes, whereas it is now instant death to man,
animal or fish to be immersed in it. This plan
is generally well thought oil and it is hoped that
it will passed. ATS