Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-02
CORRESPONDENTS.
We Stand Corrected.

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FRosTBURG, MD, July % 1890,
To the MINING JOURNAL.
Seeing a statement in your issue of
the 10Th inst. concerning my recent
appearance before our Council. AS
you were not present in person and
having received your information from
an outside source. | beg leave to call
your attention to some parts of your
account which, to say the least, are
somewhat misleading.
| was before the Council and stated
that it was the second time that had
appeared to present, as | believed, a
Just claim, but not, as stated IN your
paper, on account of damage by
water, although on several occasions
| have had considerable trouble with
water.
The ground of my claim is work
done in laying ditch on Bowery
street the deptl of my property.
If | am rightly informed many years
before our town was incorporated all
of the water that came from the corner
that Percy now owns, was cut Off from
Main street some two-thirds of the
distance from said corner before it
reached my property. Also, some l6
or Is years ago the then property-own-
ers adjacent to the original water
course went before the Council of that
day and requested that the water be
turned off it's original course. But the
Council, in its wisdom and foresight,
refused to comply, knowing that such
a grant, if benefit to some, would be
injurious to others. But time elapsed
and, as the saying is, "changes all
things" including the owners of prop
erty, and few years ago a second at
tempt was made with the reigning
Council to haye the water turned from
it's original course and flow down Main
street. Whether that Council wa
approached with more subtilty, or the
body possessed with less judgment
than their predecessors, it is not for
me to judge. But the request was
granted, and there is two-thirds more
water passing upon my property than
ought to be.
When | learned these facts | made
some protest, and called the Mayors
attention to the matter, stating that |
would get more water than my bitches
would admit. He (the Mayor exam
ined the bitches and agreed to fix them
so they would carry all the water that
would at any time flow into them.
He had the work done at the corpora
tons expense, as he supposed would
suffice. But after a time | found they
were still inadequate, and | again
made complaint to new administra-
ton. The Mayor and some, if not all
of the Council, made an examination
and decided to enlarge and relay the
ditch, which was done the second time
at the expense of the corporation.
Moreover, calling to memory the Gus
tom in early ages when there was any
contention between parties and recon-
ciliation had taken place, there was a
pillar, or heap of stones, erected as
lasting memorials of amity. So there
are two pillars of stone, which can be
seen to this day, erected at my corner,
and at the expense of the corporation,
as "a double testimony that all outside of
the curbstone is III care of the corpora
ton, and to continue so as long as the
aforesaid extra two-thirds of water is
allowed to flow in the present channel.
But, independent of all that has
been said of my claim to be paid for
work done on that ground, there is
another basis on which | place my