Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-04
RECEIVERS FOR THE CANAL.
Three Business Men Named Who VIII
Favor Keeping the Waterway.

Judge Alvey at Hsgerstown yesterday APP
pointed receivers for the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal The men named are Robert Bridges OF
Washington county, Richard ID. johnson OF
Allegheny and Joseph ID. Baker OF Frederick
county. They are each to qualify In bonds OF
$4,000 for the faithful performance OF their
duty. dispatch to the Baltimore Sun says:
''Messrs. Bridges, Johnson and Baker under
the order are made joint receivers of all and
singular the property, estate and franchises of
the canal specified and described in the bills
of complaint and in the mortgages referred to
and property and franchises of every descrip-
ton OF the company in the state of Maryland.
Upon fling their bonds the receivers di-
rected to take possession OF all the premises;
to manage and operate the property OF the
canal company which shall be susceptible of
operations; to prosecute and defend all exist
ing actions by or against the company, or
which may hereafter be brought against them
selves by permission Of this court and pay the
expenses of such prosecution and defense. with
power to use the name OF said company and
generally do whatever may be needful and
proper to maintain and preserve the corporate
organization of the company until the further
order of the court They are also authorized
to employ such agents as may be necessary to
enable them to discharge the duties required
OF them, and are required to make full and
tue inventory of all the real and personal
property of the company and file the same with
the clerk of the court, and submit full and
accurate account OF all their doIngs in the
premises. They are to receive all moneys and
deposit same IN a bank or banks in this state to
be approved by the court, and each receiver
shall be responsible for his own acts
The receivers are directed to proceed at the
earliest moment at which the same can be
properly and advantageously done to make
full and thorough examination and collect all
such Information as they may be able to collect
as to the condition of the canal, the needful
repairs thereof and the probable cost of repair
ing IL and the feasibility of operating it when
repaired, and shall report the same with the
results OF their own observation and their own
Judgment and opinion III the premises, with
the reasons thereof to the court for its infor-
nation, and such further action as it may deem
necessary.
THE RECEIVERS BUSINESS MEN.
Robert Bridges, the receiver from Washing
ton county, lives in the town of Hancock where
for number of years he has been en-
gagged In merchandising and in the
of hydraulic cement. He is
about fifty-six years DID, and is looked upon
one of the most successful business men in the
county. He was ex-Gov. Hamilton's choice for
president OF the canal in 1880. His appoint
ment gives general satisfaction. 1t is not known
whether he has been in favor of the restoration
of the canal waterway.
MIR. Joseph ID. Baker, the states representa-
tive in the canal receivership, is the son of the
late Daniel Baker, for many years a prominent
and wealthy resident of Buckeystown, Freder-
lex county. He is about thirty years of age,
was engaged i'll the leather business in FEEDER
lex for some years, and in 1886 was elected
president of the Citizens national bank of
Frederick. subsequently he was chosen presi-
dent OF the Montgomery county National bank
and Of the Peoples bank of Leesburg, Va, all
three of which positions he now holds. He is
also president of the Loudoun county, Va, and
Frederick county bridge company, and was the
promoter of the enterprise which resulted in a
fine new iron bridge over the Potomac river at
Point of Rocks.
Col. r. ID. johnson. who has been appointed
a receiver, is one of the most prominent bust
ness men in Cumberland, having resided there
for the last fifty years, and is about seventy
years Of age. He was in the lumber business
fifteen or twenty years, furnishing a large
amount of lumber for bridges and dams for
the canal, but for a number of years past has
been In the milling business and is president
of the X. ID. johnson milling company, one of
tn e largest mills in western Maryland. Mr..
johnson Is a cousin of Gen. Bradley T. John
son. MIR. Johnson says he favors the contin-
uance OF the canal as a waterway.