Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-13
sion. following as near as practicable the
course of the old State road.

MEANS FIGHT TO THE END.
The officers of this organization shall be
PRESIDENT Vice President, Secretary and
treasurer. An initiation fee Of 10 cents
shall be paid, from which fund incidental
expenses shall be paid. Meetings shall be
at such times and places as shall De oeslg-
mated in the call of the President.
The President shall, upon the request OF
ten members, or at such times as there shall
be reports of committees to be acted upon,
call meeting. The Secretary shall keep
account OF all moneys received. and pay
receipt for the same
ALI moneys paid out shall only be done by
warrants signed by the President and at
tested by the Secretary.
Any funds remaining after the road is
open for travel shall be set aside for i'm
provements along the road.
Any citizen is eligible to membership
upon signing the constitution and paying
the initiation fee.
We further pledge ourselves to maintain
this organization until our object has been
rights in the matter. Parliamentary usages
to govern the duties of officers and meetings
in such cases as have not been defined.
We the undersigned indorse the above and
agree to pay the sum opposite our names.
WILL HOLD CITIZENS MEETINGS.
The first thing decided upon after the
adoption of the above declaration, pledges,
etc., was to agree to meet again in two
weeks, and there will be series of meet
ings held along the line, beginning at
Verona and extending to the city limits.
The discussion yesterday was informal, but
it all tended to one point, and few taking
control and insisting on action rather than
talk. These committed the meeting to an
agreement to secure counsel, and if the Al
legheny Valley Railroad Company did not
keep contract said to have been made
some time in the ffties, an effort would be
made to do it.
One speaker said if he wanted to go to
Aspinwall, three miles distant, he must
either ford the Allegheny river or 60 around
by East Liberty to get to the Sharpsburg
bridge-travel eight miles to make three.
A LoNG-FoRGorTEN CONTRACT.
Mr.. Dunn stated that his understanding
of the matter was that the Allegheny Valley
Railroad would in some way furnish another.
The latter part of the obligation, however,
has been forgotten by the company
The condition in which the objectors are
placed is much the same as that of the
people of old Middletown, now Coraopolis,
who for century travelled south toward the
confines of Washington county and marched
up q I'LL anu UOhu dSdlll, euc ILL UtluS tUU
feet high and the route thereby three miles
further than could have been had along the
river where the ground is almost level the
whole distance. Apparently Coraopolis
hasn't awakened yet and now the Pittsburg
and Lake Erie Railway owns the ground on
the square and the only resource left is
another bridge to Neville Island. The
difference between the places is that
one can stand such a condition 30
years but chafes under it, while the other
has never had get-up enough in it to build
bridges over Montour and Moon runs at
cost possibly of $500 for the two.
1t is supposed by some members of the
"Old State Road Reopening Organization"
that if they succeed an electric railway will
be run from the end of the Citizens Traction
line to Verona, and while some
of the o. S. R. R. o. are op-
posed to such line and had rather have
the road for fine driveway, yet they say
the electric road would be much preferable
to the present arrangement. Of course the
railway company may have double reason
for opposition. In the first place the
present state of affairs forces the people to
depend on the railway for transit and in the
second the giving up of the old State road
would be somewhat expensive, but there
would be some compensating advantages.