Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-10

wasn't very large subject on the surface,
but there is said to be considerable pollti-
cal deal under it. The following rhetorical
amendment, posted on all the highways and
byways, courts and alleys in Coraopolis
during the week made many people gather
at the Town Hall this evening with the ex-
pectancy of seeing blood and hair fly:
CITIZENS MEETING!
A meeting of the citizens and taxpayers
of the borough of Coraopolis will be held in
in the school house on Saturday, January 8,
1892, at 7:3O P NJ, for the purpose of consider
ering important business in relation to the
passing OF an ordinance to issue $o,OOO more
bonds, which will almost, II not altogether,
make our Indebtedness about 1000. Think
of this, taxpayers, about 81 900 OF interest
not vet six years old We must be up and
MANY CITIZENS.
William H. Guy presided and Council
man Joseph McAdams was Secretary.
There was what was supposed to be an
ominous hush for some minutes after Mr..
Guy stated the business on hand, until
finally Mr.. Smiley broke it by a motion to
indorse a loan by the Council.
Robert Kerr demanded to know how the
money was to be expended and refused to
agree to indorse until he got an answer.
A. j. Ferguson said it wasn't necessary
to issue bonds, that Council could borrow
money enough temporarily to bridge over
until the tax collector reported.
Old Streets Are Hardly Navigab,e.
Rev. Joseph Dillon advised caution and
insinuated that there was good ground. for
belief that some SIS, 900 of the S13, 900 already
expended had been almost thrown away.
He asked why streets were not improved in
summer and why new ones should be opened
through swamps, when old ones were not
navigable save at great risk of wreck. In
conclusion Mr. Dillon hazarde1 the opinion
that some people would open their eyes
next summer, when they got their tax
statements under the new assessment.
Alfred McCabe said they would soon be
obliged to increase the school Indebtedness,
and that is all they can stand. He also said
manufacturers were afraid to come into the
town for fear of high taxes in future.
Councilman Arrass said that a man who
would loan the money suggested by the
Mr.. Ferguson would run the risk of losing
it, as Council was not authorized to do bust
ness that way and the next Council might
repudiate. As to the charge of extrava-
gance in the past, Mr.. Arrass asked If they
expected to veneer nine miles of streets
with $1,000 and get job frost wouldn't
crack. He said they could get no money
from the tax collector before fall, and then it
would be too late to fix the roads, and if any
citizens were drowned in them howl of
rage would go up against Councils. He
reached on the new assessment there need
be no fear that they would have too much
money.
Badly in Need of Fire Protection.
He argued that bricks could not be made
without straw, ard then began to score some
of the citizens on the ground of inconsis-
tency. He said that a fire engine was
needed, and some day, after half the town
is burned, those who are now fighting i'm
proyements would denounce Council for
want of foresight. A lookup is needed, but
the borough has no money to build one nor
does it own an inch of ground on which to
place it, and neither will the constable nor
burgess entertain the angels that should be
arrested for disorderly conduct. Streets
should be curbed and macadamized, and the
taxpayer who opposes is simply off his base
Mr.. Smiley-Burgcttstown has lookup
that only cost 5000, and it has held desper-
ate characters who are now in the peniten-
tiarv.
Arrass-well, you donate lot to put
lookup %.
W. R. McCabe, Councilman, urged the
building of the town and allow newcomers
to help improve by paving the debt.
Mr.. Ferguson, though opposed to the
bond issue, wanted the improvements, and
spoke of how those made five years ago had
enabled some people to get big prices for
property.
Hardest Kickers Roped in the Money.
Arrass-And they were the hardest kick
ers when it was proposed
Lawyer Treadway was armed with statis-
tics to show that Coraopolis was sitting in
darkness. West Bellevue had but 200 voters
and was bonded to the extent OF S32, ,OOO
Tarentum. wants to borrow $50, 600, Sewick-
ley has 5000, 900 bonded borough debt in ad-
dition to her school debt. Homestead has
now S140, 200 debt and wants to borrow
500, 900 more. Beaver Falls, Beaver and
New Brighton are bonded up to the
per cent limit and owe on school bonds
likewise. Williamsburg owes $4,000 bor-
ough and $40, 900 school, and wants to in
crease it $40. 600 Mr.. Treadway thought it
would be good policy to borrow 500, 0O0 and
make the place what it ought to be at once.
By this time it was discovered that oppo-
nents of those who had called the meeting
had captured it, and an examination showed
that the dynamite had frozen. Thomas T.
Watson tried the last match, asking Tread
way, as he had shown how those prosperous
boroughs had gotten into debt, to tell the
meeting how they proposed to get out, but
Treadway said their prosperity was owing
owing to the fact that they went into debt
and thereby made their towns pleasant
abiding places, attracting population.
The motion to indorse Councils PROPOSE
tion bond Coraopolis still further passed
three to one.