Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-04-01
Belated RcDly,

II MeJdHS I1drldH, SPECIFIC tultOf
aud manager. 4 * * opposite Uhl
street. and suspected organ of the
Water committee--location not adyer-
tised, had little or nothing to say while
the deep well proposal was alive, but
came out strong after he thought the
issue settled.
To begin with. he says
No reasonable argument has vet been put
forth in support of the artesan well scheme.
But the plan at its best would cost $4,000
a sam that i not now in hand nor likely to
lie.
1t is probably waste of time and
space to discuss any public matter
with Mejams or his Water committee.
Still, we want to state that it is a
mistake to say that the plan, at its
best, would cost $l5,000.n What was
wanted was that the committee should
9ficially inquire into and exhaust all
effort to ascertain the lowest cost at
which test bore could be made. The
JOURNAL, for its own part, really
wanted no outside intermeddling in
the matter.
But no sooner mentioned than the
committee incontinently kicked the
idea out of notice, would not consider
it. would not even look at it,
"Mejams" accounts for things this
way:
1t appears that Mr.. Oder and his friends
want the work delayed until after the election
in the hope that weak kneed councilmen can
be elected who will submit to Mr., Oder's
bull-dozing ideas.
There is plethora of week knees
III the Council already. The suspected
organ should go slow on weak knees
after those vetoes of Council orders by
the Water commttee-the one to oil
the freplugs and the other to bore for
water. Not another Legislative body
in chrstendom would have tolerated
for minute such usurpation.
The election plays no pant IN the
JOURNAL'S calculation.
But if we mistake not, the Water
committee will learn something from
the result, especially that portion of it
whose tenure is in a dying condition.
Again:
Postponing the work now would mean
another summer without sufficient water
The committee borrowed that argu-
ment from George G.. Townsend in
November-after permitting all of
last summer and fall to go by without
doing anything except to discover with
u great flourish of trumpets a mud
puddle in Arnold's COW pasture-a
find which, for the time being, was
thought to solve the whole trouble
Just exactly like the present scheme
will turn out.
Whether or nor Mr.. Oder is Il real friend of
the town may be learned from his persistent
attempts to prejudice the people against using
the towns water, as we'll as Mr.. Oder's own
course in using the old water until he was
driven to the new by the Ledger.
The JOURNALS files are open to any
body who wants to prove a single
attempt to prejudice the people
against using the towns water''-un-
less condemnation of the dismissal of
an official for not keeping dangerous
secret is so construed.
The Journal has had occasion be-
fore to say that if the Ledger "drove"
it to the use of the new water, the
Ledger also drove it to putting down Il
new pavement, putting up a new fence
and putting in gas pipes-all of which,
however, had been postponed until the
frost got out of the ground. If the
Ledger does not know that it had no
thing whatever to do with any of these
improvements, the JOURNAL can es-
tablish the fact by several reputable
witnesses.
But to get back to the main fact
the plan adopted is not one founded
on economy nor common sense. 1t is
nothing more nor less than a wildcat
scheme. conceived in spite against
those who forced action, and obstinate
ly adhered to-so obstinately that if
Philip Michael had offered to guarantee
water for 81 900, instead of $40, 1000, it
would have been said to him, as it was
at one time to the Fire department
want you to distinctly understand that
there will be no boring
That is the true situation
Mixed.
There is vail in the Cumberland
Ne'cs over the collapse Of the tinplate
mill and the calamity is charged to