The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-26
What News Gatherers Clean
on Their Rounds.
OF TIE PEOPLE
II all Legal Controversies Should Cease
the People of the Town Would Rejoice.
Some Hopes of Water Company People.
Must Take It as it Comes.

The announcement in last evenings
HERALD that the people holding the con-
trolling interest in the Shenandoah Water
& Gas Company had decided not to
appeal, was received by many with
qualification and from the opinions
expressed it seems safe to say that
the sentiment of the majority of the
people is that there should be no more
litigation in the courts if it can be possi-
bly, avoided.
Litigations have been pending for two
years and the water company has been
beaten on every ground upon which it has
based an action. Though the borough
has been successful it has been a heavy
loser, financially, owing to the
extra counsel fees and other expenses
which have accumulated during the pro-
gress of the suits. These two phases
have impressed themselves upon the
minds of majority of the people and
they have become heartily tired of litiga-
tion. or this reason last evenings an
nouncement was very gratifying.
Another view taken of the matter is
that the water company should be content
to drop litigation for the present at least
The borough has furnished bond to
insure it against damage and the court
has declared that the bond is legal and
sufficient, therefore the company is in the
position of a secured debtor and should
await Developments
1t has been learned that there are some
people interested in the water company
who are mutual They will be satisfied
with whatever the majority may do. But
these people have by no means abandoned
hope of the ultimate realization of pre-
diction made some time ago-that water
will never run through the public water
works unless some authority is secured by
a lTppial nj tho | afriglat11ra Of
these people stated that he was as firmly
convinced as ever that the works cannot
possibly be completed at a cost of less
than Sl50,000 and the borough dare not
eXpend cent more than the amount
authorized by the special election of 1892
without holding another special election,
and even in that event the borough debt
cannot be increased to more than a sum
that will make the total appropriation
for water works about Sl35,0OO, and that
will leave the works at least $4,000 short
of completion, and there the borough will
be obliged to stop, unless it secures relief
from the Legislature.
But these hopes, at best, are only food
for cheerful reflection by those most con
cerned 1t is true that were an election
to be held tomorrow to decide whether
the borough should have public water
works the measure would be defeated
The increased taxation and the increase
which all property owners fear must
follow, and many other developments
have created a sentiment which is dis
tinctly anti-water, but with all this, if an
election is held for an extra appropriation
the people will vote in the affirmative, for
when the question is put squarely before
them nine out of every ten would decide
against allowing eighty or ninety thous-
aud dollars worth of material and labor to
go to waste; and it is just as certain that
should the borough be obliged to seek re-
lief at the hands of the Legislature it
will get it.
The water works will be completed. If
the people suffer from exorbitant taxa
tion in the accomplishment of that result
they will be obliged to grin and bear it,
as the majority of them either voted to
start the movement, or refrained from
voting against it.