Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-03-30

not lost interest in the bridge, Mr..
Hathaway recently wrote MIR. Felkel,
Engineer in charge, y letter. An am
swer dated March 25th, has been re-
ceived. Mr.. Felkel says: "Eour favor
is received and Marietta is indebted to
you for the interest you are taking in
the proposed Ohio River Bridge"
"a bridge of that magnitude is pub
lie institution and lasting commodity
to the people living in your City and
County, and should haye been treated
as such from the beginning, and if the
law is in the way to take it up in an
official way. Then every business man
in the town should haye considered it
as part of his private business"
But there are enough prospects
there which, backed up by hustling
business community, will warrant the
enterprise.
Yet, if the business men and the rail-
roads play hide and seek then it is
hardly to be expected that outsiders
will be in great haste to give the old
Ohio another iron ribbon in that neigh
borhood. | received letter from a re-
sponsible party in New York, during
the past week saying that if the rail
roads guarantee the traffic mentioned
then we are willing to furnish the
money, and what answer can l give
them?"
"Nevertheless, l hope this bridge
matter will come out all right after
we have gone through all lnisunder-
standings of young married couples"
"If the question should arise to land
the bridge on the West Side, could the
City undertake, and would they be
willing to build bridge across the
Muskingum river strong enough for
T electric cars?'
OF course all the answer that could
be made to the above would be, that
the city expected in the near future
to replace the present three wooden
spans the same width as the dra raw-span. /
The Council have plan of doing
this without increasing the taxes, .
which can be carried out as soon as the /
last payment on the sidewalk on rail-
road bridge is provided for which viii .
be during the comiDr year.
AHIr or LOCAL HISTORY.
We are ordinarily so intent on the
future that we dislike all references to .
the past and hate to become rcmiuts- .
cent We are tempted, however, to
break away and spend short time
''lookiug backward" The other day
we found On the Office desk pamphlet,
coffee-colored with age, and haying
the name Hildreth written on the
upper corner, Now, we've had expert,
ence enough to know that any histori-
cal matter Dr.. George 0. Hldreth calls
attention TO is worth noticing. The
pamphlet bore on its title page, this
legend; The Act of Incorporation and
the Ordinances and Regulations of The
Town Of Marietta, Washington County
Ohio, with the imprint below Mari
eta, Printed by c. Emerson Il Co..
1851
c. Emerson ~ Co., let's see, that was
Caleb Emerson, one of Marietta's fore
most citizens in those days, and the
"Co" was William Dana Emerson, his
son, named for his grandfather, Cap
tain William Dana, of Bclpre. Caleb
Emerson, one of the first Trustees Of
Marietta College and Prosecuting At
torney of the County for number of
years, was at that time Editor of the
Marietta Gazette. He married Mary
Dana, of Belpre.
That was sixty years ago. The
whole body of ordinances etc. only
took pamphlet of 23 pages. The last
edition of our ordinances took 23l pages
Glancing through the leaves we find
some names signed to these ordinances
which have been intimately associated
with Marietta's growth and history.
In those days the Mayor and Record
being the title OF the City Clerk. The
Mayors names are: A. Il. Nye, James
M. Booth, James Dunn, Nahum Ward
Il. Printice and Daniel II. Buell.. The
Recorders names are: Thomas w.
Ewart r. Printice, Vim. z. Skinner,
J. P. Wightman, Caleb Emerson, j.
Mills, Wyllys Hall, j. E. Hall, d. p.
Bosworth.
The ordinances are those usually
adopted for protection, regulation and
sanitation.
Prior to 1925 these ordinances were
adopted by the Town Meeting, and we
fird one regulating the storage of gun
powder, Passed into Law April 81,
1928" with the names Ichabod Nye,