Evening journal., 1897-02-10
THE NEWS OF NEW CASTLE.
THE COVENANT MADE.
Trustees Not Only Pay the
Water Company Well
BUR- WILL LET ITg BOOKS ALONE


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ADOPTED A RESOLUTION TO THAT
EFFECT LAST NIGHT-A COM
MGrTEE WILL DEVISE PLANS TO
OFFER THE LAND TO MANUFRC-
TURERs.
At the meeting of the Trustees OF the
Common last evening, Mr. Rodney was
called to the chair in the absence OF
Dr. Black. other members present
were Measrs. Mahoney McGrory. Fer
ris, Dalby, Shaw and Wise. Mr.. Chal-
lenger came in later.
COVENANT WITH THE WATER
COMPANY
An additional agreement was read
from the Water Works Company,
when provided that in view of the re-
ductiOn of the Water COmpany's ap-
preparation from $4,000 to $l5OO, until
1900. when all appropriations cease,
that hereafter the books Of the COM
pany should not be under the inspec-
tion of the trustees, or that the pay
men;s should be made without regard
TO the receipts or profits Of the COM
pany.
LEGALLY AND MORALLY WRONG.
Mr.. Challenger interposed his objec-
tion Immediately after the putting of
the notion and said that as long as
this agreement held he would fight il
at every opportunity lt was not legally
nor morally right.
Mr. McGrory demanded that a clause
be inserted, II the trustees were paying
out the peoples money, the people had a
right be assured that until 1900 there
would be no increase in water rents.
$50 long as the water company has
come here and asked for additional
privileges and considerations. il is our
opportunity to demand that our constit-
uents be protected" said the speaker
Mr.. Rodney stated that such a con-
sideration would be out of place from
the fact that thewater company had the
legal right to raise its water rents at
any lime, so long as it fulfilled its con-
tract, supplying the city with water in
FIRE emergencies. That was its contract
and It now simply asks for protection
to its books.
Mr.. Mahoney thought that a provis-
D
ply should never become any less than
at present under forfeiture of contract
! The pipes now. he said, may be cor
roded or it may be the fault of the
water company. but the supply is now
not only insufficient, but is less than
only a few years ago.
Mr.. McGrory's amendment failed oi
passage Messrs. Challenger and Wise
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suggestion was carried by one majority
LAND FOR INDUSTRIES.
John r. Lambson. on behalf of tn,
/ Public Committee, on issuing a pros
pectus, appeared before the trustees
and asked that the board cooperate
and say that If any good industry coult
be induced to locate in New Castle tha
the trustees donate land for a nomina
number of years. Any such industry
he said, would have to be proved bon;
fide, the trustees to be the sole judg'
of references.
Messrs. McGrory and Mahoney ia
vored the request Of Mr. Lambson tha
any respectable industry agreeing t,
employ regularly fifty to 100 operatives
be granted the use of the incoming cor
poration for a thirty-year lease or am
longer time that the trustees may Sc
cure legislative permission to do so.
Mr.. Shaw moved that to any bon;
flde industry the land be leased for S
an acre for as much as five acres. Mr
Challenger supplemented the motion b,
one to appoint a committee to draugh
an agreement
The chair appointed Messrs. Chal
lenger Ferris and McGrory. Then tn
meeting adjourned