The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-03-23
HERE IS THE PLAN.
How The Street Paving is To
Be Done In Morgantown.

The Bond Issue to He Voted On By
the Citizens. Decides the
Matter at the Monday Night Session
--The Result should Be Accepted BY
Every Voter As the Very Best thing
that CoEId Have Been Done Under
the Circumstances. The Election
will Be Held on April 2 and the Yo-
tiers Will Unanimously ratify the
Proposition.-We wont have to Wade
through Mud All Our Liyes.--Ihe
Whole town will Eventually be paw
ed.-Work will be done As rapidly
AS Possible.
The council has made decision on
the street paving matter and the cit
liens are soon to have a chance at the
ordinance proposed. The election is
to come on Saturday, April 2. The
proposition adopted is to issue bonds
to the limit and for the town to pay
all the expense Of paving, making
the money go as far as possible.
Spruce, Main, Front, Peasants, Wal
nut and part of Wiley are to be paved
now and the rest are to follow as soon
as may be.
A liberal estimate for the paving of
the whole town is forty thousand dol
lars. This was made by two compe-
tent engineers. The present bond is
sue will yield twenty-six thousand,
leaving only fourteen thousand more
TO do. The amount of paving pro-
posed to be done will take several
years. During this time, from the
present revenue, there will accrue to
the street paving fund three thousand
dollars year. So that in very few
years, probably before all the paving
is done, money to pave every street
and alley in the town will be availa-
Bile.
Certain it is that it is matter Of
only few years when every street and
alley in this town will be paved from
one end to the other and at not one
cent direct taxation. The ordinance
will carry by a practically unanimous
vote as every one is anxious to get out
of the mud and make the street inn
provement permanent. We have been
throwing money away for years and
years on keeping up the streets and
they grow worse from year to year.
With brick all this would be changed.
There is every argument in the world
for the ordinance going through with a
whoop, and not one why it should not
be ratified
The saving to the tax payers even
tually will be big thing. In Con-
nellsville, where they have three times
as much paving as all our streets COM
bined will amount to, they pay out in
keeping them up and cleaning them
not five hundred dollars year. Here
in one year we have to pay out fifty
seven hundred dollars on labor on the
streets. Which is the best and which
has the best streets? Are our streets
eleven times as good as theirs?
Some of the council would have pre-
ferred the ordinance to have come up
in some other shape There are a
number Of citizens who wanted some
thing else. However, THE way chosen
was believed to be the only way in
which paving could be obtained at all.
we are all III ldNOr OIL lne lDpTONe-
ment and no matter what way we
get it, the main fact remains that
we are to get it, and that we want it
with all our power. Let every citi-
zen see to it that he votes in favor of
the plan as shown in the ordinance,
and let's make our town the very best
town in the United States.
A few other matters came before
the council, but nothing of especial
interest. All the members were pres
ent and all took part in the full and
free discussion which preceded the
vote on the ordinance. The ordinance
as passed represents the decision of
experts who have given their atten-
tention to the matter for months and
the voters should abide by their de-
cision. 1t is better than any one who
has not had the opportunities to in
vestigate the matter could possibly
make. A copy of the ordinance and
the mayors proclamation is given in
another column. 1t will pay you
for careful and searching perusal