Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-07-23
The Normal School.

The Baltimore Sun says:
Attorney General Clabaugh has decided that
the money appropriated by the General AS
sembly to build State normal school at Frost
burg, Allegany county, is available for that
purpose, and the school can therefore be built
The sum appropriated is $50 600, and it is ex-
pected that, acting on the advice of the at
torney general, the comptroller will pay that
sum to the treasurer of the State board Of cd
ucaton for the purpose named.
A bill was introduced into the Senate dur
ing the last session to estab blish normal school
at Frostburg, but it was defeated. After the
close of the session there was general surprise
to find in the appropriation bill for the State
government for 1899 the very appropriation
which had been rejected. The point was
raised against the payment of the appropria-
ton that the act does not specify the person
or persons to whom it is to be paid. The at
torney general, to whom the question was
submitted, has gwen as his opinion that the
money can be properly paid over to the
treasurer of the State Board of Education, to
be disbursed under the direction of the board
under authority of the general law giving to
it the control of the existing normal school,
The State Board of Education is composed of
Gov Lowndes Joseph NJ. Cushing, Rev. j..
c. Nicholson, Prof H. c. Ebaugh and Zadock
P. Wharton. E. Is. Prettyman is secretary
of the Board.
The Sun ought to be more careful,
The"bill was introduced into'' the
House, not the Senate,
1t passed the House, but never
reached vote in the Senate.
AS to the general surprise' state
ment-there was probably nobody
really 'surprised' except the otficious
reporter who first called his own "sur-
prised" attention to the matter, and
but for whom, no doubt, no question
of the soundness of the appropriation
would ever have been raised. For
there never has been a moment since
the bill was signed, that shadow of
doubt clouded its validity.
| Stone.
The Cumberland Ners saws:
DIR, H. F. Reid, chief of the highway
division, Maryland Geological Survey, as
sisted by A. N. johnson, road expert of the
Massachusetts Commission, has commenced
an investigation of Allegany county roads.
| They will go over all the highways to ascer-
tain their condition and to see what is best
to be done in regard to utilizing the natural
stones DR.. Reid will have charge of the
testing of the stones as to their road building
qualities.
When the doctor reaches this locality
the JOURNAL commends to him a little
study of the nature of the rock called
Limestone" but which, for road pur-
poses, is nearly about as good as soap
stone.
Frostburg has thrown away thous
ands of dollars in this stuff and is CON
stantly on the verge of investing
thousands more, especially when the
treasury looks healthy.
The true limestone does not seem to
be here.
Hence, if limestone the town must
have, it should send abroad.
Meanwhile, paving brick is very
nearly as cheap as such limestone.
And much cleaner.
Indeed. when the intelligent Street
committee would haul up big lot of
coal ashes and cinders to spread over
it, one rain would wash it off.