The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-02-12
STAND TOGETHER.
Stand by Local Enterprise, Encourage the
Upbuilding Of the City and Discard
JealOusieS and Personalities.

The greatest need in Westminster is bet
ter feeling among its business and professional
men; closer standing together of its citizens,
more generous support of its enterprises
They should rejoice at each others success:
should patronize each other; should never 20
out of town TO buy that which can be gotten
at home. Home enterprises should be up
held. They should be pointed to with pride
and cited as an evidence of the intelligence.
the energy and the enterprise of our citizens
The Westminster Gas Light Company fur
nishes as good gas as any company anywhere
1t was organized in 1870, and the company
was bitterly opposed. Town meetings were
held and strong words were spoken. The OPP
position was fought down and on Thanksgiv-
ing Day in that year the city was illuminated
by gas for the first time. 1t was but short
time, however, before the opponents of the
introduction of gas saw their error, and all
citizens can point to the Westminster Gas
Light Company with pride.
Three recent coal oil lamp explosions in
this city prove the wisdom of the introduction
of gas and electric light in the city. Coal oil
is cheaper, provided no accidents happen,
but citizens generally could rest more secure
ly at night if they used gas or electric light,
or both, instead of coal oil. The arc-lights
on our streets light them better than most
towns of like size and at cheaper rate per
arc-light of like power than any of which we
have knowledge.
The Westminster Water Company furnishes
the city with pure article of water. There
is No more fruitful source of disease than i'm
pure water, and while the water company is
entitled by the law and ordinances under
which the plant was built to a levy of FIVE
cents on every 500 of taxable basis, still the
security from disease is a matter beyond price.
Then must be considered the security against
fire and the lower rates of insurance, two
matters of much importace. The pressure OF
the water is such as to make fire engines un-
necessary. The city has an efficient fire de-
partment, composed of active young men,
mostly tax payers, but their efficiency 10 fight
fire is dependent upon an abundant water
supply almost entirely.
The Ice and Cold Storage Company fur
nishes the citizens with an absolutely pare
article of ice. Pure ice is just as necessary
to good health as pure water, where the Ice.
comes in contact with drinking water, and
the ice made by this company is better than
most cities have. Ice is made on the plate
system, and the plant here was the second
one in the United States on that system.
Most towns and cities use ice manufactured
on the can system, where impurities are frozen
to the centre. With the plate system impurl-
ties are expelled altogether, if there be any:
So far superior is the ice made by the Ice and
Cold Storage Company of Westminsterto that
manufactured in either Baltimore or Hagers-
town or brought from the kennebec, that the
Blua Mountain House, on the Blue Ridge
mountains, uses it altogether.
The Western Maryland Telephone Com.
pany of Carroll county was organized several
years ago to occupy field that no other Com
pany seemed to want, and the design was to
connect all the towns and villages OF the
county with the county seat, so as to have a
complete service and quick communication.
This has nearly been accomplished, and soon
a line will be established to Baltimore and
connection made with the lines of companies
operating in York and Adams counties and
with the counties in Maryland lying weSI OF
Carroll. Not only has the Company built an
extensive system. but it gives service at a
very low rate.
All of these enterprises are a credit to
Westminster and Carroll. They were estab-
lished by home people and by home capital,
and all of our citizens should uphold and
sustain them. They should be pointed to as
monuments to the intelligence and progress
sive spirit of our people.