The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-04-21

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Water Department.
-%The Pimlico track is JONAH sure. All
that Is necessary to do is to announce some
thing to take place there and it is certain to
rain from one to five days. This has got to be
such common occurrence that patrons OF
the track always look for rain when any racing
is billed for Pimlico.
1T is said the Hoffman paper mill prop
erty, situated at Hoffmanville in the 9th dls-
trict of this county, has been purchased by
several capitalists who will convert the plant
into a modern paper mill. The property con-
sists of two paper mills, several dwellings and
a large body of land.
> While fishing in Bear Creek last Sunday
| Charles Calvert of Baltimore, saw large
German carp swimming ABOUT IN the snaiiq"
water He procured a pitchfork, which ne
used as spear, and by this means managed to
CAPTURE the fish. 1t measured feet in length
and weighed 80 pounds.
THE weather on Easter Sunday was de-
lightful-a real spring day that enticed nearly
everybody out of doors. Thousands of people
drove out into the country and the suburban
roads were crowded with vehicles of all kinds.
Monday, which is observed by many people
as a holiday was also pleasant.
ION Sunday afternoon last while Mrs.
Thomas B. Catch, accompanied by her son and
daughter, were returning from the funeral OF
Mrs. Alex. Mccormick, their buggy was upset
and they were thrown out, but fortunately es-
capped injury. The horse ran away and was
not recaptured until the buggy was badly
wrecked.
"a protest has been filed in the County
Clerks Office against the granting OF liquor
license to the new Towson Hotel Company
upon the ground that there is no public neces-
sity for such place at the point indicated, and
also that there is no building now existing
upon the lot and that, therefore, the applica-
ton is invalid =, pow,aran na,t,more
county, has sold very promising 3-year old
colt to Mr.. Richard Hentsche, of Baltimore.
for good figure. Promise is his name and
he is by Silver Chimes, dam by Stranger. In a
trial at the Gentlemen's Driving Park few
days ago he showed half in l:l5. 1t IS
thought Promise will develop great speed.
> Once More, the game little mare owned
by Mr.. E. Cuttings Merryman, won the first
steeplechase at the meeting of the Maryland
Steeplechase Association at Pimlico, this week.
She was ridden by Mr.. Sam Nicholas. Once
More weighs about l, $50 pounds and in her last
race carried 10 pounds. She has started in
eight steeplechases and won seven of them.
THE first meeting of the Maryland
Steeplechase Association, which took place at
Pimlico on Tuesday and Thursday of this
week, was in all respects successful The at
tendance especially on Thursday, was very
large and was made up principally of society
people from the city and county. The events
were all well contested and the steeplechases
were the best ever seen in Maryland.
The great brood mare Inez, dam of COL
Kuzer, 2:1l4, now the champion of Europe
this week dropped fine colt, sired by Hugo,
at Gerar Stock Farm, near Cockeysvile Inez
is by Jay Gould, 9Th and is owned by Mr..
! G, o. Wilson. She has had number Of colts
and all of them are trotters. The colt just
foaled has been nominated in the Hartford
Futurity $4,000 stake for 3-year, olds;
ION Tuesday Constable Whitaker took
/ in custody two strange boys who strayed into
Towson. They proved to be John and Arthur
Archer, aged respectively 10 and years, sons
of James l.. Archer, who is employed on the
Garrett property, near Laurayille. They said
| they had started to walk to Hartford county,
! but had lost their way and were anxious to
! get back home where the officer subsequently
! took them.
"a general meeting of the stockholders
of the Chesapeake Electric Water @$mpany Oh
Baltimore county will be held at the Office of
the company, on Canton avenue, on Monday,
Nav 7th, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ. The object of the
meeting is to consider the consolidation of this
company with the Gainesville Water Company
/ of Baltimore county. Mr.. Thomas McGuin-
ness is president, and Mr.. John W. H. Geiger,
secretary, of the Chesapeake Company.
Mr. w. Pinkney Craig, proprietor of
Rayenswood Stock Farm, Queenstown, has
been on a business trip through the horse
breeding section of Virginia and brought back
with him several extra fine saddlers and
drivers. He says that the country is overrun
with Northern buyers who are ready to snap
up good animals at almost any price. This
week Mr.. Craig sold pair of handsome coach
ers to Mr. G. R. Diffenderffer on Charles street
avenue. at long price.
THE trustees of the Sheppard Asylum
are now making arrangements to spend part
! of the Enoch Pratt bequest in improvements
upon tue property. A fine casino will be cree.
ted at cost of about 500, COO, equipped with
billiard room, boWling alisys etc. e. and s th ,.
| 81. 218, 377.18. The income from the Sheppard
endowment has been about $25, 600 year.
->It is announced that a company of New
York and Philadelphia capitalists, together
| with several Baltimoreans, are about closing a
| deal for q tract of 400 acres of land extending
! from Fulton avenue to the western limits of
Arlington and embracing portions of Walbrock
and North Walbrook, which will be laid ous
| in building sites, roadways and sidewalks and
large number of handsome houses erected.
All this, it is said, will involve an expendi-
ture of between two and three millions of
dollars.
The Poultry "Fad'-It is Pleasant and
Prof1table.-The Baltimore Sun publishes an
interesting article on the growing of poultry
about Baltimore, from which we extract the
following: Mrs. George Brown, of" Brookland.
wood" has an extensive poultry plant about
two miles from Chase, Md. Mrs. Brown star
ted the enterprise in the spring of 1898 at
Marshy Point. 1t now consists of four duck
houses 20 by 16 feet each, and three 20 by 16
feet. There are four large hen houses where
eggs for the incubators. There is brooder
house 20 by IL feet with ID divisions, to accom-
modate 100 chicks in each division. 1t is
heated by the usual boiler and pipe arrange
ments. There is a cold brooder house 220 by
| IS feet divided into ~ pens. This brooder is
for the ducks after they are large enough to be
removed from the hot brooder and are kept
there until they attain marketable size. There
are two incubator houses, one in cellar shape,
81 by ~ feet, five feet of which is underground
anA< IF kIn I'LL 30 kxx
% feet and is 10 feet high. The walls have
six-inch spaces filled in with sawdust. The
intention is to raise about 800 chickens to
maturity, and the facilities are such that 5000
may be raised this season. The breeding flock
| of Pekin ducks on hand consists of 480. Barred
and white Plymouth Rocks are the breeds of
! chickens kept The arrangements for water
! ing the poultry are excellent. The water is
obtained from an artesian well 4SO feet deep
and is pumped by a ten-horse-power engine,
which keeps 1000 gallon tank filled, which
supplies all the water needed in every building
connected with the plant
Mr.. T. Edward Hambleton has recently
erected at his country place, near Lutherville,
an up-to-date poultry establishment about 200
| feet long 1t is divided into eight pens and
has an imposing fourstory tower at one end.
The first story the tower is half underground
and is used as an incubator room. 1t has a
Matching capacity of 400 chicks every three
weeks. The second story comprises corn
| anu DOue CuttlIS IulllS, uSeu III pre-
pairing food for both the poultry and dairy.
The mills are run by windwheel power. The
third story contains accommodations for coop
ing poultry to tame them, to get them in read
mess for the shows. The breeds kept are
barred and white Plymouth Rocks and golden,
silver and white Wyandottes.
| Mr.. Harry A. Parr has also got the "hen
fever" and there is just now hurry and hustle
at his beautiful place near Sherwood in max
ing spring preparations for the new depart
ment. Mr.. PARIS poultry plant will be in ac-
| cordance with the other urroundings-whch
means it will be strictly modern in all the ap-
pointments and become another attraction on
this model farm. 1t is understood as starter
the FIRST brooder house that will be erected will
be 200 feet long, and all the other accessory
buildings will be on an extensive scale. The
services of Mr.. J. A. Warren, graduate from
the Rhode Island Experiment Station Poultry
School, has been secured. Barred Plymouth
Rocks and white Wyandottes only will be kept
Near Cockeysville Mr.. w. H. Wight has for
some time been conducting poultry plant on
the colony-house plan-keeping small hocks
in each house. He has made many expert
ments in feeding to get properly balanced
ration. He says he greatly enjoys the recrea
ton that looking after the business part in
wolves Mr. Wight's plant is strictly practical,
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