The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-07-14


Secretary Cook was directed to confer with
State Superintendent Stevens in reference to
the time for holding the teachers institutes
for Baltimore county. 1t was suggested that
from the 18th to the 21st of December would
be suitable dates.
Mr.. Krout presented an organ to the Board
on behalf of School Z, district 3, which had
been purchased by the teachers and pupils,
and Judge Melchor Hoshall presented an organ
on behalf of School 3, district 6.
-Four new school houses are to be built. as
follows At Owings Mills. 4th district; at
Glen-Arm, 18th district; at Golden Ring, 18th
district and one to replace School 5, 18th dis.
trict. An addition will be built to tie school
building at Dickeyville, LIST district.
1t was ordered that each Commissioner be
authorized to expend the sum of $3.50 in re-
pairs to school buildings in his districts.
A vacant scholarship in the Western Mary
land College was reported by the secretary
The Board adjourned until Wednesday,
July 25th.
Contention Over the Opening of
Road.-On Wednesday the County Commits
sioners sat in the courtroom for the purpose
of hearing the exceptions to the appointment
of examiners for the opening of Franklin ave-
nue. extended. in the village of Gardenville,
Belair road. This road was pettioned for by
the Rev. Henry S. Nagengast and number
of other residents, and counter petition pro-
man Schone, ]. Henry Herman and others:
The petitioners for the road were represented
by Messrs. Boarman & Lindsay and the petit
TONERS against it by Messrs. Centrum and
BiddiSon.
The hearing was devoted principally to the
argument on the jurisdiction of the Commits
siorers in the matter, the exceptants taking
the position that as the road was within two
miles of Baltimore city, the proceedings should
have been under what was known as the
"Street Law passed in 1876, and not under
the Baltimore county road law of 1894. Mr..
Centrum made an exhaustive argument deny
ing this jurisdiction of the Commissioners,
and he pointed to the fact that at no time has
an attempt been made to open road under
the road law within the prescribed limits
within recent years that has been successful.
Ia was followed by Messrs. Boarman d Lind
Baltimore city, and was intended to apply
solely to that portion of the county, and that
as soon as that was taken into the city, the
law ceased to be effective, because there was
no object in existence to which it could apply;
that the two miles referred to in it had become
part of Baltimore city, and that to proceed
still further and so interpret it to mean two
miles from the new city limits would be to do
something which the original law never con-
templated.
point took middle course. They held that
the street law still stands in force, as does the
road law as matter of course, but that it is
optional for persons desiring to open new
thoroughfares to proceed under either law,
that it would be and is perfectly proper to do
either. They therefore directed the parties to
the contention to proceed with testimony in
their hearing.
The Commissioners sat again on Thursday
and heard the testimony of a number of wit
nesses The evidence was very conflicting
throughout. The matter was not concluded
and the hearing will be resumed on Tuesday
afternoon next at o'clock.
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Judge Fowler Says License Law is IN
constitutional..-On Friday, 9th instant,
Chief Judge Fowler, delivered an oral opinion
that the Baltimore county huckster law,
passed at the last session of the Legislature, is
unconstitutional. The test was made by the
G. D. Kenny Company of Baltimore, one of
whose drivers, Hugh J. Brown, was arrested
on the charge of violating the law. The case
was tried before Judge Fowler without jury.
He holds that the law is unconstitutional
and void: ~ Because it violates the provisions
of Section 20, Article g. which provides that
every law shall embrace but one subject and
that shall be described in its title, and ~ Be-
cause it violates other provisions OF the State
Constitution as well as some of the provisions
of the Fourteenth Amendment OF the Con-
stitution of the United States.
A written opinion will be hereafter filed.
Judge Fowler says it should be remembered
that the law existing before the Act of 1900
was passed is still in force, and that therefore
selling from wagons is now as heretofore
illegal.
The law declared unconstitutional required
all persons doing business in the city and the
counties adjoining Baltimore county, selling
or delivering merchandise in Baltimore coun-
ty or soliciting orders for the delivery of goods
TO take out license, the fee for which is $50.
Nearly $1,000 had already been paid to the
county for these licenses and this money will
now have to be refunded. Under the law it
was to have gone into the road fund.
Mason and Dixon's Line.-It is stated in
Science that Prof w. H. Clark has been APP
pointed by the Governor of Maryland COM
missioner on behalf of the State of Maryland
to act with similar commissioner on behalf
of the State of Pennsylvania and the superin-
tendent of the United States and Geodetic
Survey, in the establishment of the old bis
toric Mason and Dixon's line, in part forming
The boundary between Maryland and Pennsyl-
vana.
This famous line, so long regarded as the
boundary between the North and South, was
run by two English urveyors-Mason and
DixonIbetween the years 1.o4.oo, ana was
marked throughout the eastern portion by
granite monuments brought from England,
that had cut on their southern faces the arms
of Lord Baltimore, and on the north the arms
of the Penns. 1t was by far the most extern
sive engineering work of colonial days.
destruction of many of the stones, and prop
erty interests are suffering as the result. IL IS
the purpose of the new survey to redetermine
and properly mark the old line.
Died From the Intense Heat.-William
WeitZ aged 10 years son of Mr.. Charles WeltZ,
who farms Mr.. Frederick Kremple's property
on Chestnut Ridge, died suddenly on the 9th
| inst, under very distressing circumstances. he
was assisting his father to unload wheat at the
| barn when he complained of feeling unwell.
| He was told to stop work and when he got of
the wagon grew rapidly worse and died before
medical aid could be summoned. DR.. j. Il.
Benson, who arrived some time afterward,
said that death had been caused by the intense
heat Young Weitz was a student at Western
MARYLAND College. where he was studying FOL
the ministry His sudden death was severe
blow to his family and friends. His funeral
took place Sunday afternoon at the German
| Lutheran Church, Chestnut Ridge, and was
by Rev. E. L. S. Tressel, of Baltimore, assisted
bv Rev. T. H. Wright of the NJ. z. Church, and
Rev. Dr. E. ID. Newberry, of the Presbyterian
Church. The pall-bearers were Lawrence
Hilgeman. Edward Gent, Paul Revers, Julian
! Gent, William Long and Charles Rodenhoffer
Another Mysterious Barn Fire.--Abou
| 6 O'Clock on Sunday evening last the barn OF
| the property of Mr.. ]. A. Clagett, on the LIB
erty road, I'd district, caught fire from som,
unknown cause and was entirely consumed
together with several smaller outpulldlngs
Cne horse several pigs, lot of grain and ma!
and numerous other articles were destroyed
1t was due TO the active efforts of Mr.. Clagett
| neighbors that his house and other building
were saved. The loss is about $1,000 and 1t !
only partially covered by insurance.