Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-16

A correspondent VINO Claims to Know
I What He is Talking About Says
! There Are Schemes and Schemes
Thinks the Right Thing to DO ito
Help Pay For the Present One.
To The Editor of The New DOMINION.
As our people well remember the
question Of building bridge to
Greenmont is an old one. Il lived
/ for years and refused to down So
four or five young and energetic
men, aided by a woman of consider
/ able wealth, after many discourage
ments and without cent of aid
from Greenmont, Morgantown, Mo-
nongalia county or any of the citizens
thereof, contracted for steel and
iron bridge from Peasants street in
Morgantawn to Greenmont, said
bridge to be completed BY May /,
1900. Since that time the erection
of the bridge has been delayed to
| the great damage and ANNOYANCE OF
those who contracted for same.
Strange to say certain citizens OF
Greenmont and one citizen of Nor
gantown who would not give cent
to help build said bridge, but who
owns real estate in Greenmont have
gone to the representative of the
bridge company and taken him away
from the work which he should have
been doing for the completion of the
present bridge and occupied his time
with surveys and locations, DC. for
another bridge from Morgantown to
Greenmont The said representa-
tive of the bridge company anxious
to get another job and not over
scrupulous about the duties which
he owed to his employers nor the
methods used to get contract for
his company grabbed at the chance
to get another job and proceeded in
his peculiar way to help the few
jan6 owners who wanted the second
bridge but who were not willing to
pay tor it as the other men did to
get the necessary collateral raised
so that he could sell them bridge.
Nov, comes the scheme which we
know but which will not be written
here. Suffice it to say prominent
men were approached with offers of
money if the Cheat river bridge
could be landed for said bridge com
pany without competitive bids.
THE town of Seneca is putting in
large sewer from Taylor's store to
tho river with which a number Of
the best reidences can make connecs
tions. Now ii they will pave Beech
hurst from Front street to the Glass
Works they will be doing a good
thing for themselves. The authori-
ties over there are very careful
about sanitary conditions and soon
remedy any negligence on the part
OF citizens who are careless in the
matter.
Some accepted the money, some re-
fused aud the future has In store some
interesting reading on this subject.
TO get this second bridge to Green
mont, Greenmont and the owners OF
the flrst bridge were to be taxed for
the sole benefit OF two or at most three
land owners who were not willing to
develop their own land, but who
wanted the people who are building
the bridge to Greenmont to build It
for them and invite them to compete
free OF charge.
The town Of Morgantown was TO be
muleted for $4,000 to help boom pri-
vate land with public money. And to
be sure that the land OF two Of the
three parties above referred TO would
be best developed IL was agreed to lo-
cate the southern end Of the bridge so
as to hit their land in the middle, even
Ii more than half the Greenmout hill
would yet remain to be climbed by the
tax payers who were asked TO vote
public money for private good.
Next the county court were TO be
pulled for large sum Of money in
order to help this second bridge along
and inJure the owners Of the present
bridge who as admitted by all parties
have more than doubled the value on
every foot Of land in Greenmont, and
we find one member Of the county
court--we blush to say it--ready to
subscribe to this second bridge and
urging its erection by the same COM
pany that has the contract for the first
bridge and also the Cheat river bridge.
Think of 1t, please Then think OF this
that the Groton Bridge and Manufac-
turing Company that Is erecting the
bridge to Greenmont and has the
contract for the Cheat river bridge, In
order to get one OF these contracts se-
cretly gave one party ssrake of" and
offered another money.
Who, then, knows how much OF
the subscriptions to the second Green
mont is genuine and how much is
:'watered" and who knows further
other things which these facts may,
ave, will disclose?