Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-06-09
WITHIN THE TOWN.

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Moore ward 8, G. II. O'Leary; ware
4, G. W. Williams ; ward 5, T. G
Dunlap; Ward 6, S. M. McNeel. DR.
A. Y. Cartwright and Mr.. w. Adicke'
were elected school trustees.
A meeting of the board of trustees o
the Yorkville graded schools was held
in the Office of G. w. s. Hart, Esq.
last Thursday afternoon, pursuant te
a call by Mr.. 81. G. Strauss, secretary
Messrs. A. Y. Cartwright and w
Adickes, recently elected as trustees
took the oath of Office. Owing to the
disqualification of Chairman Lewis by
reason of his having accepted member
ship on the board of visitors to- the
citadel, it was necessary to elect 6
new chairman. G. w. S. Hart, Esq.
was chosen. Mr.. H. G. Strauss was
reelected secretary. Information AZ
to the remainder of the business trans
acted is officially set forth in an ad.
vertisement in another column.
Judge J. J. Mcclure, of Chester, re-
Gently appointed by Judge Brawley fol
the purpose, held a reference in the
Office of Mr.. B. N. Moore on Tuesday
to take testimony on the question as
to whether the Ganson Dry Goods
company had committed an act o1
bankruptcy as alleged by the b. B.
Claflin Co., of New York. 1t will be
remembered that as the result of the
institution of bankruptcy proceedings,
Judge Brawley, last winter, signed an
Injunction restraining Mr.. B. N. Moore,
receiver, from further proceedings
under the order of the state court.
Afterwards this order was modified so
as to permit the receiver to pay out
the sum of $1,000 already in hand ;
but tying up of additional assets OF
$4,000 until further hearing could be
had. The proceedings; Tuesday, re-
lated to this additional $4,000. T. NJ.
Mordecai, of Charleston, was present
as the representative of the II. B.
Claflin Co. Thos. F. Mellow repres-
ented Receiver Moore; w. W. Lewis,
ESQ.,, the Ganson Dry Goods company,
and Messrs. Hart, Brice and Spencer
various other creditors. Referee Nc
Clure will report the testimony to
Judge Brawley, who will decide
whether the remaining funds will be
disposed of under the jurisdiction OF
the state or United States court. From
the figures as they now appear, it
seems that the liabilities of the Ganson
Dry Goods company were about $780,
600 and the actual assets about $15,-
900. A dividend of SO per cent. has
already been paid, and in all, creditors
will probably realize something like
so cents on the dollar.
1t is very likely that the town coun-
Gil will do something with the water
question, which has all along been in
a very unsatisfactory shape in York
vile. Present troubles are due more
than anything else to bad start.
The greatest objection is the unequal
weight of the burden resting on differ.
ent consumers. For instance, the
price of water for domestic purposes
is So a year, whether the home be oc-
cupied by only two people or family
of dozen individuals. Dozens of
other inequalities no less glaring could
be pointed out; but the injustice here
indicated is sufficient to give the idea.
One can also figure out approximately
the cost of public water as compared
with well-water. 1t is self evident
that the only solution of these troubles
is the sale of water through meters.
Let each consumer pay for what he
gets. As to whether the town or the
consumer should pay for putting in
the metre is a plain. business PROPOSE
tion, affecting principally the price of
the water, for in any event it is the
duty of the town to furnish water as
nearly at actual cost as possible. In
his final report, the other night, In
tendant Carroll said that during the
past year, the town had used an
average of 100000 gallons of water a
day. The gross income, he states,
was about $1,000. The lowest price
of which we have any knowledge of
water being sold by the 1000 gallons
is s cents. On that basis, the town of
Yorkville should have realized S2,92O
last year. Of course no such quantity