Evening star., 1901-10-04
HAGERSTOWN NEWS GRIST.
Opposition to Sale of Western Mary
land Road Increases.

I0n0 ROAD increases.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HAGERSTOwN, Md, October 4, 1901
According to figures prepared by Balti-
more City Register Numsen. the finance
committee, in the event of a sale of the
citys holdings in the Western Maryland
railroad must receive 81. $40, ,47409. as that
is the amount advanced by that board for
the mortgages and payments Of interest.
If the mortgages are sold for their full
value, $S310,000, there would be a balance
Of s790, ,474.90 for the city. This statement
Is important news to Washington county,
and has been looked forward to with great
interest. 1t has. however, seemed to have
increased instead of diminishing the op-
position to the sale of the road at this
time, when 1t Is conceded that 1t is in
creasing in value day by day by the I'M
mense improvements being made on its
branches and feeders to meet the require
ments of it's heavy traffic.
j. R. Clifford, colored, editor of the Pio-
neer Press. and member of the Martins
burg bar who was convicted of publishing
Hbelous matter in his paper about the
wife of Rev John c. Newman Of Hagers-
town, Md, was sentenced by Judge Faux
ner to pay fine of s1oo and cost of the
case. The sentence contains the further
provision that the editor be remanded to
jail until the fine is paid
The c. and p. Telephone Company is
building new line to Jefferson, Peters
willie. Brunswick, Harper's Ferry, Charles
town and Winchester, via the county road
running south from the national pike at
the foot of Catoctin mountain. The new
line will connect with the trunk line along
the National pike.
Hagerstown's latest industry is new fac
tory, the Maryland Metallic Bed Company.
The plant is situated on land generously
donated by the Hagerstown Improvement
Company, and consists of a main building
135 feet by forty feet. and a foundry forty
feet by eighty feet. 1t is the intention TO
have the plant in full operation by the
middle of November. when employment will
be given to large number of hands
The Maryland OIL and Gas Company re-
Gently organized here, principally COM
posed of Hagerstown gentlemen, including
Mayor z. M Schindle, have leased 37Oo
acres of oil land three miles wide in Dod-
bridge and Gilmore counties, w. Va. The
leased track is surrounded by some Of the
finest oil land in the state. The company
expects to have the first oil drilled by De-
cember Is.
The engineer corps of the steam railroad
from Washington to Gettysburg has COM
pieted Its survey between Westminster and
Littlestown.
Rev. ]. D. Bushnell, DID, formerly prin-
cipal of Kee-Mar College, this city has
been called to become pastor of the Luz
theran church at Luray.
Reports from all sections of Washing
ton county say that the chinquapin. chest
nut, shellbark and walnut crops will be
very large this season.
Miss OdeH Blanche, who has been visiting
Mr.. j. F. Sheppard, E. Washington street
this city, has returned to her home at
Washington.
Mrs. Alice V McClain and son. Mr.. A.
8. McCIain, OF Washington, are visiting at
Wfliiamsport.
Messrs. B. A. Garlinger Mack Cost and
Calvin B. Thfrston. u s. officials at Wash
ington. are home here on vacation.