The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-07-05

OlOC MacnlneS ana SANITARY OmCer5.-
On Tuesday last Mr. Osborne |. Yellott, coun-
sci to the Board of County Commissioners,
filed two opinions in regard to questions which
were referred to him. One relates to the seiz-
ure of slot machines and Mr.. Yellott holds
that the Board has no right under the law to
directly seize them. He says: II find, upon
thorough examination of the laws defining
the duties of the Commissioners, that they are
given no power over the morals of the people,
and have no right under their general powers
to take any steps to adopt any regulations to
the moral welfare of the citizens of our coun-
ty." Continuing he says the Commissioners
are authorized to appoint police officers and
make such rules as they may deem best for
their proper government and discipline.
Mr.. Yellott says that it is not the duty of
the Commissioners to prevent crime, but the
dnty of the police to do So 1.-THE Commits
sioners can make regulations and rules for the
police, and if these rules and regulations are
not obeyed by the police the Commissioners
have the power to dismiss from the police
force these who disobey. They have not, in
my opinion, any power to themselves under
take the performance of those duties which the
police allow to remain unperformed, or to i'm
pose those duties upon Others" Mr.. Yellott
says that the Commissioners have no right to
seize the slot machines or to authorize con-
stables to do So
The Court of Appeals, Mr.. Yelott says, has
decided that the Police Board of Baltimore has
the rlgQG, uDQer certain circumstances, TO seize
and destroy slot machines which are actually
used for gambling He states that when it is
positively known that machine can only be
used for the purpose of gambling the proprie-
tor of the place in which it is operated should
be arrested, and, if he is convicted, the ma
chine can be destroyed. Mr.. Yellott suggested
some rules to be adopted by the Board in re-
gard to the prosecution for the operation of
slot machines, which were accepted by them,
and the police force will be accordingly so
directed.
Mr.. Yellott also rendered an opinion to the
effect that the sanitary officers of the county
must act as local registrars of births and
deaths without any extra compensation. He
holds, contrary to the opinion of DR.. John s..
Fulton, secretary of the State Board of Health,
that the new health law for the county abol-
ishes the requirement that county health
officer or secretary of the Local Board of
Health shall collect and forward vital statis-
tics to the secretary of the State Board of
Health.
Beautiful Windows Presented to a
Church.-Two large and beautiful stained
glass windows have recently been presented to
st. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church, Ro-
land avenue, and, while they are not entirely
finished, special service was held in connec-
ton with them last Sunday morning at II
o'clock. They are of unusual size and COM
pletey fill the window space in the north and
south walls of the transepts. The subjects are
based upon the words:
"And God said, Let there be light, and there
was light" That in the north transept repre-
sents the giving of that light as revealed in the
Old Testament, and the moment chosen is
when Moses has descended from the Mount
bearing the Tables of the Law, the contents of
which he is declaring to the group assembled
around him, the effect of which is clearly in
dictated in the attitudes and expressions Of the
hearers The figure of Moses follows that of
Michael Angelo, while the others are taken
from historical pictures.
This window has, as is fitting, the DINNER,
the colder and the severer light. Above the
picture are three large quarter-foil windows of
as suggestive of the Trinity, and the subject of
that on the left is the Ark of the Covenant,
surmounted by the cherubim that in the GEN.
ter the star and that on the right the seven
branched candlestick. rttstt
The window in the south transept portrays
the shining of light as manifest in the New
Testament. and the scene chosen is the giving
of the Christian law as embodied in the Ser
mon on the Mount and epitomized in the two
great commandments.
In the center of the picture is the seated
Christ after one of Hoffman's figures. In
front of Him is group of hearers, with the
young st. John kneeling in the center of the
foreground and the strong figure of blind
man Just to the left. In the background is
seen the shining waters of the Sea Of Galilee
and some of the buildings of the adjacent
cities.