Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-05-09
TWO CENTS
CAUSTIC COMMENTS.
Some Pointed Remarks about
Matters and Things


Kingwood has Better Lighted Streets
Than we Have Drawbacks hich
may be Remedied in Connection with
the Town-Too Many airs aud toe
Little Money.
A recent visitor 70 Kingwood from
this place was comparing the public
improvements OF the two towns. In
population they compare this way.
Kingwood has about 700 people and
Morgantown about 1000. This COM
mentator said: II was in kingwood
I the other day and you ought 30 see
the difference ia their streets, after
seeing ours. They are smooth and
even as cement walk-not bunny
and full Of holes like you see the
streets here. There they are nice and
clean, and show some care and order
in their supervision.
And their lights are fine brilliant
electric lights that you can see from
out of the town. The lighting SER
vice is fine as in big city, and COM
pares with this city about like day
compares to night.
Pity that while we are moving
Kingwood soul and body, over to Nor
gantown as some people say, we could
not move her streets and lighting
plant as model for us to work by.
Another man OF affairs who has
been over the world little was COM
menting on our faint lights. He said
that three hundred yards outside the
business center of town you could be
sandbagged and robbed on your way
home and nobody would ever know
it until next day. The lights away
from where Illuminated stores help
out, are so poor that robbers could
work without fear of detection. 1t is
said that visitors coming into Nor
gantown at night would never ind
the way without guide.
This man of affairs said the city
had proceeded ia a mistaken manner
in regard to her improvements. That
she should have waited until she
could have built first class electric
light plant and water works of her
own and furnished water and lights
at cost to the citizens. He said Nor
gantown is putting on the airs of a
city, with the income of a country
village, and barely getting money
enough to pay interest on her bond
ed debt, and meet running expenses
of her government. In addition to
this he declares this to be one Of the
best cities in the state, and he had
faith enough in its future to think il
will be the very best.
Profanity on the street corners and
expectorating on the streets are two
evils that come in for good deal of
denunciation by the people offended
with these indecencies. Something
is going to happen to the offenders
one of these days, and they will de-
eide to do like the whistlers in col
lege hall. Once upon a time they got
too gay and Prof. Lorentz directed
each fellow when he wanted to whistle
to go down behind big poplar on
the campus so he could not annoy
his neighbors. These street offenders
will have TO be sent outside the city
limits to do their swearing and spit
ting.
Now here's fattering comment for
variety. Il young man who recently
come from college town Washington,
Pa, to spend few weeks here says
Morgantown has the greatest proper
tion Of clever people he has ever met
anywhere. He has met great many
of the professors in the University and
is pleased to find them universally
agreeable and cordial gentlemen and
ladies. The city itself comes in for a
share of we'll merited praise from this
visitor.
The problem of extending the inn
provements Of the city with our pres
ent income and present running ex-
penses is serious one. There are
numerous demands for sewers to be
extended to new houses with water
closet inside and no outlet for the
waste except to run 1t in the street.
Some are inclined to condemn the
owner of the house for this sort of
thing, and others put the blame ON
council saying that when a man adds
valuable house to the taxable prop
ertY of the city, the city should ex-
tend the sewer to his premises.
Meanwhile there is no money to do
all this work, and conditions continue
unDearable Another bond issue may
be tried. Anything to make be tier
town will be welcomed.