Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1902-10-11

a line of 205 feet laid on McCullOh street !;
taps for supply, and feet of water IN
reservoir.
Treasurer Duggan reported financial
operations for August rs follows:
CORPORATE FUND.
Balance on hand last report. So, 176 6S
Receipts.
County appropriation. ...... 800 90
Henry Fisher bailif. - 10
Ianceot Richardson. collector. -. 4ti5 90
Disbursements.
Bills audited and ordered paid 81 G,2 -
-
Balance on hand. ................S7.S 91 IS
WATER FUND.
Balance on hand last report. .......S 81 1865 -
Receipts.
Lancelot Richardson, collector. 635 90
George Mayer, superintendent. 200
Disbursements.
Bills audited and ordered paid ......S 80 81
Balance on hand. ...............$114 9 80
Balance-corpOrate fund. .........S 1881 56
water . .......... 1,l49 10
Total ........... ............ S90i1 H
Street supervisor Wagner reported:
Work on Mill streets days, men; Union
street, days, 3 men Grant and Washing
ton streets-7l days, 3 men; Loo street.-the
DAYS, no men, and it will soon be November
Street committee reported that work
on paving Union street had commenced,
track had been adjusted to proper grade
to "A point opposite Uhl street and paving
will begin i'll a few days
Water committee reported that l1a,
acres of land from A. j. Wilson had
been purchased for $3.50. Plat takes i'll
whole water supply on other side of
mountain-quantity estimated at about
5000 gallons day. A small pump had
been purchased at Il cost of $19S.60, in
GLIDING G. o. D. and express. Pump
will be used in pumping water to reser-
voir on other side of mountain. Com
mittee recommended purchase of a
duplicate pump at IA cost of 81 $50 t. o.
b.; will prJpel $50 to 800 gallons a
minute.
Light committee reported having or
dered light for Beall alley.
Ordinance committee was instructed
to draft an Ordinance regulating traffic
over streets.
S. Taramino, Orman street; Watts
and Ritter, Broadway, and Hitchins
Bros. Co., Mechanic street, We're granted
building permits.
Resolutions from Fire Department,
lately published in JOURNAL, were read
and Messrs. Duggan and Richardson
appointed committee to ascertain
cost of chemical fire engine.
Collector Richardson asked to have
$4.44 declared insolvent, and he was
accommodated.
Mayor and Clerk We're authorized to
make lease of ground from Consolidation
Coal company, on Uhl street. Cost $3
per dnn"m
Street committee was authorized to
secure bids for the erection of a tool
house, cow.shed and enclosure.
Clayton Purnell, member of the State
Board of Education, and Prof. Edmund
d. Murdaugh, principal of State Normal
School, No. ,, appeared and urged that
muddy conditions OH Loo street be
remedied. Mr.. Murdaugh especially
referred to the discomfort and danger to
health incurred by pupils sitting during
school hours with wet feet. Unless this
liability is removed it may result in
diminution of regular attendance, so i'm
portant i'll the successful conduct of any
school, especially by pupils from abro I'd,
who could not change to dry shoes and
stockings until they returned home.
Moreover, great danger to health is in
Cured from street filth, such diseases as
catarrh and diphtheria resulting from
dirt and dust, swarming with dormant
bnct"'io, but made alive by the warmth
of the building. He cited the fact that
the Board of Health of Milwaukee, in a
course of investigation in that city, had
found on one 2-inch gelatine-coated film
as many as 1856 diphtheritic microbes.
Council referred the matter to the
Street committee with power to act.
A committee from residents on Mt
Pleasant street asked for light. Re-
ferred to Light committee.
Finance committee was instructed to
pay $1,000 notes in bank, and also renew
note with Benjamin Jenkins at per rent.
Bills approximating S4,Sl9.19 We're
read and ordered paid as follows:
W ater. ..''.'.. ............. 0,ED ~
Councilman Johns, seconded by COun-
Gilman Richardson, moved that Water
committee be instructed to purchase
duplicate pump. Carried.
Questions.
Several weeks ago J. l.. Rodier want