The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-03-21

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kould amount to s2,500,0OO. Mr..
gan, with his usual thriftiness, has been
mportuning the Secretary of the Treasury to
have this duty removed, and no one need be
surprise if he succeeds. No one but Morgan
would have the nerve to make such request
THERE DIED in the Colored Convent in Balti-
more few days ago Sister Mary Ellen Joseph
White, who had reached the great age of ia
wears. She was born a slave in Prince Georges
county, Md, and went to Washington to live
before the War of 1912. She became mem
Der of the Catholic Church in 1927 and entered
the Oblate Order in 1887. She enjoyed excel
lent health until nine years ago, when she sus-
tanned dislocation of leg from fall, after
which time she had been cripple. Her age
was well authenticated.
THE METHODIST interests of Chicago are
making arrangements to erect fifteen-story
Office building in that city to cost 81, 100000
The present site of the First Methodist Church,
at Clark and Washington streets, in the heart
of the business district. will be the site of the
IcW clIuCluIct WHiCn 10 W OOntdAA q OAdASA
auditorium surprising anything of its kind in
the world. The church room will be con-
Quoted on the same plan as the Church of the
Stranger in New York, being devoted particu-
larly to services for strangers in the city. The
building will be constructed strictly in accord
ance with modern business ideas.
THIRTY-EIeHT years after the Civil War there
are fourteen men in the United States who
served in the Confederate army and thirteen
who served in the Federal army during that
great struggle. While a number of men in
the last list are well advanced in years, yet
there are quite a number Of comparatively
young men who entered the army when boys
of fifteen to eighteen. In the case of Union
officers who are now Senators, most of them
were quite young when they entered the SER
vice. One Senator, Pettus, of Alabama, serv
ed in both the Mexican and Civil Wars.
Upon the whole the calling of warrior is not
an unhealthy business. Even veterans who
have been pensioned on account of disabilities
live to good old ages.
PoLrTIcAL MATTERS in Baltimore city are
warming up almost to degree of excitement.
The candidates of both parties are actively at
work and, we regret to see, some of them are
already engaging in personalities in the hope
of damaging their opponents. This is particu-
larlVMthe case among the Republicans and it
MI be the cause of losing them the city. Mr.
McLane, the Democratic organization candi-
date for mayor, is having trouble about his
eligibility to that Office and the other Demo
cratic candidates for the Office are using that
against him. Some lawyers declare that he is
eligible while others say that be is not, hence
he is on the defensive from the start. General
Latrobe continues in the field for the mayor
atty nomination and this is said to be very en-
barrassing for the organization, as it is thought
that should he "stick" to the end-and he de-
clares that he will-that the chances of Mr.
McLane will be injured thereby. The prim
airy election will take place on Tuesday,
April 7th.
THE BALTIMORE NeaOs commenting editorial
ly upon the address of Mr.. W. w. Crosby,
roads engineer for Baltimore county, delivered
before the meeting of Deer Creek Farmers
Club last Saturday, says: "Mr. Crosby's talk
was significant. The point he brought out is
at the same tine the hope and the despair of
good-roads builders. 1t seems quite true that
a sufficient revenue is now being expended on
the roads of each county to give it good roads
ultimately, if properly applied. Additional
revenue is not needed so badly as correct
methods of using the revenue in developing a
system of good roads. The fact that so much
money has been spentin past years and is now
being spent, while the condition of the roads
is still wretched, is distinctly discouraging On
the other hand, the fact that the funds availa-
BILE are sufficient to build good roads narrows
the problem down to educating the persons
who disburse these funds to proper ideas of
road-building." Mr. Crosby's address is pub
lished in full in the local columns of THE
UNION today.