Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-30
HAGERsToWN NEWS GRIST.
Canal Boatmen Confer With the New
MANAGEMENT

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
HAGERSTOWN. Md, January %, 1903.
About fifty boatmen on the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal from Sharpsburg and WILL
Transport met Mr.. G. L. Nicolson, the gen.
eral manager, Tuesday afternoon at the
Van Lear House, In Williamsport to con-
fer regarding the terms Of boating next sea-
son. At the conference Mr.. Nicolson pro-
posed that the boatmen boat by tonnage.
the company to pay % cents for hauling
coal to Williamsport and 40 cents to George
town. the boatmen to hire and board the
necessary number Of hands and pay for
few incidentals. The company offered. fur
Their, to pay the boatmen 81 so trippage for
each mule, or So for a four-mule team to
W1llfamsport and double that amount to
Georgetown. There will be about 80 per
cent profit in boating over last year, accord
ing to figures submitted by Mr.. Nicolson.
The new management proposes to purchase
supplies including feed and boat equipment,
in large quantities. and thereby be enabled
to make the boatmen this offer. Mr.. Nicol-
son said the canal must compete with the
railroads in hauling COAL 1t is proposed to
begin boating about March L. and to keep
the canal open for nine months. At meet
Ing this afternoon at Sharpsburg Mr.. Nicol-
son urged the boatmen to seriously consider
the above proposition.
Judge Williams has drawn the jury for
the February term Of court.
There was temperance mass meeting at
the First Christian Church Sunday after
noon. The meeting was the beginning of
temperance movement in Hagerstown and
Washington county in line with a move
ment already initiated by the state league
throughout Maryland. Rev. II. f. Downs
of the Methodist Episcopal Church was ap-
pointed chairman of a committee to pre-
pare plans for q permanent organiza ton.
1t is the intention to hold a meeting in this
city on Tuesday, February 3, to organize
league.
The work of erecting the new markers of
Mason and Dixon's line, surveys for which
were made last summer, will be commenced
in 4 few days w. C. Hotchkins, one of the
surveyors in the employ of the government,
will direct the work of erecting the stones
along the northern borders Of Washington
county.
DR.. H. ]. Cosens, veterinary surgeon of
this city. has been notified by the state
sanitary board to begin the dairy inspection
of Washington county for the year 1903 and
will commence work at once
]. L. House of New York is at Hancock
this county, for the purpose of paying the
Bowles heirs $50, COO in gold for 1GO acres
of cement land west Of Hancock on which
a syndicate organized by ]. Frank Fields
of Hancock will erect one of the largest
and most complete cement mills in this
country.
Rural free delivery will be established in
this county Oh March 10.
John Shreiner, the Western Union Tele-
graph Company's foreman of lines, says
since August, 1902. his men erected 500
miles Of copper wire between Chambersburg
and Greenspring, near MELVILLE, $50 miles,
and the remainder in Hagerstown.
The trackmen on the Western Maryland
railroad have been notified that they have
been granted an increase Of Is cents a day
in wages.
Howard McCurdy, a sailor on the May
flower, at present stationed at Washington,
is visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. H.
McCurdy, Ray street.
Mr.. Clifford Hays, Hagerstown, is visit
ing Washington.
Mrs. James Eavey and daughter, Mrs.
Nellie Smith, have returned to Boonsboro'
from a months visit in Washington.