Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-07-11
TWO CENTS
HOT BALLS
Caught On The Fly About
Morgantown,


b. & o. Station Entirely inadequate
Roads Deserve Attention Drinking
Fountains Needed Clock Don't
Show After highland Other Kicks.
Thirsty travellers have registered
many kick against that sachem of
selfish corporations, the Is. d o.
Railroad Company. But kicks un.
like Moses rod, will not cause a
fountain OF water to spring forth.
Conditions at the b. h @. depot
are probably worse than at many
others in other parts of the state.
If not, the patrons of the great B. &
o. are indeed greatly imposed upon.
With a passenger business OF
nearly 100000 year, and freight
business that has congested all
known avenues Of delivery to the
people, the railroad company has
been too niggardly to furnish
adequate accommodation for pas.
sengers.
The platform room is hardly adj
equate for a town of 500, yet 1t has
to accommodate population Of To-
500. Will the Il. Il O. officials ever
arouse to the fact that this town is
growing into good big city, and
that regulation cross roads plat
form and depot ale not adequate
for the traffic?
A dry town ought at least to
furnish visitors with an opportunity
to get plenty OF good pure water to
drink. Drinking fountains to the
number of halt dozen might at
least be supplied on the public
streets so that thirsty SWANS could
appease their fiery thirst without
resorting TO an underground speak
easy. A device for passing the water
through an ice chest and cooling it
during the summer months ought
not to cost much, and would be
great luxury to the country people
who come to town to buy and sell
during the dog days
No matter what the good roads
convention may do, it is the duty of
the city of Morgantown to go to
work and abate the dangerous places
in all the roads leading out of the
city on this side Of the river. If
they cannot be made good in winter
they can be made fairly good in
summer at very little expense. and
it is criminal negligence TO leave
them in the desperate condition that
has prevailed for the past two years.
Practically no work has been done
on the suburban roads since they
have been taken into the city limits.
The country people far into the
mountains to the east in the county
have more civic pride in this respect
than the people of the city. When
the frosts of winter have gone, they
gather on the roads with shovel plow
aud scraper, and mend all the bad
places, and with few days of air
and sunshine, the roads become very
good driyewavs. The roads within
the city limits cannot be so easily
repaired, but they can be improved.
A perennial source of annoyance
to the fellow who wants to get off
the street in good time is that dark
and ghostly clock tower Ii the
county court lives too far distant to
take any interest in Illuminating the
face of the clock at night, let the
| council take the subject up. For
that matter, the Electric Light Com
pany might put up brilliant in.
candescent light here as an adyer-
tisement of it's superior facilities for
manufacturing light.
Changing the subject, a question
arose as to whether local celebrity
had been admitted to the Mononoag
liza bar. An original wit remarked
that he had been admitted to the
speak easy, but he could not say
whether he had been admitted to
the bar.