The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-01-30

Annual Meeting.-The stockholders of the
Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany held their annual meeting on Tuesday
and elected the following directors: w. w.
Spence, George G. Jenkins, Solomon Frank,
Walter B. Brooks, Jr., John w. Hall, John
K Cowen, Howard E. Young, H. G. Niles and
John Wilson Brown.
The following officers were reelected: Presi-
dent, John Wilson Brown; vice president,
Walter B. Brooks, Jr. secretary and treasu-
rer John McHenry; assistant secretary, Aus
tin NJ Lanahan; assistant treasurer Thomas
H. Fitchett.
The annual report for the year ended De-
cember. 31st shows an increase in gross earn
ings of $29, 1852, while operating expenses in
creased S14, $780, The net earnings increased
about 20 per cent. The gross earnings were
$780, 355, the operating expenses $2l7, 643, and
the net earnings $91, liz.
After paying fixed charges there is a surplus
of $1,000 carried over. The year was an es-
pecially heavy one for the company in con-
struction, more than $82, 900 having been
spent for Improvements.
President Brown reported that the improve
ments which have been contemplated in the
North Avenue Station have had to be deferred
for the present. as well as the Strengthening of
the line at the dog pound. The reason for de-
ferring the latter work is that the city has
under consideration certain park improve
ments at that point and the company desires
to wait until these are definitely decided upon
before making its new line.
Sees Necessity for d Dog Law.-Mr. E.
Livezey, we'll known citizen of Gainesville,
writes as follows to the Baltimore San: "Our
legislative bodies being in session, permit an
old subscriber to call attention again to the dog
question. / live in a village that abounds with
the canine race and think we should have
some protection from the dog nuisance. AL
though statistics show continued increase OF
the dreaded disease of hydrophobia and the
Pasteur institutes are full of the dog victims,
the sheep interests of the State largely de-
stroyed, and hundreds of thousands are lost to
| our people, still they cling to the dog. To peo-
pie who are fond Of their pet dogs and keep
them within their own households we have
nothing to say, but those who keep dogs and
| let them run at large and trespass upon their
| neighbors' property and howl and bark all
night, from such we ask to be protected, and
| simply would like our lawmakers to either
enact law making it obligatory on all dog
| owners to keep them on their own premises OF
| otherwise outlaw the dog as a nuisance and
let the owners of property on which the dog
| trespasses deal with the dog as they may deem
| proper. Let US have law to protect US from
| the dog trespass."
! There is much truth in. what Mr.. Livezey
| says, but he must know that it is very diff
| cult matter to get legislators to take upthe dog
| question. The cause of this must be the fact
| that the dog-owner largely does the voting,
High Compliment TO Baltimore County
| Writer.-The Ana0teurist published in Phila-
| delphia, has the following to say of Balti-
more county writer in connection with the
| presidential campaign of 1904 of the United
| Amateur Press Association "And as for Mrs.
Emory-her mark has been made and firmly
| imbedded in amateur circles and as versatile,
| forceful writer none can surpass her, and the
| quantity of her productions show that she has
| control and an intimate knowledge of the
| whole scale of human emotion and foibles,
| from the sublime to the ridiculous, from farce
| to tragedy from the tenderest emotions of the
human heart and the poets lofty ideals to the
howell of the drunkard, the lair of the thug
| and the haunts of criminals-all come within
the range and power of Mrs. Emory's versa
tile pen and mind, and if the members desire
to give the ladies the executive power of the
| U. A p. A., they could not do better than
select Mrs. Emory, and as Baltimore most like
| ly will hold the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES having
| died or is alternating through the winter
| Mrs. Emory would prove logical candidate.
| Mrs. Flora Stewart Emory is resident OF
! Govanstown. She has been frequent con-
tributor to the columns of TIE UNION.
A Prosperous Land Company Elects
| Omcers.-The annual meeting of the Overlea
Land Company of Baltimore county was held
at the office of the company on Monday last,
| when the following were elected officers and
| directors for the ensuing year: President,
George ]. Thaler; vice president, Martin ].
Reilly secretary and treasurer, Charles w
Kennard; directors, Francis T. Homer, George
j. Thaler, Martin ]. Reilly, Harry E. Mann
| and Charles w. Kennard.
The property of the Overlea Company con.
sists of about $50 acres of beautifully situated
land Immediately at the terminus of the cleo
trio railway on the Beair road. This has been
laid off in building lots of good size. many Of
| which have been already sold and some Of
them built upon The company, at its own
expense, has erected commodious station
| house at the terminus of the electric line.