The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-02-13

- Business in the Court House has been
completely paralyzed this week and almost
nothing was doing. The receipts Of the Coun-
~ Clerks Office, which are usually heavy,
amounted to but rs cents on wednesday.
Very little money was received In the Treas
urer's Office
- Last Sunday night the great FIRE that
ragged in Baltimore city could be plainly seen
from almost every section OF Baltimore county,
as the s0uthen sky was brightly illuminated.
II is said that even as far north as York
which is sixty miles distant-the FIRE could
also be seen.
to investigate the burning of the residence OF
Mr. W. d. R. Clement at st. Denis, 18th dis
trict. The house Is believed to have been fired
BY an incendiary and the National Under
writer's Association has offered $500 reward
| for his arrest.
i by reason of the burning of the Law
/ Building in Baltimore the Office of The Balti-
i more County Water and Electric Company
| has been temporarily removed to the south
| west corner Of Canton avenue and First street,
! Highlandtown. See notice in the advertising
| columns Of The UNION today.
| - By order of Governor Warfeld, supple
| mented By an act Of the Legislature. every
| day this week has been legal holiday. the
| time also to cover next Monday, 18th inst.
| This was done in order to protect the banks
and relieve any sudden stress In financial
circles on account Of the fire in Baltimore city.
There is talk Of changing the time OF
the ending Of the fiscal year In the office OF
the County Commissioners from May LIST TO
January LIST, thus having it close simultaneous
ly with the calendar year. We think this
very sensible suggestion and 1t should BE
adopted. To do so would greatly simplify
matters.
- The Postofice Department has an
nounced that all the rural free delivery carriers
in the country Numbering about 10000 shall
have holiday on the I'D Of February-Wash-
ington's birthday. The day is legal holiday
ale ID
paid to it by the general public. 1t falls this
year on Monday.
- Last Sunday was s'wide open" day in
Baltimore, so far as the saloons were concern
ed. 1t is said the proprietors manifested no
fear Of the law and sold openly to all corners.
This lapse was due TO the excitement caused
by the great conhagrafion that for some time
threatened to sweep the entire city from the
face of the earth.
- Providence Lodge No. 116. ]. O. o. F.,
of Gainesville, will celebrate its thirty fourth
anniversary on Thursday evening of next |
week by giving banquet at the Howard
House, EllicOtt City. But four of the charter |
ae s OVENS 1obS dcugn
and Albert Smith.
There is some doubt about the story of |
Mr.. James Warden, who last week obtained |
permit to 60 to the aims house. being local |
preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. |
He was an exhorter, but not licensed minis
ter Of that denomination. Mr.. Warden Is 102 |
years of age and had been a resident of this |
county about three-quarters of century.
- Last Monday was one of the dulest |
days ever experienced in Towson. The cleo |
trio cars were not running, there were no |
mails and no newspapers until late in the day, |
and most of those who could get away went to |
Baltimore to see the devastation that had been |
wrought by the great fire. It was memora-
bic occasion and We hope never to experience |
the like again.
- The great fire in Baltimore city has
called forth thousands of expressions of heart |
felt sympathy from the people of this county. |
and what affects one will necessarily affect the |
other. The confagration was great blow to |
the metropolis of the South, but in time it |
will recover from it and will become greater |
than ever as city.
who was in Baltimore last Sunday night, and
unable to get home because the electric cars |
had stopped running, that he readily bridged T
the difficulty BY going. to sales stable and
fitting himself out with horse, wagon and |
harness. He not only got home himself in |
this way but brought several acquaintance
with him.
AT the last meeting of the Junior Gun
powder Agricultural Club resolution was
adopted that the club endorses the effort for |
National legislation to obtain an appropriation |
for general road making aud improvement"
Messrs. Laben Sparks, George e. Shelley, U. Fl. |
Tarbert, Joshua G.. Bosley and Thomas V. |
Richardson were appointed committee to |
look after good roads legislation at Annapolis
this winter.
--DScores of familiar places in Baltimore to
Baltimore county people were swept away by |
the fire of last Sunday and Monday. Old land
marks that had been known for years have been |
entirely Obliterated and the good old town will
never again look the same. The thought is q
sad one, but this, with other misforfunes of |
life, must be looked upon with calmness al
ways mindful that, horrible as it was, 1t might
have been worse.
- Several warehouses and other property |
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A.. Councilman, of
WorthiDgton Valley, were destroyed by the
big fire in Baltimore and ON. Monday ana of !
the barns on their farm was burned, with its 4
contents including large quantity of corn
and one horse. Their many friends sympa- 1
thize with them in their misfortunes. Mr. and
Mrs. Councilman we're in Baltimore when the
fire occurred at their home.
- Too many complaints come to us about
The UNION failing to reach subscribers on Sat-
urday, but whether this is the fault Of the new
rural free delivery system or not we are unable
to say. We do know, however, that the paper
leaves the Office of publication every Friday |
evening as regularly as Friday comes, and If
it fails to reach its destination on Saturday
those postal officials who handle it after it |
leaves Towson are entirely to blame.
Ion account of the fire in Baltimore the
Towson at II o'clock on Sunday night. The
road was then completely tied up until Thurs
day morning when cars commenced making |
half hourly trips. The cause of the trouble
was the destruction of the main power house
on East Pratt street, Baltimore. The people |
suffered great inconvenience by reason of this |
tie-up and gladly welcomed even partial re-
sumption of trips.
= This week the people of Towson and |
those living along the York road had taste
of the Inconvenience of getting along without
an electric car service. The day was once |
when residents of this town felt themselves |
fortunate to have horse-car line between here |
and the city, but if they had to go back to it |
TODAY they would regard 1t a real hardship. |
Big fires and other misfortunes may cut rs off |
temporarily from this convenience and COM
fort of modern times, but it is q comfort to |
know that it is for q short time only.
THE pressure on the remaining printing |
offices in Baltimore was so great this week that
some of their customers were driven to Tow /
son to have their rush orders filled. THE |
UNION office although very busy with its reg |
ular customers, managed, as an acc0mmoda- |
ton, to execute q few Of these. Mr.. John
chants was here before o'clock on Friday
morning with an order for 1000 postal cards.
He got them promptly. The present location
of the firm is liz South Eutaw street.
The excitement in Baltimore last Sun
day was something never witnessed there be-
fore and some thought the entire city was
doomed. Many said that there had been moth
ing like it since the burning Of Rome, but OF
course this was an exaggaration. IL is safe to
say that had the wind not changed to the
northwest as it did between and 10 o'clock
on Sunday night, the catastrophe would have
been much more serious than II was. That
change entirely altered the course Of the fire
and saved the northern section of the city,
perhaps, from utter destruction.
Mr.. Livezey Renews His Generous Prop
osition = Mr.. E. Livezey writes as follows to
the Baltimore Herald: II see It stated in the
Herald of February LIST that .three-fourths OF
the largest Taxpayers of the village of Cations
VILE were in favor of Incorporation when the
effort was made some years ago and defeated.
It is not my intention to reiterate the causes
leading 90 the defe4t Of the proposed act of in
corporation suffice to say. the large meeting
composed of some 800 OF our citizens deemed
it inexpedient, and were opposed to the act as
proposed at that time; and although was one
Of the taxpayers that opposed the act of in
corporation, was in favor of improving Ca
louisville, and proposed to be one of one hum
| dred or one of fifty to put up $500 each, max
ing fund Of so. 900 or $4,000 for the inn
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