The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-01-07

watershcsi. Of these AZ poilntiOEs M. !.
py the property owners without recourse t,
law, while the other were secured by actor
OF the City Solicitor. About 30 of the case
were Of the worst and most dangerous class ",
have ia the watershed. There royy renal, !,
the watershed only 472 individual pollutions
VI these 5S are classed as house drainage. I'm
the houses have been vacant for long time 81
t r,:a mere IS no actual pollution from them
ELIMINATING those cases there remain Ala DOL
lutlons.. OF these 206 are barnyards and hos
| pens, which are only classed as pollutions bv
u.s. because they are within the prescribed dis
lance from some stream in our watershed but
tbess OF snem are kept 50 clean dry
Them. eliminating these there remain onlv
2O0 cases of pollution which offer anv possih;I.
lty OF danger: Of these $50 are in Towson.
Ph9nix and Warren. Fourteen are now in
the hands OF the City Solicitor for action. in.
Guiding in Towson. The abatement of these
cases should result in the three villages being
compelled to put in some system of drainage or
nitratlon which will eliminate all pollution
from them" FioH
Several members of the board. at IFS Last
fmese:ung; opposed the idea of filtration plant,
feeling that the purchase of the watersheds and
the construction of big storage dam along the
source Of the citys water supply would serve
70 purify the water more effectualIv than a
nltration plant. 1t was the opinion of the.
board that the necessary land could be pur-
81 az lOn ~oVVVOU 10 S0UO,OOO although
up to 81 100000 could readily be spent the
amount depending upon the land purchased.
Ii was agued that the best way to purify the
clty's water supply would be to abate the nni-
sances along the watershed. This could he
Done it was pointed out, by buying up the
ianu ana keeping drainage from the streams.
Partition Of the Hampton Estate-I,ar,a
6ooy or Land Divided Among the Heirs.
I'm - wednesday last Chief Judge Fowler sign.
ca 9ecree appointing Messrs McHenry How
ara, Ihomas II. Disney, Thomas ]. LINDSAY.
James f. Gillespie and John B. Deming com,
sloners to make partition of the HAMPTON es.
tate. belonging to the late Charles Ridceiv.
This property which embraces more than 8 600
acres OF land extending northwardy and east
waroiy from Iowson, is one of the largest es-
Following the English custom, the owners
d Hampton have always added the title TO |
.helr family name. Charles Rideelv. of Hamn. i
on, devised all of his real estate and the bnit
u hls personality to his widow Margaresss
alogely for Life: Upon her deaf s Viii On
Icres of lapd-was to go to the eldest of his four
ons, John, Ohio, Charles and Howard, who
eft male issue surviving. The balance of the
evised to the sons Ohio, Charles and Howard.
With proviso that if either one of these sons
lied intestate and unmarried his share should 4
o to all of the surviving children of the tesla
or, male as well as female.
Charles Ridgely, the younger, died in 1873.
I'd Ridgely died in 1900, leaving wife, Mrs.
Helen Ridgely. Judge Fowler's decree de-
ermines that share of Charles Ridgely g por4
ion vested in Howard at the death of the ~
ormer and passed to Mrs. Ridgely as the de. =.
isee of Howard. An appeal from this pas
appeals Of Maryland. 81
The commissioners are directed to set aside
900 acres and the Hampton House to joint.
lidgely, now John Ridgely of H., and to dill
ide the balance of the tract as follows: Seven.
ighteenths to Mrs. Helen NJ. Ridgely, residu-
erms of his will; seven-eighteenths to the i
rustees for Ohio Eichelberger Ridgely and his \
amily, oneeighteenth to John Ridgely, one
ighteenth to Miss Eliza Ridgely, q daughter
Charles Ridgely of Hampton; oneeigh-
zenith to Mrs. Juliana e. H. Yeaton, another
aughter, and the remaining one.eighteenth to
Hiss Margaret Sophia Ridgely, a daughter.
Messrs McHenry Howard and Charles Nc
henry Howard represent the parties other
han Mrs. Howard Ridgely who is represented
y Messrs. George Whitelock and Edward L.
,oontz.
1t Should be Made County Road .-On
thursday Attorney E. w. Herman appeared
efore the Highways Commissioners and pre-
ented a numerously signed petition asking
hCAA ~ ~SSCPs 90 "a COuuty IOhu du avenue ~
eet wide and about half mile long, known as
harles street avenue extended, running from
be south side of the Joppa road to Boyce ave-
ne, in the.9th district 1t was stated that this
venue was laid out, graded and opened to pub
e travel by the a6utting property owners
bout IL years ago and has since been kept in 4
epair by them. Some of the signers Of the
etition are Messrs. Charles Goldsborough,
harles II. Wier, D. X. Este Fisher William
V. Boyce, B. F. Deford and Henry Imwold
mother petition had the names of Messrs. T.
,dward Hambleton, Charles W. Hoff, W. Ber-
ard Duke, Francis T. Homer. William Pink
ey Whyte, John Grason, Frank s. Handle
On and Charles G. Homer.
The trustees ofthe Sheppard and Enoch Pratt
Hospital. by Mr.. George A. Pope, president
harles D. Fisher, Benjamin G. Howard, H. A.
.erch, John Redwood. Janon Fisher, Joseph
endenin and others likewise favor acceptance,
The Commissioners referred the entire matter
0 Roads Engineer Shirley and asked him to
eport on the same.