The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-07-15

| joshua FOWDle, who live near Butler, ana Mr
Jacob L. Fowble, the well known contractor
and builder of Cockeysville. Mr.. Fowble was
at one time superintendent of weighing at the
Northwestern Hay Scales in Baltimore. The
funeral took place on Monday at Black Rock
Baptist Church, of which deceased bad been a
member nearly all his life. The services were
conducted by Elder F. A. Chick, Hopewell, N. J.
Yingling.-Mr. Harry G. Yingling of Mar
BILE Hill, 9th district, who had an operation
performed for appendicitis at the Maryland
| University Hospital in Baltimore few days
before, died on Saturday last aged "a years.
| Deceased, who was unmarried, was a member
of Marble Lodge, /. o. o. F., of Cockeysville,
members of which served as pail. bearers at the
funeral on Monday.
Grim.-Mrs. Margaret Grim, wife of Mr..
John Grim, died on Thursday evening at her
| home in Catonsville, after long illness from
complication of diseases, aged 68 years. Be-
sides her husband she is survived by two sons
and daughter. They are Messrs. George and
Henry Grim and Mrs. John w. Peregoy. Mrs.
Grim was among the Oldest residents Of Cations
| vile.
Difficulties Under the New Road Law
1.-THE operation of the State Aid Road law"
says Mr.. Walter W. Crosby, Highways En-
gineer of Maryland, in speaking Of the many
favorable conditions which he had met with
in the general progress of the work as well as
many of the obstacles, will undoubtedly open
up an entirely new field of work for Maryland
contractors and one which will prove protita-
bic to them to very satisfactory degree. The
building of good, scientifically constructed
roads is special branch of work that must be
thoroughly learned, like any other line which
is entered by the contractor, and at present we
have only one or two road contracting firms in
the State consequently, now that the actual
work of road building is under way. there will
be good deal of work to be distributed among
a very few contractors and the field for invest
ment and enterprise in this branch of work
should be very promising to contractors.
.'As matter of fact, continued Mr.. Crosby,
1.-THE encouragement of contractors to enter this
field of work and profit is a matter which close
ly concerns US, because, owing to the lack of
bidders for the work and the inexperience of
many of those who have made proposals, we
must necessarily make our estimates somewhat
higher than if there were number of first-class
contractors to apply for the work and by COM
petition force down the cost. AS a result of the
higher price that the counties have to pay to
have their State roads built under the State
Aid Road law we have received some criticism
from the County Commissioners and residents,
who sometimes think that the estimates we
have given are too high.
There is money in this work for contractors
and they will be be quick in finding it out in
this the first year; and by this mean that
there is money in the work at fair prices. To
costing about $500 and steam roller costing
about 900. With plant like this a $4,000
job can be handled very nicely. Teams can be
hired and stone can be gotten from quarries by
paying royalty to the latter. A Job of this
size can be completed in about three months
profit of from 81, 500 to $500.
1--WE have had some rather peculiar incidents
now and then in connection with our estimates
and bidders owing to the inexperience of the
latter with this kind of work. Recently in
Frederick county contractor turned in bid
to the County Commissioners which on exam
ination was found to amount to the wonderful
rate of SIS, 900 mile The commissioners and
residents were astonished until the contractor
discovered that he had made the error of com.
cost, according to his calculation, just three
times as large as the estimate really called for"
The New Democratic Executive Com
mittee.-At the Democratic primary meetings
held in this county last Saturday the following
were chosen members of the new Executive
Committee for the ensuing year:
First District-Bernard j. Hogarty, August
]. Peters and Joseph M. Dugan.
Second-Dr: John E. Bolte, William E. Tim.
norman and Dr.. Henry J.. Hebb.
Third-W. Devries Goodwin, Noah Walker
and E. Griswold Thelin.
Fourth-William A. Slade, George W. Uhler
and Jesse Upperco.
Fifth-George A. Nash, John W. Price and
William H. Wells.
Baker and John Copenhaver
Seventh-Christopher G. Slade, James W.
Ayres and Charles L. Almony.
Eighth-Thomas B. Wheeler, Harry D.
Dawes and Martin T. Hyland.
Ninth-James e. Dugan, BENJAMIN q. Stan.
ton and John F. Anderson.
Tenth-John Zinkhan, Samuel Parker and
| John E. Guthrie.
Eleventh-Frank ]. Kearney, William Dun
| ty, Jr.. and Harry Schultz.
Twelfth-PhilipA A. Dunnigan, George Adams
and William B Curry.
Thirteenth-James Rittenhouse George s.
| Kieffer and Robert G. Clark.
Fourteenth-Ch J. Fox, Louis N. Brad.
| field and Peter Tremper.
Fifteenth-Dr. James s. Woodward, James
| M. Lowry and James 2. Jones.
Says it Will Take an Earthquake to
Move Them.-Since the big flood of last week
| Water Engineer Quick, of Baltimore city, said
| that he could not conceive of a condition, out
side of an earthquake, which would break the
| dams at Loeb Raven or Lake Roland. He ex-
planned that the structures are built of stone
| masonry and on solid stone foundations.
1.-The only danger to be feared in the burst
| ing of dam is its inundation," explained Mr..
| Quick. "At both Lake Roland and Loeb Raven
there are solid stone foundations which would
| In addition each dam has wings of masonry
on either side, thus precluding water from
| eating its way around the sides of the dams. :.
II know the construction of the dams SO well
that am convinced that nothing short OF
| heavy earthquake could disturb them.
Although the Lake Roland dam was built in
1858 and the Loeb Raven dam in 1880 both can
| be considered modern structures"
Lake Roland has an available capacity Of
400 000, 900 gallons of water. The length Of
| Al IL e k1al
thickness, which tapers toward the top, is 60
feet at the bottom. Loeb Ravens capacity Is
| $40 600 600 gallons and the dimensions of the
dam are Length, 300 feet; height, % feet
thickness, 81 feet at the bottom.
| Another Powder Mill Explosion. EARLY
on Monday morning last another explosion
| occurred at Rockdale Powder Mill, at HoH.
manville, in the 9Th district of this county, and
Eugene Abel and William Hotter who are
employed at the mill, were badly injured and
two buildings were blown to pieces. Abell's
injuries are of very serious nature. He ID
horribly mutilated and the flesh dropped from
his bones when he was picked up in an uncon.
scious condition. Hotter was seriously burned
| about the head and body.
Fortunately the explosion occurred after the
day force had left the mills and before the
night force had come on. Twelve employees
were about to enter the mill when the explo
sion occurred which demolished the coming
mill and the preSSn0uSe- Inc explosion wal
in the latter, which had five tons of powder
stored in it.
The report was heard for long distance
and the earth shook as though there had been
an earthquake.
Five explosions have occurred at the mill
within short time.
Land Terrapin for q Pet.-The Belail
Democrat of last week said: MRS. Joseph
Burns, of Whiteford, has queer pet. It is q
land terrapin and it has been coming to bel
kitchen door for food for the past five sum
mers, it is said. Each evening she feeds it on
potatoes and bread and il 10 regular visitol
for its meals. In the winter months its where
abouts are unknown but it makes its appear
ance in the summer. AS soon as 1t is fed II
goes away only to return the next evening
and if she happens to miss it it will come 4
the front porch and wait until it gets it
meal"
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, who has settled Goa
strikes and foreign wars, may well tremble
the latest task checked up to him-that of de
Gliding whether it shall be Pittsburg or Pitts
burgh.