Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-11-28


The contractors put in all of last Sun.
day laying probably the biggest
days work on the job since it began-
this to utilize workable weather.
The Cumberland Times corrcspon-
dent, mentioning the same matter, takes
occasion to add something-thus:
Contractor Brooks had a large force of
men at work all day Sunday on the Broad
way paving and by the middle of the week
the work will be finished and this street will
become the best and most up-to date in the
town, notwithstanding all the knocking and
objections that have been offered against the
improvement. In addition to the vast i'm
provement it has added an increased none
tary value to every property on that street
So far as the JOURNAL is concerned in
that reprOof if at all, it denies having
knocked" against but one feature
that of Council allowing change of
grade at two points at least, to the great
discomfort and certain loss of the owners
of the property concerned.
The JOURNAL does not believe any au.
thority can be found anywhere for the
Councils action i'll abdicating its office
and control over public works in the
town. Still less for handing their pre-.
negatives over to and making an i'm.
perialist of one man.
Council should have retained its au.
thorty over the grade of the street; ii
should have consulted the wishes of he
peOpte "ho hare 10 pay and fixed the
grade low as possible for those on the
lower side and high as possible for those
who had built on Natures attitudes.
Council should not have delegated its
representative office and its trustee powers
to any one man, no matter who or what
he is, and the JOURNAL believes that
when it comes to settlement this will lie
strong point in behalf of those who
have more interest in the Improvement
(?) than the Tunes correspondent.
In this connection Appointment citizen
calls the JOURNALS attention to an edi
torial i'll the Baltimore SIN of last Sun
day, several passages of which are
quoted below:
If street were paved exclusively for the
benefit of the people who live OH it, it would
be nobody's business but their own whether
it had good pavement or not
True as gospel.
The SIM says further
But the ordinary city street is public
highway, for the use of all the people.
1t is likely that those who reside on any
given street, especially if it is an importan
one, constitute only small per cent of thos,
who use the roadway.
Yet it is ''for the use of al tie peopie'
that the ''small per cent" must be in
jured by lowering or raising grades ant
then levied upon for two-thirds of the
cost of what "aH the people," including
newspaper correspondents, regard a.
vast improvements" and Increased
monetary values"
Turn the situation around and the
JOURNAL will nearly, if not altogether
agree with that contention. That is, lei
"all the people," for "the use of all tn,
people," hrdugh their representatives.
grade, curb and pave pubIic streets al
the least possible injury and cost of "th,
small per cent. of those who, residins
thereon, use the roadway the least.
1.-The greatest good to the creates
number" is one of the finest maxims il
human philosophy.
Per contra, 1.-THE greatest good to tn,
greatest number" with two-thirds o
the expense and oil the injury, if any
imposed upon the least number, is I
notion two mean to be tolerated under
dispensation professedly Christian.
Loter-The JOURNAL is credibly in
formed that Council assumes all the re
sponsibility for any wrong in establish
ing grade or otherwise, on Broadway
The town engineer did what he was tolC
to d0-no more, no less, and is blame
less. Those who feel injured" there
fore, should make the proper transfer.