Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-10-09
Town Council,

| Bailitf Frank Spates reported having
| collected fines III the sum OF S4l.
The Secretary of the Board of Health
reported 10 births, 3 deaths, and 3 cases
of typhoid fever.
Street supervisor Thomas Williams
reported having had work done on streets
and alleys at cost of $112 IS.
Street committee reported that work
was progressing on Center street at
interse ction of Orman and Water streets,
and that sidewalks on Steyer street,
next to st. Johns Episcopal Church,
had been lowered and relaid.
Water committee reported that the
contractors would have the excavations
for the new reservoir completed by the
end of current week.
Messrs Griffith and Taylor-moved
that the committee be continued to con-
fer with the Fife Department before
action be taken.
George Mayer, president of the Fire
Department and resident of that sec
ton, thought that hose house in that
section is not needed at this time.
George II. Wittig thought that new
hose at Central hose house is of more
Importance than new hOse-hOuse in an
other part of town
Mr.. Wittig addressed Council concern
ing water bills against former tenants
and which had been presented to him
for payment. He had appeared before
Council on previous occasion and told
that body that he would not be RESPONSE
BILE for more than one quarters rent for
his tenants, and that if i'll any case the
tenant did not pay Council should shut
off the supply. Now he is presented
with bills for water due from tenants,
one OF whom has removed from this
State, another who has removed from
town, and bills for December, 1908, and
March 1909, quarters. He protests
against these bills, as they We're not
presented to him until a few weeks ago.
Collector Hanson explained that he
had sent these bills to the tenants and
that they had promised faithfully to pay,
but had left town without SO dong.
Later i'll the evening Council declared
part of the bills, amounting to 1896, in
solvent.
Messrs. Walter w. Wittig and George
Mayer, a committee from the Frostburg
Fire Department, appeared and ad-
dressed Council asking for a new supply
of four-ply rubber hose at the Central
Hose House. Mr.. Wittig related that
some of the hose had been in use 81
years. After some discussion a motion
was made by MeSsrs. Griffith and Taylor
and passed unanimously to the effect
that the Finance committee, in con-
junction with the Fire Department. pur-
chase a thousand feet of four ply rub
Der hose.
DIR. a. K. Walker appeared to ask
permit to erect two bay windows on
Orman street side of his new building
corner of Orman street and Broadway.
He had been before Council on same
errand a month ago, but because of the
absence of Mr.. Tiddy the vote was a tie
on the proposition to grant the permit.
Mayor Price read the Ordinance and
gave the opinion of the town attorney
to the effect that no permit could be
given as requested without first repeal
ing the Ordinance.
Mr.. Tiddy thought the Ordinance was
not an ironclad one, or one that was to
be construed too literally, but that where
such a projection was not an obstruction
nor menace to health and comfort of
the public, the Council could grant a
permit such as DR.. Walker asked with
out doing any violence to the spirit of
the Ordinance.
Another Ordinance was found in the
Code to cover the case which provides
for permits for such structures, but pro-
vides also that they must be not less
than seven feet above the pavement
Messrs. Tiddy and Evans moved that
permission to erect two bay windows,
as requested, be granted to DR.. Walker.
Mayor Price, holding that the motion
was Illegal, as it conflicts with an Ordi-
nance, declared the motion out of order.
Mr.. Tiddy appealed from the decision
of the chair, and when the Mayor put
the question shall the decision of the
chair be sustained? the vote stood nays
and yeas.
Mr.. Tiddy's motion was then put and
the vote stood in favor of granting the
permit, and 3 against, Messrs. Yuuger-
man and Griffith voting nay with the
Mayor.
Hanna and others -residents on Center
street, presented Il petition to the Mayor
and Council praying the purchase of the
lots in the McLuckie field, near west end
of G. q p. h. tunnel, with the idea that
they NAV be used as dumping ground.
and thus be fitted up, or partly so, when
Center and Wood streets are to be opened
and extended to Union street.
Mr.. Tiddy addressed Council in favor
of the proposition and suggested the APP
pOlntment of a committee to ascertain
price at which property can be purchased.
Mr.. jenkins opposed the proposition
and moved to drop the matter altogether,
which motion was not seconded.
Messrs. Tiddy and Evans moved that
the Mayor appoint committee to con-
fer with owner or owners to see at what
price property can be purchased, aud
report at next meeting, and, the motion
carrying, the Mayor appointed Messrs.
Jenkins and Yungerman
John A. Caldwell, manager of the
Savage Mountain Fire Brick Company
plant on Bowery street, asked Council
to consider the necessity of more fire
protection on Bowery street near their
plant, and suggested that his company
would pay for a tire-plug, to be located
near their plant. The matter was re-
ferrcd to the Water committee for in
vestigatiOn.s
George E. Pearce, chairman of the
Business Mems Association, addressed
Council concerning the passage of
Ordinance providing that any new in
dustry establishing u plant within the
town that would employ not less than
fifty persons should be given exemption
from taxes for ten years and the free use
of water to the extent of thousand gal
Ions day. From what can be learned
the business men of the town have inter-
ested themselves so far as to get inquiries
concerning Il proposition to establish at
least two plants here, one of which will
employ at least one hundred aud fifty