The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-06

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- Towson was never more thoroughly
blockaded against the outside world than it wal
on Thursday morning. March 4th. Travel Of
all kinds was suspended, there were no mails
and telegraph and telephone wires were down
MIR. ]. II. Albrecht has been selected az
chief marshal ofthe volunteer firemen's parade
that will take place in Towson, Wednesday,
May 9Th. The publicity committee is about "a
issue 5000 stickers to be used as advertising
matter.
THE road question is still agitating the
minds of good many Baltimore county people
The Good Roads COMMISSIONER its selection
of the roads to be improved by State aid
stirred up veritable hornets nest in some
quarters.
- THE UNION has labored under many dis.
advantages this week and the usual work of
getting out the paper has been done under a
very severe strain. In view of the circum-
stances we trust our readers will overlook any
shortcomings.
I'VE sympathize with the hundreds of
Baltimore county people who were disappoint-
ed in not being able to carry out their plans to
attend the inauguration on Thursday. This
was good illustration of the uncertainty OF
human expectations.
- The summer kitchen and pump house at
the home of Mr.. John Voltz, on Franklin ave-
nue., Gardenvile, were damaged by fire on
Monday last. The fire companies of the neigh
borhood prevented what might have been q
serious confagration
81 The blizzard of this week was, perhaps,
the worst in some respects that Maryland has
ever experienced and the damage wrought by
it to railroads, telegraph and telephone lines,
to say nothing OF the ruined Trees etc., cannot
be Appropriated ct this time.
The twelfth anniversary banquet of Lau-
raville Council, Jr. 0. o. A. M, was very en-.
| ioyabe affair Mr. John F. Oyeman was toast
master The committee in charge was COM
posed of Mr.. Harry s. Neumayer, chairman !;
DIR. VIM. F. Clayton and Mr.. P. G. Chismann.
- Mr.. George w. Oldham, who had lived
| with a son in Gainesville about two years.
committed suicide on Wednesday by shooting
himself through the head. He was native of
Virginia and 81 years of age. Dependency
caused by i'll health is said to have been the
cause.
- The assistant teachers of Baltimore coun-
! ty, who made gallant fight to have their
salaries increased, won a partial victory with
the School Board and the County Commits
sioners. The latter agreed to increase the rate
from 81 cts on $100t TO 80 cts.-the full amount
| allowed under the law.
- A single ay will produce 10000 larvae,
and these in few days will produce 10000
more. One fly on March Goth is represented by
| 5000 on April oath. That is the computation.
These become $1,000 on May 18th, q, OOO, 600 on
July I'd, and on August Sth, S'lO0,0OO,OOO.
| Simply awful to think about, amt it?
- Mr.. John w. Hawkins, Jr., has rented
his snug property on the north side Of the
| Oregon pike, a short distance west of the York
road, to Mr.. Asa B. Gardiner, Jr., head of the
Gardiner Dairy Company, for one year. the
lessee having taken an option on the property
to purchase It within that time for $500.
>The December term petit jury and their
| guests had fine time at Miller's Park, near
Dundalk, on Friday of last week. The oyster
roast was followed by regular dinner at which
nothing that was good was missing The com.
mittee in charge Of the affair was composed of
| Messrs. Harry Rites George Dorritt, h. M.
| Gore and John E. Balm.
1.-The first trolley car to reach Towson on
| Thursday putt in an appearance at Is minutes to
ceived on the line during the day. Trains on
the Md. 81 Pa. Railroad were tied up until
| afternoon and then ran irregularly. The first
mail received came from Baltimore by this
road late in the afternoon.
THE Towson Court House was very
quiet place on Thursday. There were no
strangers around, there was 10 court and a
number of county officials who live out of town
could not show up. County Treasurer Merry
man and his chief clerk, Mr.. John P. Mays,
both of whom live considerable distances
from Towson, got here before 10 O'Clock, but
their callers during the day were few and far
between.
Mr. Charles II. Whitaker, of Towson,
was caught in the storm at Butler on Wednes-
day night and was obliged to remain there. He
started for home at 8 A. NJ. Thursday and it was
$3.50 when he reached here. He says he never
before saw the roads in such condition. All
along the Western Run turnpike poles and
wires are down and the branches of trees sweep.
ing the ground, with deep drifts almost block
ing the road in many places. He says it may
be days before there il q return to normal
conditions
The Towson Water Question--The
| County Commissioners to Take 1t Up
| On Tuesday q petition was presented to the
| County Commissioners. signed by property
| owners of Towson aud Lutherville, asking for
| hearing looking to revoking the restriction
| imposed on the Baltimore County Water and
Electric Company whereby it is prohibited
| from supplying Towson and Lutherville with
water from its Patapsco supply The following
| reasons are given:
That an impartial investigation has disclosed
| the fact that, under the most favorable circum
stances, the artesian well supply is totally in
| adequate to furnish more than the present
| subscribers.
That the artesian well supply has proved to
be inadequate to supply the present subscri-
bers, and may be cut off at any time.
| That every resident not supplied with arte-
| sian well water must use water drawn from
wells supplied from surface drainage and sat-
| urated with germs. That no deleterious effects
| have followed the extensive and long use of
| the Patapsco supply by other communities.
| That such retriction is class legislation and
discrimination against the neighborhood and
retards the development of Towson and its
| environs.
The signers of the petition are: Trustees of
| the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, Rev.
| P. H. Sheridan, William P. Cole. E. Stanton
Bosley, Arthur L. Bosley,. R. q; Peasants,
| ]. j. Nelligan, George Fl. Stieber, l.. P. Hen
nighausen and George G. Davis.
| The effort of the residents of Towson TO re-
| tain the artesian supply caused one of the
strongest fights ever made in the town and,
| after repeated protests and hearings the water
/ company was given the privilege of extending
its Patapsco supply as far as Towson, provided
| the company continued to operate the artesian
well for Towson and Lutherville.
1t is contended by the advocates of the arte-
sian supply that it is unnecessary at present to
make a change, as the supply is sufficient to
| furnish every person wishing the water. They
| figure that the artesian supply was sufficient
| to furnish Govanstown and Tuxedo before the
introduction of the Patapsco supply in these
| villages, and point out that, as these villages
are cut off from the artesian supply, the wells
ought to furnish sufficient water for Towson
| and Luthervile for the next 25 years.
The County Commissioners will hold public
meeting to consider the matter on Wednesday,
| March oath.
Mixup In the Primary Election Law
| This week Attorney General Straus was occu-
| pied in disentangling the puzzlng primary
| election law. He had lengthy conference
with Chairman Murray Vandiver, of the Dem
ocratic State Central Committee, and others
| and Mr.. Straus was at his wits end in elucida-
ting the many complicated questions arising
| out of the construction of the law.
On Monday Mr.. Straus gave one opinion
| growing out of the law as it related to Balti-
more county. The point in dispute well illus
trates the Iooseness of the Primary Election
Law as amended by the General Assembly and
| as finally passed. Baltimore county asked
| that the Judges and clerks to serve at the pri-
| mary elections should be named by the Re-
publican and Democratic organizations of the
| county-that is, the State central committees
| of the two parties. Apparently an effort was
made to amend the bill while it was on its
passage to bring about this result, and yet
when il was finally acted upon it was found to
be nothing but a series of patches. While
provision was made for the appointment Of
the primary election officials by the State CEN
trail committees of the two parties. provision
was made at the same time for their appoint
ment by the election supervisors.
Attorney General Straus had to construe
the act as he found it. He decided according
to the queer wording of the act that the State
central committees of the two parties can ap-
point the return judge and can go no further.
The election supervisors of the county will ap-
point the remaining officials.
Killed on the Railroad.-Mr. Frederick F.
Peters, aged 81 years, who lived with his daugh.
ter, Mrs. Gertrude H. Bork near Sweet Air,
was run over and killed by northbound pas
senger train on the Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. just south of Towson Station
about 6 20 o. clock Friday evening of last week.