The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-08-03
Public Meeting
Hears Homes
dale Lawyers
Talk About Ad-
Vantages and
Complicatio
of the Greater
Borough---Co.
Supt. on Condi-
ton Of Schools

The Greater Honesdale Board of
Trade held it's first public meeting
| Friday night in town hall The
attendance of local business men
was not quite so large as the Off
GERS had hoped, but interest in the
Board is growing, in a quiet way,
and the men already members are
sanguine that more names will go
on the roll when, fairly organized
and under way, the organization
really commences to do things.
President Charles ]. Smith was
in the chair. Vice-president F. w.
Kreitner sat across the table from
him. Edwin B. Galloway, the sec
retary, was on the other hand of the
president and took the official notes
and wrote for his paper at the same
time. Bye and bye he is to get a
salary for the job of secretary, but
his pay is to be determined by the
| bylaws and the bylaws committee,
! of which District Attorney NJ. E.
| Simons is at the head, didn't report
Friday night Neither did any other
committee save the one that Presi-
dent Smith, in moment of happy
inspiration, styled the committee
on Greater Honesdale." By the
time this committee had been heard
from it was $50 and the man in
the chair, who believes long-winded
sessions do more harm than good.
! put other reports over until the
next meeting. The interest of this
meeting, however, did not flag at
any time; and only one man went
out before adjournment. He was
one of the Greater Honesdale COM
mittee and, having done his talking
first, he was excused to keep a date
with client at 8 o'clock.
After Secretary Galloway had
read the report of the first meeting
fortnight before-the meeting
that elected the officers and pitched
upon the name Greater Honesdale
Board of Trade" as most feasible
the president said that Borough
Solicitor Charles A. McCarty would
say word about Greater Homes
dale.
The Talk of Mr.. McCarty.
MI MNAdllg ONNuplGu ~ lIllll-
utes or thereabouts and he did not
confine himself absolutely to the
legal steps that would have to be
taken to make the borough bigger,
though that was the staple of his
talk. He referred to the fact that
) borough is pretty old PROPOSE
tion, for there were boroughs in
England almost as far back as the
English language started In this
state, he said, the law of 1851 pro-
vided that outlying townships might
petition the court of quarter ses-
sions to annex them to a borough,
, but that law provided that no
purely farming territory should be
so annexed, for a borough is sup
posed to be a thickly settled COM
munity. BY the act of 1903 the
burgess and town council were en-
powered TO take in a township or
part of a township and the amend
ment of 1907 provided that ma
jority of freeholders in the town
ship must petition the borough
fathers to be taken in, and after
that an ordinance can be passed
to take them in.
Coming to the advantages that
accrue to the man living in a bor-
ough over the man who is out in
the township, MIR. McCarty said
that "a man certainly feels better
when he lives in borough" Peo-
pie are attracted by the idea of liy-
ing in bigger and more modern
place. Commercially, too, the bor-
ough form of government is an as
set. More business must come TO a
place that offers the advantages of
walks, lights, water, modern school
buildings and all the like of that.
At this point the borough soli-
citor dug into his pocket for long
newspaper clipping that told about
meeting in Texas No. on March
8, 1904. when that township de-
bated at considerable length the
idea of asking to be taken into the
borough of Honesdale and wound