Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-11-12
CITY COUNCIL
Hold Meeting Thursday Might and
Transact 5usiness-comntt.
tee Before Body.

ihS Attg# 0OhhtlA Iltl III TNSH4dA SIS
sion last night Mayor Caskey presid-
ing. The members were all present
but Harry Smith
Four members of the Ministerial
Association namely. Rev. DR.. F. NJ.
Woods, Of the Presbyterian Church;
DR.. w. r. Gruver, of the United Breth-
rem Church; Rev. w F Locke, of the
NJ f. Church. Couth. and Rev. w A..
Roush. Of the Christian Church, were
before the Council relative to passage
of city ordinance requiring saloons
and hotels to keep their bar rooms UNI
INSTRUCTED from view at all times by
the use of screens, blinds. etc.
DR. Woods presented The matter TO
Council and made a few remarks In
! its favor. ID. c. Carver, representing
the Womans Christian Temperance
| Union, was present and also spoke
Council took no action in the matter
1t may be added that some time ago
an ordinance embodying the above
idea was presented 10 Council but It
failed of adoption,
| A committee of Fourth Ward citi
zens. consisting of w. r. Kline A. s..
s. ewart. and William Cumiskey. was
before Council in reference TO bridge
across the b. & @. tracks at East
Martin street to extend from, say,
Spring to Center streets. Mr.. Kline,
speaking for committee. said that he
understood that the plan for "A sub
way under the b. & o. Railroad at the
Queen street crossing had been knock
| ed in the head, engineers who recently
made surveys at that point deening
the project impracticable; and K such
were the case he thought this to be
| the proper time to strike for the
bridge the necessity for which was
so apparent to everybody in Martins.
burg and surrounding country. Mr.,
Kline was informed that Council had
received no official notice of the ADAM
donment OF the subway proposition on
| the part of the Baltimore and Ohio
| Railroad. but Council was waiting to
hear from the railroad officials.
In regard to The bridge matter the
committee was informed that it had
been brought to the attention of the
railroad company, in accordance with
a recent action of Council, but so far
f, no information had been received here
from the railroad officials concerning
| heir intentions in reference to it..
Mayor Caskey said that after waiting
a reasonable length of time Council
would take up the matter again with
| the railroad.
| Chief of Police William Rind report
ed that the police made 80 arrests in
the month OF October: that 223 com
plants as to offensive water closets,
etc, have had the attention of The de-
partment and had been remeaied as
| far as possible
A communication was received from
! Dr. j. w McSherry in reference o the
! Merchants and Farmers Bank being
allowed to encroach on the city's prop
erty. ten inches over the building line
with their new bank building on South
Queen street. The protest was laid on
| the table.
| The Board of Affairs recommended
chat an ordinance be passed requiring
| concrete pavements to be laid all over
the city. Thereupon an ordinance was
| introduced by the ordinance commit
Tee embodying the above suggestion.
A petition was received from the
four police officers asking for an in
crease of ten dollars a month in their
pay. Petition laid on the table.
| A communication was received from
c. c. Keedy asking permission TO put
| up show window to extend out II
inches over he building line at his
| North Queen street store. City Clerk
Letter was instructed to call Mr..
| Keedy's attention TO the section of the
city ordinance under which his appli-
| cation had been made.
| An ordinance was in reduced fixing
| the number of officers on the police
force and prescribing certain rules and
regulations governing the force The
ordinance passed its first reading It.
provides for five police officers, physi-
cal examination, etc.
On motion of Councilman Oliver
Clerk Letter was instructed to get
prices on watchman's clocks to be
placed. at various sections OF town, the
clocks to record the time the police Of
ficers get around to them, how often,
etc.
In regard to the calm for $3.50 dam
ages against the CITY entered nv Con-
stable j. c. Wolf whose buggy was
wrecked by running over stone pile
on West King street one night some
time ago when the arc light nearby
was out, the committee Of council APP
pointed to investigate the matter re-
ported that 1t seemed to be the fault
of Frank RUTHERFORD that no light
was placed on the stone pile, and Mr..
Wolf should ,ook to him for damages
to his buggy, horse and harness
Clerk Letter was authorized 10 pur-