Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-10-15
BRIDGE ADVOCATES
Committee Of Fourth Ward Citizens
Interest Town Fathers in Martin
Street Bridge Project.
m The World of Friday:

Inc tAly COUNCIL met IN Fe2u-
lar session last night. with the mem
bers ali present and Mayor Caskey,
presiding.
Rev w. A. Roush. pastor of the
Christian Church, and Mr.. D. C. Car
yer presented a petition from citizens
asking council to pass an ordinance
requiring saloon and hotel keepers to
remove the blinds and screens from
their bar windows and doors so as to
afford an unobstructed view of the
bar rooms The petition was laid on
the table for future consideration.
Mrs Louis Lambert was before
council complaining that DRINKS and
loafers around her house on North
Queen street so annoyed her that her
sleep was frequently disturbed for
hours at night, the nocturnal annoy
ance being supplemented or augment
ed by the slamming of door at a
nearby restaurant She said she want
ed The nuisance abated and asked
council to afford her relief. Mayor
Caskey told Mrs. Lambert that he
would look into the matter at once.
An ordinance passed its third read
ing and was adopted empowering the
city auditor to sign all city licenses
instead of the city clerk. so as to con.
form with the city's new system of
bookkeeping
Constable ]. c. Wolf presented a
bill of damages amounting to $3.50 in
Cured by wreeking a buggy in driv-
ing over stone pile on West King
street recently, the street being dark
that night Referred to a committee
of council TO invegtigate.
Board of Affairs authorized to place
two inch water pipe on Third street
to Moler avenue, a distance of about
225 feet, as per petition of citizens.
Mayor Caskey and Clerk Letter were
authorized to get prices on waste pa
per cans to be placed on the streets.
Messrs. W. r. Kline, William Cum
isky and A. b. Stewart, committee
appointed the night before at a meet
ing of Fourth Ward citizens, were be-
fore council in behalf of bridge over
the B. & o. tracks at East Martin
street. Mr.. Kline and Mr.. Cum
isky made a strong appeal to council
for support in furthering the bridge
proposition.
Mr. Kline suggested that council
first have the city attorney look into
the legal phase of the bridge question
and the city, through the council,
could then put its municipal shoulder
to the wheel and push the project
along. He said the committee wanted
the moral support of council in the
fight that the people OF the Fourth
Ward are waging for bridge over the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Mr.. Kline also spoke of Grafton
where the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road had recently built two bridges
over its tracks; and he told council
that unless he was incorrectly inform
ed the company stood ready to build
the spans over the tracks, at least, If
the city and county would build the
balance of the bridge He suggested
that council communicate with the
Honorable John T. McGraw, of Graf
ton, and ascertain how that city got
two bridges.
Mr. Cumisky said the Fourth Ward
has practically been cut off from the
rest of the town ever since the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad was built
through it. To be sure. he said, they
have an outlet at East Burke street,
but the culyert there is low. narrow
and disagreeab,y wet at times and Is
only a nareshift anyway Then again
the Frog Hollow branch nearby makes
that point a dangerous one at all
times, to say nothing of the break
neck hill on either side of the rail
road there. He said the peope over
on the hill have wakened up and de-
mand redress for their long suffering
grievance, being heartily tired of
climbing freight trains in the yards in
taking a near cut to get over town or
back again.
Councilman Oliver then took hand
in the discussion. He said that while
he was in favor of a bridge on Mar.
tin street he thought subway at the
Queen street crossing was far great
err necessity; that trains holding up
traffic at that point was Of frequent
occurrence, and that the grade cross
ing on the cty's principal thorough
fare was a canstant menace 10 life
and limb. He said that a subway
could be constructed there II feet
high and so feet wide if necessary,
which to his mind was a feasible pro-
position and practical solution of
the dangerous crossing problem. He
said he thought the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company womb ap.
prove the subway idea on the princi-
pile that railroads all over the coun-
try are eliminating grade crossings n
towns and cities wherever practica-
BILE.
At this point City Clerk Letter read
letter he had prepared to send TO
President Willard of the Baltimore