Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-04-13
MARTINsBURG W. va, SATURDAY. APRIL H. 1912
THE CITY COUNCIL
HOLDS A MEETING
Residents of the Boom Make Com.
plants and Will Get Redress
Other Proceedings.

Other Proceedings.
The City Council met in special ses-
fsion Monday night, the regular meet
ing for last Thursday night having
been postponed. Mayor Caskey pre-
sided and the members were all pres
lent except Councilman Smith.
Attorney W. c. Kilme- presented a
petition from the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad asking to be allowed to raise
their tracks through town and to raise
the Bulleye bridge abort three feet:
also to set the south abutment of the
/ bridge back a distance OF about six
fleet so the tracks could be spread
The petition was referred to City At
torney Williams who is TO report at a
special meeting of council.
! Three residents of the boom, name
fy M. b. Adams, Allen Graldstaff and
Edward l.. Thompson, were before
council with complaints
Mr.. Brown wanted to know why the
garbage wagon didn't go beyond Ste
phen street on Friday of each week
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as a result of this failure to do his
duty on the part of the garbage man,
the garbage in many instances is be-
ing dumped here, there and any
where in the neighborhood which is
becoming a nuisance and remedy IS
needed, especially as warm weather
is fast approaching.
Councilman Trammell, who is now
a resident of Rosemont remarked
that the garbage man didn't go out
there either on his weekly rounds.
At the suggestion of the Mayor,
this garbage question was referred
to the Board of Affairs TO take up.
Later council decided to recommend
the employment of another garbage
wagon for the reason hat the town
is too big for one garbage man to
properly cover.
Mr. Grandstaff asked council to
ihave the houses numbered on the
Boom so that the people out there
may have city mail carrier service;
that the postmaster had promised to
put on an extra city carrier whenever
the property owners laid pavements
and the houses had been numbered.
Mr. Grandstaff said tae pavement
but the other matter is the stumbling
block Council instructed City En-
gineer Hess to get house numbers for
that section of the town.
Mr.. Thompson asked permission to
dump garbage in low place or mol
low on South Raleigh street beyond
Addition, which is filled with water
at time of rain, making it disagreed
bic to pedestrians. Request granted.
John T. Nadenbousch vas granted
permission to erect wooden awning
on the South Raleigh street side OF
his house at the southwest corner of
West John and Raleigh streets, occu-
pied by the J. W. Lloyd grocery.
John A. Wilen, living a short distance
below the corner, filed protest
against the awning.
Councilman Oliver called attention
to a dangerous hole on North Third
street, east of Hess store, where a
horse was recently killed by blunder-
ing into it because no fence strong
enough to prevent such accident was
ever put around the hole. He said
this ought to be done as a matter of
protection to man and beast. On
motion a strong board fence was or
dered put around said hole, and also
another one not far away, as a mat
ter of precaution.
Councilman Cumiskey asked that a
foot bridge be put across the Tus-
carora Creek back of the p. & o.
shops. Referred to the Board of AT
fairs.
The matter of new r. & o. depot
or the old one remodeled and the
building of a subway at the North
Queen street crossing came up for dis
cussion. One said he understood that
the old depot was to be entirely over
hauled. Another councilman said he
believed that the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad was now about ready to take
decisive action on the question OF
new depot and subway, numerous sur
veys having been made here during
the past few months, AMI he thought
now would be a good time to strike
1.-THE railroad company fer something
worth while On motion the Mayor
was instructed to appoint committee
!of a dozen or a score of citizens, in
lcluding members OF the City Council,
Board of Affairs and Board OF Trade,
to go down to Baltimore and inter
view President Willard in regard TO
some of the things Martinsburg would
like to have from his corporation
Mayor Caskey will do so in the near
future.