The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-04-24
Claim Committee of Aldermen
Figure on City's Finances.

flSuro on C1Uy S FINANCES.
The Claims Committee of the Board of
Aldermen has made an investigation OF
the City's accounts and what the city may
reasonably expect IN the way of income.
A member OF this committee, in speak
ing stated that in making the estimate
the amount which is yet owing the city by
former City Register McCaffrey by CITY
Register NiCOdemus, from licenses and
from the Hagerstown and Frederick
Railway Co. and from all sources was as
certained.
From the survey of the conditions, the
Claims Committee believes that the
Board of Aldermen may proceed eau
tiouslv, make some improvements about
the city, and that it can still paw the
$4,000 upon the floating Indebtedness
which it set out to pay when it took office
year ago. These improvements will in
the main consist OF maCadamized streets
and repairs TO streets and little or no
other new work will be undertaken.
One member of the Board, when asked
about paving to be done this summer,
stated that the survey of the Claims
Committee showed that with proper
expenditure of the city funds, the re-
sources are sufficient to carry the Board
to June 20, the end of this fiscal year
Anything to be done after this time will
De upon the new levy. and he stated that
there was a strong probability that West
Second street would be paved. II think
1t disgrace to permit this street to re-
main in its present condition with the
fine new Armory building depending
upon this street tor access to it.
Concerning the paving about the Court
house the Board of Aldermen intends to
take up the matter with the Board of
County Commissioners possibly this
week. The city wants the County Com
missioners TO bear practically all the ex-
pense of this work, and the city will then
pave the portion OF. Court street from
Counsel to Second street, and the portion
of Record street from Counsel to Second
street.
The city will begin at once the repair
ing of Fourth, Fifth and Sixth streets and
will fill all holes and make the streets as
smooth as possible before oil is applied
TO them.
Barnum and Bailey Show in
Baltimore.
THE Greatest Show on Earth" the
Bailey and Barnum Circus. will open at
Baltimore, May and 7. The time hon
ored custom has always been to refer to
each successive years circus as bigger
and better than ever, but the phrase has
been so hackneyed that this year Barnum
and Bailey hesitate TO use it, despite the
fact that they affirm it adequately de-
scribes the entertainment. There is ma
terial enough in this years circus to make
a dozen circuses Of the old days The
stereotyped grand entree" with which
discusses were content to open their pro-
gram for many years has been perma-
nently eliminated by the Barnum and
Bailey managers. This season the en-
tertainment is opened with a romantic
pageant and spectacle, The Wizard
Prince Of Arabia.
-Four hundred pretty girls. the most be-
wldenng array OF femininity ever assem-
bled in dramatic entertainment COM
pose the corps de ballet. They are di
rected by Ottokar Bartik, maitre de bal
let Hundreds of horses, camelS, ele-
plants, sacred cattle, richly accoutred,
are utilized IN the program of the spec
tacle.
The subsequent three hour arenic per-
Torrance which Barnum and Bailey give,
breaks all records of the past. Every
one of the FIVE hundred participants Is a
champion in his own line. The exhibit
of freaks is larger than ever before and
the menagerie has been augmented.