The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-18
WIDOW FIGHTS ACT
FIXING STATE Line
Ruling Would Place Hotel in
Massachusetts Instead Of
Iew York.
RATTLE LASTS 30 YEARS
BAY state Law Would Keep
Woman From Dealing in
Liquors.
rATTLE LASTS 90 YEARS

gram Ass. Mass. Jan. t1.--For twenty
years Nrs MARY Murph,. 2 widow and
owner of the State Line Hotel has OPP
posed the authority OF the act Of 'hc New
York LEGISLATURE OF 1898. In cooperation
with thc Massachusetts Typographical
Survey iu 1892 to remark the old state
boundary line established in 1857.
Asscmhlymen Of the Columbia county.
sew York. Districts have been on record
against any relocation Of the State boun-
diary. Their activity IN opposing the bill
and their attempt to substitute an incor-
rect line for the old boundary have been
due to the practical effect such change
would have on Mrs. Murphys business as
MI innkeeper and license holder In the
State OF New York.
Mrs. Murphy's hotel situated at a rail-
road junction known as State Line has
been a part OF the taxable property of the
town OF Canaan. y. Y, FOR hundred
years or more. There are various rea-
sons why Mrs. Murphy does not care 10
be transported into the Old Ray state by
the establishment Of true boundary.
One OF them is to her very material. The
value OF this hotel property Is the privi-
lege it's owner has TO sell liquor under the
law Of the State OF New York. She in
sists that the property is practically value
less for any other purpose
II the hotel IL moved by shifting the
boundary line into Massachusetts II will
come within the town of West Stock
bridge. where. under the law OF that
State only a certain number OF licenses
to sell liquor can he issued in town
Even n one should lapse and the new
hotel from New York could get 1t the
cost to the proprietor would be $1,000
Hence the widow Murphy. through her
representatives from Columbia county.
has protested for twenty years against
the injustice and hardship Of the act
which legalzes the new BOUNDARY.
NH Ia Come Tn Again.
Attn push this bill has been defeated
twice n will come up again shortly for
review. Those interested In preserving
the present boundary between New York
and Massachusetts have documentary EVIL
dencc that the line surveyed from Ros-
ton Corners, where the States OF New
York, Massachusetts and Connecticut
join. to tho monument marking the point
where the boundaries of New York. Mas
sachusstts and Vermont meet is g. = feet
away from the former marker.
By the terms of the act OF 1898 Of the
Legislature Of New York the New York
State Engineer was directed 30 make an
examination and restore monuments and
marks that had been displaced Instead
OF c'uhuinc themselves 20 this work a
straight l'ue was surveyed. The report
or the Massachusetts surveyors. who per
Io'n'n I'VE sam. WON SHOWS tnai an
nn'nA- we me from H"s''n 'o'ners the
pli marK> and monuments We're loft some
IN one sid" ana some on the other Of the
new linc
hHS' IA" WorNilg uhner an agreement
-" w wv i''" anu M"ssa'nusetlS
hH' ~ Stale Line 70 go over the work
again ana sci boundary stones one OF
..'Ao S.n'S was near me STATE Line
Hotel The l'Vo Indicated that the
"'''"'l' was "'th'N me state ~ "assa-
'huN''S soon after one hlght. inns
"l'"'. "'7' Il''i"u' i' sons noted II was
I"u' hn' nothing was done.
=, Nt.N, r"Hs' "hu one day !'epuN
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,on Mass hah "Scasaon To arrest rug
Nv rom '"s''e IN state Line ana round
mn w ihe ho'el narr""m. IN" prisoner
''Ss"" am was c.uopcu ihto SUBMISSION
Wv ''','e VI '"e aIrts' 'he Prisone,
an" S"nIe parro"nl loui'scrs Questioned
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. - -, NV, .e.'.or r w p''e""c'
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S,a'e highways Deparuneht ana u SEM
surveyors again 10 state Line ana tn'
m'ssins n'arNer was reloca'ed II nae
oeen buried so"le Instance rom the place
wnere nau "'en eslspnsheu, II Wa'
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