Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
IN BALTIMORE
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signer of the Declaration of Independ- |
ence and prominent in early days, died |
and other historical spots and build
ings are all marked with bronze tab |
lets. 1t would be hard to find a more |
intensely patriotic people than are
the citizens of Baltimore. There are |
four excellent daily newspapers pub |
lished in Baltimore and all seem to |
be fairly prosperous: The oldest of |
these is the Baltimore American
which was established as the "Mary-
land Journal and Baltimore Adver-
tiser" in 1773. One of the valued
souvenirs of this visit to Baltimore in
possession of the writer is a fac simile
copy of the first issue of this paper,
August goth, 1773. The other papers
referred to are the "Star", the "Sun"
and the Baltimore News, this last
named paper having been until re-
Gently owned by the popular Ameri-
can publisher, Frank Munsey.
Baltimore is known as the "Monu-
ment City, and the number of monu-
ments found here fully justifies that
ton in passing that the Washington
erected to honor the memory of "The
Father Of His Country: After fol-
lowing in the wake of physician
cided that Baltimore deserves the
title, Hospital City,: Hospitals and
dispensaries seem to be scattered all
over the city and one wonders how
the doctors of the city, not connected
/ 4o1c Hol 10 40
to pay their rent. The hospitals of
Baltimore. adequately described would
require not merely a newspaper ar
content ourselves with this brief our
selves with this brief allusion.
The park system of Baltimore is
worthy of more than passing notice:
Druid Hill Park and Patterson Park
are the larger parks; to these should
be added Fort McHenry which until
two years ago was garrisoned by Fed
teral troops, this fort has been turn
ed over by the Federal Government to
the city of Baltimore and is now in
cluded in the park system of the city.
Besides these large parks are open
squares, Fairgrounds, boulevards and
beautified open spaces all through the
city; these parks are controlled by a
Park Board of five members, each
member serving for five years, one
member appointed by the Mayor each
year; this board employees four super
intendents, each, superintendent has
absolute control of the parks in his
district, there are four districts, en-
ploying all labor, police, supervisors
and etc., and is himself answerable
only to the Park Board.
The street railways of the city pay
one ninth of their profits to the Park
Board for the support of the parks
and no other tax is levied for this
!; purpose.
It was the writer's good fortune tc
meet one of the Park Superintendents
who took US over his district in his
official auto and gave US some in.
sight into the splendid work that is
being done for children and adults
alike through the means of the parks
Fairgrounds, swimming pools, bath
: houses, recreation Pier and supervis-
: ed dancing pavilions or halls for thoss
4 who desire that form of recreation
these last are side tracked for the
present by the Billy Sunday meetings
now in progress.
:, Baltimore has without doubt tht
finest sewage disposal plant in tht
Icountry; we were interested in investi
ting this elaborate piece of engineer
: ing and we derived consolation from
: the information we gained that it i
only a question of time and shor
time at that, before these sea boar'
Z cities will be required to install sew
: age disposal plants. The Federal Gov
: ernment is getting tired of cleanin,
i out harbors and rivers and contamin
alton of the waters has seriously in
e jured the supply of shell fish that ma,
e be used for foods. We thought of tn
n sewage disposal plant that must 500
= come for our home town and reflect
= ed that we were not the only ones VIII
. were forced to spend our money an
go in debt in order to conserve tn
!, public health. Officials informed u
IS that the sewage water after havin
! passed through this plant tested 9
q per cent. pure but we were not eI
n thusiastic about making any persona
'eI use of it for either drinking or bath
ing purposes, Fertilizer companie
are preparing to make use of tn
/. "sludge" or solids that are left.
The Baltimore shipping must b
r seen to be appreciated and at preser
the European war limits the national
ties that are represented in the hal
Dor, tho even now it is interesting
note the flags of many many natior
that appear in this fine harbor.
The city government seems peculis
to an Ohioan. A mayor and counci
but the council seems to be ratht
perfunctory branch, sort of a CONVEX
lent body to allow bills; the May'
and a board of Estimates seem to ri
u things and the present Mayor is ev
SO IDENTIFY signing for "more worlds
conquer as he is striving. by sta
Legislation to gain control of tt
= Park system and the distribution
~ its "jobs" and money
nd The police department are entire
independent of the city governmel
being directly under the control al
direction of the state government.