Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-01-20
BILL FOR HANGING CUT
BY COMMISSIONERS
Board Refuses to Pay Full Amo unit
for the Scaffold and Also Lops
Off Big Part Of Rope and
Gown Account.
CHANGE IN AIMS HOUSE TRUSTEE
Number Of Road Petitions Received
and Acted Upon---Kent Green
Declines to Serve As Trustee
OF County Home--- Walter
Clark Respuointed.

Clark keappointed.
/ The County Commissioners on Tues
day materially cut down two of the
| largest Of the bills put up TO them in
| connection with the execution of the
death penalty in the case OF Arnold
Martin. the negro murderer who was
hung on J anuary Z.
The Johnson Bros, Co. of Balti-
more, put in bill of $32 for furnishing
the black cap and gown, the black kid
/ gloves worn by the condemned man
and the rope used to hang him. This
the Commissioners refused to pay for
more than SO.
John Bright, who built the gallows
wanted $3.50 for his job He item
! lied this bill. showing $39 for lumber
bolts, screws. etc; $50 for the actual
I framing and erection of the gallows
and IS for taking it down after the ex-
ecution. The Commissioners thought
that $50 was enough for the whole
thing and they passed the bill for this
amount
/ In addition TO these two accounts,
the Board passed without reduction the
bill of J. A. Adams, for undertaking
I services, including embalming the
body, for $50, and still has. to be acted
upon next week a bill of SIS for med
ical services by County Health Officer
w. IT, Hopkins. This last is allowed
by the local laws in such cases.
Contract to furnish carload of coal
for use in the Jail was let to the Peo-
pies Coal and ood Company at its bid
of s6.40 per ton. The only other bid
$6.6S-was from the Robb Combs Coal
and Wood Company
A petition from the Glen Burnie Inn
provement Association, through its sec
retary. Philip Morgan, complaining of
the coalition of the road from Glen
Burnie to Benfield, south of Creek
Road and north of the frame school
building, was referred to Engineer
Hayman and Commissioners Williams,
OF the Third district.
The complaint Of the Improvement
Association stated that the road is now
in such condition that teams using it
are obliged to take to the fields II
was suggested that fewloads of
shells would improve matters wonder
fully
Engineer Hayman and Commissioner
Hammond will also investigate and re-
port upon the request of s. r. Warm
ken and other residents of the locality,
who petitioned the Commissioners TO
extend the State-aid highway con-
struction along the so-called Old An
napolis Road along Maple avenue at
Linthicum Heights to the Hammonds'
Ferry Road and thence easterly to the
Annapolis Boulevard.
This improvement would give a di-
rect line from the recently constructed
Annapolis Boulevard above Glen Bur-
ME to the Hammonds' Ferry Road and
the washington Pike.
Clerk Tilghman was directed TO
write to the president of the United
Railways and Electric Company of
Baltimore and ind out whether or not
that company viii enter into an agree
ment with the Commissioners 10 pay
for a smooth pavement between the
company's tracks and for two feet on
either side of them along Curtis aven-
ne from Locust street to Beach street
at Curtis Bay, or whether they will
pave this street with smooth pavement
within the next six months.
II was ordered by the Commission
ers that $4,000 be drawn from the
various notes PAYABLE sinking fund to
meet the payment on January p. The
money viii he drawn from the funds
q follows Twenty-Five thousand dol
lars from the Farmers National Bank.
s12. 500 from the Annapolis Banking <
Trust Company. and $12.50o from the
Annapolis Savings Institution.
The Clerk was directed TO notify
/ Burkard- -Scholle & Co from whom the
money was recently borrowed on note
to present the note for payment on
January - at the Merchants National
| Bank. Of New York.
Grafton Robinson was appointed as
/ temporary bridge-keeper at the Curtis
/ Greek bridge from January 10, in place
/ of stephen Jenkins.
DR.. T. Kent Green having declined TO
serve as a member of the board of trus-
/ tees of the County Home. the Commis-
/ sioners appointed Mr. Walter Clark, Of
Annapolis to the place. Mr. Clark
+ had served in the position before.
The statement of Clerk Tilghman,
| showing the proportionate rate OF
taxes expended in the various districts
/ from July / to December 81, 1915. was
IS follows. First district. % cents on
each 500: Second district. 80 IL cents
/ Third district. Sc cents; Fourth dis
/ trict. 81 1-2 cents: Fifth district, %
cents: Eigth- district, 20 1-2 cents.
The eproportionate expenditure of the
general county rate was shown to be
/ 81 cents.