Year: 1859

to Marshall street, when said Marshall street shal
have been graded and paved from Fort Ferr
bar; also upon Eutaw street from Baltimore street L
Madison street. and thence northwestwardy along Mad
son street to the city limits far said
same shall have been graded and paved also upon
street from Baltimore street to Pennsylvania avenue ant
thence by double track along Pennsylvania avenue
North avenue, or as far said Pennsylvania avenu
as the same may BE- graded and paved; also doubl
track upon Gay street from Baltimore street to Batmor
Cemetery.


q That the said railway shall be built under the super
vision of the City Commissioner AID Joint Standing Com
mitee Highways and the rails shall be of the mos
approved pattern and be constructed and laid down
not to obStuct impede the free flow of
streets or down the cutters thereof and further that tn
track upon Baltimore and Green street. Pennsyl
vana avenue and Gay street. and also the track Can
ton and Hanover street Sharp the South
ern section of the city far paved shall be laid dow
and completed within twelve months from the passage
TINS ordinance, and the remaining mentioned in the frs
section of this ordinance shall be completed as far as tn
streets therein designated be graded and paved with
IN such time thereafter as be determined upon BY
the Mayor and City Comptroller and exceed tw
years after the passage of this ordinance and in
failure ofthe Association to comply with this section he
shall forfeit and pay five hundred dollars per month 70
each and every month until this section be complie
with.


g. That the guage of said railway tracks shall ba tn
same as that of ordinary street carriages use in tn
city of Baltimore in order to admit of the passage
carriages upon the plate of the said railway; but
vehicles shall be permitted use the said RAILWAYS 70


the purpose OF carrying passengers for pay hire
no case shall it be lawful to said railroad
accommodation of passengers the Sabbath day unde





be collected as other fines are collected.


4 That in laying down said railways, the proprietor
thereof shall conform to the grades of the several
use y Them as the same are now hereafter be
tabshed by law.


3. That the cars running upon said railways shall no
remain standing the line their routes for passen
gers, but shall be subject to all the police regulation
which are may hereafter be contained in the ordi
nances of the city in regard to railway othe
vehices, so FAR as said regulations may be applicab
threo and further that the price for transporting
gers from any part of the city to any other the line
these railways shall not exceed the four cents pc
passenger and that the of twenty dollars shall
paid annually upon each running regularly sal,
railway as license money therefor the City Register


D. That 1t shall be the duty of said association
cars at intervals of not ten minutes the exten
of their tracks, from A NJ. to midnight from April Is
to October ls and from A NJ to midnight from Octo
ber 1st to April 1st under penalty of five dollars fo
each that does not said extent tracks
as embraced in this ordinance collectahc other city
fines are cocctable and further that the running speed
upon said roads shall not, at any time be at create
rate than six miles hour in the built up portions
city.


T. That the said association shall after the passage
this ordinance book to opened in this city for
the purpose of receiving subscriptions capital
OF sad city railways, and the subscriptions to the
from such persons wish in their own right to be
come stockholders therein and said book shall
for the purpose within ninety days from the passage
tins ordinance and its approval by the Mayor and sha
be kept open for five days. and the said association shall
give notice of the time and place of opening said
IN all OF the daily newspaper of this city ten days pre-
vous thereto and in the event of stock being sub
scribed for than said company authorized issue
the same shall be divided pro rata to each subscriber


That the parties hereby authorized construct the
railways aforesaid be and they hereby required tC
agree with James Mitchell, Coleman Bailey and Will


liam Robertson of existing omnibus lines in the
city OF Baltimore for the purchase their horses har
ness carriages and sabling to be paid for in
part of said railway and for the purpose ascerainne
the true value amount to he paid said property
the price demanded by said omnibus propretors be
excessive the parties to this grant shall point
referee, and the said omnibus proprietors another
referee who in the event of disagreement shall appoint
an umpire the decision of whom shall final as to the
price to be paid as aforesaid; provided however, that il
said omnibus proprietors shall to sell out as pro
vded for in this section then the said parties authorized
to construct passenger railways, shall be authorized tc
proceed without reference said purchase from the ON
nbus proprietors.


That the aforesaid parties their associates
assigns shall hereafter become Incorporated the
rights and privileges granted them by virtue of this
ordinance shall extend to such corporation upon the con
dons herein prescribed, and until such nco, DO
ration shall have been obtained such association shall
have all the rights and privileges hereby granted or the
successors of said parties without further action of
Mayor and City Council of the city of Baltimore
lo That all the cars iron rail- and other material used
employed in and upon about the construction and
OF said city railways and all the labor necessary to the
building use and occupation of the same shall be made
manufactured, employed, and obtained in the city Of Bal
timore and not elsewhere unless it shall appear
due effort by advertisement that part thereof
be had or obtained within the prescribed limits in a rea
sonabe time, to enable said association to complete
SAID railways within the time limited in this ordinanc
Tor the completion of the same when after due effort
aforesaid, such part cannot be had within the limits
aforesaid, may be had and obtained elsewhere.


IL That the owners and propretors of said railway
shall keep the streets covered by track and exeudn
two feet the outer limits either side of said tracks
thorough repair at their expense and shall
same from snow other distractions in doing which
they shall not cause to be obsructed the other portion
the street, either side of the raway track authorize,
by tins ordinance to be constructed and for noncomp
ance the Mayor and City Council may impose such rea
sonable fines not exceeding twenty dollars per square
be collected as other city fines collected


II That no route routes of railway authorized to b
constructed by the provisions this
abandoned or the of it them discontinued unless
majority OF the property holders upon said
snail rst assent thereto; in the event of said ben
obtained, then said route routes may removed; il
case any of the said tracks shall be abandoned in
Il" failure to use it for the space of six months then
shall and may be lawful the Mayor and CITY Counci
of Baltimore to the at the expense of sa
association, and the said track tracks or said route
shall not be again used without the of the Mayo
and City Council.


13. That the Mayor and City Council shall have tn
privilege within years after the expiration of
years from the passage of this ordinance purchase
buy out the stock and interest OF said association or
pany, together with such appurtenances belonging to SAT-
railways as they the Mayor and City Council may deen
proper for and at fair and equitable consideration
value and in of disagreement as to said value ant
consideration the Mayor and City Council shall appon
one referee and the said parties this grant their
signs, shall appoint another referee who in the
disagreement shall appoint an umpire, the decision
whom shall be final to the price be paid aforesaid
and provided further, that if the Mayor and City Council
shall decline neglect to give notice said Company
their intention to make said purchase within the
SAID Two years. then the grants and privileges herein
en- to said Company shall continue to them their
signs, for fifteen years longer subject to all the cond
tons and terms contained in this ordinance and
Bile thereafter every fifteen years under the aforesaid
terms and conditions.


A. That the parties hereby empowered to construct tn
railways aforesaid shall give bond and secur
to the Mayor and City Comptroller in the of twenty
five thousand dollars for the faithful performance of
the obligations and liabilities contained in this ordinance
and to commence the road within sixty days after tn
passage of this act.


FURTHER DEvELoPMENTS.-Yeste esterday afternoon
Jacob Snyder and Margaret Snyder, parents of tn
young girl, Margaret Snyder, who committed sui
eide on Thursday last, by drowning herself in tn
river of StOwman's wharf Spring Gardens wer,
tried before Justice Showacre, at the Southern
district station house, upon the charge of matreat
ing their child and inlictng such severe punish
ment as to cause her to destroy herself Frederick
Pinkney, ESQ.,, Deputy States Attorney, appeare,
on behalf OF the prosecution.


Many witnesses testified to the harsh usage which
the deceased sustained at the hands other parents
her father in particular, while some of them averret
that the idea of selfdestruction was always famil
lar to the mind of the deceased. All, however con
Cured in giving the girl good character He
pastor, the Rev. Mr.. Hooper, thought that sh
was the best girl in class of young persons whom
he instructed He said the deceased was very timid
and the least harsh treatment would operate inju
riously upon her.


1t was also in evidence, that on the night befor
the girl drowned herself, her father beat her Sc
verely. A witness who lived in part of the sam
house, saw him strike her with his fist in bruta
manner, and with both his hands beat the unfortu
nate girls head against the wall


Some of the females who helped to wash and Ia,
the body out, discovered only or two bruises OF
it, which may or may not have been caused by beat
ing. One small bruise the small of the back
one on the right arm, and another-the worst hur
OF al-on the left eye, all that the most minut
observer could detect


Upon the conclusion of the testimony Mr. Pink
ney suggested to the magistrate that there were n
grounds for committing the accused for felony-
lie said that while moderate chastisement was
parents right and the law upheld him in its exer
else, yet there is point beyond which even pa
rent could not 60. When chastiSement is infct
ed immoderately it is looked upon as a breach c
the law, and becomes assault and battery, and upo
this charge he asked the commitment of the accu
sed. The magistrate thereupon admitted the pa,
ties to bail in the of $500, for their future ar
pearance at the May term of the Criminal Court


PAINFUL AcCIDENT.-On Sunday evening abou
eight O'Clock, quite a serious accident was cause
by the sudden ignition and explosion of escape
gas in close room, in the rear of the lager bee
saloon on Fayette street near Eutaw known
Mechanics Hall. 1t seems that during the dav
gas pipe in the room had become disconnectet
causing an immense volume of gas to escape durin
the entire day. BY night the smell of the escapin
gas had become so obnoxious that search W;
made to discover the, cause. For this purpo
Charles Yunghuhn, gas filter, residing on Frol
street near Baltimore, accompanied by Theodo
Aliens, the bar-keeper of the establishment pr
ceeded with light to discover and remedy the d
feet. Having made a tour of the house they final
approached room in the rear of the house that hi
been closed all day. As soon as they entered ii
door with light the gas, with which the room w
hlled, exploded, setting the entire place in blaz