The Conshohocken Recorder, August 2, 1912

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V ANT A JOINT MEETING
ON GUTTER QUESTION
FAYETTE STREET CUTTER QUES-TION
STILL UNSETTLED.—MO-TION
FOR BOROUGH TO MAKE
REPAIRS LOST BY A TIE VOTE.
—COUNCIL INVITES OWNERS
TO A JOINT MEETING ON MON-DAY
NIGHT.
Council coilld not come to any con-clusion
as t» who *h;iii IK- responsible
for til,- repairs to [US gutters OH
■«tte street below First avenue, and
decided to invite the owners of prop-erty
al ng the street to inset council,
at the council chamber on Monday
ev. ning, at eight o'clock to see If
some agreement canont be reached,
and the work of repairs pushed along.
.Mr. Harrold brought up the matter
la i- iincil and said that at the last
meeting of council the Street Com-mittee
was Instructed to serve notices
on the property owners to have new
gutters laid within thirty days, the
work to be done in accordance with
the ordinance providing for the build-ing
of gutters. He said he felt that
he Bhoujld not sign the notices and did
not. He argued that had council
known the gutters would have been
washed out so soon, he believed while
the Improvements were being made on
upper Fayette street, council would
have included new gutters for
the lower section. He said
that he has always advocated a good
main street and that It should be the
best in the town. He spoke ot the
time whan the Warren pavement was
laid, in 1902 and sail While the ordin-ance
was read, that tne work was
authorized upon pc tition of the prop-i
y owners, council was petitioned as
a matter of form that the ordinance
mlgU: be properly drawn. He said,
council interviewed the property owri
ers and appealed to them to aid the
borough iu saving the great Vearly
drain on the treasury for repairs to
layette street, which «ao badly wash-ed
by each rainstorm and the street
was always in bad condition. The
Lorough Was in bad shape financially
and the property owners came to the
b-rough's assitance by paying for the
s.rent with the provision that their
^noney- would be mum o *uan ui&er
streets were paved. At that time,
the pavnig o£, other streets was a mat-ter
for tne distant future. He said
the ordinance also provided that t.i.-
cost ot pa»Titg tM intersections W<M
I be borne by the borough but the
cost was paid by the property owners.
did( he fell that, the borough was
responsible for the gutters and should
replace them as the street was paved
from curb to curb and not from the
gutter lines. He then made a motion
tha tthe motion to notify the property-owners
from First avenue to the Head-ing
Railway bridge, oa Fayette street
to build new gutters in accordance
with the ordinance, be reconslde
Mr. Bate said he did not object to
Mr. Harrold's motion and said tha bor-ough
cane keep up replacii
there must be a .halt somewhere" Hi
spoke of the new street ini.
to be made- and said tne propert;
• ers will have to lay their gutters, H<
also said that if the borough make.:
the Fayette street repairs al! the prop-erty
owners will have to bear the ex-pense
wjilch is unfair. Continuing, he
said, :f council had acted properly
when the Ambler-Davis Company was
given the contract to repair the street
and gutters, this trouble) would iut
have arisen and the gutters would
have been properly repaired. Council
made a mistake in making settlement
with the contractors as they were will-ing
to make their work right, but coun-cil
closed the business by accep'ing
a reduction of the bill and paying the
balancv. Mr. Bate advocated the en-forcing
of the ordinance providing for
gutters, as council must be governed
by the ordinances passed and !f tnere
is not pro|**r legislation at present,
governing gutters, an ordinance shoulil
be passed that the borough take care
of streets from gutter line, or curb
to curb. He also said that the Fay-ette
street property owners took
chances when they consented to have
their gutters removed and repl iced
with Warren macadam and the agree-ment
entered into with the borough
must have been satisfactory as they
petitioned for the street. He asked:
"Where are we to stop? Are we to
put gutters everywhere?"
President Thomas seated that the
difference between the Fayette stieet
case and others is that the borough
tore out good gutters and built the
i ii curb to curb wher ■ in
other work, tb< has been pfillt
from the gutter lines, MY. BaU n
la so, the boi
I have BCMd ..i
not held up iii. ttjii; tor i.i M
months.
Mr. Marks contended thai to d ■
proper j »b on Harrj atri si and B|
Mill avenue many glitters will
to be relaid and siid the property
owners will be'.looked to to p... tor
these gutters. He satci tnat waere
■streets have'been pared, th<
owners should have been assessed for
a strip two feet wide for their front-age.
Other members I ntered into the
discussion after which tne vote for
the reconsideration of the motion of
last meeting was taken and carried.
This left the original motion before
the house. The motion was that the
ptOperty owners De notified to lay
new nutters. A vote was taken and
resulted in a tie. The vote: Aye:—
Messrs . Bate, Dale, Jones, Marks,
Slingluff, Williams, Woodland—7. Nay
Messrs. Harrold, Kelly, Lacey, May,
Stemple .Toner, Thomas*-?. The mo-tion
was lost. The instructions of
CouncU to notify the owners to place
new gutters will have to be carried
out.
Mr. Slingluff said If the property
owners will agree to pay for two feet
of gutter and the borough for one foot
of a three-foot gutter, he would change
hsi vote but otherwise would not. Mr.
Woodland said that he agreed with
Mr. Slingluff and that he believed
that the assesors should halse tlu
valuation of all properties on the im-prove
i streets. /
A motion was made that a second
ballot be taken on the defeated mo-tion.
The motion carried and a bai-lie,
taker, which resulted the same.
no one changing his vote.
Mr. Williams made a motion, which
carried, that the Fayette street prop-erty
owners be invited to meet coun-cil,
at the council chamber on Monday
pvEUing to i. > over the muter togeth-er.
'
BIDS OPENED FOR MORE
STHtfcT PAVING
LOCAL BIDDERS WERE LOWEST
HOR THE IMPROVING Of riAKHV
STREET AND BPR1NQ MILL AVE-uUE.—
A DISCOVER* MADE AS
"IO ELM S TREEf bKIDGfc..—MUCH
BUSINESS DONE AT COUNCIL'S
ADJOURNED MEETING.
covered with a three inch
smaller stone and the whole
of
be
Owners Will Net Meet.
Y-.sterday morning the action of
Council became generally known and
sadlng topic of conversa-tion
in the business section. One of
Uu pn party owners visited the others
to find, out tha sentiment as to ac-cepting
council's invitation to a meet-ing.
He informed a representative of
the Recorder that the property own-ers
will not attend the meeting and
will 1 ave nothing to Jo With the gut-
... He /.lid, that the opin>
(pa is to let the borough take care of
the matter
At -In- Keystone hotel, where the
gutter Is torn up and deep holes exist
the hotel management i.Qaced two
large red flags marking the danger
spots. The appearnce of the flags
caused much amusement along the
street.
PITCHED FROM AUTO
Letter Carrier in Trying Out New Ma-chine
Forgets the Use or" Levers.
I. .1. Mover, letter carrier on Rural
Route No. 1, has purchased a new
runabout automobile and yesterday
accompanied by Frvd. Knoeiler, the
garage man went out to try the ma-and
also for I. J. to take a les-sen.
They were making the turn at the
cros3 roads. Into the road at the B-oad-us
state at a fair speed, and I. J. had
his whole mind centered on the sharp
turn and unconsciously put his foot on
the exhiliator and with a burs oi
speed they struck the turn and a Tour
rail fence. Knoeller forgot to hold
on to his seat and waB thrown from
the car, which had run into tha fence
and was stopped. Knoel.vr was
stretched out on the fence and the
hood of the car. Moyer held a tignt
grip on the steering wheel and re-tained
his seat. Neither were injured
and the car suffered little damage.
Shutdown as Cupid's Aid
Taking advantage of the wevk's
shutdown of the Quaker City Shirt
Factory. Norrlstown where they are
employed. Edward M. McMeekin and
Harry H. Dutlinger were married re-spectively
to Elizabeth R. Head and
Katharine Woodman, and both couples
are honeymooning at Atlantic City.
Ice Cold Skim Milk, 2 qts. tor 5 cts.
at Harvey's Ice Cream Co., 116 W. 8th
venue. *• tfn
Uu Wednesday evening, Council held
an adjourned meeting principally for
the purpose of receiving bids for the
paving of Harry street and Spi.ng
Mill avenue with asphalt treated ma-cadam
by ithe penetration method us-ing
Bermudez asphalt as a binder, but
muny other subjects were brought up
and a discovery made which will
mean a great saving to the borough.
The discovery was the important
agreement between! the Borough and
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company regarding the building of
the Elm street bridge over the Ply-mouth
railroad.
Street Bids
Council advertised for bids for the
paving.of Harry street- from Elm
street to Tenth avenue and Spring
Mill avenue from Fayette to Harry
street for a width of thirty feet and
from Harry to Walnut street to a
width of twenty-five feet and from
Walnut street to the borough line to
a width ot twenty feet, with asphalt
treated macadam. The specifications
require the contractqr to briug the
graded portion of the streets to prop-er
grade, properly crown them and
place a four inch foundation of crush-ed
stone and this foundation to be
cover
to
covered with a seal coat. /
The bids were as follows:
F. L. Tracy
74 cents per sq. yd. using O'Neiil's
local stone.
78 cents per sq. yd. using Trap rock.
If the borough shapes the street, the
price will be 20 cents per sq. yd. less
than the above figures The work to
be completed in sixty working days.
William Little
Harry street, Elm street to Eighth
avenue, using stone and ashes to bring
the street to grade and using three
Inches of crushed stone and a top dres-sing
of trap rock ,69 cents per sq.
yd. using all trap rock, 79 cents per
sq. yd.
Harry street, Eighth to Tenth ave
nue, using four inches of 1V4 inch lo-cal
stone, cover with three inches of
stone an.1 trap rock top dressing, 82
cents per sq. yd. Using trap rock all
92 cts. per sq. yd. If harrows ai3 to
be used, the price to be ('■ cents ad-ditional
per sq. yd.
Spring .Mill avenue, Fayette to Wal-nut
street, 69 cents per sq. yd. for lo-cal
stone and 79 cents per sq. yd. if
trap rock i3 used.
Spring Mill avenues Walnut street
to borough line, to bring the street
to grade using ashes, 45 cents per cu.
yd. and using three inches of stone
and trap lock dressing, 69 cts. per sq.
yd. If ail trap rock is used, 79 cents
per sq. yd.
If harrows are to be used, 6 cents
additional par sq. yd. is to be charged.
To dress ihe side of the street,
which is not to be paved with trap rock
dressing, 30 cents per sq. yd. *
Pugh & Hubbnrd Co.
Pugh & Hubbard Company, a Phila-delphia
contracting firm, bid M) cents
per sq. yd. using Birdsboro trap rock.
The bids were referred to the Street
and Advisory Committees to deter-mine
the lowest bidder and report to
Council within a week.
Elm Street Bridge.
The Elm street bridge crossing the
tracks of the Plymouth Railroad is in
very bad repair and Mr. Harrold re-ported
It to be In a dangerous condit-ion.
The borough has been bearing the
cost of repairs since the bridge was
built and wUhin a few years have
spent $700 on it. Mr. Harrold stated
that the Iron work is rusted and the
timbers are rotten. He said the steam
and gas from the locomotives is large-fly
responsible for the rapid wear on
the structure. He also produced an
agreement between the Railroad Com-pany
and the borough dated March 17.
1874, agreeing for the erection of the
structure over the railroad tracks. This
agreement was found among som» old
borough papers and is a very Import-ant
document and council did not know
of its existence.
The agreement provides tha' the
Railroad Company is to build struct-
GEORGE M.WILLIAMS.
DIES SUDDENLY
SUFFERED A SUDDEN ATTACK OF
ILLNESS LAST NIGHT AND DIED
E.BRADFORD A. LEE
iiy the worfcingmen 'DEATH SUMMONS
Me always performed his duties well
to tha HI .i tract Ion to hit
paay and to the workmen"! MI were
his friends and loved him for bii
alty to right and falrneaa and the good
AT TEN O'CLOCK THIS MORN-j word ^i rfhearty hand shake he had
ING.—HE WAS AN ACTIVE MEM- ! for a]1
BER OF THE G. A. R. AND WAS
PAYMASTER AT J. WOOD & BRO.
CO.
Qeorge M. Williams, paymast
the mills of the J. Wood & Brothers
Company for many years, and one of
the most popular men of the borough
died suddenly, at his home, 816 K.
Ninth avenue, at ten o'clock, this morn-ing.
Mr. Williams was at his work yes-terday
and to his many acquaintances
whom he greeted on the streets yester-day
afternoon, he appeared to be en-joying
his usual health.
He ate a hearty supper and shortly
after complained of pains in his stom-ach.
The palas Increased and a phy-sician
was summoned who gave treat-ment.
Mr. Williams became Worte un-til
about midnight when be was re-lieved
of his pain and became comfort-able.
During the early morning he
suffered another mild attack but again
became comfortable and It was
thought that his illness was not ser-ious.
This morning he felt much bet-ter
and stated that he was going to
his office. He was persuaded to re-main
at home to rest and while lying
on a couch resting comfortably he was
stricken by death.
The news of his death spread rap-idly
throughout the town and men in
every walk of life expressed sincere
sympathy for the family of the strick-en
man who was so well known and
loved for his cheerful and kindly dis-position.
George M. Williams was the son
of the late Rowland and Mary Wil-liams
and was. born July 14th. 1B89,
in Ixiwer Merion township, near Wast
Conshohocken. About 1842 his father
was appointed toll-keeper at the -Mat-son's
ford bridge and removed to the
toll house there. George M. received
his education at the Spring Mill
school and also attended the first pub-lic
school opened in this borough, at
Stemple's hall, on Forrest street. He
began to earn hi* own living at an ear-ly
age and was employed at the (rea-son
saw mill, which was a flouris.iing
industry here, at that time. He later
worked in Philadelphia.
Mr. Williams was a veteran of the
Civil War and while his service- In the
army was short, he saw active E■ •]■■
vice during the whole of his* enlist-ment
and was present at the most
stirring incidents of. the wkofe rebell-ion.
He enlisted on-February
1865, at Conshohocken, In Co. A. I
Regiment, Pa. \Jdls., and was Immed-
| seat to the front. His n .
was a part of the Army of the Poto-mac,
and participated In the b
of Sailors' Creek, Cedar Creek and in
the fall of- Petersburg. During his
wkole'career his regiment was at
engaged. After the surrender oi I I .
the regiment was ordered on a :
marsh to Danville to aid Gen.
man but upon its arrival, its se.
were not needed and. the regiment .pro-ceeded
to Washington and when near
the capital on June 23rd, 18C5, i, was
mustered out of service with one of
the most honorable records of any
reglmenf^n the army.
After Mr. Williams returned liom
the army, he was employed as book-keeper
for tjhe lumber firm of Evan
D. Jones & Co., and in 1873 be cen-tered
the employ of the Reading Rail-road
Company. He was appointed
station agent at Oreland and served
in polltics.Mr. Williams was a Re-publican
but never Bought public of-
:: . imt once; Many Mars ago h'- ran
for the office of School Diroctor and
..fter an exciting fight, was elected
to the office. He was denied the "ris-ilege
of serving as his railroad duties
compelled him to remove his resi-dence
to Oreland.
No arrangements for the funeral,
have as yet. been made.
AUTO TRUCK OVERTURNED
IN ROADWAY.
Occupants of Machine Escape Injury.
Accident Occurred ut Gulf Mills.
■ A man named Welgler, of Philadel-phia
.another man and two children
also from that city, had a narrow' es-cape
from serious injury at Gulf Mills,
on Tuesday evening, when a large
auto truck used for moving purposes
and on which they were riding, over-turned
on the hill near the Bird-in-
Hand Inn.
The machine was heavily loaded
with furniture which was being taken
i i Philadelphia. Weigler was in
charge of the truck. When it had as-cended
to about the middle of the
steep hill something became wrong
with the steering gear and in conse-quence
Welgler lost control of the ma-chine.
In an instant it ldunged into
the bank along .the property of Wil-liam
Spragg and afterwards careened
into the roadway throwing the occu-
I off and scattering household
goods promiscuously „bout.
Fortu.iathely all escaped injury, but
some of- the furniture was dumaged.
A large crowd soon gathered about
the place where tne accident occurred.
Word was sent to Norrlstown for as-sistance,
but before help arrived the
heavy machine had been righted on
the road. In order to Jo this however,
it was necessary to unload <ue bal-ance
of the furniture and bring jacks
into 'eervlee.
Owing to the truck being overturn-ed
in the roadway traffic was blocked
for some time.
ONE OF THE BOROUGH'S OLDEST
AND BEST KNOWN RESIDENTS,
AND FATHER OF J. ELLWOOD
LEE DIED YESTERDAY MORN-ING.—
HAD BEEN ILL A WEEK
WITH TYPHOID-PNEUMONIA.—
FUNERAL TO-MORROW.
THE "INDIANS" CARNIVAL
Four Girls Have Entered The Queen
Contest and There Will be Two
Lively Weeks Here.
VYaahlta Tribe it Rid Men havi
turned the grounds about Second ave-nue
and Forrest street into a big play
ground and for the next two weeks a
lively time will be had by the "In-diana*
1 .uu! the people of the town
The entries for the Carnival Queen
contest closed yesterday with four en-
II-IAV 'Hi..- young ladiui who have en-ti-
red each received 100 votes and
While Otheri can enter tne contest dur-ing
the carnival .they will not receive
the start (I LOO VOtej because of en-tering
after August first.
The contestants at present are:
Miss Ellr Herron, W. Hector street.
Miss l^ena WhUton, Walnut street.
MhM l.ibble Mcl'all. 246 E. Hector
street.
Miss Marion l.obb, 118 W. Third ave-nue.
It Is expected that several other
young ladles will enter the contest be-fore
the carnival is in full swing.
The Queen will be selected on Fri-day.
August 16th, the day beifor the*
, .. , , _ carnival closes -and the one .elected
in the, s,a,me cap,acity at Conshoh,ock, - wil„l .be award,ed '"*a ,handsome gold
en and Manayunk. He remained in
the railroad service until 1884, wnen
in December of that year, he acceptej
a position with the J. Wood & Brothers
Company with which company he re-mained
until his death.
On February 22nd, 1866, he mar-ried
Miss Mazie Moore, of this bor-ough
who survives him and to their
union four children were born, Sam-uel
(deceased), EdmflTid K., who rep-resents
the Fifth ward in council;
Harry, and a dau,g,hte. r, lira, Lysing- i so that everything will work smoothly
er who resides with her parents.
He is also survived by two brothers,
Joseph, of Norrlstown and Evan of
Hampton, Va.
got
watch and pin. The watch is on ex-hibition
at Maag's jewelry store. 111
Fayette street.
The carnival will furnish all sorts of
amusement for people of all tastes.
The "hobby" horses and raz/.le dazzle
are now iu working order and the chil-dren
were given a treat last night
When the "hobby" horses were tested
for their running qualities. To-night,
everything will be In place and the
mechanical amusements will be tested
BAiaha Bradford Adams Lee, one of
the borougn's oldest and best known
residents, died Wednesday evening,
at his home 516 Kayette street, the
cause of .death being typhoid-pneumon-ia.
Mr. I.ee contracted a cold several
weeks ago but paid little attention to
it believing that he would shortly be
rid of iu However, he became worse
and on Monday of last week, he went
to a physician for treatment. The fol-lowing
day he was compelled to take
to his bed. Pneumonia had developed.
His condition became worse and ty-phoid
fever developed. Several phy-sicians
were called in consultation and
everything that medical skill could of-fer
was used to save his life but his
condition became gradually worse, un-til
death ensued.
Mr. I.ee was a jovial disposltloned
man and had always enjoyed robust
health. He had never been ill enough
to be compelled to take to his bed
until his last illness.
Elisha Bradford Adams Lee was the
son of Thomas and Ann Nottingham
I Adams) Lee and was born in New
Castle County, Delaware, October 29,
1N3S, he being the youngest of five
children born to this union. Mr.
I.ee's father died in this borouga. July
21, 18.'.4, a victim of cholera, which
was then raging here.
Mr. I>ee came to this borough with
his parents in 1842. At that lime
there were ferw educational advantag-es
and at the age of eleven years he
began earning his own livelihood. He
secured employment in the iron mills
of J. Wood & Brothers Company and
continued In their employ for more
than thirty-five years. Fur a time
he left tne .mills and engaged in the
grocery business forming a partner-ship
with the late Conrad Berk. They
closed out the business and Mr. l^ew
entered the business of his son, 1. Ell-wood,
whose -inventions of surgical in-struments
and medical supplies were
being manufactured in a modest way
at Eighth avenue and Harry street.
It was In the attic of Mr. Lee's home,
that his son first began the manufac-ture
of surgical instruments, and it
was here that some of his best inven-tions
were developed, and was the
beginning of the great business of the
J. Ellwood Lee Company.
Mr. Lee remained with the Company
until the time of his last illness.
On July 3d, isr.s Mr. Lee married
Miss Surah A. Etaysor, daughter ot
William and Elizabeth (Culp) Raysor,
of this borough. To their union, five
Children were born, three sons and two
daughters. Mrs. I.ee died Jus* 8th,
1886.
In politics Mr. I.ee was a staunch
Republican and took an active Interest
in the affairs of the day. He served
his ward in Town Council during the
[.years of 18S3-4-.r>. He was public spir-ited
and gave his aid to every move-ment
for the public good.
Deceased is survived by his sons,
.1. Ellwood and Harry A., and daugh-ters.
Mary Elizabeth, wife of William
Cleaver, of this borough and Miss May
B., who resided with her father. Con-rad
B., who was associated with his
brother iu the surgical instrument
manufacturing business, died May 8th,
1897.
The funeral services will be held
at his late residence, to-morrow after-noon
at two o'dock. The Interment
will be private.
! at the opening to-morrow evening.
A dance floor has been built and
j Slacker's orchestra, of Manayunk, will
furnish muslcTor dancing.
Mr. Williams was an active member
of George Smith Post, No. 79, G. A. R.,
a Past Master of Fritz liodge of Ma-sons
and for years has been a member
ure and the borough to build the street of the Flrst Ban''-8' Church.
approaches. There Is nothing men-' He was a man whose duties brought pation. Doan's Regulets operate eas-
(Contlnued on Page Five) (him into contact with many men, es- lly. 2."c a bo at all stores.
Harsh physics
bowels, will lead
react, weaken the
to chronic consti-
LETTER OF THANKS
The Companions of Foresters of
America desire to thank their many
friends who so ably assited them in
any way to make their Block Party
on last Saturday evening a success-ful
affair. *•
COMMITTEE
Hurt in Fall
Herman Litka, broke his Jaw when
horses ran awy and he was caught on
top of a load of hay by an "overshoot"
at the Rickle farm, near Norristown.
Ice Cold Skim Milk, 2 qts. for 6 cts.
at Harvey'i* Ice Cream Co., 116 W. 8th
avenue. •* tfa
aaaaVaal