NEWS: Items from the Morning Tribune, December 3, 1890, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ Items from the Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, December 3, 1890 Description of the Map of Altoona. The map of Altoona, now being published by Architects Smith & Robinson and revised and corrected by the city engineer, is about completed. The plate from which the map is printed is to be 24 x 48 inches and in addition to this there will be a border of six inches at the top and six inches at the bottom, making the size of the maps 40x52 inches. They are mounted on linen-back paper, with roller at top and bottom. The map is plotted to scale of 500 feet to the inch and shows the correct position of all streets, avenues and boulevards, railways, street railways, as well as projected street railways. All the schools, public buildings and places of interest are located and properly indexed. Circles radiating one-fourth, one-half, three- fourths and one mile are drawn centering at the station, which give at a glance the distance from the centre of the city to any point. This map not only includes what lies in the city proper, but also the surrounding additions and extensions. Projected streets and public improvements are indicated. In fact, everything is shown from Allegheny Furnace to Blair Furnace, and for a general map of the city it is just what is needed. The streets and avenues are properly named and located, which is not the case even with the old maps which only take in the city proper. Every bit of available information has been hunted up and carefully compared before placing it upon the map. This is not an advertising scheme, but a bona fide, copyrighted map. The business men and anyone interested in the progress of the city should aid the publishers in their endeavor to show us what our city really is. The mounted wall map will be sold at $5 each and a limited amount of advertising on the border will be taken in order to reimburse the publishers for their time, trouble and outlay of money. NEWRY NOTES. Daniel McCann is again confined to his room. Charles Conrad is able to step about on his crutches. Mr. William Wilthew, of Girard, Ohio, is the guest of U. W. Bengon. On butcher day last week there seemed to be quite a stir about the town, but more especially about the residence of I. G. Thompson, upon whose porkers there had been considerable guessing, there being in all fifty-nine guesses, at five cents per guess, and all were anxious to see who was the closest. After weighing the two porkers and finding their weights to be 411 1/4 pounds and 419 pounds, total 830 1/4 pounds, they then opened the pot and learned that 830 pounds was the closest, though many others were close, being only two and three pounds off. Daniel J. Thompson was the lucky man. FRANKSTOWN FACTS. During last week Clarence Slippey suffered from gangrene on the scalp. Some of Daniel Noel's family, of Scotch Valley, have the typhoid fever. Mrs. Anna B., wife of James Lloyd Kauffman, has a very severe attack of the measles. Lewis and Solomon, sons of Robert Walls jr., who live at the foot of Lock mountain near Tom's cave, have typhoid fever. Local Brevities. Miss Kate Keister, of Port Royal, is visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. M. K. Keister, of Seventh avenue. Lieutenant William A. Mann, of the Seventeenth United States infantry, is visiting his home in Altoona. The lieutenant is a son of ex-Mayor Charles A. Mann and has many warm friends in this city. A gray haired man who was found wandering about Lexington avenue in the vicinity of Tenth street last night was taken to the mayor's office by two young men. He was given quarters for the night. A Brakeman Injured. Charles A. Harmon, aged 28 years, of 519 Fourth avenue, a brakeman in the yard, met with a very serious accident yesterday morning while at work. He had just relieved one of the night brakemen and was engaged in cutting cars. He had withdrawn the connecting pin and was about to get from between the cars when he slipped, his right arm falling between the bumpers, which suddenly came together, crushing the member into a shapeless mass of broken bone and mangled flesh. His calls for assistance soon brought a number of trainmen to the scene. They carried the unfortunate brakeman to the Fourth street gate, and from this point he was taken in the ambulance to the hospital. Here the physicians, after examining the injury, decided to amputate the arm close to the shoulder, and the operation was successfully performed, the patient standing it well. TYRONE TOPICS. Dating from Monday, December 1, the Morrison & Cass Paper company has come into active existence, and the former firms Morrison & Cass and Morrison, Cass & Co., have been completely merged into the new corporation. The business is now concentrated at this point, the Pittsburgh office having been transferred to Tyrone. For the distributing and sales department, the business formerly transacted at Pittsburgh, temporary quarters are now in use in the First National bank building, and John G. Anderson, treasurer of the company, is in charge. All of the Pittsburgh clerical force will be here in a few days. Jacob Fries, our long life friend and democratic bridge builder, from the environs of Claysburg and the classic hills of Bull's Creek, in the township of Greenfield, with Jacob Blair Cowen, the big-fraid of not being elected county commissioner from Altoona, was in town yesterday and visited the bridge which spans the Blue Juniata at Birmingham, their object being to ascertain what repairs were needed to place it in as good condition as the flood of May 31, 1889, found it. The repairs are a joint effort on the part of the commissioners of Huntingdon and Blair counties, the bridge being situated on the dividing line. The five members, good and true, of Tyrone council, named George E. Davison and John Oakwood, of the First ward; John L. Smith, of the Second ward; William W. Carns, of the Third, and James A. Crawford, of the Fourth ward, were present in the council chamber on Monday evening, comprising a decent quorum, to give legality to bills passed upon. Samuel Blair Templeton, the lord chief mayor, was present pro pria persona, to give eclat to the occasion. The absent ones who were on the hills away from the gates of gold can be summed up as follows: William Study, of the Second ward, who has attended but one meeting since his inauguration, April, 1890; James Andrew Wighaman, who claims to a prominent politician of the Third ward, and Edward Harvey Long, a butcher of cattle and politics, of the Fourth ward. These last three are fit representatives of the requirements, needs and necessities of a live town which, according to the late census, figures as 5,134 in first class live flesh. Gentlemen, we speak kindly when we propound the question, "Have you done your duty?" We make the assertion boldly and above board, to wit: That neither your city burgess nor any member of your council, your clerk, nor your street commissioner, nor any member of your borough authorities, has read or is acquainted with the requirements of the several borough ordinances. HOLLIDAYSBURG HAPPENINGS. Miss Margaret Blair, daughter of the Hon. John Blair, of Indiana, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Martin Bell. Miss Sue Athey, of Youngstown, Ohio, a very interesting young lady, is visiting the family of her aunt, Mrs. James M. McGraw. Mr. John E. Burchinal and George Jacobs, of this place, will attend the Masonic grand lodge at Philadelphia this week. At a regular communication of Juniata Lodge No. 282, Free and Accepted Masons, held in the Masonic lodge room, on Monday evening, the following brethren were elected to fill the several offices of the lodge during the ensuing Masonic year, beginning on St. John's day, December 17, 1890: Worshipful master, Lloyd G. Confer; senior warden, Charles Geesey; junior warden, Osman W. Gardner; treasurer, John Suckling; secretary, John W. Confer; representative to the grand lodge, Frank J. Over; trustees of the charity fund, Plymouth W. Snyder, James M. Lingafelt and John T. Leet. At the time of installation, a grand banquet will be served in which the craft will be accompanied by their wives, daughters, sisters and best girls. WILLIAMSBURG WAIFS. Mr. John H. Law is building an extensive ice house on his lots east of the old furnace. Our young friend James E. Patterson has accepted a position as book- keeper for a lumber company in St. Louis, and is now waiting on marching orders. James can do it; he is a good book-keeper, stenographer and type writer. On a short visit to Carlim a few days ago we were greatly surprised to see the activity and bustle at the quarry. Everything appeared to be booming along the line of the quarry. It was a continual boom of the blast. We saw one go off from a twelve-foot hole; it was a sight indeed. The whole top of the rock was rent and hurled up and forward; a mountain of stone it was. Manning & Co. found their quarters too small and have put a second addition on top of the original building.