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to the east side of Main street, thence to Feeder alley, thence to the north side of Basin street (now Railroad street), thence to Franklin street, the place of beginning.
By a special act of Assembly approved by Governor Wolf on the 14th of April, 1834, the name of the Borough of Cone- mangh was changed to that of Johnstown.
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The limits of the municipality remained as we have stated until February 25, 1851, when Governor William F. Johnston signed a bill extending the boundary lines so as to include the Fifth, Sixth, and part of the Fourth and Seventh wards, as fol- lows :
Beginning at a white walnut tree on the bank of Stonycreek near the township road leading to Millcreek Furnace, thence along Yoder Hill, on the present city line, to "a post on the land of Jacob Benshoff," above Alderman Graham's residence; thence across the Stonycreek river to a white oak on the land of Jacob Horner, thence to the Bedford road, thence along the southwest line of Bedford road to a point "near the said Hor- ner's barn," thence across the road to the corner of Johnstown and Conemaugh boroughs, on Green Hill, above and near Adam and Main streets.
All this territory, as well as that included within the bound- ary lines of 1831, composed the borough.
By the Act of 1831, incorporating the borough of Cone- maugh, it was provided that " in the general and electoral elec- tions the citizens of said borough shall not be separated from the citizens of Conemangh township, but shall remain connected with said township and also in support of the poor."
On January 19, 1844, an act of the General Assembly was passed over the veto of Governor David Rittenhouse Porter, whereby the place of holding the election for Conemaugh town- ship was changed to the "schoolhouse on lot No. 77, on the Isl- and," but on May 8, 1844, the Governor approved another act, changing it back to the place where "borough elections" were held in Johnstown. The borough of Johnstown and the town- ship of Conemaugh remained a single election and school dis- triet until 1844.
The municipality of Johnstown was a borough without di- vision by wards until April 8, 1858, when George Nelson Smith, of this city, was speaker pro tem. of the House of Representa- tives, and a bill was passed dividing it into four wards, in the following manner :
"So much of the westerly part of said borough as is bound- ed by Franklin street, Main street, Market street, Washington street, the Conemaugh river and Stonycreek, shall be one ward and be called the First Ward; so much as is bounded by Main and Market streets, the Canal Basin and Canal Feeder shall be
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the Second Ward; so much as is bounded by Franklin and Main streets, Conemaugh Township on the east and south and the Stonycreek shall be the Third Ward, and so much of the bor- ough south and west of the Stonycreek, commonly called Kern- ville. shall be the Fourth Ward."
By this act the select and common councils were authorized, to consist of two members from each ward in select council, and four members in common council. But this system was not sat- isfactory. and it was abolished on April 4, 1861. During the time of its existence the councils met in a room over the postof- fice, in the building opposite the present Tribune office; quarters were then procured on the third floor of the Scott House, after- ward the Merchants' Hotel. Political jealousies ruined the dual legislative bodies ; if select council passed an ordinance common council declined to approve it; if common council originated an ordinance and passed it, select council would put a veto to it. So things went from bad to worse until such a system was abol- ished. The Act of April 4, 1861, changed the division lines of all the wards and created the Fifth Ward. The First, Second, and Third were made practically the same as they are now, with Main and Franklin streets the division lines, and the Fourth Ward the same also; excepting that the Seventh Ward has been taken from it. The Fifth Ward included all the territory on the South Side, and each ward had three members of council.
This single legislative body, with the addition of three members from the Sixth and Seventh Wards, when they were admitted, constituted the council of the borough of Johnstown until the incorporation of the present city government in 1890.
By the Act of February 4, 1861, the boundary lines were slightly extended. The Fourth and Fifth Wards remained as they had been, but in the Third Ward the line began on the north side of Basin street, which was abutting on the old Basin, "thence down the middle of the stream or channel carrying the water of said Basin to the (Little) Conemaugh river, to the said river, thence down the (Little) Conemaugh river to its junction with the Stonyereek, thence up the middle of said Stonycreek to a point in said creek immediately opposite," which would be a continuation of the north-eastern line of Market street; "thence by a straight line to the place of be- ginning" at the white walnut tree on the Millcreek Furnace Road.
On the 11th of February, 1868, Governor Geary approved
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an act dividing the Fifth Ward and creating the Sixth Ward of the borough of Johnstown, which included all that portion ly- ing west of the Stonycreek and south of Dibert street. Not- withstanding the petition of Samuel Douglass, Burgess of Johnstown, presented January 8, 1852, to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Cambria county, praying for the extension of the general Borough Act of April 3, 1851, to the said borough, and a decree made by Judge Taylor, with a saving clause "that the provisions of the former charter be annulled, so far as they are in conflict with the provisions of said act," the courts did not have authority to divide boroughs into wards or sub- divide wards. That had to be created by special acts of the Assembly.
As heretofore referred to, the Sixth Ward was created by an Act of Assembly February 11, 1868, and included that part of the Fifth Ward south of Dibert street to the boundary lines.
On September 10, 1900. that part of Yoder Hill beginning at Dibert street and extending up the hill above Hamilton's, thence south near the sharp curve in the public road, thence to the first alley south of Everhart street was annexed.
But the laws had been amended, and on petition to our court the Fourth Ward was divided, and on June 7, 1881, the Seventh Ward was formed, including all that portion of the Fourth ward lying between the Bedford road and the Stony- creek river, southeast of Brooks' Run between Hansman's Hall and Emmerling's brewery.
On January 3. 1888. the Court of Quarter Sessions made a decree thereby annexing a portion of Stonycreek township to the Seventh Ward, which began at the "white oak" on the east bank of the Stonycreek and ran up to Conrad Tross', to the Von Lumen road, thence followed the westerly line of said road to the old borough line.
The old lines between the city and the township of Stony- creek and Dale Borough was always indefinite and caused con- siderable trouble. The true line ran through some of the dwell- ings on the south side of Bedford street, and in other places it was uncertain whether the sidewalk was in the city or the borough, which prevented both from maintaining good pave- ments. To meet these obstacles the city and borough officials presented a petition to the Court of Quarter Sessions to No. 90, March term, 1903, requesting that Commissioners be ap- pointed to fix the boundary line. Thereupon Joseph Hummel,
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Enoch James. and Frank D. Baker were appointed and located the disputed line, between Horner street and the Von Lunen road, a distance of 3,135.15 feet, twelve inches south of the south rail of the railway company on Bedford street. There- fore, all the property and sidewalks southwest of that line are in the city of Johnstown.
The executive officers of the municipal government have been as follows:
1831-Burgess, George W. Kern; Clerk, Adam Bausman.
1832-Burgess, Adam Bansman; Clerk, George W. Kern.
1833-Burgess, James McMullen; Clerk, George W. Kern.
1834-Burgess, James McMullen ; Clerk, George W. Kern. 1835-Burgess, James McMullen ; Clerk, George W. Kern. 1836-Burgess, George W. Kern; Clerk, James P. White.
1837-Burgess, George W. Kern; Clerk, Moses Canan.
1838-Burgess, George S. King; Clerk, Moses Canan.
1839-Burgess, Frederick Sharretts; Clerk, Moses Canan.
1840 -- Burgess, John Royer; Clerk, Moses Canan.
1841-Burgess, John Royer; Clerk, Moses Canan.
1842-Burgess, Frederick Leyde; Clerk. Moses Canan.
1843-Burgess, Jacob Levergood ; Clerk, Moses Canan.
1844-Burgess, Jacob Levergood; Clerk, Moses Canan.
1845-Burgess, Peter Levergood; Clerk, Moses Canan.
1846-Burgess, Peter Levergood; Clerk, Moses Canan.
1847-Burgess, R. B. Gageby; Clerk, Moses Canan.
1848-Burgess, R. B. Gageby; Clerk, Moses Canan.
1849-Burgess, Emanuel Shaffer; Clerk, Moses Canan.
1850-Burgess, Emanuel Shaffer and John Flanagan; Clerk, Moses Canan.
1851-Burgess, Samuel Donglass; Clerk, Charles Beilstine and John F. Barnes.
1852-Burgess, Robert Hamilton; Clerk, T. L. Heyer.
1853-Burgess, John Flanagan; Clerk, Samuel Douglass.
1854-Burgess, John Flanagan; Clerk, John P. Linton.
1855-Burgess, William Orr; Clerk, John P. Linton.
1856-Burgess, Samuel Douglass; Clerk, J. Bowen.
1857-Burgess, Peter Levergood* and Samuel Douglass; Clerk, Samuel Donglass and John P. Linton.
1858-Burgess, Samuel Douglass* and George W. Easly; Clerk. J. K. Hite and James M. Swank.
1859-Burgess, George W. Easly; Clerk, John P. Linton and J. K. Hite.
1860-Burgess, George W. Easly; Clerk, John P. Linton and John H. Fisher.
1861-Burgess, William McKee; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
* Resigned.
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1862-Burgess, William McKee* and William C. Lewis; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1863-Burgess, George S. King; Clerk, J. M. Bowman.
1864-Burgess, George S. King; Clerk, J. M. Bowman.
1865-Burgess, William Orr; Clerk, W. H. Rose.
1866-Burgess, A. Kopelin; Clerk, J. M. Bowman.
1867-Burgess, A. Kopelin; Clerk, J. M. Bowman.
1868-Burgess, Irvin Rutledge; Clerk, J. M. Bowman.
1869-Burgess, W. H. Rose: Clerk, J. M. Bowman.
1870-Burgess, J. S. Strayer; Clerk, J. M. Bowman. 1871-Burgess, J. S. Strayer; Clerk J. M. Bowman.
1872-Burgess, J. S. Strayer; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1873-Burgess, J. S. Strayer; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1874-Burgess, J. M. Bowman ; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1875-Burgess, George W. Easly; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1876-Burgess, George W. Easly; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1877-Burgess, Irvin Rutledge; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1878-Burgess, James King; Clerk, John H. Fisher. 1879-Burgess, S. J. Royer; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1880-Burgess, S. J. Rover; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1881-Burgess, Irvin Rutledge; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1882-Burgess, Irvin Rutledge: Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1883-Burgess, Henry W. Storey; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1884-Burgess, Henry W. Storey; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1885-Burgess, Henry W. Storey; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1886-Burgess Henry W. Storey; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1887-Burgess, Henry W. Storey; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1888-Burgess, Chal. L. Dick; Clerk, John H. Fisher. 1889-Burgess, Irvin Horrell; Clerk, John H. Fisher.
1890-Mayor, W. Horace Rose; City Clerk, James Taylor.
1893-Mayor, James K. Boyd; City Clerk, William S. O'Brien.
1896-Mayor, George W. Wagoner; City Clerk, William S. O'Brien.
1899-Mayor, Lucian D. Woodruff; City Clerk, John W. Cramer.
1902-Mayor, John Pendry. jr .; City Clerk, George E. Hamil- ton. 1905-Mayor, Charles Young; City Clerk, George E. Hamilton.
The compensation of the burgess was the same as fees allowed to justices of the peace until 1877, when a salary of $600 per year was fixed by council in lieu of fees. Mayor Rose received $2,500 per year during his term as mayor, but in 1893 the salary was reduced to $1,700.
On September 6, 1889, the Board of Trade appointed as a committee to consider and promote the consolidation of the sev- eral boroughs, Herman Baumer, Scott Dibert, Peter S. Fisher, John Hannan, Thomas E. Howe, Tom L. Johnson, Charles J.
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Mayer, George W. Moses, A. J. Moxham, James McMillen, John M. Rose, H. W. . Storey, George T. Swank, L. D. Wood- ruff. and B. L. Yeagley. On September 16th the committee met for organization, whereupon Herman Baumer was chosen President : John M. Rose, Secretary; Peter S. Fisher, Thomas E. Howe, and George W. Moses an executive committee.
A special committee, consisting of George T. Swank, Jolm Hannan, and George W. Moses, was appointed to consult Senators Don Cameron and M. S. Quay. and Edward Scull, member of congress, in reference to national legislation affect- ing the public streams. Another committee, to consider the most economical means of keeping wagon communications open during the winter between all the boroughs, was composed of A. J. Moxham, B. L. Yeagley, and Scott Dibert.
On September 24th the committee of fifteen met in the office of Dick & Murphy, Alma Hall, when the committee on bridges made an elaborate report, providing blue prints, esti- mates, etc., for lattice girder bridges at Franklin street, Lincoln bridge (now known as Walnut-street). Woodvale, and Cambria, at a cost of $6,400.
The report was accepted, and a committee, consisting of John M. Rose, A. J. Moxham, and H. W. Storey, appointed to call a public meeting of the citizens of all the boroughs on Saturday, September 28th, to consider the question of bridges and the consolidation of the several boroughs.
At 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon a large meeting was held on Market street, at Main. The officers were: President, James Quinn ; vice presidents-Dr. W. W. Walters, Johnstown; Emanuel James, Millville; John Dowling, Cambria; Edward Barry, Prospect; Samuel Vaughn. Coopersdale; John F. Seigh, Morrellville; William Cuthbert, Conemangh; John Gruber, Woodvale; Robert Niz, East Conemaugh; John B. Fite, Frank- lin; Daniel Luther, Grubbtown; Johnson Allen, Moxham; George Suppes. Upper Yoder; Dr. C. Sheridan, Lower Yoder; Secre- taries-George J. Akers. John E. Strayer, and C. H. Laughry.
Mr. Moxham presented the following set of resolutions to the committee on bridges, etc. :
"That the several districts contiguous to Johnstown rep- resent a population of 30,000 people: that the following prin- ciples should govern the question of bridges :
"A-That there now exists no reason why the proper depth and width of our rivers, to prevent the periodical floods that
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have of late years visited us, should not be at once taken up and settled.
"B-That this community will not sanction the rebuilding of permanent and costly bridges until this question has been properly settled.
"Resolved, That as some central authority is positively necessary in order to receive and pass upon the proposed plans and reports on the question of our rivers, it is the sense of this meeting that consolidation of the various boroughs at the No- vember election is the most feasible means to this end."
The resolutions also authorized the expenditure of suffi- cient funds out of certain money which had been collected by the local Finance Committee to erect permanent bridges of the proper width, if consolidation was agreed to. These resolutions were adopted.
· Then, inasmuch as a system of permanent bridges had been adopted at this public meeting. the following resolution was passed :
"Resolved, That the Chairman present a copy of the reso- lutions in reference to temporary and permanent bridges to the President of the Council of Johnstown Borough, with the request that he take such action as is necessary to the end that the Edgemoor Bridge Company will stop for the present any further expense to the permanent bridge at Franklin street until the pending questions as to our streams are definitely set- tled. "
On Tuesday, October 22d, the Board of Trade adopted the following resolutions :
"Whereas, The Johnstown Board of Trade is composed of citizens of the several corporate municipalities, and it deems proper that it should take some action by which the citizens may be assisted to rebuild their homes with comfort and safety to their families, and that our commercial interests may be re- stored. To that end we believe that these declarations are truths that will solve the problem of the permanent situation :
"First-We admit that the benevolent people of the world have done more for us than a suffering people could expect, and it is now time that we turn from the consideration of our per- sonal affairs to those which affect the public interests.
"Second-We believe it is essential to consolidate under a city charter for these reasons: Neither borough can raise a sufficient sum to restore its publie property; the several sep- arate municipalities seeking public aid to dredge our rivers and protect their embankments weakens a just claim ; consolidation
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would enable us to better protect our rivers and prevent en- croachments upon their banks; therefore, and for these reasons, consolidation is a necessity.
"Third-If we operate under a city charter we will then be able to negotiate a loan, payable within thirty years. This fund can be used to build all necessary bridges within the pro- posed city limits: to construct all public buildings and school- houses : to open and improve the highways, rivers, sewerage systems, and fire departments."
On Saturday afternoon, October 26th, a public meeting in favor of consolidation was held at the Burgess' office in Cone- maugh borough.
Peter S. Friedhoff, acting burgess, was chosen chairman, and the vice presidents were John Campbell, Henry E. Hudson, John Seibert, Adam Roland, Frank Taylor, John J. Devlin, Ben- jamin Kist, Joseph Reiser, Henry O'Shea, George C. Miller and Frank Thomasberger; M. J. Carroll was secretary, and Colonel John P. Linton and A. J. Moxham were the speakers.
On Monday, October 28th, the same speakers addressed a public meeting in Millville, where Burgess Thomas P. Keedy was elected chairman and W. C. Bland secretary. Other meet- ings were held in Minersville, Grubbtown, and Cambria. Other speakers were L. D. Woodruff, John M. Rose, Chal. L. Dick, A. J. Haws, and George J. Akers.
The Committee of Fifteen, of which Herman Baumer was chairman, in addition to arranging for public meetings, pub- lished by posting and advertisements the advantages of consoli- dation, founded on the principles declared by the Board of Trade. On the question of taxation the following appeared :- Indebtedness, etc .. in 1888:
Bonded In- debtedness.
Assessed Valuation of Property. $1,173,236
Johnstown
$30,000
Conemaugh
12.000
334,524
Millville
8,000
754,297
Cambria
1,200
161,182
In addition, the rules for assessing property, and for the payment of the respective items of indebtedness by each district, were published.
At the general election held November 5, 1889, eight bor- oughs voted for consolidation and two against, as here given:
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Johnstown Borough-
For. Against.
First Ward
243
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Second Ward
115
6
Third Ward
126
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Fourth Ward
155
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Fifth Ward
191
Sixth Ward
368
1
Seventh Ward
192
10
Cambria Borough- -
First Ward
77
22
Second Ward
124
61
Conemaugh Borough-
First Ward
243
103
Second Ward
108
91
Coopersdale
53
17
East Conemaugh
30
114
Franklin
11
95
Grubbtown
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29
Millville Borough-
First Ward
169
11
Second Ward
112
67
Prospect
90
13
Woodvale
73
13
Totals
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656
Majority for charter, 1,877.
East Conemaugh and Franklin boroughs voted against be- ing a part of the proposed city, and Coopersdale was in favor of it, but not being contignons to the city, it could not be joined without adding a strip between the two districts.
On Friday evening, November 22, 1889, the officials of the several boroughs which were in favor of consolidation met in the Board of Trade rooms to make arrangements for organizing the new city government.
Alexander Kennedy, of Johnstown, was chosen to preside, and W. S. O'Brien, of Millville, was made secretary. Thomas P. Keedy, of Millville; H. W. Storey, of Johnstown, and David Barry, of Prospect, were appointed a committee to have general charge of the arrangements, and were authorized to have an outline map of the proposed city prepared for the use of Goy- ernor Beaver.
A finance committee, consisting of Herman Bammer, John N. Horn and Samuel Vaughn, was appointed.
At this time it was definitely decided that the name of the new municipality should be the "City of Johnstown." The only
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opposition to this was on the part of some who wanted to go back to the Indian name of Conemaugh, the original name of the borough in 1831.
On Monday, December 18, 1889, by appointment, W. Horace Rose and H. W. Storey appeared before Governor James A. Beaver, Secretary of the Commonwealth Charles W. Stone, and Deputy-Secretary J. H. Longenecker, and filed an application for a charter, with the election returns, maps and certificates.
It was the first application for a city charter under the Act of May 23, 1889, and the first one in the department where seven boroughs desired to consolidate, which was never con- templated by the Assembly that passed the Act of 1889, nor by the Wallace Act of 1874. The difficulties were many, as to har- monizing school, ward and election districts. It was finally agreed, after a consultation with Attorney-General Kirkpatrick, that the boundary lines of the wards should remain as they were. Therefore the first seven wards of Johnstown should be the first seven in the city; Grubbtown, the Eighth ; First ward of Conemaugh, the Ninth, the Second ward, the Tenth; Woodvale, the Eleventh; Prospect, the Twelfth; the First ward of Mill- ville, the Thirteenth, the Second ward, the Fourteenth; the First ward of Cambria, the Fifteenth, and the Second ward, the Six- teenth ward of the city of Johnstown.
The charter for the city of Jolmstown is as follows:
"In the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, James A. Beaver, Governor of said Com- monwealth,
"To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come, Sends Greetings : "Whereas, In and by an Act of the General Assembly of this commonwealth, entitled, 'An Act for the incorporation and government of cities of the third class,' approved the twenty- third day of May. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, it is, among other things, provided in the first section thereof that 'cities of the third class shall be chartered whenever a majority of the electors of any town or borough, or of any two or more contiguous towns or boroughs, situate with- in the limits of the same county, having together a population of at least ten thousand according to the last preceding United States census, shall vote at any general election in favor of the same'; and in the second section of said act it is further pro- . vided that 'if it shall appear by the said returns that there is a majority in favor of a city charter, the governor shall issue letters patent, under the great seal of the commonwealth, re- citing the facts, defining the boundaries of the said city, and constituting the same a body corporate and politic.'
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"Whereas, It appears by the returns of elections held in the several boroughs of Johnstown, Grubbtown, Conemaugh, Woodvale, Prospect, Millville and Cambria, in the County of Cambria, on the 5th day of November, A. D. 1889, that there was a majority in each of the said boroughs in favor of a city charter ; and,
"Whereas, It appears that said boroughs have together a population, according to the last United States census, of at least ten thousand; and,
"Whereas, The requirements of the said Act of May 23, A. D. 1889, have been fully complied with :
"Now, know ve, that I, James A. Beaver, governor afore- said, in compliance with the provisions of the said Act of the
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Charter.
CONEMAUCH
November s'
A.D. 1800
The Charter and Seals for Johnstown.
General Assembly, and by virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby declare the aforesaid boroughs of Johnstown, Grubb- town, Conemaugh, Woodvale, Prospect, Millville and Cambria, in the County of Cambria, to be and for the City of Johnstown, and do hereby define the boundaries of said city as follows:"
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