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THE MONTGOMERY BOULEVARD.- page 23 - HERE is scarcely a man within the confines of the borough
who has not constituted himself a member of the "Welfare Committee." Everyone is for Norwood, but in November '93, council, by resolution,
invested eleven citizens with that official title. E. E. Jewell, was chosen chairman by his associates, A. H. Pape, H. C. Meader, J. M. Thomssen,
Albert Berger, W. E. Wichgar, John W. Hall, C. J. Kemper, J. U. Lloyd and Charles E.
Prior. Mayor McNeill was also made a member ex-officio, and W. S. Gwynn was pressed into harness as secretary. No specific duties have
been outlined for the Welfare Committee, but any project that argues well for Norwood's good will fare well at its hands. There was much rejoicing
when the Seventieth General Assembly passed the original bill for the Montgomery Boulevard,
under the provisions of which J. U. Lloyd and Albert McCullough were appointed as trustees to supervise the
improvement. Legal obstacles were thrown in the way and when the Supreme Court declared the bill unconstitutional the missionaries in the
cause of a good road simply inaugurated another crusade. The Welfare Committee nursed the new bill which was fathered by Senator Ramp and
it passed both houses—not, however, before the Hamilton County delegation had been bumped, thumped and dumped over the road
destined to be a boulevard eighty feet wide, which was a compromise between the advocates of a 100 foot and a 70 foot road. From Walnut Hills
to the B. & O. S. W. bridge the improvement is to be either brick or asphalt, as the County Commissioners select, and from that point to Mound
avenue the roadway will be macadam. A "Committee on Push" was appointed during the week the bill became a law, and to Henry Feldman,
W. W. Russell, Col. W. E. Bundy, Dr. W. H. Hopkins, Harry Q. Cleneay, Fred Mehmert, Benjamin Franklin
Smith and Edward Mills was entrusted the work preliminary to the building of the finest thoroughfare in the State of Ohio.
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