The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-22
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Few schemes for Improvement in the City have ever
met with general appreciation than that for City
passenger Railroad When first suggested there an
almost universal against it. but the reflection
of the people has changed the first impression regards
Its usefulness and now with here and there dissenting
voice, there is an urgent demand made the railroad
The aacy of the objections which the opponents to the
Improvement first advanced and which they still adhere
TO- mas Deen proven and the camor about deprecated
real estate has died of its heaviness city railroad
is needed 1t is not the interest of few which demands
TINS Improvement but it is the mutude-the great
OF the people whose interests nds, ouby connected
with all facilities which tend to annihilae distance or
give comfort and convenience. The causes which
demanded and secured the establishment of the omnibus
lines of the city, demanding that that mode of
travel shall be dispensed with and new system shall he
nauguraed which will be better adapted to the wants of
the people and bring into intimate connection the ex
treme points of this growing and prosperous CITY The
necessities OF the mass are paramount the wishes of
the few, and the interests of thousands are not
to be sacrificed to the preensions of the 1t
forgone conclusion that there will be City Passenger
Railroad.
Conceding that this improvement will be made, the
question arises who shall make it? Several petitions
grants OF right of way through the various the
city have already been presented to the City Council
with no desire to disparaSe the claims any
who propose to undertake this work are decidedly of
opinion that the grant should be given Company
composed of Messrs. Coleman & Bailey, William Robert
and James MITCHELL propretos of the present ON
nbus lines The to be assigned why these
ene should nave the grant are numerous and obvious
The citizens OF Baltimore much indebted these
gentlemen for the facilities which their omnibus lines
have afforded The ease with which distant parts of the
city can be reached and the certainty and exacness
which have characterized the operation of these lines has
been the prime cause in extending the limits the city
had there been no other means of communication with
the extreme points of the city, save by walking
thousands of lots which now graced by i'm
posing dwellings, in which the wealthy reside or
adorned by the humber abode of the artizan and the
man of toll would be an open common, or carefully
fenced by post rail- would have welded sunnlv Of
provender which fills the barn But with the institution
OF the omnibus lines. with the the means
of speedy communication, the suburbs grew INN.
datey into riches, and that ground which for years
had been used commons became coveted sites for
wealth to spend its munifcence in adjoining, and
honest in
tage home. With the organization present system
of travel the spirit of Improvement went FORTH and an
impetus given to every class of trade Every assess
ment of city property shows the gratifying fact that
while the real estate of the interior of the city was
increasing with an astonishing rapdity. that of the
extremes enhanced in value to a marvellous extent
The idea which has been advanced the purpose of de-
stroyng the priority of the omnibus propretor that the
owners OF the different stage coach lines should have
Unidentified for their loss by the Institution the rail-
propose to build railroads They aware as all other
enterprisng citizens that the requirements OF the times
demanded improved facilities for communication between
the city and country but they had proposition offer
to construct these lines Other persons themselves
into companies-were chartered corporate bodes-se
ced the right of way, as well liberal support the
City and State, and have accomplished the work Had
the propretors of the omnibus lines neglected to offer
proposition for constructing the proposed City Railroad
is foolish suppose that they would have
been entitled to damages for loss of property the
sympathy of the community? If do not appreciate
the wants of the community apprecatiug
their exertions to supply those wants. they are not en
tied to the respect of their fellow citizens for they
exhibit disposition to sacrifice the public interests for
their pecuniary benefit Such however the case in
this instance The propretor of the Omnibus line, are
fully convinced of the necessity for the Improvement and
they to make the change-lay omnibus by the
stage coach as thing which has answered lis
purpose but which longer the requirements of
prosperous and growing city. In making the PROPOSE
tons they offer as for the faithful discharge of
their contract gentlemen of widely character and
give every assurance that far responsibility is con
cerned they stand high the gentlemen who
propose TO form the other companies
1t may be well here to the fact that IL ia princi
pay owing to the increase of wealth, of which the
int tInttb a,;k-
been able to contribute muncently towards the COM
pleon of the great works of improvement, which now
send into her lap the products of valleys
Without the great increase in the taxable wealth
of the city, the railroads which now the pride
Of city well the prosperity would
have been in their swaddling bands reproach the
citizens of Baltimore, and of shame the projec
tors. Happily however, with the incipent in the
construction of these roads, power instituted which
was to be the great auxiliary in their completion The
latent wealth and inert greatness Of the city awaken
ed her means OF power and strength were developed and
the substance which to produce facilities for the
meet all requirements. To the omnibus lines are we
therefore indebted the great increase in the value of
real estate which has made city power strong with
In Itself But the great pecunary advantage which has
arisen from the exertions of the omnibus proprieors
not the only benefit which has been derived from them
10 TINS rapid extension Of the city limits greatly
indebted for the excellent health which enjoy Con-
cedng that the city would have increased in population
in the ratio in which the omnibus lines had
not been instituted will any person pretend to say that
the suburbs would have been improved Also and the
population been properly distributed Would not the ne
cesstes of the people have compelled them live al
most in herds would not every alley and court have been
filled to an unhealthy with the aborer and
chanc and become the hot beds in which malignant dis
eases would have generated and been fOstered? The
desire to have healthy locations residences when they
had the speedy means of reaching them has been the
cause OF extending the city limits and improving the
grounds But morally, too, the city has derived immense
benefits Every person is that it is in densely pop
ulated districts where honest industry is compelled to
communicate with abect villainy that the morals of
those youths whose characters would be moulded by
good mothers influence subjected the example
ne ana they are too often induced to forsake
the principles Of integrity, which have been instied into