The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-08-28
Improvement Ia Bel .ais' and its
E'iciastfY.

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Although Bel Air improved last season be-
yond the expectations ofalmost every person
familiar with it, this season is likely to equal
if not to exceed it. There are number of
fine improvements in progress, Mt and near
the town. ii. ID. Farnanois, Esq, is making
extensive and valuable improvements'at his
already handsomely improved property,
about one mile east of the town. His resi-
dence is being thoroughly repaired. The
main building is to be raised one story high
er, and otherwise greatly improved in con-
venience and appearance Mr.. Joseph Cor
rell, builder.
A little nearer the town, DR.. William T.
Munnikhuysen is putting up a very fine
residence, forty -four feet square and three
stories high, with basement. This building
is of brick, and shows very handsomely from
the road leading from Bel Air to Abingdon,
and will be, when finished, one of the hand 4
soonest buildings in that section of the coui-
ty Alonzo and Samuel Reynolds, build
ers.
On Main street and Port Deposit Avenue,
Mr.. Knofler has erected substantial frame
dwelling, twenty-four by twenty-six feet
Jacob Bull, builder.
At the corner of Bond street and Court
House Lane, Mrs. Ferry is putting up a verv
substantial frame dwelling, twenty-six by
thirty-six feet, two stories high, with base
ment. Mr., Dunegan, builder
About the centre of the town, Messrs.
Howard and Archer are putting up three
dwellings, two frame and the other Stone
Mr.. Dunegan, carpenter. These buildings
are small, but still they are just such houses
as are needed.
We understand that Joseph M. Street,
Esq, also designs putting up this season a
dwelling twenty by thirty feet, with back
building twelve by twenty feet.
Near and north Of the town, Ohio s. Lee
Esq, and Mrs. Raitt are each having erected
dwellings, which will add much To thcappear-
ance of the northeastern end of the place.
Mr.. Lees building is thirty-seven and halfby
thirty-eight and half feet, with back build
ing sixteen by fourteen feet. Mrs. Raitt's
which stands near Mr.. Lees, is frame,
twenty-four by sixteen feet with back build
ing sixteen by twenty-five feet. Both of
these buildings are under the direction of
Jacob Bull, builder Near these, DIR. VIM
T. Munnikhuysen has erected very com.
Portable dwelling, sixteen by twenty-five
feet, with back building twelve by fourteen
feet Jacob Bull, builder. The Doctor has,
or is about to, open q street from the Bel Air
and Hickory road to the Bel Air and Jar
rettsville road. This will afford number of
the handsomest and most valuable building
lots in the town, which, we understand the
Doctor will dispose of on very reasonable
terms.
DR.. E. Hall Richardson is also improving
his place with new building which adds
| greatly to the appearance of his residence,
which, by this is now made to front on Main
street. We have never had an opportunity
of examining this building, but it makes
fine appearance from the outside. William
Kean, ESD, builder.
These are about all the buildings which
are now under way, but we understand that
John and William Finney Hanna, intend
shortly to tear away the old wheelwright and
blacksmith shop, on Main street, opposite to
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in
their stead to erect two or three dwelling
houses. Thus, Bel Air at last, and after a
Rip Van Wrinkle sleep of about forty years,
seems to have walked up. We have now
among us a number of enterprising mechan-
les and merchants, two of the best schools
in the country, churches for almost every
denomination of Christai9s, and the heal
thiest location and purest air, almost, to be
found anywhere, with four lines of public con-
veyances connecting BIS as many times day
with the great cities of Baltimore and Phila-
delphia. With all these advantages, it is no
wonder that Bel Air is not finished and
there is no reason that it should be, surroun-
ded as it is with the very finest quality of
farming land, and with as prosperous and
energetic farmers as any other community
can boast of. A little pains would make
Bel Air, lift is not already, one of the finest
retreats for persons seeking refuge from the
burning pavements and the sultry and I'M
healthy air of the cities, that we know of any
where. Having had some opportunity of
visiting many of these resorts, we are at
loss to know in what Bel Air is inferior to
most of them, certainly not in health and sa-
lubriousness of its climate, or in the natural
beauty of its surroundings. Perhaps we
may not have so many medicinal springs as
some other places, but every person who runs
from the heat of the large cities does not
need medicine, and for this class, the purer the
water the better. Let, then, some of our en-
terprising hotel keepers encourage this sort
of thing, and our place would soon be as ia
nous resort for persons seeking country
air. as most places which are now literally
patronized during the summer months
INSTRUCTION OF THE BLIND.-We take
this mode of calling the attention Of the citi-