The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-11-26

objection the city of Baltimore would hav,
been located between what is now Fedora
Hill and Fort McH enry.
The second application for site for thu
town was made to Mr.. Daniel Carroll, who
had become part owner of the Coles Har
Dor, who, having given his consent in 1875
an act of Assembly was passed, entitled
can act for erecting town ON the north
side of the Patapsco, in Baltimore county
and for laying out into lots sixty acres OF
land in and about the place where one
John Flemming now lives
Under this act commissioners were APP
pointed who purchased the sixty acres from,
Charles and Daniel Carroll, at forty shill
ings an acre, the whole sum being about
$500 of our money, which was paid for in
tobacco at penny pound. Philip Jones
the then surveyor, on the 18th of January,
1870, laid off the town, and with the com
missioners decided on calling it Baltimore
town. This, Mr.. Preston, remarked, would
make the present large and prosperous city
forty years old.
The land granted to Thos. Cole $3.50 acres
in 1868 was left to an only daughter, who
was the wife of one Charles Gorsuch, q Qua
ker Gorsuch and his wife in 1869 and 1872
sold the tract to David Jones, who went into
the actual occupancy of the land, built his
house upon it, and lived in it. He was there
fore the first inhabitant of Baltimore His
house stood on the north side of the stream
which divided his tract, and to which stream
he gave the name of Jones falls Mr.. Pres
ton then spoke at considerable length on the
subject of the falls, and on resuming his his
tory remarked that at the death of David
Jones, Coles Harbor went into the possession
of his step-son James Todd, who in 1896 sold
1914 acres to one John Hurst, an inn-keeper,
and who built an inn not far from where Bar
NUNS City Hotel now stands. This was the
first inn within the limits of what is now the
city. The second was the white Horse
Inn" located at what is now the corner of
Front and Low streets, opposite the Front
Street Theatre, where an inn is still kept.
In 1740 Edward Fotteral, a gentleman from
Ireland, built the first brick house that was
built in Baltimore. 1t was two stories high,
built of imported brick, and stood near the
edge of the water, near what is now the in
terscction of Lexington and Calvert streets.
In 1745, as an evidence of progress, n law was
passed prohibiting geese and swine from run
ming at large within the limits of Baltimore
town. In 1850 the town was closed in by a
fence, and had three gates-two for wagons
and carts and one for foot-passengers.
One of the carriage gates was at the west
end of Long street, NOW Baltimore street,
and the other at the north end of Gay street,
near where the Odd-Fellows' Hall now
stands. The gate for foot-passengers was
on the hill not far from the present st. Pauls
Church. In 1853 there were but twenty-five
houses in the town, only four of which were
fbrick The first account of a mass being
celebrated in Baltimore was in 1856, in a
deserted house belonging to Mr.. Edward
Fotteral, although Quaker meeting house
and st. Pauls Episcopal Church had been in
existence several years previous. The first
Catholic church was built four years later, it
being the old ST. Peters, on Saratoga street,
where Calvert Hall now stan ds
The foundations of the Cathedral were not
laid until 1906; the building was suspended
in 1914 in consequence ofthe war, but it was
recommended in 1917, and finally consecra-
ted by Archbishop Marschal on the 31st of
of May, 1921. The lecturer then referred to
various individuals and their actions of the
clden time
On the goth of August, 1878, the first news
paper was established in Baltimore 1t was
called the Maryland Journal and Baltimore
Advertiser, was printed and edited by VIM.
Goddard and his daughter. He remarked
that it was'strange that this paper was issued
from house erected upon part of the ground
upon which the magnificent structure known
as The Sun Iron Building now stands.
The lecturer paid fitting tribute to Miss
Mary K Goddard, who, during the war
of the revolution, when the exigences of the
times called her father to the field, fearlessly
and nobly edited and conducted the paper.
lending efficient aid to the freedom and glory
of the country. In 1776, on the Goth of De
cember, the Continental Congress assembled
in Baltimore, at the house of Jacob Fite,
known as Old Congress Hall, on Baltimore
street, between Sharp and Liberty. In 1882
the streets of Baltimore were first paved,
and two years later lamps for lighting the
city were first introduced, and three consta-
bles and four Waterman were appointed
In 1896 Baltimore Town was erected into q
city, and incorporated by the style of "The
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore"
In 1884, a Baltimore ship owned by Rob-
ert Gilmore, called the "Ann," was the first
to unfurl the American flag at the port of St.
Petersburg and afterwards at Batavia In
ITO Mr.. Gilmore, together with VIM. Patter-
son, Thoroughbred Smith and others es-
tablished the Bank of Maryland the second
bank started in America, and in 1906 Mr..
Gilmore organized the Maryland Insurance
Company, the first association of the kind in
the city. The lecturer then went on to speak
of the enterprise of the citizens of Baltimore
who were the first to introduce gas the first
to inaugurate leaden water pipes, the first to
erect the electric telegraph, and the first to
give encouragement to railroads. He spoke
for upwards of an hour, and then was unable
to entirely complete all he desired to say.
The audience was more than usually atten-
tive, and frequently interrupted him by ap-
plauso