The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-06-18

cessful termination. AS an evidence of this
condition of the peoples mind the COM
mitee are informed that preliminary sur.
vey is to be.made meetings are ahnnt to be
held on the route of the proposed extension
of the West Chester and Philadelphia Rail
road to the Maryland line for the purpose
pose of organizing associations, the object of
which is to promote that undertaking. and
that the people are aware of our movements,
and are deeply anxious that we should be
enabled to build the portion of the road w.
ing in this State, and join them at the most
suitable point, thus completing the entire
line between the cities of Baltimore and
Philadelphia.
Although your committee is perfectly sat
isied that the travelling public, that portion
OF it passing from city To city, will not be
long in discovering the superior safety that
our road, when finished, will afford them,
saying nothing of the inducements which the
rich and the picturesque country which it
will traverse, holds out to make choice of
such route still without any great meas
ure of through travel they confidently be-
lieve, from personal observation and informa-
ton obtained from most reliable and intelli-
gent sources, that such is the character of
the country through which the road viii
pass, its natural advantages and productions,
and ever-increasing population noted now for
its activity and enterprise, and not likely to
deteriorate, that the local trade, passengers,
and freight between village and village, and
city and village, will prove remuneratiye
in the most satisfactory degree. to which
must be added the vast increase in the ac.u.
al value of every acre of land within q rea-
sCnable distance Of its line.
There are three important roads now in
the course of construction, which will in-
tersect our proposed road, and from its being
the first road that they will cross Lending to
the south and southwest, must necessarily
add greatly to the travel on our road They
are the Columbia and Port Deposit r. r.,
the Reading and Wilmington r. r., and
railroad leading from Parksburg, on the
Pennsylvania Central, to Delaware City,
While the people of this portion of Mary
land and neighboring counties of Pennsylva-
MIA are moving in the enterprise Of construct
ing tirst-class competing road between their
great and growing commercial emporums
we notice that tile people of New Jersey are
growing FESTIVE under the operations of the
powerful interpretations that have monopo-
lized for so many years the railroad privi-
legcs heretofore granted by that State, and
are actively agitating the question of an indie
pendent road from the city of New York to
Philadelphia. In view of this fact We do not
deem the idea as chimerical, that at no distant
day our road may be connecting link in
favorite and preferred route between the great
commercial cities of the north and our own
beautiful and rapidly growing city of Balti-
more, destined at no far future day to be the
peer of the proudest and greatest metropolis
of the land end from thence, by means of
connections with the Baltimore and Ohio and
Baltimore and Potomac road to Washington
and the south, and to the great west and
southwest. '-
Whether the above idea be realized or
not, and notwithstanding the acknowledged
importance of being link in the great thor
oughtare north, and south, and west, yet
your committee will reiteratc their belief that
our contemplated road will, from local causes
as mentioned above, prove a most successful
and paying road, and therefore urge and re-
commend that the people of the country
through which the proposed road will pass,
should be active and selfreliant, and thot
while we may with every assurance rely
upon the aid of far-seeing and sagacious men
Of large capital, still that no effort should be
spared on bur part that no difficulty should
be considered insurmountable, and that the
| agitation OF the subject should not cease until
our works accomplished by the passage of the
locomotive of the Maryland Central Railroad
from the waters of the Patapsco to those of
the Schuylkill, over one of those iron bands
which are to be the strong ligatures that
shall continue to bind together the sections
and the people of the country after Provi-
dence shall permit that good time to arrive,
| when the past has been forgiven, if not for
| got, and that peace and prosperity are
once more to be the portion OF the American
people,