The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-12-09
From tie Baltimore Gazette.
MARYLAND CENTRAL RAILROAD.

The people of Baltimore and Hartford coun-
ties, through which the contemplated Mary
land Central Railroad is intended to pass
have cause to be deeply thankful to the Ga
.ctte for the Jealous and able mannerin which
it has advocated its early construction.
AS has been truly stated, there is no Sec
ton of the State which possesses more of the
requisites necessary to furnish o large and
profitable local trade to q railroad than the
country which will be traversed by this road,
from Baltimore to the Susquehanna, and be-
| You'd the latter, If the road should be contin-
| tinued to the Pennsylvania line, then to con-
meet with road to Philadelphia, and from
thence to New York, thus furnishing anoth-
er and independent route to the Eastern cit
les, and accomplishing a measure fraught
with advantages of the greatest moment to
the interests of Baltimore and the State
While road from Baltimore to the Sus-
quehanna, on the route laid down for the
Maryland Central, would afford railroad IA
cilities to section of country rich in re-
sources of every description, still if it is to
become merely "sideling" of the Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad by
connecting at the river with the Baltimore
and Philadelphia Central Railroad, which is
entirely controlled by the former Company,
we lose the great benefit that would result
from our having q competing road, and thus
the question ofgreat, ifnot paramount impor-
lance arises, whether the effort at present
should be confined to merely constructing
road from Baltimore to some convenient point
in Hartford, and there stop until the proper
! place for crossing the river was determined
upon, so as to form connection that will no
doubt at no very distant period, be offered
by other companies DESTROYS of establishing,
with the assistance of the. Maryland Central,
the independent route above alluded to.
The local travel, freight and passenger,
from the above mentioned point to Balti-
more, would no doubt, prove amply sufficient
not only to keep the road in repair, pay its
working expenses, &c, but in all probability
leave surplus to be divided among the
stockholders, or to be used in the future eX-
tension of the road. After proper consider
alton, it will, no doubt, be conceded that our
true policy will be not to permit our great
anxiety, in having the Maryland Central
built, to force us into any entangling alliance
with a road whose interests are in continuing
the pres ent monopoly of the trade between
| Baltimo re and the eastern cities.
| 1fan earnest effort is made by the citizens
of Balti more and Hartford counties, with the
assistance Of the citizens and city of Balti-
more, there can be no question but what the
road may be built to such point in Hartford,
near the Susquehanna, as may be fixed on,
and then we can blde our time, fecolleCting
the old adage, "There is luck in leisure"
hartford
We cheerfully endorse the remark of its
correspondent Hartford" that our people
have cause to be 'deeply thankful" to the
Baltimore Gazette, for its advocacy of our
road the Maryland Central, as mentioned in
the above commun ication to that journal
We also entirely agree with the writer that
it would be the better policy to refrain from
too hastily entering into any arrangement
with other inco operations. Let the people
of Hartford and Baltimore counties put their
shoulders to the wheel, and evince an earn.
est determination, by liberal subscriptions
and granting the right of way, to push the
good work ahead and there can be no doubt
that sufficient assistance, from other sources,
will be forthcoming to give lis the road from
Baltimore to Deer Creek in reasonable
time.
The view given as to its terminus for the
time being at point on this side of the
Susquehanna, may be to many, as to our
selves, a new idea on the subject.