Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-09-06
Our Wants.

ed enough for the eligibility of our
place las a summer resort, but it Ger
tainly cannot appear to any intelli-
gent, candid mind that We have un
duly magnifed our attractions, over
estimated our advantages, or stretched
our title to distinction. For the ben
eft of our citizens alone We have
sought by comparison to show the
great success Of experiments based up
on inferior local conditions and sur
roundings, and the implied certainty
that the establishment of an ample
hotel here would realize immense
profit to the community in general
and the projectors in particular. To
enforce this we need not reiterate the
superlative character of our claims,
but let them stand as beyond impeach-
ment and defiant of comparison. In
fact they cannot be investigated with
out being admitted.
The need of large hotel thus ss-
tablished, the catalogue of our wants
does not stop with this. The same
hygienic reasons which mark and dis
tinguish this locality as eligible for
resort, also point to it as eminently
suitable for an educational institution
of high grade local want the sup
ply of which nearly reaches necessity.
To make it all wa desire we have,
besides, easy access, Astounding recre-
alive facilities, social and moral inhu-
ences, to attract and retain large
outside support. The benefit thus de
rived. educationally, may not now be
easily estimated, while, pecuniarily, it
would save thousands that naturally
belong at home, besides importing rev.
enue from abroad. This treble prof
it would be felt instead of the vast
expense now sustained in sending pu.
pills beyond the pale of parental over
sight-a system which taxes our
purses, involves hazard and builds up
foreign interests.
In connection with the hygienic
phase of this subject it must be con-
fessed that however much we pride
ourselves upon the purity of our wa
ter, salubrity and vigor of our atmos-
phere, we are daily vitiating their
health-giving exercise and destroying
their wonted effect by absorbing diet
that. instead, ought to be buried, like
ANY other dead bodies. Vegetables that
should be cooked fresh from the stock
lie out in our bright sunlight day after
day and are closeted nightly in dark,
ill-ventilated rooms, alternately with
cred and smothered, until they would
be well-nigh disdained by famine
stricken hog, are daily precipitated
upon the human stomach as if that
sensitive organ Yves regarded as a bark
mill or rot-pen. Yet, owing to the
system in vogue and the peoples fond
ness for vegetables in season. much
of this dishing up of stale matter is
unavoidable. Nothing but entire re-
moval of this irregular custom will
answer the demands of wholesome
living.
The next, probably not the last,
want is, therefore, a market-house,
where people will be permitted to
purchase only after competent, vigi-
liant inspection-where. also, an oflic-
ial eye will be kept upon weights and
misunderstanding to the public its
moneys worth of purity and quantity.
The further fact that our large i'm
mediate and outlying population not
only justifes but whose veal demands
an institution of this character should
lead to early and influential action to-
ward its establishment Many towns
of less prominence and patronage are
thus pro 7ided, deriving large material,
healthful and moral advantage. Such
must certainly accrue to successful
effort here. The satisfaction and sense
Of safety inspired and luxury afforded,
would SO far compensate that, once
enjoyed, our people would unwillingly
relinquish the new system.
We may say here that the institu-
ton of q markell house in Frostburg
would largely augment the value of
already pre-eminent eligibility for a
mammoth hotel, as also for an educa-
tional seat. In fact, the interests of
the three are cooperative and tend to
mutual development.
1t occurs to us that the reasons for
these ir>Sroyements are so numerous
and manifest, so suspicious of good
results, that candid, intelligent men,
can neither dissent from the wisdom