The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-02-06
OD71OrtaI2litieS.

Baltimore now boasts OF the largest rolllng
mill in the country, making four miles of rail-
road bars per day. But it is owned and run
by Yankee. 1t is a regretful fact that Balti-
mere's millionaires, as a class, have done but
little with their vast wealth to cultivate and
encourage grand enterprises calculated to give
employment to thousands and push Baltimore
vigorously ahead in worthy emulation for be-
coming the first city in America. They, it is
true, establish banks, build houses and some
have invested in railways. They are always
wide awake to make safe investments and sharp
in "shave." But to make city great-as
New York and Philadelphia are great-the
--:r:~--:--- ----t 1.s,fSi. tnofr wealth upon
grand enterprises. The railroad magnates, by
their gigantic combinations and schemes, her
natural locality, the contemplation of the con-
struction of a canal between the Bays, all point
to magnificent destiny for the Monumental
City,, She is now one hundred miles closer to
Lake Erie than any other city on the Atlantic
coast. With the canal constructed she will
bring Europe two hundred and twenty-five
miles closer. Chicago will be three hundred
miles nearer to Liverpool and London. These
are great advantages. But the sun and rain
will not bring a crop to the farmer who makes
no exertion. These will not make Baltimore
great unless her citizens avail themselves Of
the advantages thus thrown in her lap. Dewitt
Clinton saw New Yorks advantage in the con-
struction of the New York and Erie canal,
through whose channel western products found
way to New York city. 1t was not till then
that New York began to outship Philadelphia
in commerce and population. She got the start
years before the iron horse climbed the Allie
ghanies. She owes it mainly to that enterprise.
- = t-, ,as-o,s from tn L 81 h or
capitalists change their funds from loan oper-
atoms to the construction of this canal and the
encouragement and erection of manufacturing
establishments. Her fathers of forty or fifty
years ago did well in the construction Of the
B. & 0. Railroad. Let those of the present do
as well with their funds. Let them enter an
enterprise that has as much risk and as great
promise as that had. To do this it is necessary
that they should read the City Council a lecture
once a month and induce them to change their
policy in legislating manufactures out of the
the city who desire to have these things accom-
plished. They would eagerly establish new
banks and broker shops to shave the paper Of
the people who would do these things and they
would construct mammoth warehouses 10 store
merchandise. But unless somebody else moves
ahead and takes the risk they would not find
employment for their banking capital or use
for their warehouses. We should like to see
Baltimore have new post-ofice building, but
she needs manufacturing and commercial en-
terprises much worse.
The Baltimore 6 Ohio railway runs for two
hundred miles in West Virginia through an al
most unhroken wilderness. Gigantic oaks.
pines and walnuts climb towards the sky and
filling the passing traveller with sublime admi-
ration at their size and grandeur. The quaint
ty seems inexhaustible. We do not profess to
be thoroughly posted, but we know of no such
vast quantities of excellent timber so accessa-
Bile to any seaboard city on the Atlantic coast
These facts place untold opportunities in the
hands of Baltimore. The B. & o. R. R. can de-
liver this timber at any passible ship-yard in
the city. The facilities and promise for a first
class shipbuilding port in Baltimore stand
ahead of any of her neighbors. If her mil
lionaires who desire to carve their names on
the pages of time by founding some charitable
institution with their money when they are dead,
would start mammoth ship-yard they would
find thousands to help them while living and
mourn them when dead.