The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-07-07

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freightng facilities and its close railroad con
nections, il has become as it we're the suburb
of the great cities OF Philadelphia, New York
and BROOKLYN. Its peach orchards are the
largest and most productive to be found in
the country, and extend from the upper to tho
lower end Of the Peninsula, distance OF
more than 100 miles in length, and its entire
breadth Many Of these orchards are OF
enormous proportions, the largest OF them
comprising from 500 to 1900 acres, but the
larger proportion of them being below that
area, and all thickly studded with trees at the
distance of 20 feet each way apart. This vast
area, as may we'll be supposed, produces an
immense yield of fruit, TO get which to market
requires extensive railroad and shipping trans
portation, employs large number OF labor
ers, and occasions much travel to and fro
between the freighting points and stations and
the markets where the fruit is disposed Of
In 1873 there were shipped by rail alone H.
| $780, 600 baskets of peaches, 100000 quarts
of strawberries and raspberries, and l,00O, 900
bushels of grain. Thescshipments of peach
es were made as Gar west as Cincinnati,
Chicago and st. Louis; as iar east as Boston and
| Portland; and north to Montreal, New York,
| Brooklyn, Albany, Troy, Buffalo and many
intermediate places, In, addition to these
shipments by rail, large quantities were
shipped by ocean steamers from Lewes to
New York, aud from other points TO PhiIadel-
phia, Baltimore, Washington, and various
other places. But the production of fruit and
vegetables on the Peninsula, great Us it is, is
not yet fully developed. As the population
of our country increases, and particularly the
population of our cities, demand for it will
increase and the production will extend and
enlarge itself indefinitely. Trade and travel
will enlarge themselves in the same ratio, and
it is but the part OF business forecast and en-
| terprise to provide in advance for the fuller
and more complete development oithe resour'
ces of this teeming and prolific region. As
we have already shown, by far the greater
| portion of all this immense trade and travel
| is diverted from Baltimore and enjoyed by
other cities more remote, but with which
| closer railroad connections have been estab.
| liShed Railroads now connect with all the
| principal towns ON the Eastern Shore--Ches'
| tertown, Centreyille Easton, GreensborOugh,
Hillshorough, Cambridge, Salisbury, Princess
Anne, and Crisfieli. All these towns are
upon the tributaries of the Chesapeake, hay.
ing direct water communication with Balti'
more, but water communication, even by
steam, is too slow for this utlitaran goa
head age Merchants and business men at
all these points have, to a greater or o less
extent, their business relations with the
northern cities through reader access to their
markets. And in the winter season, when
the rivers and the bay are INSTRUCTED with
ice, If they would reach Baltimore, they must
go all the way to Wilmington and tarry there
all night at an increased expense and loss
Of time instead of going direct to Elkton from
Middletown, and making the trip in one day
| a-L.a i n L.
miles from Middletowu to Elkton were con
structed. Were this line between Middletown
and Elkton, along the bed of the Eastern
Shore road, which is already graded, once
constructed business men would be able to
leave the Eastern Shore in the morning,
arrive in Baltimore early in the day, aud re.
turn home in the evening. The distance
| from Middletown to Philadelphia is 50 miles,
and were this line built, that from the
former place to Baltimore would only be G3,
instead of, as at present, % miles. These
| facts have been brought to the attention of
the merchants, business men and capitalists
| OF Baltimore from time to time, and yet they
fail to perceive the immense advantage which
| Baltimore would reap by the construction of
this missing link of railroad, only twelve miles
in length and already graded, between Mid
| dietown and Elkton. Can Baltimore expect
to retain her share of the trade and travel of
/ the Eastern Shore when northern and eastern
| cities and capitalists are willing to do so much
| for that section of our State, and Baltimore
so little? We leave this question to be an.
swered by her business men, who in other
respects are not at all deficient in enterprise
orin a ready perception of their own interests.
How TO REACH OCEAN CirY.-The Balti.
more EreHiHg Bulletin says AS there are
doubtless many persons who purpose visiting
| Ocean City this summer the following infor-
nation about means of access will doubtless
be of interest Those who prefer au all land
route can take the q. So train Mt President
street depot and go over the p, W. aud b.
X. r., aud its Delaware and Maryland con.
nections, to Ocean City, reaching there at
about p. m. the same day. Those howev.
err, who desire to dispense with the heat and
| dust incident to day on the railroad have
the option OF selecting another route which
| offers very pleasant attractions TO travellers.
| by an arrangement entered into between the
Eastern Shore Steamboat Company and the
Eastern Shore and Wicomico and Pocomoke
railroads. through and round-trip tickets may
| bepurchased, which entitle the holderto quick
| transit to aud from Ocean City by both land
and water, The steamers Helen, Maggie
and Taugier, three handsome iron steamers,
provided with abundant and comfortable ac
commodatons leave South street wharf every
afternoon, Saturday excepted, at o clock,
for Crlsheld, where they connect with spe.
cial fast train at an early hour, the next day,
which reaches Ocean City in ample time for
breakfast. BY this arrangement passengers
obtain the benefit of delightful trip down
the bay in several of the most comfortable
and elegant steamers in the harbor, and reach
their destination the next morning for break.
fast after short ride on the railroad If it
should be desirable to proceed more leisurey,
the trip ON the water can be heightened by
taking the steamer Tangier every Tuesday
evening and proceeding up the Pocomoke
river to Snow Hill, from which point Ocean