The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-10-12

the last three months, 6 miles ofwhich are il
Hartford county, and their earnings are $40,
OOO month. Three-fifths of this amount i
gathered in from the miles in Hartford coun
ty. What may we expect the railroad t,
earn when it is opened to Delta? He close
by giving q hearty welcome to the citizens o
Baltimore who had come to join in the cele
bration
Hon. Stevenson Archer was the mex
speaker. He said when he saw the fields o
Hartford looking so lovely and so man,
angels present. he thought he was in Heaven
but the chairman had reminded him tina
lawyers were also present and he concluded
he was not in heaven after all Lawyers, h,
said, had had mighty little to do with building
this railroad, and they have heavenly road
There had been some grumbling about the
road, because it can't carry all the freight ant
passengers, but it will do so after while
Building the road had been no joke Time
and again the President and directors haG
pledged their own means in pushing it along
to success. Mr.. Archer then referred to The
vast railroad system of the country, of which
the Maryland Central is now a part, in add.
ing to the wealth, the comfort and the plea.
sure of our people. Railroads had not only
| improved the country but added to the intel
ligence of the people, by the intercourse with
| each other which they afforded The Presi-
dent and directors of the Maryland Central
| deserve thanks for building the road
MIR. Archer read a letter from Mayor
Whyte, of Baltimore, addressed to DIR. ID. P.
Wysong, in which he regretted that official
business prevented him from being present,
and giving assurance of his sympathy and
goodwill to the enterprise.
MIR. Archer said he had also received II
beautiful letter from Washington Townsend,
of West Chester, addressed to the people of
Hartford county, but had mislaid it.
Rev. j. w. Steele said that when he first
came to Hartford to reside, his circuit embrac-
ed Forest Hill, and he used to think it one of
the loveliest spots in Hartford county, and that
with a railroad passing through it, it would
become ajoy to all who resort hither No
one, he said, could go away without praise
to those who had so Hospitality entertained
them this day. The men who have labored
so successfully for the road never will have
the credit they deserve. They want your
assistance and they deserve your gratitude
The railroad is not going to stop and he
hoped to ride over it to Delta. He regretted
that he had not, when the railroad was first
talked of, bought little furm near Forest
Hill, and built home on it, so that he might
live among the people of Hartford county,
whom he loved better than any on the face of
the earth.
Mr.. Charles E. Fendall, of Towsontown,
spoke next. He said Baltimore county sends
happy greetings in this hour OF triumph, and
he was here to join the people of Forest Hill
in celebrating the completion of the Mary
land Central to their doors. The infant you
nursed so tcnderly has grown to manhood
and in his manly strength stretches himself
at your feet to day. The directors had en-
countered many difficulties but victory is
theirs. 1t had met with success and would
have paid 30 years ago. The directors had
accomplished something which everybody
said could not be done, and you have the
railroad too, without the assistance of the
lawyers. There is nothing to check the
prosperity of Forest Hill and in time she will
become one of the leading and thrifty towns
of Hartford county. He was glad, he said
that Hartford and Baltimore counties were
now joined together in bands of STEEL
Mr.. II. r. McNally said he was one.fourth
a Baltimore man and three-fourths Hartford
We had heard from the lawyers of Hartford
and Baltimore counties and now he would
Introduce a representative of the Baltimore
merchants, MIR. j. Frank Supplee.
Mr.. Supplee spoke fluently and pleasantly
and his speech was well received. He prais-
ed the beauty of Hartford county and said
that the ladies of Baltimore city had long
been noted for their beauty, and if he did not
know he stood at Forest Hill he should think
he was addressing an audience of Baltimore
ladies. While listening to the previous
speakers he had doubted whether this was q
railroad or an experience meeting and in try.
ing to decipher the letters M. G. r. R., on
the cars had concluded they must mean
Maryland Celestial Rail Road. When he ac-
cepted n pass for this excursion he little
thn ,rrlA q e. 60,
he came he realized forcibly that he was IN
local option county. Last summer in tray
cling to Hartford by this railroad number
of gentle youths from Towsontown entered
the cars. One remarked upon having left
county where man can enjoy himself ac-
cording to the dictates of his own conscience,
and said they would soon reach a county
where man can't drink water with a stick
In it. AS the cars were crossing the high
bridge over the Little Gunpowder he produc-
ed Jug and invited his companions to take
drink all around before entering local OPP
ton Hartford. A sudden jar of the cars broke
the jug and the whisky escaped The
speaker was thereby convinced that the air
of Hartford was favorable to local option.
He had never so admired the pluck of any
men as of those who had conceived and push
ed this railroad through When city aid
was refused, instead of sulking, they had put
their own shoulders to the wheel and built
it, and il is the peoples railroad. Many far
mers had been compelled to suffer for the
public good, from having their farms cut up,
but in return the increased value of their
lands will compensate for their loss. He pre-
dicttd that the crowded population of Balti-
more city would sweep through the belt and
pour into Hartford county
Mr.. s. w. Bradford, of Bel Air, was next
introduced. He said he was glad to see in
the audience SO many of the fair sex, and re.
minded his hearers that on the first railroad
engine ever run in England on the old Man
chester and Liverpool road, a fair lady of
England rode beside the engineer. He had
the interest of this road deeply at heart. He
had watched the movements for railroad in
Hartford from his childhood days, and he
would be derelict if he did not speak well of
the Maryland Central. Railroads, he said,
are a means ofbringing society together, and
in some far-ott distant day, there will be so
great development of industries of various
kinds through our railroad aid telegraph sys-
TENS that it will lead to the formation of the
of the world
Mr.. Jonathan X. Taylor, of Va, said he |
had learned since he came into Hartford that |
in til canning interest 1t not only sur
passes every other county in the State but |
any county in the United States. He CON
graduated the people upon the completion |
of the railroad. The people of Hartford coun-
ty are more favored than any he had seem
Here he found health, social advantages and |
that happiness which he saw no where else |
Texas, with more cattle, has less beef; with |
more cows, less milk with more rivers less |
water than any place on earth. He congrat-
ulatcd the young men upon the success which |
their fathers achieved at the polls in secur. |
ing local option. He hoped they would |
clasp hands on local option with tile same |
firmness with which they had drawn the |
railroad from Baltimore To Forest Hill, and |
hold 1t with the tenacity of the rail itself
Mr. Vim Ynnnr said there Ind henn n