The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-02-24

Maryland Central Railroad.-The Balti-
more Herald says the Maryland Central railroad
has assumed a position toward the city of Balti-
4 more not realized by many of people. 1t is
generally admitted that it will be the residence
and excursion road of the city. From the point
of leaving the city it mounts into that high, beau
tiful and healthful portion of State lying be-
tween Baltimore and the Susquehanna river. 1t
connects us with the contiguous county seats of
Towsontown and Belair, with the cty's new water
supply on the Gunpowder, and offers the only
satisfactory means of access to them. By its con-
nection with road of the same gauge in Penn
sylvania running to York, it at once and inevita-
bly, will draw much of the traffic of this road
forty miles long, over the entire length of its
line to Baltimore, the natural and nearest mar
ket, and thus recover the trade of the southern
part of York county, Pa, AMI the upper portion
of Hartford county, now diverted to Philadelphia
and other points.
But the point, perhaps, of the greatest interest
to Baltimore, and the one which concerns her
people even in n greater degree than all this, is
the certainty of her being able, with the aid Of
the modest help the company asks of the city, to
bring hard coal from the Reading mines) to Bal
timore within the present year and at a consid-
erably reduced cost to the consumer.
If this be true and its truth, it is said, can be
demonstrated, are we not justified in promising
that the completion of the Maryland Central rail-
enumerated, will bring a certain and speedy
lief to our whole people?
The possibility, or rather probability, of a
change of gauge has been provided for by the
laying of eight-foot or standard crossties and
steel rails, that all the business which the road
may secure can be carried the existing and
future railway system of the city, and for that
matter of the whole country.
1t is claimed that all Of Old Town and large
part of the city adjoining it deeply interested
in this road, inasmuch the country it develops
has traded for over one hundred years there and
naturally holds close business relations with
them.
Death of Once Prominent Citizen
The Hagerstown Mail of 18th instant says: "Early
in the second quarter of the present century, one
of the most prominent business men in Washing
ton county was Mr.. Samuel Bentz, of Boonsboro'.
Then the old stage lines carried a good portion of
the travelling population between the East and the
West, through Boonsboro, and the stores at that
point did a driving business At the head of one
was Mr.. Bentz, who also was an owner of the Mt.
Moriah Factory, near Boonsboro', which was then
a great manufacturing establishment. Subse-
quently Mr.. Bentz invented process for remov
ing the bran from wheat, which once promised an
immense fortune and led him to Europe, but be-
fore he realized, some other inventor slipped in
ahead of him. and the early invention was super
coded. Afterwards Mr.. Bentz removed to Hoods
Mill, in Carroll county, and still later to Cations
vile, Baltimore county, where, on Monday last,
he died at the advanced age of so years. He had
been paraIysed for some eight years before his
death. Mr.. BentZ was married in early life to his
consin, daughter of the late Gerard Stonebraker.
Mrs. Bentz died few years since, leaving as her
only surviving brother Mr. John w. Stonebraker,
of Hagerstown, and sister, Mrs. David Beeler,
who lives near our town."
Mr.. Bentz is the man to whom THE UNION re-
ferred about year ago as desiring to come to
Towsontown and establish a mill here for the re-
moving of bran from wheat III health prevented
him from carrying out his design, and what might
have proven fourishng business for our town
has thus been lost to us. There is question but
that the invention of Mr.. Bentz is valuable one,
but old age and nfrmity prevented him from car
rying out his designs.