The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-01-26
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of The CECIL WING.

W ASIIISGTON, ID. C., Jan. ~, 1884.
The completion of the Maryland Cen
trail Railroad from Baltimore city to its
terminus in Delta. Pa. was the occasion
Of a gala day on Thursday last when the
first through train consisting Of twelve
coaches drawn by two engines moved
proudly forth from headquarters in the
Monumental City. About a thousand
guests were on board including the City
Council of Baltimore, many of her prom
inent merchants. business and profess
sional men-accompAnied by ladies'. rep
resentativeS of tbs press. &c. The neigh
boring counties, t"wuS and cities were
also represented 10y Trading ctizens--
Iavrc de Grace by MeSsrS. NuSbury of
the city counril, and NC ,mbs of the
Rep"bjira":' Washington by DR.. Parks of
the Z. o. Department. and The port of
Baltimore by It's worthy collector, Col.
Webster. The genial president of the
Maryland Central, Hon. W. Ii. Waters,
and its gallant and courteous superin
tendent, ). &. Boyd. We're aboard giving
personal supervision and Sparing no pains
to make the occasion one long to be pleas
antly remembered. The invitations for
this trial trip were very artistic in design
and suggestive in motto bearing the ad-
age God helps them that help them
selves" For many long years the want
of railroad facilities through the country
which this road traverseS, had been pain
fully realized by the telling husbandman
as he weuded his weary way to the dist
ant market with his hardly earned pro-
duce, by the SLOW process ct IA team of
horses or oxen, exposed alike to the in
tepsity of summers heat and winters
cold, sometimes compelled to press into
service passing stranger to extricate his
team from the mire into which it had
sunk. No definite action, however, was
taken toward railroad until 1876. This
was followed by provoking delay until
August 1877. when a board of directors
with VIM. ii. Waters president, was or
gained. Until this point the project,
like many others that had fallen through,
was regarded as visionary. But, with
the well established reputation for integ.
rity and business tact of the president
chosen and his efficient co workers in the
enterprise, confidence of the people at
once secured was never shaken, and the
result, one of the best built roads of the
county, forty-tive miles i'll extent at
cost of less than million dollars, is now
au accomplished fact, without occasion
for shadow of suspicion of a single cor
per having been misappropriated. With
the examples of Oak Ames, Jim Fisk and
Jay Gould looming up in view, too much
cannot be said in praise of the manage
meut. of this enterprise.
From Baltimore the road passes Tow
sontown, Fallston, Belair Forest Hill
and the celebrated rocks of Deer Creek,
spanning with IT'S narrow bands deep
gorres and dizzy Observation-Disclosures the
waters of Gun Powder, Winters run and
Deer Creek. Trestle work in some places
reaching the heighth of eighty feet, and
not having before been tested with such
precious freight, the yawning abysses
that here and there presented themselves
deceptive in their icy nantes, were
very suggestive OF disaster and death,
yet with 50 efficient superintendent as
MIR. Boyd on board, with manager foard
at the helm all apprehension vanished
and safe transit Wis accomp l>hed.
Mr.. Boyd was connected with the ! ork
and Delta Railroad, during Its hrst years
of operation and more recently with the