Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-08
"THE KINGS HIGHWAY

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EDITORS IsrELLdENcER-Through the 9
columns OF your paper,--which has always r
been tribune OF popular rights, ana
defender of the privileges OF the people, | :
against the dangerous entertainments OF cor | :
porate power--I seek TO bring TO public |
notice an attempt to seze public property
,nr nr,va,e nmrnases 7 want IN see II there .
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pV' enVus" Puo" ,os III ..'
community 70 prevent tne wrong irouh peing
consumfnated
Public advertisement Is made that the
effort of more than three years ago 10 seize
dor ,urpp;L n ,,aea Tho {, old Road - from the |
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ern'lnus .'' VI ..o p,'osep,s anu ,''. ..'D
turnpike, III East iIafhpeter towhsnip, this
county, to the township line been East
| Iampeter aud Leacock townships, near tho
,a,.e,
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| an apli."on " o,o so,e'"o, VI o
| sylvania for a charter to enable certain cor
porators to appropriate this valuable public
| property To their own private use and profit |
| will he made TO Governor Pattison on the
oad d.v or Inv
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~ Is ea,nesuy " uo noPe" ''o so'oi"o'
vii, grant no such cnar.er.
| a grant in 1882 from the governor tho expo
sure of the scheme through the columns of
| A., ISrr,,,or.crp ond Tho brinu;ns, to
@ ny ,,,,l,a ~ 60, IL, 81 ,.,,a, ,,.s ;,,rri,a,
.'o no.,.o VI ,,.!,. 49, ~! ." =,
donment of 1t, In the face of an aroused al
verse public sentiment The INTELLIaEN-
GER then said. ian. 25 1889:
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n,s,or % ,,,,, onu a'sJ sp "ar nn ,,,,n, tn trayoi
n1anr sha hiahway, ,hns nro,osed IN bo occn
I nied i'm .nart or tho whole IN consider
0 whether this privilege shall be granted to n
q corporation without tho exercise OF every
q possible EFFORT 10 prevent IL Pronapiy no
tnorougniale IN Ia ,, ,%', S :. p,s'u, a,,
. ms, ~ all iust Tho noriion which H. nro
: mnsod to he 9ccnpied and crossed with toll.
a gates by the incipient 'road company Civ
l. ing the above notice 1t is venerable
highway, broad, level and generally IN ek
soieha ;, c9u, ,rn ,,,, ,,,i c;,v dns
into one nf tbe most ponuious sections of the
county. It is a welfgraded, pleasant sum
r. mer drive, and at nearly all seasons il much
al resorted to by persons living along it, for
AZ miles on either side, VINO nnd IL better roau
In most oil inc year IMAM either the Lancaster
or the New Holland turnpikes, and free from
IN the exactons OF lDe toli-gatherer. fcolie
no VIII drive miles out OF their direct way 10 en-
JOY its advantages ana TO escape ,he toil-parf
ne which are throwh across the olner avenues
oil travel 10 ana from the Last Enu:
1--WE have grave doubts as to the power o
any corporation 10 absorb the rights whicl
II, over hunured years use mas gwen 10 w
re peoPie ~ uate, msnmay, ra, ,rnu rob aro IN;
ur vaiuab,e rigbt of way. this welI,la,d out
at M o'o a,,. ,,,y =, easy ,ar,h pma f
Ily which henceiorth every traveller is 10 b
TO taxed, Is proposition to resist the enforce
'oe ment ot wnlch those VINO are cohcerhe
should promptly organize and act
,,h All TINS Is as true now as was ,nen.
sentiment u,i'ily ahu popular r'e,us ann
pe denianu that Wha' Is ie't OIL 'nis roao po -
ley served iiee 10 the people VINO nave ownso
nj ana traNeieu over IL lor over oho ""n"io
no. ana hity years
Toe Ihis 'hlng hish"ay was tne h's,
the important pupl'c roaus ,au ou' ,, N y" w
county rohco i'o'h ms peoh ""o i0op'o
ers road' anu ior sixty years IL lllalh'ai'i'a
OF supremacy as !" inc great fuad' OF the coul
but ", peiiig tne shortest way between i.ahe''
ory ter ana rhfiadelphia As the local histor'a
md says
-" The martial treai oi the soldier on II
weary naIch lioi' hi'i'ue In,a "a W i.ay So So "
III IS 49, Earhos ,nI pa,,o,,at 10 man The fnr
han along the frontier. echoed through the fores
al which bordered this highway aud when d
TOO. English king sent his minioes to our shor
and threatened 10 invade ana despoh tne "
or ,ha rn,,iar i,a fro,,, ,h;s cn,,,tu and d
~ tacbments ot q ,yalrv fastened over tbjs rU
ssly to take part i'm the province at the thresho
nat OF her eastern boundary"
The PeunsvIyapia constitution of Isl
can which was intended to confirm for the pt
,n,, pie few rights saved from the greedy al
'p unrelaxing grasp of corporate power, says
eiu. "Every man for an injury done him in b
uth lands shall have remedy by d
. course Oh law.
The property owners abutting on the SO
Road own the lee 10 'ne ground which
the occupies; SUBJECT only 10 lhe right OF I
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