Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-07-16
Roads and Bridges on Marley
Neck
Editor of Egening Capital:

Editor Of EOeniHg Capital.
read with consuming interest the
communication in Tuesdays CAPITAL,
on the road and bridges of Marley and
Marley Neck From any point of view,
the cosmopolitan author of said article
is under a wizard spell that blinds him
TO the beauties of solid facts, where he so
lengthily and difIusely .dwells on the exis
ted disorder of the Marley thoroughfare.
Did such confusion reign il would be
peuriIe folly IN gainsay il. As IL is we
must condemn the impulse that would
despoil a worthy worker of his undoub
ted deserts. Mr.. Frank Revell the eff
cient supervisor of that section of high
ways, does his duty 10 the very letter Of
the law with force OF competent men.
when the season of road-mending and
rosd-making arrives. he is at his post.
early and late, and TO his credit be ii
said that the public road leading from
Furnace Branch on the Light Street
road, and goes on its winding way
through hill and dale until 1t reaches the
Quarantine Hospital, is one of the best
cared for in the county.
The writer has driven its entire length
at midday as well as midnight. and
knows every foot of the way. He knows
of a verify And the derided bridge with
an eighteen inch gang plank for the
transportation of horses, and q twelve
inch for carriage and wagon way (which
the outside world naturally presumes
has existed since the primal bridge build
ing of the aboriginal inhabitants. So
sensitive and old fogyish would Mr.. s.
have il believe the present supplanters
of the ancient people,) must be stigma
tized as inexact description. The bridge
in question, is normally in excellent con-
dition, but the freshet of recent date
caused washout of infinitesimal size,
MIR. Revell with great wis ON placed a
twelve inch plank to obviate danger from
running into the rut. but the writer must
certainly assert without the slightest fear
of contradiction that he who drove over
the criticised plank did it prompted by
reckless spirit, and went out OF his Way
to do it. Why, Mr.. Editor, this road Of
ruts and ruin, is the main artery of trav-
ell through section than which none in
the country is more progressive-which
ceins dollars, while other localities as
richly lowered, but with less faculty,a are
coming cents. 1t leads thro the farms of
G. T. Cromwell, the commission merchant
Thomas Talley, James Williams, Frank
Revell, Frank Hodges, Mrs. Solley, the
Chairs property, Elias Staliings, and
terminates In the wide waters of the Pa
tapsco at the Quarantine Hospital, where
those who go down to the sea in ships
from other climes, are liable TO be held
in duress, IL suspicion points TO them as
affected by distemper of any sort. Can
any man suppose the well-to-do popula-
ton of this rural Galconda, would toler-
ate bad bridges and rough roads, Ger
tainly not. Not for their purses sake.
and the Almighty whose acquisition Is
based on well constructed thoroughfares.
If Mr. Snay deems this fertile and we'll
titled region, where the succulent toma
to, and the crisp cabbage, the toothsome
canteloupe, the melons and peaches and
berries galore, are raised in luscious
richness, and potential perfection, fit
companion for the unmapped country
known under the generic title of 1.-The
Wilds of Barneo," where the Ramphor-
hyncus and the Pterodoctyl and other
prehistoric birds and reptiles have an
abiding place, and consequently require
castilever bridges and other modern won
ders; then let him get him hence, to that
territory which stretches away to the
goodly land of West RIVER, and via Ches-
terrified and Rutland before he gains Da-
vidsonville, he will behold that Togd and
that bridge that turneth the heart of the
traveller sick. The writer knows where
of he speaks, and must fain believe Mr.
Shay in his globe trotting, has been fore
ed to neglect other corners of the uni
verse, else he would not speak so slight
ingly of his native heath"
DIR. THOMAS III. BRAYsHAw.