The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-12-30
: -Ex-Secretary Blaine is reported
to be very much better.
Another County Heard From.

TO tie Editor OF The Kqis aud hteHigencer:
We are glad to see Mr.. Albert l.. Mccain,
late but no longer our Road Supervisor i'll
Dublin district has got in on the "anxious
bench" He comes of an honored family,
traditional as road members, and vino have
worked the roads and the County Commits
siOners' Office more or less successfully for
many years, gaining thereby much valuable
experience He speaks of the steady i'm
provement of the roads in his district for the
''last 20 years. [ would amend that and say
imperceptibly improving for fifteen years,
and steadily for the last live. That he favors
economy and reform is quite evident and
would like To have him meet with the Deer
Greek Farmers Club next Monday and as
sist us and the County Commissioners
and general road supervisors in finding out
what is true economy and reform and the
best way to put it into practice. wish we
could have hundred or more of our wise
and thoughtful farmers at that time to dis
cuss this absorbing and now leading question
before the country. Mr.. McCann would
seem rather to favor the Road League, if he
does damn it with faint praise" He must
know that roads are never made good by
magic, IL they are sometimes seemingly made
bad that way by a sudden deluge of rain
No, it takes money and patient, persistent
labor.
Mr.. McCann's communication contains
some good recommendations and suggestions,
which / would be glad to have him lay before
the Deer Creek Farmers Club and the Coun-
| ty Commissioners, at the meeting of the club
| on January I'd.
The County Commissioners, long before
permanently located in Hartford, had adopted
the policy of helping those who will help
| themselves, and it looks now as though the
| general government and the various States
| will aid the people in the same way. 1t is
evidently unfair that the burden of perma-
| nently improving our highways should rest
with the farmers.
1t may not be out of place here to reveal
| the financial condition of our Road League
| At our monthly meeting, last Monday, 1t was
i found that we would close our labors for the
/ year 1892 with some $500 i'll the treasury, and
| that, too, after just finishing stone and wood
| ell bridge over Hopkins branch, on the main
/ road east of Darlington, at a cost of about
| 500; which bridge, had it been built in the
/ usual way, including ''red tape methods,
would have cost the county some S35 beyond
| the actual cost of construction. Then We do
| mated 800 to complete series of roads en-
tirely out of our jurisdiction, to assist the
dreaded flint teams in securing shorter and
| permanent road to the railroad at Conowin-
| go. One of these recently improved roads, |
believe, passes Mr.. McCann's own home
| Thus we believe, that while ''charity begins
i at home, it does not end there" What oys-
| ter shells and cinders have been washed from
| the roads have cost the county nothing,
and very considerable portion have been
| shoveled back again. 1t is no new thing to
have to pay for little experience and the
Road League does not claim to be an excep-
| ton.
| While in New York last week called at
| the temporary head quarters of the National
League for Good Roads," As Broadway, and
made application for authority to organize a
local league and received our charter. They
have Just issued circular commencing with
these significant and stirring words:
"To the Public.-The organization of Ma
| tional League for Good Roads marks an era in
| this great movement. 1t means the consoli-
| dation of a thousand scattered efforts into
| one, and one that will be irresistible if it is
wisely directed and well supported.
shall be proud to see Hartford county in
the vanguard of this movement, and II be-
hooves us all not only to keep our ears and
| eyes wide open but to be up and doing.
| Respectfully,
d. c. W. SMITH,
\ President Darlington Road League.