The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-07-21
Jhs Democratic Sdrusats.
SATURDAY, JULY 81. 1894.
Westminster to Take a Step For
ward.

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ward.
Appearances indicate that Westminster
is to take step forward. The ice factory
is an assured success for this season at
least, and there is every indication that in
succeeding years, with judicious manage
ment, fair dividend on the capital in
vested will be earned.
The reorganization and revival of the
Myers Touring mill is still being agitated,
and the matter will likely be taken up in
earnest shortly. This is an enterprise
that should not be allowed to remain idle.
Not much money will be required to put
it in motion, and employment for fifteen or
twenty persons will be furnished Be-
sides, its revival will enlarge the market
for wheat here, and with this enlargement
will come increased business, as farmers
usually buy their supplies where they sell
their products The starting of the mill
will bring here number of families to
occupy some Of our vacant houses, and
most of the wages of the employees will be
spent among the merchants of the city.
The electric light plant, we are in
formed, will be put in at once, and its
establishment will furnish employment for
labor as well as add to the taxable basis.
The projected electric railroad to this city
and on to Gettysburg is an enterprise that
promises well for this community. The
possibilities growing out of the building of
this road are great. 1t will bring to West
minister large trade that naturally belongs
here, and which does not come, owing to lack
of transportion facilities; and it will not take
away any to Baltimore by reason Of cheap
er fare and more frequent communication.
It will afford means for our mechanics, in
dull seasons, to take employment in Balti-
more, and it will be the means of drawing
to this city hundreds of Baltimoreans dur
ing the summer season.
The building of the electric road to
Westminster and on to Gettysburg will
open many opportunities to Westminster,
and if che people here will take advaDt-
age of them the town will grow and be-
come prosperous Situated as it is, nearly
one thousand feet above tide, with no
malaria and no mosquitoes, with pleasant
evenings. and quick, cheap and frequent
passage to and from Baltimore, Westmin-
ster should become a famous summering
place Many Baltimoreans, no doubt,
would build neat cottages and spend five
or six months here every year, while others
would gil up the boarding houses and
hotels. People here could realize good
profit by building and furnishing dwellings.
There are numerous inquiries every sum
lner for furnished houses, and there are
none to be had. With the building Of an
electric line, upon which the travel is so
much more comfortable in summer, the
demand would be greater.
Westminster is better suited for sum
mer resort than for manufacturing town.
We can inaugurate number of small in
dustries to produce staple articles, but our
best and surest reliance is in making the
city neat and attractive summer retreat.
Lots are cheap and houses can be con-
structed at moderate cost. With pure air,
pure water, excellent drainage, gas, electric
light, telephone, telegraph, steam and cleo
tric roads, cheap fares and quick travel,
with numerous churches and excellent
schools, what more could be desired ?
Westminster can offer all these, when the
electric road is completed, and these should,
and would, attract many persons here
every summer.
But Westminster will not be the only
gamer by the building of the electric road.
Every farm on and near its route will be
enhanced in value; farmers and Others who
choose will be in position to get summer
boarders, and they will have rapid transit
facilities which they have not now. The
road will provide facilities for the people
in Myers and Taneytown districts to reach
the county seat whenever court of other
business requires their presence here.
After the road is completed to Gettys-
burg the next move will be to extend
line from here to Washington, and the
National Capital will furnish as many sum-
mer visitors nearly as Baltimore. This
extension, too, will place large section of
Carroll in close connection with the county
seat that is now without other facilities
of getting here. except by carriage over
county roads.