The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-12-26
The AIdino Road.
CnrRcHvH.I.E, Dec. %

CHuRCHvILLE, Dec. %.
I To THE .I:GIS:
Kindly allow me space i'll your valuable
/ journal for lutte say concerning the
route to he taken from Churchvllc TO
! iIavrc de Grace. Personally, the route
/ hv way of Level would benefit our farm.
/ as its lines extend close to same and we
/ are allowed exit to that road. But as
! the WOolsey money is to be usedto serve
| the public iii the most economical way, |
! am compelled to lay aside self in the ia
! tcrcst OF economy and the general public,
] and advocate the Aldiuo route, because
/ il is the main and easiest thoroughfare
/ from Bel Air to Havre dc Grace. The
road bed is full wide from end to end. 1t
! has a better foundation for pike than
! the Level route. 1t is a question whethc
; the Barnes hill and that opposite the
/ Finncy tenant house can be made 4 per-
manent pike except at great cost. |
! have seen stone put in there two feet deep
! and i'll two years the road was as bad as
! ever. The Aldino route has much less of
! the so called white oak soil than the route
| by way of Level, and can he built ut SO
much less expense and of better material,
/ which lies adjacent to the road. 1t will
require very little grading. Also one mile
will be completed on the road to Abcr-
| deem, which would save that much of the
| Woolsey fund. 1t has sufficient drainage
! without continual washing. Expense for
repairs will be but a fraction compared
with the Level route. which is saving to
I the taxpayers, not only for one year, but
! for all time. The Aldino route would, us
! it does today. accommodate both heavy
and light travel from Calvary and for
! IL
! There are four canner1es on this route,
! virtually five, as another Gamer uses Il
part of this road for most of his heavy
I hauling.
. fail to see where the road from Church.
/ vile to Level would accommodate Glen
vile and Darlington. II the purpose of
this pike is to benefit that section it
! should 90 by way of Roberts mill and
! Greenspring Subscriptions would help
ON the first cost, but the extra expense in
/ keeping up the pike by way of Level from
wear to year would soon overbalancc
| such, and would then have to he borne by
| the taxpayers. The additional expense
of So 900 or 81, 1000, and a costly bridge
| in excess Of the Aldino route is great of
itself. Add the one mile on the road to
| Aberdeen, and it looks as though cnou. Ii
could be saved, right here, to build an
/ other of the roads named by Mr.. Wool
sew The additional expense on the Level
route will not benefit this section, the
county at large, nor will accommodate
/ as many people and taxpayers, for whom
! the Wooiscy bequest was intended, as the
AidinO route.
/ III constructing permanent highway
( the safety OF the travelling public should
! he wisely considered. The accident at
! TefIrcy's gate, where Henry Wilson Archer
was killed, is still fresh in our memories.
and anyone is liable to similar fate. and
| the risk would be many times greater on
/ the route by way of Level with its deep,
unsghtlv cuts and gulchcs and the road
bed many feet above the farm land. All
this can be avoided and thousands OF
dollars saved by taking the Aldino route,
which would be safe and beautiful high
way for the most timid to travel over
day and night.
A pike on the Aldino road, built of that
excellent road material would be ever
lasting 1t would not only enhance the
value of the fine producing farms, but
such an avenue where you can see more
than 4 mile ahead and on both sides
would show the monument to William
WoOlsey to the greatest advantage, and
express thegood Judgment of our County
Commissioners and those concerned.
b. II. BARNES.