The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-01-02
The Aldino Road.

| ALDINo. Dec. 80.
| To THE .I:GIS:
| ITO be or not to be- That is the question
| Which road shall be the recipient of the Wool
| sey fund: The Level road that shoots its
| hill tops heavenward and then sinks China.
| ward again, that puts the cost in dollars arit!
| cents: way up i'll the thousands beyond that
OF its competitor for favor, or the Aldinu
| road that is level without touching Level
| that will secure TO the general public Il direct
| highway GOO feet ,longer i'll measurement. but
one-quarter hour shorter i'll time OF speed
made on it and at cost of SO. 900 less than
the Level route? Nature fuvorS the Aldino
route. economy favors il. personal convent
cncc of the many horse flesh and running
gears cry. Give US the Aldno route" This
being evident, why this great outcry in print
and in club against that selection?
business proposition. it should bc handled
in business wayby business men. This. we
Aldinoitcs think the Level route advocates
have failed TODD. They maintain, first. that
their favored route is the more direct ono.
Yet the engineer says there is but GOO feet
difference, not much of Il kink TO found iud-
rectnesS upon. While the upness and down
ness of the Level route seems to have been
forgotten by its panegyrists.
Let the Commissioners ask the questions
and demand answer to the in tcrroga oricS
Can you travel faster or haul a load with less
effort on billy road than a level one? Which
road washes the greater. the level one that
rolled together with hills: Second the Level
route admirers seem to be mpregnated with
the idea that the general public to he benefit
ted by the Improvement, located about Oar
hngton or the immediate thereaboutS. How
I'VE uns" refuse to subscribe to that doctrine
and demand that i'll considering their phase
oil the question the whole county should be
considered and when it is. that part of il
south OF Level will still be found to he i'll it
and in it to the extent that should the Aldino
route be selected the property adjacent there
to will soon show an appreciative advance in
enhancement of value at auction and on the
tax books. Can the other folks say much:
Our road is not what il ought to he tits
true. Why: The Lcvclroad has always been
the petted pup in the Commissioners dog
house and VIC have had to take the lcavingS.
The consequence is the Level road is a good
road. without this Improvement ours is not
Is it just business to throw surplus corn to
an over-fed hog because its neighbor has been
fed without any Scmblancc of fullncS$
regularity?
Facts and figures show that that there he
Just as many, ifnot more citizens ofthc county
benefited by the lower route than the upper
one.
The Aldino route is the direct one it is the
only level one. sought even at present in pre-
ference to the upper one. when time and the
saving of horse flesh is an item, and if selected
We have the raw material to put on it and
the Will and the nerve to touch our pockctst to
utilize it in the event the route to be selected.
Now. if it be the purpose to make the cX-
pcnditurc for the benefit of the section travcrS-
ell directly and the travelling public indirectly,
then the Aldno route must be the selected
one. Where the Improvement will increase
real estate values one dollar on the Level
road, it will increase it two ON the Altlino
road, The latter route has its white oak
foundation but it is minus it's Niger head hill
tops and its abyssmal bitches. and it will
cost no more to maintain it improved than
unimproycd, and let it not be forgotten. I'M
improved and white oak bottomcd, it costs
by Engineer Iohnson's estimate $1,000 less
to improve it than the Level road. With the
Aldino road improved we will have two good
roads. With the Level road improved we
will have but one. Let MS have the Aldino
route and kill two birds with one stone.
While we can appreciate the efforts Of our
neighbors north Of us to secure the fund for
their road bcttcrments. yet because the
Aldinonites have been silent and our neigh
bOrs vociferous, we desire the County Com
missioncrs not to render their decision accord
ing to the volume of noise produced. but to
keep THAR heads level and apply the fund to
the Aldino route. fulfilling the purpose of the
donor. saving dollars to the taxpayer and
supplying satisfaction in chunks to the man
behind the team.
JoSEPTTS.