The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-12-16

Tho fact that the good road has now
thousands of earnest supporters in this
State" saws the Baltimore News in Il
recent editorial, was demonstrated at
Annapolis last winter when the lcgisla-
ture passed q bill proposing a Constitu-
tional Amendment which gives the Safe
| authorities power to make apprupria-
lions 10 the several counties for good
roads work, and the fact that Il good start
has been made on the improvement of
MARYLAND s roads is>one OF which the
State and the counties should bevongra: u
lated. even while they are being urged to
spend more money on the public arteries
OF travel.
With the conclusion of work in Prince
Georges county. Anne Arundel county,
Baltimore and Frederick counties, over
twenty miles ii road pctitiuned for under
the provisions of the new State aid road
law shall nave been surveyed, and the
specifications and estimates will he pre-
pared this winter for the next spring
Over 100 miles If State roads have been
petitiuned for i'll all, more than twice
enough to utilize the amount of state and
county appropriation, and nine counties
out OF twcnty-three in the State lave
filed petitions for these roads, all but one
OF these desiring to take up the total
allotmentS.
Effort has been made by the counties
to file their petitions before January l,
1905, in order to obtain the road sur
vevs, specifications, and estimates free of
cost Wherever this is not done, one
halt this cost must be borne by the coun-
ty. Petitions have already been made
for SO much road that it will be inpussi-
bic to have all of these roads surveyed
this year. Queen Annc's county heads
the list with petitions for so miles; Balti-
more county asks for 47al miles; Hartford
county, 16 $40 miles: Prince Georges
county. Is miles; Talbot county, ten
miles; Allegany county. 4ia miles; Wash
ington, + 81 o miles; Anne Arundel coun-
ty, . miles; and Frederick county, l mile.
SURVEYS have been completed for the
Washington, Allegany and Hartford coun-
tv roads and six miles in Prince Georges
| ton. Anne Arundel county road part of
the Baltimore county and Talbot county
roads, and one mile in Frederick county
will be the last to be surveyed until next
spring.
Talbot, Anne Arundel and Frederick
counties have been the last to take adj
vantage of the law, and movements are
now in progress in other counties
throughout the State to act definitely
upon the matter, notably Wicomico,
| Dorchester and Caroline counties which
within the past several weeks have de-
| cided i'll open mass-mee tings of their tax
PAYERS to take up their full appropriation
The last petition was received Decent
Der 9TH from Talbot county. for the sur-
veying of 10 miles from Easton to St.
Michaels along the Bay Side road. The
opportunity which the provisions of the
petition from the Anne Arundel County
| Commissioners allow for the construc-
| ton of a thoroughly modern road, ire
spcctivc If length and cost, is a source of
satisfaction to the Highway Division of
| the Maryland Geological Survey, as the
requirements of good road may be full
| filled here by utilizing the best of material
and construction and SO securing model
road which will prove to be all that is
claimed in its behaltaS ninvincible argu-
mcnt for scientific highways. 1t is re-
uuestcd that this road be constructed on
the Annapolis Road from Sweetzer Bridge
| southwark to Shiplcy's Station. and in
asmuch as the state allotment for Anne
Arundel county is Sc, 7+1.72, with this
like amount of county funds, it will pro-
badly be possible to build between two
and three miles of State road. The
Board OF County Commissioners has
already requested of the Survey IN csti-
mate of cost upon the construction of a
passage under the tracks Of the Balti-
more and Annapolis Short Line K. r..
and this with the new State road will
probably be constructed with the coun-
tvs allotment for this year. The one
mile of State road requested III Frederick
county, which has Just been put on
record, is to run from New Market to
Monrovia, along the New Market and
Monrovia public road.
Dorchester and Caroline counties may
he expected to file applications shortly
for the surveying of certain roads under
the State law. AT large meeting OF
tax PAYERS i'll Denton on November %,
called by the county Commissioners, the
latter were requested to take such steps
as they deemed necessary to secure Caro-
lines quota of the State appropriation,
which is $7.O7S16, based upon the Oh
miles of highways in the county, for
which like sum must be added by the
county. The residents and tax. payers uI
Dorchester county also held 4 mass.
meeting at Cambridge, on November %
ana urScd tie commissioners 10 pelllloi
for Dorchester's allotment Of $7,763 9S
of the State road fund. Mr. A. n. John
son, State Highway Engineer, explained
the State Road Law, and Mr.. George w
MooIford, president of the Board o
County Commissioners, advocated the
taking up of the appropriation by the
county The resolution to request the
Commissioners to apply for the full
amount of the State road fund was thcr
made by Mr.. Sewell NJ. Johnson, editor
of the Democrat and News of Cambridge
and was immediately passed.