The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-01-08

The message j. conservative on the
oyster question and deals more i'll regard
to the conflict of laws between Mary
land and Virginia than an intelligent
effort to solve this difficult problem.
On the SUBJECT of good roads the Cover
nor says: THE time has arrived when
much greater attention should be paid
by the General Assembly to the question
of highway Improvement. The people of
the State generally are demanding a
! better system of roads than now exists,
and it Of the highest Importance that
this demand BE- recognized. The Geologi-
cal Survey has rendered, and continues
to render, great assistance in preparing
plans and specifications for important
pieces of road work. and the value of the
survey has received wide recognition.
Numerous tests of the various road and
paving materials used upon county roads
and city streets have been made"
The message is especially thorough on
guarding public health in general, but
more especially speaks OF the menace of
tuberculosis. Special attentionis called to
the report of the Commission created by
the General Assembly of 1902 to investi-
gate this dread disease. Careful estimates
show that ten thousand persons in this
State are at present afflicted, and Stats |
tics show the death Off, 500 in Maryland
during the year 1902. 1t is pointed out |
that scientific research has shown it to |
be entirely practicable to prevent the |
spread of the disease from one person to
another, and in some cases to arrest its
development in the individualupon whom
it has seized. The most powerful and the
most pathetic illustration of the extent
public, born of long familiarity with its
presence, to its frightful ravages. If ten
thousand persons in Maryland were in
convenenced today with harmless cpl
demic we would be amazed and filled
with CONSERVATION, but the presence of
the same number of tuberculosis cases,
most of them hopeless, occasions little
comment.
In conclusion the message recapitulates
the new State buildings that have been
provided and gives the work of the differ
ent State departments.
In speaking of Maryland at st. Louis,
the Governor says:
The most stupendous exposition the
world has ever seen is now being orga-
nized at St. Louis in commemoration of
the purchase of the Territory of Louis-
ana, over 100years ago. If Maryland is
to keep her place among the progressive
States of the Union we must not be lost
sight of in the crowd on that occasion,
which furnishes the finest opportunity for
ever open to man. We have
A small appropriation available for the
use of the commission appointed to look
after the Maryland exhibits. but which
S totally inadequate to make display ,
n keeping with our possibilities and the
occasion.
"Thc amount should be speedily supple
nented by an additional appropriation.
Great expedition will be required on the !
part of the commissioners in any case to :
make the best showing possible, but their
Efforts will be unavailing if your honor
able body does not act at once. A State :
building on the fair grounds is eminently
possible of construction within
he time available, and will prove an in t
comfort and convenencet to the
many Marylanders and their friends who
will from time to time visit the fair, and i
specially on September IL, which has
been set apart as Maryland day. 1t is
lue our business. manufacturing and
arming interests that Maryland shall be
Kept to the front at the exposition" :