Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-14
GROWTH OF FREDERICK
Many improvements in an
Already Prosperous Spot.
RISE OF THE TROLLEY LINE
Electric Roads Now Add Greatly to
Transportation Facilities.
MANY GOOD SCHOOLS THRIVE
Retail Stores and Local Manufacture
ing Plants Are Rapidly Adding to
the Towns Population.


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FREDERICK, Md. October I3-Fredericl
city, the county seat of of the richest
agricultural counties in the United States
depends for its trade largely upon the popu-
lation the farms and in the villages of
the surrounding country. In recent years
the farmers have prospered and Frederick
has prospered accordingly.
One of the Oldest towns in MARYLAND
Frederick has been known also as one of
the most conservative. 1t has never had
boom" but neither has it suffered from
the succeeding periods of depression which
have been the common lot of boom towns"
1t has grown slowly. but substantially.
Though by no means without industries,
and having not a little business enterprise.
it is distinCtively a city of homes. and in
recent years ii has grown greatly in genera
attractiveness. New buildings. street paw
ing and other improvements have wrought
Il great change for the better in its ap-
pearancc in the past half dozen years. For
generations the principal streets of the city
were paved with rough cobbestones. These
have in the past few years. in large
measure. given place to Vtrified brick paw
ing, with granite curbing. with an under
ground sewer to carry off the drainage
which formerly ran through the cutters to
Carroll creek, the town run
Many New Buildings.
New residence sections have been opened
up Clarke place, an attractive street ad-
joining the spacious grounds of the Mary
land School for the Deaf. is now built up
with handsome dwellings. When the Jesuit
NOVitiatC was removed from Frederick a
few years ago the ancient buildings which
II occupied We're torn down and fine resi-
dences have been erected where they stood.
Rockwell terrace, a new addition, with a
fine mdCadamized street and concrete side
walks and GuTbiUS. has DeCu oDened nv
former State Senator Frank c. Norwood.
Some Retail Establishments.
Frederick is noted for the excellence of
it's retail stores many OF which have hand
some establishments. Doll Bros, dry goods
merchants, have just occupied a handsome
three-story building, which has been remod-
eled and enlarged for their use. Rosenstock
Bros. and e. RosenOur & Sons. in the cloth
ing and shoe business, have erected hand
some store buildings in the past few
years. Steiner Bros, druggists c. +. Cline,
furniture and carpet DEALER Thomas H.
Haller, dry goods merchant. Lowenstein q
Werthtimer, dealers in clothes and shoes:
A. G. McCardell x Son, confectioners, and
others have recently made extensive inn
provemeuts to their establishments. G.
Manjz Bcsart. who lately bought a piece
OF property with broad frontage on Mar
kct street. viii erect a threestOry building,
the upper stories of which will be fashioned
for dwelling apartments, Nhlle the lower
floor viii be a store, to be occupied by o.
T. Bennett, dry goods merchant.
Buildings Planned.
Plans are now nearly ready for hand
some Y. NJ. {. a. building to be erected on
a corner site which has been purchased at
a cost of $4,000 The building will cost
about $4,000. The Frederickstown Savings
Institution will in the spring begin the cree
tior of handsome prauite-frOnt banking
building for its use. The Mountain City
Lodge Knights of Pythias, has purchased
a site. on which it proposes to erect a hand
some building. to be known the Pythan
Temple. The Chesapeake and Potomac Tel
ephonc Company has also purchased a site,