Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-03-26
RoDDYs, MD. MARCH q, '0s
EN- MITSBURGIAN.
EDITOR OF The CLARION:

LDllOR Of LIE SLAhloN.
The editor of the Emmitsburg Chron-
icle, with damnable iteration, maintains
his unpopular and unfair attitude that
the only feasible route for the new road
(W., F. & G. Ry.) is via Rocky Ridge.
The majority of the people of this county
who are vitality interested in the project,
prefer the original route via Thurmont.
The inhabitants of Creagerstown and vi
cinity, those of Rocky Ridge, with its
teeming avenues and tropical luxuriance,
and an insignificant coterie of Emmits-
burgers who are bound in Mezentian
union with the E. r. R., he self compla-
Gently and trium phantly aludes to as the
sensible and practical portion of the COM
munity, the ajority of the people, etc.
We hesitate to draw the palpabe and Of
fensve inference regarding the business
judgement of those who differ with the
cock sure Chronicle, and who, as was
demonstrated at the meetings in Emn,its-
burg, are the most substantial and pro-
gressive citizens of that locality. The
Chronicle has evidently been so deeply
absorbed in scientifically investigating
the status of the E. r. r. that it has had
no leisure and less inclination to learn the
foregoing important fact, and according
y, if requested, | shall be pleased to fur
nish it with the names of those despised
Emmitsburgers who are heartily in favor
of the Thurmont route.
Thurmont alone, apart from the sec
tions between Lewistown and Mt. st.
Mary's has more than double the popula-
ton of the entire stretch between Creag-
town and Emmitsburg. The point wish
to reach and to emphasize and one which
the doughty and we'll informed champion
of the E. r. R. may help to elucidate, is
this What is the attitude of the E. r. K.
to the Rocky Ridge route, friendly or UNI
friendly? 1t is stated, on reliable author
ity, that one of the big wigs of the E.
r. R. declared, the others coinciding, or,
at least not dissenting; that the new com
pany could purchase the rights and prop
erty of the E. r. K. for the sum of $685.
900 mile
In the face of this statement it seems,
since the E. R. r. has formally commit
ted itself to no policy, that its purpose IS
to promote the building of the new road
to Rocky Ridge and then, as complete
master of the situation, toperpetrate up
on its helpless victim the most audacious
kind of hold up, even for the mere priv
lege of using its lines.
The Chronicle has stated that the new
road would thus open communications
between Frederick and Emmitsburg, "at
no cost to the people of Emmitsburg
and that it would save the expense incl
dent to the construction of seven miles
none too level". Does it forget that, not
to speak of freight, the continuance of
the present passenger rates, 35 cents for
loo 20 obar
ed with the present rate of Is cents be-
twee Frederick and Lewistown QOmiles)
and that the people of Emmitsburg will
have to pay the former instead of the lat
ter unless the right, title, interests, an
tiques and curios of the E. R. R. are pur-
chased for the trifling consideration of
SITE, 600?
One would be justified in concluding
from the foregoing quotations from the
Chronicle that its editor, the avowed
advance spokesman and inside informant
of the f. X. R., has authorized to make
donation of the E. r. RS. roadbed and
rolling stock or its use to the new COM
pany, but no one has taken the Chronicle
seriously in this discussion except it's own
abettors and fellow from Motters who
tries to bolster up his bucolic whimsical
tiles with unequal proportions of billings
gate and good poetry.
If the Chronicle will investigate inn
partially all sides of this question, surely
it will return to it's original conviction
expressedLas follows: eve have ever
been on record as in favor of any trolley,
or all trolleys, entering Emmitsburg,
realizing that they would be of inestima-
BILE value to this locality"
OWENS CREEK.