Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1909-09-03
BLABBER'S LETTER.
RECALLS FORMER Observation-Disclosures OF
PREDICTIONS MADE THEREIN-PREDIcTs
GREAT FUTURE.

Editor of Sentinel Away back in the
last century, generations ago. you printed
in the SENTINEL some letters from Babber.
There may be still alive some venerable
patriarchs who read those letters If so,
they may remember that Blabber in one
of those letters notified your readers that
we were building couple of railroads, one
| by way of Washington, Baltimore, &C., in
definitely east, and one by way of Pitts
burg, Chicago, &C., to the Pacific Ocean.
| He predicted then that when those cities
| and all other cities in either direction had
| direct communication by rail with Barnes
vile they would experience great prosperity
What was prohphecy then is history now.
Look at Pittsburg. with her millionaires
| and divorce cases. look at Chicago. even
more so than Pittsburg and skipping over
many prosperous cities, look at San Fran
cisco-earthquakes, fires, Abe Reuff, Mayor
Schmidt and many other trials could not
check her career of prosperity. So turning
eastward, behold with wonder Washington,
the very capital of the country Before we
built those railroads, what miles of mud
were there, what rickety old market houses,
a One-horse government and Feather
Buster" legislature and now Why statis-
ticians can't keep up with the city's pro-
greSs-her immortal private residences, her
public buildings, her fine streets, her cleo
trio cars, and, greatest of all, one fine
Union Station. Baltimore at that time had
not an underground sewer, an electric car,
telephone, graphophone, megaphone or
any other feature of high civilization ex-
cept pretty women, good society and oys-
tiers while now, in spite of the Baltimore
San, independent voters and some Demo-
Gratis who prove how good Democrats they
are by voting the Republican ticket and
67,000-dollar abstraction, in spite of all
this, to say nothing of her great fire. Balti-
more has prospered wonderfully, and has
within her limits-just as Washington has
about as many vicious, good-f Or-nothin6
coons as any city cares to boast of. 1t is
not worth while to mention the progress in
other cities along the line of these railroads
all have prospered. And now, as all this
has come to pass since they had direct rail
road communication with GAINESVILLE, what
is the logical inference!
Well, after having accomplished all this
good for others, we took notion to attend
to our own business for a while. We had
our town Incorporated built side walks,
passed dog law and collected taxes. be-
sides building some new houses, building
some new porches, repairing and painting
old houses, building planning mill and
fine new church-and making improve
ments and additions to other churches-to
the church buildings, | mean. We were
at this a quarter of a century or so, when
we bethought ourselves of other people
again and set to work on Shoemaker road
though we haven't even cobbler in Bar
nesville) which we built by way of Barnes
vile Station almost to a place called POoles
Vile This, too, has made things prosper.
Already there is new bank in PoOlesville,
Il NdlIOIldI Ddilh tlaits ooiiC iiS"
stores. Poolesville was always famous for
stores-numerically And now a lot of
other outlying places are clamoring for
good roads to GAINESVILLE. Be patient,
children, you will get them all in good time.
Very likely before Blabbers next letter.
In the meantime you can use our aeroplane
roads. They are as good as any of their
kind in all the world, and Blabber ventures
the prediction that when these aeroplane
roads come into general use there will be
great prosperity along the lines for surgeons
and undertakers. They will beat the au-
tomobiles in that.
Yours prophetically,
BLADDER.
Rarnesville AND 81 90