Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1909-04-08
Shame On You Frederick.

The Country is Trying to Bring Her
Dollars to You. and You Stand at the
City Limits Defying Her to Come In.
The following is one of number
of articles appearing in the Do''n
Nrms of Frederick since the w., F. a
G. trains stop at the city limits:
"Out at the city limits on West Fourth
street yesterday friday afternoon
schoolgirl waiting to ride home on W.
F. & G. Ry. train, sat under freight
car, which was the only shelter from the
rain. In the roadway stood couple OF
trunks. Along the sidewalk, carrying
umbrellas, came line of men and wom-
en-, bound for the freight car station,
which is the only thing in the way of a
waiting room the railroad is able to offer
its patrons at it's present Frederick term
inal.
"How long this state of affairs is to
continue nobody knows, but it seems
likely to continue for some time to come.
No arrangements have been made for
meeting of the Board of Aldermen to
take up the question of removing the ban
upon the use of steam locomotives on
Fourth street, and there is no immediate
prospect of any change in the situation
That something should be done, however,
is agreed by everybody interested in the
matter.
"Some way out of the difficulty must
be found, said a prominent business
man. The railway has already become
of too much value to Frederick in bus
in IS way toallow it to stick out there
IAN alderman suggested that possibly
this trouble might have good effect III
Fastening the electrifcation of the road.
" We made mistake, he said, in
giving permission for the temporary use
of steam. If we had held the railway
company strictly within the limits of its
franchise, the road would have been cleo
trified long before this.
ut has been suggested that now would
ne a SOOu IllIle, WITCH IiS iihPoi eoiSS Va
the railway has been emphasized by the
stopping of the running of its trains iE-
side the city, to make a move to secure
more capital for electrifying it. One
merchant, speaking of his experience
with the railroad, said that it had open
ed up for him a field which he had never
before been able to reach. i send a
man out over the road every week, he
said, and get orders between times over
the telephone, and we are constantly
shipping goods over the railway. Mer-
chants all agree that the road has been
of great benefit to the city in business
way, and there is general desire that
some arrangement which will put it on
more solid basis be found"
Well, it's too bad, and Il shame as
well. Frederick has become, through
her treatment of the W., +. Il &. a
laughing stock to the whole State
Everyone, kickrrs and all, say the
W.. f. Il G. is of incstimahlc benefit
to Frederick, and yet they hav'nt the
moral courage to come forward Us cool
headed business men and straightcn
out a little tanglc-a mite of an OBJ
lection. It's too ridiculous to talk
about, and the more it is discussed
the more ridiculous and unreasonable
it seems.
The aforegoing article is an apt il
Illustration of the situation. Travel
worn passengers dragging themselves
a mile into town, and then loaded
down with their purchases, with their
arms nearly torn from their sockets,
finally (maybe) get back to the train,
Disguised and vowing their intention
not to again come back unless cir
crmstanccs compel them.
Way back in the mountains where
there is much timber, growing tall,
vines covering most of them, at the
roots of these same trees grow ferns
in the damp and more or less soggy
earth, owing to the lack of sunshine,
there is an abundance of beautiful
velvet green moss-that's Frederick.
The sunshine of progress can't per-
meate the thick foliage of ignorance
hence the super-abundancc of growth
of moss.