Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1909-04-01
A QUESTION OF IMPORTANCE!
Will The Business Interests OF Frederick Suffer The
Crushing of the W., +. 4 e. to the Extent of Keep
ing it From Operating it's Trains just Because Of
Its Inability to Electrify the Road?

According to the notice given by Mayor Smith that the w. F. G. must
their engines lt street March 3Ist and the avow
pup of officials that road mules horses bring the trains
city limits, the city of Fred ck has obtained more
free advertising week past than had been previously anticipated
does propose take this beyond
the argument in this article, for that
Frederick alone
It's shame that promising rpse seriously crippled by
Board ermen who after ALL the who will have
to blame the final action in this Hitherto
this has been made fight controversy between certain dissatisfied
4tl and the railroad company Now, inform
ed, company abide by their promise m which they gave
bond to using 'h stree" ON or before April l" 1909, and
the responsibility of further action, either favorable adverse will
the Board Of Aid rmn. Go anywhere in Frederick and
nothing but praise for Me w. f. g. and from its short
completed railroad Thumont the business of Frederick recognize
lig business enterprise.
The ous,im that cmfrus the business men of Frederick is shall few
of the Board Aldermen the imnt of the
whole twnv" themselves? /" presenting this qusio" may be well
recall unpleasant history with reference how ha B. O.
kept coming Through Frederick how they protested against the smoke
the action of the Board of Aldermen time has
handed ppstvry the up ncous of injustice
Frederick much that instead of being of 900 in
would have than three times that today
much along the Penny
vania railroad built
We find different feeling thcn
railroad R o. and the people had tribute for kind
Of freight Suffering and s,artng under this the and
subscribed s2OO0D toward building the road and them the right to
their tracks what then the finest driveway in the town. This
Of the bonded Indebtedness of Frederick. Did
pay to all this? nqucstonay did, placed competing
road and the people instead Of paying $l2 to sl for
hard coal for Sc S. lumber and other commodities proportion
rolled railroad systems become loser and their competitive
spirit less sharp that last there and the public again pays
the freight. -
Now the w. f. struggling existence closely allied
with the W. NJ with working Frederick will again have
by which merchants and business will be able
get some relief and we see the remarkable sight having
the Handicapped crippled crushed Can it be possible that
business people Of Frederick to commit the same buner
orcfatcrs did Have acquired enough wisdom to take the
question and to that this infant enterprise not crippled?
al
we'll know fact that the people of it street
been to the railroad while the other 30
divided into classes that they should receive serious cmsi
Grafton recce position taken
join the ranks of the and fear
handle the truth C,relH%y
The people country don't much the other
that they have walk mile after getting the city limits they
visit the frequently they won't packages and
the
would refreshing Frederick
a nd for tn, railroad.