The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-07-01
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK A
CENTER OF EDUCATION
Advantages Afforded BY the Numerous
Gatherings to be Held There
This Summer.

Cumberland News 1T. jay" the Oak
land correspondent of that paper con-
tributed the following concerning Noun
tain Lake Park as an education center:
The season is on at Mountain Lake
Park, and can truthfully say, that the
number of visitors is unusually large.
DR.. w. W. Davis, the active and alert
superintendent, has succeeded in pro-
viding attractions for the entire month
of July, and as almost everybody knows
the mountain chautauqua will take up
the month of August. This corporation
was organized for literary, musical and
educational purposes and was founded
upon religious principles. The manage
ment has endeavored to fulfill the mis-
sion for which the association was Gre
ated. Anybody who will visit the park
any day between the present and the
9Th of July can not reasonably doubt
this assertion. The East Central Stu
dent Conference began here on June
18th and will continue its sessions until
July 5th.
There are about 3l5 young women in
attendance who are students from the
various colleges in the district. and
are representatives of the college branch
of the Y. W. c. A. had the pleasure
of attending aireception held by these
young women on Saturday afternoon.
They impressed me as being full of
energy and. fully bent" upon carving
out the business of the conference in a
serious and businesslike manner. They
have meetings Of their conference.at 8.
9, 10, II and Ills a. m and 2, 7:15 and
p. m. every day 1t would certainly,
in my humble judgment, be a great up
lift to many Of the young women, resid-
ing in the surrounding territory, if they
would attend the sessions, of this con-
ference.
The State Teachers Association will
begin its sessions here on Tuesday even
ing which will swell the crowd to mid
summer proportions. The young
women's students conference and the
State Teacher 5 Association;will furnish
rare entertainment for all visitors who
are interested in educational matters
for themselves or others. am inclin-
ed to the notion that the people of Gar
rett county and the people of our own
town. Oakland. do not fully. appreciate
the great advantage which the park is
to our town and county.
Take for example. the large amount
of passenger, freight and express traffic
done at the B. & o. station where no
business was done before the park came
into existence. This business amounts
to large sum of money, but
many of our people think that matter
of little moment because, they saw,
that the money goes into the
treasury of the railroad company. 1t is
true the money goes to the railroad
but they seen to lose sight of
the fact that while the common carrier
is gathering up money it is through this
business and through the people it
brings to and carries from the, park adj
Garrett county, Oakland as
well as Mountain Lake Park from the
to the Pacific. Nobody can
estimate what that advertising Imeans
to this section. Again, Mountain Lake
Park is town of two hundred and fifty
houses including hotels, boarding houses,
stores, etc. A very considerable num-
Der of the inhabitants reside there all
the year. The buildings of this town
has added materially to the assessable
basis of the county. 1t has increased
the value of the land in the neighbor-
hood. Land adjacent to the park which
sold for from S. to $40 per acre now
at prices ranging from So to 800 per
acre. Our people should not forget
that the purchase of lumber and other
and the erection of buildings
has scattered large sum of money
among them. But perhaps the most
important item in this connection is the
sum of money which is annually ex-
pended and distributed by visitors and
residents at the park A careful esti-
mate made by one who has full knowl-
edge of all facts, places this annual ex-
penditure at the sum of two hundred
dollars. This would equal an
endowment to this community of four
million dollars at five per cent.
Last week visited Atlantic CITY and
sweltered for a short time in the heat
of that popular resort, but for my life
am unable to understand why in weather
like this people go to the seashore in
stead of going to the mountains where
they might be comfortable and have all
the intellectual enjovments offered at
Mountain Lake Park. At any rate the
for T. JAY.
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