The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-06-24
SHOEMAKER ROAD FROM
OAKLAND To MT. LAKE
Project Launched at Dinner Given BY
Mt. Lake Residents.

The second thoroughly enjoyed public
dinner of the season was that partaken
of by about sixty representative resi-
dents of Oakland and Mountain Lake
Park and their ladies on last Friday
night at the Mountain Lake Hotel when
a menu prepared for the occasion by
Host Huntington was hearth partaken
of.
The dinner was arranged by Mountain
Lake Park and Oakland people Jointly
and was get together" affair, the
object being to form d closer alliance
between the two towns as the interest
of one lies in the welfare andIwell-belrg
of the other and as it is a generally I'M
derstOod principal in business life that
when one prospers others in the COM
munity feels that prosperity, 50 it is
with towns situated as Oakland and
Mountain Lake Park are. When BUSH
ness is good and crowds Of people are at
one or the other place, or at both. then
each gets share of the business that
is bound to follow.
After dinner a number of speeches
were made, among the speakers being
Rev. DR.. John H. Goucher, of Woman S
College, Baltimore; Dr. John ". Davis,
DR.. W. W. Davis, Lieut.. E. S. West,
Mr.. Scott 7. Jones, and Mr.. Thomas J.
PeddlcOrd
DR.. Goucher. in his remarks. sreview-
ed the progress of Mountain Lake Park
since its founding twenty eight years
ago, he being one of the incorporators
and member of the board'of directors
DR.. John NJ. Davis. of Oakland, follow
ed DR.. Goucher, and added many bits of
local history to the talk made by DR..
Goucher. Lieut.. West gave some per
s0nal "reminiscences and Mr. Peddicord.
who drew the charter incorporating
Mountain Lake Park, treated the legal
status Of the corporation from its char
tered rights and the safeguard sur
rounding property owners within the
confines of the Park
Mr.. Scott T. Jones. however. made
an address which appealed more direct
ly to the company present, touching as
it did upon the feasibility and possibiIi-
ty of having road buillti etween the
two towns under the provisions of the
present Shoemaker Road Law, in forc
and showing the practicability of the
law in other counties of the state. Mr..
Jones as an Illustration Preferred to the
several stretches of road now construct
ed and under construction in our neigh
boring county of Allegany where the
highways are like asphalt and where
the SHOWS of winter and rains of sum-
mer have no appreciate bad effect upon
their solidity. Such a road could be
built upon the present location at a
sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars.
Under the law the state will contribute
fifty per cent. of this amount; the
county forty per cent. and the residents
and property owners along the right-Of-
way ten per cent. Mr.. Jones talk met
with the hearty approval of every one
present in the large dining hall,
DR., Davis. while not speaking from
an authorit4ve standpoint, said that he
felt sure the Mountain Lake Park Asso-
citation would be willing to contribute
$500 towards the building of the road,
as that corporation had applied to the
County Commissioners and rendered
this sum few years ago toward this
end, but through ignorance of the pro-
provisions of the law the matter was
dropped for the time when the Commits
sioners refused to consider the PROPOSE
ton. Now, however, since the Court
of Appeals has passed upon the law, it
makes it imperative upon the Commits
siOners to provide money for the high
ways under the Shoemaker Act when
surveyed by the State.
Following the speech making the
guests departed for their respective
homes, feeling that the cordial relations
existing between Mountain Lake Park
and Oakland had been made stronger
and more enduring.