The Washington herald., 1910-06-05
MARYLAND OFFERS
HANDSOME HOMES
Transit Between Two Cities
Nearly Perfect.
PROBLEM OF DEVELOPMENT
steam Railroads, Trolley Line, and
New Highway Afford Excellent
Means of TrRveI-Region Capable
OF Growth Similar to that About
New York and Boston.


of the good roads coy~uission OF Mary
and to Ths Washington Herald appears
this significant sentence:
''The highway to Washington should
be completed in the next two years and
form an important line of communities
ton between the two eities.'
The significant part Of the statement is
that the highway between the District
line and the city Of Baltimore. built by
the state Of Maryland is the first effort
at modern highway building out Of this
city. through the outlying territory, which
is capable of large development in the
way Of agriculture and villa sites for the
homes of well-to-do people now living
in one or the other city.
Transit Facilities Good.
This highway for automobiles. carriages.
and wagons, with the two steam rail-
roads and the one electric railroad be-
tween the two cities, makes possible
something in the way OF future growth
similar 10 that which has been slowly
evolved about New York and Boston. In
other words these transportation facili-
ties make possible the expansion Of the
whole region between here and Baltimore
into a thickly settled area. where shah
be gathered IN the towns and upon the
farms and estates OF rich people popu-
lation as great as that OF either city at
the ends of the roads.
The development TO which reference IS
here made should be OF the kind which
has spread over Long Island. West Ches-
ter County, n. Y, and large portions of
New Jersey.
In the years gone by both Washington
and Baltimore have been largely isolated
cities Town development outside Of
them has been slow and without great
significance 70 either. so far as aids TO
the business Of the cities is concerned.
The transportation facilities have been
largely lacking, and the population both
of the Capital and Baltimore have not
the right facilities for scattering TO the
country that have prevailed in other
large business centers.
Conditions Are Changed.
In this direction Of Baltimore all this
is now changed, and the question Of what
form OF development of the territory
between the two cities takes on peculiar
Importance.
The country traversed by the two steam
railroads, by the trolley line. and by the
new highway constitutes q strip OF land
fifty miles long by about thirty In width.
It is as fine a stretch OF country as can
be found in this Southland. II is as
capable OF high development in the way
Of agriculture and physical beauty as any
territory contiguous to any city. In
twenty-five years II ought TO be full OF
small towns growing with great rapidfty.
while between them should soon be es-
tablished stately homes with broad acres
about them constituting the homes OF
wealthy men with business connections
in Baltimore or Washington. With the
transportation facilities now available,
the distance from such homes TO the city
would be small in comparison with that
traversed by many of the business men
of New York and Boston. or even those
Of Philadelphia or Pittsburg.
But the form this development shall
take ought to be the subject OF wise
planning and intelligent care. If the
ordinary land boomer is allowed to step
IN and establish cheap subdivisions all
along these avenues of travel, build
houses of small value and sell them al
enormous profit 10 poor people who have
neither the taste, capital, or inclination
to make the country beautiful, then this
territory viii fail short Of the mark
which it ought TO reach.
II, on the other hand, the property be-
tween here and Baltimore shall be placed
In the hands Of intelligent real estate
men. with energy and facilities for find
ing the right kind OF purchasers. 1t may
be developed into some such region as
New Jersey opposite New York. covering
a stretch OF country from the Hudson
twelve 10 fifty miles inland. No reason
exists why this territory in Maryland
should not rival in a few years the bank!
Of the Delaware outside Of Philadelphia
ali the way 10 Wilmington.
What is necessary is intelligent disposa
of the property 10 weil-to-do people. who's,
coming viii invite others until the spaces
are taken and the Identification of es
tates elong the Washington-Baltim
| boulevard assured.
Care of State Needed.
The problem needs the Intelligent car,
of TO State OF Maryland. Other road;
besides the one artery of travel must b
constructed. In time the boulevard vii
need to be paralleled on either side fo
a portion Of or over ell the distance
| Intersecting roads must be built so tha
the land back from the one highway
may have its proper facilities OF travel
| Increasing population will naturally leas
TO the multiplication of trolley lines Il
one or the other city, with the loops
finally united and continuous routes es
tablished between the two cities.
| But If this desirable thing is to b,
realized, the development of the TERRITORY
should not be left to chance or the liant
shark, who has no thought beyond max
| ing the largest immediate profit out o.
| the best building sites between the TIVE
cities.
| If the Maryland farmers are to sell on
their holdings TO any Tom. Dick. and Harry
who offers them a fair acreage price 70
their land with the object Of making 1
| pay them 600 per cent after they hav,
cut it up into little lots and covered 1
with cottages that will be uninhabitabl,
in six years. then good-by to the per
manent, wealth producing development O
| the country In question 1t cannot b,
accomplished along those lines. for ever
acre Of such dwellings Will almost Ger
tainly become the abode OF negroes afte
white people have wearied of the ex
pense Of keeping them up.
| The problem resolves itself into on,
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