The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-01-20
TRAINS NEED NOT
STOP ON SUNDAY
Sabbath Sanctity Preserved at Noun
tain Lake Park.

At Washington, last Thursday, the
interstate Commerce Commission dis
missed the complaint of the Loeb Lynn
Construction Company, which owns and
operates a summer hotel at Mountain
Lake Park. filed before the commission
against the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road. 1t was complained that although
the railroads passenger trains stopped
at Mountain Lake Park on week DAYS.
during the a hours extending from mid
night Saturday to midnight Sunday
during the summer months they do not
stop at Mountain Lake Park. although
they do stop on Sundays at Deer Park,
which IS three and half miles east of
the Park; at Oakland which is two miles
west Of Mountain Lake Park, and at
Terra Alta, which is ten miles west of
Oakland. This, it is charged, is an I'M
just discrimination against Mountain
Lake Park, and the failure to stop
trains compels the guests at the hotel
who come largely from Baltimore,
Washington, Philadelphia and New
York, to drive two miles between Oak
land and Mountain Lake Park when
they arrive or depart on Sunday Mr..
G. NJ. Alexander appeared for the hotel
company.
MIR. Allen S Bowie, for the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, asserted
that the reasons for rot stopping trains
at Mountain Lake Park was an agree
ment between the company aud the
Mountain Lake Park Association. 10y
which the railroad obligated itself not
to stop its trains at Mountain Lake
Park on Sunday in consideration Of the
deed to the land occupied by the rail-
road station The Mountain Lake Park
Association, through its counsel, Judge
Thomas. Ireland Elliott. interviewed and
assumed the b rden Of denying that I'M
just and undue prejudice and disadyan-
tage existed. The Baltimore and Ohio
expressed itself as neutral declaring
that it was perfectly willing to stop its
trains if directed to do so by the com
mission.
Judge Elliott, for the interviewer,
stated that the Mountain Lake Park
Association had acquired the land in
Garrett county known as Mountain
Lake Park. to be set aside As a summer
resort for religious ana educational pur-
poses. Previous to the formation Of
this association other summer resorts
founded upon similar principles had been
interfered with in their maintenance of
the sanctity of the Sabbath by the com
ing in of outside parties and for the pur-
pose of precludihg the possibility of
such intrusion and avoiding Interrupt
tons which would necessarily be Incl
dent to the bringing in of Sunday ex-
cursion trains, it entered into an agree
ment with the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad on November 6, 1883, under
which it granted the land for the station
to the road, conveying nearly two acres
for the station, with the express under
standing that the road would not stop
any of its passenger trains at or near
the station.
In 1901 the Loeb Lynn Company pur-
chased its hotel The hotel property is
200 feet south of the Mountain Lake
Park station in the incorporated village
of Loeb Lynn, the railroad tracks being
practically the dividing line of the vii
lage and the property of the association
1t is claimed that but for the association
the hotel would not be in existence, nor
would there be any station.
The commission ruled that the con-
tract between the railroad and the asso-
citation could not in any degree justify
undue or unreasonable discrimination.
A carrier could not justify unreasonable
discrimination between localities in re-
fusing to stop its passenger trains at a
particular place on certain days by a
contract not to do so. But in the per-
Torrance of its passenger service a car
rier, continues the commission, operates
in a wide field of reasonable discretion
in the adaptation of its service to the
infinite variety of circumstances and
conditions confronting it. Only such
resulting determinations are due and
unreasonable are forbidden. The com
mission finds that the failure of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
to stop it's trains at Mountain Lake
Park is not an unreasonable discrimina-
ton in view of all the facts, circum-
stances and conditions.
raKaman Hurf nm tho Road