The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-02-11
ElktOn Town Council
Takes Firm Stand

to the Pennsylvania Railroad people
by the Elkton Town Council and takes
the proper stand in the matter.-Ed !
Elkton, Md, Feb 9th, 1911.
A. J. Whitney, Esq, Supt. P, B. & w.
r. X. Co..
Dear Sir:-lt having been rumored
in this town, that the work. just start
ed by your company. OF moving its
station, at Elkton, contemplated the
setting back Oh the depot only four
feet from its present location and that
rumor having caused considerable ad
verse comment in this community, the
Commissioners OF the town, through
me, as its President, sought last week
to get into communication with you,
by telephone, so that we might pre-
sent to you what seems to us to be
strong objections to the rumored
change.
We learned from those in charge OF
your office that you were, and, for
some days, had been III, and we were,
courteously, informed that, as soon
as possible, we would be put into COM
munication with you.
A day or SO afterwards, we were
asked from your Office, to put in writ
ing and to send to you, our objections
in the matter mentioned. Hence this
letter.
Ii it be true that your Company in
tends to move the station only four
feet back from its present location, 1t
does seem to us that that such removal
will, wholly, fail to remedy the DALI
gerous conditions existing at that Sta
ton.
You know, Oh course, the state OF
things at that point-a narrow pave
ment-about SIX or eight feet wide
between the station, as it now stands
and the tracks OF the railroad and a
few hundred feet eastward OF the sta
ton an abrupt curve, almost entirely
hidden by dwelling houses and other
buildings, and, for several hundred feet
eastward OF the station, narrow
boardwalk, hemmed i'll, on one side,
by fence and on the other, the rail
road tracks.
a person starting on that board
walk, for the station, could not pos
sibly reach the station ahead OF a
train, coming from the north at the
rate OF forty or fifty miles an hour, /,
he make his start about the time the
train is rounding the curve.
Indeed, person standing at the
east end OF the station, itself, when
train running at the rate mentioned,
rounds the curve, could scarcely reacn
the door OF the station before the
train passed
l o be caught on the pavement or
boardwalk, under Such conditions in
wolves, as you can readily see, grave
danger to the person caught and the
fact is, many narrow escapes and
some deaths have occurred at these
points by reason OF the conditions
stated.
l he killing OF Mr.. James II. Whar-
ton, a Jew days ago, at that station,
has called the attention OF this COM
munlty and Its officials sharply to the
conditions mentioned, and was the oc
casion OF the recent protest made by
the Commissioners Ot this town to
your company.
That your company recognizes the
reaSOnaDlencSS OF the protest, Is evil
denced by the ,act that 1t has, within
SO short a time, started to remedy the
conditions named, but to under
take to remedy them by removal OF
the station only TOUR icet farther from
the tracks, seems to us, with all defer
ence TO you, to be the height OF absur-
dity.
vi course, it is more or less OF a
guess to say just how lar back the
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