The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-06-06

lie was impressed with the comfort.
contentment, and happiness Of the
people wherever he went. He saw the
results of the work of cooperation.
that is, of boards of trade and of similar
bodies. He saw new homes, not built
in haphazard way, in manner to find
use for odd ends of lumber and stone,
but according to the best architects
plans. On the outskirts of Cumberland
he saw the beginning of new water
supply for the city to cost $3.50, 900.
He saw the plenteous use of paint, on
buildings. He saw the liberal applica-
ton of whitewash to fences and out
buildings. He saw tidy women plying
the paint and whitewash brushes.
In the hills at whose base the old Ma
tional pike wendell its way along lines
surveyed by army engineers, who blazed
the way to the Western prairies, the
Governor was told there were in
exhaustible deposits of cement stone
and of brick clay. Mr.. Andrew Ramsay,
one of the Road Commissioners, and who
is successful brick manufacturer at
Mount Savage, told him of the wealth
that lies in the now SCARED hills. Mr..
Ramsay is contemplating the erection
of a million-dollar finishing plant near
New York. Maryland clay will be eX-
tensivelY used.
Over the mountains local residents
call them hills, which rise like sentinels
between Cumberland and Hancock, the
automobiles safely carried their passen-
gers. But how they burned gasoline,
How they had to be turned and twisted
in rounding curves How the brakes
were strained as the huge machines de-
scended the slopes. How they puffed
and Iabored as sthey climbed mountain
sides. How teams Of horses and mules
ever pulled heavy wagons over those
mountains is a mystery. But then the
old National pike was kept in decent re-
pair. 1t was not the debris of loose
rocks it now is. The Governor found
compensation for the ever recurring
bumpety bumps The wildly scamper-
ing, unbridled and non-diverted rain, in
its unchecked rush down the precipitous
road, had not carriedithose loose stones
with it. They are there, waiting pa
tiently to be restored!to the roadbed, to
be crushed into earth by the steam
roller, to be hidden under a smooth top
surface.
When the Governor and his companions
descended from the last of the mountain
ranges before Hancock hove in sight
their eyes swept over the most beauti-
full apple orchards in the Atlantic states.
Fanlike from the mountain side were
these Torchards spread out, all in full
foliage. The weary travellers took
flight in time and in imagination gazed
upon those orchards in the autumn when
laden with the luscious fruit. This apple
industry, while not new one in Wash
ington county, is in new stage of de-
velopment and progress. The apple is
succeeding the peach, whose bud is too
susceptible to frosts to yield profitable
crop each successive year. The or
chards below the frost line" in the
county successfully withstood the 30
degree weather of last win
Their. An abundant crop is in sight. 1t
will also be a profitable crop despite the
expense incidental to the spraying of
orchards. In the modern development
of the apple industry orchardists are
studying varieties. They are striving
to find the variety that will best endure
the severe winters and that will at the
same time produce the "best sellers.
Within a radius of 10 miles of Hancock
are zee, 600 apple trees. In the modern
development of orchards three MARI
landers have been conspicuously at the
front, Mr.. E. P. Cohill, Of Hancock,
and the Messrs. Harrison of Berlin,
Worcester county.
From Hancock to Hagerstown, dis
lance of 20 miles, and oyer road that
was hillv and full of hillocks for over
half the distance, the Governor saw the
supreme and successful test of Mary
land-madeTautomobiles-h dozen of
them. They were the Crawford ma
chimes, made in Hagerstown by the
company of which Mr.. M. P. Moller,
who accompanied the party, is presi-
dent. In Hagerstown the Governor
saw the factory where 200 machines
are turned out annually, and the output
cannot meet the demand. Hagerstown
unlike some other cities in MARYLAND,
appreciates home product. One-half
of the automobiles in use in Hagerstown
were manufactured by the Crawford
Company. In addition to managing the
the automobile plant, Mr.. Moller has
also built hotel, which is the pride of
Hagerstown, the Dagmar.
The Governor returned to Annapolis
far wiser man, he SAID, more deeply i'm
pressed with the growth and progress
of Western Maryland and equally i'm
pressed with its possibilities for the
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