Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-09
PRAISE FOR COL. MCINTOSH.
Quaker City Paper Calls Him Rash
Man"-Had Temeritv To Present
His Own Case.

The following from the fhliadel-
phia North American concerning the
president of the Chamber of Com
merce of Annapolis, and the presi-
dent of the Eastern Shore Develop
ment Steamship Company, is of pc
culiar local interest. The North
American, in its Fourteenth Open
Letter" says:
"In July last the interstate com
merce commission heard complaint
of the Eastern Shore Developme Mt
STEAMSHIP, Company against the Bal
timore. Chesapeake and Atlantic
Railway, part of the Pennsy system.
When the proceedings opened the
emf aent counsel Tor the railroad
smiled pityingly when il was learned
that the complainant had no counsel.
The rash mana. j. Mcintosh,
president of the steamship company
had the temerity to present his own
case. Incidentally, the railroad at
torneys did not supply him with a
copy of their answer until after the
proceedings began.
"Yet he actually bearded the great
Pennsylvania Railroad, if we may
use so ridiculous a figure, and meta
phorically banged its mighty head
against the wall of the hearing room
until it was dizzy. If you could read
the record, gentlemen, as we have,
we are sure you would be not only
edited, but relieved of much of your
awe of that corporation.
"Mr. Mcintosh showed that about
March, 1919, his company began to
operate a steamer across the bay be-
tw zen Annapolis and Claiborne, pro-
viding the shortest route to and from
the Eastern Shore. From the be-
ginning, the enterprise was fiouted
and harassed by the Pennsylvania.
The methods employed 10 Edestroy
other competitive conce rms, Mr.. Nc
Intosh mildly remarked, suggested
1.-THE pirate stories of Captain
Kidd But against his company
there was used nothing worse than
meanness, trickery and arrogant re-
fusal to cooperate in the public ser
vice
"Then Pennsy refused to partici-
pate in joint-fare arrangemen ts. 1t
changed is schedules without. notice,
thus making the independent steamer
miss connections. 1t arbitrarily dis
criminal I'd in the starting of its
trains, often leaving dozens IF pas
.sngers from the Claiborne steamer
stranded on the pier.
of the Annapolis boat arrived at
Claiborne half an hour before train
time, the train doors would be locked
to prevent the passengers from en-
tering the cars. If, on arrival of a
train, the Annapolis Claiborne boat
was waiting and the Pennsy boat de-
layed, the passe myers baggage would
be held on the train, so that the Clai-
borne steamer could not get away.
Often the train would pull out while
the steamer was approaching the
pier. When the steamship company
built boardwalk from its pier &C
the railroad station and started to
erect a cover over il for the protec-
ton of passengers, the railroad or
dcred its removal.
can these things Mr.. Mcintosh
put in evidence in the most brazen
manner. And, will you believe it, he
was neither blasted nor shrivelsd
for his temerity. On the contrary,
after few hours, the Pennsy's coun-
sci suggested conference, and the
end of il was that they formally
agreed 10 grant every one of the de-
mands made by the complainant.
The advantage to the Pennsy in this
complete surrender was that the COM
mission, on September last, dis
mis- sed the whole proceeding witho ut
re recording a humiliating order it
appearing that the matters involved
have been satisfactorily adjusted.