Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-09-17
COUNTYCOMM|SSIONERS
HOLD WEEKLY NEE TING
Two Days Later This Week On
Account of Primary Election.
DETAIL OF BUSINESS TRANSACTED
Officer Jones Asks for Two Weeks
Vacation Communication Pre-
Sented.

| Sented.
On account of the primary election
the Board of County Commissioners
for Anne Arundel met on Thursday
September 16 yesterday instead OF
Tuesday, as customary.
The Board was called to order at 10
a. m. by President James A. Walton,
and the following business in addition
to passing bills, was transacted:
Ordered, that the Clerk formally no
tify the Supervisors of Elections and
the other public boards and officers of
the county to make requsition to the
Baord on or before January l, 1916 for
the books, stationery, ballots, etc. as
prescribed by Section IT'S of the Local
Code of Anne Arundel county. (Chapter
| 269 of the Acts of 1862
| Ordered that the Clerk to the Board
and the County Treasurer be and they
are hereby authorized and directed to
correct the assessment of Mrs Mary H.
Murray by making the assessment of
stock conform to the proper market
value and to adjust the other items in
her statement.
| Upon the certificates of DR.. j. Oliver
| Purvis and DR.. Walton H. Hopkins,
| Daisy S. Thomas, 46 years old, of An
napolis. was committed to Springfield
Hospital for the Insane as county
patient.
The following communications were
received:
Baltimore, Md, Sept. 13 1915.
County Commissioners of Anne Arun-
del County, Annapolis, Md.
Gentlemen:
AS per your request of September z,
1 am willing to state that the Ches-
apeake and Curtis Bay Railroad Com
pany was organized for the purpose of
buying the present railroad tracks of
the U. S. Asphalt Refining Company
and of extending these tracks through
out the territory of that part of Locust
Point embracing the peninsula of land
surrounded on the northeast by the
Patapsco river and on the south and
west by Curtis Bay.
The object of the railroad is to ex-
| tend these tracks to the various man
| ufacturing industries located in that
territory for the purpose of giving
| them an outlet for their products not
only over the Baltimore C Ohio but
| over the Pennsylvania and Western
Maryland railroad
The railroad further hopes to be the
means OF inducing industries to locate
in this territory by extending to them
adequate and satisfactory railroad SER
vice on a competitive basis. The ad-
vantages of this proposed road are nu-
merous.
An application was made in conform
ity with the law some time ago to the
Public Service Commission asking the
right to exercise a franchise. No OBJ
lection was made to this on the part of
any corporation or individual except
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, which
practically claimed the right to exer-
| else monopoly In this territory. I'm
til the application for franchise of the
| Chesapeake & Curtis Bay railroad, the
premium rate was in effect in that ter
ritory by which shippers were COM
PEELED to pay considerably more for the
shipping of their goods than the indus
tries in the other territories were com
PEELED to pay if the same was shipped
to any point not directly on the Balti-
more & Ohio.
Since this application and as rea-
son why it should not be grained, the
premium rate has been abolished on
asphalt and its products shipped in car
load lots, although this rate has not
been abolished on other kinds of pro-
duets.
The building of the Chesapeake &
Curtis Bay railroad means not only the
building of other industries subject to
taxation, but also an increase in the
taxable basis upon the Railroad Com
pany's property itself
The Baltimore & Ohio, although it
has done practically nothing in the way
OF Improvement in this territory for
many years, now offers to make better
ments to its service. 1t is to be no
ted. however, that notwithstanding the
betterment made by the Baltimore &
Ohio it, of itself, adds nothing to the
taxable basis.
Anne Arundel county can only grow
to any large extent by reason of the
development of industries and public
improvements,
The testimony produced at the hear
fng before the Public Service Commits
sion demonstrated that the policy of
! the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and its
monopoly Of the railroad service in
that territory retarded public devel-
opment.
This is the first time 1 have ever
known OF an objection to a public i'm
provement which means so much to the
territory in which it is located.
1t occurred to me that the approval
OF this project by you gentlemen, who
are so concerned with the upbuilding
OF your county and the lowering of
your tax rate, would be wise and a
proper course to pursue.
Again thanking you for your cour-
tesy to me, remain,
Very truly yours,
]. GOODMAN BOYD.
On motion of Commissioner Myers,