The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-02-11

yfrx4nsa.s quarrel with the daugh-
ter State wrenched from her by the
CAesArtan operation comes up once
more to remind the world how long
such q disagreement may i've, AS
matter OF Fact. this question or rev
million dollars between the two states
once one, although now half CEN
tury ,oid. has not persisted so long
as some other Interstate ouarreis
Hardly any two neiEhboring States OF
the union have escaped such dlss-
Kreements usually boundary cues
tons involving territorial claims and
matters OF jurisdiction and SOW
ereienty.
PENNSYLVANIA had such with vir-
Ysnia In very early days. and New
Fork long quarrcled with Connecticut
over the eccentricites Of their com
mon boundary Massachusetts, ana
Rhode Island had such Quarreis, ac-
aording to the Philadelphia Record.
Other such questions arose in the
West and the South. and Maryland
once made a claim that had II been
successfully enforced, would have
made West Virginia a state OF two
separate parts. one isolated from the
other by intervening territory NOT
within West Elrginias jurisdiction.
Courts and commi ss!ons have been
DGNy GENIEk Win SUCH AalAt4 So
questions from the very foundation OF
the Union and many such quarrels
were inherited from Colonial days
Two 81 the Oldest OF these quarreis
were those between Delaware and her
neirhhors Pennsvlvanis and New
.Tsrsev These two questions came
down from Colonial times and were
both related 70 the most famous
BOUNDARY Of the Western Hemisphere
Mason and Dixon's line. The begin
nings of the quarrels between rem
syivar.3h and Delaware preceded tne
coming Of william Penn by full gem
Grafton. for long before he accepted
the grant of Pennsylvania in payment
~ a rovsl debt. the early settlers Of
this future principal!ty and the Cath
Ollie adheren.s Of Lord Baltimore were
warning over the boundary that we
now cali Mason and D!xon's line.
In many border forays the Ca'ho-
lie MaryIanlers charged with the
cry. Hey. for ST Mary" and the stern
calvfnis.s struck home with the an
swering CRY. Tn the name OF God
fallen. - Ik-reaa!rad- mnre-tn IA
century TO establish the boundary be-
tween the lands OF the Penns and
those Of the Calverts. and after that
boundary had been accepted By al
concerned. there remained the famous
'.TTat Iron as a subject OF quarrel be-
tween the future states OF Pennsyi-
vania and Delaware.
The fat iron contains only a few
hundred acres. far less than Bohemia
Manor conferred upon Augustine
Hermann hy the Caiverts In return
fo- the map which he made showing
the northern boundary of Maryland
as far north as the city that Penn
was to found on the Delaware
more than twenty years later, map
that hsiped 10 turss. this ancient
quarrel, and keep 1t alive Throughout
most OF Pennsylvan;a's Colonial
period.
In the quarrel over the fiat iron.
Delaware took the characteristic at
ti.ude Of a fierce little dog nghting
mast.r. Az a matter Of form, Penn
svfvania tried now ana then to assert
jurisdiction over the triangle of lovely
farming country with hills and for
es, bits and sparkling streams and
pleasant old homesteads. but most OF
the inhabitants declined 70 be counted
M Pennsylvanians. and finally Penn
syivan.a coded the region 10 Della
ware, but Delaware proudly declined
10 do ought 10 accept the cession upon
the ground that nobody could cede to
her what had always been hers, Only
within the past twenty years have