Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-11
BALTIMORE BUSINESS
MEN FIND NO FAVOR
FOR BAY BRIDGE PLAN
Commltsee Finds Tn Favor Of Ferry
system As More Prnctical Than
Proposed Bridging Oh The Bay

Proposed Bridging Oh The Bay
Al last nights meeting Of tho First
Branch city council OF Balsimore,
report, which Is Of interest to Annap-
oils. was submitted This report
which disapproyes nf the proposed
bridge across the bay, and recon-
mends line 81 ferry steamers or bet
ter boat facilities al the best means
of bringing the Eastern shore trade to
Baltimore. was submitted by,a special
committee appointed some time ago TO
cooperate with the Merchants and
Manufacturers association In pro-
noting closer commercial rela ions be-
tween baltimore and the Eastern
Shore OF Marylnad .
The committee said TIM, after lnYes-
ttgation ii reached the conclusion that
the principal reason SO large i pOr
.tion of The trade of the Eastern Shore
goes 10 Philadelphia and New York Is
due in large measure to progressive
business methods practiced hy the
merchants and dealers Iii those cities.
Fayors Ferryboats
The Eastern Shore. says the COM
mittee ii SO indented with rivers and
inless that a large part Of the shore Is
within easy access 0f vessels and the
distance Is so comparatively small be-
tween the shore and Baltimore as TO
require really little more than proper
ferry boat service and that h bridge
over the Chesapeake would have very
little effect Ia regaining this trade.
especially II tolls we're charged I'M
less the bridge was built very high the
committee points out, II would inter
fere with an intra waterway between
New England and the Gulf Of Mexico,
which has been recommended The
committee says IL agrees with the edi-
toriai In The Baltimore sun. og Jan
uary 3l. headed 'Ferry's more prac-
tical than q bridge over the bay" and
which concludes. the Chesapeake
bay bridge ii an attractiYe idea, but
commonsense condens II
Fa,ors Educational Campaign
The committee then made the fol-
lowing recommendation
First An educational campaign
among our business men TO induce
them to make the same efforts for the
Eastern Shore trade which are made
BY the business men of Philadelphia
and New York.
Scond An adequate and eonven-
lent ferry system or better boat facil-
tiles 20 ply between Baltimore City and
the Eastern Shore of Maryland sup
piemented II possible BY trolley line
between the principal
cities and towns on the Eastern Shore
and connecting with the ferry system
or steamboat system,
The report was signed by Samuel
Il, West, chairman, and Edward s.
Stanley. Of the First Branch. and DR..
IL. r. Downes, Of the Second Branch.
Richard Nj Sheckella, the Republican
member from the Second Branch, with
held his signature, stating that ne de-
sired more time for consideration Of
the question
Mi. West asked the First Branch 10
adopt the report, but objection TO the
section opposing the bridge was raised
BY Albert g Tolson, OF the Sixteenth
ward.
Mr. Tolson said the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company had bought up all
the steamboat lines plying between
Baltimore and the Eastern Shore. and
gave such service as made II almost
impossible to continue good trade re-
Iations between this city and the
shore
Mr. Tolson said i ferry would help
but would not solve the problem. and
declared that he did no. think the city
council should 20 on record as being
opposed TO bridge
Mr. West said the committee was
NOT condemning the bridge propo-
sition.. but did not think the cost would
justify the state to build It.
President O'Meara suggested that
the report be printed la the Journal. To
give the members 81 the branch time
IN which 10 study II. and that ii be
made the special order for next Mon
day night.