The daily banner., 1919-08-23
LITTLE JOURNEYS
In AN AlRSHlP
Flight in 1850 From Baltimore to
Tome Schooi-Over Hartford And
EeciI-Power Plant on Banks of
lhe Susquehanna.
(By J. Y. Brattan.)


August II, 1850.
When l arrived home from my
days outing two weeks ago in an
airship down the Western Shore of
the Chesapeake Bay, returning by
way of Salisbury, Horns Point, and
thence along the Eastern Shore of
the Bay to Rock Hall, and thence
back to Baltimore in this year OF
grace, 1850, l made up my mind to
get closer view of the inland towns
or rather miniature cities, including
Cambridge, Easlon, Denton, Center
vile, Chestertown and Elkton. The
first opportunity for this little jour
ney through inland Eastern Shore
came yesterday. My going route
was over the Great Springs Valley to
Bel Air, to Conowingo, TO Elkton, to
Chesapeake City, to Denton, to Fed
eralsburg, to Sharptown, to Berlin,
to Ocean City, to Pocomojle City,
where began my return journey via
Snow Hill, Cambridge, Oxford, Eas-
ton, Centerville, Chestertown, Perry
vile and Havre de Grace. Stops
were made at Bel Air, Conowingo,
Elkton, Chestertown, Centeryllle,
Cambridge, Ocean City, Pocomoke
City, Snow Hill, Oxford, Denton and
Havre de Grace.
1 find my days diary so long that
1 must carry in type as a continued
story. The next chapter will appear
on Sunday.
Perhaps this is an oportune time
for mention of the achievement of
science in the last 80 years Some
of my friends complain that men,
whose past is related in 1850, would
be far too old at that time to have
accomplished in their later years the
progress attributed to them. The fact
should be borne in mind that in 1850
science has made it possible for men
and women to live to be $50 years
and even a longer period without a
diminution in their mental and bodi-
ly powers.
l had made up my mind to make
this journey before I was reminded
of my duty to Cambridge by the fol-
lowing letter from Mrs. Susie Cleve-
land Robertson, of that city.
Cambridge, Aug. 4, 1850.
Mr. ]. Y. Brattan:
Ny dear Mr.. Brattan.-I was
much interested in your article in
The Sunday American containing an
account of the trip recently made by
you in your airship to the Eastern
Shore and was delighted to note the
prosperity of that section and the
great progress that had been made
since your boyhood days. But
want to ask if you were asleep when
you passed over the section from vi
emma to Horns Point that you made
no mention of the great city of Cam
bridge with it's 10000 population,
for you passed directly through, or
rather over, suburb of this city,
and it could not have escaped your
observation. l am told that when
you stopped at Salisbury you were
waited upon by delegation of citi-
zens who requested you to make no
mention of Cambridge in your ac-
count of your trip. This may be
true, or possibly you felt that this
city was so well-known as to need
mo ecomium from you. 1t is said
that the people who live in Minneap-
oils, Mimi, object to the New Testa-
ment because there is so much in it
about st. Paul, and I am told that
the citizens of our adjoining coun-
ties dislike to read the daily papers
because there is so much in them
about Cambridge. Why, the City
Council here is composed entirely of
ex-governors and then there are
enough left to run the banks, and a
man is not eligible for public Office
unless he has served a term as con-
gresham or in the United States
Senate, and these are the men who
made possible all the ferries, canals
and trolley lines you spoke of. No
bank or large corporation in Balti-
more is satisfied until they have at
least one Cambridge man on their
directorate. Cambridge has a daily
airship mail and passenger service
to Philadelphia, Annapolis, Balti-
more and Washington, and is the
home of countless business men who
make the trip each day to these
cities and return home in time for
supper. Cambridge is second only to
Baltimore in the shipment of oysters,
and the largest canning plant in the
world is located here. The growth
of Cambridge has been remarkable
in the last few years. East New Mar
ket has already become a part of
East Cambridge. and a petition has
been received from Hurlock asking
that that town shall be included in
the corporate limits. This anneXa-
ton is opposed by some for fear the
water supply might prove made
quate, but as the system was greatly
enlarged and the output more than
doubled in July, 1919, it is not thou
Sht that objection would hOld SO