The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-04-06

Salisbury. Md, April 1.-The
proudest people IN the world are the
! citizens of Salisbury. They call their
little city Of 10000 inhabitants the
metropolis of the Eastern Shore.
IIey brag, blow and boast and on
! Saturday night strut the streets with
the airs and pIumage of peacocks.
| 1t is a great sight and to witness
| it the natives of Wicomico begin as
| sembling Just after the noon hour.
| With the going of the sun the streets
are filled with the country cousins.
| Eight o'clock finds the home folks
| weaving through the crowd, not in
confusion, but constantly shifting
back and forth. There was never a
| better dressed crowd than that which
| passes to and fro up and down Main
street Saturday. They love their
Main street, with its continuous COW
cred sidewalk and its little gilded
signs. If any loyal native is not
seen in the Saturday night promen-
tor. At 1890 the out-Of-town
guests depart, the cIang of the de-
parting buses serves as a curfew to
the home dWellerS. At II the streets
are given over to the custody of
Mayor Kennerly's finest. They, too,
stick out their chests and strut.
Yes, Salisburians are proud of
their great little city and here are
some of the reasons they give. They
boast that never has the word graft
been written upon the municipal
books and that whoever has been
elected to the municipal Offices has
been clean. In the campaign just
opening the battle in entirely upon
issues, and nothing is said about the
integrity of the candidates.
A visitor to the Chamber Of Com
merce has information literally
shovelled out to him. There is al
ways some one there usually Secre-
tary Freeman. The impression gain
ed from these Offices is lasting. They
are filled with comfort and dignity
and are at the disposal of any con-
ventions other than those of boot
leggers, the secretary says.
Salisbury has a river with turn
table in it. They call their stream
the Wicomico river. II worms its
way from the Chesapeake until 1t
finds Salisbury 80 miles from its
mouth 1t is a very narrow river, so
narrow in fact that the progressive
people have had dug a real wide
place at Salisbury so boats can turn
around, and they have labelled 1T
''Turntable."
Yet this same stream brought last
year to this city alone about 7O0,-
900 tons of freight, not including one
of the Hog Island wooden ships and
others brought to the shipyard. Cen.
orally the river is about 16 feet in
depth but there are two or three
Jumps that prevent any craft of more
than nine feet draft coming, so these
people are trying to prevail on the
Federal Government to do this
dredging as speedily as possible.
They tell the visitor with much
gusto that the Standard Oil Compansa
is about to erect on their river
very large gas and oil distributing
plant; that the commodities will be
brought in on "tankers" and dis
tributed by smaller craft.
"Oh, yes, they say, the Standard
will spend about $50;O00 on the pro-
ject /"
So now all of the more serious
problems of commercial betterments
being we'll in hand these irrepressi-
BILE people are turning their minds
for the moment to a public park.
Watch it grow. They have in their
vision a location in a grove. The
prettiest little lake runs right up the
middle. 1t is 500 feet wide-the
Lakeland about two miles in length
passing through a grove of oak
trees.
Of course they are not going to
stop with a park; they want a mu-
nicipal band and they will have both