Smyrna times., 1925-12-23
DELAWARE EASTERN SHORE ARE
READY TO BOOST PENINSULA
EXPECTED TO JOIN MOVEMENT
TO ADVERTISE THE PENINSULA
Meeting to Perfect Plans Will Be
Held in Salisbury, Monday, Dec. %.
See Possibilities Equal to Florida

see IOSSl DllltleS EqudI 10 FlOrlud
Fred Adkins, of Salisbury, held
conference with some of the business
men of Easton Wednesday in regard
to a boom of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland, Virginia and Delaware.
Talbot county has a committee at
work now, raising several thousand
dollars for advertising purposes, and
Mr.. Adkins is very anxious to have
the entire shore in on the PROPOSE
ton.
A month or two ago the project
was Matched at a meeting of the Ro-
tary Club of Easton, and since then
it has enlarged and grown into a
countrywide committee soliciting fund
to carry out the original idea.
Salisbury heard of the idea and
sent Mr.. Adkins here once before TO
try and induce Talbot to allow the
rest of the counties to join in the
movement. Mr.. Adkins went back
with a comprehensive report on the
attitude of the other counties of the
Eastern Shore of Maryland, the two
counties of the Eastern Shore of Vir-
ginia, and three counties Of Delaware.
He said these counties are all very
much interested in the possible de-
velOpment and felt sure that the
proper thing to do was to take in the
entire peninsula.
Mr.. Adkins went so far as to sug-
gest the formation of the Eastern
Shore Peninsula Association, with
headquarters at some place to be Sc
lected. The purposes of this organ
izatiOn is to promote the migration
of people and the flow of capital into
the peninsula-and to keep them both
when they come; to advertise and
publicize the peninsula, its lands, re-
sources, opportunities, and products;
to develop and encourage its indus
tries to create an increased demand
for its lands, to expand its markets,
at home and abroad to promote its
resorts and tourists possibilities, and
in general to make the peninsula a
better place in which to live and an
increasingly profitable place in which
to do business.
The outline for a complete organ
izatiOn has been drawn up, and this
will be fully explained at meeting
of representative men to be held at
Salisbury, on Monday morning, De
cember %, at 1O.30, in the WicOmco
Hotel. Delegations from every coun-
ty mentioned have promised to attend
and it will be decided then whether
to go ahead with the peninsula pro-
ject OF abandon it.
Talbot business interests promised
to attend the meeting, and a big del
egation will leave Easton for the
meeting. In the meantime Easton is
going ahead with its plans. and in
case the other counties decide to unite
they will be asked to raise at least
$4,000 to match Talbot's sum.
Mr.. Adkins stated that the duPonts
of Wilmington, together with some
other influential men of that city, are
ready to back the movement Mil
ford and Dover are also interested,
and from reports received from the
various counties on the peninsula the
project looks Ike an assured thing.
About S150,000 will be raised in
case the idea is carried on From
this sum a complete organization will
be perfected, including a research de-
partment, a market bureau, resorts
and summer homes bureau, and pub
licity. Other divisions will also be
made until the complete organization
is provided for
Mr.. Adkins says that the shore has
the brains and the money to develop
it, and unless they are used in that
direction others will step in before
long and do the work and reap the re-
ward. For this reason Wicomico
county is anxious that Talbot should
unite with the other counties. Any
increase in population anywhere on
the Eastern Shore benefits the entire
district. Any increase in land values
he continued, in any one Of the East
ern Shore counties, is inevitably re-
fiected in all the other counties.
Plans have just been completed by
the Talbot Sunday School Association
for taking a complete census of the
county. 1t is said that Talbot has
10000 white residents. About 5000
of these are on the church books. The
rest are not. A census will locate
the people not attending and also as
certain their UNCONVENTIONAL prefer.
ence.
About 500 workers will start on the
work on January 10. From the 3rC
to 10th of January these workers will
attend schools for instruction, being
taught how to go about the census
taking and becoming familiar with
the manner in which the data is to bC
collected. Practically every church il
the county is behind the movement.