Evening star., 1933-09-18
10 ORGANIZATIONS
Of EASTERN SHORE
Join FERRY FIGHT
Brief Backs Plea for Works
Fund for Chesapeake Beach,
Hudson Project.
TRADE GROUPS IN D. C.
PLAN AGGRESSIVE DRIVE
Announcement of Hearing Date
on $425,o0 Loan to Be
Made Soon.

The support of 16 trade, municipal
and service organizations Of the East
ern Shore counties of Maryland today
was thrown behind the movement to
establish a ferry service between Chesa-
peake Beach and Hudson, Md, for
which a public works loan of $425 900
IS being sought.
A brief requesting the Public Works
Administration to grant the loan was
filed by these groups on the eve of
announcement of public hearings short
ly to be held on the ferry project. Maj
Cary Brown, who is handling the appli-
cation at the administration headquar-
ters, said announcement of the hearing
date would be made within the next
day or two.
Meanwhile, Washingtons trade and
civic groups prepared to organize for
an aggressive campaign to bring about
the S425,000 loan to the Chesapeake
Beach Railway, to be combined with
private funds totaling $4,000, to
finance the link across the bay.
C. of C. Brief on File.
While no Joint committee" IS
Gated it will have representation at the
public hearings, to indorse the project.
A brief already Is on file with the Pub
lie Works Administration from the
Washington Chamber of Commerce,
which has been active in the movement
to establish the service.
This proposition is not selfish one
solely backed by railroad company"
Thomas P. Lttlepage, chamber presi-
dent. said today, but service much
needed by the people of the Eastern
Shore and Of Washington. 1t will re-
duce the distance between the Capital
and that Maryland territory by 40
miles, bringing the rich farm products
Of the Eastern Shore that much closer
to Washington The project affects
100000 people on the other side of the
bay, and 100000 in the metropolitan
area of Washington"
The municipal and trade organiza-
tions of the lower counties of the East
ern Shore, comprising Dorchester, SOM
erset, Wicomico and Worcester, in pre-
senting their brief asserted that i'm
mense benefits will accrue to these
counties by the establishment of ferry
service across the Chesapeake Bay be-
tween Hudson, Md, and Chesapeake
Beach. Md"
The brief goes into detail concerning
tt e economic development of the four
counties, and points out that existing
ferry services are too far north to be
adequate for proper vehicular ferry
service from the southern section to the
western shore Of the bay. and ARE par
ticularly ineffective as a means of ac-
cess to the Washington markets"
Signatories to the brief include the
mbridge-Dorchester Chamber of
Commerce County Commissioners of
Dorchester Courty, commissioners Of
Cambridge. Md: Dorchester Post No.
81, American Legion; commissioners of
Vienna. Md: commissioners of Mardela
Springs Md; the Salisbury Chamber
OF Commerce, Inc; Salisbury Lions
Club, commissioners of Princess Anne,
Md; Crisfleld Chamber of Commerce.
Business Mems Association of POGO
moke City, Rotary Club of Pocomoke
City, Snow Hul-Worcester Chamber Of
Commerce, Lions Club of Berlin and
Ocean City Md; City Council of Ocean
City, Nd and the ocean City Hotel
Owners Association.
A brief in protest against advance
ment OF funds for the project was filed
by the Claiborne Annapolis Ferry Co.,
which declared there is no public
need for the proposed ferry" This
company operates one OF two other
services across the bay, the other being
the Matapeake Ferry, both OF which
arr considerably farther down the bay
than the proposed ferry.