Evening Capital

It gives us great pleasure to note that that influential journal, "The Baltimore Sun," in its issue of Saturday, has adopted the views heretofore repeatedly expressed in The Capital, in relation to the proposed Eastern Shore railroad. The Capital has more than once stated that the bay terminal of the road was too far south, and that it should extend up the peninsula as far as Kent Island and cross the bay from Broad creek to Annapolis, and by the Short Line to Baltimore. On this point, the Sun says:

"The bay shore terminus of the proposed road is near the mouth of Eastern bay. This location throws the line too far south to make it practicable for diverging lines through the northern half of the peninsula. By moving the line to the northward and making Broad creek, Kent Island, the bay shore terminus, an admirable location would be secured, about equi-distant from points to the northward as well as southward, but the line would still be rather local than general. Broad creek was from earliest times and until within a comparatively recent period the harbor for ferry-boats which accommodated the tide of travel between the Eastern Shore and Annapolis. It is at about the narrowest portion of the bay, and is obviously the proper point of concentration for a cross-country line having Annapolis as the objective point."

The Sun also agrees with us that the endorsement of the proposed road's bonds by the city of Baltimore, is of doubtful propriety. "If," says the Sun, "the results claimed as likely to follow the construction of the road have a tangible basis, it would seem that there ought to be sufficient public spirit and liberality among our business men to insure the subscription of the sum required without resorting to the doubtful expedient of lending the city's credit. Private capital invested in such undertakings is invariably better looked after than public funds. So much is this the case that private ownership seems often to make the difference between success and failure. It may be questioned, therefore, whether our business men, in case they become convinced that the Eastern Shore road, well managed, will be a paying property, would not do the wiser thing to put their own money into it instead of advising the city to lend its credit."

This pointed endorsement of our views by so able and influential a journal, induces us to hope that the gentlemen who are so deeply interested in the construction of the Eastern Shore road may be led to see their error in persisting in establishing a route that will be more beneficial to a few landowners in Talbot county, than to the public at large and the financial success of the enterprise generally.