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New Ocean City Bridge, connecting Maryland’s only seashore resort with the 
improved state roads of Maryland and Delaware. This bridge was secured 
largely through the efforts of Sen. Orlando Harrison and other Eastern Shore 
members of the General Assembly. 
Good Roads in Maryland 
“Roads rule the world—not kings nor congresses, not courts 
nor constables, not ships nor soldiers. The road is the only 
royal line in a democracy, the only legislature that never 
changes, the only court that never sleeps, the only army 
that never quits, the first aid to the redemption of any nation, 
the exodus from stagnation in any society, the call from 
savagery in any tribe, the high priest of prosperity after the 
order of Melchisedec, without beginnings of days or end of 
life. The road is umpire in every war, and when the new 
map is made, it simply pushes on its great campaign of help, 
hope, brotherhood, efficiency and peace.’’—Author unknown. 
No one will contradict the assertion that good roads are of the 
utmost importance in developing a farming community. Good 
roads are the links that connect the source of supply with the city 
market. Good roads save time in travel, permit larger and heavier 
loads with less team effort, and reduce the cost of hauling. 
Good roads mean that all fruit and vegetable crops will get to 
market with practically no damage in transport, thus assuring 
better prices for the products of your farm and more profits to the 
grower. A community with good roads is prosperous, is looking 
for improved methods of agriculture, and, in most cases, is a 
community in which one would like to settle and live. 
Maryland is noted for good roads, both on the mainland and on 
the Eastern Shore. The agricultural prosperity of the state has, in 
a large degree, come from the rapidity with which crops could be 
sent to Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, or other nearby points. 
During the past six years the Eastern Shore has been connected 
with Baltimore and with Wilmington, Del., by a line of concrete 
and macadam roads; and by way of Baltimore is directly con- 
nected with nearly 1,500 miles of improved roads in the state. On 
July 4, 1919, another link was completed when the new Ocean City 
Bridge was formally opened to traffic, thus connecting every 
county-seat town in Maryland with the Atlantic coast resort. 
Among the guests invited to the celebration were Gov. Emerson 
C. Harrington, of Maryland; Gov. John G. Townsend, of 
Delaware; Hon. John W. Smith, U. S. Senator; Mayor W. F. 
Broening, of Baltimore; Col. T. Coleman duPont; Senator 
Orlando Harrison; G. Clinton Uhl, John F. Mudd, H. C. Mc- 
Avoy, of the Road Commission; and Chief Engineer John 
N. Mackall. 
A new ferry has been put in operation this summer between 
Annapolis and Claiborne, thus giving a short route for trucks 
