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BERLIN, MARYLAND 
On the state road from Berlin to Baltimore. Can you imagine a more beautiful drive? 
But a change in these things was due, and the farming interests of the Eastern 
Shore began to look around for someone who would faithfully represent their 
interests in the State Legislature. The farmers picked Orlando Harrison; first, 
because they knew he was honest; second, he was a farmer, a business man, 
and a gentleman. Election day came-—and when the votes were counted it 
was “Senator Harrison.” That was in 1913, and the Senator took his seat in 
the Maryland State Senate in 1914. 
Now, what has been done in four years? 
The Eastern Shore has been connected with Baltimore by a main trunk 
line of improved concrete and macadam roads, and with Wilmington, Delaware, 
by another line now in process of construction. The Baltimore road connects 
with more than 1,200 miles of concrete and macadam roads in the state of 
Maryland. One of these roads runs direct to Ocean City, and on one day last 
summer more than twenty-five hundred automobiles covered that stretch of 
road. 
Senator Harrison has secured from Gen. T. Coleman du Pont, of Wilmington,. 
Delaware, a promise to build, without cost to the state, a concrete road from the 
Du Pont road to Showell, a distance of about three miles. This road will cost 
the General over $40,GOO, but it will be his contribution to the roads of Maryland. 
The Senator believes that the state should control all main roads running 
through incorporated towns; that the state should complete at once all unim¬ 
proved gaps in the road system; and that certain sections should be made wider 
beeause of the heavy and increasing traffic. 
A new highway bridge is in construction to connect Ocean City with the 
mainland, thus doing away with the dangerous ride on the railroad bridge. 
This new bridge, which is 1,400 feet long, will cost about $190,000; but it will 
save to the county $1,200 a year in tolls paid to the railroad company, and 
form a permanent link in the road system of the state. One of Mr. Harrison’s 
assoeiates. Senator Legg, of Queen Anne County, Maryland, in an address made 
a short time ago before the Eastern Shore Society, had this to say about Sena¬ 
tor Harrison’s efforts in connection with the Ocean City Bridge, and his interest 
in other matters of importance throughout the entire state of Maryland: 
“It was Senator Harrison, and he alone, who secured the Ocean City Bridge. 
