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Description: Negotations Between Worcester & B.C.& A. Railway for Sinepuxent Bridge
Date: June 16 1900Newspaper published in: Baltimore
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Negotations are pending between the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Company and Worcester County, Maryland, for the use of the railroad bridge across Sinepuxent Bay for highway purposes. Recently the railroad company bought control of the bridge from the Ocean City Bridge Company. A dispatch from Ocean City on Thursday stated that the company had decided that after June 15 use of the bridge would be limited solely to the purpose of the railroad. As this is the only bridge across the bay, such action would cut off all other traffic to and from Ocean City.
General Manager WILLARD THOMPSON of the railroad company said yesterday that this was a mistake, as the county had been offered the use of the bridge at $750 a year. It previously paid $500 a year, but Mr THOMPSON stated that this was insufficient to keep up the bridge for county roads purposees.