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operated a business that included hauling, excavation, plowing, moving, and laying concrete. His
company subcontracted the excavation for the building of People's Home Furnishers recently vacated at 21 East Potomac Street. He also poured the concrete flooring for the social room at Bethany Lutheran Church. In the late 1920'sand 30's, Mervin Joy, drayman for the Railway Express Agency here, also delivered freight around town. He started with horse and wagon, but many today still remember him and his little pickup truck. The Railway Express Agency was an independent carrier developed to expedite package shipments which were handled in express cars on passenger trains. B&O handled such shipments which Railway Express originated and terminated locally. Pat Barger of Wenner's Hill also did some truck hauling related mostly to agricultural and construction work. Sometimes hauling was done by owners of teams of horses, a Mr. Chew and a John Mills being men in that endeavor. Some of the people who hauled coal, discussed elsewhere in this chapter, also did general hauling and even moved household furniture. An endless list of haulers could be made, because in harder times, anyone who could drive and who owned or could borrow a truck did a bit of hauling at one time or another. Such was the need to scramble to make a living during the Depression.
was later purchased from "Cook" by his brother, "Sonny." A landfill was set up and used behind Radio WTRI. It was finally terminated, and now the city pays the county for permission to haul Brunswick waste to the county landfill. S - Louise Cannon - Dutch Burns W-WHH -MMM
HOTELS (From the Maryland Directory 1890' s -1925)
VIRGINIA HOTEL - Along the tracks (Gazetteer 1909-10-11) YARDLEY HOTEL - (Name later changed to Potomac Hotel). Located on East Potomac Street across from YMCA. Became a transient residence center during 1930's Depression. FOUT HOUSE - (Brunswick Herald 3/6/1891, Corner of Potomac and Market Street, one square from B&O. CITY HOTEL - (1895) on plat of New Town 1787; Potterfield owner; faced Second or Middle Street, Lot No. 38. JORDAN'S BOARDING HOUSE, 1895
GARBAGE DISPOSAL As with general hauling, various trucks were available for removing garbage and trash. In the early 1930's, Rex Woernle could be contracted for that purpose. The disposal of waste was an individual homeowner's responsibility, the operation sometimes being carried out by a neighbor boy with a small wagon and tub. The dump sites were numerous too, one being at the top of Delaware Avenue, one off East "B" Street, and one off "D" Street and Third Avenue - where a natural depression existed for filling. On Wenner's bottom land farm between the canal and the river, trash haulers, as well as individuals, disposed of their trash, even the "honey dippers." Every year, when the high waters came, they would wash away part of the d ebris down river, and the "dumpers" would continue dumping. Roy "Cook" Cannon once provided a home pickup trash service before the 't own assumed responsibility for garbage collection, and his service was the first contracted by the town. That business
LUCAS BOARDING HOUSE, 1899 McDONALD'S BOARDING HOUSE, 1895 MRS. MORTIMER'S BOARDING HOUSE, 1895 CRUMMETT BOARDING HOUSE HOTEL ELGIN - (Directory 1896) Lot 29, Bridge Street, now Virginia Avenue. (From an ad in the Brunswick Maryland Business Directory of 1896: "HOTEL ELGIN, J. L. Elgin, Pro'r, Cor. Bridge & Railroad Sts., Brunswick, Md. A brand new firstclass hotel. Headquarters for commercial travelers, tourists, fishermen, wheelmen, &c. In the immediate vicinity of the finest fishing grounds of the Potomac. Rates reasonable. Livery attached." AMERICAN HOTEL - (Directory 1896) South side of Water Street. (From an ad in the Brunswick Maryland Business Directory of 1896: "AMERICAN HOTEL, JAS. D. GLETNER, PROPRIETOR, RAILROAD ST. Rates $1.00 per day. Special rates by the week and month. Airy, comfortable rooms. First-class fare. All home comfort~. W-BLC
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