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Tlu* Cumberland Westernport Transit Company has established a modern system «»l bus trans-portation from the City of ( um tier land by ofFrost burn; and I/onacomng to W esternpurt, It has (Hjiiippt'ci this venire with the safest and last, most comfortable and convenient busses that can Ik* had.This Company also operates its buss*** from Frostburg and the ( reek Towns to the plants of the Kelly-Springfield Tire t ompany and the Celanewe Company near the City of Cumberland. It has andwill place in operation on these lines as many bussesand as frequent schedules a the traveling public may require.Among the stockholders of this company are many Allegany county people who have received pr*1* ferred and common stock for their former holdings in the Cumberland Wes tern port Klee trie Kailway Company. It is therefore clowly identified with the people and the best interests of Allegany t ounty.It has expended most of its capita! in the purchase of busses and in the erection of a magnificent busterminal station in the City of Frost burg with modern romfortahle waiting rooms and facilities for the traveling public at a cost of approximately $50,000.tMI thus adding to the taxable basiv of the City of Frost burg and Allegany CountyThis Company pay s to the State of Maryland up wards of #12,(MMUM) a year in taxes and license tee* for permits to run blisses upon the public highways.It contributes to the welfare of Mlegany County by the employment of a considerable number of peopleof Frosthurg and Allegany ( ounty as Inis drivers, clerks, mechanics, etc.The revenues from its husves are deposited and kept in the Banks of Allegany lt;ounty and are largely expended among the people of this county.In more than two years of bus operation on the highways of the county not a single passenger has been injured by negligence of the bus operator*.The bus riding public will cheerfully attest the fact that these operators are a fine s*»t of young man hood, carefully trained in their duties, and alwaysdisplay every kindness and courtesy toward the traveling public.
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Cumberland Sunday Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Sun, Nov 11, 1928
Page 11
Full Page
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Andrew S.
MD, USA 02 Mar 2019
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