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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">What an <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN>interesting</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN>fantasy</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> you have made up about the history of <SPAN id=misspell-2><SPAN id=misspell-2><SPAN id=misspell-0>Riverdale</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> Park. Spoken like a true <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-3><SPAN>business</SPAN></SPAN>man who <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-4><SPAN>doesn't</SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-5><SPAN>live</SPAN></SPAN> in the town he craps in.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">A history lesson for those who don't know - </SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The so called <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-6><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-3><SPAN id=misspell-1>Cafritz</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-7>property</SPAN> was <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-8><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-4><SPAN>originally</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> owned by one of Charles <SPAN id=misspell-9><SPAN id=misspell-5><SPAN id=misspell-2>Benidict</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-10><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-6>Calvert's</SPAN></SPAN> sons. It was called <SPAN id=misspell-11><SPAN id=misspell-7><SPAN id=misspell-3>McAlpine</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>. The government <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-12><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-8><SPAN>commandeered</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> the <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-13>property</SPAN> for temporary housing <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"
id=misspell-14>during</SPAN> WWII for round the clock employees at <SPAN id=misspell-15><SPAN id=misspell-9><SPAN id=misspell-4>ERCO</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>,</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"> and later it was used as <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-16><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-10><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-5><SPAN>dormitories</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> for returning <SPAN id=misspell-17><SPAN id=misspell-11><SPAN id=misspell-6>GI's</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> with <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-18><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-12><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-7><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">families</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> who attended the University of Maryland.</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"> It was one step above a trailer park. </SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The town government of <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-19><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-13><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-8>Riverdale</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> was never happy with the <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-20><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-14><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-9><SPAN>deteriorating</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> temporary housing. It was finely abandoned and plowed under <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-21><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-15><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-10><SPAN>roughly</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> 12 years after it was built.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The property was purchased in the late 1950's by the <SPAN id=misspell-22><SPAN id=misspell-16><SPAN id=misspell-11>Cafritz</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> family at a public auction. The <SPAN id=misspell-23><SPAN id=misspell-17><SPAN id=misspell-12>Cafritz's</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> let the Historic <SPAN id=misspell-24><SPAN id=misspell-18><SPAN id=misspell-13>McAlpine</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> house to go to ruin, though many <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-25><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-19><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-14><SPAN>attempts</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> were made to save it by the <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-26><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-20><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-15><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">interested</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> public. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The property has been sitting empty since 1957. It is filled with mature trees that are at least 54 years old, much older than you Yorke.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Like you Yorke, <SPAN id=misspell-27><SPAN id=misspell-21><SPAN id=misspell-16>Carfitz's</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> don't live in <SPAN id=misspell-28><SPAN id=misspell-22><SPAN id=misspell-17>Riverdale</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> Park. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">If you love to see more cement, you should be advocating it in your own town, not in ours.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The people of <SPAN id=misspell-29><SPAN id=misspell-23><SPAN id=misspell-18>Riverdale</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> Park want to preserve <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-30><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-24><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-19>natue</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> and the small town feel that makes this place unique. A place that <SPAN id=misspell-31><SPAN id=misspell-25><SPAN id=misspell-20>harkens</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> back to the original raiload suburb built in the late 1800's.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">We don't need to help outside poachers, enriching their coffers at the <SPAN id=misspell-32><SPAN id=misspell-26><SPAN id=misspell-21>expence</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> of the citizens of our town.</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto" dir=ltr>My friend Gerald,
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman and American folk hero, was also a land speculator. By the time he was 65, Boone was washed up in real estate and complained that he had too many neighbors in Kentucky. He moved to eastern Missouri in 1800 where he lived another 20 years. (Actually, after the Budweiser sale to a Belgium firm a few years ago, I hear that St. Louis is pretty-much a ghost town -- no rush hour! The brew is still made there but all of the decision-makers, marketing team are gone.)
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<DIV>And, to call the <SPAN id=misspell-35><SPAN id=misspell-29><SPAN id=misspell-24>Cafritz</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> clan "speculators" is a stretch. They have owned the property since the mid-1940s. (During the second World War, the place was a neighborhood of government-built shanties, housing those broken by the Great Depression. Anyway do we really think the <SPAN id=misspell-36><SPAN id=misspell-30><SPAN id=misspell-25>Cafritz</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> family should be forced to keep their property green so we'd all have nice drive? If that's what you're looking for, consider gassing up for a drive down the B-W Parkway, the G-W Parkway, or the stunning Blue Ridge Parkway. </DIV>
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<DIV>Andy why shouldn't the avenues to the nation's capital be lined with thriving commercial enterprises? Don't we want to be vibrant with a strong working/middle class? Why not let the businesses of America risk their dough to make money and provide a better economy? </DIV>
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<DIV>As far as asking the government buying property and turning it into parkland -- NUTS! It's already done. Skyline Drive, Greenbelt State Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Bryce and on and on. (Haven't we spent enough on that huge U.S. Capitol Building five miles away where NOTHING seems to get done!) </DIV>
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<DIV>Remember New York Tribune publisher Horace Greeley's advice in an 1865 editorial: "go West, young man." </DIV>
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<DIV>Actually that is paraphrased. The entire quote is even more on target today than ever before:</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto" class=yiv664094886gmail_quote>On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 8:50 PM, <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:gerald@geraldking.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:gerald@geraldking.com">gerald@geraldking.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<WBR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; RIGHT: auto" class=yiv664094886gmail_quote><SPAN id=misspell-37><SPAN id=misspell-31><SPAN id=misspell-26>Riverdale</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>’s a nice place to live. Parks, river, historic mansion, trains<BR>and quiet residential neighborhoods. It’s also a suburb of a bureaucratic<BR>metropolis or the Capital of the United States of America.<BR>Along its northern boundaries is the oldest federal highway in the<BR>country-Route One. Ounce a major artery leading into the Capital, it long<BR>ago gave in to commercial interests and offers little of the bucolic<BR>ambiance of the Maryland countryside.<BR>I’<SPAN id=misspell-38><SPAN id=misspell-32><SPAN id=misspell-27>ve</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> always enjoyed the small stretch of natural untamed <SPAN id=misspell-39><SPAN id=misspell-33><SPAN id=misspell-28>Cafritz</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> property<BR>along Baltimore
Boulevard. It’s a small reprieve from the steadily ever<BR>creeping urbanization of every little patch of our little community. But<BR>progress always trumps the poet and the dreamer. Mr. <SPAN id=misspell-40><SPAN id=misspell-34><SPAN id=misspell-29>Warneck</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> wrote, “why<BR>not have the state/county purchase the <SPAN id=misspell-41><SPAN id=misspell-35><SPAN id=misspell-30>Cafritz</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><BR>Property and set it aside as a park.” Of course the state is broke and<BR><SPAN id=misspell-42><SPAN id=misspell-36><SPAN id=misspell-31>Cafritz</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> must show its stockholders a profit on its long term investment. A<BR>$3 million donation to Montgomery College to help create the Morris &<BR>Gwendolyn <SPAN id=misspell-43><SPAN id=misspell-37><SPAN id=misspell-32>Cafritz</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> Foundation Art Center in downtown Silver Spring trumpets<BR>the Foundation’s image as a philanthropist.
All the blue bloods in<BR>Montgomery County must love their cultural benefactor. The rubes in<BR><SPAN id=misspell-44><SPAN id=misspell-38><SPAN id=misspell-33>Riverdale</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> Park should have no delusions about this land speculator. Profit<BR>trumps philanthropy when it comes to PG County and the <SPAN id=misspell-45><SPAN id=misspell-39><SPAN id=misspell-34>Cafritz</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> Foundation<BR>like Douglas Properties is first and foremost interested in maximizing<BR>profits. So often we simple folk confuse big money institution with<BR>wanting to improve our lives and enrich our community by investment. I’m<BR>not saying <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-46><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-40><SPAN id=misspell-35>Cafritz</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> or Douglas Jamal are intentionally trying to rape our<BR>community or turn us into a ghetto. It’s just that their philanthropy has<BR>strings and <SPAN id=misspell-47><SPAN
id=misspell-41><SPAN id=misspell-36>Riverdale</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-48><SPAN id=misspell-42><SPAN id=misspell-37>doesn</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>’t provide political advantage to makers and<BR>shakers.<BR>I will miss the majestic trees with their greenery and fresh air making<BR>capacities. Perhaps the food grown in greener pastures and sold in my<BR>neighborhood will make the loss of a last vestige of country ambiance<BR>along old Route One more palatable.<BR>Gerald King<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR><SPAN id=misspell-49><SPAN id=misspell-43><SPAN id=misspell-38>TownTalk</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> mailing list<BR>To post to the list, send mail to <A href="mailto:TownTalk@riverdale-park.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:TownTalk@riverdale-park.org">TownTalk@riverdale-park.org</A><BR><A href="mailto:TownTalk-request@riverdale-park.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank
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