The SURVEYOR Volume 27, No. 4 Newsletter/Journal of the Maryland Society of Surveyors September, 2000

BENJAMIN LATROBE and the

When you were a 26-year old surveyor, could you have designed this ? And personally performed all the layout (on its 4.5 degree curve)? And taken complete responsible charge, as on-site project engi- neer, of its difficult 2-year construction?

That’s what 26-year old railroad surveyor Benjamin H. Latrobe, Jr., who had never taken an engineering course or built a bridge in his life, did in 1833.

This is famed Thomas Viaduct, on the old & line near Relay, Maryland. Completed on the Fourth of July, 1835, it was the largest bridge then in America and the first ever built on a curve. Today, after 165 years, it still carries heavy rail traffic around the clock, every day of the year. And it was designed by a surveyor. Page 20.

M.S.S. CONFERENCE 2000 IN THIS ISSUE Sail away on the Legal Notes—Implied Easements...... 2 , with M.S.S. Changes Executive Directors...... 3 M.S.S. aboard good ship Are GPS and Photogrammetry “Surveying?” ... 6 W. B. Tennison, world’s M.S.S. News and Events ...... 8 last operational Nine- Log Bugeye. Built in Tom Orisich Appointed to Board ...... 8 1899, and “modernized” Vince Burke Wins Second Term ...... 9 to engine-power in 1909 M.S.S. Scholarship Winners...... 10 (!), she’s the oldest Record Enrollment at Catonsville ...... 11 licensed passenger ves- M.S.S. Conference 2000—Solomons! ...... 12 sel in Maryland. Exciting Program for Spouses and Kids! ...... 14 Cruise on the Wm. B. Tennison ...... 17 Incoming president Tom O’Connor invites Benjamin Latrobe and the Thomas Viaduct .. 20 everybody in Maryland surveying to come on down to Mottos for Our Times ...... 30 our M.S.S. CONFERENCE 2000 at Solomons Island, Can You Imagine Working Here? ...... 30 October 19 through 22. Details on Page 12. THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR

LEGAL NOTES Implied Easements By: James J. Demma, Prof. L.S., Esq.

In reporting on cases from around make this determination, an examination had to be the nation that affect land made of the deeds, maps and recorded instruments surveyors, it seems that the subject introduced as evidence, as intent expressed in deeds most often written about is and other recorded documents is a matter of law. easements. Because this area of the law is so highly litigated, it The Appellate Court first stated, as a “well settled” would behoove us surveyors to principal of law, that: understand as much as possible about this interesting subject. “Where an owner of land causes a map to be made of it upon which are delineated separate lots, In a recent case, cited as Perkins v. Fasig, 57 and streets and highways by which access may be Conn.App. 71, 747 A.2d 54 (2000), the Appellate Court had to them, and then sells the lots, referring in his of Connecticut had an opportunity to decide certain conveyances to the map, the lot owners acquire the issues concerning a most vexing subject — implied right to have the streets and highways thereafter kept easements. open for use in connection with their lands.”

Generally, an easement is an interest in land, by Therefore, if a grantor promulgates a general plan virtue of a right allowing the owner of one parcel of land for the development of a tract and the plan designates to use the land of another for a special purpose. Broadly streets by which the lots on the plan may be reached, stated, it is a restriction by the owner of a dominant the lot owners have an enforceable right to use the estate, upon the property rights of the owner of a streets to reach their lots. servient estate. But there are many different types of easements that may affect the title to a property, and In Perkins, the Appellate Court concluded that the they fall into the categories of Expressed, Reserved, defendants were not given express easements by deed Implied, For Necessity, and By Prescription. over Spinning Wheel Lane, but that they have implied easements to pass and re-pass over that portion of the In the appeal of the Perkins case, the primary issue plaintiff’s land. The intent that they were to enjoy such was whether the defendants had implied easements easements can be implied from the maps, deeds and over a portion of a roadway owned by the plaintiff. The other recorded instruments submitted into evidence. plaintiff, Perkins, brought this action to quiet title and Specifically quoting from the language of this case: to enjoin permanently all of the defendants from passing over a portion of the plaintiff’s land known as “There are two principal factors to be “Spinning Wheel Lane.” examined in determining whether an easement by implication has arisen: (1) the intention of the The plaintiff acquired Lot 16 in 1960 and Lot 17 in parties; and (2) whether the easement is reasonably 1976. The defendants acquired their lots in May 1992. necessary for the use and normal enjoyment of the The trial court found that the plaintiff had a fee interest dominant estate.... The recorded instruments in this in Lot 17 and a fee interest in that portion of Spinning case manifest an intent to grant an easement Wheel Lane in dispute, and that she owned both the lot necessary for the beneficial use and enjoyment of the and the roadway at the time the defendants purchased defendants’ property, otherwise landlocked.” their property. The general “black letter law” concerning implied The question presented to the Appellate Court was easements is best stated by saying that such easements whether there was an intent to establish easements by are based on the principle that everything necessary to virtue of Spinning Wheel Lane. The Court said that to the reasonable enjoyment of the grant accompanies it www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 2 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR by implication, and that when a grantor sells a parcel state at paragraph (5)(h) that, “all easements of land to a purchaser relying on apparent easements, evidenced by Record Documents which have been one cannot later deny that the easements pass to the delivered to the surveyor shall be shown, both those purchaser. burdening and those benefitting the property surveyed, indicating recording information.... Also, surveyors should always keep in mind the Observable evidence of easements and/or servi- duties and obligations of the surveyor with respect to tudes of all kinds, such as those created by roads; all easements when performing an ALTA / ACSM rights-of-way... across the surveyed property and on Land Title Survey, as the Minimum Standard Detail adjoining properties if they appear to affect the Requirements (1999) for such surveys state, in surveyed property, shall be located and noted.” paragraph (5)(d), that “the identifying titles of all recorded plats, filed maps, right-of-way maps, or James J. Demma is an attorney with offices located similar documents which the survey represents, in Rockville, Maryland. Mr. Demma is also a registered wholly or in part, shall be shown...,” and further professional land surveyor in the State of Maryland.

M.S.S. CHANGES EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS By: John V. Mettee III, L.S., President

The Maryland Society of Surveyors is a good elected officers were expected to do all that — just ask organization — strong, active, quite unified (usually) Draper and Dottie Sutcliffe, or Rod Hanson, or Leo about things we’d like to accomplish. This is reflected Rader! But today we retain a paid Association by our hard-working Board of Directors. Registered Management Firm to take care of all those details. Our land surveyors all, real professionals, they are 21 of the Board sets direction and policy, and exercises oversight most able, competent and agreeable people you’ll ever responsibility. (And hard-working Board members also meet. Each is devoted to improving our profession and do the Newsletter and “Proceedings,” run our helping M.S.S. We meet once a month as a Board, and educational program, take care of our Website, we get along great. direct the Scholarship Fund, plan the Conferences and fulfill many other vital volunteer assignments, for So it was all the more troubling when, last year, a free, keeping our costs way down and doing a better very divisive issue loomed up that threatened to split job than we could ever pay anyone to do.) our M.S.S. Board right in half. It wasn’t an issue that affected our general membership very much — the 650 It might have been simmering for some time, I dues-paying folks like yourself — although it was guess, but last year the “executive director issue” really written about and discussed at chapter meetings. But it boiled over, taking many by surprise. I don’t want to get certainly impacted our leadership. At into finger-pointing or assigning blame issue was this question: Should our or even discussing the exact reasons, but paid management firm be replaced? basically one-third of our Board came to the strong conclusion (and didn’t hesitate For those of you who may not know to voice it), that our current management exactly how the modern M.S.S. operates, firm should be replaced. Another third our 21 officers (all practicing land felt equally stongly (if not even more so) surveyors) do not personally handle that they should be retained. And the most of the day-to-day administrative “third third” didn’t know exactly what to tasks of running this Society . . . getting think. We had some real debates about it dues notices out, printing flyers and at Board meetings, I’ll tell you that. meeting announcements, handling checks and payments, answering the phone, As a consequence, we interviewed fax, email, etc., etc. That’s a big job. two possible replacements in 1999. One There was a time when the Society’s of these, a husband-wife team that www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 3 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR included a respected recent past-president, gained of the survey profession, and 20% price. This last support from nearly half the Board. But in the end we criterion, price, was only put in so that we would know wound up renewing our existing management firm for right up front which applicants we could afford, and a year, although afterwards many seemed somewhat therefore not waste our time considering others beyond less than happy about it, including our current paid our price range. We never looked at this as an exercise management firm. in “lowest bidder takes it,” and in the end we didn’t go with our lowest bidders. It literally hurt me, to my heart, to see our officers so divided. As president, therefore, one of my top goals We had 15 responses to our ad campaign, half was to bring unity and consensus back to our Board on from individuals and the others from firms. To our this issue. At the start of my term, I must say, it seemed disappointment, our current management firm did an impossible task. not submit a proposal. Nor did either one of the two other candidates we had interviewed in 1999. Our To save my successor (and the Board) from more current management firm, had they submitted, would of the same grief at the end of my year, I decided to have certainly graded out extremely high by our appoint an ad-hoc committee to start much earlier judging criteria. They would have made the “Short in the year working out the executive director List” for sure. After our deadline for submissions contract issue for 2001. I chaired the committee came and went, I, the president, contacted our personally, and at first it included Tom Orisich, current management firm and extended a personal Tom O’Connor, Chas Langelan, Ron Collier and invitation for them to reconsider and submit, offering Ambrose Gmeiner. My rationale for selecting these to hold the deadline open for them alone. I also made particular individuals was to create a group with a sure they knew that only those firms actually balanced cross-section of perspectives on the issue submitting proposals could be considered. They did — that is, two who were known to favor retaining think it over, but again declined to submit, citing as a our current management, two who felt a reason our use of price as a judging factor. They replacement was needed, and two who were “on added, however, that if we were unable to find the fence.” My thought was simple: If I could get anyone else satisfactory for the job, they would be this small group to agree, maybe it would help the happy to continue on. whole Board reach a consensus. Our 2001 Contract Committee started meeting in January. When Well, the 2001 Contract Committee graded out the Ambrose Gmeiner couldn’t make it to the meetings, 15 proposals that were actually on the table in front because of a new job he had started in Virginia, we of us, and had no difficulty finding satisfactory replaced him with Chuck Irish, maintaining the candidates. We selected a Short List of four firms to balance I felt was so crucial. be interviewed by our Board of Directors. They were: Joseph E. Shaner Company of Baltimore, Meeting After several meetings and much discussion, the Planners, Inc. from Columbia, Engineers & 2001 Contract Committee decided it was in the best Surveyors Institute of Chantilly, Virginia, and interests of M.S.S. to solicit proposals from anyone who Mark L. Husik and Associates from Trenton, New might be interested in being paid to manage the Jersey. On June 27 and July 10 our Board of Directors organization. Our full Board agreed. In May, we spent conducted interviews of these four firms. Afterward, $1500 running ads in the Baltimore Sun, the Washington we privately discussed the matter in a closed Board Post, and several on-line “association management” session and held an informal “straw” vote to see what websites such as CEO Update and the American Society everybody thought. The result? Our Short List of Association Executives (yes, society managers have dropped from four to two. their own society). I also wrote a letter to the entire M.S.S., informing everyone about our search and The rest of July was spent checking references seeking candidates from within our ranks. and inspecting office facilities of the two remaining contenders. Then the Contract Committee made its Plainly set forth in the ads was our evaluation long-awaited recommendation to our Board — hire criteria, which we followed closely in grading all Mark L. Husik and Associates of Trenton, New applicants: 30% qualifications, 30% understanding our Jersey as management firm for the Society. The Board scope of services (which was also spelled out in the of Directors concurred. On July 25 in Wheaton, we ads), 10% staff size and availability, 10% understanding formally approved that recommendation. There was www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 4 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR but a single “Nay” vote. When we actually voted on come away impressed. Their annual budget, in Husik’s August 29 to accept Husik’s negotiated new 10-years, has quintupled. Mark L. Husik’s track record in management contract, we were unanimous. How running a surveying society is one of unbroken growth refreshing it was to see consensus again among our and success. Board members on this troublesome subject! My goal was achieved. Mark Husik & Associates produced two award- winning videos about land surveying for the New Jersey But my heart goes out to our current executive Society, that were distributed nationwide. Their director and his staff, who have worked so hard on newsletter, “Coordinate” (a color glossy, done by behalf of M.S.S. for the past 8 years, and without whom Husik) won top honors from ACSM. They’re skilled and so many great things that we have accomplished for experienced at putting on workshops, social events, surveyors in Maryland almost certainly would never educational courses and all the other offerings an have happened. organization like ours needs to provide. In addition, they are also expert in government affairs and Why did we select the new firm that we did? Well, legislative activities, albeit in New Jersey and at the here’s why . . . federal level in Washington. Mark Husik was coordinating chairman, for President George Bush, of Mark L. the “Thousand Points of Light Foundation” in the Husik & Asso- early ’90s. ciates is a 12- year old firm They are also highly skilled at producing all the with a staff of publications, brochures, flyers, pamphlets and notices 3, located in that a Society like ours sends out, and have done an Trenton, the oustanding job for NJSPLS in that regard. state capital of New Jersey. As Mark Husik part of their himself says contract, they that ten years will be open- ago he would ing a Maryland never have sub- office to serve mitted a pro- our members. posal to try to Their only run a surveying other client is society in a the New Jer- different state. sey Society of But today, with Professional the Maryland Land Survey- office they will Mark Husik and Rona Goldberg, in ors, an ex- be starting up front of their office building in Trenton, New Jersey. The firm, whose only clients tremely de- (in Baltimore— will now be two state surveying societ- lighted cus- the M.S.S. Board ies, is opening an office in Baltimore. tomer (we inspected the fa- checked, trust cility—abso- me) that has been with them for 10-years. lutely first rate), Mark L. Husik, 10-year executive and with the director of the New Jersey Society of In 1989, before hiring Husik, the New Jersey Society the modern Professional Land Surveyors, won had 485 dues-paying members. Today that figure is communication unanimous approval August 29, 2000, 1200. Their annual Conference routinely draws 1300 technology we from our M.S.S. Board, as new Execu- attendees. Before Husik took over, it was 400 to 500. have today— tive Director of the Maryland Society of Surveyors. With 75 exhibitors, 50 seminar offerings, the annual email, faxes, Conference is New Jersey’s biggest and most successful cell phones, 800 numbers, the Internet — he feels event of the year. It’s one of the best in the country, confident it can and will work. When you dial the attested to by M.S.S. members who have attended and Society’s 800 number in the future, you will get either www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 5 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR executive director Mark Husik or affordable price — not the his firm’s other principal, Rona highest, not the lowest, right in Goldberg, in person, whether they the middle. But unquestionably happen to be working out of their the biggest single factor that Maryland office or their New Jersey tipped our decision to Husik & office (or both — it’s a 3-person Associates was their tremen- firm) that day. dously successful 10-year record of managing a fellow surveying Communication technology, in society in a neighboring state. fact, has advanced to such a point We’re looking forward to great in just a few years in this country things with them in the future. that recently one of the California land surveying societies con- As always, I’d be very tracted with the Massachusetts interested in hearing your com- Association of Land Surveyors and ments, thoughts and suggestions Civil Engineers to provide their on this. management services. And it’s working just fine, believe it or not. Mark Husik’s partner (and co-principal) is Rona John V. Mettee III, chief of L. Goldberg, who was an executive director surveys at the Bel Air office of So that’s who we picked and herself for 5-years, and organized two Inaugurals Frederick Ward & Associates, is why. They came in at a very for the Governor of New Jersey. 36th president of M.S.S.

Are GPS and PHOTOGRAMMETRY “LAND SURVEYING?” By: James W. Whitehead, Prof. L.S., (new M.S.S. Government Affairs Chair)

I have recently been asked to chair an M.S.S. ● Should Photogrammetry (and/or GPS) be committee charged with investigating whether or not directed by a registered land surveyor when the Photogrammetry and GPS should be considered as Practice of Land Surveying is defined to falling within the “Practice of Land Surveying.” Other include “utilizing measurement devices or sys- members of the committee include John Mettee, Alan tems such as Aerial Photogrammetry, GPS, LIS, Dragoo, and Tom Orisich. Many fine Air-mapping GIS or similar technology for evaluation or and GPS firms, that provide these services to us, retain location of boundaries of real property, ease- licensed professionals to direct their work — but a few ments or rights-of-way . . .”? do not. My purpose here is to make the entire Maryland surveying profession aware of the complicated issues Every word given in those quotes above is straight facing us on this topic. Here are the questions: out of the Draft Regulations defining Scope of Practice for Licensed Land Surveyors, published by our ● Should GPS work be performed only under Maryland State Board for Professional Land Surveyors the direction of a licensed land surveyor, when on June 23, 2000. that work consists of “measuring, platting and locating lines, angles, elevations, natural or You may download these from the M.S.S. homepage, artificial features in the air, on the surface of www.marylandsurveyor.org. There are solid reasons for the earth…for the purpose of determining or this wording by our Board that we might not all appreciate reporting positions . . .”? at first glance. First, it is the responsibility of the State Board to protect the public; in fact, that is the main reason we are ● Or how about when GPS work is used for “con- licensed in the first place. Second, when you stop and ducting horizontal and vertical control surveys, think about it, all of the activities listed above really are layout or stakeout of proposed construction, or land surveying, despite the fact that they may not have the preparation and platting of as-constructed been thought of exactly that way in the past. It’s just the surveys”? methods that differ. www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 6 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR Let’s look at some of the activities a typical firm firm of their “highest level of responsibility” under the might be involved in right now for a routine public or law because he is the prime consultant and he signed private development project. First, the survey project the plat! manager orders GPS control points, with Maryland State Grid, to be installed on the site. He calls the GPS firm he Then (of course) let’s say a problem is found, has “always” done business with (since about 1993) and during construction. The control is blown. The orders the GPS points; he may include a list of nearby topography is botched. Feet of error! (The GPS and air- NGS monuments and a sketch of the general location mapping folks say this can’t happen, but we’ve all seen where he wants the points, with some direction as to it.) Major consequences result — redesign costs — which ones should be intervisible. He does not delay of job — millions of dollars. (We’ve all seen that, require that the work be supervised by a licensed too.) land surveyor skilled in this technology, nor does he himself exercise “direct responsible charge.” It This leaves our poor project manager surveyor turns out that the selected firm does not have a licensed defending himself in court, against long harangues surveyor. If so, that firm likely may soon be in violation about improper checking procedures and the need for of state law for “practicing land surveying without a supplemental topography, followed by utter disbelief license.” As soon as our project manager surveyor signs that his expert supervision did not identify any of the the final Boundary and Topographic Survey, or ALTA problems in time. Finally, let’s say the client is the local Survey with topography, he has almost certainly elementary school, and now the whole town knows violated our Board’s requirement that he be in about it. Is that public disaster or what? “responsible charge.” The fact is he never knew the type of equipment used, the level of training of the staff, How are you going to defend yourself against a the integrity of the base control or anything else about negligence claim when you can’t even demonstrate that the GPS survey. But he signed the survey, thereby you exercised direct personal “responsible charge,” as certifying to the client (and assuring all others) that the defined by our Licensing Board, over a job’s basic Codes and requirements of the State of Maryland, and control and topography, two of the most critical ALTA / ACSM, and other standards of professional elements of any survey? practice had all been met. The fact is, you can’t. The fact is, you better! For those of you who haven’t hit our M.S.S. Website Exercise control, that is. If you’re going to “sub-out” lately, here’s how the Maryland State Board defines your GPS and Air-Photogrammetry work, so that you “responsible charge” in its brand-new (Draft) Scope cannot supervise it and check it directly, you better of Practice Regulations: make sure they have a licensed land surveyor “Responsible Charge” means direct control over there, who will take and personal direction of the investigation, responsibility for the job design, construction or operation of land and stand behind it. surveying work that requires initiative, profes- sional skill and independent judgement.” This scenario should (Emphasis added). not happen anywhere to anyone. It certainly should Okay, now let’s take our example a little further. not happen in Maryland, Lets assume that the GPS points were not only traverse but it does. It happens control points but photo control points as well. Lets also because we have not yet assume that the survey project manager hired his adjusted to the new “Scope favorite air photogrammetry outfit to fly the topography. of Practice;” it happens Once again there is no licensed surveyor on staff. When because we do not follow the air mapping firm takes the job, do they violate the our current “Definition of law, by “practicing land surveying without a license?” Land Surveying,” which M.S.S. Southern Chapter chair When the project manager surveyor signs the survey, says that topography, pho- Jim Whitehead, who recently does he break his Board’s requirement that he be in togrammetry and the es- volunteered to take over as “responsible charge?” On top of that, the licensed tablishment of points on head of our M.S.S. Government surveyor probably relieves the GPS firm and air-survey the surface of the earth are Affairs Committee. www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 7 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR land surveying. It is up to us to follow our Board’s this important area of practice. Similarly, surveyors in requirements, to practice properly every day and to hold Florida, North Carolina and Delaware already have GPS the profession of surveying as high as it has ever been and Photogrammetry within their Scope of Practice; held. Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania are now taking steps to do the same. We’d value your thoughts, comments and input on this. The committee needs to hear from you, the We need to devise a program for surveyors at State Board needs to hear from you and land Catonsville (and Towson) that ensures an ample supply surveyors need to become the driving force behind of trained professionals to meet the needs of the public. the sciences of GPS, Photogrammetry, GIS, LIS, and We also need to license qualified Photogrammetry and all the related “technology tools” that apply to land GPS professionals as land surveyors (maybe with surveying. restricted licenses), and we need to embrace our responsibility to the public, our Board, ourselves and Remember, just because you or your firm may not the future. be involved in these kinds of services does not mean that there aren’t many other land surveyors out there Professional land surveyor James W. Whitehead, who are trained, qualified and involved. The land of ATCS, PLC in Waldorf, is M.S.S. Southern Chapter surveyors of the State of New Jersey gave up Drainage Chair and recently volunteered to take over our as a part of their Scope of Practice years ago; today they Government Affairs Committee from Tom Orisich, who look with envy at the surveyors of Delaware, Maryland, was appointed to serve out Bob Gauss’ term on the Virginia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina who retain Board of Registration.

M.S.S. NEWS AND EVENTS

TOM ORISICH APPOINTED TO jobs around signed on with John E. Harms Jr. BOARD OF REGISTRATION & Associates, Pasadena, Maryland in 1989. Today, he’s chief-of-surveys at Whitney, Bailey, Cox & Magnani in Baltimore. He served one term as our M.S.S. ith the untimely passing of Bob Gauss in May, a W Baltimore Chapter chair and also headed up our vacancy opened up on the Board of Registration. Government Affairs Committee last year, drawing upon Professional land surveyor Thomas M. Orisich, similar experience he had as state Legislative Chairman Maryland license 10903, our M.S.S. government-affairs for the Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Association chair as well as Baltimore Chapter chair, was appointed years ago. by the Governor to serve out the remaining four years of Bob Gauss’ 5-year term. In addition (for those who haven’t heard), Joel This is the same profes- Leininger is no longer on our Board of Registration. sional land surveyor’s seat Appointed in 1995 along with Dick Witmer, he served on the Board that was filled (extremely well) his full five-year term as property-line so ably by Ralph Donnelly surveyor member of the Board, but when his term was for so many years, then was up Governor Glendenning appointed a different held by Cynthia Bowden, surveyor, Donald J. Ocker, property line license 285, then went to Bob Gauss. an M.S.S. member from Leonardtown in southern Maryland, to that seat. A licensed professional Registered in 6-states, and a land surveyor in 6-states, As a result of all this reshuffling, the present land surveyor since 1979, Tom Orisich is a Purdue configuration of the Maryland State Board for Thomas M. Orisich has Boilermaker (class of ‘79) been appointed to replace Professional Land Surveyors looks like this: Bob Gauss on the Mary- with a 4-year degree in land surveying. He started out as land State Board for Dr. Charles E. Maloy, consumer-member, Towson, a field man in South Bend, Professional Land Maryland, Chairman Surveyors. Indiana, and after several www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 8 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR Frederick Y. Ward, professional land surveyor, that will be Bel Air, Maryland, vice-chairman starting up soon John R. (Dick) Witmer, professional land for Maryland surveyor, Rockville, Maryland, member surveyors. Donald C. Ocker, property line surveyor, Leonardtown, Maryland, member Vince said Thomas M. Orisich, professional land surveyor, he felt that his Towson, Maryland, member “work for M.S.S. One consumer member, not yet appointed was not quite completed,” VINCE BURKE WINS SECOND TERM! which is why he ran again. Alan Vincent Burke, Jr., who’s been surveying in The only other Maryland since he was 5-years old (literally — helping statewide M.S.S. In the City of Baltimore, off Cold Spring carry guard stakes for his surveyor-dad), and who was office that changed hands Lane, there is a road named in honor of president of M.S.S. in 1999, just ran for and won reelection M.S.S. founder William Maynadier, who was Secretary, to a second term as president. He defeated newsletter was the last person ever elected to serve editor Chas Langelan, who as M.S.S. vice-president was where two terms as president of the Maryland the person “on the ladder” of normal succession to Ambrose Society of Surveyors. advance. (That’s why we hold elections.) It was Burke 91 Gmeiner, who — Langelan 56. now has a new job in Virginia, resigned with regrets, citing the difficulties of trying to attend meetings. Faron Pyles of Vince Burke is the person who, Susquehanna Chapter was selected by the Board to in 1998, after eight years of steady replace him. hard work (and with lots of help from surveyors and many others Don Remmers, the Society’s hard-working Trea- across the State), succeeded in surer, was up for reelection this time, but was fighting our new Licensing inadvertently left off the ballot. He was running Statute for Land Surveyors unopposed. But when the ballots were all counted he through the Maryland Legislature, received one write-in vote, versus none for anybody and got it signed into law — the else, so “Landslide” Don Remmers was reelected first comprehensive revision to Treasurer by a single vote! our licensing requirements since the early 1970s. It’s expected to With the appointment of Tom Orisich to the Board Alan Vincent Burke, help many survey technicians, of Registration, the M.S.S. vice-president’s job came Jr., who’s been survey- field and office, join the “ranks of open for 2001. It was offered to current vice-president ing in Maryland for 40 the professionals” and attain Chas Langelan, who accepted it. (“Great job,” he says, years and who was licensure in Maryland. He also “No duties!” I hope they let me do it forever!”) Chas, one of the main served as one of our Society’s who will now serve as vice-president for a second driving forces behind consecutive year, plans to run for president-elect again our new Licensing Law representatives on the in 2002, following Vince Burke. IF he wins, and if for Surveyors, just won “Surveyor’s Workgroup,” with a second term as the Board of Registration and the everything stays the way it looks right now, and nobody M.S.S. president. Department of Labor, Licensing dies, and nobody gets appointed to the Board of and Regulation. Registration, and nobody resigns, and everybody serves out the terms they were elected to, the presidents of As you might expect from a former professional M.S.S. should line up like this: educator (a high-school teacher for 6-years), Vince chaired our M.S.S. Education Committee to unprecedented Chuck Irish ...... 1998 success, worked closely with Catonsville Community Vince Burke ...... 1999 College to tailor their college-level program to fit the “real- John Mettee ...... 2000 life” needs of actual practicing surveyors, and (with Dr. Tom O’Connor ...... 2001 Charles Maloy) is one of the two people most responsible Vince Burke ...... 2002 for the new Towson-Catonsville 4-Year Degree Program Chas Langelan ...... 2003 www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 9 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR Although almost all our presidents up to J. Carroll PropertyView, which he pioneered in the 1990s (and, Hagan in 1982 served two-year terms, only two men by the way, still offers), DC PropertyView is a previously have ever been elected to two terms as complete GIS System of the District of Columbia. Every president . . . Joseph D. Thompson and William “land use” type record the City has, that can be scanned Maynadier. By winning this election, therefore, Vince and/or digitized on a city-wide basis, has been entered. Burke becomes our first two-term president since (Alas, not the D.C. Surveyor’s Office plats, so far.) M.S.S. founder William Maynadier in 1960. It comes with a complete ArcView project file for M.S.S. SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS! use with any standard GIS technology. For $995 a year, you get: The following five individuals were recently awarded surveying scholarships of $500 each by our ● Property Maps M.S.S. Educa- ● Assessment Database tional Trust ● Property links to the assessment database Fund, chaired by ● USGS Quad mosaic director-at-large ● Neighborhood boundaries and names Ron Collier. The ● Square Boundaries and numbers scholarships are ● Census Boundaries and Data intended to help ● Street Centerlines further their stud- ● Zip Code Boundaries ies and advance- ● Ward Boundaries ment toward pro- ● 1-Meter 1995 Orthophoto Street Annotation fessional registra- tion: Additional products available for DC PropertyView are: Bill Gruenin- ger, of Gutshick, ● District of Columbia ADC digital Maps Little and Weber, ● 1-Foot 1998 Ortho Photography P.A. ● 7-Inch 1995 Ortho Photography in color or Michael S. black and white Edwards, of Macris, Hendricks If interested, contact Larry Newman or and Glascock Laura Spadaro at Spatial Systems Associ- Joseph Sturtz, ates, Inc., 1450 South Rolling Road, Baltimore, of Morris & M.S.S. scholarship winner Michael S. Edwards MD 21227. Phone: 410-455-5665. Fax: 410-455- Ritchie Associ- (left), today with Macris-Hendricks-Glascock, was 5661. Email/Website: www.spatialsys.com. ates a member of the AMT crew that surveyed and found the last missing D.C. boundary stone, S.E.8, Vaughn Miller, MARYLAND STATE HIGHWAY of Survey Ser- —buried six feet deep—for the DCBBC in 1991. A piece of salvaged storm drain pipe was used to ADMINISTRATION SEEKS vices, Inc., and form a shaft down to the stone. Left to right: Mike Girma Tsegaye, Edwards, Bob Bullock, Joe Dumbroski — SMALL SURVEY FIRMS of Charles P. March 20, 1991. Johnson and As- If you had been checking our M.S.S. Website sociates. (www.marylandsurveyor.org) regularly, you would have spotted this Announcement, sent in by DC PROPERTYVIEW Society member (and seminar instructor) Malcolm Archer-Shee of SHA: Not hundreds, but certainly scores of Maryland surveyors perform projects in the neighboring District of SHA ANNOUNCEMENT Columbia. Did you know that M.S.S. Affiliate Larry Newman of Spatial Systems Associates now has Malcolm Archer-Shee with the State Highway available DC PropertyView? He’s been working on it Administration has informed our Society that SHA is for 3-years. Modeled very closely after MD expecting a large increase in the number of www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 10 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR transportation projects slated for survey, design and It’s an old saying, but it’s just as true now in year construction over the next 2-3 years. Due to downsizing, 2000 as it was generations ago . . . advancement and the SHA Plats and Surveys Division is in urgent need of promotions do not come from what you do on the job. more resources from the private sector. Any small You’re expected to be good there. Advancement and surveying firms interested in $100,000 contracts promotions come from what you do on your own time, should contact the Plats and Survey Division for more above and beyond the job. information at 410-545-8936. “CPC” REGULATIONS SOON TO BE RECORD ENROLLMENT ISSUED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT AT CATONSVILLE! The “CPC Committee” has produced its draft of M.S.S. member Jim Lobdell was all smiles on Maryland’s proposed new Continuing Professional August 15, the cut-off date for class registrations at Competency Regulations, and CCBC-Catonsville Community College. He’s has turned it over to the Board of chairman of the Surveying Department there. Registration for approval. If the Every single course being offered this fall “maxed- Board approves, without too out.” For the first time in a while, no course was many amendments, the regula- ever in danger of being cancelled for lack of tions are expected to be released students. It was, in fact, an all-time record for public comment very shortly. enrollment. (We MAY even be able to enclose them with this Newsletter, but that is not certain as of this writing.) When the Draft Continuing Profes- The public comment period sional Competency will not last longer than 60-days, Regulations are so you’ll want to study these and released for public get your comments in. Our well- comment, Dr. traveled “Chuck and Chuck Charles E. Maloy, Show” (Dr. Charles Maloy of chairman of our the Board of Registration, and Maryland State past-president Chuck Irish of Licensing Board, will once again team with M.S.S.), which toured to rave M.S.S. past-president reviews in 1998 on our new Chuck Irish to visit Licensing Requirements, will chapter meetings and once again be going “on the speak at our annual road” to speak at chapter Fall Conference. meetings, and at our M.S.S. Conference 2000, this October in Solomons Island.

Professor (and M.S.S. member) James Lobdell (right), who chairs the Surveying Department at CCBC-Catonsville 34th ANNUAL M.S.S. Community College, with executive director Bob Mead PLAT COMPETITION (left) at our Spring Conference in April 2000. Traditional M.S.S. Plat M.S.S. wholeheartedly supports the Catonsville Contest Logo—with this program (soon to be expanded into a 4-year year's deadline added— Surveying Degree program with the help of DEADLINE drawn for the Society a Towson University), and every year the Society’s SEPT. 25 quarter-century ago by a Education Committee helps the College tailor its now-unknown drafts- course offerings and content to match what we man. know surveyors in the real world need to learn — to do their jobs better, and to become licensed. www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 11 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR M.S.S. CONFERENCE 2000 -SOLOMONS ISLAND! By: Robert L. Mead, Executive Director

MILTON DENNY’S 2-DAY can use to get business. Find out the inside information PROGRAM FOR SURVEYORS on new markets that will provide work for the surveyors of the 21st century. This may be the most profitable three-and-a-half hours you spend this year. Positioning Your Survey Firm for the 21st Century Major topics will cover developing your company Friday, October 20, 8:30-11:30 a.m. profile, starting a marketing operation, writing your marketing plan, marketing aids, developing new leads This action-packed half-day seminar is a must for and public relations. surveyors who are highly qualified technically, but need better business skills. What you learn will help you serve your clients better. The proper contracting arrangement The History of Surveying and and a complete understanding of the needs of clients Its Effect on Retracement Surveys will allow you to provide a final survey within budget Saturday, October 21, 8:30-10:30 a.m. and meet the time constraints of your client’s project. This program will be a two-hour tour through the Knowing the overhead costs of your business will history of the profession that we call surveying. Learn allow you to make a profit and invest in the latest the importance of land, land boundaries and maps in the technology and training. This new technology will development of the , and how knowledge improve the quality of your survey and serve both the and ownership of land related to power. Spend time client and the public with the early surveyors who held the keys to land with a better product. boundaries and cartography. Get to know the great men who performed these surveys. Learn their methods, live “Surveying in the 21st their hardships, and suffer their dismay at not being paid Century will be very for their work. Learn how we are directly tied to the different than in the work they performed in every retracement survey. If past,” asserts Mr. you want to develop your full potential as a surveyor, Denny. “If the surveyor and truly take pride in your profession, you must doesn’t start to prepare understand our surveying roots. for the future—includ- ing business training— Major topics will cover the historical perspective, surveyors as we now early instrumentation and techniques, types of surveys, land records research and a case study on Conference Speaker Milton Denny know them may not survive.” the relationship of historic records to modern surveying. Major topics covered during this session will include evaluating your firm, appropriate company benefits, Modern Survey Technology estimating a job for profit, how to hire or release, Saturday, October 21, 2-5 p.m. marketing your survey services, negotiations for a contract, new technology and collection of accounts. This seminar will help surveyors who buy new field equipment without sufficient knowledge of the product Marketing the Surveying Firm or what services it can provide. This three-hour seminar Friday, October 20, 1:30-4:30 p.m. will look at orders of accuracy, checking both office and field equipment, data-collection and how to get started. This is another action-packed half-day look at how Radial stakeout of the construction project will be successful firms market their services. Learn how to get included, as well as the proper use of conversion factors your marketing program off the ground and running. from metric to feet. This seminar is a must for all who Find out about marketing tips that very small companies use the newest equipment. www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 12 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR “Best Management Practices” and performance criteria for urban BMP design.

Michael Clar, coordinator for this two-day program, is chair of the Urban Water Resources Council of the American Society of Civil Engineering and a member of the MDE Stormwater Management Regulations Committee. He is also a director of the nonprofit Low Impact Development Center and a vice president of the Maryland Society of Professional Engineers.

NOTE: The 2000 Maryland Stormwater Design Manual, Vols. I & II, will be the text for this seminar. Those signing up for this program should download the full Manual and Appendix from the In full colonial garb, Milton Denny (left), our featured MDE website at www.mde.state.md.us. conference speaker this year, discusses Gunter’s Chains (made by Milton Denny) with surveyor-historian Norman New FEMA Mapping Issues Brown of Missouri (right) in 1998. Saturday, October 21, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Milton Denny will also touch on information about how What’s happening with the new FEMA Flood government regulations affect all aspects of your survey Insurance Elevation Certificate, which becomes operation, and why surveyors all over the country are now mandatory on October 1? Get straight answers from suffering the consequences of court orders and fines for not FEMA officials. This program is a repeat of a seminar understanding (or following) government requirements. held earlier this year in Salisbury and Easton. It will be conducted by John Joyce, State Coordinating Office, New Stormwater Management Requirements FEMA, and Rich Sabota, regional manager, Computer Friday, October 20, and Saturday, October 21 Sciences Corporation.

A 2-Day Program for Land Surveyors, Upper Eastern Shore Chapter Chair Bill Craig’s Landscape Architects and Professional Engineers account of the Salisbury seminar should be all you need to convince yourself that surveyors and survey More business for design firms and larger roles for technicians need to attend this seminar. professional land surveyors (as well as landscape architects) are two features of Maryland’s new Among other things, Craig reported that both Stormwater Management program. The new representatives stressed how FEMA is getting stricter regulations, which promote “innovative design concerning the quality and quantity of work expected techniques that reduce reliance on more costly structural on elevation certificates. Another issue stressed is practices currently in use,” are significantly different surveyor’s liability if a claim for damage is denied due to from the past regulations. some error on the certificate.

They also allow local governments the option of not “The days of doing two or three elevation certificates requiring flood control, thereby reducing the size of before lunch are gone,” he stresses. “Considering needed structures, and they now incorporate by liability, it seems that we could have more exposure on reference the new 2000 Maryland Stormwater elevation certificates than on many or most boundary Design Manual, Volumes I & II. surveys.” Sign yourself up, and your technicians as well, for this important seminar. This two-day seminar will be conducted by Michael Clar, P.E. It will cover the new regulations, which are M.S.S. Affiliates Reception now a five-step process. Clar will also walk you through Friday, October 20, 5:00-6:00 p.m. the Design Manual, with particular emphasis on In the conference exhibit hall stormwater credits for innovative site planning, using Fee: Free www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 13 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR M.S.S. Scholarship Fund Auction Marine Museum and restored Lighthouse. Lunch in the Friday, October 20, 6:00-7:00 p.m. Antique Center, then browse in Leonardtown’ antique In the Conference Exhibit Hall shops. Search for fossils and explore hiking trails. Cruise the Patuxent River in a 100-year old Bay Bugeye. Live Equipment Demonstrations by M.S.S. Affiliates This is the exciting spouse and family program put Saturday, October 21, 10:30-12:15 together by Mary Helen O’Connor, wife of incoming president and conference chair Tom O’Connor, together Mid-Atlantic GPS Users Group with Lynne Redmond, wife of past-president Herb Discusses Solar Max Redmond. Saturday, October 21, 2-5 p.m. Thursday, October 19 Alan Dragoo will address the Mid-Atlantic GPS Golf at Breton Bay Golf & Country Club Users Group at 2 p.m. on Saturday. His subject will be Shotgun start at 9 a.m. the upcoming Solar Max, and how it may affect GPS Lunch will follow 1:30-3 p.m. work. Everyone attending the Conference is welcome to Fee: $49 per person participate in this discussion by active users of Global Positioning System technology. Enjoy a morning on the links at our annual M.S.S. golf tournament. There will be prizes for closest to the pin, The New CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL longest drive and straightest drive. Fee includes green and COMPETENCY Regulations cart fees as well as lunch. Note that no metal spikes are allowed — only soft spikes or tennis shoes are permitted. Saturday, October 21, 4-5 p.m.

Dr. Charles E. Maloy, chairman of the Maryland PLS Friday, October 20 Board and Chuck Irish, M.S.S. past-president and co- Sotterley Plantation chair of the DLLR Surveyor’s WorkGroup, will discuss Depart Holiday Inn 10 a.m. details of the new regulations requiring Maryland Return Holiday Inn 4:30 p.m. surveyors to demonstrate Continuing Professional Fee: FREE (excluding lunch) Competency for license renewal. This regulation offers a number of options that you will want to consider to suit your own particular situation.

M.S.S. Installation & Awards Banquet Saturday, October 21, 6:00-10:00 p.m. Cocktails 6-7 p.m. Dinner 8-10 p.m. Fee: $39

EXCITING PROGRAM for SPOUSES and KIDS!

Tour the colonial Sotterley Plantation that inspired George Wash- ington’s design of Mount Vernon. Discover mari- time history at the Calvert Sotterly Plantation, in southern Maryland, pre-dates Mt. Vernon, Monticello and the USA itself. www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 14 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR Friday morning you’ll walk through time as the known about the Kane family. Hillery Kane, a skilled collective story of a place and its people unfolds around plasterer, his first wife Mariah, his second wife Elsa, you. Older than Mount Vernon, older than and fifteen of his twenty children, resided at Sotterley Monticello, older than the nation itself, Sotterley in mid-century. During this time, Sotterley continued to Plantation stands majestically on the banks of the play a major economic role in the region as a busy Patuxent River. It’s the only remaining Tidewater steamboat landing. Plantation in Maryland open to the public, with a full range of visitor activities and educational programs. In 1910, Sotterley changed hands once again when Sotterley’s significant architecture features the early it was sold to Herbert L. Satterlee and his wife Louisa, 18th-century Manor House, a rare slave cabin and a full daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan. The Satterlees spent array of outbuildings set amidst seventy acres of rolling several years restoring the manor house and grounds to fields, gardens and riverfront. their 18th century condition, using it as their summer residence. Their daughter, Mabel Satterlee Ingalls Sotterley has been a dynamic participant in the inherited the plantation in 1947. Having grown to love nation’s history since its early days as a colonial port of Sotterley through a childhood of summers spent amidst entry and a thriving tobacco plantation. In the 19th its charms, she determined to preserve it and to share it. century, as site of one of the largest communities of In 1961, she created the non-profit Sotterley Mansion slaves in Southern Maryland, Sotterley witnessed the Foundation which holds the historic site in trust for the struggles and triumphs of the journey from slavery to public today. freedom. Luncheon and Antiquing in Leonardtown In the early years of the 20th century, the plantation Maryland Antiques Center was restored to revive its colonial past. Today at (Part of the Sotterly Plantation Excursion, Sotterley, history continues. Sotterley is a vibrant and Friday, October 20) dynamic place where history comes alive for visitors and students of all ages. Come share three hundred years of The Maryland Antiques Center contains more history still in the making. Sotterley illuminates the than 10,000 square feet featuring the collections of more relationship of people to each other and to the land, and than 30 dealers. It features quality antique furniture, tells the story of how they shaped and were shaped by collectibles, art, books, gourmet food items, china, a particular place. linens, stained glass, prints, glassware, jewelry, navigation instruments, and toys — all elegantly In 1710, James Bowles, son of a wealthy London displayed yet reasonably priced. tobacco merchant and member of Maryland’s Assembly, purchased an 890 acre tract that would become You’ll even find home accents and accessories from Sotterley Plantation. In 1717, he began building his primitive to Victorian. There is also an Artisans house, which today stands as a unique post-in-ground Gallery, where all items are hand-crafted by local construction, once common in the Tidewater. artisans and custom work is welcomed.

Two years after the death of Squire Bowles in 1727, Bingo his young widow, Rebecca, married George Plater II. Friday, October 20, 8:15 p.m. Over the years, the Plater family converted the simple In the conference exhibit hall residence into a charming 18th-century Manor House, Fee: Free which they named after their ancestral home, Sotterley Hall, in Suffolk, England. It was under George Plater Saturday, October 21 III, sixth governor of Maryland, that the house reached Calvert Marine Museum its distinctive form that was much admired by George Depart Holiday Inn 9:45 a.m. Washington, and perhaps served as a model for Return Holiday Inn 11:45 a.m. Mount Vernon. Fee: Free

In the late 18th century, Sotterley was site of one of The Calvert Marine Museum is a public, non- the largest communities of slaves in Southern Maryland. profit, regionally-oriented museum dedicated to the While the traditional historical record contains scant culture and natural history of Southern Maryland. Its information about members of this community, much is mission is to interpret three maritime themes: www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 15 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR female otters and introduces visitors to these playful, though seldom-seen, mammals. Visitors are able to view the otters both below and above the water.

Woodcarving and Model Boat Shop Located near the parking lot is the woodworking shop. Here visitors may look into the exhibit fabrication shop and see the museum’s resident master woodcarver and model maker at work. The Southern Maryland Shipcarvers’ Guild and the Solomons Island Model Boat Club maintain headquarters in the woodworking shop where their skills are demonstrated to the public. Half models, scale boat models, figureheads and trailboards are examples of their craft.

M.S.S. Plat Awards Luncheon paleontology, life on the tidal Patuxent River and Saturday, October 21, 12:20-2:00 p.m. Chesapeake Bay, and maritime history of these waters. Fee: $20 Here are some of the features: Flag Ponds Nature Park Maritime Patuxent Saturday, October 21 This permanent exhibit tells the story of human Depart Holiday Inn 2:15 p.m. activity along the Patuxent River from the seventeenth- Return Holiday Inn 4:30 p.m. century colonial period to present. The exhibit explores Fee: Free a wide range of topics such as river transportation, trade, shipping, boatbuilding, commercial fishing, military For hundreds of years the shifting sands of the engagements, community life and recreation. Over five Chesapeake Bay have reshaped the shoreline of this hundred artifacts and photographs are featured, park, creating a remarkable variety of natural including a twenty-eight foot three-log canoe, a tobacco environments — from sandy beach to freshwater ponds prize used to pack tobacco for shipment, a steam to the forested heights of Calvert Cliffs. Millions of years engine, an underwater mine and torpedo from World ago, sharks, whales, crocodiles and other creatures war II and a 1956 Cruis-Along power boat built at the M. inhabited the waters and shores of this area. Most of M. Davis & Son Shipyard in Solomons. Also on display these animals are now extinct, others are simply no are tools used in the shipbuilding trades, scale models of longer found here. To the sharp-eyed visitor, sharks steam and sail vessels, gear for harvesting and teeth and other Miocene fossils may be found along the processing seafood, and many documents, maps, park’s shoreline. photographs, and paintings. Flag Ponds Nature Park offers three miles of Boat Basin and Marsh Walk gentle hiking trails, observation platforms overlook- Museum interpreters demonstrate oyster tonging, ing two ponds, a wetlands boardwalk, a beach and crab pot and fishing techniques in the boat basin, and fishing pier on the Chesapeake Bay, and a visitor’s lead nature walks through a living, recreated salt- and center with wildlife exhibits. Flag Ponds is also part fresh-water marsh. The Patuxent River Small Craft of Maryland’s history. From the early 1900’s until Guild and Solomons Island Model Boat Club 1955 the area was a sheltered harbor on the occasionally demonstrate small craft handling and Chesapeake Bay, with a major “pound net” fishery model boat racing in the basin. supplying croaker, trout and herring to the Baltimore markets. Today, “Buoy Hotel Number Two,” the Discovery Room, and Otters! lone remaining structure of the Flag Ponds fishing A “hands-on” Discovery Room for children of all complex, houses a fascinating exhibit on the Bay’s ages (preschool to adult) is located on the lower level of old-time fishing industry. the Exhibition Building. Here the visitor is encouraged to explore the three themes of the museum by touching Here, on 327 acres, all the beauty of the Chesapeake and doing. Another outdoor exhibit features two live Bay area comes to life. Park visitors will discover a wide www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 16 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR variety of native wildlife, including muskrat, otter, powered boat in 1909. She is the only Bugeye conversion whitetail deer, turkey, fox, and the majestic pileated still in service. woodpecker. The flora ranges from venerable hardwood trees to the native Blue Flag iris, which gives Tennison was built in 1899 by master carpenter Flag Ponds Nature Park its name. From early spring Frank Laird, at Crabb Island near Oriole in Somerset through the fall wildflowers such as Columbine, Blue County. She was used as a Bugeye oyster dredge boat until Flag Iris, and Rose-Mallow paint the landscape of Flag 1908-9 when she was converted to power. Tennison’s Ponds with an explosion of color. A short, half-mile conversion was an early example. Of the hundreds of hike brings you to the sandy beach or you may take the sailing Bugeyes dredging in the 1880s, fewer than 50 longer trail routes that allow you to experience the survived to 1938. beauty of the park. Additionally, there are observation platforms at two ponds, a fishing pier on the The Calvert Marine Museum was able to purchase Chesapeake Bay and a visitor’s center with wildlife Tennison and the J.C. Lore & Sons oyster house in 1979 displays. through a Heritage Conservation Grant and a grant from the U.S. Department of Interior. Under the museum’s Sunday, October 22 ownership, Tennison is still associated with the very M.S.S. Continental Brunch processing house for which she hauled oysters for 37 Holiday Inn years. Alton Kersey, owner and operator of the vessel at 9-10:30 a.m. the time of the purchase, knew the end of Tennison’s Fee: $9 oystering career was near. To help maintain the vessel he began taking on passengers for hire. The museum has Wm. B. Tennison Cruise continued this use to the present, allowing Tennison to Sunday, October 22, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. help earn her keep as a working vessel. Calvert Marine Museum Dock Fee: $10 The oldest licensed passenger vessel in Maryland (and reputedly the second oldest in the United States), M.S.S. members and families will take a two-hour Tennison receives annual inspections by the U.S. Coast cruise on the Wm. B. Tennison, Sunday from 11 a.m. to Guard. Regular maintenance and repair work has resulted 1 p.m. What a way to end the Conference! in a vessel that is today in fine condition.

The Tennison is a nine-log sailing Bugeye, converted Wm. B. Tennison exhibits the classic physical to power. She is home-ported at Back Creek in Solomons characteristics of a log-hull Bugeye, and as such represents Harbor, 60 feet-6 inches long on deck, has a beam of 17 the last of her type. Despite considerable research, the feet-6 inches and a draft of 4 feet-6 inches. Her wide beam identity of Wm. B. Tennison, for whom the vessel was and shoal named, remains a mystery. draft, typi- cal of the Departures are from the Calvert Marine Museum Bugeye dock. All cruises are weather permitting. type, are ideally suited for HOLIDAY INN AT SOLOMONS, oyster A GREAT CONFERENCE FACILITY dredging on the shallow Nestled in historic Calvert County, the award- waters of winning Holiday Inn Select Hotel, Conference the Chesa- Center and Marina combines panoramic water views peake Bay. and Southern Maryland hospitality. It is a nine-acre retreat on Back Creek, just minutes from the beautiful Tennison Chesapeake Bay, a scenic one-hour drive southeast of The 101-year old Wm. B. Tennison, oldest retains the Washington and Annapolis. licensed passenger vessel in Maryland, is the appearance last operational Chesapeake Bay “Chunk,” of her con- The hotel has 326 well-appointed rooms, many or Nine-Log Bugeye, in existence. version to a with spectacular water views. Nonsmoking and www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 17 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR

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www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 19 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR When you were a 26-year old surveyor, could you have BENJAMIN LATROBE and designed this bridge? And personally performed all the the THOMAS VIADUCT layout (on its 4½ degree curve)? And taken complete respon- Famed Original Railroad Bridge sible charge, as on-site project was Designed by a Surveyor engineer, of its difficult 2-year (Abridged and adapted, with permission, from the construction? 1993 book “THE GREAT ROAD” by James D. Dilts.)

That’s what 26-year old railroad surveyor Benjamin H. Latrobe, Jr., who had never taken an engineering course or built a bridge in his life, did in 1833.

This is famed Thomas Viaduct, on the old Baltimore & Ohio line near Relay, Mary- land. Completed on the Fourth of July, 1835, spanning the Patapsco, it was the largest bridge then in America and the first ever built on a curve.

Only two of the original 1830s Baltimore & Ohio , designed for far lighter trains of that era, still stand to this day— smaller Carrollton Viaduct (a single stone arch) and this one, monumental Thomas Viaduct. Scores of others have washed away and collapsed, some many times. But Benjamin Latrobe’s great bridge has done more than merely sur- vive—it’s still in constant daily use. After 165 years, Thomas Viaduct continues to carry heavy rail traffic, around the Nearly as tall as a 7-story building, and more than 10-times that length, famed Thomas Viaduct, across the Patapsco on the old Baltimore & Ohio line at Relay, Maryland clock, every day of the year.

And it was designed by a surveyor . . . river of iron that would go west from the Chesapeake Bay across the Allegheny Mountains—and someday, a “River of Iron” few said, maybe all the way to the far Pacific.

The concept and founding of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroading was in its early infancy in the 1820s and Railroad, in 1827, was the single most important 30s. Recently invented in England, it was rudimentary, decision made in Maryland during the first half of the thoroughly untested and unperfected technology, and nineteenth century. In a brilliant intellectual leap, 25 utterly non-existent in America. The Baltimore & Ohio Baltimore businessmen decided to build a railroad, a was first—it became “the railroad university of the www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 20 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR a staggering feat of civil engineering and human endur- ance.

Giants of History

Some of those builders were giants of American history — Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who stated bluntly that the only document he ever signed, more important than the incorporation paper for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was the Decla- ration of Independence itself — Roger B. Taney and Daniel Webster, young railroad law- yers who won approvals, lawsuits and rights-of-way — Peter Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse, who found the Baltimore and Ohio a convenient testing ground for their inventions — and Andrew Jackson, “Old Hickory” himself, who swung aboard a B&O coach for Baltimore, in 1833, the first U.S. president to ride the rails.

Of those who actually surveyed and laid the tracks, and designed and built the bridges, less is known, but some have emerged from old shadows: John McCartney, the hard-swearing contractor who was the railroad’s top builder until he drank himself out of a job — and brilliant surveyor/designer Ben- jamin H. Latrobe, Jr., whose training was in law, but whose triumph was Thomas Viaduct. United States.” Its progress and achievements (and disasters) became “a textbook and lecture room to He was youngest son of famed early American thousands.” The very first leg of our national rail system, architect , who had its early surveyors and engineers formed the founding completed the U.S. Capitol and designed its splendid core of their professions in America — their theories of dome after the British burned Washington in 1814. Very surveying, route location and design laid the often, to this day, histories of Thomas Viaduct groundwork for future generations. Building the B&O mistakenly credit the elder Latrobe for that bridge’s Railroad through 350 miles of rugged wilderness, mostly superb engineering and design, confusing the like- mountains, from Baltimore to Wheeling, Virginia (at the named architect-father with his surveyor-son. After all time), on the distant Ohio, using only hand tools and (you can hear the historians mulling), no surveyor manual labor, with no previous example to follow, was could ever have designed that! Of course it must have www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 21 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR been Latrobe the elder — our great American Elkridge was unprecedented in America. When architect. completed on July 4, 1835, at a cost of $200,000, it was the nation’s largest bridge and the first ever built on a Not so . . . curve. The viaduct of rustic masonry was 704 feet long, Benjamin Latrobe the elder couldn’t have contributed including approaches, and 26 feet wide. Its roadway very much to his surveyor-son’s epoch-making bridge was 66 feet above water level and each of the eight design. The revered old architect had died of yellow fever, arches spanned more than 58 feet. The piers, 15 feet in New Orleans, thirteen years before . . . thick at waterline, tapering to 10 feet at the spring of each arch, were faced with engaged columns and capitals. At both ends of the bridge there were huge The Thomas Viaduct stone abutments with battered walls and buttresses. (Excerpted from the book “The Great Road”) The configuration was dictated by the curve of The construction of Thomas Viaduct began July 4, the line at that point, which had a radius of 1273 feet, 1833, when the railroad authorized John McCartney, (4.5 degrees), sharpest on the Washington Branch. low bidder and an able, hard-working contractor, to The site posed difficult engineering problems. For start work on the bridge. The selection of Benjamin H. example, because of the curve the dimensions of the Latrobe, Jr., an inexperienced, 26-year-old surveyor, arches would vary on opposite sides of the bridge. trained in law, to design the bridge seems today Latrobe’s solution was to lay out the lateral faces of surprising, but since no eyebrows were raised the the seven piers on radial lines, making them wedge- choice apparently did not surprise anyone at the time. shaped in plan, so that he did not have to construct There must have been, however, an implicit the arches on a skew. He also used elliptical, two- understanding between the railroad and its new centered arches instead of semicircular Roman ones, designer (who had never built a bridge or taken an a sophisticated form. The “basket-handle” shape of engineering course), to create a monumental each arch is emphasized by tapering piers, and the structure, because that is what he did. result has been called “a superb work of The bridge that Benjamin H. Latrobe, Jr., designed architecture as well as engineering.” to cross the Valley between Relay and In style, Thomas Viaduct closely resembles England’s Sankey Viaduct, completed a few years earlier with similar dimensions. Latrobe had never visited it, but may have seen illustrations.

Although he did not actually plan his structure while it was being built, as did designers of Carrollton and Patterson Viaducts, Latrobe, whose father had been a great advocate of stone bridges, learned as he went along. “How frequently we are led to knowledge by being called on to impart it to others,” he wrote in his notebook. In August 1833, even as the workmen were starting the foundations for the Railroading was in such a state of infancy in 1828, when the B&O began building out abutments and piers, Latrobe, from Baltimore, that today’s system of gravel ballast with wooden cross-ties was feeling deficient, visited Colonel unknown. The earliest tracks were laid atop vertically-set stone blocks. In 1972 washed away the banks of the Patapsco, exposing the long-buried James Kearney and the staff of original trackbed stones, still carefully set to line and grade just the way Benjamin the U.S. Topographical Engi- Latrobe, Jr. laid them out. (B&O Railroad Museum.) neers in Washington, to discuss www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 22 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR

www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 23 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR (Latrobe himself felt that the real heroes of the bridge were the men who built it, only a few of whom escaped anonymity, mainly by dying. There were at least two deaths and several serious injuries.)

63,000 Tons of Granite

The Thomas Viaduct contained 63,000 tons of granite, three-fourths of all the stone used on the entire Washington Branch. The stone came from quarries at Ellicotts Mills, then moved on spur lines down to Relay, and out on a timber trestle that McCartney built across the valley. From there it was lowered by crude cranes to the men building the piers in the cofferdams below. The lime for the mortar came from Frederick County. Sand was A concept sketch of an arch dredged from the river (above) from Benjamin bottom. Latrobe, Jr.’s 1833 design notebook, and a period photo- graph (right) of a Thomas The granite was heavy, Viaduct arch. (Sketch: Mary- dense, indestructible. Each land Historical Society.) stone was about one and a half feet high, three feet technical matters. Colonel wide, two feet deep and Kearney lent him books on weighed three-quarters of a bridges by Jean-Rodolphe ton. Latrobe wrote admiringly Perronet (1708-94), France’s of McCartney: “The contrac- pre-eminent bridge designer. tor has begun this great work He read other books as well, with a spirit worthy of it. His on engineering, steam en- train of cars running across gines, and especially on cast his service bridge makes iron and steel, and he visited quite a show.” But other bridge sites. On a trip to McCartney’s cofferdams did Philadelphia in Septem- ber1833, Latrobe walked across Lewis Wernwag’s “Permanent Bridge” on the Schuylkill, making drawings and measurements, and he went out in a boat to inspect a cofferdam around one of the piers.

The credit for supervising construction of the great bridge over the Patapsco has usually been given to others, but Latrobe deserves at least equal share. He functioned as what would today be called the project engineer, appearing regularly at the site throughout the construction period, consulting with the contractor, and making plans or decisions on the spot. Others who played major roles included Robert Wilson, superintendent of masonry and, of course, McCartney and his workmen. But mainly it was the surveyor, Latrobe, who oversaw the building of the viaduct, and whose health deteriorated markedly under the strain A Thomas Viaduct arch as it appears today. Note the amount and anxiety. of fill compared to the design sketch and photo above. www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 24 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR

www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 25 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR not look like the beautiful ones Latrobe had drawn in an arm, leg and some ribs. On its way to Relay was a his notebook, that is, double rows of pilings lined with train pulled by engine Traveller when it happened. It timber and with the space in between filled by stone picked up the injured man, turned around and brought and clay. Instead, the contractor drove in a single him into Baltimore at 20 miles an hour. temporary row of planks, and as fast as he and his men could throw it out, the muddy river streamed back in. Then, in late November, the south end of the They set the bottom course of masonry for the north wooden trestle collapsed, dropping three stone cars and abutment in a foot of water. The foundations for the a man named Jacob Cauders into the millrace. Cauders second and third piers were actually laid in the river. died of a massive head injury three weeks later, leaving a wife and two children. Latrobe knew him: “He was an Even with difficulties, by the end of September all excellent fellow and I had him last spring as an axeman the piers and both abutments were under construction. for a few days.” Latrobe spent the day after the accident They were founded on rock, or as close to it as possible. at the same spot, “working in mud and water in the 7th The worst by far was second pier. “In laying the lowest pier in the head race of the mills. I have never worked course of stones, workmen were up to their chins in under more uncomfortable circumstances. To have to water and proper packing of the stones together was a make the nicest measurements upon the roughest matter of no little difficulty,” Latrobe recorded in his ground is a worrying & troublesome thing in the journal. The following month, the river flooded and extreme.” The day after that, Latrobe wrote, “The south inundated the works. abutment begins to look like the plan, and it does my heart good to see the features of my design beginning to Casualties and Setbacks appear. May I live to see this structure raised! It will ensure something like immortality to my memory for it The first casualty occurred in early September, will stand as long as the valley and its hemming hills when, just as remain in place.” they were leaving for The year ended with heavy rains and more floods; the day, “a a landslide carried away 50 feet of track near poor fellow McCartney’s turnout at the temporary bridge. The on the 5th contractor had already left for Ohio to bring back his pier was family. “He better let them stay where they are,” badly hurt by Latrobe observed darkly. the fall of a large stone Latrobe genuinely admired McCartney’s ferocious from the energy and ability as a builder, but he was often wooden exasperated by his excessive drinking, on the job and bridge off. Latrobe’s journals are full of references to above,” McCartney at the bridge, “a little tipsy, but pushing on Latrobe re- his men at a great rate,” or down inside the leaking ported. “His cofferdams beside them, “working at it himself like a right arm . . . Trojan.” Another problem was the soil . . . was terribly “indurated clay.” Latrobe, who found it both lacerated. He fascinating and repellent, described it thus: “The red is an Irishman the toughest, the black very sticky and very pervious without a to water. The yellow quite soapy in its look and Photography didn’t exist in 1833 when texture . . . Also a blue sand mixed with clay of the Benjamin Latrobe Jr. was a young family, fortu- surveyor working on his bridge. But nately.” In same color.” Digging it out was unbelievably tedious. decades later, on the eve of the Civil War, it mid-October “The pick brings away a piece not larger than a fist at was 54-year old chief engineer of the another work- each blow, and when the material become railroad Benjamin Latrobe, Jr. who was man lost his penetrated by water, the difficulty is increased for it photographed here in 1861. You’re looking footing on the becomes still more tenacious.” at the man who pioneered railroad temporary surveying, design and construction in bridge and The wheelbarrow men and the cart men, pick and America. (Maryland Historical Society.) fell, breaking shovel laborers who excavated the material and hauled www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 26 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR it away to be dumped, were tough, hardened by years So McCartney broke off to repair his defenses.” of physical toil and abuse. They were paid 63 cents a Two days later, Latrobe reported: “Went to the day. bridge as usual . . . Everything went well till about 4 o’clock when a heavy gust came up and a Stonecutters, the elite of the labor force, were paid tremendous rain fell accompanied by severe at a much higher rate — $2.50 a day in September 1833. lightning and thunder. All work was stopped and the In one day, a good stonecutter could dress sixteen cubic river at 6 o’clock was running over the whole of the feet of masonry. There was enough granite in the cofferdam and sweeping everything before it. This structure to keep 75 to 100 of them busy for two years. was truly mortifying as McCartney had nearly secured There was also a large crew of carpenters at the bridge the weak point of his dam.” to put up cofferdams and temporary wooden centers for the arches. All the workmen lived in local taverns and By the end of the month, the second pier had boardinghouses, or in hundreds of shanties strung out cleared the surface of the water. They had been beside the tracks, or in four large “house cars” that able to get the foundation within a foot of the rock moved from site to site along the railroad line. but not on it. Latrobe expected The Tempo Accelerates the pier to settle a few inches. It The tempo of construction accelerated in the spring of did, as he discov- 1834, while the mishaps and liquor consumption ered when he continued at a steady pace. Latrobe instructed McCartney took his levels of to erect all the centers and arches at once instead of two or the pier tops and three at a time, but because it was impossible to do that abutments a few until the piers were in place, a spiderweb of timber months later. But falsework spread out between the finished piers while then the piers work resumed on the two in the river. In May, while were finished. By making measurements at the third pier, “A (rail) car fell August, the stone from the [service] bridge loaded with stone, close by us, the arches were be- crash and splash was terrific,” Latrobe said. “It fell into the ing raised. river by the cofferdam.” McCartney was now drinking so heavily that Latrobe predicted he would be dead if he kept The Final it up. “It is a pity for he is a very intelligent, enterprising, Victim and good hearted fellow,” he noted — when he was sober, that is. In mid-Octo- ber, as Latrobe By June, half of the centers for the arches were in was planning a Benjamin Latrobe, Jr. designed, and place. The next month they addressed in earnest the monument, a John L. McCartney paid for, this foundation for the difficult second pier. Latrobe’s journal simple obelisk to granite monument that still stands entry for July 15, 1834, reads: be put up at the today at the north end of the bridge. bridge, the via- Engraved upon it, along with all the “Went out again to the bridge and remained there till duct claimed its railroad’s directors and officers of the 6 ½ o’clock in the evening. McCartney hard at work final victim. What time, are both their names. driving everything on. The scene was a very busy he wrote on the one. Within the space occupied by the cofferdam occasion is probably as plain and sincere a tribute as about 40 feet long by 25 feet broad, upwards of 100 any construction worker who died in the line of duty men were at work pumping, bailing, scraping the ever received: bottom or laying the stone. Numerous small leaks at the upstream end of the dam let in a good deal of “There was a man killed yesterday by a fall from water, yet they reduced its quantity till it was within the 1st arch. He was knocked off by (equipment) a foot of the bottom. About 5 o’clock however a slipping, and fell to the ground from a height of serious opening took place in the upper end and about 55 feet, where he struck his head upon a the water burst up from under the embankment so stone and rebounded several feet. His skull was rapidly that further effort to keep it out was useless. fractured and he sustained other injuries which www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 27 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR in about an hour terminated his existence. He was a laborer by the name of Barney Dougherty and has not left a family, fortunately. He was buried today, all hands attending his body as far as Vinegar Hill on its way to the Catholic graveyard near Baltimore. What a sympathy there is between these rough men. It was affecting to see his fellow laborers dressed in their best going in a body to escort him part of the way on his long journey.”

Rain and the funeral slowed McCartney down, but he closed the arches in early November 1834. A train stopped at Relay to let passengers watch. When Latrobe After 165 years, never rebuilt or shored-up, Benjamin made his measurements that month, he determined that Latrobe, Jr.’s original, unreinforced stone- the greatest variance between the height of any two of continues to carry heavy rail traffic around the clock, every the eight arches was a considerable nine and one-half day of the year. inches. The northern four arches, the last closed, had settled the most. However, it would not affect the Ohio’s rails in a dead straight line right up to the north structure, he said. lawn of the U.S. Capitol, which is why Washington’s Union Station sits where it does today. The critics agreed. The Baltimore Gazette said, “This great work, which surpasses anything of the kind yet He went on to become brilliantly successful chief executed in America . . . combines all the necessary engineer of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, in full strength with great lightness of appearance.” The final responsible charge of all design, layout and addition to the Thomas Viaduct was the obelisk construction. He built the entire line out to full monument that Benjamin Latrobe, Jr. designed and completion by 1853, and when he retired in 1875 he McCartney paid for. Putney and Woods, quarry was one of the foremost railroad engineers and bridge operators at Ellicott’s Mills, supplied the beautiful light- designers in America. He served as a consultant to the colored granite for the monument. They also built it. Roeblings on the Brooklyn Bridge, and the two percent maximum grade that he established for the Thomas Viaduct was completed July 4, 1835. Since Baltimore & Ohio was later written into the charters of then, the Patapsco has seen many major floods, the transcontinental railroads. Surveyor Benjamin including one in 1866 that destroyed most of Patterson Latrobe, Jr. died in 1878, at Baltimore, and is buried in Viaduct upstream, but Benjamin Latrobe’s great Greenmount Cemetery. bridge has stood firm and still carries heavy railroad traffic to this day. (End of excerpt) So if Latrobe designed the great viaduct, and McCartney built it, who the heck was Thomas after The Rest of the Story . . . whom it was named?

After the viaduct was completed, surveyor Philip E. Thomas was first president of the Benjamin Latrobe, Jr. took a leave of absence (to Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and commissioned recover his health, greatly deteriorated from the 2-year Latrobe to design the span in 1833. He had no other ordeal of the project), then returned to the railroad as a personal connection with the project, and was long surveyor. Among many other accomplishments, it was out of office by the time it was completed . . . but he who staked-out, with compass and chain, the entire forever after the bridge has been known as Thomas 33-mile original Baltimore & Ohio line to the City of Viaduct. Washington. For the last few miles, from Bladensburg This article was abridged and adapted, with on in, he simply lined up the sights of his surveyor’s permission, from the 1993 book “THE GREAT ROAD, the compass on the tip of the new Capitol dome, gleaming Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation’s First off in the distance, designed by his famous architect- Railroad, 1828-1853,” (Stanford University Press) by father—but not the dome we see today—and used it as James D. Dilts, a scholar and writer living in Baltimore. a foresight. Benjamin Latrobe, Jr. laid the Baltimore & His book is highly recommended. www.marylandsurveyor.org September, 2000 — Page 28 THE MARYLAND SURVEYOR

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