Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-19
Glym0nt.

Shall Glymont, as place of public re-
sort, be suppressed The turbulent char
acter of the frequent excursion parties that
visit Glymont, from Washington city, gives
a serious turn to the aforegoing question,
and citizens Of the county are constantly
discussing the propriety of appealing to
the law to prohibit the landing of excur-
sionists at Glymont, or else to abate the
public character of the place as nuisance
The complaints of our people in this par
ticular are not without reason, and, while
it would be something of a hardship to
suppress the license of the present proprie-
tor, nevertheless such suppression would
be an act of simple justice to the people
themselves. The present proprietor, as far
as our knowledge goes, is the only one who
has ever leased the place who, has mani
Tested desire, and, indeed spared no pains
for the enforcement of law on his premises
and the bringing of offenders to Justice
His efforts, however, sustained as they have
been by the peace authorities of the State
within this Jurisdiction, have proved any
thing but effective About this time twelve
months ago, on the affidavit of the proprie
tor and the application of the States At
torney, Gov. Whyte issued his requisition
on the authorities of Washington for the
surrender of fourteen parties, who were
charged with riot at Glymont, of that
number, however, only five were taken and
brought for trial here, all of whom were
convicted. Four of them, for riot, were
fined, and one, for assault with intent to
KILL was sent to the Penitentiary, in Bal
timore, where he now is undergoing a SEN
tence for three years. confinement. TWAS
thought that the spirit manifested by those
in the cause of order, and the determina-
ton displayed by the proprietor of ely
mont, in those cases, would operate bene-
6cially and serve as warning to future
excursionists who might incline to defy
authority and ignore the jurisdiction of
the State. Recent occurrences, however,
clearly demonstrate the futility OF such
reasoning on the one hand, and on the
other, make manifest the incorrigible, vi
cious character of the people who frequent
Glymont from Washington. A rigid and
proper enforcement of the law at Glymont
involves great expense to our tax-paying
an expense which the people
cannot reasonably be expected to tolerate
with any degree of equanimity. This, of
itself, should exercise controlling inf1u-
ence and be sufficient inducement to move
our State authorities. in the matter and
bring about a prompt application of the
one effective remedy, and that is the sum-
mary abatement of Glymont Pavilion and
drinking saloons as nuisances. Lawless-
ness and rowdyism, bloody violations of
the peace, loud-mouthed defiance of all
accountability to the State law gross Ii
centiousness, lewdness and immoralities of
the foulest kind, vollies of blasphemous
oaths, and the open boasts that by reason
oftheir numerical strength they can and in
tend to act as they please, are the ordinary
sayings and doings that greet the eyes and
ears of one who happens at Glymont on
the occasion of one of these excursions
We do not mean to say, nor do we wish to
be understood as meaning to say, that all
the excursion parties which come to ely
mont from Washington are of this degrad-
ed sort and that none are respectable, but
we do mean to say that responsibility is
the exception, and unqualified rowdyism
is the rule. It frequently happens that
life is placed in imminent jeopardy, and it
is almost certainty that when one ofthese
crowded visitations of ronghs hold sway
at Glymont, no citizen, without danger of
abuse, and no lady, without running the
risk of being insulted, can go there
to take passage on the regular steamers