Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-09-03
Old ANNE ARUNDEL.
A Visit to Annapolis The Venice Of Che.
sapeake Bay.

Il newspaper mans monday may
be not in-aptly compared to a fiddler's
pay in that there are more kicks OF
work than half-pence of enjoyment in
1t. The representative of The Ners
who had read of Atlantic City and
Cape May, where rich people disport
themselves 10 the briny at cost to
pater familias of $50 a week and up
wards thought he would spend his
days holiday at Annapolis for three
reasons. He could see the bay; he
could reyel in antiquity, and he could
meet the coming oyster half way.
Frederick has been somewhat dis
dainfully described by Gath as an
old German Town, not very elterpris-
ing. Annapolis with about the same
population is old, even unto colonial
antiquity, yet at this time the air of
busy industry pervades its streets and
wharves. 1t has not perished as
Joppa and st. Mary's have parished;
therefore, on the principle of the sur
vival of the tittest, Annapolis is
WOtbU9 w live duu tlOuflSu.
1t is delightful place, full of little
surprises in the way of picturesque
coves, colonial architecture, DauticaIi-
ties aud nice people You are at once
prepared to believe that the settlers
of Maryland when they landed near
the present Point Lookout, iu March
1884, did not lose any time in work
ing up to "Anna Randle" st Mary's
had its time, a good time while 1t
lasted but by 1861 the "hundred".of
Anne Arundel bad begun to assert
itself.
The act of 1649 brought out the
features of the old Saxon hundred"
very prominently, when it became
necessary to protect the settlers on
the Severn from incursions OF the In
dians In case of danger, we read,
the alarm was sounded by means of
"rounders" of from three to five guns,
and the call to arms had to be repeat
ed by every master of family by q
salute of three guns under penalty.
When the conflict of l7T6 began it
was the hundreds of Maryland that
responded to the alarm sounded in
Mass achussetts, and that echoed the
news of Virginia and Carolina. The
Maryland Gazette of 1875 has an ex-
tract which reads This day the
inhabitants of Elk Ridge Hundred in
Anne Arundel county met, formed
themselves into company, aud
chose their proper officers, being Of
opinion that we'll regulated militia
will contribute to the preservation of
American liberty. Ia 1896 Anne
Arundel contained six hundreds.
Evidently the growth of Annapo-
lis and Anne Arundel was due to
Ingle's rebellion in I644-l646 which
checked the growth of Kent county,
while the settlements of the Puritans
on the Severn river proved an effect
ual barrier to the extension of st
Mary's toward the north. So at
least says Prof Lewis Wilhelm, fel-
low by courtesy of John Hopkins
University. He adds that the growth
in population and influence of the
Puritans at Providence, now Annap5-
lis. made them conscious of thier
need of more local power aud in the
same year in which the Puritans
reached their zenith in politics OF
England, (l649-165O) their brethren
in Maryland were organized into a
distinct county, making the third
county recognized in the province. =
The Puritans, we are told called their
county Providence, but the term grad
ually gave way to the present name,
Anne Arundel. st. Mary's was the
Catholic Stronghold, Anne Arundel
the seat of Protestant influence. In
1850 Anne Arundel was erected and
bounded into county. In 1854 it
was one of the FIVE counties of Mary
land In 1860 there were six, in
1869 there were nine, viz st. Mary's,
Charles, Calvert, Anne Arundel,
Kent, Talbot, Baltimore, Somerset
and Dorchester or Dorset. "In no
county," says Prof. Wilhelm, twas
there legislative body except in the
corporate towns located therein; and
only two chartered cities flourished
during the proprietary government,
and these were the successive places
of Assembly meetings, viz st.
Mary's and Annapolis.
Aane Arundel is now q local option
county, lin name at all events) and il
would undoubtedly surprise and edi-
fy some of her citizens to read the
old time enactments against drunken
ness. The latter was aefded tO.be
Drinking with excess to the j notable
perturbation of any organ Of sense or
motiop.n SINE organs must have
become very much perturbed when
I'VE consider that among tie al4uors
permitted were sbrandy, canary, ma
laQa. French wines Rhine wines