Evening journal., 1899-09-01

ated, and how TO handle It was ascer-
tained. There are now three churches,
three schools, nine stores, mechanical
shops, shipyards, packing establish
Iments, hundreds Of sail boats, livery
STABLES, boarding houses, societies and
their halls, and everything that be-
longs to a progressive and happy civil
ization-except rum shops.
PROHIBITION OF LIQUOR.
II is worthy OF note that Tilghman's
Island was the first place in Talbot
county to prohibit the sale Of liquor,
and the first in Maryland, except, pos
sibly, few factory towns. More than
twenty-five years ago the women Of
the island. which had become rum
cursed they said, took hold of the
matter and had an act passed by the
Legislature to forever prohibit liquor
licenses on the island, under severe
penalties These women did not fool
with local option. that is taking a
vote on license. They went to the foun-
tain OF law and had 1t done at Annapo-
lis. Anathema would be hurled at any
one who should now propose to sub
stitute for prohibition any kind of a
license system on Tilghman's Island.
There used to be a great deficiency in
the drinkable water supply, Fresh
water had frequently to be hauled a
long distance. and was then used with
ont ice, as a rule. The wells were shall
low, to catch the surface water. At
twenty feet salt water would be
broached. The only exception was an
eighty-foot we'll on Valliant's Black
Walnut farm. which, with the walnut
trees, were washed away by erosion
years ago. The place is now almost
lhoneyccmbed with bored (artesian)
wells 800 or 400 feet deep, which give
overdowing streams OF the best drink
ing water This has given great i'm
petus to the summer boarding busi-
ness, and this season all the city APP
plicants for board there cannot be ac-
commodated.
The building by the Baltimore, Ches-
apeake and Atlantic Transportation
Company of a wharf on the creek side
of the island has done much to help
business and travel. Every midnight
there Is a steamboat at this wharf from
Baltimore and another one going to
Baltimore.
MAKnRS OF THE ISLAND.
The makers OF Tilghman's Island
have been hese: First, the Talbot
people who bought island land and re-
moved there. including the Fairbanks
the Haddaways, the shannahans, tn,
Valliants, the Faulkners, the Cam
innings, the Lowrys, the Sewells, the
Harrisons. the Jacksons, and others
lwho cleared up land, built houses
raised famllisB, and started develop
ment by doing their duty in that sta
ton of life lin which it had pleased
God to call them" as they said. Late
there came up from the islands an'
tile tidewater main of the counties far
ther dbwn the bay the Gibsons, tn
r Misters. the Covingtons, ne Taylors
= the Duncans, the Webers, the james
: the Norths, the Bradshaws and more
who found a ready welcome from tn
young men who came from the oil
S Talbot pioneers, and they all went {
v work together to make the .sectio
o prosperous, rich and populous, an
8 they have succeeded we'll The island
|, ers marry young, the young wome
e from 16 to is, and the young me
II from 10 to q, and they have man
n children. The largest house on ii
s island. and as large as any built
l. Talbot county in fifty years, WI
4. erected as a home by Captain Jam'
,e L. Duncan, a down-bay man, WI
I'd married a very beautiful woman, Mi
Or Cummings. who was in her your
OF days the belle OF the island. All Il
n homes are comfortable, frequently O
he nate. roomy. nicely located on riv,
e- bay or creek, equipped with maj
at modern conveniences and well III
lis nished. The boys are studious
in school, industrious at work, and ami
he tious OF success. The girls are w
Ia dressed and modest; they soon becoI
nd accomplished in music, painting a
his other arts, and at an early age becol
ST. practical housekeepers. like TIA
lev mothers. There are few. II any, p
To- manent debts among the inhabitai
IN and If one Of them borrows money
ch. advance his business, his thrift enab
zh- him to soon pay it of.
md Probably nowhere in Maryland il
territory Of eight square miles
in such a population Of thrifty prosr
gin Gus and happy people be found as tn
iar. Islanders are.
Ifty
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- September Is.