The suburban citizen., 1900-08-25

For several weeks past the Wash
ington daily papers have devoted col
umn after column to what they are
pleased to term happenings at Chesa-
peake Junction since the opening CT
the Infamous resorts just across the
District line"
If the reporters would confne them
selves to truth no one would have a
right to complain, but they have be-
come so bold and reckless in their re-
marks that it is about time the truth
was told so that the public at large
may have an opportunity to know how
much dependence there is to be placed
in the malicious and wanton attacks
of those who publicly admit themselves
to be "kickers by nature.
SO bold have they become that IN
their daily attacks these same journal
istic pirates don't pretend TO CONNIE
their remarks to anything that IN the
least resembles truth, hence 1t Is they
have recently begun to speak OF the
place as Chesapeake Beach Junction
istead of Chesapeake Junction, thereDy
dragging Chesapeake Beach lntO the
controversy, with the view, PropaDly,
of causing embarrassment to the many
business interests at that popular
watering place Many parties VINO hau
never visited either resort could not
holm but draw the conclusion from
these published Trades that Chesa-
neake Beach was about the lowest
place in the world for anybody to 60,
T,pccaaGQd nf
snpctabilty and desire to retain 1t.
In our entire newspaper experience,
extending over n period of more than
twenty years. we have never yet run
across a truer illustration Of the old
sdogp about "the pot calling the kettle
black" than is to be found in the daily
hatch of lies about Chesapeake June
tion that is served up in nauseating
doses to the reading public of Wash
ington almost every morning and even
ing.
If it were not for the fact that the
publication of such articles has a ten
dency to create bad impression in the
mind of county and State officials, who
are either unable, disinclined or too busy
to visit Chesapeake Junction in person
and thus see Tor themselves that there
is no truth whatever in the perfect
hailstorm Of abuse poured out against
the place, we would not notice the mat
ter at all, but it is with the view Of
laying the facts before such parties
that this article is prepared and pub
lished.
1t has been said that the Junction is
filled with slot machines and other
gambling devices, and thousands Of
people believe it, but as a matter Of
fact there is not a single slot machine
in or anywheres near the place.
On Sunday morning last one of the
Washington dailies sad mot a Sun
day passes but the Maryland liquor
code is violated openly and defiant
ly. and the local authorities know It
we'll" That Is one of the most brazen-
faced lies we ever saw in print. On
the morning in question the prOprie-
tors of the Columbia Pleasure Park at
the Junction, together with their bar
tenders and other helpers, went to
Chesapeake Beach on the 10 o'clock
train and some Of them returned
shortly after midnight, the others re-
naming over until Monday morning.
Their places OF business at the June
tion were closed every minute Of the
day. The gates at the park were left
omen and visitors could wander around
at their leisure, but they could get moth
ing whatever to drink. The Columbia
Pleasure Park at the Junction has been
closed tight every Sunday for the past
several weeks, but that fact does not
prevent certain papers that are short
of news from saying that the Sabbath
is being desecrated at Chesapeake
Beach Junction" The daily papers
nowadays publish such patches of lies
that no one can place any dependence
whatever in what they say They pub
lis hundreds of columns about how the
Ministers were slaughtered in Pekin,
causing alarm in millions Of homes and
suffering in thousands Of others. There
was not a word Of truth in anything
they published, and there is the same
amount of truth in what they are now
saying about Chesapeake Junction.
The managing editor calls up a re-
porter and tells him to get up about a
column article on the vileness Of
Chesapeake Junction. He may never
have been within five miles Of the
place, but he sits down and grinds out
a blood-curdllng article on how girls
in short dresses are being ruined at the