The Sunday globe., 1901-07-21
BY The Star of Cabin John Bridge
and the Junction.
WHAT THE MANAGEMENTS SAY
Refuse 10 Advertise in Tho PIOus Organ
Which Can Mol See Gambling, Prostitution,
and Drunkenness Nearer HOme-The Globe
Visits and Interviews Inc MauagsRenis The
Places Legitimate Enterprises.

cynical element OF the general public
with perfection in the art Of shaking
down" But there never was chief of
police or detectives as expert in this
business as a first-class family newspa-
per, with a reputation for holiness and
conservatism. The truly good newspa-
per, which wouldn't violate the Sab
bath by publishing a Sunday edition,
has, as a rule, reduced the business OF
shaking down" or polite blackmail to
an exact science. Let any enterprise
attempt to prosper without first paying
toll to the family newspaper and watch
the result, provided the enterprise Of
fers the least opportunity by the ma
ture of its business to the argus-eyed
business department Of the paper. How
rigbteously indignant our neighbor
The Star. became recently when it dis
covered for the first time that Few
places of amusement and recreation in
the State Of Maryland we're running in
violation Of the laws of the District
of Columbial Why The Star confined
it's indignation to Maryland when New
York, Ohio and Pennsylvania needs re-
formation in this particular can only
be accounted for on the theory that
managers of amusement places in those
States are beyond the influence Of the
Stars advertising columns. 1t is not
so in the case of Cabin Johns Bridge
and Chesapeake Junction, for, although
both places are in Maryland and out
side the pale of our District laws, as
administered by the mighty triumvi-
rate-Ross, Mcfarland and Beach
they are patronized by residents Of the
capital city and the District of Colum-
bia. And hence they are within The
Stars Sphere of influence" and owe
toll to its business department. Failing
which is the cause Of this excerpt, and
incidentally the two-column roast
given them by our religious neighbor
across the way.
1t never occurred to The Star that
the legislature and authorities Of Mary
land are fully capable Of regulating the
matters It complained Of, and that 1t
had only the same justification on gen
eral principles to condemn the sale of
beer in Cincinnati that it had at Cabin
Johns, both places being entirely out
side the Jurisdiction of this District
and interfering in no way, shape or
form with the quiet of a Washington
Sabbath or with the pious meditations
of the business department of The
Star.
A commissioner was sent out by The
Globe to inspect the places described
by The Star and advertised by that
sheet last year in big fifty-dollar dis
plays. Our representative, however,
wasted a few hours in a game of draw
poker in a hotel within a block Of The
Star, game so public that he was in
N hxv
Now, everybody of the male sex above
the age of twenty-One or in that neigh
berhood knows that he can get a game
of poker in almost every block in
Washington and a bellyfull of booze
in club-rooms not a good stones throw
from The Star office by paying an in
itiation fee of a dollar or two as
member and his annual dues. This is
Information for The Star exclusively;
all the rest of Washington knows it
so do all our visitors.
The first Sabbath a friend Of the
writer's spent in Washington he enjoy
ed himself in a bowling alley on C
street, drank whisky at an E street
resort, and played poker in a hotel
all within a few blocks of The Star Of
fee. This was five days ago! And
even the aTgus-eyed young man, who
"boozed up" rode on the scenic rail
way, knocked the stuffin' out of the
dolls, and had a good time generally at
Cabin Johns and Chesapeake Junction
at the expense of the gentlemen run
ming these places, to whom he gave a
jolly and left them under the impress
sion that The Star would give them a
nice write-up-we expect that not even
this "roaster" by order Of his employ
ers could find in years investigation
the violations OF District-not Mary
land-law within the territory over
shadowed by The Star building which
The Globes friend found.
"The charge is made by The STAR"
said Mr.. G. b. Davenport, at Chesa-
peake Junction, that we are illegal
liquor sellers. We will give The Star
an opportunity to establish this charge
in a libel suit we are about to bring
against il. We pay licenses to the
State of Maryland. Columbia Pleasure
Park, however, has no liquors on sale
Sundays, nor can The Star Annanias
establish any such a Misrepresentation
-e truth Of the matter so far as the
Junction is concerned is like this:
"Mr. Gregory, the proprietor of Co
lumbia Pleasure Park, gave three acres
of ground free to the Chesapeake Rail-
way Company. Now, this railway and
the Columbia Street Railway are both
cooperating against the Park, and in
favor Of Chesapeake Beach, the latter
place as citizens know who visit 1t, is
anything but place for Y. NJ. c. A
or Sunday School people to visit;
nevertheless, the remarkable thing
happens that The Star emissary, under
instructions from his office, says not
word in his "shakedown roast about
Chesapeake Beach. We are in the State
of Maryland at this Junction; we are
Obeying the laws of that State, and are
not engaged in illegal or illegitimate
enterprises as The Star has charged
and to which it will be held account
able. 1t is knowingly aiding the raid
being made on Mr.. Gregory's property
by the railway combine The Colum-
bia only runs cars now to the Junction
to meet trains to the Beach, and people
wanting to visit Columbia Pleasure
Park have to wait forty minutes for
car, yet the honest Star hasn't a word
to say on this deal. ! run the strik-
ing machines at Cabin Johns as well
as here Last year Cabin Johns gave
The Star big fat ads and everything
was o. X. accordingly, but this year no
ads and consequently a roast" And
Mr.. Davenport grinned significantly.
At Cabin Johns The Globes commits
sioner held up Mr.. Guy G. Harris, who
operates eight swings and has the priv
ilege Of the salted peanuts at both the
Bridge and the Junction. Said Mr..
Harris:
"The Star is a faker, and the chap
they had out here is on the proper