Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-09-27
improvements to Dance Hall.

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Crandall's dance hall on Main street for
the season, will have grand opening on
Tuesday, October 4th. Mr.. Hantske is
having erected in the front end OF the
building stage for the accommodation
Of the musicians, who have heretofore
occupied the gallery, which will be used
this season as ladies and gentlemen S
hat and cloak room.
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return trip through the Yellow Stone
Park or otherwise, = but about 150
were still left TO turn their faces east
ward. At Sacramento we took on a
dining car, consequently we did not
stop anywhere for meals during Fri
day, September 49, Therefore the day
was given up TO reading, card play
ing and swapping yarns, as had been
the days coming West, while we were
crossing the arid alaldi plains with
no living thing in sight but the goph-
ers, hawks, ordinary rabbits and oc-
casional jack rabbits and the ever
present sage brush and perhaps at in
tervals of 20 or % miles a lonely
house, where some trackwalker lived
and from which he kept continual
watch over the road bed over which
we were carelessly rolling.
1--WE again passed over the Lucin
Cut OFF about mi dnight of Friday
and when we awoke in the morning
were well east of Ogden. The chief
event of Saturday, September II was
our arrival at Rawlins, Wyoming
Here Ivanhoe Commandery turned out
in full force to meet us and headed
by big Bill Daily and brass band
marched us to the hotel, where they
provided us a banquet in lieu of the
supper we were scheduled to obtain at
that town. After the banquet they
escorted us to the Masonic Hall. where
a dance was given in our honor and
where they served as fine a brand of
champagne punch as any one need
want TO drink. The dance had to be
broken up at 9 O'Clock as we had to
leave at $50 O'Clock, so they. their
families and their band came down to
the station and serenaded us until we
moved away. The next morning, Sun
day, we breakfasted at North Platte,
Neb., dined at Grand Island and took
supper in Omaha, having passed
through the great corn and grass belt
of Nebraska during the day. The
next morning we reached Chicago at
8 O'Clock and after breakfast at the
Grand Pacific Hotel took an automo-
bile and rode through Washington
and Jackson Parks, recognizing many
sights familiar to us from onr visit to
the Chicago Fair in 1898. Later we
went to Marshall Field & Co.'S big
store, where think am safe in say
ing we met nearly every man and
woman of our party, all bent upon buy
ing something from that great empOr-
ium of the Middle West. From Chi
cago TO Pittsburg and from Pittsburg
TO Baltimore is such an ordinary ride
that / will not waste time in writing
about it, further than to say that it
was the only part of our trip where
we were seriously behind time, so
much so indeed that we reached Bal
timore five hours late, and entirely too
late to get home that night. And
now, having travelled over 8, 400 miles
from this little city by the Severn,
am more than ever satisfied to own it
as my place of residence and call it
home, for, while nearly all of the
places we have stopped at or passed
through, give evidence of thrift and
hustle and growth. to me there is
no other town have seen, which so
impresses me with the idea that it is
home town. as dear old Annapolis. >"