Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-07-05
NO NEED OF A PATROLMAN?
Disgusting Sights Witnessed On
The Shell Road Bestir
Residents.
A sARTURNALIA OF vILENEsS.
Passengers Along Public Highway
Are Subjected To Insult
And Scenes.

To the persons who are opposed TO
the keeping of a county patrolman in
the Second district and particularly
along the she'll road passing through
Germantown a good object lesson of
that need would have been shown by
a trip down the road any time yester-
day. A saturnalia of vileness, indie
cency and an overthrow of those con.
ditions which are supposed TO exist in
a civilized community was apparent.
From one end of the road to the
other. from the limits of the city
clear to the reservoir three miles and
more out sights were seen. and lam
guage used, which were unit for any
decent person--man, woman or child to
beEold.or. hear. Onesthousand colored
persons, with their vile passions un-
bridled by strong drink and giving
free rein to those impulses which IL
seem have not been checked, created a
reign of terrors from morning until
night.
was about what remains of Duval's
grove. which, it was reported to the
county commissioners some time since,
had been closed as resort, and which
argument was used against the pay
u
was given by the colored members of
the Catholic Church who belong to
the st. Theresa Society. It can be
said. however, with all due allowance
that the disorders were not apparent
within the grounds, but that il was
the rag tag and the generally filthy
members of the race who had nothing
to do with the picnic who created the
disorder on the outside.
Up and down the road seethed a
crowd numbering in the neighborhood
of one thousand colored persons, male
and female, who made use of language
which is tabooed in the worst resorts
with which the city of baltimore is
afflicted. Their department and ac-
tions were vile and repulsive and seem
ed to display the Weakening to life OF
characteristics. which it was thought
years had served to eradicate. In
| many cases white person who were
driving along the road were greeted
with language of the very worst ma
ture and in many instances were forced
| to actually leave the county road in
order to get around the large crowds
| congregated in the roadway. Had 1t
so happened that certain sweH known
Democrats of the district had driven
| along the road and been blacklegged as
were many :others, there would have
been desperate encounter
Until midnight, and even later, pairs
of the colored people could be seen
along the roadside devoid of decency
or respect for others and not even seek
| ing.theIshelter of the numerous trees
| and bushes in the vicinity We're any
one to protest they were told TO "go to
hell'' or some other place equally unde-
sirable. Such was the display OF
yesterday and so impudent were many
of the coIored persons driving on the
road that many women OF. the district
have ben forbidden by their husbands
| to drive into town. This will make
it necessary for men to drop their
farm work TO go to town to attend TO
business which it would be possible
for their wives and children to at.
| tend to-.
| In connection with the disorders
near the edge OF town fight occurred
at Camp Parole between two young
colored men and it was Eonly by acci-
dent that murder was not done. In
| the midst of wordy fight one OF the
| young men CD pulled q revolver and
| fired at his opponent within q few
feet. Only for the fact that he was
drunk and his aim bad he would have
killed the other. An arrest will be
/ made in this case today.