Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-03-13
POKES FUN AT ANNAPOLIS.
Lady With Heathenish Name Holds
Town Up To Ridicule.

II all the mean things Miss Clemen
tina Dawes Manner wrote about An
napolis in the Springfield. Mass. Re.
publican were half true. it would be
bad enough, but there is scarcely any
truth 10 the larger part of her article.
Annapolis isenoted as q clean city.
The streets are we'll kept and after a
rain it is as clean as new pin. An.
napolis has IL, 900 inhabitants, not
5000 (half as many SO Miss ---,
the woman with the awful name, says
Some of the things Miss Clementina
Savannah Samantha Dawes Manner
says of Annapolis are as follows:
We went 10 Annapolis. One who
does not know Annapolis will receive
rude shock IL going there as we did,
with only vague notion that An.
napolis must be large and fiourishing
town, for il is the capital of Mary.
land and the seat of the National
Naval Academy. Naturally, one sup
poses it to be quite place. about the
size Of Springfield, perhaps; that is.
If rather ignorant, as we were.
"One goes only part of the dis.
tance to Annapolis by first-class rail.
ways. At. .Odepton one has to change
to little rattlety. bang train. made
up of ombination baggage and
black car and a combination smok.
ing and white car. 1t was the first
time that some Northern people had
been plsoed in position of SUPERIOR
ity over the darker race, and il was,
naturally. momentous event This
wonderful train ratified gaily along
through a poverty stricken series of
Maryland villages, each consisting of
one house and a railroad station,
where they also sold patent medicines,
so far as we could judge. And the
train stopped at every village, where
some lugubrious persons entered or
left the train, aud at last reached An.
napolis. It does not surprise US, now,
that special train is procured when
some great person goes to visit An.
.napolis.
Annapolis is little place of about
6, 600 inhabitants, and go per cent of
those are colorsd 1t is the only
State capital in the United States,
We are told, that has no street rail.
road. And Annapolis is the only
town i'll the United States that is fin.
ished-finished, forsooth, because
nothing is being done to it. or will be
done to it. That is, outside Of the
Naval Academy grounds.
Annapolis consists of an interest
ing State capitol on knoll with Rine.
hart's bronze Taney in front of it, and
De Kalb waving bis sword behind.
Then there are several sleepy. looking
chief streets. one or two public build
ings connected with the administration
and one department store about 40 feet
wide and two stories high. The rest
of it is little side streets and inteTsect-
ing alleys, narrow, dirty and pictures
que where the pickaninnies grow.
This is the impression we acquired of
Annapolis an during an hours stroll
around it, And they said one could
see all of Annapolis in that time
But there are several quaint old
houses, red brick, mainly, with
straight, narrow chimneys at either
end, aud with ivy growing luxuriant-
ly over them, one the scene of Rich.
ard Oarvel. one the Peggy Stewart
House, and there is q smaller gray
stone structure once used as q treasury
building, and which before was the
meeting place for the Continental
Congresses. f"