Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-11-16
OBjECTTOHAVYCOAAISSARY
ANNAPOLIS MERCHANTS SAY
THEIR TRADE IS INJURED
BY NEW PRACTICE
Naval Academy Families Purchase
Provisions There-business
Men Consult Capt.
Badger

The business men ~ Annapolis aFe
mich exercised over the faet that laie-
is many Of the families III ti8e Naval
Academy have agafIe1 themselves ~
the opporfGgify of purchasing meal a.
costs from the CoDmissary At the Na-
val Academy. The pTactiee. is -
claimed. has already injured the bus
iness Of q number 81 Annapolis dealers
TO some extert and if is feartd bat if
might be extended 10 the purchase -
all kinds of provisions.
II this was done many annapolis
merchants would be seriously hurt. A.
nearly ali the grocery and pFOT Islom
stores are pafrouized To some extent
py the residents Of the Naval Aead-
emv. v biIe some ca.er almost exelu-
sikely % them
This morning q COMMITTEES Of the
Annapolis Business Men's Association
met Captain Badger. superintendent
uf the Naval Academy. 1y appoint
!, ,nt and discussed the matter with
q m. The committee consisted of
.sa or tsordou II. claude. StaFe Sema-
iar-sIeet James x. Brashears. Presi-
i nf William II. Moss. of the Business
aeufs Association. william r. Child-.
John Il. Flood and Harry l. BEeser-
They were courteou-ly received hy
Captain Badger and the matter wa-
gone over thoroughly
Captain Badger tod the member- "
the committee that hIle the residents
Of the Naval Academy had the IN
doubted right 10 purchase meat fro1.
the C0mmissary. yet the custom Wa
not proving at all satisfactory % tnose
who were doing 20 and that he bad
no expectation that the practice ~
buying there zogld .be extended %
other lines OF goods He -aid thai he
already under.E0od that those wbC
| had been buying fr0m the coEnDi--ary
wer. not At all satisfied witb the az
rangenert. thst they hal uut heeH
able to buy the Kind u meAf tuza
they wanted and that iL had been frs-
uuenfIy delayed - that II did not ar
/ rive in time for the meal fer whieh
/ they wanted r. tie said tha- -
4 had the latter experience himself and
/ va Row buying from his AunaQ0l :
/ merchant A. herst0EOre- On the whola
| the member, II the delegation wers
/ quite satisfied With the resulE of theii
| interyiew with superintendent E2si
ger.
II is understood that a namher a
| the naval 0nzcers hzSe dubbed 70
/ gstber AMI s.seurcf the service - .
/ buyer IN Baltimore and a man e
cut the meat EeEe. = being oandled a
/ the Sayal Academy COsun1i-sarT store.
It i believed that the system vii
not -zsE very long. - IL ha- oeeD a..
/ tempted before ard fafle1- e la.
been fouBd that the slightly redGees.
cot a. which tbe meat r. 0sl4lnel
does not compeuszfe Tor The trcua-s.
tise failure 10 @eeDEe the eurs ~ lleai
desired an1 the inferior >eEviee In d.
IfTeriDg the good. Sill TIE uastel
H. serious enough % occasion eynsasleE
able anxiety upon tie pzrt - tEe An
napOifs bDsiness WseD- should = .
arranged IN Such = ray that E1p 81
people could bay 81 their pEogfsIou'
a. eOst. Annapolis would Io@e or a
ffs nsCsx DEolfGe sysrces ~ reFeDue
and wOuld feel 81 1eeDIg-
II has been infiDafed by sgnls naval
people that the Annapolis nsere1aslss
0gerebaFged naval people Thissh hor-
ever, was NOS iBtiUzted in the le1ss
| ~ superlnteBfent Balzss. lE - T..
MED By the Annapolis Merchants.
who state that they only ebzFze Z
moderate profit on aII classes ~ goods
| bat that uaBT lines especially 3zeats.
have advanced very much - theii
cost 70 them.