Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-13
FORTY.sIxrH VOLUME COMPLETED.

ters upon a new year Of its history.
The Capital is twenty-three years old
today. For convenience Of binding
and handling the paper. each six months
has been included in a volume.
Twenty-three years is long time in
the history Of daily newspaper, es-
pecially daily in Annapolis. When
twenty-three years ago, on May IL,
1884, We started out with a modest
little daily called the Evening Capital,
it was predicted we would be dead
in six months and arrangements for
frst-class funeral were made by
some Of the croakers. in whose go-
cabulary there is no such word as
optimistic. We are very live corpse
today, and we ilatter ourself should
tho Evening Capital shuttle of this
mortal coil at this juncture of its
career. there would be many mourn
ers at the obsequies.
But we haveno intention Of dying;
that is the very last thing we are
going to do, any OF US, and the Cap
ital is included with the bunch.
when IL made its how we hate 10
say launched forth upon a sea of jour
naIism). TO provincial. conservative
Annapolis public twenty-three years
ago, it was not at time when the
town actually demanded a faithful
chronicle daily of public events here.
The town was satisfied 10 get its
own events in weekly doses, but we
have cultivated a taste for more FREE
auent administrations Of the dore,
and today and for some years the
people OF Annapolis crave the Capitals
medicine and like the children and
Castoria they actually cry for it.
Other papers may come and other pa
pers may go, but our townspeople
want and must have the Capital. II
follows them to foreign lands, il goes
with them everywhere they go, they
tell us they cannot do without their
home paper, and this is the little sun
beam shedding its radiance into the
workaday world of our career. We
like to please, and it is pleasant to
know that we do please.
The Capital caters only to local
news, and is distinctly home paper.
Annapolis is too near to larger cities
to publish metropolitan daily, and,
besides, we have enough of our own
news to serve up daily to our patrons.
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news IN a clean and wholesome man
ner, and we believe the little paper has
faithfully performed its mission.
Since the appearance of the Capitals
has become less provincial and has
broken its bonds of conservatism. 1t
is not the same little, old Annapolis
Of twentysthrse years ago, and the
little home paper has realized that,
and from time to time has made inn
provoments in its plant TO meet the
growing demands of its patrons. The
world has not been standing still
for nearly quarter of a century. oh
no. During these twenty-three years
the world has made wonderful
strides in science and art. There
have been discoveries in the scientific
world, inventions in the field of art
and advancements in the line of me-
chanics, such as were never dreamed
of by the Oldest inhabitant. Even in
our own county woodland and under
brush have given way to the broad
aN and pruning knife aud towns, viii
lagos and hamlets have risen up
where there was perhaps single hut,
or country store or crossroads, until
now nearly the whole county of Anne
Arundel is made TO 'blossom as the
rose. Today she stands transformed
from solid phlanN of towering oaks
and never changing pines into land
of unsurpassed beauty, where the
plowshare holds dominion and crops
ripen faithfully and plentifully. Rail-
roads have been built. Even the Short
Line was scarcely thought of when
the Capital launched out twenty-three
years ago. but now in a few short
months an electric road, perhaps two
of them, Will be completed and will
play their part in the commercial life
of this busy county.
With every Advancement of her ma
tive city and county, the Capital has
always kept pace. With every move
ment for the welfare and the better
ment Of her people, this, the only
daily, and leading newspaper. has
been intimately identified. Regard
ing herself as an integral part of the
town with which she has grown, and
into the homes of whose citizens she
has always been a welcome guest, The
Evening Capital has always advocated
that which was essential 10 the pro-
gress and development of Annapolis.
1t has always enjoyed the reputation
of publishing reliable news and all
there was in the town TO be publish
ed. 1t has withheld, if possible,
that which would injure its best cit
liens; it has not pandered to coarse
and vulgar tastes. 1t has always aim
ed to be a refined, wholesome sheet,
fit to be read in the homes of all.