Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20
CHESAPEAKE BEACH.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
CHESAPEAKE BEACH, Md.
September 10, 1903.

CHESAPEAKE BEACH, Nd.
September 49, 1903.
The lights went out at the beach this
week and solitude and darkness sit
around in chunks where but few weeks
ago there were merry ha-has and hilarity.
The closing Of the season this year was
not without spectacular features, and the
suddenness with which things stopped
stumped the oldest inhabitants and Jared
every drinker within ten miles. 1t all
came about his way: One day last week
the manager of the beach concessions de-
cided to arrest a prominent citizen and
vendor because he would not pay his viii
lage license for selling sandwiches and
coffee to the beach patrons. The afore-
said vendor rebel,ed and he was thrust
into the place they dignity with the name
Of Jail. 1t was a procedure that promptly
aroused the wrath of the vendors friends.
Finally q friend of the victim of pervert-
ed law paid the license and the latter was
released. Then followed the wrath of
the avengers! 1t fell like thunderbolt
Sunday last, when a deputy sheriff
closed up all the saloons and money
making devices and-worse than all-saw
to it that they stayed closed. It was not
a Washington Sunday closing, for there
were no wet goods obtainable through
side doors or any other kind of doors.
And the sequel to it all will be fought
out in the courts and somebody will have
to explain to the satisfaction of Mr..
Stebbns, the victim of misapplied justice,
just how he could be slapped in Jail in
a civil action.
The railway company is contemplating
a change Of time card October 1 next,
and one of the startling features Is ru-
mored to be a departure of the train from
the beach in the morning twenty minutes
earlier. You can see that train crew
sleeping in the coaches for that early con-
nection.
The large old-fashioned farmhouse on
one Of the farms belonging to the COM
pany. occupied by Joseph Jones and fam
burned to the ground one day the past
week 1t was one of the old landmarks
of this section of the county and had
stood for many years.
The shutting down of the "lid" last
Sunday surprise to everybody, for
the beach has enjoyed for years a certain
immunity from disturbance by legal au-
thorities. This has been largely due to
the fact that the beach officers have been
careful to preserve excellent order at all
times and give to the liquor business
supervision not eXcel,ed anywhere. Wom-
Ell and children have enjoyed all the
pleasures and comforts of this easily &C
cessible bayside resort without fear of
any of the usual disagreeable sequences
that surround promiscuous drinking at
pleasure places.
Judge Briscoe has drawn the following
jurors to serve at the November term of
the circuit court for Calvert county:
First district-Abram Monet. Leonard
Voc, Bell Sewell Dowell, William c. Bris-
coe, Ebert Beverly. John S. Williams,
Dixon Colt, Edward J. Sellers. Joseph F.
thinner. B. Eugene Dawkins, George P.
Ross. Theodore w. Fricke. James T.
Thomas F. Lusby, William T. Grover.
Second district-John F. Cox, William
B. Bowie Charles e. Lovett. Enos A.
Stinnett. Peter Anscutz. Joseph F. Buck
Ter. Thomas G. 1. Weems. Eugene B.
Bowen. Calvin o. w. Simmons. Elwood
higgins. J. Cephas Bowen. William H.
Dove Daniel w. Cox. Benjamin Harris.
Joseph j. Young, Joseph P. Buckler, Guy
3. Howard.
Third district-Joseph p Griffin. jr:
Frank o. Smith, Anthony Lyons. Elijah
Adams, Charles II. Bryant, Richard II.
Hardesty. George S. Younger, Joseph J.
Lyons jr.: James p. Young, Robert F.
Gibson John w. Howes, William H. Har-
rison.
Maj. Williams and wife returned TO their
home in Washington the past week after
the longest stay at the north beach of
any of the summer denizens of that re-
treat. The major stayed until the lights
went out, and the experience of getting to
his cottage the last night of his stay.
when the northeast gale sent the white
spray from Chesapeake Beach across the
road to the depth of a foot or more-well,
1t was enough and to town he went. bag
and baggage.
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Mr. and Mrs. English of the Rustic Cafe
expect to take charge of the Belvidere