Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-09-06
WOW! THAT'S A MAD DOG
And The YeIping Animal Caused
Lively Scene In Main ST.
Barber Saloon
CLEANS SHOP OUT QUICKLY

BARRIERS With Ra z0rs In Hand Dash Out
OF Door While Others Frightened
Out OF Wits
If you want to clean out a barber
shop or any place of business for that
matter, just let mad dog or a sup
posedly mad dog, or any kind of
dog that can yelp and make a noise
like it is mad, come rushing through
the door. That is about as effective
a remedy as would be found with a
squad of loops" making raid on a
gamblers den or a speakeasy joint
: 1t happened on Saturday afternoon
at we'll known Main street barber
and tonsorial saloon. just about the
hour when the streets were fairly
lined with country and city folk, who
were rounding up their weekend
shopping. All chairs were filled and
there were seven customers in wait
ling, when the air of quietno IS that
( prevailed, was interrupted by The wild
dog yelps somewhere on the outside.
One of the customers who Eappened
to be nearest the door, thinking a dog
! fight was under way, open
ed the portals and in rushed a me-
dium-sized dog. of the English terrier
variety. Of the twelve customers in
the shop at the time, there were rep
resented five nationalites of people
the German, Irish, Japanese, Scoth-
Irish and Italian, ami such mix-ul
and hurry and scurry among custo-
] III o1tto f1
outside or seek refuge when someone
yelled mad dog, and the green-fery
beam was seen in his dogship's eyes.
That barber snop was all ina tur-
moil fora space of about three min
utes, and it vas almost completely
cleaned out in that time. At least
those who showed the greatest fright
at the entrance of this rude, but
which turned out to be a harmless
canine, bolted out of the door as if
shot through torpedo tube. The
others remained inside and by their
frightful actions furnished some of
the mirth of the incident. The afore-
said customer who opened the door
of the shop, made dash across the
street soon as the canine wriggled
himself between his legs, and wit
messed the proceedings from the out
side. Behind him bolted the devil
of the shop, with shaving mug in
hand, who hid himself behind the
great" width of the red, white and
blue-striped barber's pole on the curb
stone.
Another of the BARRIERS, known to
many of the male population by his
modesty, and courtesy, lost no time,
either, to ascertain what was the mat
er with his dogship, but scampered
out of the door, with razor in hand,
holding it high above head, to prevent
coming in contact with somebody's
neck in the jam at theIdoor for most
of the other customers, save those in
the chairs, made dash for the narrow
aperture. One small man who occu-
pied one of the barber's chairs, simply
coiled himself up on the seat of that
piece of the shops furnishings, and
himself being the possessor of dog,
assumed the role of instructor as to
what to do to the supposedly mad one.
In the meantime, the genial proprietor
of the establishment was standing
near the door with heavy cuspidor
in hand ready to deal the canine a
death blow in the head, at the same
/ time trying to calm the man he
was treating for a heavy growth of
face bristles, while the dusky little
bootblack was playing hide and seek
behind the pole of the hat rack.
But the most amusing thing of it
/ all was the frightful actions of a
| doughty little Japanese, a steward on
the battleship Indiana. He had been
sitting there for some time, with
out uttering word, when the dog
rushed in, and forgetting the location
! of the door. when he, too, thought the
/ animal was mad, mounted a chair and
tried to climb through screened win.
/ dow on the side. Another young man
whose face had just been lathered,
simply fortified himself in a chair,
and in frightful tones yelled for some
( of the others to "get that mad dog
+ out" but he did not volunteer his as
4 distance in that direction. Still an
,ther who had settled himself in
chair for a nap, was not awakened by
all this commotion.
Nearly one hund red peple collected
IN the outside of the shop at the
sight of the men rushing hither and
thither, and couple of ladies, un-
aware that dog had caused all of
the trouble, nearly tainted under the
thought that fight was in progress
on the inside. But the dog was not
at all mad. On the contrary it was
gentle canine with something of a
pedigree. It belonged to paymaster
aboard the battleship Indiana, of the
midshiumen's summer cruising squad
ron, now lying in the Roads, and it is
said that that officer paid over a
months salary to become the pos
SCISSOR of it, when the ships visited
England in June. Since then it had
been aboard ship, and had become
a great pet. This was its first fur
Tough ashore and it apparently be-
came somewhat estranged at the
r surroundings.
Coming up Main street with a
couple of bluejackets from the ship,
lad gave the canine swipe y ith
a stick and this sent it ,howling up
the street, until it took the notion