Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-08-12
THE j. S. NAVAL ACADEMY
Buildings And Grounds OF A Re-
markable Institution OF Techni-
cal Instruction.
1T COST FOURTEEN MILLIONS.
The BentztOwn Bards Tribute An
napOis A City That Lies Under
The Shadows OF Yesterday.
Mr. Randali's Address on Historic Annap-
oils Series MIL


IMr RandalI's Address on Historic Annap-
oils Series MIL
You will also, of course, examine
the United States Naval Academy
grounds and buildings. That Acad-
emy is perhaps the most remarkable
and perfect institution of technical in
struction in the world--certainly il is
so as to matters relating to a naval
officers profession. Upon the build
ings and improvements of that insti-
tuition and its adjuncts, the neighbor-
ing Marine Barracks and Naval Hos
pitall, the Government of the United
States has expended, during the past
thirteen years, about $4,000, 900.
1t is a strange combination, or con-
trast, ladies and conference.-the most
modern, expensive and up-to-date
technical educational plant in the
world-with its palatial piles of build
ings; its great battleships of steel /:
its destroyers, both submarine and
aerial; its wireless telegraph and
everything that modern times and in
genuity has suggested, to make con-
quest of the heaven above, the earth
beneath an the waters under the earth
all set amid peaceful environment
that carries the mind back to medic
val times the days of the simple
life of our first settlers.
The Bentztown Bard, our Bard of
the Maryland Rivers and Hills" has
expressed a part of what mean and
what many of you will probably feel,
in his little poem on Annapolis"
Here is the city that lies away,
Under the shadows of yesterday.
An old-time, quiet, sleepy town,
Where the lanes lead on and the
streets dip down
To the silvery sweep of the dreaming
tide
OF the Severn, noble and blue and
wide.
Here is the city that came to hand
When the lords of the manor ruled the
land.
And they built the houses of brick
that came
From English kilns-sweet halls of
fame
That stand today as they stood of old
In dreams of glory that hide and fold
The wide white doors and the wains-
cot wall
And the fan-light windows and carven
hail.
Duke of Gloucester and Prince and
King!
All, streets that dream meath the
Golden vino
Of quaint, far fancy and ancient
pride
Of the pompous burghers and digni-
fed
Sir Richard Carvel among them there,
With his silken hose and his powdered
hair;
The lordly Carroll and Smallwood
great
And Chase, of the vast and fine estate
Here is the city that stays to tell
Of the past, with its dream and charm
and spell;
That holds quaint shadows, amid the
strife,
Of that yesterday with it's golden life
Of squire and gentry and chase and
dance
To the fiddle tunes of the old romance
When rose-sweet ladies, with lip:
rose-red,
Bloomed bright in the gardens, whose
bloom hath fed
Here is the city-and let it be
A city of shadows and dreams for me
Quaint and quiet and sweet and old,
With the age that ripens like mellow
gold;
The fruit and flower of the past, it,
pride, 60
Its lanes that lead to the Severnside,
It's storied mansions, its still retreat,
Where st. Anne's rests by the circl
ing streetr'
And yet, would not leave you un
der the impression that Annapolis
even in itself, altogether "Iies away
under the shadows of yesterday" In
many respects, it is, we think, the
most up-to-date town in the State
We have had for many years, W,
think, the best paved, the best sew.
cred, the best lighted, the best wa
tered, the most accessible, and, per
haps, the best governed little city il
the Commonwealth. With two elec
trio lines and about forty-eight trolle,
cars each way every day, to say moth
ing of three or four steamboat lines
complaint certainly cannot be mad
now of any lack of transportation ia
| cilities.
And as for its lovely surrounding
and water attractions Well, l cal
only say that it has passed into a say
ing in Annapolis ''If you have one
lived in Annapolis, you are bound t,
come back again-dead or alive
trust, ladies and gentlemen, tha
you may be so pleased with your visit
that you will often come back ther
and very much alivel