Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-09-30
" JACK FLOOD PLANS
TO QUIT CURTIS BAY
ResOrt-Keeper to Move to StOney
Creek Says Baltimore Paper.
FERTILIZER DOORS CAUSE.
Would Take John Fats Former Place,
in DRY" Sections, But Report to
Legislature Win Help.


Legislature Win Help.
Jack" Flood, the famous purveyo~
of LIQUID refreshments 365 days in
the ordinary year, is preparing to
move from Curtis Bay, says the Bal
| timore News. To the fellows who
have to have their drink on Sunday
this will be important news, no mat
ter how little ii may seem to those
who never knew the pangs of real
/ Sunday thirst.
For years Flood has held forth at
the terminus of the Curtis Bay
branch of the United Railways. In
fact, the railway, it is we'll UNDER
stood, was extended to its present
terminus as an accommodation TO
Floods customers. And now that
Flood is talking of moving. it il ae-
cepted that the railroad will follow
him, especially as it is reported that
ne is a large stakeholder in the Cur
It's Bay branch,
Flood, actuated by the encroach-
ments of fertilizer factories, has been
thinking fer some time of moving,
and he has just closed deal for the
purchase of the resort on Stony
Creek conducted for a long time by
John Fait. This is in dry" terri
tory. Not many months ago Fait
figured as the principal witness
against James p. Bannon in an al
legged extortion of money for protec-
ton, and Bannon, with others, is
now under Indictment in the Criminal
Court of Baltimore city on a charge
of conspiracy.
Flood has for many years con-
Quoted his business with little regard
for the law as regards Sunday bust
ness 1t is in territory that is legally
wet On week days, but "theoreti-
cally" dry on Sunday. The property
is owned by the South Baltimore
Land and Improvement Company and
has been leased to Flood. Last year
the lease ran out and some OF the in
terests in the Company did not want
to renew it, but there was enough
political pressure to put the lease
through, as Flood is "some pump
kins" in the Democratic politics of
Anne Arundel county.
However, it was rented for one
year and expired again in the pres
ent month. 1t was then rented for
another year, though, it is said, that
Robert Garrett, one of the largest
stockholders in the South Baltimore
Company, did not care much about
approving it. The argument for re-
ne wing the lease was chiefly that
Flood had put so much money in i'm
provements to the property that it
would not be fair to drive him out on
short notice.
Meanwhile the fertilizer factories
have been growing up around Flood
so that they have him hemmed in.
The property that he has under his
control can be sold for other pur-
poses. The property Flood has
agreed to buy is in beautiful loca-
tion on Stony Greek, and has been
conducted by Fait as quiet resort
for years. 1t is not accessible from
the car lines and is in dry territory
But hereby hangs short tale.
Flood, as has been said, is a power in
Anne Arundel politics. 1t is reputed
that he can get more of his friends
on the registration books than any
other citizen of Anne Arundel. In
the recent primary election he sided
with the Wells-Revell faction, and
that side was victorious.
Now the proposition is that the
Anne Arundel delegation to be elect
ed un Ter the Wells-Revel regime is
to get through a bill to make the
shores of Stony and Rock creeks
wet" This can be done by the
Legislature without a referendum.
In fact, the result of the primaries
was taken as an Endorsement of this
plan. So il is assumed that Flood
has some assurance that such a bill
will go through, as he cannot live in
dry territory if the law is enforced
OF course, the new site of the
Flood resort will not be big propo-
sition, unless there is street car &C.
commodations, but it is said to be an
assured fact that as soon ss Flood
gets ready the United Railways will
be prepared to follow him on his
trek" to the eastward.