Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-12-24
SAYS VICE CONDITIONS IN
ANNE ARUNDEL ARE BAD.
Findings Of the Commission Made Pub
lie This Week---Fearful State
Wide Conditions.

Wl0e I0noill0nS.
In most exhaustive detailed report
/ the Statewide Vice Commission.
4 named by Governor Goldsborough in
January 1913. this week made public
the results of its inquiry.
Conditions in Anne Arundel County,
involving politicians and public Off
cials, whose names. however, are not
given. occupy portion of the Com
missions report.
Probably the most sensational of the
features dealt with In the voluminous
report of the Commission is the traffic
babies. It is asserted that investi-
gators found there are institutions in
Baltimore to which the mother Of an
illegitimste child may consign her
offspring upon the payment of an
agreed upon sum and forever rid her
self Of legal responsibility for it.
= OF the hundreds of children so taken
in charge by the institutions the
Commission AYERS that remarkably
large percentage die and are buried in
small plots of ground, one such plct,
approximately So feet square. having
been the tomb of 5000 babies since
1886.
But, if the former notorious red-light
districts of the city have been elimi-
mated there is no evidence, according
20 the report, that immortality is not
practiced as extensively as ever Much
of this evil is practiced clandestinely.
says the Commission. and business
places offices, boarding places and even
homes are said to have been found in
great numbers where immortality is in
troduced and continued in practice
Passing on from Baltimore CITY and
County to Anne Arundel County the re-
port sets forth interviews with many
resorts and saloonkeepers who admit
ted that they received protection by
giving police officials and politicians
graft. Speaking IF one example of
the statement made by resort-keepers
is the following:
u. u. r. told the Investigator
that st. G. p. (who is spoken of as
proprietor of large park was fully
protected and that whenever the
church people got busy M. G. p. sent
them check for 100 bucks and that
kept them quiet for a while"
A second is as follows:
"A second Investigator had talk
with c. M. S brother of the proprie.
tor of the -- Hotel; he said that his
brother paid graft to Justice, and
that the policeman used to hang arou nd
after hours so that the people would
not go in. but on his complaining to
Justice about it. he gave the
officer orders to keep away from there
He said that Justice was a real
good fellow as long as you tipped him
something"
At most of the shore parks in Balti-
more and Anne Arundel Counties the
report says that among the crowds are
many young girls of from IL to l3
years old; that there is no discrimina-
tion as to age, and that mere children
without their parents are sold beer.
Going further. the report says:
Many of the girls are taken by the
men nto the woods or to some
nearby hotel or rooming-house for
immoral purposes.
Considerable procuring also goes on
at these places, according to the
commissions investigators.
The proprietor of another park in
Anne Arundel County described could
be. the Commission says. unquestions-
bly, indicted for white slavery through
the fact that he furnishes the trans
portation to the actresses from Chic
ago to Baltimore when these women
are used on arrival here for purposes
of the vice traffic. This man, it is
said. openly defies all persons and con
tinues to sell liquor on Sunday even
when other resorts are stopped
This man. says the Commission.
is one of the political bosses of
Anne Arundel County and is so strngly
in favor with some of the higher off
Gals that it has been impossible TO
modest him. His place is, never the
less, one of the most putrid holes of
drunkenness and vice that can be found
anywhere -