Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-11-01
HALLOWEEN ENDED
TO Be NONE TONIGHT
Mayor Strange Has Issued Edict
That Prohibits Masking and
Celebrating This Evening.
TWO NIGHTS SUFFICIENT.
Arrests viii be Made Of ANY Makers
Or Irregularities Tonight.


I Seldom are there two consecutive
Halloween nights, but this happen
ed to be the case this year. because the
night when spooks appear ard witches
and elves rule came on Sunday, and
II was celebarted on Saturday night
here and in other cities.
In. the goodness of his heart. how
ever, Mayor Strange permitted two
Halloween celebrations in Annapolis
ana gave permission for maskers to
appear on the streets Friday night as
well, so that Annapolis really had
two Hallowe'ens. Two is sufficient,
and Mayor Strange has put his foot
down that there shal DC no Hallowe 'en
celebration tonight The Mayor has
given notice that arrests will be made
tonight of any one appearing on the
street wearing masks, or of any ir-
regularities, and the Mayor means to
carry out the order. Moreover, the
Mayor mas authorized this paper to
make this statement.
isn't it quite enough to have shut
ters taken off. signs removed, gates
carried away, not to mention fom
sprinkled all over you: vcur door
knob tied with cabbage or decayed
fruit, and certainly not to refer 20 the
bell being rung sixteen times in fif-
teen minutes, isn't it CROUCH for all
this to happen on two nights, rather
than three!
Never in the history of sedate and
quiet Annapolis has Hal, we'en Il on
celebartel as it was Saturday night
The streets were lined with mas
queraders, even little children. One
partey of masked children was so
small in size (not numbere) that their
ages must have ranged from three
years TO nine or ten.
AT all hours of night after darkness
fell around, were the maskers ens2g-
ed in hilarity, which spells Noise,
on the streets, for Halloween is the
night when all things resembling law
and order and sanity are momentarily
laid on the shelf, and the little imp of
delicious foolishness is given free
reign to rout dull care into the -farth
est corners of the world Father for
got that he had dignity to preserve and
remembered only that 10 catch an ap-
ple with ones teeth from a tub Of
water was the most triumphant task
one could choose TO perform.
Sister forgot she doesn't believe in
sentimentality and "mush" ana. arm
ed with a looking-glass, stood breath
lessly on the back steps at midnight
anC searched for a gliInpes Of her
hcro-to-be in its mirroTed depths
Mother forgot to worry about possi-
BILE disasters 30 Gelnious youngsters.
and for once trusted the good spirits
TO protect her joyous Tommy.
And Tommy? 1t was mis- night OF
nights. He was as noisy, as dirty, as
impudent, as wild and as altogether
untrammeled with dos and don'ts as
it is possible for a youngster to be.
He rang doorbells, threw -four on
passers-by, chased little girls. clanked
cowbells, and from the protection Of
mis- false face even dared to sling
taunts at "de cop"
Yet. although the night was so not
ously celebrated throughout The city
rs Halloween, as a matter of calen-
dar. last night was the evening pre-
ceding All Saints Day, the feast which
gave rise to the old custom of believ-
ing that the spirits are set loose anO
the host Of other superstitions. For
All Saints Day is the day on which re
liigious folks bring from the closed
rooms Of their memories thoughts OF
the dear ones that have left this world
and with special services pray for hte
peace of their soul
But Sunday evening. as everybody
knows, is not a suitable one for set
ting free the full force of ones reck-
less fancy and masquerades and par
ties on the streets. on Sunday evening
would give the old town such a shock
that II would hardly be likely 10 re
cover. So, with the use OF just lit
tie bit of imagination the spirits. tho
witches, the cross-eyed cats and the
other emblems of the spirit world
were called forth q day earlier and the
night was joliv ore
But one thing is sure and certain, he
calendar will not be stretched in the
other direction, for there will be No
after celebration if there wes onc
! before Halloween.