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JESSE D. PRICE.
LIGHT ON DAYS OF Al
Old Copy of Baltimore Patriot And
Commercial Gazette Contains Curl
GUS Advertisements.

ANY swine caught gambollng
about Baltimore streets between De
cember l and April 1 will be taken
I'D by persons appointed for that
purpose. The Mayor and City Coun-
Gil have approved an ordinance TO
the effect, and all persons interested
are requested to take notice.
That was way back in 1S41, when
the term swine" couldn't have IN
cluded "end-seat hogs because there
were no summer street cars; When
the telegraph and the steamboat and
railroad were in SWaddllng clothes,
and fine young colored boys OF good
DISPOSITION could be purchased very
reasonably. The Mayor OF Baltl-
more announced the beginning OF
closed season for swine in the city
streets in a little advertisement on
the back page of the Baltimore Pa
triot and Commercial Gazette on
Thursday, November rs, 1S41.
Land Commissioner James S.Shep-
herd found the paper, tattered and
yellow, buried in his office effects at
Annapolis when he cleaned up last
week. 1t was so full of the business
affairs, national politics and town
gossip of that day that he thought it
too good to destroy, SO he sent it to
the Baltimore Sun Office.
There may have been a white-pa-
per famine in those days, though the
news columns of the Gazette have
nothing to say about it. But the
publisher, Isaac Munroe, Baltimore
and North streets, was averse to
printing more than four pages, no
matter how his advertising piled up,
for in a little note at the bottom OF
page 3, he says:
Advertisements omitted today
will be attended to tomorrow"
Editor Munroe was undoubtedly
up against it, for space. His first,
third and fourth pages, and two col
umns on the second page were en-,
tirely covered with advertisements
the little, small-typed notices that
look like news stories, illustrated
with pictures of horses, negroes and
railroad trains, in which the engi
neer stands outdoors on the locomo-
tive platform, the tender is an open
truck piled high with wood, and the
coaches look like modern jitney
buses with the baggage on top.
The Great Mail Line, in a notice
ITO Travellers Going South" an
nounces in black type that the whole
run from New York to Charleston
461 miles, is MAIDEN Of hours An
exclamation point follows the SEN
tence, and two exclamation points
follow the subsequent sentence, CAL
Stoppages Included" That was
nearly IL miles an hour. The train
left New York at 4.45 p. m. and
reached Washington at 11.30 next
morning, run now made in five
hours. Passengers got to Baltimore
at a. m.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore train which left 1.-The
Pratt street depot" every afternoon
except Sundays at $50 was evidence
of the superior enterprise of that
road, for it was announced that" the
morning train carrying the great
United States mail will continue to
leave daily at 9 o'clock as heretofore,
arriving in Philadelphia at p. M, in
full time for the afternoon cars to
New York"
The same road ran "a train of
Burthen cars" known in modern
language as freight train, from the
depot at the corner of President and
Fleet streets every day except Sun
day for the transportation of mer-
chandise and commodities generally
between Baltimore and Philadel-
phia."
No advertiser stopped to quote his
prices in public. He listed his goods,
submitted lengthy, formal arguments
in their favor, and awaited custo-
mers with whom he dickered polite
ly. William Jones, 10 Pratt street,
opposite the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Depot" was apparently the
city's live wire" merchant in those
days. Said he, at the top of his ad:
Wake Snakes! !! Jones is in
the Field Again."
Then he proceeded to lambast an
unnamed rival in 1.-The yellow house
across the way" declared he intend
ed to break down all the old high
prices" and to "sell lower than any
other establishment in the city,"and
hoped he may be packed away in a
Kid and shipped off, if he did not
keep his word, concluding, so
there's the gantlet, boys! Now
come on, Neddyi"
Housewives of 1871 probably rev.
eled in the Gazette's dry goods an
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