Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-28
BOARDING SUGAR
LIKEWISE COAL?
Government Inspectors Needed For
Annapolis.
CITIZENS SHOULD ACT
The Combination Sale Being Worked
Here to Detriment Of Poor.

That there Is sugar in Annapolis,
plenty of 1t, too. is claimed by those
who say they know this to be a fact.
A number of merchants, especially
down town." and one or two up
town. are said TO have barrels and
barrels of sugar, which they are
boarding, and which they are using to
make combination sales at profit and
Tor selfish motives.
Families with babies and little
children must have sugar. They can
not do without it. There may be
substitute for grown-up people who,
for instance. can drink syrup or
honey in coffee and tea instead of
sugar, but there is no substitute for
sugar used for babies and little
children. The merchant who has
sugar is making combination sales,
when this is directly opposed to by
the government. For instance, the
u S. Government says there must be
no combination sale with sugar ex-
cept one article--cornmeal which
people must learn TO use. That with
the purchase of one pound Of sugar,
merchants are at liberty to say you
must buy five pounds Of cornmeal.
This is not true in Annapolis, where
a number of merchants have declar-
ed they would not sell pound of
sugar unless the purchaser bought
dollars worth of groceries, or meats.
Saturday night poor woman
bought two dollars worth of grocer
les, and even then was denied the pur-
chase of pound of sugar. aad this
was in a family of small children
Whereas, the government has said
the price of sugar must not exceed
ten cents per pound, this sum has
been paid for one-half pound.
What is wanted is a government in
spector Of foods to be sent to this
city and investigate conditions. Fur
thermore, what is wanted is an in
dignation meeting OF citizens both on
the sugar question and on the coal
question.
Annapolis has no right to be with
out coal Here are hundreds of
young men preparing for the Naval
Academy, young men who are to be
future officers OF the Navy ard who
will fight for this country's honor.
The homes of the citizens of this
town are the homes of these hundreds
of boys, candidates. These homes
must be comfortably heated and coal
is a necessity.
There are some people, individuals,
who are boarding coal as well as
sugar. Several have made the boast
of having thirteen tons in their cell
lar, while others have none, and the
thirteen-ton people still buy coal by
the single ton when available.
Old people. sick people, must be
kept warm, and must have coal to
keep them warm
Realizing the state OF affairs here,
the Superintendent of the Naval Acad-
emy has taken matters in hand and
has made an appeal to the govern
ment to have the conditions relieved,
and that speedily Captain Eberle
went to Washington this week and
put it up to" the government to rem
edy the coal condition in Annapo-
lis. and he has the promise of car
loads of coal to arrive here in the next
few days to be sold citizens of An
napolis at the nominal price per ton
Captain Eberle has done that which
no civilian took it upon himself to
do and Annapolis should rise UP en-
masse and call him blessed
With coal in sight, this city has
another reason to give thanks on
Thanksgiving Day.