Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-14
COUNTY GRAND JURY
COMPLETES ITS WORK
Recommends a Second Group High
School For Lower County.
MANY CASES INVESTIGATED
Presentments We're Made In 81 In
stances, and 80 Cases Were
Dismissed By Officials

Urging the establishment OF a sec
ond group high school in the southern
section of the county. in order to i'm
prove educational facilities there, to-
gether with other recommendations
the Grand jury of Anne Arundel
County, after session covering
nearly 80 days, has completed its
work, and filed report with Judges
Moss and Forsythe. The jury was as
sembled on October Is, which was
the opening day of the October term
of the Court.
Concerning the proposed establish
ment of second group high school
in the lower county, the jurors state
that this is a necessity owing to the
lack of proper transportation facili-
ties for the children attending school
in that section. The investigating
officials take the stand that salaries
sufficient to secure teachers of COM
petence in the high grades should
be provided for. This school question
perhaps, forms the most salient fea-
ture of the report of the grand
inquest.
The committee that inspected the
schools and other public buildings at
Brooklyn, Curtis Bay and other sec
tions of the Fifth District, reported
them in a well-kept and thoroughly
sanitary condition.
The report of the jury states that
during its deliberations, total of 1T
cases were Investigated, which re-
quired the examination of 242 wit
nesses. and as result, 81 true bill
were found, and 80 cases were dis
missed.
There are now confined in the House
of Correction at Jessups a total of
sos prisoners, according to the report
of the subcommittee that visited that
institution. OF this number, 241 are
white males, and Is females; and 312
colored males, and 80 females.
The jury recommends that an i'm
proved system of issuing traders Ii
censes be established. In other
words, it is urged that the sheriff
should be required to keep a card in
dex of all persons engaged in the mer-
camille business in the county. In
this connection, it is pointed out that
the examination of records shows that
in many instances, the license to
carry on business is issued in the
name of the wife, when as matter of
fact the business is conducted by the
husband. The jury also urges an en-
larged record room for the Clerk Of
the Circuit Court, owing to the crowd
ed conditions that now prevail.
The committee that investigated the
records and books in. the several
county offices, found them in a we'll
kept condition. The State Hospital
for Negro Insane at Brownsville, was
also given clean bill, and likewise
the County Home at South River As
to the latter institution, it is recon-
mended that glazed windows be plac-
ed in the main building and that bet
ter heating facilities e provided for
the quarters of the colored patients,
as it is stated that it is impossible to
heat this part of the building COM
fortably in cold weather The num-
ber of inmates now at the Home is II,
10 of whom are white, and colored.
The committee that inspected the
several theatres and other public
buildings in the city reported the gen.
eral facilities as entirely adequate