Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-11
ANNAPOLIS GOES
DRY This WEEK.
Farewell to Booze to Come in
Daylight Next Saturday
Afternoon.
FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT.
United States Attorney Dennis
and Marshal Stockham To
Be In Charge.


One week from today Annapolis
will be Sahara-like place of thirst
where the old time wine-bibbers, the
drinkers of beer, the lovers of the in
Sidoue cocktail and the inebriating
highball will one and all have to take
their respective most popular nip in
side their own homes or the home of
an obliging and hospitable friend. Sec
retary Daniels dry order will become
effective on Saturday and from thence
on there will be no more swinging of
the screen doors in the saloons of the
regular type, the hotel barroorms and
no more sales across the polished ma
hogany of the club houses.
A shock of no mean proportions
was handed the hosts of John Barley
corn when the official copy of the
Secretary's regulations was received
at the Naval Acadmey this morning
and from there became known Much
to the saddening horror of the consti-
tutional and chronic ''wets" it has de-
veloped that the order has stringent
anti-shipping provision. No liquor of
any sort can be brought into the
town in any way except perhaps, we'll
stored away within the inside of the
person doing the "toting"
1t developed that the exemption in fa-
vor of serving of bona fide guests ap-
piled to the serving from such sup
plies as may have been safely cached
away prior to the 4 o'clock Saturday
closing order. After this supply is
exhausted no more can be bought in
Baltimore and brought into the town
for side-board hospitality use.
This phase of the order, according
to information from Baltimore, has
raised a fearful howl among the sa-
loon keepers and wholesalers Of the
Monumental City who had seen large
benefits in mail orders.
The dryness will be complete long
before. midnight of Saturday, so far
as any sales of liquor from bars in
concerned. Evidently determined to
prevent so far as possible any revel-
ing celebration of the closing of the
saloons, the Secretary set the hour of
final closing at 4 o'clock in the after
noon. This will, it is pointed out, be
before the working classes have left
their work at five o'clock, so that un-
less many men take a half holiday
off or lay in a big supply Friday night
or early Saturday morning there is
not likely to be any great amount of
drunkenness Saturday night as a final
blow out"
The Federal Department of Justice
Will be charged with the duty of en-
forcing the Daniels dry order, not on
ly at Annapolis, but at other cities af-
fected by the regulations issued Sat
urady afternoon. The navy will main
tain no police force at the State capi-
tai, but will be prepared at any time
to send provost guards to assist
agents of the Department of Justice
in making raids or arrests.
The rigid fashion in which Attor-
ney-General Gregory carries out such
orders Of either the Secretary of the
Navy or the Secretary of War may be
indicated by the fact that he suspend
ed few days ago an assistant dis
trict attorney and a deputy United
States marshal for indifference and
lack of enthusiasm in enforcing dry
conditions around the Rock Island ar
senaI
District Attorney Samuel X Dennis
viii be officially informed of the An
napolis order by the Attoreny-G General
and will be instructed to take such
steps as are necessary to abolish all
saloons within the five-mile dry zone
to prevent bootlegging or any other
violations of the Federal law. United
States Marshal Stockman also will be
formally notified, and probably will
take charge of the situation personal
ly at Annapolis until assured that the
! saloons have all closed and that no eff
| fort viii be made to dispose of stock:
! there after the closing order goes in
to effect.
| Until next Saturday the Navy De
| partment has no official interest il
/ the saloons or in the liquor bushes!
beyond the general prohibition agains
| selling intoxicants to a man in th'
service uniform. In other words, i
is not a matter of concern in Wash
! ington how the saloons close or wht
in civilian life buys or stores up tn,
wet gods that may be on hand ther,
now
The formal regulations were ISSUED
on Saturday by the Secretary insteat
/ of on Monday, as he had originall!
purposed. These followed general.
the lines laid down in his first officia
announcement.