Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-31
SECTION OF ANNE
ARUNDEL GOES TO
BAL T|MORE TONIGHT
More Than Five Square Miles Of
Territory Passes To Metrop-
oils At Midnight
DISTRICT HAS FULLY
$4,000 POPULATION
Believed That Transfer Of Dis
trict Will Have Significant Eff
feet On Politics

In pursuance of the Annexation
Act" of 1918, at midnight of today,
Anne Arundel county loses to Balti-
more city, five and two-fifths square
miles of territory. embracing its great
manufacturing section. population of
not less than twelve thousand. and
taxable basis of about ten million dol
lars, third TO its present total The
passage of the Act followed a bitter
| legislative fight of years, during which
the metropolis has persistently. and at
last successfully, sought an increase OF
area, population, wealth and oppor-
tunity at the expense of its neighbors
to the north and south. Baltimore and
Anne Arundel counties.
Baltimore county is still heavier
| loser through legislative enactment
\ The annexed portions comprise forty
six and half square miles. and the
population which is transferred is not
| less than sixty thousand. Such popu-
/ lous centers as Canton. the larger ppr-
tion of Highlandtown and Spring Gar
dens, together with many purely sub
urban residence sections, are included.
The later go into the city greatly
aaginst their wishes
Serious political and economic ques-
tions are to be settled between Balti-
more city and the affected counties
Today, Cheif Judge Trlippe and Chief
Clerk Murphy of the Appeal Tax Court
of Baltimore city. were i'm conference
with the county commissioners rela-
! tive to he adjustmnet of taxes The
county will collect the taxes on the in
cluded area for the first six months OF
the fiscal year of 1918. while the latter
six months belongs to Baltimore An
amicable adjustment of procedure was
reached.
The matter of the proper policing
and administration of the section is
far from settled. 1t is a question
whether or not Police Justice John N.
Pottee, of Brooklyn and Curtis Bay,
will be legislated out of Office. This is
matter of which the legal officers of
Baltimore are now graphing. II is
generally thought that he will drop
out automatically, and that all the
cases arising in this section will be
handled from the southern police sta
tion of Baltimore city.
Six of the nine patrolmen who used
to protect law and order in this sec
ton. have failed to qualify for mem
bership in the police force of Balti-
more, and but three are trying to do
the work which three times the num-
ber ordinarily handle. This is a situa-
tion which, it is stated, the city must
handle at once or confusion and most
serious consequences will follow
The effect on the political situation
in Anne Arundel may be most import
ant and far-reaching. For years, the
democratic party has depended largely
upon this section for its majorities in
county fights, and IL has also been the
! bulwark of a certain faction in this
party All lines will be destroyed by
the transfer, and new allignments are
already being made The republicans
of the county are taking heart, and
promise lively fight at the next coun-
ty election.
The county schools OF this section
will become a part of the Baltimore
city school system, and an entire re-
organization will be undertaken. There
/ is a fine high school building at Brook
lyn, and an efficient organization.
The annexed portion of Anne Arun-
del county is practically all of the first
and third precinct of the old Fifth dis
trict, and a portion of the Third dis
I trict OF the latter it is stated on the
+ best authority that something like 500
acres is about the widest land to be
found in Anne Arundel county, with
hardly a COW path through it.
There was undoubted gloom among
the public officials of the county here
today, and others who have the future
of the county at heart Still, a spirit
of meeting and overcoming difficulties
and making the most of the great op-
portunities which remain, was pre-
dominating, and there were those who
felt that the situation was not without
elements of encouragement.
i In Anne Arundel the line extends
from the Frederick road to the point
of intersection formed by the Annapo-
lis or Light street road and the center
of the direct road leading from Brook
lyn to Pumphrey. This intersection
is about two-thirds of mile south
westerly from the Anne Arundel coun-
Il yend of the Hanover street bridge.
1t then proceeds to point on the west
bank of Curtis creek about 118 feet
southwesterly from the west end of the
bridge across czrtis creek at Walnut
point From here it takes a south
easterly course and then goes north
easterly by straight line to the front
range light of the Brewster channel,
near Hawkins point