Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-23
WEEKS "DRYNESS"
IS NO TEST.
Storekeepers Interviewed Say
The Time Is Not Sufficient
To Tell What Order Will
Bring.
SOME OPTIMISTIC.
One Business Man Believes
Saloonless Annapolis Big
gest Boon City Ever
Had.

/ today ol, .,.k 1FA annapolis
went dry or rather Annapolis was
made dry by an edic, of Secre .ary
of the Navy, Josephus Daniels 1h'r-
/ ty-siX saloons and caf's were closed,
and after a weeks dryness Annal oils
I s III lives.
/ VIVA. effect J., has on business is
/ dimcgl, 20 determine at this june re
| 1t is too short a time to tell whc,ler
the merchants have been benea ed
or suffered therctrom.
/ The Capital attempted to take stock,
or a sort Of inventor. ~ interview
! ing some of the leading mCr>us1ts
! and in almost every case il was said
better wait for few more weeks. at
| least one more or two more Satur-
day nights and we can tell. J. is too
soon in the game now
However. some of the prominent
storekeepers were asked whether they
had experienced any decrease in their
sales during the past week or other
wise, with the following result
At the store of Mr.. Raymond Moss,
West street, the question was put
have you noticed any falling off in
your trade the past week. or any in
crease of business?" Mr. Moss was
not there. but Mr.. Joseph Duvall en-
phatically said NO" there has been
no change whatsoever.
Mr.. Stromeyer said he would rath-
er give his opinion a week or two
hence. as he did not feel that the past
week was a fair trial. He does a cash
business, he said, and that while the
sales last Saturday night had been
unusually good the business done this
week was about the same as usual
There is always "A slump at the end of
the month. He could not say hap
hazard If the business had increased
this week or not, but he preferred TO
give out a statement some weeks
later.
d. V. Miller West and Madison St.
said business was about normal this
week, he could not say there had been
any change from the usual order of
business done.
Messrs. Jones and Franklin who do
a large business said their business
had been about normal the past week
and up to the usual standard.
Mr.. Edward Jewell said his last Sat
urday nights trade was of unusual
amount. This was the first night the
dry order had gone into effect, Mr..
Jewell said he did a big" business
the largest Saturday nights business
he had ever done. He noticed no
shrinkage all week and trade had
been excellent and sales fair. Sew
eral days this week he said he had
more business than he could handle.
He said he believed the time is COM
ing when all merchants in Annapo-
lis will thank their stars the dry or
der is in effect One thing he made
emphatic was that last Saturday
night is the first in fifteen years that
he and his fanny who live over the
store have been able to sleep, for
drunks and noise from 11.30 to and
3 o'clock in the morning.
Mr. Childs OF Childs & Son said
they had a very busy Saturday night
and did larger business than
usual, but did not think IL fair at
this time to give any estimate OF the
effect the dry order has had on the
trade in Annapolis. 1T is not a fair
test" he said Next week we can
tell better"