Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-07-23
TWAS A JACK, NOT MULE
Missioner Causes confusior
About Accident
ACCIDENT on BOULEVARD


A jack Is moi always q mule. IL
you don't believe Il ask IT IiavycY
II. st1aer, the An.lalsalss aeaiist wha
visits his local Office here. over the
Annapolis Banking 4 Trust mp ii 4.
three times week ar RsanSr III kes
the trip iii MS F0rsi automobile, aasi
has only hid two insh.p an
tonIevard Ii several Gac Ii
viii be rcealisl III Swa cf threa
ps.ssrs ago Oh ii II ssiass efi nltsil. N Il
his car struck Ter barred thar had
been used II Repairing ths rsat and
for mischief Was pulled froas the side
to the middle Of the boulevard by
some prankisii boz i few NIGH
ago Or. Sf0ners cir rae. with another
rasshap. which has been publishei IL
various papers The account tells OF
haY the doctor machine crashed
into mule 'ese when I; aas M
mule at all hut q iacss, IN aisiafa i,li.s
Jack left IN the road II sappo ed
the message va given the reporter Il
boulevard accidents Jack and he
thought the original was JACK so
I'm order til BE more elegaat lis sent
Iii tHeM tory mule, rilaiss eg he
word ssek from Which TIE concluded
the last syllable hi been ONT
The accident made good reading in
the newspapers. bat llr Stoner's
friends arc still pulling their brains
why he could ROT have honkel his
horn AMI made thai fiiyyer scare the
mule his car Is reported tp have
'crashed' into. get cut Of the road
But. 4 was moi mile fhe doe
tor tells the story himself and can
vnuch for it,, He Had been baliny odr
his boat on the severn, and WAS des
tanned d little later thar usual being
bound to Baltimore va the boulevard
AT about 1890 When just opposite
the residence u lack Flood With.
the lights of Baltimore cleaning In.
the distance something unseen by the
Doctor Who MAS the car chauffeur,
struck tic car, Or the car struck Il.
The machine was said TO BE going III d
twenty mile clip. and occupants of i
car iii the rear said iiiey ssw fire, and
then heard the grinding noise tia;
tore out the ilisyer's iauaras.
pr Stoner did not know what hal
happened The Ford was showed to-
the side OF the road on the very edge
Bof an emhankment the Wind shield
was smashed into smlthereens, and
when the doctor looked forward he
was confronted with telegraph pole
within an incl Of his nose Anybody
Ito see that car then would have de-
clared ii q miracle that tile driver or
occupants could have escaped death
or serious injury But nobody was
hurt
The doctor began an investigation
Immediately He wanted to know
what had happened and why He had
seen nothing iii the road but what had
torn the internal Improvements ont
of his Ford carr He was not long in
finding out someone had been re-
pairing their chr III the road before
tIle doctor came along, and had evi-
IDENTIFY lacked up their wheel. and left
the Jack in tie road The next car
20 come along and pick up the Jack,
tnot in the regulation fashion, how
everl. was Dr. Stoner's The jack
struck the car amid ships, SO to
speak, and imbeded itself between
two iron bars that run crossWise under
4 Ford car prizing them apart and
actually ripping out the mechanism
Hut the car The ear il wreck, and
the repairs will cost something over
500. but 1t WIS all On account of d
Jack and not mule as reported
/ Iii the Baltimore daily press the next
morning