Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-03-31

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with t6Nas as with laAaiea. ahaG Il
sometimes involyes having 40 pre-
sna ia aucsenk t0wns which H
pl@Asa8 SmseeUti bte writer's t0 a@scribe
Is GEsAaFaut with memories. The quaint
inaahfaansa sickanlRg * picsuE
nsas are generally I'd Be found rsvtl.
lag slsefr eAke and longing Tor the vaI-
gaEsty ard Mswneas Og soEns nearby
factory city. Indeed. every senaimen.
tai and pl1aa0spplaic tourist mast have
haa moments when he was sug9eat6d
With the Mzesaneholy Of crnmbiing
E0wns agleep En the sun along the de.
nsed highways og Oh kings, and
thought how cheerful ii would be 10
chance On some little capital which
had not dscayed but still satsexim and
gay Hv0m isb ancient site. and gave
the visitor 8 sense 81 the continuity 81
itB history For such moods there Ii
Annapolis.
The Annapoiitan Golden Age pre-
ceded the Revolution. and doubtless til
the early days Of the nineteenth CEN
fury, when Baltimore successfully
seized the commercial supremacy 81
Maryland. decline and even decay
threatened Annapolis. But the Naval
Academy descended like god from
/ the governmental machine at Wash
lington and stayed the process. The
presence Of our great school for sail
lors has insured constant streaming
TO and fro Of pleasant. gay, much
travelled naval socieEy Annapolis has
never become just q seepy. forgotten,
country tDwn What has happened to
It ID unique III has had no b0oEns and
industrial growth No suburban vul-
! garity mars It's distinction and no FAC
tory chinneys stain its soft sky. 1T
ia still just = little city clustering
round the little hill on which the state
House stands. but II is still gentle
mans town, suitable residence for
igenflemen and their families 1t il
true that the Assembly Rooms In Duke
log Gloucester Street are no longer
used for the Annapolis dances there
the writer errs, as there ID dance at
the Assembly Rooms every night. save
Sunday, being for white and coIored
folk alternately and that the movies
have vogue perhaps unsuitable in
the town which had the first theater
in America. II Annapolis had its Rus
kin, such things would evoke shrieks
of protest The present chronicler,
perhaps tame soul, can only rejoice
lthat some decent prosperity has chung
there. that ladies from the beautiful
IOId red-bFick Georgian houses can 60
70 the little market BY the watersisfe
and bring home full basket. Annap-
IOlis has changed with the times, hut
only Ia 3 seemTy and digniffed way.
There Ii, Of course. no modern met
r0p0lttan turmoil. Not year ago one Og
the Sisters Of Notre Dame repeated
what she evidently thought rather
Outrageous witticism of one of the Re
demptortst Fathers to the erect that
you could hear the grass grow III the
Annapolis streets. That Father was
lprObahIy from New York. AT any rate
Inc went too Tar, for though richness
LOT patfne has come with the years.
softening Of outline and deepening 0f
color. yet the town Is swept and dust
ed, the excellent hotel has that SO de-
sirabfe hot ard cold well piumbed into
Il, and Al the snmptuous old mansions
they still give occasional dfnner-par-
ties--is the hour Is now eight instead
Iof three Il Is humbIy submitted that
this is only change fer the better. On
Essoend thoughts, even the modern pic
Iture might almost persuade Ruskin,
/ provided he was blindfo1ded when ne
was taken inside the gates Of that
architectural monafrosity, the Naval
academy, md only allowed to wander
Iat will about Annapolis itself The
town Ii indeed prize for the Ameri-
can tourist touring lii his own land,
Especially IL be has learned to love the
old American AaYor Of our old Amer
Iican towns
The American favor Of Annapolis III
"a phrase which perhaps calls for I'm
mediate explanation. FOR the flavor
lOf the place is still amazingly Eng
liah. The street names. Duke IN Gl0u-
Icester, Prince George. Fleet street,
CONDUIT, King George, Hanover, Corn-
Inn (which is COrnhfll Street as Il
never Vas ia London and shipwrssht
II street al smack III I.endon. They re
Intimately and sometimes pathetic ~
reminiscent Of the English queen Or
whom the town was named Pr ce
Csaegga street Ii Tor her husband md
ToHRa III Gloucester for her little son,
she only one Of her seventeen children
wAo survived baloyhoOa. Survived only
TN Ne waa eleven. Now thar the Rey-
DIuti0n Is 50 fzr away and England
land America are again allies, there II
s0Eaathfng very pleasant Ii these old
ma1nes which Annapolfs never changed.
Nowhere I'D America does one get i
esrOmgax sense Og the Engiiah origin
lOf III. oe family c0nnArttOn which
somehow survived the quarrel and has
n0W Go1ne right again soxn6 day
I.AanapOlis w0ula Dc the suitable site
Tor SONS fsasndsy sTaalI celebration oE