Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-05-31
LETTER TO EDITOR
poor Little Old Annapolis, How She
Has Refrigerated Writes Miss isa'
bel Claude In Letter To Ediier.


TO the Editor Of the Erening Capitol:
/ Dear Sir Could You tell me. how
many Of Saint Anne's Church mem-
hers subscribed to the pavement fund (?
~ out OF your power 10 do so. will
gomo one who knows tell me through
your paper?
Poor little old Annapolis. how she
has refrigerated There was time
when she could keep as she started,
the quaint and beautiful Capital of the
state, cultured social and pleasure
center and Baltimore was near
enough for commercial life.
She never envied her rising sister,
Baltimore. with her glitter and money,
tut poor old Baltimore envied Anna
polls her lavender and old lace" And
there was time when a Governor
was elected with an Understanding
that the Capital would be removed TO
Baltimore. he was to use his influence
with the legislature. u remember IL
AttAh Rtth w nAA lOAi sAnNAtHt
City will die | answered II think
rot. but even so It's letter to die with
honor than flourish in dishonor.9 But
when the thinking people realized
what was intended they rose mp and
declared the State Government should
nos be commercialized and the Capital
should remain
They dared not openly remove il
then but Offices were opened in Bal
tmore and for some years the oath
OF the Governor has been a scrap of
paper" So no wonder the antiquity
Of our little home town should be de-
s,royed by those who arc no; inter
osted in the traditions G the old place.
remember how we suffered at the
hands or those strangers when they
placed that incongruous annex upon
the State House Hill. Our beautiful
old State House dome, that had and
has world wide reputation, was on
one side OF the circle, entirely obi
torated We Annapohtans implored
that the annex be placed in an open
square. by buying up the property
from Church Circle to Chancery Lane
Then came the State Building. again
the voice OF the people of Annapolis
oyerruled ty the stranger within our
gates" and that handsome building
was placed like shop on street
corner. (To see the top of either
building ono has to he an acrobat and
lend double hackwarts) At that
time the whole square on the corner
of which it stands could have been
bought and beautiful open park
could have been made from the State
House Hill TO College Green.
Now again we are being overruled
and our old Church Circle is TO be
destroyed as | look over the subscrib-
ers il is the stranger again. Out
of twenty-nine names that | have
seen there are only ten names who
have lived here through two genera
tons and | am not sure that some of
those have been here that long as
families. | know they are not all
members of Saint Anne's Church. The
church is so in need of repairs inside
that fair or bazaar had to he ere
sorted 10. to try to save il from di-
iapidatien, II was announced through
CTR local paper, something less
than $4,000 to uptuild and improve
and S1.S27 to tear up and destroy the
appropriate setting of the outside. that
the majority love and admire. Why
car not these who prefer cement. walk
on the other side of the Circle?
IN q few DAYS the President of these
United States visits the Academy and
truly pray he may not pass through
ihe city for the dirt in the streets and
alleys is j disgrace to the whole place.
The Civic League has written the
Mayor and City Council begging they
do something and they seemed only
interested in peoples back yards. AT
;oast enc feels able to look after those
places ones self
! have wandered from the question,
but ask yoar pardon. Mr.. Editor.
Sincerely yours,
ISABEL II. CLAUDE.
Apns op1'S Md May 20 1921