. Book of the Royal blue . OLD ANNAPOLIS IS DISAPPEARING. B. RILEY, ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND. THE fateful fire and the iconoclastic handof improvement are steadily destroy-ing the ancient houses and the venera-ble environments of ye ancient capital ofMaryland. Its charming colonial historyreads like an old romance, its knightly eralike an Iliad, its decadence appears likethe uncertain web of a dream, and evenunder the eye of those yet living vast Philadelphia and Annapolis via Baltimore,and made the splendid time between thecity of brotherly love and the capital ofMaryland of only three day
. Book of the Royal blue . OLD ANNAPOLIS IS DISAPPEARING. B. RILEY, ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND. THE fateful fire and the iconoclastic handof improvement are steadily destroy-ing the ancient houses and the venera-ble environments of ye ancient capital ofMaryland. Its charming colonial historyreads like an old romance, its knightly eralike an Iliad, its decadence appears likethe uncertain web of a dream, and evenunder the eye of those yet living vast Philadelphia and Annapolis via Baltimore,and made the splendid time between thecity of brotherly love and the capital ofMaryland of only three days, was pulleddown. Indeed, the driver who handled thereins of the coach and four, and who drovein between stately piles to the great yardof the hotel, is still remembered. Thishotel was known in colonial days as Manns. MANNS HOTEL, ANN Molls. M Where Washington lodged before be resigned iii^ Military C imisslon December 88, 1783, and important transformations have beenworked in the architectural outlines of thecity while its life has undergone rapid andfundamental changes. Fifty years ago one of the old colonialhotels was still in operation as it had beenin the days when I leneral Washington wasguest in it and where, on the night beforehe resigned his military commission, De-cember 23, L781, in No. ■> he slept. Itwas only a few years ago that the bed inwhich he rested was taken from the the present year the office wherethe tickets of the coach that ran between Hotel. Within the twelfth month thebroad lot that stood in front of the inn,and whose great trees furnished shade forsages and statesmen, has been desecratedwith new and modern buildings, and theface of the old hostelry is being graduallyshut out from the sight of the native andthe stranger. What notable men have been guestsh
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