25 EAST BALTIMORE STREET Conducts a General Banking Business Your Money Can Earn 3 Per Cent. or 3 Per Cent. According to the Nature of Your Account Manages Estates Acts as Administrator and Executor J. H. FURST COMPANY, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, No. 23 S. HANOVER STREET, BALTIMORE, Have large facilities for PRINTING of every description. Estimates on application. Orders respectfully solicited. THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Members of the society are requested to solicit contributions of books, maps, portraits and manuscripts of historical value or importance, particularly such as may throw light upon the political, social or religious life of the people of Maryland. The Society will become the custodian of such articles of the above character as the possessors may care to deposit should they be unwilling to give them, and will preserve them in the fireproof vault. Any book or pamphlet written by a native or resident of Maryland or in any way relating to Maryland, will be gratefully accepted and preserved. THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. The Maryland Historical Magazine, which is issued quarterly by the Maryland Historical Society, will accept for publication a limited number of advertisements of a suitable character. The special attention of Schools, Colleges and Booksellers is called to this high class advertising medium. Those who have for sale old and rare books, pamphlets, etc., will find it of advantage to avail themselves of our pages. FUND PUBLICATIONS. A limited number of the Fund Publications are for sale by the Society. A priced list will be mailed on application to the Secretary. ARCHIVES OF MARYLAND. Volumes 1 to 30 of the Archives are on sale by the Society at $3.00 per volume; except volume 18, $5.00 per copy. ISSUED QUARTERLY BALTIMORE FOR SALE AT THE ATHENÆUM BUILDING, ST. PAUL & SARATOGA STS. No. 3 OF BALTIMORE 9, 11, 13, SOUTH STREET Capital and Surplus, $2,400,000 CTS as Trustee of Corporation Mortgages, Fiscal Agent for Corporations and Individuals, Transfer Agent and Registrar. Depository under plans of re-organization. Acts as Executor, Administrator, Guardian, Trustee, Receiver, Attorney and Agent, being especially organized for careful management and settlement of estates of every character. Fireproof Building with latest and best equipment for safety of contents. Safes for rent in its large FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF VAULTS with spacious and well-lighted coupon rooms for use of patrons. Silver and other valuables taken on storage. BALTIMORE, SAVANNAH AND JACKSONVILLE, "FINEST COASTWISE TRIPS IN THE WORLD" W. P. TURNER, Pass. Traffic Manager. General Offices, S. E. Cor. German and Light Sts., Baltimore, Md. (Read before the Society March 13, 1911.) The passenger on the night boat for Easton, Cambridge and other Eastern Shore points is awakened as the whistle blows for the Oxford dock to one of the fairest sights his eye will rest upon in many journeys. Before him, scarcely visible for the trees which shield it from the often too hot sun, lies a veritable picture town, and about him is another picture, Oxford harbor, with its fussy motor boats, fishermen's skiffs and perhaps a fleet of graceful, clean cut yachts, lying at anchor or getting under way for a long day of cruising or racing. It is a scene pleasing to the eye of the casual traveller or the aquatic enthusiast, busy with things to certain extent frivolous; gay with the brightness of white canvas and freshly painted craft; industrious, animated, picturesque, it is a joy to the beholder. There is real business afoot here too, but where is the tall shipping that used to throng this harbor, and where the cosmopolitan mingling of planter, sailor, factor and commercial adventurer; where in a word is all the varied life of that busy seaport which in point of interest placed it next to Annapolis in colonial Maryland? As a town of delight213 |