Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-07-22
OAKLAND AND DEER PARK.
Summer In The GIndes-Thc Improve.
Eaents OF Ten Years-The New Hotels
MIR. Rlainess BaiIroad-The Cover.
nor's Euards-Ihe Climate-N7r. Cor
cOfAm. Etc. 8


Eaents OF Ten Years-The New Hotels
Mr.. Rlainc,s BaiIroad-The Cover.
n0r's Euaras-The Climate-N7r. Cor
Special Correspondence Of THE EVENING STAR.
| OAKLAND July 81.
The sign on the little brown station at Oakland
tells the whole story: Oakland altitude 200 feet
To Washington, 'soS miles; Wheeling, 1gs miles ~
This elevation above the sea, which was accurately
ascertatned few years since by the measurement
OF the coast survey, Is the highest railroad point
earring the little Railway on Mount Washington
east OF the Rocky mountains and its accessibility
| by ride OF but seven hours places it almost at
| the doors OF the cities of Washington ana Balti-
more. Not only for this reason but for others the
Allegheny range In western Maryland is destined
| to become great section OF summer resorts. Ten
! years ago they were almost unknown, except the
little struggling town OF Oakland, which had for
''hotel" little primitive eating station built OF
planks. Deer Park, just the other side, was only
spoken OF as the summer residence OF Senator
Fl. G. Davis, OF West Virginia. 1t contained
but one or two other houses. Now both places
have large summer hotels, beautiful cottages and
grounds, and lawns, and landscapes in endless
variety. doubt II there Is a more beautiful out
| look In the world than that which meets the eye
| from the porticoes OF the Deer Park hotel, situ-
| sted on the summit plateau OF Big Savage Noun
and the darker shadows that cover the mountain
ridge which overlOoks them The grounds about
| Tile lOtei nave Dcen worked down Till the lawns
look like the bright green of the English TURF and
the maroon-col0rei walks of tan bark bordered
with flowers and fountain, make pretty picture
OF contrast The new hotels are built in the
queen Anne style, are finished In hard wood and
| finely furnished. The rooms are so arranged that
they can be used in suites for any sized family,
are lighted with gas and furnished with electric
bells. and otherwise have all the modern improve
ments. The three buildings are connected by
| light and graceful passagewayS covered over
head and so arranged as to be closed on the sides
in inclement weather. In the western part of the
style those at Elberon.of John w. Garrett, presi-
dent of the B. & o. r. r. At the other end there
are several cottages in an Oak grove and still be-
connected with the hotel by electric bells, thus
aford1ng every convenience, with quiet
| MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK.
| This is new summer resort something on the
Chatauqua lake or Asbury park plan OF a religious
order, situated midway in a beautiful grove of
oaks between Oakland and Deer Park. 1t has one
hotel and thirty-one cottages, and by next season
! will have accommodations for several hundred
| persons. 1t is proposed to have large gathering
there In August An organized company has steam
| saw mills and factories near the town, by which
the wealth of lumber OF this mountain region can
be converted into cottages with surprising ra-
pdity 1t is mainly a Baltimore and West Viz
| GINA enterprise. An artificial lake has already
Deen made 70 give appropriateness to the name.
1t is already the attraction of a beautiful drive
from the Oakland and Deer PARK hotels
AT OAKLAND.
The hotel here has been very much enlarged and
improved since last summer, so that it can accom-
modate five hundred persons 1t has been COM
pletely refurnished, has improved gas, with water
On every floor, and all the conveniences of mod
ern city house. It's new piazza IS 3fS feet long,
and with the delicious cool breeze that sweeps
IL into the parlorS and corridors Of the hotel Is
greatly enjoyed by the guests. Morning and eve
ming groups gather to listen to the music or laZily
wear the hours away In an effort to resist the
dr0WSy effect OF the mountain air. The children
romp up and down, and at times make such a
| doughty Ia ia nor
| to go to the billiard room to drink Tom Hoods
toast ITO the Memory of the good King Herod-"
and groves to Deer Park, some four miles away
Every afternoon there are as stylish teams on the
Mr.. Elkins, Senator DAVIS son-in-law. has lust
brought fine turnout from New York. Mr.. Cor
coran has several Mr. Richardson, Of Washing
ton, has his fine trotter, "Potluck," here. The
| ladies, too, drive their own carriages, or dash
down the park roads on horseback. Miss Kendall,
of Washington, drives a very handsome T-cart,
and Miss Adams, of Wheeling, a rapid PAGER In
addition to the private carriages Mr.. Wash.
Nailor, of Washington, has his fine establishment
The guests of the two hotels interchange visits,
often spending the day, as the company makes no
from either hotel. Mr.. G. s. Wood, OF Baltimore,
| is the manager at Oakland and Deer Park and a
DE popular host he has proved himself to
over Deer Park with becoming grace and dignity.
! THE BLAINE AND DAVIS RAILRoAD,s..-o..q o..
as IL is called, indicates that the material deve-
opment OF this region is keeping pace with its
other improvements. A syndicate composed of
ex-Senators Chaffee and Blaine, Senator II. G.
Davis and others, are building a railroad from
| Piedmont, at the foot OF the mountain, up the
valley of the north Potomac to the summit or the
hills. They have purchased large tracts OF coal
fields and are already transporting one thousand
tons Of coal per day to market. The road is about
| half completed, though most or the grades are
established. 1t is already paying handsomely on
It's investment and promises from the present out
| look to be regular bonanza. 1t traverses the
wild region OF the Blackwater, where black bears,
wolves ana wildcats abound. A surveying party
| captured black bear the other day and put him
IN pen. The next morning his bearship broke
down his prison walls, drove the surveyors out Of
their tent and returned to the woods.
THE TEMPERATURE.
The average degree Of the temperature here in
the day time is 700 AS the sun sets iu falls
rapidly down to 500 or $50. The heavy dews run
off the roofs in the morning like rain. It is quite
Often very warm in the sun, but In the shade it is
so cool that flies can not live and mosquitoes are
unknown When you have cool spell "down
below 1t IS generally quite cold here cold enough
in fact for fires morning and evening.
Mr. CCRCORAN.
Mr. Corcoran is at the Deer Park hotel and not
at the residence of Senator Davis, as published.
He is improving in health. When he first came up
here he could not walk step, but now he goes
anywhere. He rides out every afternoon and
sometimes In the morning. On the first of Au-
gust he will return TO Washington for day or
two OF rest to break the journey he cOntemplates
to the White Sulphur Springs. Mr.. COrcOran
enters quite freely into conversation and is rich in
recolectlons OF his days in Washington sixty
five golden years ago. His memory is simply
| wonderful.
THE GOVERNORS GUARD
You remember, of course, the guard OF honor
which escorted the late President Garfield at his
| inauguration, known as the Governors Guard of
Columbus, Ohio. They have been all of the week
in camp in picturesque little grove near the
Deer Park hotel. Their evening parades, drills
and marches, resonant with the music of their fine
band, has made 1t quite lively at both places this
week. ball has been given at each hotel in
| their honor, and the young ladies have had at
least on two occasions plenty OF beaux. They
remain In camp for several days yet, and antici-
pate visit from Governor Foster, of Ohio and
the governors Of West Virginia and Maryland.
This would be charming place for the National
Rifles or Co. A to go into camp for a week. The
railroad company would hold out inducements
and the Baltimoreans here would welcome them
royalty, for they award them the gold medal in
the G. A. r. celebration.
PERSONAL. MENTION.
Among the Washtngtonians at the hotels and
cottages at Oakland and Deer Park are the follow
| irr. GQn Chorpn