Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-07-30
BLUE MOUNTAINS.
VIII ERE THE PENINSULA EDl-
TORS ARE STOPPING.
Wilmington Guests at the Blue
Mountain House-The Fourteenth
Annual Editorial Excursion A
Well Kept summer HoteI-Points
OF Interest.
BY Letter TO EVENING Journal.
BLUE MOUNTAIN HOUSE,
Washington County. Md,
July 20, 1888.


Peninsula Press association Is in session here
now for few days, with about twenty out
OF Its sixty odd members present. Forty
two persons belong to the party. About
halt the party arrived here on Friday at
o'clock, p. m. while the other
half arrived at that hour last
evening. Charles r. McFee, OF the Della
ware Democrat at Georgetown, came here
this morning from Washington. Several
more, among them DIR. II. G. Snitcher,
Colonel Cody Anfenger and Professor Wes.
ley Webb Of Wilmington, win come TO-
morrow.
The flrst meeting was held last evening
President George w. Cru!kshank presiding
and Fred e. Bach acting as secretary Ia
place Of Jerome b. Bell, who cannot attend
the session this year. Messrs. McKendree
Downham, Fred L. Bach aud Henry G.
Carpenter OF the Dover Index, were ap.
pointed an auditing committee. The three
standing committees of Program, Resolu-
tions and Nominations were filled respec-
lively as follows: Horace G.. Knowles,
Wilson M. Tylor and Elon s.
Hobbs; Robert d. Hcffecker. Joshua
b. Clark and Oscar M. Purnell;
Edwin b. Paynter, J. Barton Cheyney and
O. L. Vincent There were elected the fol
lowing new members: Elon 8. Hobbs,
Barton Cheyney. Henry @. Carpenter, l..
e. Wallace, G. f. Hinchliffe and John II.
Frazer. After collecting the annual dues
OF 81 the meeting adjourned subject to the
call of the chair. The next meeting will
probably be held tomorrow morning.
Among those present are George w.
Cruikshank, the busy anti German editor
OF the Cecil Democrat, accompanied by bis
wife, son and two daughters; John H
Frazer of the independent Prohibition Ce-
Gil County News; ]. Barton Cheyney, the
very competent city editor OF Wilmington
Every Evening, accompanied by Miss NJ
II. Cheyney, NJ. d., Of West Chester, Pa.
Harlow II. Curtis, telegraph editor OF the
Wilmington Morning News, accompanied
by his mother, Mrs. II. L. Curtis OF New
ark, Del Fred. f. Bach, Of the EVENING
JOURNAL, accompanied by his wife, ,daugh-
ter and Miss Anna r. Lamborn OF Poll
adeIphia: Harold Sudell and son Of the
New Castle STAR Robert d
Hoffscker and Miss Hoffecker
of the newsy Smyrna Times; q. b. Taylor
OF the anti Salisbury Smyrna Record, &C
companied by Mrs. Taylor and Miss Mary
e. Loper; Henry C. Carpenter, wife and
daughter OF the new anti. Salisbury Demo
cratic organ, the Dover Index; ex Post
master L. K. Wallace and Mrs. Wallace OF
the Seaford Weekly Review: Joshua B
Clark, the foremost Democratic Constitu
tional reformer, of the Sussex journal
at Georgetown. accompanied by Mrs
Clark, Miss Ida IA. Davis and his
Republican partner, the well-known
McKendree Downham; Edwin r
Paynter Of that Simon.pure Democratic
organ, the Delaware Democrat, OF George
town; Horace g. Knowles Of Wilmington,
representing the Breakwater Light which
shines independently over the Lswes harbor;
c. L Vincent, Mrs. Vincent and Oscar Nj
Purnell Of the Snow Hill tMd) Democratic
Messenger; Wilson M. Taylor OF the Re.
publican Easton tMd.l GaEltte, accom- pan
led by Mrs Taylor and Miss Fl. Anna Pow.
ell; EIon Is. Hobbs of the DentontMd Jour
nal, the rising young Democratic lawyer
and politician Of Caroline county:
B. s. Highley OF the Prohibition
Trappe Times OF Trappe. Talbot county,
Md; Charles H. Hincnliffe, the versatile
and industrious newspaper correspondent
OF Elkton, Md, representing the Cecil
Whig; Mrs. z. II. Cleaver OF the Cecil
county News, and Mrs Helen v. Austin
OF Palmyra, N. j., the editress Of depart
ment OF Wesley Webb's Farm and Home
Tee Blue Mountain House Is on the TOT
OF one OF the knobs OF that mountain range
2,000 feet above the level Of the sea, and n
miles west Of Baltimore. By leaving vii
mington at 1l3s q. M, the visitor ean
have two hours in Baltimore for dinner
and recreation and arrive here in time for
supper, the Blue Mountain express train
leaving that city at 80 o. m. aud arriving
here at 40 p. m. J. P. Shannon, the pro.
prietor OF the well-known hoatelry, the
Carrollton, OF Baltimore, is manager Of
this establishment, and he enjoys the dis
tinction or knowing how to keep hotel
The appointments here are admirable. The
carpets, furniture and table equipments are
Of the best. giving the house an appearance
OF substantiaility far superior to the usual
summer resort. The house provides for 4O0
guests. There are 275 here to-day, although
the season has just opened After mex
Sunday the rooms will be filed. The dining
room accommodates 800 guests, and tb,
serytcn OF 1t Is prompt and excellent IL
every way. A well-kept bar Is connected
with the hotel. For amusement there
is a large enclosed dancing pavilion
nd IL Ia .
saddle horses and an endless mass OF eter
nal rocks to climb behind the hotel, which
faces toward the sunset and the famous
Cumberland Valley. Off to the w. s. W.
is historic Hagerstown. 12 miles away. but
In full sight. and Off to the w. N. w. /.
Waynesboro', in Pennsylvania. six miles
away. Pikesville. Pennsylvania hamlet,
lies deep in the heart Of the fertile valley
between here and Waynesboro' Behind
the hotel. a mile up the mountain, is High
Rock. $500 feet above the sea level, and
two miles further is Mount Quiranck, 5000
feet high. An exquisite mountain road.
hAnked by countless foot and bride paths,
leads TO thess points OF every visitors des-
tination.
Mrs. James II. Mehaffey OF Wilmington
came here yesterday and was met at the
Blue Mountain station by Mr.. and Mrs
Frick. the latter sister OF Mr. Mehaffey.
OF Waynesboro, Pa. Mrs. Mehaffey will
return home on Thursday. Ohio Nowland.
cashier Of the Bank OF Wilmington and
Brandy wine. and Mrs Nowland came here
on Thursday. Yesterday they went 10
Lursy Cave, IS miles TO the southwest iD