Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-24
WHERE TO SPEND THE SUMMER.
Resorts Where One Can Escape the Heat
OF the City.

of The STAR. To further assist them in making
up their minds The STAR continues 10 publish
notices of places where one can secure desira-
BILE accommodations and pleasant surroundings
at reasonable rates.
Right out in the country in full enjoyment of
the beautiful scenery around historic Antietam
| is about as pleasant place to while away a
| portion OF the summer as could be asked for.
Board at n country house, near the railroad
and In a healthy locality in this beautiful re-
gion, can be had at very moderate rates. Ad-
| dress P.O. box 1877, Sharpsburg. Md.
Fair View is a summer resort located most
delightfully."- in the neiYhborhoad Of Round
Hill, Va, where large, pleasant rooms and
! hrst-class board can be had for the summer.
Riding and driving horses can be had for the
many pleasant rides thr ough the surrounding
country and all the comforts of summer life
abound. Five dollars a week is all that is ex-
pected in return. Address VIM. L. Humphrey,
Paxson P.O., Va.
Ocean City, Nd, is always pleasant retreat
for Westinghouse during the heated season
and its popularity speaks well for 1t. Among
the many attractions offered sojourners there
are bathing, cunning, fishing and sailing, and
mosquitoes have been enjoined from putting in
| an appearance while Washington people are
around. The Atlantic is the largest and best
located hotel on Ocean City beach. Good
music furnished and the old low schedule OF
prices has been restored. Address I. p. WEIGH,
manager.
Asbury Park is considered by many people
to be one of the pleasantest places on the Jer-
sey coast to spend the whole or any part of the
summer. There are, of course, any number of
large hotels for those who like hotel life and
smaller ones to suit more quiet tastes. but the
Rutledge. right near the ocean, is just as pleas
ant as any of them. The terms are from 80 to
$40 a week. For further particulars address
Virginia Lady, 401 4th avenue, Asbury Park,
NJ.
Boyd's station on the Metropolitan branch,
Baltimore and Ohio, needs no introduction to
people of the capital during the summer time.
1t Is pleasant place to spend the time of hot
weather, and people who wish good country
board in healthy location, thirty minutes
drive from Boyds, would be amply repaid if
they address Mrs. ]. ". Byrne, Clarksburg,
Md, for they would receive full information
about just the thing they are after.
Four dollars and four and half week are
very reasonable prices for summer board, but
it can be had for that at pleasant Virginia
farm house within three-quarters of mile of
town. Plenty of fruit, shade, ice. milk, hunt
ing and fishing Address box %, Front Royal,
Warren county Va.
If you would like to spend your vacation at
Berkeley Springs and do not care to go to big
hotel you can get excellent accom- modations in
a private family within eight minutes walk
of the bath house, So week is the necessary
remuneration, and il two OCCUPY the same
room 80 is sufficient for the two. Address
Mrs. Alice Buchanan, Berkeley Springs, W. Va
Any one in search of good country board at
Maryland farm house with home comforts
and good bathing right by the house would
surely be suited with the location of farm
house on South river which open for board
ers during July, August and September. Send
all letters OF inquiry to post office box 256 An
napolis, Nd.
farm house by the salt water, near Chesa-
peake bay, should be doubly attractive to sum-
mer boarders. Fish, oysters aud crabs in
abundance, row and sail boats and an occa-
sional drive free of charge should certainly be
very winning inducements. All these and more
are offered for So week by Miss Z. E. Deac.
Churchton post Office, Anne Arundel county
Md.
Good country board, with large, airy rooms
and plenty of shade and good water. with home
comforts, may be had at SIS month or "a
week by addressing Mrs. j. j. Wayman, Water
loo, Culpeper county, Va.
Mrs. A. T. Scanland at Dunn-Loring, Fairfax
county, Va, offers accommodations for several
summer guests, with frst-cass board Her
place, Lenoir, is but twenty minutes drive
from the station, with free transportation back
and forth.
BY addressing 70 at this Office one DESTROYS
of finding good board, with home comforts
only two miles from the city. can get some val
liable information. Room and board will cost
s. week. The place is high. easily reached
healthy, shady, with good water.
Country board in beautiful part of the
Shenandoah valley is to be had by addressing
Mrs. L. V. Shepherd, Berryville, Clarke county
Va. The location is high and beautiful, about
two miles from the post office, churches and
depot, and the house has large, cool rooms.
Mrs. J. H. Waters, whose address is Smokers
vile, Loudoun county. Va, can take a few
more boarders at the Mountain House. which
has excellent means for the entertainment Of
summer guests. The neigboring mountains at
ford beautiful walks.
Here is party who wants to find some good
country place where he can board this summer
III he or she cannot find what suits him ill these
notes he or she Is hard to please. His or her
address is W.O., STAR Office, and the only stipu-
lation is that care shall be taken during the day
of a child Of seven.
Spring Bank near Alexandria. Va, offers ex-
cellent chances for a quiet summer with an
abundance of milk. cream, fruit and fresh
vegetables, at IS a week.
Board may be had with private family on
the Tenleytown road, two miles from the city,
near the electric cars. at the rate of go II
month with one in room or S25 apiece for
two in a room. Address box $50, this Office.
Summer boarders can be accommodated at
Sheiburne farm, near Philomont, Loudoun
county, Va, in an elevated section of the
country, with plenty of shade. u nice lawn and
all sorts OF good things to eat. The farm is six
miles from the Purcellville station. Address
j. A. Hutchinson at Philomont.
Elmwood, in Fauquier county, Va, is a COM
Portable home with a fine lawn and a most ex-
celient table. The terms are reasonable an
may be learned by writing to Miss Foote at
Catletts.
Mrs Renninger has accommodations for fif-
! teen or twenty boarders at Clifton Beach,
Charles county, Md. easily reached by the
steamer Mattano. There are boating, bathing,
rates being sc week; with children half price.
Mrs. E. 2. Cole at Sedgwick, Me-, would like
few boarders for the summer. Her place is
in a healthy location near the steamer wharf
and post office. The table is good and the
terms are reasonable.
At Terrace farm, South river, near An
napolis, Nd, ID. w. Higgins opens his arms to
summer guests at the rate Of IS week. His
place affords fruits, boating. bathing and fish
ing and other summer delights
Bluff Point House at Colonial Beach is now
open for boarders. 1t has large rooms, with
adjoining shade, good boating, bathing and
fishing, and easy access to and from the beach
and steamer
st. Leon Palace Hotel at st. Leon, Quebec,
is one OF the most delightful summer resorts in
America, and, under a new management, is
now more attractive than ever. There are sew
erai very effective saline springs near at hand
that are excellent for such troubles as rheuma
tism upuralpia in6ipeStiOD Ac The tarraa