Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-19
Written for The Evening Star.
OLD POINT CONFRONT.
Some Little Incidents of This Time Honored
Place.

TIE SUMMER Girl. NOT YET 4 cHrsTSUr-Rxu-
| ROAD MEN AND AMY oFFICTRs-soME OIL
POINTERS - ALSO 4 FEW GOOD STORIES Oh
| INTEREST.
dii thing last Monday night that hun
dreds and thousands of people, not to say hun
during their lives and still have not gone TO a
newspaper to tell abou. it. to wit: went to
Old Point Comfort.
\ You've been there before many n time MANY
a time? SO have l.. ''but that is mother story
! I went down by the new steamboat line
which reminds ne: The general superintendent
Of that line is Col. John Callahan, and the colo
nei is wary and cannot be taken in. Within
the past six months a newspaper man struck
the colonel for pass 20 Old Point and return
I o. =. is such an elegant place to recoup the
wasted gray matter Of which newspaper
men use So much in their business-but let the
/ colonel tell 1t:
DC Gobs." he saws. "the spalpeen, never
heard Of him before. told me if 1 didn't give
Linn pass. he was that hard up he'd have to
swiu and he told me further, to caution my
captain to keep an eye cut for foaters along
the way, seeing that he had business at the
Point and wanted to get there in time for break
fast"
And what did you do. Colonel?'' asked the
listener.
''Bc j.bers let him SWIM" responded the
coivnCl, as he sMootEed out fve-dollar bill
AMI lClGcd 1t neatly to fit the slot in his pocket
book.
Thark fortune-S6 WORTH didn't have to-.
swirl swimming IN September is wet work
anyhow. and real II has nothing to recon-
mend 1t except that Ole doesn't perspire worth
mentioning. however .norgetically he may
exercise himself at it.
THE OBJECT OF 1T.
went down to attend the semi-annual meet
ing Of the American Association Of General
Passenger and Ticket Agents, convening on
tuesday and adjcurnlng the same day,
/ ahS dent think l ever-out-
side OF convention of Washington
JourHalstS-saw collection Of handsomer
men. RepreseIting as they do tho second
most important branch of the greatest indus
ny IL America. their good looks may be neces-
gary; tnelr business capacity, executive ability
anu COMPREHENSIVE intelligence are SO beyond
the shadow of Il doubt. and a finer adore IS than
tndt made by Col. Games L. Taylor, general
passenger agent Of the Richmond and
It.!.Niiic road, On Civilization Chiefly u Matter
OF iran pUrtatICn Is seldom heard even among
those who are speechmakers by profession.
don say this to compliment Col. Taylor either,
but simply put 1t In evidence of the & eueral
ability OF the men lie is one among.
TIE q. z. A ASSOCIATION.
y wc-d or two for this association Organ
lied in 1876 at Pittsbcrg Pa with only
dozen or fifteen members and when railroads
were practically IN their infancy, it has
grown wish them. ard today. with a member
ship - lIo. II represents all the trans Iorta-
GOr lines III the country receiving or issuing
coupon tickets. l. originated the present system
u coupon tickets. and for twenty-five years the
association Published tie only rate sheet used
b. roads in the United States It's first presi-
d.rt WAS the late p. W. Strader Of Cincinnati,
Ono ami lis first vice president was II. {.
Marshall Of Cleveland. The president now is
L. O.-NcCormick of the Cincinnati Hamilton
and DAYTON railroad; vice president, A. s.
Henson of tie Bostot and Albany. and sccre-
tary Col. \. j. smith Of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern.
Although this only sem-annual meet
ine;. TO be III session but one day, there were
repre- entatlves OF roads present from New
lork To Texas. with distinguished and elegant
contingent a. guests from the Me xican railways.
Many OF them were accompanied by their wives
ana daughters. and all in all it was an assem-
blaSe good to look at and be with. The west
erH section came IN from Cincinnati on a Ches-
aPeske and Ohio special, with G.. z. A.. Harry
FULLER at the wheel. and that is enough to say
they were steered against everything that is
lovely and refreshing III railway travel.
After the business meeting i'll the morning
the convention adjourned to the Ny, Z. and n.
steamer New York, with q. p. A. Bob Cooke
III dlreet command. and beautiful sail
put III on nearly all the navigable waters be-
tween the ripraps and the juniper swamps.
some one said: Civilized man cant live
without Cooke, and another remarked that lie
Never had Fuller time in his life on water"
these jokes show that the q. p. A. might have
betu a q. \ p (Great American Parasrapher)
as well II lie had wanted to.
SANDER.
Now for a bit of vile SANDER concerning G. P.
A. S i'll general. but not these in particular: au
coRTGire.
\ couple Of colored men noticing the new
arrivals began commenting.
Vino Gese yer nice loOkin' gemmen round
Eenh: asked Cue-
spec dey railroad gemmen. dey carries dey
haids 30 high. replied the other.
"Mebbe dey Is. but VIVA kind?'
"lieckum dey must be PRESIDENTS was the
next venture; ''dey amt Genul Freight Agents,
Gaze deg gifts drunk. after dey gifts heah: and
dey ain { Gerul Passengah Agents Gaze deg gifts
drunk 10 Gey gifts heah."
OUT OF SEASON.
This is not the season at Old Point, notwith-
standing, like DEATH it claims all seasons for
its own. and there are only about 200 guests
there regularly. with transient contingents
dropping in at off times. but the summer girl
is there and she looks II she enioyed
il. The summer is there also. and when il is
summer at %. p. il is GUNNER all over, like
the little dog which died i'll clover or was
! named Rover or something Of that kind, TO
bynIe with ''died-aIl-oyer."
l think II is the only place / ever was in
where ! may be hereafter is not IN the court
yet-whcre the sun shOnc on all sides of "a house
all Jay long. and Il person had To put up an
umbrella to lind ont what the thermome Ter wae
IL the shade.
And it didn't make him any cooler when he
found ont. either.
uf ,ifrn4te hasn't to a xr;.I Z,