The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-19
SUBURBAN AND BAYsIDE.
The Attractions of Avalon Heights and
MISUNDERSTANDING.

Said Mr.. David D. Stone. the real estate
broker: ''The majority of the demands we
have had this season for city property have
been houses of the middle class. The sales of
these have been excellent. The sale of
suburban property has also been good, and we
have disposed of all but ten of the lots in the
subdivision of Avalon Heights. This is one Of
the most beautiful suburbs of the city, and is
only seven minutes ride by express from the
Baltimore and Ohio Depot, and three miles dis
tant and nearer the Capitol, the Pension Office,
the Patent Office, the Post Office Department
Building, and the Government Printing Office,
both in time and distance, than the centre of
Georgetown, or any of the northwestern por-
tions OF the city beyond Boundary street. 1t is
on the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad where Twenty-seventh, Twenty
eighth, and Twenty-ninth streets east intersect
Buffalo, Cincinnati, and Emporium streets
north, and where the proposed Baltimore and
Washington Boulevard (now Washington and
Bladensburg Pike intersects New York ave-
nue. extended. at one corner of this suburb is
Mills Station b. and O., where eighteen trains
stop daily, and the fare to Washington by
communication tickets, is only four cents. At
the opposite corner the herdics are now run
ming upon the pike to and from Washington
gas-main is now laid and supplied with gas
from the city, Streets are opened, graded,
trees planted and sidewalks laid, all in con-
formity with the plan of the City of Washing
ton
"Many will build this spring, and some very
handsome residences will no doubt be
erected. Arundel-on-the-B Bay is also proving a
great success, and lots there are being
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city, and from the desirability of it's location
promises to be as beautiful and thriving a
resort as may be found on the Chesapeake.
''The city is situated on a high bluff, with
the waves of the bay dashing against its base,
with beautiful undulating plain back from
the bay in the rear. The other two sides are
almost surrounded by the waters of Fishing
Cove and Oyster Bay Arundel-on-the-B Bay
forms a peninsula, and commands from it's
elevation varied and beautiful views of the
bay and surrounding country. Heavily wooded
down to the very verge of the the bluff with
tall oaks, chestnuts, hickories, hollies, naples
pines, and cedars, it presents that rare combi-
nation, shade and beach, seldom to be found
at any seaside resort.
'"Three-quarters of a mile to the north of
Arundel-on-the-Bay is Bay Ridge, the 'Coney
Island of the South with its myriad at
fractions, and reached by short drive in the
company's wagonettes over beautiful shell
road, famed by the breezes of the bay; or, for
those who prefer it, by short sail in the
company's jaunty little steam yach Arundel
'From Bay Ridge Washington can be
reached by rail in from one to one and a half
hours and Baltimore in one hour. Baltimore
is also reached by several daily steamers after
delightful sale of thirty miles. About four
miles north of Bay Ridge lies Annapolis,
which can be reached from Arundel-on-the-
Bay either by rail or drive over fine shell
road skirting Chesapeake Bay and the Severn,
or In the steam yacht Arundel
marketing can be procured here or at Bal
timore or Washington, according to the wishes
of the cottager Some very fine woods centre
here and afford delightful drives past verdant
farms and through deep, shady woods. Then
to the south of Arundel is Fishing Cove cele-
brated for its oysters and terrapin, as well as
ducks in the game season.
''The Cove affords a welcome harbor to the
fishermen of the Chesapeake when overtaken
by storms, and, being landlocked is at all
times perfectly safe place for rowing and
sailing for the rising generation. A long
beach of firm white sand on the bay front,
gradually sloping outward, affords absolutely
safe saltwater bathing. Across Fishing Cove
Is Thomas's Point Island, containing seventy
acres of primeval forest, owned by our com
pany, affording one of the finest picnic grounds
imaginable for the use of the cottagers On
its western extremity is the picturesque old
Thomas's Point lighthouse, now abandoned
by the Government. South River, here five or
six miles wide, on the south side of the island,
is famous fishing ground, and has long been
noted as a ducking shore.
'The company expects to erect modern
inn, costly and elegant in all its appointments,
with handsome and spacious grounds; a club
house, with pavilion, bowling alleys, boat
houses, and landing whaWes for the cottagers
use, and altogether, it will be the model re-
sort of the Chesapeake.
"Many cottages have already been erected,
costing from $500 to $1,000, and many more
are now being or shortly will be pur upn
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There has never been any beer in town to
equal Ballantine's Pale Extra Beer Bottled
by f. h. Finley d Son, 1906 D street north
west.