Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-05
LIFE AT OCEAN CITY
The Fascination of the Sea as q Com
panion.
A Change I'm Railroad Management
and the Probable Eneet-Some of
the Visitors From Washington.
Correspondence Of The Evening Star.


Washington people know a good deal Of
various seaside resorts, but comparatively
little of this place. They have an idea that
where they cannot tell. Yet the trip here is
much shorter in point of time than the
Usual route Of transit to Old Point or
Virginia Beach. AMI while perhaps it is an
hour longer than is required to go to Cape
May or Atlantic City. it involves less Of
heat and discomfort. There is an hour by
rail to Baltimore, a change then to the
steamboat. Then you have three hours on
the bay, which is both restful and refresh
ing; next landing at Clayborne. on the
eastern shore Of Maryland, and a ride of
three hours for the eighty-seven miles to
Ocean City. This part of the journey is apt
to be warm. but is not warmer than the
Usual summer journey to northern watering
places. On the whole the trip now requires
about seven hours. but my invariabie ex-
perience is that the traveller arrives free
from fatigue and comparatively fresh.
There is a fair prospect of an improve
ment in the facilities for reaching here both
for the Baltimore and Washington travelling
public. The Eastern Shore railroad running
from Claybcrne to Ocean City was sold the
ether day to a number of capitalists control
ling the bonds of the road. Among those
of the new board of directors 1 notice
the names of John z. Searles Brayton Ives
William F. Havemeyer, c. F. Pomeroy,
Winthrop NJ, futile of New York. Enoch
Pratt. NJ. p. Bond and j. Upshur Dennis of
Baltimore, Henry p. Thompson. Willard
Thompson of Wilmington, Delaware; Thos.
Y: smith of Washington. c. 8. Tyson of
Philadelphia and ]. s. Refer of Portland,
Maine. The new company will be known as
the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic
Transportation Company. 1t is pleasantly
announced in the press that the new COM
bination has gobbied up the Maryland
Steamboat Company. the Choptank Steam
beat and the Eastern Shore Steamboat
Companies. and that they will then possess
almost monopoly of the lines of communi-
ton connecting Baltimore and the eastern
shore OF Maryland and Virginia.
Advantages of the seashorc.
Searles is a man Of business, and he and
his crowd will probably have the wit to see
that improved methods and quicker time
are called for just now, and they may also
arrange some device by which a trunk can
be carried from the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road In Baltimore to the steamer in fifteen
or twenty minutes.
The taste of the American public runs to
the seaside more and more every year
There Is less danger of taking cold than
at the mountain resorts. The sea bathing
If INDUCED in moderation will work won
ders on the invalid. The sea air Is the
greatest and safest alternative that one can
take, better than the mineral springs water
In nine cases of ton and more permanent
in its benefits. As to interest where will
You ind more interesting companion
than the sea- His gestures and conyerya-
ton vary from hour to hour, and you can
spend whole afternoon watching his
Changes OF expression. The suggestions of
vastnssS and immensely, the broad view
bounded only by the horizon, the passing
ships. the joy of the bath, the mystic
gloom OF the night on the waterfall go to
make the hours slip by unnoted and I'M
market. But for the meal times We should
rardly notice the time of day.
Visitors From Washington.
There are five or six hotels and boarding
houses here, and Ocean City has grown a
good deal since 1 saw 1t a dozen years ago.
There are number of cottages. Senator's
Blackburn and Squire have pleasant cot
tages. There is no reason why Ocean City
should not be winter resort as well as
Atlantic City or Old Point. The climate Is
tempered by the gulf stream, which runs
near by. believe one hotel keeps open all
the year.
The company is a pleasant one. They
are mainly from Baltimore Delaware anI
the eastern shore of Maryland.
Among the visitors this year from Wash
irgton are the following: Secretary Hoke
smith and family. Senator James X. Jones
ana family, Senator Kyle and family, Sena-
tor Blackburn, John F. Waggaman and
family, W. F. Holtzman and wife. d. 2.
Fox and family. F. j. Withheld and family,
Sam. Cross and family. Lieut.. Beehler,
United States navy and family: j. ID. Yeo-
mans and family. Thos j. Brown and wife
J. II. King and Wife G. w. Chapman and
WIFE, Mrs J: p. Chapman. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harris, A. T. Gibbons and wife. David g.
barry and family and others. L. Q. w.