Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
Wednesday, July 17lh, 1895

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After dinner the experienced Wash
i~ugtonian starts on q Still hunt tor Il
place 10 speud & cool, pleasant even
ing. II il is Saturday he has no irCu
BILE in deciding, for he has long ago
come to consider it his duty to attend
the Saturday afternoon Music" as
the free open air concert given by the
Marine Band in Growers trout yard
at the White House, is called. This is
the place to c a representative Wash
ington composed Of all classes and on
ditions of people. Here is the laborer,
with his working clothes on, WHO has
stopp Il a few minutes to hear Wash
ington lost, Washing: n Tim CT
Morton Cadets, by Uncle Sans crack
band Standing right by The side OF
him is a Society Miss, in her sunday
go.to meeting toggery, who just dotes
OF music, O yes, but who hears very
liGllc Of it, she is so interested in talk
lug q G arm off Of her escort, and in
seeing who is with Miss Jones and
Miss Smith, and what acquisitions in
the way OF millinery and dressmaSrrs'
truck The aforesaid Miss j. and Miss S.
have made since she saw them last.
a little further along we run across
the rycr-prcScnt dndc, with his point
ed tins, his immaculate white duck
trousers, turned up about about six in
ChcS. his white belt, with silver or
gold plated buckle. his ncgliscc shit
and white flannel coat, his high crown
cd straw hat, with its r:ngrd, streaked
and striped band, and his hair parted
right square in ,he nidd!e, and the
space uader it just about as vacant as
his upper lip, where he imagincs he
has II mousinchc.
II it should happen to he some
evening besides Saturday, the Wash.
ingtonian has 4 thousand and one
places, almost, from which to choose.
The most popnar resorts are perhaps
River View and Marshall Hall, twelve
and eighteen miles respectively down
the Potomac River fare TWENTY-FIVE
cents the round trip. Steamers leave
the wharf al ,hc foot of 1th. St, for
these places and other river resorts
every attcrnood about 6 O'CLOCK. Say
we have decided to spend the evening
at Marshall Hall. We take the Palace
Steamer, Chas, Macallisler, or the
RiTer Queen, or one of the others
which make the trip daily, Shortly
alter leaving the wharf we pass, on
the LETT bank, the Arsenal, m Arm,
Post, where is stationed three Com
panies OF Uuiicd States Regulars, and
II VIC left our wharf on time, we hcal
the sunset gun, and see the Pos, Flag
hauled down, We next pass, on the
other bank, Alexandria, Virginia. ono
of the oldest towns in this section Of
the country. In this place is Christ
Church, where the hero of the halchc,
attended services. and in this same
church our own ltobt. f. Lee had Il
pew.
just across the river from Alexau-
dria is the wharf OF The Railway Ferry,
where they run n whole train of cars,
engine and all, onto a boat. an ferry
il across the river.
Still further down we pass River
View, consisting of a lunch stand
where they dispencc chalk ice cream,
red lemonade. and suugin rubber
sandwiches II dance lall, a flying
jimmy, II bowling alley, IL billiard hall
ii gravity railway etc.
JUS across the river is Mt. Vernon
the home and tomb Of Washington.
Finally We reach Marshall Hall, 81
called because ii WAS once The home o
a MIR. Marshall, who was q great irien,
o the Washington family. |, is sal,
that George spent a great deal of hi.
time at Marshall Hall The house an,
Sard have been kept in their origina
state, but the surrounding ground
have been converted ITO a larger edi
lion Of River View.
1t is said that Washington one,
threw a silver dollar gross the Poto
mac River AT This point. As the roro
mac is fully hall a mile wide at thi
point, this story is taken with sewers
grains of salt BY visitors. Naive
will tell you however, aud iell 20
with Il straight face, that it is tru-
and offer in explanation The we.
fact thst a dollar would go further /
those days than it will now.
We can spend Il very pleasant hou
here watching the efforts ot the visito
10 consider themselves amused. b,
nevertheless when our boat wlistlct
We so willingly i; At least ! did. for
was II total stranger in the larg
crowd.
On the way back everyone is tire
and sleepy, aud when we get in TO o.,
wharf at about 1880 or II D. m., "
are glad VIC went, and glad we ha,
gotten back, for now we can 20 hon
and enjoy n nights sleep, as we ha,
cooled off, and feell IN Tie humor +,
sleeping.
With kind regards,
II. l.. j. Is,