Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-20

Held In the neighborhood Of Kinsale and
f fought duel ,,, They shot all the corn of
the fodder with their swords. but neither
one was seriously hurt and the girl mar
rleo the private secretary, much to the dis
gust OF her papa and the pirate. And they
lived happy ever after.
inat isn't exactly the way the captain
told the story, but it is near enough, and
adds sentimental interest to the entire
Yeocomtco region.
We sailed from Kinsale about noon and
made straight down the shore for Coan's
river, up which we bored our way until
the stream was so narrow that the boat
couldn't turn around between Coan's and
Bundick's wharves.
Shopping for the Ladies.
BY this time we had picked up more chick
ems and ducks and calves and lambs and
tobacco and truck and the first new wheat,
ana whole deckload of stuff not to men
tlon forty shopping orders, intrusted to the
captain by the ladies along shore for him
10 attend to in Baltimore and all of which
NE does as If he loved to match dress goods
and pick out spring hats and fluffy shirt
waists.
From Coan's we headed straight for the
MA s shore once more, leaving here
the hnest river view Of all, with the pink
TOOLS ana white and gray houses at Lew
1ssetta, and over the Coan to Walnut
rolht rising, Venice like. from the waves,
SCI IN the green Of the trees and the grass
and the sea.
into the st: Mary's now, and up to st.
nnlgo and to st. Mary's City, a city, by the
monument The monument bears this in
sGrlptlon, which explains what 1t is:
ERECTED on the site Of the old mulberry
, s under which the first colonists of
ment, where the prosecuted and impressed
VI every creed and of every cline, might
Iepose IN peace and security and adore
t .nelr common God and enjoy the priceless
oieSslng or civil and religious liberty"
This was in 1888, and St. Mary's was
founded In 1884, March 81 The monument
- also In memory of Leonard Calvert. sec
ana a son or Lord Baltimore and of his wife
nrst governor of Maryland. but not under
the constitution of the United Sta tes In
view OF the fact that he died considerably
more tnan century before the revolution.
Wasbinoy. neary century before George
Mashlngton was born. Thinking of these
.hlngs' 1t makes one feel as If he had wan
ueIeo IN among the ruins of Karnak or
tir unens o. or Rome or some of those old
graveyard at St. Mary's.
ne church Is built Of brick from the old
sac mousse which stood near its site 40
o eus ago ana some of the wood in the dec
old n,,I1h VI .he chancel are made from that
Gu mulberry tree. The other building In
81. Mary's City Is a f1fty-year-old hrick
occupied by st. Mary's Female Seminar,,
an institution partly maintained by the
GoinE Around to Get There
Another landing or two and as tho sur
Is getting lower in the western skv wo
'cuch at our last wharf, Bacon's In tho
other Gays this was known as Portobello
peautl1ul gate, which, to say the least ia
more euphon1ous than Bacon's wharf The
great OLD house on the hill above the land
iiis was built by one Mr.. Hebbs one hun
r ra anu hrty years ago, and it is in good
repair yet AS stood looking out at several
caves and a lot of lambs that were com
ING aboard, young fellow from Leonard
teWn informed me that when Leonardtown
drove u don, want to ride all day they
utote gown to Bacon's and took the
GOAT The information was in the nature
OF surprise for it seemed to me that 7
nad traTeled thousand miles since 1 had
walked the quiet streets of Ieonardton,n
ana would not believe him. bur he en,r
ailteed tfat it was only about sixteen miles
acIoss the country, and could be driven
easily alter dinner (noon)
IL is this in-and-outness this everla sting
soins ana never getting any place thar
makes this trip on the Potomac one OF the
m interesting that can be taken. One
IS out only day, but it has the effect of a
Whole week. for the wide river the snresd
ing expanse of sea. the changing of scene
1T the estuaries, the little strolls along the
wharves and the invigora ton of tho saIt
ar makes the traveller take no note of
Tune ana he seems to be af1oat on wings
OF idleness in a CLINE of sweet do-nothinr
ana everlasting peace, where the days are
as thousand years and distance Zoos on
forever-or words to that effect Really
day on the lower Potomac has the
oldest effect on the amateur in such travel
. .hat can De ma ined I've swung around
the base Of Vesuvius on the blue Mediter-
rarean and have lisped the sweet measnres
of the lutte on Como's moon-kissed waves
cut they weren't in it minute with the
demand Tor VOiceless Live Stock,
Didn't I say something about calves and
lambs? Wen, they are products of the
lower Potomac. and they have to be ship
PED to market. Now, If those stock rails
ers down there will improve their stock 50
that they can raise voiceless calves, the
&C mforts Of night travel on the Potomac
will be greatly enlarged
But this is a mere detail As the sun no.
gan to sink in the purple sky we nrlIa5
away from Bacon-Portobello and turned
our nose toward the mouth Of the river, In
sight Of which we had been nearly all day
and which showed like water color with
Its low lines of trees and shore rea -hinp
southwark from Point Lookout and north
ward from Smiths Point
Then we plunged boldly into the tn,,
bling waves Of the Chesapeake bay and
with no more landings until we reached
Baltimore, we slept to the music of the
spioSHhS waves anu the lremulOuS beat
ings Of the engines.
Incidentally I may have heard a calf
bawl during the night, but Capt Geoghe-
gan assured me that it was only the way
those calves have Of singing their lullabies
and that old travellers can't sleep without
them.
Tuesday morning-and fifty-fve minutes
later l was In Washington, whence had
started thirty-six hours previously, and
not gone over a foot Of the same territory
twice 1t is 1852 miles to the mouth of the
Potomac from Washington, thence ninety
up the bay to Baltimore. The way we
went we added hundred miles by taking
to the woods whenever we saw the mouth
OF an estuary. Still, we missed any number
of them, and to do them all would take a |
month of steady going.
Delightful Outing.
Nor is down the Potomac the onlv trim |
of this kind that may be taken out of
Washington by those who have neither |
time nor money for long journeys. Another
one is to take the train for Fredericks- |
burg In the morning, spend the day there |
till the boat leaves in the afternoon, and |
then spend the night and all next day do |
ing the ms and outs of the Kappa hammock, |
with the ride up the bay to Baltimore the |
next night. Another, and this for the hi |
cycler especially, Is to wheel over to MARI |
boro' in the afternoon, q distance of six !
teen miles, thence two or three miles to |