Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-14
ARRIVALS AT OCEAN CITY
Everybody Turns Out to Give Them Wei
come.
Well-KnOwn Washington People ut
Big Catch of Fish.



OCEAN CITY. Nd, July II, 1897.
The arrivals at Ocean City who come in
on the night train are sure of royal well
come. Cottagers and hotel guests turn out
in a body to greet them, while the electric
lights shine on deserted ocean walk and
the orchestra at the Atlantic, though 1t
plays its most inspiring waltz or liveliest
two-step calls forth no terpsichorean dew
otee. At the station, however, there is all
the hustle and excitement peculiar to SO
thrilling an event as the incoming of one
of its Two daily trains at summer resort.
Saturday nights, when there are two trains,
and both comparatively early ones, and an
influx OF fathers, sons, husbands and mis-
cellaneous young men VINO belong to no
one IN particular and every one in general,
the pieasurabie excitement reaches d eli
max.
Among the Washingt onians who arrived
Saturday night at the Atlantic Hotel were
DIR. l.. q. Bryant, c. W. Halcomb. w. e.
keegin, Dr.. and Mrs. l. 5. stone and son,
Eiphonzo Iounss, MI. and Mrs. Amos w.
Hart. MIR. ana Mrs John +. Waggaman,
Messrs Fl. E. Waggaman and Floyd p.
WaSgaman, Master Ennalls Waggaman,
Miss Daisy c. DoaEe, +. +. Lloyd, Mr., A.
F.. Childs, Miss Clara Ross, Mrs Thos
Sunderland and Miss Jesse Sunderland.
Miss DAISY Doane is from Omaha and
comes to Ocean City as Mrs. w aggaman S
guest, while Mir. f. +. Lloyd comes from
Philadelphia as the guest of Mr. H. E.
Waggaman.
MIR. Amos W. Hart IS q devotee Of the rod
anu comes to Ocean City on account of its
fame among fishermen. '~' 'rr
MIR. Allen r. Benjamin of Salisbury, son
of the manager OF the Baltimore, Chesa-
peake and Atlantic railroad, and who is
also at the Atlantic, caught 4UU pounds of
blue fish with his hook and Line one day
last week.
of he
service mas selected his stopping place
Mount Pheasant cottage, which joins the
Hve-SaVing station here.
Among the other guests at Mount Pleas
ant cottage are Prof. Paul Finckel. Mr.
and Mrs. X. H. Storer. Mrs. and Miss Craft,
DIR. and Mrs. Hess Miss F'lanavhan, Mr..
Eugene Merriliat and Alr and Mrs. Edgar
c. Campbell, all of Washington.
Mrs. Gibbons and Mr.. Bailey of Washing
ton, Mrs. Geo. Bolts of carlton. Md, and
Miss Margaret V. Bolts of Philadelphia
are at the Ocean Swell.
The Colonial is being largely remodeled
and VIII open on the 18th.
Maryland Pharmaceu ticaI Association
The fifteenth annual meeting of the Mary
land Pharmaceutical Association will take
place at the Plinhimmon this week. The
convention, which will last three days, will
be opened at o'clock Wednesday ev ening
with an address of welcome by Mayor Geo.
NJ. Cpshur OF Ocean City. Mr.. John c.
Muth of Baltimore will make the response.
Mr. II. p. Gilpin president of the asso-
citation, will then receive the delegates
and Ocean City visitors in general. and the
evening will wind up in a dance
There were hops Saturday night at both
the Atlantic and Plinhimmon Hotels, in
which those who are among the nightly
dancers shared the hours with many who
came on the evening trains.
AT the Plinhimmon the Misses Ewing of
Washington. Miss Wilson of Snow HILL
Nd. Miss Foreman of Texas and Miss Do
rothy Fox of Washington were among the
pr ointment bellies. AT the Atlantic, where the
music is unusually fine this year, there is a
marked tendency to enjoy it from the
porches.
The bishop of Wilmington has arranged
to have services in the Catholic Church
every Sunday throughout the season.
During the bathing hour yesterday the
attention of the spectators was attracted
by school of porpoises about 500 feet off
shore. '''..'''