Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-07
BETWEEN OCEAN AND BAY
Well-Known Washingtonians Who Are En-
joying Ocean City.
Marylnnd's One Senshore Resort-
Pleasures Of summer Life
mt Sinepuxent.
Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star

OCEAN CITY, Md, July q. 1897
A goodly contingent of washlngtonians
and Baltimoreans spent the glorious Fourth
here. Though the small boy and the eter-
nal firecracker were somewhat in evidence
the booming of old father ocean on one
side and the sweet strains of the orchestra
at the Atlantic Hotel the other had a
graciously subduing effect on those famil-
lar sounds. which. in our young and pa
trotic days, We loved to create
The cottages stretching from the At
lantic Hotel to the sand dunes at the north
are with few exceptions opened and &C.
cupied. Mr.. Harvey Page is building a
turret on the ocean front of his cottage.
Here one may choose between an ocean
front and bay front. or he may-so mar
row is the peninsula bounded by the ocean
and Sinepuxent bay-have both. Sutton
Lodse-the cottage occupied this year by
Miss Hilton-is made up OF ocean and bay
Views. She is to have as her guests this
summer the Misses Quackenbush. daugh-
tiers of Capt. Quackenbush and Mrs Kuhn
wife Of Capt. Kuhn of the army. DIR. Kerr
has built new cottage here, which he
will occupy in September.
Mrs. Charles Ewing and family are
spending their fifth season in their cottage
here. The late Mr.. Charles Ewing was a
brother OF Mrs. Tecumseh Sherman.
Mr.. Melville Church. with his wife and
eight children, are also occupying a cottage
here for the season.
Senator Blackburn's cottage is rented for
the summer TO Mr.. Walsh of Wilmington,
Del.
The families Of Mr.. Duane Fox and Of
Mr.. Seckendorff both occupying cot
tases here this summer.
Mr. Firman of the Treasury Department
is in his new home by the sea
Major Dawson. chief clerk of the Interior
department, came down Saturday for a
few days rest. Maryland is his native
state, and he feels a natural pride i'm tts
one sea side resort.
Proposed Improvement.
4 magnificent driveway is projected 10
run the length Of the peninsula, " hic n. wn.n
perfected, with its stretch of ocean on one
side and the bay-washed shores of farm
land and forest the other will be :,
work Of ideal beauty that will tend To en-
hance the foreign aspect of Ocean CITY
foreign inasmuch il is unlike any At
lantic seaboard resort on this continent
The late Mr. Sutton. who built sutton
Lodge four years ago. found in the intense
biueness of sky and sea, ard the brilliant
Wilderness of the sand. forcible reminders
or the famous Coronado beach.
Mr. ii. 4. Buriley of the Arlington Hotel
assumed the management OF the Atlantic
Hotel last week.
Hotel Guests.
number of prominent washingtonlans
registered at the Atlantic for the days pre-
ceding and Immediately following the
Fourth. Among them were: Mr.. John III.
Magruder. Mr.. and Mrs. Frankland JAM
nus and Masters Roger and Antony Jannus
Henry F. Getz. John F.. waggaman. Mr.
Samuel waggaman, jr., Miss Mary wagga-
man, Mr.. r. Leding. wife and two chill
dren, Mrs. Chuhb. DIR. c. l.. Anderson
Miss Edith Anderson, DIR. w H Holden
and Mr.. A. +. Childs and wife.
The Chilean minister. Senior Dominguez
Cana, Madam Cana, the Misses Cana and
Mr.. Victor Eastman will spend the summit
at the Plinhimmon.
Tennis Tournament.
In the tennis tournament at the Plinhim.
mon court yesterday Mr.. Blaine Ewing Of
Washington captured the first prize-a
dainty silver tray. Mr.. Henry Dollen was
second and carried off flag as his trophy.
The other players were Messrs. Secken-
dorff, j. NJ. Dennis, j. A Chatard, Charles
b. Brown, Charles i. Bayley OF Troy Poly
tee Unique, Kensith Brown, Reinhardt and
DIR. Townsend.
The annual tennis tournament under the
management of Mr.. Blaine Ewing will
come off later in the season.
The Johns Hopkins University Banjo.
Mandolin and Glee Club give a concert at
the FliHhimmon Casino on the 18th.
The nightly hops at the Atlantic Hotel
Were inaugurated on Saturday night Mrs
Bessie Compton, daughter of Mr.. Barnes
Compton, was conspicuous among the
dancers.
TO the man fond of cunning Ocean City
Is at its best in the fall when ducks. plov-
ers. curlews and the host of water fowl
that have made old Maryland famous are
abundant.