Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
THE CAPE MAY TRIP.
Three Narrow Escapes From Drown
ing During Sunday.

ing During SUNNY.
1t is a nice thing at any time to be the
guest when the Pennsylvania railroad is
the host, but 1t is particularly delightful
upon the occasion of the annual excursion
to Cape May rendered by the road to the
newspaper men of Washington, Baltimore,
Wilmington and Philadelphia.
Last Friday morning at $50 o'clock a
special train of vestibuled cars rolled out of
the 9Th street station with load of Wash
ington newspaper men, with their wives or
sisters, bound upon the annual Cape May
trip. The party was in charge of Mr.. Colin
Studds. the District passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania railroad, who went through
the cars soon after starting to welcome the
guests Mr.. George w. Boyd, the assistant
general passenger agent, was also along,
having come down from Philadelphia the
day before with Mrs. Boyd in his private
car to take a party of friends upon the
trip.
At Baltimore another contingent of news
paper men and their wives Joined the
party. with further reinforcements at Will
mington ard the addition of several car
loads at Philadelphia. The latter city was
reached soon after noon, and the eXcur-
sionists disembarked to take lunch in the
Broad street station. Two long tables
stretching the length of the dining ROOM
were spread, tastefully decorated with
flowers, and dainty and appetizing lunch
con was served.
Mr. Barksdale who is Mr. Boyd's chief of
staff in the literary department of the pas
senger service, joined the train at Phila-
delphia and made things pleasant for the
boys on the rest of the trip. The run to
Cape May was made in good time and with
out incident, and shortly before o'clock
the excursionists We're driven to the doors
of the famous old Stockton Hotel, within
sight and sound of the surf.
From Friday afternoon until Monday
morning the visitors owned Cape May.
presented
with a white enameled button or pin bear
ing the magic letters ''P. r. r. This was
the open sesame to all kinds of delights.
1t would open almost anything-a bottle of
yellow label. the surf bath houses, the
yachts in the inlet, the trolley cars. In
fact, it was a regular case of wide open"
The entire hotel was placed at the disposal
of the visitors, and every one was COM
fortably roomed
Last Saturday night hop was given the
visitors in the big ball room of the hotel,
which was a brilliant affair, many beautiful
costumes being exhibited, and Sunday night
sacred concert was given. After several
selections by the orchestra, under the lead
ership of Prof Morgan, Miss Marian john
son of Washington played a De Beriot Sc
lection on the violin, with the intermezzo
from "Cavalleria Rusticana" as an encore
Miss Mary Helen Howe sang the aria from
Trovatore," with Il Dreamt I Dwell in
Marble Halls" as an encore and a waltz
song by Murio-Celli as a second encore
The closing number on the program was
Mendelssohn's wedding march, which was
played by the orchestra in compliment to
the two brides of the party, who were also
the hostesses of the company, Mrs. George
w. Boyd and Mrs. Colin Studs. An in
formal musicale followed, at which Mrs
Hooe, daughter of the late Gov. Dingley of
Maine, sang several ballads.
The usual program was varied Sunday
morning by a couple of incidents not sched-
g,ed, However, as ii is the duty of news
paper men to be prepared for the unexpect-
ed, they were promptly met and handled.
1t was during the morning bathing hour
when the tide was on the ebb and strong
undertow running. Miss Sailie Thompson,
sister of Howard n. Thompson, furnished
a portion of the excitement. She was
swimming on the edge of the deep water
when she was caught by the undertow and
swept into danger.
Her plight was observed by Mr. Raymond
Patterson, correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune, who was near by, and he imme-
diafely SWAN TO her assistance. The young
lady remained very cool in the presence Of
peril and grasped the outstretched hand
without attempting TO hamper her rescuer
Mr.. Patterson took care OF his fair burden
Until other basthers formed a line and as
sisted both into ehaiiow water. Miss