Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-23
EXCURSIONS.

Marshall Hall and Indian Head will be the
objective points of pleasure seekers on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings
this week. Dancing is as popular as ever
at Marshall Hall, where the steamer stops
both going and coming from Indian Head.
Prof. Schroeder's band and orchestra
plays sweet concert music on the down trip
and all the popular dance music at the Hall
The steamer Charles Manchester will leave
7th street wharf at $50 pm. In addi-
ton day trips made to Marshall Hall at
10 am. and 2:30 pm. Parties spending the
day al the Hall may avail themselves OF the
Indian Head trip without extra cost.
A visit to Chevy Chase Lake always
means evening Of comfort and enjoy
ment. Paramount among the attractions are
the evening concerts by the Marine Band Or
chestra. New programs rendered each
evening. The band adjourns to the pavil-
ion at the conclusion of the concert, furnish
ing the dance music. Sundays there is no
dancing, but the band devotes the entire
evening to the concert. For those who seek
other forms of diversion there are bowling
alleys, shooting galleries and an amusement
theater, where all the newest motion pic
lures are presented. Cars run regularly and
frequently day and evening.
How to pass Labor day is q question
which the special excursion scheduled by
the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat
Company will answer very enjoyably. This
outing Is a trip by daylight down the Po-
tomac and Chesapeake bay to Old Point
Comfort and Norfolk. The palatial steamer
Newport News will be used, leaving the city
at am. Sunday, September 3. arriving at
Norfolk at pm. the same day. For the
sail homeward the steamer will leave Nor
folk $50 pm. Monday, September 4, reach
ing home Tuesday morning at an early
hour. This arrangement will permit passen-
gers to pass an entire night and day at any
of the famous resorts about Norfolk one
may elect. Preparations have been made to
allow passengers, who SO desire, to pass the
night Of the third aboard the steamer. A
ma terially reduced rate has been made for
this trip. The Saturday evening special rate
excursions of this company, tickets good to
return Sunday evening. continue to increase
in popularity as the season advances.
Because Of the Lewis and Clark fair at
Portland the various railways west are Of
fering special rate tickets to Pacific coast
points, which enables one to make the trip
much cheaper than usual. Reduced rate
round trip tickets and also special monthly
tickets permitting stopOver at the most in
teresting places in California are available
via the Southern and Southern Pacific COM
panies. choice of return routes is also
afforded. All of these tickets are good for
transportation on the specially equipped ex-
cursion sleeper trains operated via these
routes. These excursion sleepers provide all
the comforts of regular Pullmans, and by
many are considered superior in point Of
comfort, for they upholstered in rattan,
which Is cooler and more cleanly than cloth.
The route is through the Land OF the Sky
Lookout Mountain and Memphis. The office
of the general agent, A. ]. Poston, is locat-
ed at Oil Pennsylvania avenue. Informal ton
may also be obtained at the office. 7O5 10Th
street