Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-08-23
PICTURESQUE OLD POINT.
Visited And Enjoyed By An An
napoIis Touring Party
Recently.
SIGHTS AND SCENES OF GREAT
INTEREST.
Delightful Service At Hotel Cham
berlin-Townspeople Are
Much Pleased.


| recreation to the busy man and woman,
engaged in the affairs of everyday
life, than the trip to Old Point Com
fort, Va, via the Chesapeake Line
| The party who took the trip from An.
apolis has returned and the consensus
of opinion is that IL was a most de-
lightful and thoroughly enjoyable
affair.
Through the interest of Mr.. I. II.
Mcdaniel, the assistant general pas
senger agent of the Chesapeake Com.
pany, Baltimore, the Annapolis party
| was afforded the privilege of taking
personally conducted tour at most
reasonable cost, and throughout the
| trip Mr. Mcdaniel proved himself
fully competent and capable of hand
ling such tourists party, seeing per-
sonally to the comfort and welfare of
all and managing the affair without
the slightest hitch or friction.
Twenty five adults and one child
left here on Saturday afternoon via
/ the Short Line Railroad for Balti-
more, where they were joined by three
others of the party who had preceded
| them on earlier trains. At Camden
Station they were met by the mana
ger of the tourist party, and large
buses were ready to convey them to
| the steamers pier which was reached
few minutes before time scheduled
for leaving. 1t took but a brief in
terval to assign the party staterooms,
the list of names having been pre-
viously forwarded. This being COM
pleted, dinner was served in the din.
| ing saloon on the handsome and COM
modious steamer Augusta. The meals
on the Chesapeake Line steamers are
| famous and the menu cannot fail to
| please the most exacting epicure. Too
much cannot be said Of the service of
the steamer employees. The walters
serve with ease and dispatch, the
steamers porters are willing and
obliging and the stewardess and her
corps of assistants are courteous and
polite in their attention to the ladies
and children.
The itinerary mapped out for the
Annapolis party was carefully arranged
and the weather during the entire
trip was ideal. EARLY Sunday morning
the steamer Augusta arrived at Old
Point Comfort, one of the most de-
lightful resorts on the Atlantic Coast
and ideal as to climatic conditions,
scenic attractions and historic associa-
tion The party was conducted to
Hotel Chamberlin within a stones s
| throw of the pier. The hotel is beau
tifully situated and handsomely
equipped, and has every modern con-
venience for comfort and entertain
ment. The service at Hotel Cham
berlin is excellent and the cuisine is
all that can be desired. Manager
George +. Adams is man of exper-
ience in the hotel business and his
efforts to conduct this large establish
ment are attended with the greatest
success. Mr.. A dams has about his
charming hostelry an able corps OF
helpers and business managers. His
day clerks and night clerks are cour-
teous, and willing at all times to-
give any information. They are pop
ular with the guests who como from
all over the country and never fail to
| take away with them pleasant memo
ries of Hotel Chamberlin.
Sunday was a perfect day. Cool
breezes tempered the rays of the Au-
gust sun and made the day an ideal
one for sightseeing. The party divided
itself and went in different directions
to take in the sights, some choosing
Ocean View, Willoughby Beach and
Sewell's Point, others Norfolk, New.
DOIb NUNS Auu v II k1AAd t3CAOAls WAl1AC
others preferred historic Fort Monroe,
Hampton and the Soldiers Home.
Old Piont is contiguous to many places
of interest to the tourist and within
easy reach of them all. The Cham
berlin Hotel has an automobile touring
car for ssseeing the peninsular. The
guide accompanying the tourists knows
his business and is one of the few
guides whom if you interrupt in his
story, does not "get off the track and
forget where to take the story MP
again. He has learned it thoroughly
and il pleases him to tell it. 1t is
with pride that he directs the atten-
tion of the visitor to the old fence
lust below the hotel esplanade that
attracts the curious sight-seer. This
fence is constructed of gun barrels
and bayonets from the Petersburg aud
Richmond battlefelds. They were
sent to the arsenal at Fort Monroe TO
be cleaned and fittedsfor use. but just
at this time the war closed and they
were utilized for the fence.
Old Point has handsome and well
equipped Army Young Mems Chris
tian Association building, which was
presented TO the enlisted men at For
tress Monroe by Miss Helen Gould as
q memorial to her father. It is Of
colonial style of architecture and the
Annapolis party exclaimed they hoped
soon to see such q " NJ. O. A. here.
The guide pointed out the sights OF
Fortress Monroe. the largest fortifica-
ton of the United States 1t is of
hexagonal shape. three sides being
built on the water and three upon the
land The ramparfs are 50 feet high
and the walls 80 feet thick. The moat
that surrounds it is feet deep. It is
said to be a most impregnabie fort.
The garrison at the fort now num-
hers 500 enlisted men and 20 officers.
All along the route OF the automo
bile sightseeing trip are places OF
interest TO the tourist not the least Of
which is Easement No. 2, the room
occupied BY jefferson Davis when he
was q prisoner at the close of the Civil
War. One of the Annapolis party is a
veteran of the Civil War and BY a
strange coincidence he was taken TO
the fort a prisoner just Al years 70 the
day he was q tourist sightseeing at
this point, having been captured An
gust IS, 1864. TO this gentleman the
trip was of peculiar interest and re-
called flood of "reminiscences.
Along the route a collection Of old