Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-28
FENWICK ISLAND
An Interesting Description by Visitor Il
the Place.

An Interesting Description by Visitor TO
the Place.
Communicated.
NV husband becoming interested in
Fenwick Island Cunning Club, l have
been employed by that company to
paint views of the most interesting
features of tho island; TO give the
public a chance of seeing it, before
visiting it. Views of the ocean front
and also of the Bayside, which Is
Joined TO the mainland by county
bridge, forming picturesque and
beautiful scene. A party of purchasers
was formed about the third week of
April, and happily fell upon an ideal
day 10 journey IN. On our arrival IN
Frankford we we're piloted by our
pleasant guide and travelling COM
panion, b. Frank Wagoman, to the
hotel and refreshed the inner man by
q splendidly arranged repast, TO which
we did full Justice.
Then awaited US a country drive to
the island, for which we we're more
than amply repaid by the sight of old
Atlantic's beauty and grandeur and
the cool salt air.
My trip extended into a visit Of 90
days during which / had a splendid
chance of noting the facilities of the
place for improvement and its advant-
ages as a watering resort for which it
has opportunities uneXcelled, barring
none, rs soon as the Mon-o-rail Trolley
road is in operation from Ocean City,
Md, up TO the island, a distance of s
miles. for which the rails are ready to
be laid and expectations are that 1t
will be in service by the lst of July.
This is a splendid chance for not
only the wealthy, but the middle class
to procure land and the comforts of a
summer at the shore, for but little
outlay. / remained the first night at
the Lighthouse, with Captain Ben
nett and his wife, who together de-
light TO do honor to all Fenwick
guests and make them feel at home.
Here the stranger loses his sense Of
loneliness and feels that he belongs to
them at once. The following day
repaired to the Fenwick Club House,
where l found the president of the
company, G. Frank Taylor, son
and daughter, who carried out the
spirit of good will toward strangers,
which seems even to breathe in the
| found to be a kindly gentleman, and
WV AiHhN AAoh III NAAN AithN lAaNNs
One day will not suffice to show the
beauties of this place, each day creates
its own. In the morning and evening
the wild ducks and geese flew over by
the hundreds. The forests were put
ting on their pretty new spring suits
forests of pine and OF oak, wild crab
apple trees were in blossom and inter-
spersed among them.
Some days the ocean was calm and
beautiful, showing against its blue
background white clothed sailing ves-
sells, others it roared like an angry
demon, and again, it even seemed 10
think it must take a part in enter
tanning the guests and natives along
the shore and for two days generously
washed up live fish called finch, a
species of trout, quite large, at least 10
inches long. This is a fish story, but
unlike most Of them this is true, be-
cause l saw them and ate them.
Such a place as this must find an
echo in the heart of every lover of
both nature and sport
/ was cautioned regarding the drink
ing water and advised before | went
there, TO take a bottle of water with
me. This found useless, for, while
the artistic, old-fashioned we'll sweep
is still in existence, today they have
drive wells and the water is clear and
pure.
According to DIR. Jewett Of Baltimore.