Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-24
AT COLONIAL BEACH
wAsHINGToNIANs PREPARING
TO PASS HOT SEASON THERE.

| Colonial Beach. the pretty summer resort
| located on the Potomac. In Westmorelaud
county. Va. about siNty-eight miles be-
low this city. has been aptIy called the At
| la5itic City OF Washington 1t is receiv-
| ing visitors by the hundreds from this city,
| saturday nights and Sundays. to remain
| until Sunday evening. Next month they
| VIII go back to the resort To spend week
or two. and the trips being made now are
| for the purpose OF securing the cottages or
boarding houses they fancy for stopping
place when they go on their vacation. The
steamer St Johns on each trip carries sew
eral hundred persons 10 the Beach.
The number going down to the Beach
these days will increase each week until
the regular daily excursion season opens
with the trips July and July 4, when the
season at the resort can be said to be in
full swing. These Saturday afternoon and
Sunday morning trips will be made through
out the remainder of the month, the regu-
lar schedule of the summer going into euect
when the daily trips begin.
st. Johns of Large Capacity.
The big steamer St Johns. which Capt. f.
S. Randall brought from New York to run
Colonial Beach excursions. is the largest
sidewheel steamer ever on the Potomac. and
is also one OF the fastest She can easily
run to and from the Beach in about four
hours. Leaving here at S45 o'clock In the
morning, she will land her passengers at
Colonial Beach about o'clock. Returning.
she viii leave the Beach at p. m. and
about 10 !, m. she will be landing her pas
sengers the wharf here. This VIII be the
best service that has ever been given to the
Beach. and service that cannot fail to
please.
The big hotel operated by the Washington
and Potomac Steamboat Company the new
corporation that has acquired the Randall
interests on the river and at the Beach, has
been thoroughly overhau!ed and put in or
der for the coming summer. 1t will be again
this year under the management of Mr..
John Stewart. and 1t will be kept up to
the high standard of the past several years.
improvements Under Way.
The company is having built at the re-
sort a fine building for bowling alleys. pool
and billiard pariors, and two large rooms
that will be devoted to amusement features.
Colonial Beach will this summer be lighted
by electricity from end to end, and the new
boardwalk will have a number of new at
fractions on it. Everybody in Washington
knows that the bathing. boating, grabbing
and fishing at the beach cannot be excelied.
and that 1t is the most delightful resort on
the Potomac. being famed throughout the
summer by breezeS from across the salty
Potomac.
The almost entire absence Of the annoy
inG mosquitoes is one OF the delightful fea-
lures of Colonial Beach, while at other
sorts, with but few exceptions the MOS
quito is torment from July until frost
comes, there is but little trouble from them
at the Beach, and only when a land breeze
has prevailed for several days The Wash
ington colony at Colonial Beach is large
each season. several thousand persons taxi
ing advantage Of its proximity to this city
to spend their vacation there.
Among the property owners at the resort
are many residents of this city who have
their summer homes there and who are
interested In the prosperity of the town.
Until about six years ago, when Capt. F.
S. Randall purchased the hotel property,
Colonial Beach had had but precarious
existence. Since his advent there property
has almost doubled in value. and many
hundred persons have been attracted there
by the facilities he has provided in the
way of steamboat service. 1t is predicted
that as the years pass Colonial Beach will
continue to. grow and prosper under the
patronage of the people of Washington.