Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-26
COLONIAL BEACH.
Inauguration Of Excursion Trips to
This Resort

The big and fast steamer st. Johns. the
largest and fastest excursion steamer in
service on the Potomac, will inaugurate her
trips to Colonial Beach Tuesday evening
next, when she will leave here at SAB
o'clock. She will at once return to this
city and will leave again on the morning of
Decoration day at S:45 o'clock. On the re-
turn trip the steamer will leave the Beach
at pm. Decoration day and Will be home
about 10 pm. These outings offer ex-
cellent opportunity to spend a day on salt
water, where the fishing and grabbing Is
fine and where the bathing and boating
cannot be excelled anywhere in the country.
Already the cottages at the Beach are fill
ing up, and the outlook for an extremely
busy season at the resort Is good. The no.
tells there preparing to take care of
large crowds and large additions have been
made to the hotels. All of them will open
May 90 and the big Colonial Beach Hotel
will throw open its doors to the public on
that day.
During the month of June the St. Johns
will make trips to the Beach Saturday af-
ternoons and on Sunday mornings, and
commencing July the regular daily sched-
ule will be run: The big steamer st Johns,
which Capt. E. S. Randall brought from
New York to run Colonial Beach excur-
sions, Is the largest sidewheel steamer ever
on the Potomac, and Is also one of the fast
est. She can easily carry 5000 passengers
and viii make the run to and from the
Beach In about four hours. Leaving here
at S:45 o'clock in the morning, she will land
her passengers at Colonial Beach about 1
o'clock. Returning, she will leave the
Beach at 6 pm, and about 10 pm. she will
be landing her passengers on the wharf
here This will be the best service that has
ever been given to the Beach. and service
that cannot fail to please. The st. Johns
is fine steamer, and is admirably adapted
for excursion travel. She has big, roomy
state rooms, and her dining room. seating
about $50 at a time is cool and airy, being
located on the main deck aft. and having
large windows on each side. At Colonial
Beach many improvements have been made
during the past two or three months. The
big hotel operated by the Washington and
Potomac Steamboat Company, the new cor
poration that has acquired the Randall in
terests on the river and at the Beach, has
been thoroughly oyerhauled and put In or
der for the coming summer. 1t will be
again this year under the management OF
Mr.. John Stewart, and it will be kept up to
the high standard of the past several years.
Capt. Randall, the president of the Wash
ington and Potomac Steamboat Company,
is now having built at the resort q fine
building for bowling alleys, pool and bill
lard parlors. and two large rooms that will
Beach will this summer be lighted by cleo
tricity from end to end, and the new board
walk will have number of new attractions
on 1t. Everybody in Washington knows
fishing at the Beach cannot be excelled.
and that 1t Is the most delightful resort ON
the Potomac. being famed throughout the
summer by breezes from across the salty
Potomac. As stated, the first trip to the
Beach will be made by the st. Johns on the
on May 80 she win leave here at 6:45 m.
Returning. the steamer will leave the
Beach at Pm, and viii arrive ct home
about 10 pm.