The Washington herald., 1908-05-12

The steamer Newport News reached the
Seventh street wharf at 6 o'clock sharp
yesterday morning bringing home on
time the hundred and more Washington
business men who had enjoyed the week
end outing down the Potomac and in
Chesapeake Bay
Leaving here at o'clock Saturday as
guests of Mr.. Clarence +. Norment, presi-
dent of the National Bank of Washing
ton and vice president of the Norfolk
and Washington Steamboat Company,
they found every possible arrangement
made for their pleasure and comfort. At
Marshall Hall. Chief Justice Clabaugh
and justices Anderson, Gould, and
Wright. who had attended the Bar As
ISOLATION clam bake, were taken aboard.
The afternoon and evening were spent plea
sanity, and at o'clock dinner was served.
Three long tables had been beautifully
set and decorated for the occasion. At
the right of Mr.. Norment sat the presi-
dent of the Norfolk and Washington
company, Mr.. Levi II. Woodbury., and on
the left Mr.. George Z. Hamilton, the
guest of honor Immediately opposite
were the District justices, and near at
hand Representatives Overstreet and
lands, the heads Of several financial in
stitutions of Washington, and Commits
siOners West and Morrow. more rep
resentative body Of well-known Washing
ton citizens was probably never before
brought together. The dinner was ad-
mirably served, and the menu would have
done credit 20 the best hotel In Wash
ingt0n- There was no speech-making.
save hearty greeting from the host. A
quartet composed of Mr. West, Mai.
Morrow DR.. Glazebrook, and Mr.. Ralph
Lee. led the singing of a number of popu-
lar songs, which constituted the chief en-
tertainment following the dinner.
old Point and Yorktown.
Early Sunday morning the boat landed
at the dry dock at Newport News. and
after breakfast, there was an in
spection Of the immense ship yaItis.
Then the party was taken 20 Old Point
Comfort. where il was made welcome
al the Chamberlin Hotel The splendid
swimming pool had previously been set
apart for the exclusive use OF the Wash
ington visitors from until IL o'clock,
and many OF them embraced the oppor-
tunity for an invigOrating plunge. The
time then intervening until 12.30 o'clock
was spent by the visitors in looking over
the military grounds and seeing the Sol
diers' Home at Hampton.
Leaving Old Point, the boat proceeded
up the bay, and entered York River.
landing at Yorktown about O'Clock. The
entire party viewed the points Of interest
Of this historic place-the Nelson home,
the beautiful monument Commemorating
the surrender Of CornWallis. the National
Cemetery. and the house where the terms
Of the surrender were signed. At the
monument the visitors grouped them
selves about the base 10 enable snapshot
pictures 20 be taken. The Nelson house
was OF peculiar local interest % all the
Washingtonians. because one Of their
number, John JOY Edison, occupied a
room there as a typhoid fever patient in
1852. He was then a seventeen-year-old
soldier boy, and I'll at deaths door. be-
ing saved by the good nursing of his
mother who found him in camp after
hearing that he was dead This was Mr..
EdsOn's first visit TO Yorktown since
those memorable days of the civil war.
Speechmaking on Return Trip.
Leaving the quaint and interesting town
in the early evening. the boat steamed
out Of York River into the bay and up
the Potomac
Another feast followed at o'clock, in
the course Of which Mr. Norment. in a