The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-06-14
ONE SELDOM HEARS OF THE
CITIZENS ON FOOT THERE BUT
THEY ENJOY OUTINGS.
AND They ALL CHEW GUM
About All There is for the Clerks
and Home People is a Little Park
and Excursions Down the Potomac
Which They Enjoy.

Washington. June l2--Therr H. a
pretty general notion that when
Washington takes IL recreatiou-be.
fore il goes to Manchester-by he.
Sea and Bar Harbor-it motors out
TO Chevy Chase or follows the hounds
over the Virginia hills. Which is
true of part of Washington; OF one.
tenth of one per cent, perhaps
hut the rest of Washington is TO
be considered the real Washington,
made up of government clerks and
the salcspeople I'm the shops. They
never go TO Chevy Chase or motor
or follow the hounds. But they aren't
neglected Bless you, no. For them
are Luna Park and Marshall Hail.
Luna Park isn't anything IN partic.
ular The Kansas city parks have
1t badly beaten. But Marshall Hall
that is another proposition. At least.
that is what YOU hear 1t is AN hours
ride down the Potomac. across the
river from Mount Vernon. Round
trip twenty-five cents. \ crowd OF
three or four hundred is waiting
for the boat and there is rush
for camp chairs when the gang.
/ plank is lowered. 1t isn't quite the
sort of crowd YOU see at presi.
dents reception. Not quite.
This amt no grand opera. here's
/ your chewing gum" the vender
shouts. And everybody chews. The
young woman in the waste-basket
hat with the taupe gown with the
waist Immediately under the arms
and slathering of buttons. tries
To conceal the truth. But If you
watch carefully you will observe tht
crunching motion of the under jaw
\ negro in white jacket squeezes
through the mob of chairs
Cold drinks. beer mint juleps,
he cries,
It's a sociable crowd and he find,
a ready market. An old gentleman
and his wife take "A bottle apiece.
Wait minute. boss. and II
hand YOU the glasses" the waite
says
1T amt necessary" the man re
plies Which is evidently true.
Ordinarily babies play no part II
Washington society news. They ar,
unknown at Chevy Chase. But I
you have an idea that this Is
world of grownups you will be cor
rocted II you count the babies q
the boat. There are plenty.
The bell tolls in recognition o
Mount Vernon and you see the whit,
pillars Of the house on the tree GOV
cred hillside. But nobody pays At
tention 10 that, for the boat is swing
ing into the dock on the opposit,
side OF the river for Marshall Hall
Another rush and the crowd Is SAT,
ashore. From a distance comes tn,
strains of band. There Is a dancinj
pavilion. Farther mp the board wall
YOU come on the ice cream parlo
with the blue ceiling. the bowlin,
alley, the shooting gallery. the plac,
whore you pay five cents TO throw
three basehalls at the niger baby.
the wheel Of fortune the merry.go
round with the steam piano and tn
s25 ladys hat. furnished by on
leading merchant. Goldstein & Co
10 be- awarded to the lady receiy
ing tn highest number of vote
before . o'clock, only five cents
vote, Also there is restaurant an,
; bar.
For the rest there are few acre
Of shaded grounds with plank ia
, bles for picnic parties. and ther
Is the memory of planked shat
for which Marshall Hall is famous
But the planked shad season is end
ed and there is only a memor,