Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-29
SETH EMENT
ON THE LINE TO LAUREL
Flourishing Communities in Maryland
Along the Trolley Road Beyond the
Limits of the District.

ritory and found a landing place just out
side Of the bounds Of the District.
Mount Rainier.
This latter point is Mount Rainier. an
incorporated Maryland town that has
spread out on both stiles of the trolley road
as we'll as along that thoroughfare, 80
that it is difficult to determine just where
Mount Rainier ceases. or. at least, where
its corporate limits end and where the next
settlement begins
The next place is practically Hyatts-
vile, for although that does not exactly
define the legal limits of Hyattsville. yet
to one who passes along either the troll
ley road or the turnpike the line of homes
seems continuous from the District
bounds and beyond to Hyattsvilie.
The growth Of what was at one time an
offshoot Of the old town of Bladensburg
has been somewhat remarkable In these
latter years and perhaps Is unknown to
a good many people. But the fact is that
Hyattsville has gone ahead with rapid
strides in recent years, and has not Yet
stopped.
Riverdale and College Park.
After passing beyond Hyattsville there
is quite stretch of country which is
still unoccupied in the way of settlement.
The home of the descendants Of Calvert,
the lord proprietor Of Maryland, still
stands and is near the trolley road. It Is
an unusual instance of the preservation
Of an old landmark.
The streets of Riverdale. lined on each
side with trees, give q suggestion of one
of the most attractive features of Wash
ington
The homes are also attractive. and not
the less so because of the setting of foil
age or what will be foliage when the
spring is allowed to make its belated ap-
pearance in this latitude. After leaving
Riverdale the traveller passes through an
other stretch of open country, where the
farmer still continues his labors and the
fields are under cultivation.
Presently a group of houses appears,
which indicates College Park, with the
buildings of the Maryland Agricultural
College browning the hill on the left,
while to the right and beyond the range
of homes is the low-lying structure where
the flying machines are housed when not
| in use. The broad acres where the flying
machines are exhibited or are put through
their tests lie beyond and are bounded
while the locality Is being occupied as a
! suburban settlement and as a center for
such modern interest as aero flying,
| farming is being carried on and the
well cultivated fields and orderly appear.
ance of the country show that it is not
! theory alone that is taught at the asri-
cultural college.
, Lakeland and Berwyn.
There is more open country as the car
| speeds along to Lakeland and Berwyn,
| places which lie close to one another, and
the individual border lines of which are
not readily recognized by the stranger.
The locality is a larger population cen-sr
than appears. for to the east is Berwyn
Heights. some distance from the trolley,
while tn the opposite direction !; re ctl,c,
places which are rot in sigl:...
| Although this point is nine miles from
the city's center it does not mark tn.
| farthest point reached In that direction
by the suburban growth. For still be-
You'd are other settlements between Ber-
wyn and the end Of the trolley li:ie ct
Laurel, twenty miles from the city.