The Washington herald., 1911-07-30
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several have hastened away for taunts
OF short duration. Hundreds. however.
will make no attempt to break away until
fall, and this is particularly true of deal
| ers in suburban properties.
| But II the real estate man waits for his
vacation, he enjoys 1t to the utmost when
he finally starts out and he takes 1t regu-
larly.
| Mr.. HilPs Enjoyable Recollection.
What vacation do I remember most
pleasantly?' queried william A. Hill,
president Of the Moore & Hill Company.
repeating a question, why. my honey
tmoon. Ask me something hard. And that
| was some ten years ago, too. That still
stands out, head and shoulders above the
rest. I have had some good ones, though.
1 generally try to get In about three
weeks late In the summer and early in
the fall, and then 1 like to get in about
| ten days in the winter.
: II didn't use to think so much of vaca-
| tions until / was laid up with typhoid
fever, brought on through overwork and
| no recreation. / would like to get fun
month without breaking into 1t at all,
but that is not possible just at present.
The family is in Massachusetts and !
probably will run up there for a week at
a time now and then and take my
vacation that way. No; I couldn't pick
out, offhand, the most enjoyable vaca-
| tion-after my honeymoon"
| Mr.. Early Says Tastes Change.
| Charles Early, another real estate
| broker. believes a mans taste in vaca-
| tions like his taste in clothes, is liable to
| change with years. and what represents
the acme OF perfection in the vacation line
| to the man OF thirty would be exhausting
| and boresome 20 that same man twenty
| years later.
1T would be right hard to say what va
| cation / enjoyed most" he said. Il have
had so many. Just now the most enjay-
| able vacation I can plan is to hop into
my car and take a run down to Roanoke,
! Va, where have one of the finest homes
| you ever saw, and where my family gen.
orally elects to spend the summer.
| Il have a great, big house there, with
| six acres of ground around ii, in the heart
of the residential part of the city. I have
never been uncomfortably warm there
| for five minutes at time. and in the hot
| test weather we sleep under blankets at
night.
| That constitutes fine vacation for me
| now. but il would probably have been
punishment when 1 first started out pay
| ing for my vacations. Then l lived at
| Lynchburg, and the big event of my year
| was a months stay at White Sulphur
| Springs, w. Va, every summer. l would
save up for that trip for months in ad
vance, and then go up with many times
as much money as I actually needed and
| give myself the liveliest time / could buy.
| Then, later. after 1 married. Nara
gansett Pier. Newport. Bar Harbor. and
those places seemed to furnish the best
vacation inducements. We liked the So
ciai life of the resorts, which now would
| be unbearable to us.
| Europe was our next vacation field,
| and II has not been shelved yet. I still
like to go across for two or three months
| when 1 am given an opportunity. but my
| shorter vacations are spent in Roanoke,
| and if / should be forced to choose be-
| tween my Virginia home and frequent va
! cations in Europe I would stand by the
| Old Dominion"
MIR. Totten Likes Fishing.
| The real estate fraternity includes In
its bounds some of the most enthusiastic
| disciples Of Izaak Walton Washington
boasts. To many a vacation without rod
and reel is no vacation at all.
| Z. J. Totten is some fisherman" and
| still thinks his pleasantest vacations were
spent at the kicking end of a steel rod.
| though now business and love for auto
| MODELLING combined sometimes crowd his
| love of the sport temporarily from the
| boards But even now Mr.. Totten Is in
Ohio, planning to repeat what he de-
| scribed as the best way of "vacationing."
| My happiest vacations, I believe" he
| said recently, were those I planned and
! carried through before 1 left my home in
| Ohio. They were spent at Putin Bay. on
| Lake Erie, with the finest and most tenn
| crate climate, delightful woods and
| camping grounds. and the greatest bass
| fishing you ever heard of. We used to get
| up a combined camping and fishing party,
! hiring a tugboat to take us to the best
fishing grounds, camping out under the
| trees at night and putting in the best
kind of three or four weeks vacation.
Last summer I went to Atlantic City
| for a couple of weeks, and enjoyed 1t,
though I was ready to leave at the end
turn from Ohio, am going to take the
family for a motor trip. including in it
a week at Atlantic City
Mr.. McMasters for Atlantic City.
Mr.. Totten is not the only broker who
has tried Atlantic City. H. G. McMasters,
| of the Murray Company, is another, and
you couldn't get him TO go elsewhere,
either. Mr.. McMasters has been going to
Atlantic City for a small matter of about
| fifteen years, and thinks he knows some
thing about the Jersey resort.
Give me Atlantic City ever time" he
said. II have .ried 'em all-Cape May,
Asbury Park, Staten Island. and others
but 1 always get back. to the old propo-
sition.
Il can get everything I want there
| fishing, sailing, bathing, and resting. 1
can find II just as quiet or just as excit-
ing as want. I can go down to the end
| OF the pier and fish or l can get up a
party and take boat to the fishing
banks. Last summer We went out in a
boat for four hours and brought back a
big barrel full of all kinds Of fish. You
| can't beat Atlantic City, as far as am
concerned"
II. L. Thornton also likes Atlantic City,
and for much the same reasons. 'I never
spent a p1easanter vacation in my life
than last summer. when I went down to
Atlantic City for two weeks" he said
yesterday. II went down for a real rest,
and found 1t. / got comfortable
| room in one of the larger hotels on the
Boardwalk and did nothing but rest. I
expect to go down there this summer as
soon as 1 can break away There Is no
place like Atlantic City. particularly when
one Is liable to be called back on busi-
ness at any time
Mr.. Daniel Prefers Virginia Farm.
Ernest II. Daniel divides his vacation
preference between Virginia farm that
offers excellent fishing opportunities and
speedy touring car that accommodates
the family and isn't faxed by Virginia
good roads.
II think the happiest vacation I ever
spent" he said, was last summer, when
I took the family for run through vir-
ginia in the car. We rode or stopped as