The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-07
News Of Virginia Resorts
OLD POINT

| Especial TO The Richmond virginian.)
HOTEL CHAMBERLIN, OLD
POINT COMFORT, VA, July CAS-
the summer advances a casual glance
at the Chamberlin register would con-
vince the guest that Washington and
| Baltimore people preferred Old Point
with its salt breezes to any other
resort along this coast, for there is
q regular colony OF guests from both
these cities here now, while from
Richmond, only a two hours ride
away hundreds come down for the
| weekend, or TO take ii two week >
vacation.
Whether II has been because of the
lure of the beautiful moonlight nights,
| or because The FAD Tor snppera- On the
beach is rapidly spreading. certain
! Il is that the young people and even
| the older ones have. been INDUCING
in a number Of these moonlight sup
per parties where Formally is dis
pensed with, and 1ongs and stories
take its place. Thursday night, June
, 9th. Captain ana Mrs. Fred l.. Perry
gave a beach supper and quite cola
trary To beach custom the supper
! Mas served upon tables. and when
later the guests gathered about
| huge bonfire with music and stories
I tho fun reached its height. Those
present were Captain and Mrs. tfar-
nee Bunker. Captain and Mrs. James
Totten, Lieutenant and Mrs. Maxwell
Murray. Captain and Mrs. X. |. Nc
| kenney, Miss Waters, New York; Miss
Fec. Miss Emily Hughes, Miss Eleanor
Erskine, Miss Rowena Abbott. Miss
Nathalie Berry. Miss Edith Porter,
Miss Gretchen Wahl, Miss Margaret
| WahI. Captain Elisha G. Abbott. Cap
tain j. o. Steger a3d I.ieutenants
| Arthur @. Campbell, William Jewett,
! r. r. Murphy, Stewart Stanley. c.
| NJ. $. Skene. r. G. Davis. Edward
| Montgomery and John Jouett
Swimming pool parties at night
| followed by suppers have also titled
| the evening of the past week. One
| very Jolly affair was that given by
j.! CAPTAIN and -Mrs.-E,red Perry Co., their
| son, John Jouett. and his classmate.
| Joseph Byron, of Hagerstown. Md.
| both of whom .re mere on furiough
| from West Point. The party began
| with dancing on the Chamberlin
| pavilion, followed by 4. SWIM in the
| pool, after which the guests gath
| cred upoa the ramparts overlooking
| the uoat and above the Officers club
and here in the bright moonlight the
| young girls and the army officers en-
! Jcyed one of the most delightful and
| novel affairs Of the entire year,
| most delicious supped being served to
| the fifteen guests.
Another beach supper given by Miss
| Rowena AhpUtt. g.ster of Captain
| Elisha Abbott. z. s. A. was given
| last week to twenty young girls and
| officers, the party being chaperoned
! by Captain and Mrs. II, L. Morse
| The newest bride at Fort Monroe is
| Mrs Allen Kimberly. who before her
| marriage q few weeks ago was Miss
| Stella Dunn, popular army girl. and
| daughter OF Colonel Beverly Dunn,
and with her husband, Lieutenant
| Allen Kimberly, will be much feted.
Lieutenant Kimberly. who was tho
youngest officer ever in charge of
| the mine planter, General Mills, will
| enter the coast artillery school this
| fall, having been relieved from duty
on the planter.
Quite contrary 10 opinion there If
| 40 place as quiet as an army post
| on the Fourth Of July. The only un-
| usual excitement here on that day
| Was the presence OF the members of
| the Tobacco association OF the United
| States who held their convention here
| from the third to the fifth, and no
efforts were spared to make their visit
| "a pleasant one
! -taLCt II. IL. fttteFS, pl
| Washington. arrived last Saturday.
Rev. V. r. Schmitt, Of Washington,
| was among the recent visitors here.
| Captain j. f. Proctor of Washing
| Ion. took breakfast at the hotel re-
| Gently
| number of Washington guests
| arrived Sunday morning, including
Miss Margaret s. Schutza, Miss Edna
=. PHILIPPE. Robert Fl. Noble. Mrs
! +. w. lehman, Mrs. Thomas. Miss
t Thomas, George Barnap, Mir. and
Mrs, e. Beresford. Mr.. Mccoy, Miss
| Mccoy and Miss kubel
The guests who came down on Sum
/. @. fges sai sssssas ssr4sss Alice
Z. Cora, Mr. and Mrs. E. w. Gibson,
+. Fl. Gibson. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
| r. Gautz, w. p. Cora, Mr. and Mrs
| Joseph Reaney. Jr. and MI. and Mrs
| II. o, Reardon.
Recent arrivals at the Hotel Cham
berlin from Richmond include: Miss
Helen E. Baker, J. II. Munford, Mice
Munford. ]. b. O'Reilly, W. A. Bruce.
J. II. Livingston. Miss Isabel L. Wal
! ker. Mrs. J. A. Hippo, w. =. PAYNE.
Miss Cornelia Magili. Miss Alice q.
! Welsh. Miss Josephine Mcleod. Miss
| Holla6ay, Miss Lorena Boyd Mason
| Mr.. and Mrs. William II. White. Mrs.
| Charles II. Taylor, Jr, John n. Potts,
! G. w. HUFF, Jr. Mr.. and Mrs s. B.
Love, George c. Jefferson, Mrs. II.
Kirkwood. Miss Anita Kirkwood. Vic
| tor Thurston. c. F, Sauer and family,
| Ma, and Mrs. J. r. Ramsay. J. r.
Penn, f. II. Shakleford p. G. BIanch-
| ard. A. B. Alsop. Emmett seaton.
| Thomas b. Gay. w. r. Chalmers, J.
| NJ, Blankenship. Mr.. and Mrs Charles
| d. Larus. Jr.. John H. Ryan, Katie B.
| Jones' George Hartman Jobr
| Hutcheson. Brooke N. Jones. w. O.
| Warthea, Fl. h. Cullen, J. A. Cowardin.
| Miss NJ Parke Jones, w. w. Neale.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy E Rronn Az