The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-26
PEOPLE WILL FLOCK TO
SMELL BR|NY BREEztS
Warm Weather Days Make Excursions
To Virginia Ocean Resorts More
Popular Than Ever.
OCEAN VIEW TO OPEN
Famous Resort Near Norfolk VIII
Throw Open It's Gates Tomorrow.
Bath House and Hotel Newly
Equipped.

The warm weather Is here and II
looks as If It has come to stay. Hun
dreds OF Richmonders Will flock to
| the mountains and seashore during
the next few weeks. some for stays
| to last the season. All of the rail-
roads entering Richmond have begun
their special summer rates to the
summer resorts the Norfolk and
Western giving special service to the
mountains of Virginia and West Vir-
ginia; the Atlantic Coast Line taking
many Richmond people south for
transfer to the North Carolina noun
tains as 10 the Southern Railway.
The Chesapeake and Ohio has added
several trains to its mountain resort
service and their trains are hauling
larger crowds daily as the summer
season advances. The Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac trains
people to Northern resorts. Many
ptrom Richmond will go as far as the
Maine woods.
The special trains of the Norfolk
and Western and Chesapeake and
Ohio Railr@ds, which will carry pas
sengers to Norfolk, Newport News,
Ocean View, Virginia Beach. Old
Point Comfort Portsmouth. Hampton
and Buckroe Beach, will doubtless be
crowded Sunday. The trains have
been running for the past two Sun
days. but, with the opening OF the
resorts tomorrow, the crowds will be
even larger. Both of these roads are
running special trains to the seashore
daily, but the special rate Is not in
force on any day except Sunday.
O. & o. Has Fast Trains.
The Chesapeake and Ohio has three
fast trains leaving every Sunday dur
ing the season from Main Street Sta
ton. These trains leave at s;35. Q
A. NJ. and IL NJ The Norfolk and
Western runs fast train and a spe-
cial noon train.
Ocean View. the resort TO which
many Richmonders go when they visit
tho seashore. opens tomorrow The
following from the Office of General
Manager Otto Wells tells something
of the attra ctiveness OF the resort this
summer:
While the formal opening will be
Saturday and large crowds will flock
TO the View afternoon and night, tho
inaugural crowds will be really lare-
est on tho following day. The first
Sunday OF summer. II the patronage
on that day compares In mum ers with
the initial Sundays of former seasons
1t will not be surprising TO see from
10000 to $1,000 people on the
grounds. Norfolk and Portsmouth
VIII Join hands with Newport News.
Hampton. Old Point, Richmond, Pc
tershurg, Suffolk, Elizabeth City and
other Carolina points. Excursions will
roll in during the morning of Sunday
to remain until night.
"a feature of the opening Saturday
will be the inauguration Of dancing at
night in the large and paiatial dancing
pavilion, the largest OF the kind in
the South, That alone will attract
hundreds OF dancers
Ocean View patrons will find the
popular resort batter and brighter than
ever The hotel has been newly
equipped throughout, the dining room
VIII be more allurine than in any pre-
Nious season, the bath house accom-
modations have been enlarged and re-
fted, the boardwalk has new attrac-
tons ton OF new paint has been
used in Frightening up the buildings
and today, more justly than ever, does
the View merit the distinction Of be-
ing the Coney Island OF the South
All Indications point TO the busiest
summer the resort has enjoyed Mr. !
Wells has been advised by railroads
and steamer lines OF EXCURSIONS that
already promise twice the number OF
visitors from various sections of vir-
ginia North Carolina, Maryland and
Washington, d. c. Applications for
room reservations at the hotel have
never been so numerous and the out
look Is for a full house from the time
the season gets we'll under way until
II closes in September
Mr.. Wells has arranged for num-
her OF surprises for his patrons dur
ing the summer and among them will
he found some distinct departures
from the programs that hava p,nrLed
former seasons"