Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-13
DIR. FELL AT SKYLAND;
PICTURESQUE SPOT
Cabin OF President And Mrs. Fell, OF
st. Johns College, On CIiff.
Unique Resort
Especial Correspondence to The
Evening Capitall :

Especial Correspondence TO The
Evening Capital.l
Stony Man Camp, Skyland. Va. July
1.-THE season at this unique resort
is already well under way and al
though simplicity is more than ever
the rule of the camp this year, owing
TO war conditions, charming events,
both without doors and within occur in
continuous succession. Among the
most important of the former nature
during the past week was an all-day
excursion for the complete explora-
ton OF the famous White Oak Canyon
and to visit the Bridal Veil Falls. A
large party made the long trip a-foot
Among such were DR.. Sewell Hepburn,
OF Annapolis, who is resident physician
at the camp for the season; DR.. Briggs
Nash, Canon of the Cathedral of ST.
John, New York, and former assistant
rector of Old st. PauPs Church in Bal
timore; the Assistant Solicitor of the
State Department, Mr. Joseph r..
Baker; Mrs. Winship and Miss Rich
mond, of Washington: Mrs. Carl Brad
ford, of New York formerly well
known in Baltimore as Miss Lorraine
Sickle). and whose marriage to Capt.
Bradford, U. S. A, now in France, oc-
CURED several months ago; Mr.. and
Mrs. George Freeman Pollock, of Sky
land; the First Secretary of the
Norwegian Legation at Washington
and Madame Birkman; Mr.. Caleb
Steward, vice-president of the Will
mington (Del) Trust Company; Mr.
and Mrs Taylor and Mr.. Little, of
Pittsburgh. These were met by sec
ond party leaving the camp in car
ciages at the Upper Falls, where
luncheon was served.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Sothoron
Powell, of Ellicott City, are among the
recent arrivals at the camp, where
they have taken cottage for the
greater part of the season.
On Tuesday afternoon a card party,
followed by an informal tea, was given
in honor of Mrs. Powell by her sister
in-law, Miss Sarah Harrison Powell,
of Baltimore, who is also spending
some time at Stony Man. Among the
guests were Mrs. Pollock, of Skyland;
Madame Birkman, Miss Winship, Mrs.
Edward Kennedy Miss Alice Grady,
of Baltimore), Miss Richmond, Mrs.
Edwin Droop and Mrs Weed, of Wash
ington; Mrs. Sewell Hepburn, of An
napolis; Mrs Charles Hepburn, of
Philadelphia; Madame Boucher, Mrs.
Frederick Semple, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs.
Sickel, of st. Louis; Mrs. Lockwood,
Miss Thomson, Mrs. Carl Bradford
of New York; and Mrs. Steward, of
Wilmington, Del.
The President of st. Johns College
and Mrs Fell, whose cabin, situated
directly on the cliff overlooking the
Shenandoah Valley, is one of the most
picturesque in the camp, arrived at
Skyland on Thursday Their two gal
liant sons who have hitherto been
among the leaders of the younger set
at Skyland, are both now with the
American Army under orders for for
eign service. The elder, First Lieu
tenant Edgar Tremlett Fell. has been
stationed with his regiment, the seth
Infantry, at Waco, Texas, for the
greater part of the past year. Lieut..
Fell, after taking two degrees at st.
Johns, afterwards entered the Johns
Hopkins as postgraduate student of
political science. He was one of the
representatives of the Johns Hopkins
upon the Ford Peace Expedition, and
at the outbreak of the war, although
still under age, was serving as junior
attache of the American Embassy at
Madrid His younger brother, First
Sergeant John Cory Fell, who will
celebrate his twentieth birthday next
received his commission in the
676th Aero Squadron at Camp Dick,
Texas, but has recently been specialize
ing for the radio service at College
Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Deford, of
Baltimore, who have taken the Bir-
Cottage at Skyland for the
season, had as their house guests over
the last weekend Mr.. and Mrs Theo-
dore Pietech, also of Baltimore.
Among other arrivals of the week
were Miss Esther Kelly and Miss
Crowl, of Baltimore. S. H. P.