Evening star., 1928-06-10
Daily and Sunday

Dauy ana sunday.
The schedule Is maintained daily and
sunday. The trip across the Bay takes
one hour and IS minutes. There are
two ferry steamers-the Gov. z. G.
Harrington and the Gov Albert C..
Ritchie Good meals are served cr1
board. Bus service to Ocean City will
be in operation at Claiborne beginning
June 25
The town Of Claiborne is in Talbot
County. Although small. 1t is very
picturesque. Here concrete road greets
the notorist, and 1t runs along through
level country. flanked on all sides by
farm lands 10 Easton. distance of Is
miles. During this distance the motor
list passes through the small towns of
st. MichaelS. Newcomb and Kirkham.
Small as these towns are, one sees
trafic-iight signals at the important
intersections. At Easton United States
route 2l3 comes into being. and the
fiot0rist will follow these numbers all
the way into Ocean City. From Easton
the route leads on through Preston,
Bethlehem and Ellwood into Hurlock.
distance Of 10 miles Here the road
Is concrete in places and macadam in
others
At Hurlock the roadway swings to the
night. passing through Rhodesdale,
BrookView. Eldorado and Sharptown
into Salisbury. one Of the largest cities
on the Eastern Shore. Passing along,
the motorist (if il is still early June
will notice field after field Of straw
berries. This year one Of the largest
crops was raised but. unfortunately for
the farmer. they were so plentiful that
~ times his market price was only 3
cents a box. To say that he lost money
81 this price Is needless But straw
berries are only one Of the many crops
grown on the fertile shores. Potato
and tomato fields abound. Wheat and
corn fields bedeck the roadway. and
here and there tobacco plants arc
growing.
Fine Concrete Road.
Prom Salisbury fine concrete road
takes the motorist through Parsonburg.
pittsviiIe and Wiilsrds into Berlin. a
distance Of 30 miles. Here Is grown
one Of the largest flower and fruit
nurseries. From Berlin IL Is only q
miles before a glimpse Is caught Of the
ocean and ocean CITY Itself About IN In
years ago. when this concrete stretch
was first laid, IL was the straightest
plDscken stretch OF concrete in the
world
Ocean City Is on an island, reached
by short bridge. Here the mot0rigt
finds one long street stretching for miles
through the town, and the boardwalk
bordering the ocean and the hotels and
cottages. The boardwalk is 2ta miles
Icng. and Is kept in good repair. The
ocean provides both good bathing and
swimming But here's what an enthusi-
asiic Ocean City citizen says herself.
Ocean City Nd, is only just becom-
ing known 70 folk outside of Baltimore
ard Washington With the advent OF
automobiles and good roads, Phiiadei-
p9aa, Wilmington, Harrisburg and many
Cf the jersey cities have r0auged south
ward and discovered Ocean City--a
modest little hotel city. on an island IN
the ocean, bficQe6 70 the mainland
ZONE 2 miles below the point where toe
MsFyi5n6-Deiawafe line runs into the
fes ano wilere 80 many things are
different Eaeh season sees more and
more Of sts ri nds from the Northern
States
People visit Ocean City for various
reasons fat mostly because they are
looking for something different from
what they have been accustomed 10 try
ING 10 enjoy Very many are hunting
fpS q place less crowded or less mize1
WITH tle paTlOtjs clements of society
Jnis 10 not cosmopolitan resort and
has no ambitions IN that line Since
s1tOInoDiies Degan wandering down thf
beSAitiiui Dei-MaF-Va Peninsula. other
vise knDgp ~ the Eastern Shore 81
Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. soms
s}D9lessiy. son9s ezDlCTiup. some seeking
p ff6oFl mare " their liking, Ocean Cts
kSs nIsdf great strides III It's deye!o;3,
Ynent. II has become modern II has
improved snd afoHn IN recent years n
fart mat II gives the appearance of
rev city sprung Dy magic from the sea
Safe each H. Boast.
The world IL beginning 10 rec0anlza
the fact that ihefs are nov two 'Oceaf
Cities one d distinctly cottage resort
tSgf other an almost exclusively h1tA
eity MAfyisnds only geash0re res1r
~ composed largely If hotels and ssiG,
from these there III but one other IN
oBstfy fishing
Ocean City has always b sted .
'fhe finest ana safest beach on the Al
lsnfie Coest EJt this season, thank
~ t1e EUeceAs Gf an experiment IN
tended to project gilr beach IN time d
EhoIng, the beaft ls pronounced the hes
We have had III 10 gears The hoard
Nsjk has been eztenaeG several block
tGRsfd the tlGftn. ~ that ~ no JlsGe
t9e Dfecb ever ffaWGfc Ocean bathiUi
~ many ~ thf Eogttefu resGfls la lin
ikeo ~ the tGct that tts gs4eT Is D3'