The Washington times., 1930-04-07
VIEWS AND GOSSIP SOCIETY IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
SOUTH SHORE
GAINS FAVOR
OF CAPITAL
Washington Residents Es-
tablishing Summer Home
Down in Maryland

tablishing Summer Home
Down in Maryland
A new summer playground
for Washingtonians, and a
new site for summer homes,
seems likely to open up along
the Eastern Shore, otherwise
known as the Del Va
peninsula, in case the new
motor ferry proposed be-
tween Chesapeake Beach and
Cambridge is given permis-
sion by the Interstate Com
merce Commission to op-
crate.
Summer Homes
Within recent years the Po-'
tomac and Chesapeake Bay have
COLE much into favor among
residents of this city, a ID a
number of prominent Washing
tonians have established their
summer places in the territory
bounded by those bodies OF
water, or farther east, between
the bay and the Atlantic. The
attractions of this delightful
terrain would long since have
attracted Washington society,
as it has BaltimoreanS, II
were more acces BILE to this
city. But the long overland
route, or the detours necessary
to utilize the ferries now in
operation, have deferred what
would otherwise have been a
perfectly natural process.
There are numerous WASH
ingtonians who have trans
planted themselves, for the sum-
mer months, to these charm
ing parts of Virginia and Mary
land-notably Mrs. Glenn Stew
art, whose summer home is at
Cape Centaur, Mr.. and MRS.
Walter Tuckerma4., who have
made Point Lookout their resi-
dence during the heated term
Major and Mrs. Howard c.
Davidson, who recently pur-
chased the historic old estate
Cremona, and Mr.. and Mrs. B.
King Hollyday, who find sur
cease at st. Michael's. Then,
farther East and along the At
lantic coast, one may find Gen.
and Mrs. Chauncey B. Baker
and DR.. and Mrs. Henry Cook
Macatee among the habitues OF
Rehoboth Beach.
Du Pont Estate
Furthermore, there is conSid-
cradle interest in the plans OF
Senator T. Coleman du Pont for
his large holdings near Cam
bridge, Md, which, as it hap
pens, are almost at the terminus
of the proposed ferry line.
What disposition he intends
eventually to make OF the
property has not been made
known so far as Washington is
concerned, but it could be
adapted to a number of uses,
not the least interesting OF
which would be the creation OF
a fine Eastern Shore estate.
Baltimore has long found
the Eastern Shore attractive.
One naturally does not keep
as closely in touch with the
activities of the people of that
city as with those at home, but
among the names that come to
mind as summer residents of
the Del-Mar-Va section are
Mrs. William T. Dixon, whose
summer address is Easton; Mr..
and Mrs. Julian H. Fisher, of
Ocean City; Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Goldsborough Henry,
of EaSton; Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
lin Upshur, of Ocean City, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Tazewell T.
Thomas, of Solomon's Island.
Charm of Country
The charm of the low-lying
sections of Maryland, Delaware
and Virginia in the triangle
formed by the Potomac and
the ocean, triangle almost
bisected by Chesapeake Bay
is unique, once one has en-
countered it. And making posi-
BILE the crossing of Chesapeake
Bay within a convenient dis
tance of Washington is certain
to lead to the opening Of the
Del-Mar-Va peninsula to Wash
ington summer residents, un-
less all past experience goes by
the board. The new ferry
would cut time and distance
considerably as to make points
now remote thoroughly acceSSi-
BILE.