The Washington times., 1930-09-20
Fourth Estate
EnlistS New
Enthusiast
Mrs. Harold Walker Is DireC-
tor of New Eastern Shore
Independent Newspaper

independent newspaper
The latest recruit to the
Fourth Estate is Mrs. Harold
Walker, Of Washington and
Mcdaniel, Nd, now part
owner and director Of the
Maryland Independent, the
Eastern Shores first and
flourishing Republican news
paper.
Mrs. Walkers introduc-
tion to journalism was most
informal. The editor Of the
Independent invited Mr..
Walker to go on the paper 8
board Of directors and when
Mr.. Walker declined, trans
ferred the invitation to Mrs.
Walker. Mrs. Walker &C
cepted and forgot about it.
A little later she happened
to over hear one of her
nsighbors laughing at that
funny little sheet. /" Realiz-
ing that it was her own pa
per that was the butt Of the
joke she investigated, became
interested and now let any
one say anything about the
Maryland Independent in her
presence.
Proud
with all the pride Of a
mother talking Of her first
born, Mrs. Walker tells how
the circulation Of the 1nde-
pendent has increased to 1,40O
since making its bow in jour.
nalistic fields last March.
Which, she adds, Is quite q lot
when one considers that the
biggest paper on the Shore"
has only q circulation Of 1900.
Mrs. walker. it will be re
membered, bought a place at
Mcdaniel some four or five
years ago. An old Georgian
mansion quantity known as
Mary's Delight, but since re-
named Webley by Mrs. Walker,
who discovered the latter name
to have been the original one.
First Year
Although she has owned Web
ley for four or five years.
Mrs. Walker has only been an
actual resident of Mcdaniel for
q year and half. The first
year the old place was being
remodeled: the second her
daughter, Evelyn Walker, made
her debut, and the third the
two went abroad to give Eve
1yn a year of foreign travel,
The paper was established by
william II. Valiant, Of Talbot
county, who is now associated
In the venture with Herbert
Pomeroy Brown, a retired New
York capitalist, and Mrs. Walk
er. The policy is "drastically
independent" Transportation,
according to Mrs. Walker, is its
chief interest, with the idea 1f
improving transportation facili.
ties throughout the Eastern
Shore district.
Mrs. Walker is enthusiastic
over the possibilities Of the re-
gion as the playground OF Wash"
ington. She herself is a large
stockholder in the ferry COM
pany. A company which is, by
the way, being fought by her
own paper, the paper holding
the rates too high for the In
terest Of the community.
Hold Estates
The Eastern Shore district
has in the past years attracted
q score or more New Workers
and Washingtonians, who have
either purchased old estates or
built magnificent new resi-
dences in the architecture of
the section. Among the new
comers is John Raskob, who
lives within 20 miles Of the
walkers, and whose estate is
one Of the beauty spots Of the
region.
The walter Chryslers have a
MAGNIFICENT Eastern Shore es-
tate, known as Pokety Lodge,
and SO, also. has Henry Lock
hart, jr., the New York banker.
AT Cape Centaur, not many
miles from Webley, Mr.. and
Mrs. Glenn Stewart, of Wash
ington and Pittsburgh, have
built q magnificent residence.
The Stewart place, however, Is
not in keeping with the Colo
NAL architecture of the region,
but is copied from a famous Al
gerian castle in pink marble.
admired by Mr.. Stewart while
travelling in Algeria.
This winter Mrs. Walker IS
planning to go abroad to visit
her sister. Baroness Won
Schoen, in Berlin. Her daugh-
ter, Evelyn, will accompany her
and later they will go to he
Riviera for the early spring.
They will be at Webley, how
ever, until after Christmas.