Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
Along the Water Front
BY Carol Klotzbach.

r ULTIMA THULEl Our exploring
expedition has reached its
farthest North. We are arrived
~ at the great city Of Baltimore.
Baltimore on the PatapSco.
And though our research department.
''Patapsco" Is seemingly lost in OBJ
security, we are all of US ready and VIII:
ing to believe that 1t means place OF
roughneSS," or possibly "wallop1ng Dig
waves" For this and these We en-
countered. But our good ship carried
on. Our bow rose and fell greatly. Our
decks were awash. And our faithful
engine purred and rumbled like a con-
tented cat Fortunate. For had 1t not
these words might have been picked up
sealed in q bottle. A fitting end for an
explorer. And in the bottle would also
have been found the ships nag and, Of
course, q map. Maps are always In
cluded. And our map would have been
regular and genuine In at least one re-
and x marks the spot. 1t would have
shown the exact place where we caught
the tubful of fish, also the grand farm
in Smiths Creek, and the place OF the
wild hay honey would have been tndi-
Gated by croSs-bearings and an old oak
tree. real treasure map.
HOWEVER. we digress. We are ex-
i / ploring, not disappearing. And we
are at Baltimore, mistress OF the
bay, city Of narrow streets, where the
wives and daughters Of the stout
burghers each morning at daybreak
scrub the front steps white so that
papa may, upon his eventide return
from the marts Of trade, roost there
with his neighbors.
And we, too, sit upon steps. We are
sprawled upon the top step at the
Maryland Yacht Club, overlooking the
club basin and feet. Now, pay atten-
ton. Don't skip any words. This club
is the largest yacht club in the world.
Most members. Most boats. This Is
of1cial And we add, unofflcially, that
it Is also the most agreeable. most
beautiful, and so on and so forth. 1t
is, as the second mate puts it---a pip!
We inquire, why and how can all this
be? And the answers are various-ef-
fcient administration, cooperation, en-
thusiasm, effort, vision-all of these
contributing and then the chief rea-
son-it is the only yacht club in Balti-
more and its membership numbers over
900 and is constantly increasingly
Wherefore its revenue is large and re-
sources enormous.
which we are slightly familiar. A
smaller city. A city of FIVE yacht
clubs, each of them small; small basins,
small club houses, small memberships,
small facilities And no one knows or
may estimate how many more yacht
clubs are at present in process of COM
bination in the minds of some of the
disconnected members of the present
assortment. In this city of factions
there are always discontented members.
They are usually members of the Party
of the Left Wing-the outs. Whenever
things fail to suit them they immedi-
ately threaten to form new and bet
ter yacht club. The only deterrent Is
the lack of space. Were there more
space there would be even now more
yacht clubs. Even unto dozen.
DUT let's return to the BIG club.
- The wharves are well built and
well kept and instead of one basin,
as is usually found, there are four.
Sturdy and well driven piles form the
berths-not the well meaning bean poles
so often found elsewhere. The stew
ards are polite and Of real service (their
jobs depend on it,, and the resident
secretary man to pattern after. The
club housed Ah-h-h-h There Is al