Evening star., 1934-05-27

and takes his baggage to his state
| room. The machine is driven aboard
by steamboat employees and the pas
senger may safely forget it. At Nor
folk, next morning, for instance.
ones porter calls at his state room
for the luggage, carries it below and
stores it in the passengers car. On
docking. the machines are driven
ashore and passengers merely present
their car-claim checks on the wharf,
step into their cars and drive away
to pleasure. Another point to re-
member, however is that if your
car was one of the first to go aboard
the steamer at Washington, you
might have to wait an hour for it
at Norfolk.
The meals served in the dining
salons of the Norfolk and Washing
ton lines ships are comparable to
those served in the finest hotels
ashore. A complete table d'hote din
ner costs a dollar and a la carte
service may be had at similarly low
prices. Parenthetically, the steamer
line has no liquor license; beer is
the strongest beverage available.
Good Hotels Available.
If the vacationing visitor wishes to
stay at Norfolk itself, he may register
at any one of several really good
notes.-the Monticello. the South
land, the Atlantic and the Lorraine
being among the more prominent
None of these is new, but all are ade-
quately appointed and are situated
within a six-block radius on CRANKY
street.
Most true vacationists, however
prefer this city's resorts and in them
they have an almost bewilderingly
wide choice of accommodations and
prices. There's Virginia Beach, di-
rectly on the Atlantic Ocean; Ocean
View, on the Chesapeake Bay shore,
and Cape Henry, there on the broad
sandy stretches where bay and ocean
meet.
Virginia Beach might be called the
capital of the Norfolk resort area.
1t lies l9 miles due east of this city
and is reached over a broad. smooth
concrete highway leading out of Prin-
cess Anne road here to Seventeenth
street and Atlantic avenue at the
beach. Atlantic avenue is a concrete
boulevard paralleling the ocean front,
and it is fairly lined with hotels, cot
tages and boarding houses
One may have a room in a modest
little boarding house for less than
dollar a night. but if he chooses
such accommodations he should be
prepared to grope in darkness for
the single electric bulb that hangs
badly from the ceiling and he might
even have to discount the rustic of
straw mattress filling. From this
level vacationists may choose upward
to the luxury of the Cavalier Hotel,
which matches the best in America.
Two Casinos.
At Seventeenth street on the ocean
front Is located one Of the beach'S two
casinos. 1t boasts bath houses. a
dance pavilion and a swimming pool
A concrete promenade begins there
and at this southern end has been
erected the fgurehead of the old
bark, Dictator, which was wrecked
on the beach under dramatic circum-
stances late in the last century. 1t
was in that wreck, beach folk will
tell you, that the captain of the
vessel sought to save his baby sons
life by lashing the little tot to his
own body and undertaking to swim
ashore. The seas tore the child from
his father and claimed both the child
and his mother, who also fought
frantically to reach shore through
huge breakers. The skipper was
saved, however, and until the last
three years or so he returned annually
to look upon the f1gurehead of his old
Dictator and to visit the graves of
his wife and child in Norfolk
A fraction over 5 miles northward
along Atlantic avenue, lies Cape Henry
and just before the traveller comes
upon the twin light towers there in
the sand dunes the famous Cavalier
Hotel and its new Beach Club are
reached. The great storm Of last
August shattered this hostelry's orig
inal Beach Club, but expenditure
of thousands of dollars has produced
new club that is smartness itself.
Here is a dance floor that fairly
breathes the salt spray of the surf
And here are IS cabanas, each of
which contains dressing rooms, a
shower and a little sitting room. In
other words, cabanas are individual