Evening star., 1934-06-17
DIVERSIFIED 2-DAY
TRIP IS DESCRIBED
Road to Gettysburg and
Frederick Has interest
ing Bypaths.
BY CHARLES b. DEGGES,

Battlefelds and pleasure parks, for-
ested mountains and bustling towns,
paradox on paradox, lie along the 200
mile triangle embracing Washington
in the District of Columbia. Frederick
in Maryland, and this Civil War
shrine in Pennsylvania.
Here is a trip for WaShingtonians
which lends itself well to two-day
and two-night schedule and its itin-
erary, diversified as it is, is reasonably
certain to offer attractions to every
member of family. Too, 1t is tour
where scarcely a mile need be re-
traced. And perhaps best of all, it
places a not too heavy burden on the
family purse.
1t is comfortably possible, for in
stance. to leave Washington at the
Frederick in plenty of time for din
ner and even some sightseeing there
before turning in for the night in
that interest laden community. Next
morning, then. /: would be logical to
satisfy ones fill of Frederick before
travelling on to Hagerstown by way OF
the Antietam Battlefelds. The after
noon might be passed at Pen Mar or
Blue Ridge Summit and the tourist
might spend his second night right
I'D there in the mountains or he might
drive on here to Gettysburg for the
night. At any rate, he would do well
to visit the battlefields here on the
third morning and reserve the after
noon of that day for the delightful
trip home.
Attractive for Vacation.
OF course, the country covered by
this tour is one which can be
brushed" pleasantly in this fashion,
but it is one. too, which offers plenty
in interest, scenery and accommoda-
tions for a vacation as extended as
ones time and inclination.
This correspondent for The Star
made the trip this week. The ROADS
are good all around. not single oe-
tour mars the route. and, although
this is in fact a mountain tour'
onlv once did he find it necessary 10
drop his six-year-old car INTO secoho
gear-and that was for matter Oh
only a few yards.
route which recommends itself by
its natural beauties as well as by tne
highway that comprises it leads OUT
of washington by way OF Wisconsin
avenue. 1t is road No. 240 ana II
GOES through Bethesda, out over one
of the nrettiest pieces of road IN tnls
saction of the country-broad, black
nacadam. bound by concrete shoul-
ders-to Rockville. At that Montgom-
cry County seat. turn lleilI nv
Washington street ana continue VA
ont No. 240 to Gaithersourg.
Continuing, the route passes tnrousi,
Hvattstown. There's not greaI ueai
along the way to warrant stop' pue
# You'll look westward from tnlS
noint You'll see Sugar Loaf Moun-
fain q tree-covered mound that rears
itself to an elevation of l.28o 1eeU.
The road at this point becomes more
nindinp and it is marked by sleeper
Grades but none of them Is very
difhcult Slightly more than 10 miles
from Hvattstown you reach fTeo-
erick. a lively town of l4.275 persons
Good Hotels Found.
At Frederick you'll be just 43'I
miles along the way and you II De
In the second largest city your toui
touches. Now. Frederick is rich IN
historic interest and, fortunately 1or
the traveller. it offers the best IN hotel
accommodations. The leading hostelry
there cost a million dollars and IN
anpointments and service holds Its
MACE with any hotel. Its charges are
reasonable. too-s2 to $3.50 for sim
gle room and SO to ST for a double
room. There are a dining room. hand
some and complete. and coffee shop.
From this splendid house one may
choose downward through number
of very pleasant hotels and tourist
homes" These latter offer clean. COM
Portable rooms at rs cents per person
a night.
If you see nothing else at Fred
erick, don't fail to visit the quaint
little home of Barbara Frltchle, Sit
ting securely on the banks Of Carroll
Greek, where the main highway leads
YOU on your way. Arguments still wax
hot over the historic accuracy OF
Whittier's poem, but it is factual that
Dame Fritchie was a real person who
lived in the little brick house. And
YOU probably won't find many Fred
erick natives who have a doubt in
the world that the white-haired old
lady really did wave her flag in de-
fiance to the Confederate soldiers
from her little dormer window.
Home of Taney.
Frederick also was the home of
Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice of
the United States, who handed down
the famous Dred Scott decision and
who administered the presidential
oath to Abraham Lincoln. In Mount
Olivet Cemetery at Frederick lies the
body of Barbara Fritchie, as we'll as
that of Francis Scott Key and other
personages of American history.
Five miles outside of Frederick
atop Catoctin Mountain is Braddock
Heights, one of the pleasant pleasure
resorts that mark this tour Perhaps
you'd rather spend your night there
instead of in the city itself, and if you
do, there is a variety of hotels and
boarding houses to meet your needs.
An amusement park is located there
and from the rounded top of the
mountain, pleasant views lie in all di-
rections None other than President
Roosevelt was counted among Brad
dock Heights visitors in recent
months. He stopped at one of the
larger hotels that overlooks lovely
Middletown Valley to the west.
Now, from Washington to Fred
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