The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-08-11
MOUNTAIN TOP CROWDED
WITH PEOPLE ON SUNDAY
Two Widely Separated Attrac-
lions And Weather Combine To
Draw Largest Crowd In Years
OAKLANDER WINS BEAUTY
CONTEST AT CABIN LODGE

Two widely separated attractions
and the weather combined accidentally
last Sunday to bring to the mountain
more than fifteen thousand people,
the largest gathering of folks during
the past several years, according to
observers.
A safety day meet and bathing
beauty contest at Cabin Lodge, on
Deep Creek Lake, attracted crowd
estimated by police at seven thousand
persons.
An afternoon service of the Noun
tain Top camp meeting at Mountain
Lake Park attracted an audience OF
1850 in the huge amphitheatre there,
and most of that number remained for
the evening service. An excursion was
run from Cumberland and intermedi-
ate points to the Park, which brought
several hundred men and women.
Other spots along Deep Creek Lake
and the Swallow Falls State forest
area were crowded with people and
more than two hundred gathered at
the Paugh and other family reunions
in this vicinity.
Altogether it was day of much ac-
tivity for the people of the Garrett
County Tableland.
Wins Beauty Contest
Mrs. David w. Walter, Jr, Oakland,
won the first annual bathing beauty
pageant. Second to Mrs. Walter was
Miss Mary Jean Cox, representing the
G. C. Murphy Company, Cumberland,
while Miss Frances Rita Blocher, en-
tered by the Grantsville Woodmen of
the World, won third prize. There
were about twenty entries from towns
in Allegany and Garrett counties.
Mrs. Walter received silver loving
cup. Miss Cox and Miss Blocher were
awarded bathing suits.
One of the largest crowds ever to
assemble at the Lake gathered for the
pageant which was held in conjunction
with the annual safety day meet under
the direction of the Deep Greek Lake
Association. In addition to the beauty
contest there was motor boat parade
at three o'clock, a swimming and div
ing exhibition and a sail boat race by
members of the Deep Creek Yacht
Club.
Richard C. HOLDEN, of Frostburg,
won the race with his black hulled
Alias. DR.. Donald W. Groves Holiday
was second and another Frostburger
took third place when William Sluss
finished in his fast home-built Cy-
clops. Two-thirds of the clubs entire
fleet of snipe class sloops were towed
by Commodore Frank M. Wilson's
flagship, the motor-cruiser, Stella
Parva. 1t was necessary to heel the
boats to their beam ends to pass under
the Glendale bridge.
The Oakland Boys Band provided
music and also gave a drill exhibition
during the afternoon, and ferris
wheel furnished amusement for many
during the day.
Automobiles jammed the highway
for one mile each side of the lodge and
filled number of adjacent fields.Park
ing was under the direction of the
Clarksburg Boy Scouts, who are now
camping near Rainbow Inn.
Mountain Top Camp Attracts
The Bashford Amphitheatre, seating
5000 people, was practically filled on
Sunday afternoon to hear Rev. Dan
McNally, of Cumberland, and other
evangelists on the program of the
camp meeting. Prof. j. R. MacMurry,
of Pittsburgh, has been giving special
musical programs daily. A wedding
was performed during the service on
Sunday evening, by Rev. Frank N.
Lynch.
These evangelistic meetings are
scheduled to run until August 81. This
week, from August to 10, during the
morning hours, there is being held an
evangelistic institute with Rev. Fred.
Rarnas Wastarnnort in charge