Forest Glen Park and the Forest inn .. . had from the names of the windincj andintersecting avenues, among which are High-land, Prospect, Summit, Oakland. Rockland,Glen, Linden, and Hillside. Another feature which makes Forest Glen adesirable place for a suburban home is its prox-imity to Washington and the ease with which iccan be reached by either drive or rail. By rail,connection with the city m^y be had by a pleas-ant twenty-five minutes ride at almost any hourof the day, on trains arranged especialh for theconvenience of suburban travel. The old Na-tional pike from Washington to tlie west
Forest Glen Park and the Forest inn .. . had from the names of the windincj andintersecting avenues, among which are High-land, Prospect, Summit, Oakland. Rockland,Glen, Linden, and Hillside. Another feature which makes Forest Glen adesirable place for a suburban home is its prox-imity to Washington and the ease with which iccan be reached by either drive or rail. By rail,connection with the city m^y be had by a pleas-ant twenty-five minutes ride at almost any hourof the day, on trains arranged especialh for theconvenience of suburban travel. The old Na-tional pike from Washington to tlie west, knownlocally as the Seventh Street Road, by whiciiForest Glen Park is reached, offers a drive overits smooth surface which is never so muddy as tobe impassable, and which is one of the mostsightly and best maintained boule\ards in thecountry, as far as the District of Columbia limits,being kept in perfect repair by the V. S. Gov-ernment. From the District line to the Park thedrive is but a short one over the same road, whichis macadam
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