Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-08-12
Care MAY, Aug. 6, 1858.

CAPE MAY, Aug. 3, 1898.
When left home some weeks ago, in pursuit Of
health and recreation, you asked me to write you
an account of what might happen to me or before
myeyes. Up to this time have found myself
quite too much occupied with the business un-
deflook-the pursuit of health and recreation-to
use pen for any purpose. But mean to write
you one letter. You will not expect me to follow
the impertinent fashion of newspaper coHespon-
dents who chronicle the amusements of watering
places, with the names Of ladies and other visitors
paraded before the public or limited by initials and
astersks. Aud yet let me tell you that if such
gossip is omitted, the annals of such places must
be very brief. To eat, drink, dance, sleep, walk
and ride are the enioyments of all. Flirting is a
luxury added only to the few. The more ques-
tionable amusements are not to be named. And
of what else can one writea @4yei
Travelled over the B. & o. Railroad from Wheel
ing to Cumberland on summer day, and the time
and the scenery made the ride as pleasant as one
may expect on railroad. 1t is magnificent road
through magnificent scenery. never look at this
work, cut through the mountains at such an expen-
ditnre of money and skill and labor, without
amazement. The fables Of Greek or Arabian le-
geud are not 50 wonderful as this reality Yet the
greater wonder Of age and country is that there
are so many other works, scarcely inferior TO this
already achieved by private enterprise. What
were the public works Of ancient Rome or the Ply
ramids of Egypt compared with the railroads of
America3 Bit, being in the pursuit of pleasure,
voted the railroad bore. The jar, the lattle,
the scream of the whistle, the ciuders the smoke,
the guip of a vanishing dinner $50 calledl -what
have these to do with pleasure9 You can neither
talk, listen nor see. If you would contemplate
the sublime mountains the deep valleys and DASH
ing streams which you pass, you find YOURSELF
whisked away from them before you have fairly
settled in your mind what your eye has rested on.
Still these railroads are the very concentration of
the spirit of this utiltaran age. the most notable
example of the application Of knowledge aud
wealth to the practical uses of mankind.
From Cumberland was trundlsd over rocky
roadto Bedford Sprngsin stage coach. The road
and the vehicle belonged to some past age, butby
some mistakeare still there. At Bedford Springs
Ioa41 . cfowdS mineral spring, and scanty
tabls@ana these make up a noted watering place
always The waters are really the most beneficial
that have found any where. They are not un-
pleasant to drink, and their effects, in relieving
many of tie ailments thai flesh is heir to, are very
happy. They are doubtless aided by the noun
tain air and healthful exercise. Many citizens of
Wheeling were there, as there are almost every
season. Some Pennsylvania politiciansweie among
the company, though none of national reputation. |
The nurnbero vistols was larger this season than
usual. The property has just been purchased by
company Of enterpnsing capitalists who win |
greatly add to the accommodations and improve the
means Of accessto the place. There IS certainly /
room ior improvement: -
After spending few days there agreeably I
enough and with benefit to my health, I rode in
another stsge coach over another rough road from
the spnngs % Holiday bprg, on the Pennsyiya
MA RAILROAD aud afterwards vent by that road to
RhiIad lphia. The scenery along the railroad from
HolIidaysbuIg TO Harrisburg Is not surpassed BY
any 49dntpi1 scenery lhat have ever seen and