The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-28

room. filed scith pretty girls.
NorreoMKRY WHITE SULPHUR SPRIEas.
have spent a day or two at this place with
verv great sstisfactfon. The esta bIishment is
vet not half completed; notwithstanding TINS
however, they are entertaining near three
hundred guests. The plan embraces Two
lines Of Handsome cottages and larger build
;nos which are located on each side of the
irvine and face each other in parallel lines.
The line At the foot of the hill on the east side
ia nearly fuished-that at the foot Of the bill
which bounds the beautiful ravine on the
vest has not yet progressed further than the
diepine of the foundation. If We may Judge
from the progress made blythe company since
last October, we may predict the complexion
of the entire plan by the next watering ses-
SON. The timber of which the buildings now
nut up are constructed was in the green tree
last Fall The company have displayed
oreat anerpy "a well as great liberallty, ana
Are determined to spare neither money nor
labor in the prosecution OF their scheme
When their establishment is complete they
can readily accommodate most comfortably
six or seven hundred people.
On the premises are discovered two sui
phur and several chalybe springs, one
If the latter have tasted and find 1t to be
very strong. The ravine is broad and ex-
tends for mile and half undiminished In
width, opening Q fine field for Improvement
with the green turf, trees and walks. In the
middle Of the level vale, half way between
the two lines of cottages. stands the building
where the clerks Office ia kept, and into this
building runs the company's Kali Road,
which connects with the Virginia and Ten
nsssee Road. The guests for the place ride
into the house and getting out enter their
names Along the middle of the ravine in its
whole length from the Va. & Tenn. Road
flows Q swift running brook fed by the never
failing fountains which burst from the inches
of the Alleghanies. At considerable eleva-
tons, springs of delicious water issue from
| the sides of the bills behind and above each
| of the lines of cottages. Pipes from that on
| are built and by similar conductors the fOun-
| tain Tor fountains if necessary for there are
| seyerai on the western bill will be made to
| supply the cottages on that side of the ra-
vine.
Thus you see tie locality is very happily
| adapted to the enterprise, and when 1t be-
comes to be improved in the manner design.
ed by the Company, will be one OF the most
beautiful, as well as comfortable summer re.
treats iu the State.
| observe that your correspondents have
generally extolled the fare here. They have
not said word too much in praise of it.
doubt whether they have done it justice. l
am delighted with the arrangement of the
dining room, where the round tables are al
together used. Each table will sit comfort
ably ten or elsuen persons. They afford the
opportunity of great deal OF sociabillty at
meals, and have most happy effect physi-
cally and mentally / wonder that they are
not more generally adopted. The chief OBJ
lection to them l had supposed, was that
more space would be required by them than
by the long tables. l was pleased to learn
however, that on the contrary, about one
hundred more people can sit down to dinner
in the dining room al this place with the
round tables than could be accommodated
with The long ones With the round tables
| the attendance of servants can be better
regulated, and the distribution of the dishes
more equitable. The biIlof fare is better I'M
derstOod, and more readily and satisfactorily
discussed. 1t is enjoyed too with that best
of sauces, table talk, which beguies the ap-
petite and helps to prevent that great evil,
over eating, which is indeed the only draw
back to the rapid Improvement of hundreds
of people who come to the mountains in
| search of health. Let me contrast with this
picture another, which is common at some
watering places. You sit down to a long
fable; before you is plate, &c, for your des,
sert, salt perhaps, and at your side a tum
| oler--ail else is desert indeed. You see off
| to the right and left dishes of vegetables and
| some miserable pastry. The walters bagin
their movements from end to end of the table.
stamping on the floor like horses, and rush
ing by each other with speed and awk
wardness putting in jeopardy life and limb:
for were two of them to strike their heads
together there would be broken skulls with.
out doubt. You call waiter" "waiter'' in
vain-fnally, with exhausted patience and
full of anger you get fellows ear and at
Notwithstanding the walters and the place
the while-and for fear you will not get him
again, order beef and bacon, and mutton and
chicken, and as many kinds of vegetables as
there are on the table. Angry and hungry.
you proceed to eat your dinner, growing like
beast OF prey and sw allowing, half masti.
Gated, more food by double than is proper or
prudent. Thus men are converted for the
nonce into barbarians, and at those periods
10 the day meal times-which should he ma
riods OF placldity and good humor when the
mind should be at ease, the spirits bright and
the dispositions amiable, you are transform
90 into savage, and feel more like eating
some one alive than doing kind action TO
oollge anybody. In this way do MANY find
mat having travelled a long way for reIaxa
ton and pleasure they are most sadly disap.
| pointed.
How different from this dining room mic.
ture Is that have already drawn you of the
dining room at the Montgomery White Sui
P"ot' Will lto TOuuQ tables adorned with
handsome castors, goblets, white napkins.
and neat wares; with its systematic arrange,
ments and the prompt and polite attendance
OF Its walters; and above all with its excellent
fare! The cooking is urexceptionabe and
the very best of every thing is procured bv
the caterers for the establishment. Accent.
ing the invitation of the efficient Superinten.
dent, MIR. Thompson Tyler, l examined the
kitchen and found the arrangements for
cooking everything to perfection, most admi
rabie. l came from it with an appetite
whetted for dinner. whereas in visiting soms
other kitchens should have lost ali relish
for eating for day at least 1t is generally
most suicidal for a traveller to look into the
kitchen; but he need have no fears about
looking through that at the Montgomery
Springs.
The company here is very agreeable, and
embraces some most substantial and ipfiu
entail citizens. There are some yery pretty
glrls but here, as at many other places. the
beaux are rather delinquent. Thew sre too
fond of going off to themselves, and hence
the ball room is mostly filled with the gentle
fair ones, waiting the arrival of the trmant
gallants. A ball was, after hard scraDing and
calling by the orchestra. and after consider.
able effort by the polite managers of the