Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-08-02
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7 HlNfLT0T SPHERES OATH GA0t~E5
NEAn CoxGREss Hall HOTELs
SARATOGA, July q. 1851
] Letter from S1FafcQG SPRING etfFItsy from
As6 Fork-i Hiseries OF RGftsrdV IfGret--l
summer TyareEers and lStizan1er R0GeLs-1ife
at q Fashionable Flesiin5 PlGee-Sdratega
IN It's Glory, De.
The magnificent apartment from winch i
write is fitting commentary the watering
/ place system, KithFts attendant humbngs. You
! have heard Of the Black Hole of Calcutta, and
| have probably read Horace Mayhew's London
! Labor and the London Poor Indeed, You may
have glanced over the developments made by
the legislative committee last winter, when the
landlords Of the tenant houses received such
stirring up. They were bad enough, but our
| fash;onables may learn to feel for the poor BY
| comparing what is given here for two dollars q
! day, with what Is given in the Rag Picker's
7 Paradise for two dollars month.
You should see the palatial abode oftwo young
1 gentlemen, who, when at home, are accustomed
| to being decentiy lodged. II is single room,
/ about eight feet in height, eighteen IN length,
| and twelve in width, with sIaal window. 1t
/ is furnished in the Puritan fathers style, with
| two queer old fashioned bedsteads, with lumpy
straw beds, two ten shilling chairs, two s7nab
/ washstands, with an homeopathic dose OF water,
and a cracked looking glass. The room IS 50
small that we could hardly get our trunks into
it, and our approach to 1t Is as difficult as the
advances to the Redan at Sebastopol. A care
full aupraisement of the furniture gives four dol
liars and half Us its value We are cut otftrom
the world, aiieBated from society, and consigned
10 the tender mercies of an elderly lady, with
lforbidding countenance and misanthroplc turn
i ofmind. had a better bed at Lancaster, at
the Tuetonic Hotel, for two shilings. than get
here for six shillings. But here am presumed
to be fashionable.
Our abiding place is sort Of outwork to the
great fashionable fertilization, Congress Hall lIo-
itel. Ipresutne We are put here because we are
young and single and anything vii! do for u.s.
with the resignation of marble saintwe accept
these quarters till We can get out of town.
Circumstances compelled your correspondent
to leave by the quickest ronte north from New
York city. Taking an atfectionate tarwen nt tls
fsyorite summer retreats-HobOken, the WASH
!ington Parade Ground, and the end of the Collins
dock, he was whirled out of town by that cnri-
Gus instrument of torture, the Hudson River
Railroad; and here let me advise travellers for
pleasure to shun this method of conveyance. II
lis. indeed, tHo hours quicker than the boats out
what are two hours gained in time compared TO
the awful noise, the binding dust the thirst and
the intense heat from which you suffer on the
railway. You cannot enjoy the delicious river
scenery in anything ike comfort; you are con-
tinualiy reminded of the old rnonkish stories
about the horrors of purgatory.
The trip on the Hudson, with another on the
line Of the Central Railway, satisfied me TINT IN
spite of the assertions of some of the New Hort:
papers to the contrary, the travelling season had
commenced. The excursion public WAS with
me.
All. that dear, good natured, liberal, gener'
ous prodigal excursion public! How it bleeds,
and how it suffers! With what Christian resig:
nation docs it allow itself to be plucked, plum
dered, bullied and snubbed by all sorts al peo'
pie. from presidents of railway companies down
u ,,1o fla
men looked in their queer dust colored travelling
dresses-with their novels and their diamonds
with their dear little CATERS Gnlaced-wlth
their curis all out of curl, and with little rivers
of perspiration, dotted with islands Of dust,
flowing over their pretty faces. How morose
were their male protectors, who, cut oil from
tobacco and brandy and water, sat buried III
dust and covered with Indignation.
But Albany is reached ut last, and, If it is a
night train, we rest at Stanwx Hall, which is the
hotel most frequented by railway travellers. 1t
is a regular railway house. Everything in it is
ordered by the arrival of trains from the East,
sfs at N Any hour 81 lib can hazs c @sa
ling till ! at night; and they will give you some
thing good to eat and good place to sleep
The charges are moderate two dollars per diem.
From here we are obliged to go loo miles on the
Central Railway most uncomfortable, dusty
and badly managed concern. Its trains arc,
however, very long and very full just now. The
way business is immense, and the travel to Nj
agara Falls is also heavy. As an instance of the
peculiarly sagacious manner in which this rail
way is managed, may mention that some time
since the directors adopted an invention of Mr.
Salisbnry's for the purpose of keeping dust out
Of the cars and preventing numerous accidents
caused by passengers falling between them
The invention was kept on while the weather
was wet and the travel light, but as soon as the
jroad became dusty and the summer travel set in
1t was taken off, for the reason that the Patentee
asked for his pay. One of the directors stated,
lin the meeting Of the Board, that he knew posi-.
lively that this invention had saved two lives
On the Erie Railway, the rival Of the Central for
the through travel every attention is paid to the
comfort of the passengers, and the consequence
is that teiErie gets the larger part of the Wes-
tern travel Still, neither of these roads are up
to the progress OF the age. Some of their w est
ern brethercn are far ahead olthen. On very
dusty day in June rode from Cincinnati to Cleve.
land Ohio-a distance of $50 nIiles--in nine
hours. The car was delightfully."- cool, entirely
free from dust, and very quiet. This comforta-
BILE state of things was brought about by the adoP-
ton of an invention of Mr.. Foss, of Buffalo. On
other Western roads they have cars where pas
sengers may sleep comfortably -here one has to
coil himself up like an anaconda in tight place,
and awake with his fingers and toes full OF pins
and needles.
But we are pretty nearly done with the rail
wnys for a day or two. If we are going to Nj
agara by the Central, we shall find it convenient
to stop over night at Syracuse, where the Globe
Hotel gives youa decent supper and clean bed,
at the rate of two dollars per day. IL we arc
going from Albany to Saratoga, We take two
railways to go thirty miles At what they call
the junction VIC are turned out to grass, to wait
for another train. The women sit on their
trunks and things, while the men repose, calmly
smoking bad cigars and lolling in various atti-
tudes, more comfortable than graceful, upon the
grassy banks on either side of the rails. Moth
ling can be more uncomfortable than this rail-
way ride, which is accomplished in two hours
and three.quarters, or at the rate of nearly
twelve miles per hour The price of transit