The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-11
DEER PARK HOTEL.
The New Summer Resort,

furnishes the IolloWlng description VI
the new Hotel erected at Deer Park as
place OF summer resort:
The Deer Park Hotel occupies com-
manding position, being situated
on the summit plateau OF Big Savage
Mountain, $500 feet above tide water,
and five or six miles distant from the
ridge which forms the crest of the At
lantic slope. The local name of the
section is the "Yough Glades," and it
has long been noted for its beautiful
location and product of "glades
butter"
The hotel is a handsome structure,
built Of frame, painted in two shades of
bright brown, and from the lightness
and grace of its proportions and it's ver-
durous surroundings, is delightfully."- sug-
gestive of the airy GOODNESS so grateful
as refuge from the facilitating heats
of midsummer. The building has a
frontage Of $50 feet, is four stories high
with Mansard roof, having q front
elevation of about sixty feet. The
building consists of main edifce and
wings, the style being a rural gothic.
The main building rises higher, cul-
minating in the pointed gables of the
Mansard root /; each wing has similar
final, the main building being still fur
Their adorned by a beautiful cupola,
which commands a fine view. Two
wide balconies extend along the front
Of the main building. There is back
building, which also has two wings.
The whole structure is well adjusted in
all its Parts, and has a pleasing
and symmetrical appearance. There
are Accommodations for two hundred
guests, a number Of the rooms being
arranged insults for the accommodation
OF families. All the bed rooms are fitted
up tastefully and comfortably, with
chestnut furniture end floor mating, are
perfectly ventilated and provided with
gas and bell communication with the
office.
The parlor is finished in the antique
style, upholstered in cretonne. The
reception room is furnished in black
walnut and uph olstered in crimson rep.
The dining room is spacious, having a
seating capacity of 100 people. The
appointments of the hotel are not so
costly as those OF the Queen City Hotel
and are in o style Of simple elegance,
in keeping with the character of a sum-
mer resort. The house is furnished
with bath rooms aud every requisite Of
first class establishment.
A feature Of the hotel is the employ
meet Of waiter girls, who were brought
expressly for the purpose from Massa-
chusetts. Some thirty-tbree are en-
ployed about the establishment, eight
cen of'wbom are in attendance upon the
table. Their pretty costumes and Gomez
" appearance add to the attractive
ness OF the dining room, and as walters
they arc quick and skillfal and bring q
womanly tact into their duties that
makes things 60 on very smoothly.
There are five hundred acres belong
ing to the company, one hundred OF
which are TO be fitted up into walks and
pleasure grounds. An oval drive, for
ty feet wide and half a mile long, is to
be laid off between the hotel and the
railroad, and drives will radiate from
this in various directions, go as to make
drive seven or eight miles long, no
part OF which will be more than half a
mile from the house.
The grounds immediately in front oil
the house are TO be laid off in fiowery
gardens, the general plan Of which has
already been executed. A fountain, the
let OF which rises from some ornsmen-
tai stonework, which is grown over
with ferns, now adorns the lawns, and
walks the beds OF which are covered
with tan IS base for gravel hereafter,
are laid out IN vaIious directions. A
billiard room and bowling alley are
close to the house, and croquet grounds
are being levelled. There is excellent
trout fishing in the vicinity, while for
game there are deer, cartridges, rabbits
and squirrels.
The water Of the hotel is supplied
from a reservoir, which is filled by
stegm pump from q stream below
The gas is manufactured by spring.
field gas machine, which is apart from
the house, so that there can be no pos.
sible danger from it. A stable with &C.
commodations for sixteen horses Is now
in use, and its capacity will soon bt
anlsrged. The position of the hotel ii
hill slope, aud the view from it is cir
Transcribed by the verduous heights
encompassing the valley in which it is
TIE days are pleasantly warm, while
at night it is so cool as to render blank
els comfortable. With its fine accom-
moiations aud beautiful surroundings i
is destined to become popular sum-
mer resort.
Already sixty rooms have been per
manently engagedlfor the summer, and
at present the house is crowded Will
guests from Wheeling, Cumberland
Baltimore. and. other points, to the mum
Der of about three hundred, which il
beyond the capacity of the house to &C
commoiste.
Among the West Virginlans presen
at the opening OF the hotel were Juig'
J. !. jackson, United States Distric
Court, cx-Judge George II. Lee, for
merly Of tbs Virginia Court Of Appeals
and Judge J. Blair Hoge, OF the Berke
ley Circlit Court. West Virginia. Al
50 Hon. J. n. Camd en-, Of Parkersbnrg
and U. S. Senator II. G.. Davis, who's
cottage is within sight of the hotel
! There was also Col. Byrne. superinten
dent ofpublic instruction for West Nir'
ginis Auditor Bennett and Treasure
Buriet:, and Hon. w. w. Miller, Q
Wheeling, Speaker ofthe House OF Del
egates.