Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-07-16
Thursday Morning, July Is, 1874.
SrArNroN-Trs ENTERPRISE DANGER OF
OVER GRowrH-FAT MEs, &c.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
IMPROVEMENTS
NUMBER OF Wis
IroRs Sc.
WHITE SuLPHuR SPRINGS,
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cestors. After eating youratdinner in
wv oodstock, you can reach the White
Sulphur-a distance of 1862 miles, to an
early tea. Missing connection at Staun>
ton with the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail
road, l was compelled to remain in the
city of more than seven hills until the
next day. I took lodging at the Amer
lean Hotel. ct bed time I was shown
to my room on the third story. The
room had two windows one of them
overlooking the depot and the passen
ger platform of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railroad the other, one of the most
business streets of the city. There were
no outside blinds to the windows; and
to my discomforture, found that about
half of the inside blinds were torn off,
rendering it impossible to secure the
privacy of my room against passers by.
What should l do? 1t did not suit
my convenience to retire in the dark,
and I shrunk from exposing myself in
DIS haJille to the good people of Staun-
ton. Of the device resorted to In this
dilemma, it is unnecessary to speak, but
should not first class hotel of an as
piring city afford better Accommodations
for their guests
The thrift and enterprise ofthe grow
ing city is we'll calculated to strike cit
izen of your quiet town-Where enter
prise seems to be ready to sleep its last
sleep. In every part of the city the
sound of the hammer and the trowel is
heard, and in every direction the limits
Of the city are being extended. Your
correspondent could but feel that the
thriving people ofStaunton were bui Id
ing up very "West in their midst The
advance in the value OF real estate has
Simply been enormous | could but
feel, however, that the city was becom~
ing oyer groom and that unless some
manufacturing enterprises are establish
ed there must be reaction business
will flag and the prices Of real estate will
fall very far below its present value.
Notwithstanding, the enterprise Of
the city there are large number Of
loungers- especially among the cclored
race, who hang about the depot.
rendering egress and ingress to the.
cars almost impossible. The Mayor of
the city, Hon. n. X. Trout in his
message, recommends that some meas
ures be- taken to remedy this evil.
1t should be done.
Another feature which strikes one in
passing along the streets of the city
is the great number of corpulent
men. At every turn, you meet fat men
men fearfully fat, fat bodies, fat
cheeks and fat hands folded complacent-
ly over their fat stomachs.
What the oleaginous elements of
Staunton are, ] am somewhat at a loss
to divine. Is it the salubrious climate9
Is it the effects of Bumgardner's Old
Rye? Or, in their efforts to magnify
Staunton into a city, are they now
enjoying the imitation of the toad whose
vanity led HIM to aspire to the proper
tons of the OK?
After a ride of "a hundred miles over
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
through country of the grandest and
most beautiful mountain scenery |
have ever seen, | arrived at the cele-
bfated Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs. Saratoga of the South.
A brief description of the Springs NAV
not be uninteresting TO your readers
The White Sulphur Springs are I'M
mediately on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, 100 miles west of Stauntop
and upon the Western slope of the
great Appalachian chain of mountains
which separate the waters that flow
into the Chesapeake Bay from those
that run into the Gulf of Mexico.
The situation of the Springs is eleva-
ted and beautifully picturesque, sur
rounded by mountains on every side.
About two miles to the South. and in
full view is Hates Mountain; to the
West, and distant about one mile, are
the GTeenbrier Mountains, while the
towering Allegheny, i'll its magnificent
proportions, is found five miles to the
North and East.
The Spring yields about thirty
gallons minute; and it is remarkable
fact that this quantity is not perceptibly
varied during the longest spell of wet
or dry weather.
The Spring is much larger than the
White Sulphur Spring at Seven Foun
talns, but it is not as strong sulphur or
as cold.
EXTENT AND CHARACTER OF ACCOM-
DATIoNs.
The hotel is. one Of the largest
buildings IN the South its dimensions
being too feet il, length by CORES.