The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-17
Travellers Guide.
GheGnteILiaetttr.
Our Massachusetts Letter,
PLA1NFRID, MASS, August II.
Editors OF tho Intclligcncer::
PRRPAToRY,

PLA1HFrELD, MASS, August II.
Editors OF the Intclligcncer:
PREDATORY.
After two weeks Of travel and sight see.
ing, Of pleasure and profit, your cores
pondent has at last settled down to rest in
the beautiful shade Of o wide.spreading
Green Mountain beech. AS he surveys
his note book, however, and sees the great
mas Of incoherenoy and illegibillty that
he has perpetrated upon himself in hurried
moments, his heart almost fails him 10
think Of tearing the nondescript conglom.
Grafton into fragments with which TO lay
the foundation oil newspaper letter.
Even Philadelphia lawyer would fling
the book away in disgust and charge me
with having tried 10 originate new sys-
teu OF shorthand. Some OF these notes
were dashed of in rocking railway trains
and unsteady going cabs; others amid the
confusion OF Saratoga tongues; and the
last pages, decorated with angular lines,
were penciled In the void and darkness Of
Hoosac Tunnel. Ny first jotting at Sara.
toga looks like John Smith, hiz mark !"
but there is something wrong about it,
Four years among the types will teach Q
man not 10 spell This" with ~" Any
how, have not seen nor heard anything
OF John Smith-not one Of him. He has
not been at the "spriDgs" this season.
The next note is pivoted together with
long dsshes. can make part OF 1t out:
Saratoga belles-not sngelic-not pretty
-counterieits-buy their forms-make
their faces" One word ! have 10 leave
out. 1t looks as though it were composed
oil the Greek letters delta" "iota" and
sigma" But my success Is encouraging
and / will break of my preface,
A TRIP TO SARATOGA.
A few days over fortnight ago l
stepped aboard an afternoon train on the
Boston s. Albany Railroad, and arrived
al the capital Of New York at early even.
Ing. As the train crossed "the Rhine oil
America" a grand scene was spread out
for the admiration Of beauty.loVing pas
sengers. Dozens Of palatial steamers
were lying at the whsrves, and cloudy
looking schooners were resting at anchor
farther out In the stream. Away down
the river as far as the eye would reach
could be seen the white sails Of scattered
fishing boats. Not ripple was on the
water until recreant little tug shot out
from its landing, and added beauty to the
scene by throwing up behind 1t q long
line OF ioamipg waves, that reflected the
last rays Of the setting sun. The prospect
in the distance would have been worthy
the study Of one Of the "old masters"
But am getting absolutely grand III
soar much higher some one will have 10
help me down. viz G'f.
ALBANY
ia o beautiful city-beautiful for location,
beautiful in Its make up, beautiful every
where, II you take out It's river street.
This street presents sombre appearance,
and throws of bOat.like smell, II It
could be sliced of and tumbled into the
river, with all It's "wharfrats,n Albany
would be leit q kind Of earthly paradise.
wandered about the city during the in
terval between sunset and dark. The
broad, tidy streets advertised the fact that
the street commissioners Of the place have
not been in the habit Of putting all the
public money that passed through their
hands into their pockets These Albany
commissioners have evidently DETECTED
alarmingly from the popular rule. They
ought
TO BE RMBALMED WHEN THRY DIE
and set up as shining examples for the
use Of coming generations. Broadway
is the principal business street Of Albany,
On State street, with its long, dense rows
Of beautiful shade trees, the wealthy and
arisiocratic have coDgregated and built
elegant, high.priced mansions. II was
getting dark as ! sauntered past the new
State House, which is in process Of con-
struclion Just in the rear Of the gloomy
prison in which State officials have served
out their time Tor many lustrums, but
could detect symptoms OF architectural
beauty and strength about the build
ing. Il isof granite, and when completed
will be one Of the finest State Capitols II
the country.
At this season Of the year Albany no
tells are oveTfowed with tourists on thei
way to and from Saratoga, Lake George
Lake Champlain, the Adirondacks ant
the Canadas. II q stranger who happen
10 arrive late In the evening can argul
the massive mind oi.R diminutive clerl
into the belief that room might be mad
for him in some way, he may congratu
late himself both on being pretty TAI
logicisn. and very fortunate. l found gu
too late that had taken too lengthy
look at the city, for on arriving at tn
DelavAn House it required some elegant
earnest pleading TO get place where
could turn In for the night. ] had 4
work on the clerks feelings. "HoV
would you like 10 be stranger in
strange city with no place TO SleepP
you were 10 stumble on my house, wa,
out In the wilds Of West Virginia, thi
time OF night you know would hay
compassion on you andtake you In, eVel
II you did look little suspicious"
This brought him, "San, take him I
No. 80. There are two beds In the room
Tell that other fellow In there that
would not have sentthis man up II l coul
have avoided It." This Is Q way III
modern hotel clerk has Of compllmentin
you 70 your lace. a-r sg.I sat
The machine, disguised Ia human form
whom the clerk had addressed as sam,
steered for "3s," and ] followed him
Alter good deal Of ceremony, the tenn
porAry inhabitant Of the room unlockel
the door and slipped In. The occupan
was numerous" old fellow OF 90
pounds. he surveyed my whole Length
rnhbed his eyes, and at last broke on
with