The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-31
LETTER FROM DEER PARK
HOTEL.
Lots Of Bigness---HOteI Life--Many
Visitors---Chit Chat and GOssipWifh
Dyspeptic GentIeman---Wheeling
Gucsts--CIOsc Of the Season. DC.
Editors of the Register.

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Gucsts---CIosc Of the Season. DC.
DEER PARK. August 20.
Editors of the Register.
Deer Park Hotel is big concern, and
everything about it is on Il big scale,
many of the people contained therein are
big, physically, the mountains round
about are biz, the prices are big, and, as a
natural consequence, your optics expand
considerably in taking in so much big
ness, while your purse undergocs
corresponding dcminutiOn by the
time YOU have surfcitcd yourself on all
this stupcndousncss. But there is moth
ing strange about all that. The b. " ..
r. K. is proprietor and with hundred
million, more or less, of capital it ought
TO make something extensive out OF 1t.
Descriptions of summer hotels and their
surroundings have Il .stalcnesS and mo-
notony about them, which make
it waste of time to undertake the task;
50 skipping that preamble We vii! talk Of
something else.
There have been rs high rs
235 visitors here ut one time, but the
unpropiciouS weather of last week has
driven half Of them away, and probably
there will not be much over the present
number during the rest OF the season.
The place seems very popular and well
managed, the servants are rs thick rs
their shades of complexion are
varied, for here the African and
the amalgamations arising there
from are the favOrte domcSticS.
Attcntian to your wants by these ''gcm-
men of color" is rs aSsiduous and careful
as YOU could wish, particularly after
handling your trunk, valise or Satchel,
they will lingcr near you with such ten
der expressions of anxiety us to your
welfare or slightest want, that nothing
else but one of Uncle Sans pieces of
fractional currency placed in their paws
seem to relieve their Solicitudc in your
behalf
The every day corners and goers are at
present. quite limited and most of the
guests appear to have sojourncd sutfi-
GENTLY long to make acquaintance
with each other so that walks, Sprightly
conversations, card parties, croquct and
other quiet amuSementS are most in
vogue During our stay we did not OBJ
serve the least desire to dance, though Il
fine band diScoursco most beautiful music
for mn hour or two after each meal
Flirting which has the reputation Of
being an adjunct to every well regulated
fashionable Young lad y's repertoire of
umuscments, when she is on her annual
summer tour, seems to be ut discount
here. for after the closest scrutiny and
pccking our nose around every corner, and
in all the quiet hooks where such question
able pleasures would likely occur, Your
jenkins failed 10 discover but one sol
itarv case, which attracted considerable
notice.
At resorts of this kind, one sees all
sorts of characters, and people from III
most every State in the Union, 50
that you not only receive pleas
IRE, but experience and profit
by meeting and observing the
many strange faces, habits and customs
of those about YOU. One old diSpcptic
gentleman made our acquaintance on
sitting down To- our first rcpaSt, who
dropping into the vacant chair next to
our own with II force that seemed rs if
hi, legs had suddenly given out and II
.crunt that indicated extreme satisfaction,
perhaps, ut being - near new conner,
proceeded at once and without excuse to
intcrrogutc H. on such interesting topics
aS who we were: where We were from;
and if our appetite, were ample to the
occasion? All of which we answered
with proper gravity and respect. This
seemed to warm the old gcutlcman'>
heart toward IL, for he then commcccd
Ia rcgalc our cars with most interesting
dish of gossip. The bellies and "Pcts'
and the "Favoritc>' of the house were
described, and their strong points en-
planned, how long they had been there,
that this blond in modest dress was |
from Kentucky, and that black-cycd /
beauty with the big diamonds, laccs and |
silks with Il hundred thousand in her |
own right. was from Pennsylvania, and |
much more to the same purport which So !
helped our digcStioa that at least al
hour was occupied Mt the table, while we
mentally forgavc the old mans .
bluff questioning at the start, and hoped |
it might be our good luck to have fur
Their information from his extensive stock .
of the inner workings of hotel life But
the next train saw him off to other chimes
where perhaps he will collatc to others in
the same strain rs to us.
The only persons from Your city here
at present are Mrs. Hull Quarter, Misses
Ella and Sallic llandlan and Mr.. ThoS.
Walton. The season will probably close
on the 18th of next month. There is
some talk of the hotel being enlarged
next year to accommodate the antici-
pated increase Of business, hut with /
Baltimore and Ohio railroad there is
much uncertainty a> to what, if any.
changes will be made.
Hoping not to have trcspa>sed on your
space too long, we are truly,
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