Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-04
II. WHlrMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor,
SOUTHERN sUMMERING PLACES.

New York Tribune.
1t would be of advantage to the
whole country if a part of the
great current of tourist travel rush
ing now here and there through
the North could be diverted to some
of the summer resorts of the South.
The good effect of the Presidents
proposed visit would be greatly
strengthened by a cordial social in
tercourse between the educated
masses Of both sections, and, under
the circumstances, the first advance
should be made from our side. At
Il watering place where. every man
pays his own scot, there is q free
dom from obligation, a lazy good
humor, holiday zest, which is
much more conducive to good fell
lowship and friendly feeling than
are the relation Of host and guest.
1t may seem u reversal of the order
of things to 60 South in summer.
But the Sulphur Springs of Vir-
ginia are delightfully."- cool, and this
summer the hotels are better kept,
as a general rule, than FOR many
years. The wealthier classes of
Virginia resort there now, as be-
fore the war. There is, of course,
less display of substantial family
equipages, servants and diamonds,
but there is just as much state,
and as solidia conviction that when
Virginia makes a joke all the world
laughs. There is really little too
much vaunting Of poverty, perhaps,
for sound common sense. The
younger generation show them
selves too apt to sit down on the
fortune lost in the war" as a pc
destal quite sufficient for present
and future glory. Intercourse with
Northerners would probably sug-
gest to their minds that twelve
years is enough for an energetic
man, in possession Of an education
and influence, if not to make a for
tune, to lay the basis of a comforta.
ble competency. Southerners arC
not slow in receiving such practica
hints. 1t is curious to observe how
they have been inoculated with I
good many work-day ideas by thu
very Federal soldiers whose pres
ence was so sore grievance among
them.
The whole mountain region, from
upper Virginia to South Carolina
offers temptation such as are not t
be found in the Andirondacks t,
sportsmen of every kind. Bears
wolves, deers and the smaller gam
are to be found in all the range
below Christiansburg. In South
ern Tennessee, every farmer in thes
mountain regions will stake il
folks" for prices absurdly low, an,
furnish, as a rule, good butter, cof
fee, and hot bread and chicken ~
e nauseam. There are quiet littl
watering places, too, much smalle
than the Virginia springs, to whicl
. the best classes OF the Carolinas
Georgia and the lower gulf State
resort, and where Northerners rt
ceiye an exceptionally cordial we
come. Board at these places-suh
stantial, good and well served
ranges in price at from IS to 81
per week. There are quaint littl
inns, too, in villages lying LITERAL
above the clouds, where the sam
kind of board costs but from S3 t
SIS per week ; whore bear-steaks an
venisou-collops appear for break
fast where spring chickens ar
sold at eighty cents per dozen, an
mountain trout at five cents pc
, pound. We know Of no such pal
g adises for artists and epicures q
: these almost inaccessible Mort
Y Y Carolina hamlets. In South Care
d lima the principal place OF resort
g Cesar's Head, mountain SUNNI
1o a, over 1000 feet above tide-wOte
., from which can be seen the vas
: valley of Carolina and Georgia, an
lS iS where winter clothes and fires al
~ necessary Just now. There al
Soc houses furnishing comfortable al
y, 80 very cheap accommodations he
- also We know, in short, no bett
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