Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-15
A virginia Summer Resort.

We suggest to people Of moderate means
who are now beginning TO think of where
to pass the summer, trip TO the mountains
of Virginia, so celebrated for their mineral
springs. This charming country, away up
in the heart of the Alleghanies, possesses
in a comp paraliyely limited area almost ev-
cry known description of mineral water,
There is, for instance, in many particulars,
a remarkable resemblance between the wa
ters of Wilbad-a celebrated German spa
and those of the Warm Springs. At the
Hot Springs, i've miles distant from the
Warm Springs, we find the new Schlau-
genbad Spring, so called from its resem-
blancc in temperature and hygienic effects
TO the waters of the German spa of that
name. Three miles further down the val
ley are the Healing Springs, with an I'M
posing hotel, elaborate grounds, and COM
Portable cottages. This system of cottage
life obtains at all the Virginia springs. One
lives quiet and apart from the crowd-sub-
stantially in ones castle or log eabn-silu-
ated within a short distance of the main
hotel, where meals are taken. Grouped
within a space of eight or ten miles are the
Warm, Hot, Healing, and Bath Alum
Springs, each capable of accommodating
about two hundred or two hundred aud
fifty guests. Bath Alum, wild, beautiful
spot, with fine brick building aud cottages,
is no longer resorted to it is tho very type
of a neglected watering place, aud would
die a natural death were it not that the
stage "sups aud sleeps" there on its way
from Millboro' Depot 10 the springs in the
VAIN Spring Valley. A few hours ride
from the Warm Springs we find another
group-the Greenbrier White, the Sweet,
the Sweet Chalybeate, the Rock bridge AL
um, the Blue Sulphur, the Salt Springs,
&c. All these springs were greatly resort
ed 10, and Infinitely better known to the
people of the North, forty years ago than
they are to-day. Many suppose, on gener-
al principles, that Virginia must be warm
in summer. The valley of the Warm
Springs is abou. 2,4OO feet above the level
Of the sea, and the gap of the mountain
where the road crosses 10 descend into the
valley $500 feet. The air is pure and in
visorating, the average temperature, from
June l TO October /, is about 69.9o. We
should suggest TO those who may turn their
steps in this direction that far the most
pleasant mode of reaching the Virginia
Springs is by steamer from here TO Rich
mond. The steamer leaves New York, say,
of a Saturday afternoon, and arrives at
Richmond the following Monday in time
to take the first morning train for the
mountains. AT five in the afternoon of the
mo Iayy lanAaH nj MfIiI,nr,1 20
ton, and take the stage for a ten-mile drive
through The widest and most picturesque
mountain country to be found east of the
Rocky Mountains. The horses and driv-
ers are admirable; both belong to the old
s:age-coach period, which Col. Kane has
recently revived with his Tally Ho. The
sail from New York, along the coast,
through the capes, past Old Point Comfort,
Fortress Monroe, Rip Raps, and the scene
of the action between the Monitor and the
Merrimac, up to Norfolk, where the steam
er makes a station, is one of the most
charming features of this route to the Vir-
ginia mountains. The cost of trip TO these
springs can be afforded by those who study
economy. Thus:
From New York 10 White Sulphur.
round trip ticket, Qhere and back
state-room and meals included, $50. so
Board for two months at the Hot,
Warm or Sweet, 1900
Total cost for the summer, including
two pleasant sea voyages, S150.5 so
While board al these springs is 50 per
day for transient visitors, it is only $50 per
month OF 2S days. Most visitors pass the
month, and many pass the whole summer
at one particular spring. The valley of the
Warm Springs is one Of the most charm
ing spots in the world. To those fond of
horseback exercise it offers an endless vari-
ETY. of rides, each one seeming more beau
tiful than the last. One can gallop for hours
through green woods and shady dales,
crossing mountain streams at every mile,
without being inconvenenced by the heat
during the warmest days of July and Au.
gust.-Ne0 York Times.