The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-13
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BALTIMORE.

summer Resorts who will go and
who viii StRy al Ho,ne--wheret the
Tender Ourist will Pitch His Tent
The Growing Favor of Mountain
Air and Seepery-Points ON the b
d d. X. R.-Luxuries the Last TO
| Nield TO Hard Iimes-CommissiOn
ers Seeking 10 solve the Problem
| Correspondence of the Register.
BALTIMORE, May 10, 1878.
The warm embrace of the summer
season is making Summer Resorts" the
fsvorite topic of discourse in social circles.
Those who 60 for health; those who go
TO IT recreation and pleasure; those who
90 because it is fashionable, and those
who don't 60 al al, but wish they could,
are seyerally discussing the most health
flu, the most pleasant, the most fsshioL-
able ard tie cheapest resorts.
The notion that thiI temperate climate
of ours does not Afford any single locality
in which man may comfortsb Y
reside during the tour seasons,
is var by year taking possession
Of an increasing class Of our restless pop
ulation. 1t Will be noticed, however,
that The idea Is moro or lees developed in
proportion to tue plethoric condition Of
| the purse Those who carry purses Of
tho pancake style generally manage TO
"sCather it through" in any locality
whore they happen to live. But now we
| have winter Resorts" as we'll as "Sum-
mer Resorts" and 1t is becoming quite as
| fashionable TO seek the former as the lat
ter. Boston and other northern cities
now send to Baltimore and further south
almos. ~ many 10 winter, as these south.
| ern localities send out in the summer.
| Like the swallows, these tender plants
| take their flight from north TO south, and
south 10 north as the season and weather
prompt them.
Baltimore bestowS as much patronage
on the various resorts as any other city
in proportion. Not because the climate
IS more oppressive in summer than that
of other cities, but from the prevailing
and proVerb al love Of ease that every
full-blown Baltimorean respects. Dur
ing the months of July and August the
depletion in her population is very nc
ticeable. The majority go to the
sea shore-to Cape May, Ocean
Grove or Long Branch. But Of late
years there are large numbers from the
city who 90 out to the mountains on
| the line of the Baltimore 81 Ohio K. +.
Since this company has built hotels for
the accommodations of tourists, the noun
tains have greatly grown in favor. Mary
business msn send their families out to
these hotels and then visit them tive or
three tluxsa week, as the ride is not long
ard the means Of Access direct aud swirl.
| MANY families content themselves with
| going out TO the Visduct Hotel, which is
only nine miles from the city, remaining
all day and returning at night. The
suburbs OF the city IN the direction OF this
hotel are being rapidly built up, and are
the most attractive IN the vicinity OF
Baltimore. Both Deer Park and Oak
land are also largely patronized from
this CITY, as well, believe, as by citizens
OF Wheeling. These hotels Will be opened
under new management this summer, and
| with increased attractions, with the
promise Of larger number OF
visitors than heretofore. The fact IS that
there is nothing more invigOratlng, no
better appetizer than the pure mountain
air and certainly nothing more beautiful
than mountain scenery IN the summer
season.
The disastrous effect OF hard times upon
| the watering places is always confidently
! predicted, and as regularly fails to be re-
| allied. LuIuries are always the last
| items to be stricken from the bills OF those
who indulge in them. They are the last
10 Weld in the fight with financial straits
and problems Of economy. Persons &C
customed to luxuries are the least self-de-
nying of any class. Luxury to them
| is more than mere elf-gratifcatiOn-it is
= fashion, jewelers. never find their sales
falling of simply because the times are
hard. The grocer, the dry goods and
-four merchant, and even the tailor, will
all feel the effect of business depression,
but the ieweler, the tobacConist and the
LIQUOR merchant never do. Muslins and
prints are like sensitive plants,
showing the temperature of the money
market on the instant, while
silks and satnS rule high above the reach
Of sIl panic and perturbation. Those
who indulge the Injuries; those who buy
iewelry and expensive articles OF dress,
and those who pstronise summer resorts
are OF the class who have surplus OF
means beyond their actual necessities and
are Just as intent on having these things
as the poor man is in getting his daily
bread, and with the money at their COM
msnd, it is certain to be spent in this
way.
The recent discovery Of communlatlc
organizations throughout the country is
only another feature Of the hard times.
1t is only the natural, though untenable,
conclusion to the argument which the
laboring classes seek to maintain when
driven 10 the wall by the current OF ad-
verse fortune. 1t is al argument as old as
the organization of the society out OF
which 1t springs. 1t is one that appeals
to the crude sense of right in the masses
of men, and touches the sensibilities if 1t
does net convince the judgment OF the
more intelligent. II Is the man with
bronaed yisage and horny hands, with
scsrt clothing and scant fare;
who is bending under the
burden of hard labor for
scant wages. who goes to his ditching
ADD drudging in RAIN and shine, through
heat and cold, and only complains when
be can't find work it is this weary toll
er who asks, with an emphasis that has
a meaning, why it is and how it is in the
economy of society that he must bear the
brunt of Iifs's labor and feed on husks,
while all around him are people clothed
in purple and fine linen, sheltered in
elegant mansions, snd taking their ease