Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-09-19
The White Sulphur.


PANY OF wAITERs-.-DINNER-
LAUNDRY-THEL LIVERY.
&C., &C., sc.
Correspondence Of the Stanton vIND1cAroR.l
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
W. VA, Sept. Is. J
A careful examination of the Hotel reg
lister at the White Sulphur Springs furn-
ishes some interesting items to news
monger. Here is what Comes Of an hours
diligent leaf turning. Arrivals from the LIST
of June to the 18th of September $40; 265
in June, 973 in July, 572 in August, and
700 up to the 18th of September The lar
gest number of arrivals during the height
of the season was on August tine 9th, 1ul.
The excursion froi Richmond to Cincln-
natl brought q large number.
Now for three hours going over it all
again to the 1st of September to see
WHERE THEY ALL CAME FROM.
Old Virginia leads off with 7S5 of her
citizens who patronized the grand old wa
tering place. Her daughter Vest Virgin
ia sent 277, next comes Pennsylvania with
1872, then Maryland with 1853, New York
159, Kentucky 146, Ohio 146, Georgia 122,
Washington City 80, South Carolina So.
Louisiana SO, North Carolina 81, Texas Al.
Missouri 38, Tennessee 3S, Indiana SO,
Florida 26, Mississippi %, Massachusetts,
IA, Alabama II, New Jersey 10, Illinois 8.
Delaware 7, Arkansas 6, Michigan S, Min
esota 8, Rhode Island 8, Connecticut 2.
California 1, Colorado l, Nebraska 1, Iowa
/, Main 1, West Point and Canada 3, and
from over the waters we have from Eng
land, from Scotland, from Brussels and
1 from the West Indies, making SO States
and foreign countries from which the
White has drawn her grand company this
SUMMERTIME best season ever made there.
WHERE THEY LODGED.
It will be inter esting next to know how
this large company were lodged, fed and
cared for generally. The largest number
present at any one time was 1900. Then
the place was packed and damned. The
Dry Creek hotel which is also run by Col
Peyton, was full, the small parlors and
reading rooms we're used as lodging rooms
and had notices tackled on the doors, "pri-
vate apartments" Portions of the halls
and corridors were curtained off and
''shake downs" spread on the floors at
night, mattresses were put down every
where room could be found for them
three and four were packed in bed where
visitors who were in possession would of.
fer to share their accommodations with
friends rather than see them turned off
And SO they managed to weather through
the jam. e 1.'
s WHAT THEY ATE.
The butcher reports 2 beeves and q
sheep slaughtered every day, to barrels
of -four and 25 to 80 hams of bacon used,
and other things in proportion; one item
was 5000 ears of corn. The poultry man
said his stock was running low, he had
1900 chickens in his coop and said it would
take 500 of them for breakfast. he had had
as many as 5000 chickens in the coop at
one time; q 900 was the largest number
that had ever been taken in during one
season, but they were not SO plentiful this
year. A writer in the N. Y. '"Tribune'
speaks of hotel at Saratoga claimed to
be the largest in the world, where 1000
people sat down to dinner and $40 chick
ems, eight hams and four and half bar
rels Of flour per day were used. This bill
OF fare it will be seen is out done by the
White Sulphur.
WHERE THEY ATE.
The immense dining room 600 feet long
SO, extensive that you can not recognise a
friend one-third of the distance down the
room y the institution of the place. Mr..
W. D. Whitfield of Staunton, is the presid-
ing genius. His management is excellent
and the system ana order which prevails
is Admirable. There are 12O round tables,
half Of them seating twelve persons and
half seating six, ranged in rows down the
length Of the room. The following is
list Of furniture of IL seat table. One doz-
en- each of soup plates, cups, saucers and
yice-cream plates; IA each of large dinner
plates and dessert ditto; l dozen salt stands
and goblets, l jelly glass, syrup can,
sugar bowls, cream pitchers, 2 water
ditto, 2 butter ditto, l pitcher. fruit
stand, bucket, pan, 2 trays, 48 small
dishes, silver; IL each of large spoons, tea
spoons, knives and forks and / castor; u
napkins and s tea towels. When the 12O
tables are set some idea may be had of the
immense amount Of ware, &C., used-1s5
pieces to large table, 90 to a small one,
or 16, $50 pieces total outfit.
PREPARING FOR DINNER.
1t takes 200 walters to serve this great
room, and twenty minutes before the big
bell rings for dinner they all assemble at
one end of the room, except certain
number who are detailed each day to
stand guard among the tables which are
set ready for the guests There is not a
white man in the two hundred, tho they
are all clad in their white aprons, coming
down below their knees, and make the
whitest looking company I ever saw.
There is Captain and Lieutenant who
see to the order and the accoutrements of
the men. While they stand in two open
ranks the roll is called, and every absentee
must be accounted for or held strictly re-
sponsible. Strict order and silence is re-
quired; then at the command, all move
promptly, stepping in good time, one rank
marching out at side door and down a
stairway to the kitchen below, the other
rank to the tables. where they quietly take
their positions. The half who went to the
kitchen are to bring up the dinner, which
is set out in order in large vessels waiting
for them. Every man knows his place
and in less time than it takes to tell it the
head Of the column appears coming up
another stairway, each man heavily laden
with the cooked viands which they had
taken I'D as thGV passed throuuh the Lit