National Republican., 1881-09-09
THE WHITE SULPHUR
OLD vrRoININs FAMOUS RESORT.
A Description Of the Place Where The wealth, Tai
ent, and Beauty orthe South Congregntes-
Its Early History--The Great Hotel
and Its Surroundings.
Special Correspondence OF run RnrunMcAs.

Special Correspondence OF rur RnrunMcAS.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w. Va, Sept
5.-"Time works wonders" One hundred and
thirty years ago the entirorange OF country ex
tending west from the summit Of the Allegheny
Mountains to the Ohio River was vast unbroken
wilderness offorest upon whose soil the foot ofno
white man had ever trod. II was the beautiful
hunting. ground Of the proud shawanecs, OF whom
now not avestlge remains Progrcss-thatde despoilcr
of the handiwork and beautiful in nature
has uprooted even tho Indian mounds with which
this charming valley once abounded. No wonder
the poor Indian fought SO hard to retain tina:
.ture's heritage TO him-ngainst the grospng and
relentless encronchmonts Of the white man; for
The embellishments Of art and the Establishments
OF progress cannot add single beauty of feature to
its picturesque surroundings, which sprung Into
existence at the touch
OF THE MASTER HAND.
Progress may ruthlessly cut down the majes-
tic, towering, widespreading oaks of the romantic
lawn, which have withstood the bntletings and
storms of centuries, and now shade from the suns
rays and impertinent eyes the coying OF the beau
tiful and bashiul maiden against the ensnartng
ways OF man in the Glove chase" for fair Bolindas
heart (oftencr the ducats other dad ~ and rdely
drive the fencing pair behind some friendly
ience-wretched substitute in romancel lt may
tunnel hole in tho cloud kissing mountains, but
progress cannot move them, because ils
faith" in the dollar is greater than In God.
II cannot shrt out the blue sky-a deeper
hue here than anywhere else outside Of
lowcry Franco-with drop curtain painted
10 order, illustrating one Of jay Gould's In
Vulnerable trains d9shing, round a mountain
curve. II cannot bottle up the fine salubrlous ut.
mospherc and carry II OF under patent rights and
sell II at so much sniff 10 brick ridden, dust be-
grtted dcniZens In swctering cities, with their
loathsome surroundings and stining stenches.
mol There is something progress cannot rob us OF
in nniurc-the breezy dels, the glowing noun.
tains, the gurglng stream, and the White sulphur
Springs Here they stand, fast In the everlasting
hills of Gods fnshiOning; and perish the thought,
and the man. too, that would mar the beauty OF
the most enchanting spot on earth with despoil-
ing progress" Long may they remain 10 invig-
crate and cheer the weary traveller
THE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
are situated on Howards Creek in Greenbricr
County West Virginia, and are called after the
county (Greenbrier to distinguish them from
other and unimportant springs named white
| sulphur" But now when any one speaks or writes
of the white Sulphur Springs this famous re.
sort Is always understood as the place spoken Of
and meant as the White sulphur They lie on the
western slope of the great Appalachian chain of
mountains that separates the waters which flow
into the Chesapeake Bay from those that run into
SPRINGS @ % Is " elevated % and beautiful beautfilly y pic Ce
turesque in shade and light. Kate's Mountain
| in full view on ono side (the eastern), the
and south the craggy and towering peaks of the
Allcghanies are TO be seen. Theyare distant from
Washington, on the Poi9mae two hundred and
| two hundred miles; are sixteen hours travel
| from New York, and about the same from Clncin-
| natl They arc in the midst of what is known in
| the Old Dominion as
THE CELEBRATED "spRINGs REGION"
the Hot, the Healing, and Warm Springs being
from thirty TO thirty-fye mil to the north the Old
sweet and the Sweet Chalybcatc sixteen miles to
the east the Red Sulphur forty y-one miles, 10 the
south. They are in latitude SOC north and longi.
| tude $500 west from Washington, and are two
| thousand feet above tdc-water mark. The alti-
tude of the mountains Immediately surrounding
the springs is $500 feet. The temperature during
the summer here in the daytime, is from 600
| to 75o, and rarely rises higher than $50 but this
season 1t proved an exception, going up for day
or two TO 90o; but notwithstanding this "spree''
Sansc S s nSYh%s%
| temperature of the waters is $40 Fahrenheit
have the
HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF
these springs at my fingers end, but do not care
| to inilict 1t upon TIE REPUBLICAN readers. There
| Is nothing new under the sun III IL, and II
S" to sSady Phs sre
son, of the stealthy, inquisitive aud acquisitive
white man, ,and the combative, aggressive, and
jealous red man; the pale faced youthful swain,
the pning Indian maiden queen in her right;
| the jump from the Lovers Leap" and the two
grave stones below; and hence the tradition and
| the tragedy OF the Lovers Leap, and afterward
the old woman with the rheumatic" and the
medicine. water" All this might tell you in
eTtegso Saea AN and ,nS more besides but let the
pointed "iovyersS and old maids dwell in" in H.
aud count the time Of years ago, when /,
its duties and It's responsibilities. The " time that
| works wonders" has recently put its improving
hand to good use here since my last visit, two
| years ago. But to begin ut the beginning; In
1873 visitors TO these springs used TO come here
ana camp out in tents, and among the number
may be named, the famous pioneer settler and
cestor of the present Readjuster Republican can
cabins took the place of the primitive tents. In
hands Of a company Of Virginia gentlemen, who
greatly improved 1t, the extent OF Its territory
being seven thousand acres.
THE LARGEST HOTEL IN THE COUNTRY
was erected, being four hundred feet long and one
| hundred feet wide, covering an acre of ground in
| extent. Cottages were erected amphitheatre-liko
| on the beautiful green lawns by gentlemen noted
in politics and high social poStion-the Pickenses,
Van BuFens, Ia mhamptons' CoreorSins sni &ci In thG
| OF the United States court TO company Of enter
prising gentlemen of Virginia and West Virginia,
the hands divide awake New Workers, who i" see "
II they 80 on improving it like they @ have S 6ecn
| but eclipse any watering place in America. BY
next year or the year after II is proposed 70
have accommodations for twenty-five hundred
! IL Is lust as easy to have five thousand here as
| twenty-five hundred. For when the accommoda-
tons were not all that the comfort or the heart OF
the old White sulphur everyiyear, and by the
same persons, too, who went away the previous
| year loudly abusing the Kerosene lamps, tallow
| "dps," stuck in champagne bottles, and damnine
| the cuisine. There was
souABLE CHARM
and fascination about this time -honored place
that draws people here-mGgnetically, as II were
| that no discomforts would keep away. Once
he or she got inoculated with the White Sulphur
Springs fever, no attraction at any other resort lei
| IL be ever so great, could keep him or her away
from the mad and fascinating rout of pleasure, in
nocent fun and frolic that was to be enjoyed here
once you receive an niroduclion by responsible
| which is always to be found here season after
season. Happy childhood is charmed In It, be-
cause no danger rmenaces It's sport and Is therefore
not restrained but allowed to roam at its own swe
will and pleasure. The maiden in her teens and
with her soul in her speaking eyes the gallant by
her side with his "heart In his mouth with sweet
expectancy adore the place, because just now It Is
the scene and scope of
"LovEs YOUNG DREAM"
and all It's hopes and what life is worth living fol
and heart that Is tender and true. The happily
married dame and her portly pdterJdmAids, who
first met her in the grand ball -room-his hearts
idol" and ideal of beauty-(wonder what the old
"boy" with the gold-hea cane thinks Of hel
now 2-reyisits the place the scene of their tender
sing SO feelingly to her first love" When You and
We're Young, Jennie when she was belle and
he was beau. The genial couple are growing old
gracefully, and appear unconscious of the innO.
cent and living fact that they are mother anc
father of bellies and beaux in there in the ball.
and she the belle to their first love. I'll
said that matches are made In Heaven" Nor,
of them are made at the White Sulphur. Ask anS
married gentleman of wealth or social position OF
distinction In the South where lie first met hi
wife, and he is almost sure TO eXcam, with a
ft