The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-07-25
fCorrcspondeuce OF che Richmond Dfspatch.l
WARN SPRINGS, Bath COUNTY,
July q, 1882.

I am tardy in sending you promised
word Of greeting from the Warm, which
has opened with assured promise for the
summer OF 1882. OF its virtues and value
m sanitarium and the luxury OF its baths
Il is needless that / should speak to the
Richmond people; yet cannot ignore a
subject on which so much might be said
without noting the benefit so manifest daily
upon the sufferers here from the use OF its
wonderful thermal waters. have just been
talking with charming old lady, who tells
me OF her entire relief from sciatica
Of long standing, and with an
other who has been as completely
cured of a severe lameness consequent
upon govt and rheumatism. 1t Is Tor this
class of visitors that the construction OF
narrow-gauge railway from Covington to
this place is so much to be desired-a rail-
WAY which in an extent Of less than thirty
miles would afford an all-rail connection
with the Hot, the Healing, the Bath Alum,
and the Warm Springs; and when 1t Is
known that charter for this road has
already been secured. that the speciiica-
lions for its construction aggregate less
than hundred thousand dollars, and that
the various parties along the line OF 1t are
eager to become stockholders in 1t to large
amount, it seems indeed q wonder that the
springs in this great sanitarium valley should
still be dependent upon an overland stage.
ride for the transportation OF their visitors
vet such Is the fact. The drive from Mill
borO' TO the springs is one Of great beauty,
over q good road, and to the well and
strong must always possess attractions, but
to the sick and disabled ii Is a serious in
convenience. and we can but hope, for the
good of all pal ties, that it will soon be SUI
perseded by the desired improvement. The
connection once made, and it is safe to pre-
dict for this immediate section of the State,
with its wealth of mineral waters, 4 future
OF unprecedented fame and a patronage
many times in excess Of its present accom-
modations.
THE COMPANY
now here is rapidly approxlmating its an
nual maximum, and by August 1st the ho-
tel and cottages will be filled to be over
flowing. Among the many visitors thongh
it is impossible TO give complete LIST
note: From Washington city, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred. Mcclure, Mrs. General Brady
and the Misses Brady, and Miss Boyd, Mr..
and Mrs. Leibherman, DR.. A. Y. p. Gar
nett, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j. Davis and
niece, Miss MaurO, Mrs. Mamie Hull, and
several others. From Alexandria, Mrs.
Peyton Randolph and family. From the City
of Brotherly Love, Mrs. +. A. Crenshaw
and daughters and DR.. and Mrs. Griscom.
From Baltimore, the Misses Rhinehardt.
DR.. and Mrs. George S. Gibson, and Mr..
George Gibson, Mr.. and Mrs. James G.
Wilson, Mr.. Thomas Ellicott and his aunts
(Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Handy, Mr.. w. W.
TAYLOR and the Misses Taylor, Mr.. and
Mrs. b. f. Gambril, and others. From
Savannah, Ga, Mr.. and Mrs. John Nesbit
and family and Mrs. Wilder and daughter.
From South Carolina, Mr.. Alfred Hampton
and Mrs. Wade Hampton now OF Ken
tucky), Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Williams and
family and Mrs. A. NJ. Adger, Of Charleston.
Mrs. w. p. COwan and Miss Barbour, OF
Cleveland, Ohio; Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ.
DIV and family, OF Cincinnati; the Misses
Crawford, of South Carolina; the Misses
Leggatt, of New York; j. NJ. Schley and
wife, Of Maryland; Mrs. T. OXnard, Of
BROOKLYN; Mrs. p. OXnard and daughter,
of Pittsburgh; Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Paul,
Mr.. Richardson and his sister, Miss Tiar-
riet Richardson, Mrs. George Lee and
sons, and Miss Gay, Of Richmond; Mrs.
Governor Brown, OF Mississippi, and a
number OF others, whose names i am I'M
able to give, from other sections Of the
country.
The Warm is especially remarkable as a
sanitarium in the combination OF attrac-
tons which it presents to the young and
gay as well as to the sick and suffering.
"Canes" and "crutches" there may be,
and "aches," and "pains," and "isms,"
but the prerogatives OF the ballroom are
never impaired or intelfered with by these,
and sympathy, however much it may keep
pace with suffering, yet seems to run par
allel also with much that is bright and gay.
Thus it happens that the "Heel-and-Toe
Polka" the "Racquet," the "Lancers,"
and the "Old Virginia Reel" come in as Il
cheerful offset to weak ankles and lame
legs, while among the "dOuble back-ac-
tions," spinal columns, rheumatic shout
ders, lumbago, and govt, all amicably di-
vide the honors with tenpins, trips to Flag
Rock, shooting-matches, equestrian launts,
and last, but not least, with small talk and
gossip, which, il it isn't double back
action, what is il? At least it is special
Providence which is more than apt to come
to pass where ''two or three are gathered
together" for other things than their
prayers.
THE BATHS,
common trysting-place for all of these
contrasting elements, are of course great
feature OF the day; and surely there is
nothing i'm the known world more luXu-
rious in Its way than the clear pools at the
Warm at their standard temperature OF 0S.
OF the excellence OF the hotel here and the
delightful fare for which it is Justly famed,
it is needless to speak to those who have
been here "celd "a sans dire" and Others
must come and see for themselves. Colo
mel Eubank, perhaps, shows his knowledge
OF human natdre in making his dining
room his strong card, and upon "man as
the creature of an hour "-the dinner-h0or-
that sort OF advertisement is never lost.
Breakfast and supper, too, with their hot
waflles, sally-lunn, aannel-cakes, ante
bellum beaten biscuit, and other nc
compartments Of a well-kept dining
room, are also eloquent AS special pleaders
and are not without their charms for tn,
most msthetic-bM - 1t Is TO the doe
trines of the northern man THAT MeOret,co
eater of cold bread that these things ar,
most fatal; and from the vim with which
he denounces them at the outset Gas poison
to the human stomach" and the vigor will
which he destroys them II large quantities
ut supper-time, the inference is in ordel
either that he is for some cause bent OF
suicide, or that he considers himself in som,
way non-humanized by his trip to the Vir
ginia mountains.
1t is perhaps little risky to mention
here the
ANOMALOUS FACT
that the beaux at present preponderate Ia