Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-07-19
BERKELEY SPRINGS.
The Famous Eastern Panhandle
.,s Watering Place.
Remisiseenees Of Sir Johns Ruh-0yer tht
J CoeH.ry-BerkeIsy Springs and Baths
Hotel Life Visiting celebrities \ =
.,fF and Other People.
DANCING, FLIRTING AND BATHING

years ago, ay, on this very Sunday morn
ing, this self same scene was before me and
with the war paint and feathers of Math
ews Light Guard, was tremblingly facing
mob of wild canal boatmen from across the
Potomac. The train pulled out for the
West, Just as our devoted little band form
ed in battle array in the face of those over.
whelming numbers, and the news was car.
ried home to Wheeling of how sanguina.
~ conflict had taken place at Sir Johns
Run, dyeing the placid waters with our
blue blood. That battle was ayerted. "All
quiet on the Potomac" was our dispatch TO
Col. Delaplain's headquarters, at Martins
burg, that night, and the only war that Sir
railroad riots of TT, was when Ham Davis
and Peanut Scott made a forage on the
farm houses near by and captured several
chickens from the perches they had select
ed to die upon, Of old age! Sir Johns Run
is 30 called because il was headquarters for
Sir John Sinclair, of Braddock's staff, in
old Revolutionary days, but IL is better
known in Wheeling as the spot nearly con-
secrated by the best blood of the flower of
her youth; and in Martinsburg, as the place
where for thirty weary days, the blossom
of chivalry of the Berkeley Light Infantry
kept weary vigil, dreaming of the time
when a complaisant Legislature would set
tie the bill.
Over to Berkeley.
These thoughts crowded on me as l sur
veyed the ground and were only interrupt.
ed by a rough voice exclaiming: Say,
stranger! If you're going to the Springs
you'd better be spry" became spry and
looked critically at the museum collection
of vehicles, drawn up in imposing array, in
my choice of which was to be transported
to Berkeley Springs, two and half miles
away. A gig, quite as ancient and not
nearly so safe as the Deacon's famous dog
cart and a springless mail wagon, with its
25-cent fare inducement, were rejected and
in five minutes your correspondent was
rattling up the run, seated in the centre Of
the regular stage. The boy driver was kind.
He knew the Horace Greeley story and spit
tobacco like a Kansas grass hopper, but he
did not inflict me with either story or nico-
tine.
said it was two and a half miles to
Berkley Sprngs-it seemed more like ten.
You 20 up for q half hour and then 90
down again, all the time in wild, rugged
country; now passing over smooth noun
tain top and then skirting the base OF a
cliff which frowns 500 feet overhead.
Finally, you begin q steep descent, and the
springs of Morgan county bursh upon
your view. There are several methods OF
reaching the place, but il you ever have
occasion to go there take this road and find
your reward in the beautiful scene you en-
counter at first sight. You are on the side
of an almost perpendicular spur of the
Blue Ridge mountains, and get nearly
bird's-eye view of the Springs. If you have
never been at
Ems or serchon
and derive your knowledge of them simply
by virtue OF good investigation, you will
be struck, as / was, by the resemblance
berkeley bears them. u you have been to
Yewrup and have seen these places, the
blow will not be so forcible Imagine, i'm.
prints, q sky clear and blue as ever bent
over, Tor o'er), the Isle of Green, and day
ss fair as an infants dream. Then fancy a
vale hemmed in by Blue Ridge hills, rising
precipitately on the north, and sloping
away gently on the south, and you have
the stage setting. You come over the
mountain on the north and through the
trees look down on cool and delicious lit
tie village, nesting directly at your feet
and made up of white houses and green
trees. You see the white pillars of the
Berkeley House, opening upon the park
and if the promenaders there were only
chattering French, the picture OF Ems
would be complete. When Claude Mel
notte gave Pauline a description of the
home TO which he would lead her, could
| love fulfil its mission" or his roll hold out,
he surely had Berkeley Springs in his
minds eye, Horatio
But, seriously, this is a beautiful place
and offers many ATTRACTIONS to the weary
| inhabitant of heated cities, searching for q
summer resort Thus early in the season
| il may be true, as lady said to-day, every.
thing in the place wears dress or is mar
| ried,n but present pleasures are but an
| earnest of what are yet to come. Berkeley
! has not the intense style Of Deer Park or
| the gay life Of White Sulphur and none's
| the pity, but it has cool weather, pnre and
Strengthening baths and that delicious ali
OF languor and repose worth everything
else. Washington used to come here and
SO did Jefferson and Fairfax, and Arthur
\ comes occasionally now, but the story that
| he has a sweetheart here is somebody's
| imagination. He came because he had moi
| the back bone to be firm with the cranks pc
titioning in behalf Of Guiteau. That's all
The Springs
| are the property OF the State OF West Wiz
| ginia, and are managed bya board OF trus
tees. The process of the management your
readers all know, or If they don't they are
no better off than / am, aud should read
the REGISTER and keep posted. The waters
contain many valuable medical 'ingredi
ents, iron predominating, and will, OF
course, cure all the varied ills that flesh is
| heir to. There is also sulphur spring
flowing freely for all who may wish. The
bathing water is given hot and cold and Is
principally taken in the form OF a pool
forty by twenty feet, and four and hall
feet deep. All OF the bath houses are in
the midst OF the beautiful park and are
kept cool by the protection of the interlaced
branches Of the stately elms. Hammocks
are swung from tree to tree ,andli { refreshing
| to see how thoroughly they are enjoyed by
the ladies who dangle to and fro in them,
Snugly encoused in comfortable chairs and
rustic benches, other guests luxuriate, OF
lie about in the soft grass and all around
are the children playing and romping, a,
blithesome as larks and as frolicsome a
young kittens The steady lines OF bathers
pour In and out of the grounds, the music
in the papnac senGs out its sweet strain.
and il any one can imagine more delight
full, restful and wholesome atmospher--
well, he ought to seek it at once.
The Berkeley Hotel.
the we'll known hosiery Of J. 7. Trego 4
Son.. is the principal resv:t and stand
upon the edge of the park. not thir'. vard'
\ nom the bathing houses. Its commodiou,
and comfortable, not elegant, and is withai
| a restful kind of a home. Mr.. Trego Is de
servedIy popular with his gzests, and Mr.
Brown, the Clerk, known as Truthful
Brown" and in possession Of the identical
George Washington hatchet,D is host In
himself.
At nights all attraction centres in the
ball room. where Prof. sheldon and daugh
| ter, OF Washington, hold sway. 1onighl
| the orchestra band from the Peabody In
| stitute will be here to furnish the sum
| mer's music, and when the season is at il,
height. Berkeley Springs will be very gay
| An unusual number Of guests is expected
/ and the hotel bas been enlarged and i'm
| proved on that account Tonight the sea
son will be fairly inaugurated BY ball al
Green's Hotel, opposite the park, given il
honor of the Misses Stratzman, Of Balt
more.
Such Is Berkeley Springs and here you
live, move and have your being at 81 tc
| $3.50 days cents per bath or 500 for
The sesson There are other attractions In