Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-07-28
MOUNTAIN LAKE.
The Sunday School Assembly at
Their New Grounds.
The First Days Proceedings-Ihe Accom-,
: modations- Opening Exercises-Dt
Young's Brilliantl lecture-Dr Van
Meters Scholarly Address
Personal Notes. --..
YESTERDAYS ExERCIsEsAND EVENTS.
Special 10 the Register.

Special TO the Register.
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK, July 26.-Dr.
Simms remarked in opening the exercises
at the auditorium, that the only discourag-
ing feature he saw in this Mountain Lake
Park enterprise, was that so many people
are present at the beginning.
All great enterprises and all great sue
cesses, he said, have been begun and ac-
complished by a few men, When Column
bus undertook the discovery Of great con-
tinent, he did it with handful OF mez.
But DIR. Simms consoied himself with. the
added reflection that the new world was
already laid out and nature had prearrang-
ed for the grand results following the dis
coyery before Columbus came upon the
soene.
And the same thought, as Mr.. Masden
happily rejoined, may find application to
Mountain Lake Park.
Before the pioneers OF this enterprise
drove their stakes, laid out these grounds
and dedicated them TO the specific purposes
for which they are now being furnished,
natures own hand had wroughtout the sug-
gestion, and contiguous population and
means of access had made the enterprise
practicable. - ,,,,
The fact is, however, that "the crowds"
which were expected, and i1r when pro-
vision was endeayored to be made, is the
only item in the programme that promises
10 fall short of anticipation There are
already goodly number ii attendance,
and every train swells the aggregate; but
the Park Association found 1t absolutely
impracticable to provide, in so short
time, for the entertainment on the GROUNDS
of the large numbers who W, re desirious OF
coming, and many of VIII Jm had been
promised accommodations. For instance,
from Harrisburg, which the Park Assocla'
ton had attempted to provide for, 6ut was
compelled to notify them, a. last, that pro-
visions could not be completed in time for
the Assembly exercises. So at the Noun
tain Lake Hotel, the proprietor has staik
of letters asking for accommodations that
he has not even answered.
What are the Accommodations:
These facts have resulted in largely de-
pleting the crowd, but it is not to be under
stood that every place is full aud that no
further provision can be made for those
who come but only that provision has
failed to meet the demand for the large
number of those who were coming under
special arrangement with the Association
The accommodations on the ground are
first-class. 1hey are as good at the MouAt-
ain Lake Park Hotel, or at tn" Allegheny
Hotel as at any of the frst-ciasS watering
places.
The Mountain Lake Park Hotel was
built by the Association, and is under the
management of a first-class hotel man, ID.
II. Vanmeter, Esq, formerly of Watkins
Glenn, New York. What he does not
know about running hotel is hardly
worth finding out This is demonstrated
not only in his table but in all the appoint
ments of his house. as we'll as in his per-
sonal tact and genial manner OF making MS
guests comfortable. He can feed 800 guests
at meal in his dining rooms and while
he has declined to invite patronage or make
terms with applicants in advance OF the
hotel being finished, he found them coming
in on him as fast as he wished on the day
he opened his doors.
The Allegheny Hotel lis kept by Mrs.
Bullard, of Bridgeport, and those VINO
know Mrs. B. know also that it is not kept
in any halfway kind of style. 1t is hillng
up with the best people on the ground, the
terms are reasonable, and her guests more
than satisfied. 1t will prove popular
house this season, and as long as it lemains
under its present management.
Besides these hotels the Association fur
pishes nice cosy tents, where families can
"keep house or merely sleep and take
their meals elsewhere.
At the Auditorium.
The auditorium is now, OF course, the
center of attraction. There are so many
many good things to be heard and seen
during day that it is difficult to take them
all in. Every part OF the day, save only
time enough for three meals, If one is quick
. aI 1aNtnrna and
other exercises of s. s. Assembly.
DIR. Abbott's lecture was sent you yester
day, and now enclose that OF DIR. J. Is.
Young, who took for his subject,
"A Ramble Through the British Hes"
Mr.. Young, by means of vivid and anus
ing word pictures and splendid stereopti-
con views, shown by the oXy-hydroSen
lime light, took his audience over the tour
lists general line of travel, illustrating each
locality by photograph and bit OF apt
description. Views on the ocean, scenes
on ship board, the city OF Cork and old
Castle Blarney, glimpses OF the famed MI:
larney country, the public buildings OF
Dublin, pictures Of the glorious scenery in
lens Isle and other points in the
region which Scott's poetry and
fiction have immortalized, and various To-
| calities on the road from Marlborough to
London. we're shown and described. The
| largest and finest edifices in the great city
were then made TO pass, one after another,
across the canvass, until the spectator felt
as if he hsd in reality taken the journey.
| Comical incidents and adventures were
mingled with the sober descriptions in a
| lively way. The pictures were enlarged
and brilliantly illuminated, each one oc.
cupying a space on the canvass about nj
teen feet square.
The lecture of Rev. J. B. NanMeter, oil
Baltimore, in the afternoon, was very
scholarly and thoughtful discourse, such as
would be addressed to cultured audience
and such as would not be
| largely read in daily news
paper. / would not attempt. synop-
| sis of it. because it would be impossible to
| do it Justice without giving 1t entire.
| Personal Notes.
Quiet large number of arrivals to-day
were scattered here and there over the
ground and difficult to discover, save those
registered at the Allegheny House, among
whom were J. G. Anderson, Wheeling; ID. X.
Mosser, New Cumberland, Pa, Annie
Mosser and Charlie Mosser; Rev. b: ID.
Mosser. Mercersburg, Pa. John II. Babert,
Pittsburgh, Rev. W. II. White and vile,
Buchannon; Rev. J. B. Young, Miss M.
| NJ. Webbsr, Miss Lettie Nixon, Altoona;
Rev. Geo. w. Miller, Wilmington; Miss A.
TAYLOR, Wheeling; Rev. A. Hall, Lucilla
| Isll Flora Hall KingWood