Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-14
OUR WATERING PLACES.
Progress of Gaysty at White Sui
phur Springs.
How They Dance and Dress-HO Juliet
Costumes Need Apply-Personal
- Calico Ball at Deer = .
PARK.
s,.eso, osrrespondence OF ne Register.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGs, August 10
These famous Springs are Eow at their
height. All the dormitories and cottages
are full. Scores of new corners arrive on
every train, and with wonderful skill and
system they are slowed away somewhere
by the deft fingers of the graceful manage
Some to rows, some to cottages, and some
to-the Lord knows where; but they are all
found quarters some place. Inere IL no
watering place in the country where such
simple facilities are in use for the comfort
and pleasure of the guests. Baggage Is OF
no more trouble than hand satchel. Ser
wants on all the floors and about the otnces
stand attentive to the calls OF the mana,
gers. and strangers are accommodated
promptly without parade and without an
noyance. No electric bells communicate
with the office, servants at call take their
places. Baggage TO all the floors Is hoisted
by elevators, and quietly drayed 10 the
rooms. Closets, stores, shops and vehicles
are of easy accessibility. The dining room
a mammoth concern, is model OF magnih-
cence and simplicity. 1t is supported
by forty huge pillars, in two
parallel rows. The pillars are about fifteen
feet apart, and in the intervals the tables
are placed. The hall is, perhaps, $50 feet
long by GO feet wide. Four tables surround
each pillar, and the number OF each IS Ia
beled on the column i'll front. The new
conner is directed TO his seat and his atten-
ton called TO the number, and thereafter
he goes alone. e.
The capacity OF the hall is, perhaps, a
1000 or / 500, and the service is OF such
simplicity that as little confusion and
noise is heard as can be found in the small
city hotels. The trays are of wood, and the
ware is heavy; thus the sound is dulled.
Each table has two servants, and their at
tentions are undivided. With remarkable
precision they fill their orders, and are
constantly, but unobtrusiyely, on the look
out for the wishes of the hungry german
Diners.
But it is the dance that makes this resort
distinctive. Every day and evening the
halls are filed with the merry walters.
During the day the famous Signor ID. Haz-
azer instructs his classes on the wsxen hoor.
1t is almost pitiable to see the little things
courtesing aad whirling over the polished
floor. Mammas and fond relatives line the
walls to watch their progress. Signor is
master of his profession. and in military
style the little ones obey him. For the
evenings the bellies and beaux OF the con,
tinent assemble. The halls, piazzas aud
parlors are literally alive with them.
The hum of their voices is like
the roar Of a cataract, or like the
rumble of an express train. When
the halls are lighted and the orchestra
begins, the whirl is incessant Round and
round they go. The ladies in attire most
costly and bewitching, the gentlemen
universally ungloyed and in swallow tails
and diamonded shirt fronts, silken white ties
and sharp-toed morocco slippers. The
costumes Of the ladies are rich, magniti'
cent and voluptuous in the extreme. They
make no pretenSe
"To cleanse the stuffed bosom OF that perilous
stuff that weighs upon the heart"
but on the contrary, expose
it all they can. Unlike the sweet
Juliet they ask for no cleanser, and will
have none. The shoulders sometimes, and
the upper part of the bust always is open
for inspection And, indeed it is charm
iTg in the ballroom, however reprehensi-
bic il might seem elsewhere. Many South
ern ladies are here, some from the West
and North, and many from Louisville and
Richmond The dress OF both
sexes is at all times tasteful. Among the
dancers last night which by the way was q
most gorgeous affair, was Second Lieuten-
ant Allen, of Kentucky. lie was in full
dress uniform, and is on his graduating
furlough. 1t Is needless TO say ne swung
the ladies in rapturous circles. And
neither lie nor any other OF the accom-
plished escorts would tread on the sweep
ing trains Notwithstanding the jocose pre-
diCtions of the wall flowers. There will be
a grand masquerade and fancy dress bal Il
on Friday evening, and costumes are ad.
yertised for here, which weIc captured
from the Royal Summer Palace OF the Chi
nese Emperor, valued at fabulous prices,
and rented for small fortunes.
A ball for the benefit Of kraner's band
will he given on the 18TH
Among the visitors observed by your
are eN.Goy. Mathews,
dcbonQirc, and as courtly rs the most
Chiyalrous; Secretary OF State Stalnaker
cooling himself at the baths and posing in
the ladies parlor i'll the evening; ex-Sena-
tor Samuel Price, venerable and modest
looking very like senator;T. Hop. Woods,
an accomplished young attorney and occa-
sional correspondent oil the REGISTER from
Philippi: John +. Baker and his sister
Miss Lillian, from Wheeling.
But must not run on 50. Many things
Of interest are yet to be written which may
he done. SULPHUR