Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-01
WATERING PLACE NOTES.
Brief lettings OF the Summer ResoI
of West virginia and Maryland.

spent the past three days at Oakland.
A tally no coach leaves the White every
day for the Salt and Old Sweet springs.
The Moundsyille campground is becon-
ing very popular as a summering place.
Deer Park has been rather dull since the
departure of the Governors Guards, Of Co
lumbus.
Kramer's orchestra is winning golden
laurels at the White and is improving
every day.
Miss Pauline Rambo, of Philadelphia,
promises to be the belle of White Sulphur
| this season.
John He'll, the Grosvenor of the Inteli-
1encer counting room, is doing the resorts
of this State.
John Heryey, formerly of Wheeling, but
now of Washington, is at Deer Park and
will be here, shortly.
Major Ran. Stalnaker and Mrs. Thomas
H. B. Haase and son are the only Wheeling
people at the >White,
Miss Birdie Harrison, of Deer Park, will
be the guest of Miss Carrie Gilchrist, at
Leatherwood next week.
One of our front Office gang remarked,
during the rain, yesterday. that" Wheeling
was good watering place.
Mrs. Congressman Godlove S. Orth is at
Berkeley Springs, where her husband will
ioin her after the adjournment.
Col. J. B. Peyton. Clerk of the House OF
DELEGATES, is rooming clerk at The White
and d. F.. Stalnaker, OF this city, Is bill
clerk.
Comparatively few Wheeling people
ever visit the resorts Of the Valley OF the
Virginia, including the Jordan and Rawley
Springs.
w. w. Corcoran, the wellknown Wash.
ington millionaire, who has spent the last
month at Deer Park, will pass August al
White Sulphur.
1t is expected to have the lake at Noun
tain Lake Park ready this fall so as to pro-
cure ice this winter. The large ice house
is ready now.
Lewisburg, in Greenbrier County, is be-
coming aaite popular among people in the
southern part of the State, as pleasant
summer home.
The cottage of Henry X. List at Noun
| tain Lake Park is the handsomest at the
place and DR.. Logan's occupies the most
commanding position.
Paradise row, composed OF the poorest
cottages and occupying the most command,
| ing site at the White, is to be torn out and
a very fine row substituted.
1.-THE White" is steadily filling up, and
| in about a week the season will be at its
height. Nearly 800 people are now locat.
ed at the hotel and cottages.
From the hill top at Cranberry, to the
South of the b. & 0. road, a most magniti-
cent view can be obtained, stretching
away down into Tucker county.
1t costs IS cents shave at "The White
and 10 cents cue for pool. These and
tenpins land of course the barr are the only
methods OF spending money down there.
On the summit Of the mountain which
overlooks Berkeley springs from the north,
is an observatory, from which can be OBJ
tanned beautiful view of the surrounding
country.
Miss Annette Snead, of Washington, is at
the White Miss SHead is the "Miss Grun-
dy" of the Washington press and writes
very interesting and gossipy letters from
summer resorts.
Young and single men are very scarce on
the mountains. Managers should follow
the example OF Mine Host Trego, at
Berkeley Springs and offer special induce
ments to dancing men.
Ice for the B. & o. hotels at Deer Park
and Oakland is obtained by damming the
Youghiogheny river, about midway be-
tween the two points. Last winter ice Two
feet thick formed in this dam.
John l.. Thornhill, banking page OF the
last House of Delegates, has charge OF the
bus line between the hotel and the station
at White Sulphur. The company has re-
Gently purchased an 81 800 omnibus.
The only foreigners who have honored
the White. thus far, were Gen. lie Baron
Charette and LIE Marquis de Rochefoucauld,
both of whom were recalled to France and
ordered to the scene of hostilities at Egypt.
The fare from Sir Johns Run to Berkeley
Springs and return is seventy-five cents
each way. Considering the vehicle, this is
regarded as pretty steep in price How
ever, one can ride IN the mail wagon TOT
twenty-five cents.
Luray Cave is now lighted BY electricity,
snd when thus illumin ated is one OF the
most beautiful scenes in the world Tour
lists going to Luray should take either the
Shenandoah Valley or Chesapeake and Ohio
railroads to Waynesboro, near Staunton.
Talmage has left the White and is now at
the Sunday School meeting at Chatauqua
Hisflaughters, Misses Mary and Edith and
his son Frank are still there. Miss Mary is
quite an expert tennis player and grace
full dancer, ana though not pretty is yet
an attractive lady. Talmage approves OF
dancing and during his stay might have
been nightly seen in the ball room, looking
at the poetry of motion.
Roger A. Pryor and family are at the
White. Roger still effects the long hair
STYLE and is very quiet and unassumlng.
His daughter Fannie is one of the most at
tractive and prettiest young ladies at the
springs and plays tennis very skiItully.
Among the attractions for the White, this
month, are to be Arthur, Grant, Hancock,
Blaine, Don Cameron, Oscar Wilde, Rhea,
Mary Anderson and a host OF Others. Ar
thur is booked for all of the watering
places, by various correspondents, and his
presence at the White may be mythical.
A better table is set at Deer Park and
Oakland than at any resorts between here
and the seaboard Berkeley Springs and
| The White furnish excellent dinners, but
| they evidently take II for granted their
guests eat enough at dinner to last them
the remainder of the day, as the tea table
is very thinly spread.
Among the most attractive of the young
ladies at the White are Misses Pauline
Rambo, Mary and Madge Mercer, Salie
Waterman, of Philadelphia Miss Nellie
Beckham, of New Orleans; Misses Mary
and Sophie Woolley, of Louisville; Misses
Sue, Angela and Agnes Tilghman, Phila-
| delphia; Misses Jessie and Susie Preston,
Lexington, Ky, and Miss Fanny Pryor and
May Talmage, New York.
A correspondent of the REoIsrER writing
from the Nnite sulphur. recently, re-
marked the fact that the famous springs
were less paironized by exclusively South
ern people than OF yore. This fact is being
generally commented on and New York
| newspaper man has elaborated ii in an in
teryiew. A Southern gentleman has just
said 1.-The character of the White has been
| destroyed as distinctive Southern water.
ing place"
SHow will this affect the White sulphur
| in financial way?'
1T may benefit it by bringing greater
mob here, but it will kill the social charm
for which this place is famous
"Are there many Southerners there
now?"
None, you may say. don't know any
| body"
How many altogether"
"Abouta score of Virginians, four or
! FIVE South Carolinians, half dozen from
| Louisiars, none from Alabama, three from
| Georgia, five North Carolinians, two from
Florida and a couple of Texans
"Perhaps the Southerners will come in