Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-10-24
CARLSBAD.
A Pleasant Letter from This Fa-
NOUS Resort
BY A NOTED WEST VlHGINIAN.
The Journey from New York. How the
Springs Were Discovered aad
Named. A Glimpse Into
German Homes.
C0respondence Of tht Rc1istcr.


New York September Sth, our destination
being this place. The voyage across the
Atlantic was calm one, very little rough
sea being encountered. One day the
waves splashed on deck aud wet few.
For two days there was a heavy, rolling
sea, the effects OF a storm which prevailed
north Of our course and which we missed
by
Taking Southern Course.
The rolling of the ship was so great as to
floor" many who were seated on chairs.
One OF our ladies went down, but | think
We all enjoyed the roll. Two of our party
were quite sea sick and paid more devo.
tion TO Old Neptune than to their meals.
| The gulf stream made the rooms and air
| quite warm. The water was 13', air 6So.
| Each days run "A hours) was about $50 TO
| $40 miles. The passengers amused them
selves by walking deck, making guessing
| pools each day as TO distance run, games,
| reading, &c: professor of music from
| Harrow school, near London, gave us
music every day, and concert was given
by him ard the passengers one evening for
| the benefit of
ORPHANS Home for Sailors Children.
| $40 wss realized.
Many whales were seen spouting, and one
threw a good part OF his body out Of
the water We asked one OF the
sea.siCk ladies TO come and see
one spout. She replied: No. Ii | DO |
may become a spouter' myself. Let the
whale spout, it is his business The ily-.I
ing fish first took for birds about as large
as swallows skimming the water, but soon
saw they went into it. They are near the
size of swallows. They were usually in
schools Or fiocks. We were very an Xious
20 have one drop on board. One did strike |
the ship. The sailors, however, got up one
for the occasion and charged shilling a
sight, but not 10 come within a chalk line. |
AfIerwRrd We Learned
it was sell"
We FIRST saw the Irish coast on Sunday
mOrnu z. the 18th, seven days from New |
York and landed at Liverpool on the 10th |
Al moor. We underwent baggage inspec. |
riCn and took the train for London, getting |
there 1t o'clock We remained one day |
10 rest and then went on to Paris. The |
dreaded Chapnel was about as smooth as
the Ohio river. We reached Paris at / |
o'clock P NJ, rested day, saw what We could,
and took train for this place. We travelled |
all night and next day to Nuremburg, Ger |
many, where we stayed all night at the |
"ByrIcher IIof," building that dates back |
to about the discovery OF America. The |
city is very old and has castles, fOrtresscs |
and old.time buildings. Our rooms were |
near a tower and the "Hangmans bridge"
Criminals who were sentenced to be hung
were
Kept the Last Night I'm the Tower
and passed over the bridge next morning
to the gallows. Ny mind would wander
back to the thoughts Of these poor unfor.
tunates as they took their last walk, but
we had delightful supper and good beds
with a small feather tick, to cover our feet,
and sweet nights rest and if any stray |
sRiYits Of the, departed were about they |
again !OVA I1g fcain bpd csMnyt morning We
German and il any German spoke Enghsn |
he did not make it known. So We travelled |
by pan tGmne which added spice 0! UrnA- |
ment 10 the trip and all enjoyed it. The !
coaches are not like ours-thc apartment /
We were in was just large enough for our /
PARTY, ,fourJ. There is no water or closets !
and we only saw the guards at stations. |
To say the least
Ii was Very IncOnvepicnt.
but from the odor IN some OF the coaches |
they had been made convenient. The !
houses at stations marked about IN 'P.s |
cuvy" was pleasant feature and broke the |
monotony. We had a good chance 10 see !
the country mode OF farming, etc. The |
Very small parcels in strips ar laid odt
with no fences but stone markers. Ibe |
grass is cut when very short and constantly |
repeated and no blade is lost; all Is stored, I
in fact nothing is lost or wasted III
Germany, even few heads OF hops
| seen carefully gathered from the land.
! lie women are the chief beasts u burden
and do most Of the work, farming, digging,
splitting and saving wood, etc. | noticed
them working COWS as oxen.
Their Mode OF Yoking
is by curved padded piece lifting lus'
below the horns and hung. % hem, across
the forehead with traces attached. Inc
women carry immense loads in baskets on
TER hack. about two bushels "i potatoes
wood. mtIks, hot water for bathing "tC
I uoricod large dogs hitChei tn small
wqgOne. one horse hitched TO vehicles by
side OF torrue, not in shaft. Few men are
seen doing the drugery work or are uot
here to do it. They saw thev srr m the
armv. ! notice few children about nut
presnue this branch OF home industry is
attended TO and this means OF recruiting
| The army kept up. Many old castles and
! fortresses were seen on the mountains,
! relics OF feudal times. At Eagle, the from
! tier town OF Austria, the last examination
/ OF baggage took place pretty rigid, Dut as
We had Nothing COntraband
we had no trouble. At $50 P. NJ. we
reached this place just two weeks from
| New York.
Carlsbad or Karlsbad is the famous water
ing place of Europe. Crowned heads,
| Dukes. Lords and other nobility and the
milliOnaires of every country who suher the
| ills OF flesh resort 70 It's healing fountains
as we'll as tie lowly ana beggars. Pnncess
Eugene. two OF the ROthchilds, and some
I hara AT
About 800 Americans were hare THIS year
Carload wss called by the old hunters
| HHell can" from its supposed proximity
! TO the eternal lake: later il received its
! present name from Emperor Charles the
| Fourth who, as the legend says. was stag
hunting near here and one OF his hounds
fell into one of the hot springs and by ITS
| bowls brought Charles to the spot, ana
after seeing his poor scalded dog, Thought
IL the water bad power TO remove the hs'l
from dog il might be
Good for II uman Ailments
So he at once brought the springs into no
tice by his munifcenoe and his efforts nave
been recognized by giving the place ms
into "Karl's Bad and column snd
his statue stands on an elevation IN the
city, What became Of the dog history
does not say, but q large cast, or bronze
deer stands on high rock which over
looks the town which they say Is the pace
which the deer jumped from when pursued
by the dog, but nary dog is immortaliz'
ed here. Not so in West Virginia; even
the waller" dog can defeat the aspirant TO
the LEGISLATURE il he does not declare Tor
free dog and mutton diet o,o
Carlsbad bas q populstion OF u, ,oo
Twenty eight thousand visitors were here
last year. The town is romanticatiy STU
ted on steep blufs and on
Each Side of she Little
river Tipl. l. is the county seat 81 Eyer
Kingdom OF Bohemia, and is LIZA feet
above the SEA. a mountain, the "DAseni
G chen (eternal lifeb rises SO feet above
the sprsidel Spring. The walks and prom
enades soout town and on the mountain,
are cell laid ont and are romantic and
BEAUTIFUL. Statues, busts, crucii1esr pa
, ! vii;crs ard nTayiDs sbrnes are numerous