Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-02
OUR STATE SPRINGS.
Among the Health Resorts of
West Virginia.
White Sulphur and Other Saratogas of
the SOuth-Limited Gambling
French Cookery VS.. Con
Bread and Po'k.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, August30.-The
White Sulphur Springs, as everybody
knows, are directly on the line of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. This place
is called the Baden Baden of America and
the Saratoga of the South, and one title is
no more a misnomer than the other.
There is little gambling house to be sure,
but the players are principally young men,
who If they should lose more than few
dollars, would have to walk home. Any.
thing over a ten-dollar bet makes a COM
motion, and there is no basis for compar-
ing the place with Baden Baden. As for
resembling Saratoga thai is equally ab.
surd. 1t is like no other place un'
Ger the sun, and that is one
OF its principal charms. Everything
is new and strange to North.
erner. The water is used for the stomach,
and especially the liver, and there are hot
sulphur baths for gout and rheumatism
ana kindred troubles. The White" as it
is familiarly called, was brought into notO-
riety at the close of the war by number OF
conferences being held there, aud it is be-
yond doubt the most fashionable summer
resort south Of Mason and Dixon's line.
The buildings are very large, the grounds
for many more guests than have visited the
place of late years. 1t is q great fashion
for people to 60 TO other springs for the
bulk of the season to cure whatever dis
eases they have, and then finish up with
week or two at "the White to tone them
up.
Different Kinds of Water.
There are between 81 and 10 of these
Virginia springs, widely separated. They
reach from the Blue Sulphur Springs on
the west, almost on the shore OF the Ohio
river, to the Orkney Springs, on the east,
near the Luray caves, a distance OF several
hundred miles. But the B,ue Springs are
long distance west of the last OF the group.
Most OF the springs are within terri
tory a hundred miles from east to west
al d fifty miles from north 10 south.
They used TO be almost the sole watering
places of the South. But now there are
.dhers, and the hotel proprietors are try
ng, in some instances very successfully, to
bring custom from the North. II the peo-
PIE of the North knew how pleasant many
of these mountain resorts are. more of
them would come down here. But there
will be no great influx into this region
until railway facilities are made far better
than they are at present, Selecting seven
teen OF
The Principal Resorts,
or Just about one-half of the entire Job lot
we have, beginning at the east Orkney
Springs, Rawley, Stribling, Rockbridge
Alum, Bath Alum, Warm, Wallawhstoola,
(tbat looks like hard name till you go at
it carefully and Systematically MillbOro',
Drsegers, Hot, Healing, Old Sweet, Sweet
Chalybeate, White Sulphur, Salt Sulphur,
In many cases the character of
the water is indicated by its
name. The only thermal springs
among them all are the Warm and the Hot,
within a few miles Of each other. These
thirty or forty springs cure every disease
under the sun, in popular opinion. Some
cure Consumption, some inebrlety, old
sores. rheumatism, liver omplaints--well,
| cant go through whole medical die.
tionary, but everything You can imagine.
If one spring don't relieve you, go on and
try the next. There are over thirty of
them, and while there's spring left there's
hope. By the time you've tried them all,
if you're rot physically dead you'll GER
tainly be dead broke"
Taking Things Fay.
In coming here people from the north
must expect to find everything different
from what they have been used TO There
is not the te'egrapbiC brevity and celebrity
to be founl in New York. People are not
in hurry. Rsilwsy facilities are not as
good. The roads are not as good. But
they may be sure Of finding the people
pleasan and the fare in most OF the hotels
good. Every hotel has its cottages, little
two or four roomed buildings, scat
tered about the grounds: In
auartered, taking their meals in the
hotel. 1t would be nonsense to speak OF
fotu Of ha q
locked up, except provisions in the hotels,
which otherwise would soon be chemically
changed into able. bodied darkies. Here is
q hint for housekeepers, but they must not
give it away: In the Warm Springs Valley,
in Rath county, 20 miles from the railroad,
spring chickens are selling for 81 q dozen
and fresh butter for Is cents pound, But
the Northern hotel and the Southern are
in every way different The hotel among
the Virginia springs most nearly approach
ivg q Northern one in its
Cooking and Characteristics
is that at the Hot Springs, owned and oper.
stCd by Northern company, with Warren
Lear at its head. Six French cooks are
employed, and they made q sensation when
they arrived al the railway station. No
body hereabout had ever before heard of
white man working in the kitchen, and
hey were stsred at like young mensgerie.
Perhaps 8 brief conversation between two
Southern gentlemen thst | overheard on
the porch OF Hot Springs Hotel will show
better than snything | could say how the
Southerners regard French, or, as they call
ii, Yankee cooking:
Il don't think very mnch of this hyar
cooking they brss so much about Do
yoL ," said the first gentleman.
Well. its the regular Yankee style
said the secOrd; very different from ours
Id rsther have a iittle con bread and a
slice oil po'k, for Dy part, than all this fam
cy s'uft
Yea" said the frss, aud they b"ys a
French cook hegaTd No mare FtS,ch
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