Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09

There are also o few hotels
isndlotds as secOnd-clAss and by
quests as about ninth, wherein two DOL
lars and q half q day Is charged Tor
food and lodging that would Do
considered dear in this city AZ
ten dollars q week, and there are three
hGtels that can best be described as i've
dollars a day in price and no more than
three to four in value. The rivalry De-
tween two of these best establishments
ia brisk. You have read h story. OF
how n was built for spite by an ".
| suited guest of the other: 1T you don't
| like this hotel you'd better build one Of
YOUR OWL" said the landlord. "That's
Just what I'll do,n the guest angrily re.
torted. Then he bought an adjacent
mountain and erected the threatsuej
house. 1t Is immense eno%gn to ruin
both I'm and lis eNemy, Unless the
cSiune OF business increases greatly.
TIE Catskills can't be beaten IS moul.
tains, with their majestic scenery, TIER
temperature Of ten to twenty degrees
| lower than that of the city, and their
pure atmosphere, but they are not yet
fashionable to 8 great extent, II the
majority among the thousands OF visl'
tors endure the Ills OF the smaller houses
rather than pay the high prices OF the
big ones.
Each ofthe two rival hotels which |
| have mentioned has intimate relations
with one Of the two railroads. Nobody
| in the employ of one hostelry knows
| ANYTHING at all about the railroad con.
| nected with the sympsthieso of the other.
That bewildered me, and consequently
] took the wrong road 10 the right house,
| or the right road To the wrong house, to
find at the end that there wasn't any
difference anyhow. On the train Was
a decidedly
English.LOokinK Man,
with the u Of al Gnimpressiona.
| bic old traveller. He paid no attention
| to the wonders OF the scenery, though
the rest of the passengers were con-
| stantly voicing their admiration, eX-
| cept at a few widely separated inter-
walls. At these times he became strange
" animated, in violent contrast with
his usual apathy. He would sit upright,
gaze afar Off in rapture, point with u
commanding gesture, and say in = very
loud voice: IAN. there il is, there il
is" Everybody within hearing would
at once give attention, and somebody
would ask what he meant. The kast-
erskill House." he would reply, his face
| glowing with the discovery, THAT Is II
away yonder on the top Of the highest
peak. See it"' All took pains u see
| il, too. Pretty Wi a turn OF the rail-
| road would bring the hotel into view
again, and the Indictment of the pas
sengers to observation, through the
efforts of the %singulsrly a~ppreciative
traveller, would he repeated.
Can We get a glimpse OF Il cats
kill Mountain House""' he was asked.
"A glimpse Of what" he apatheti-
cally replied. go | believe not-that
| site j. more obscure, don't you see"'
Even when il was visible he was nigh
falling asleep 10 be aroused Ia unprece-
| fentcd activity, with talk and grstlcu-
latiUn, ali directed 10 one hotel, when
noth we're al once in view. Was sur.
pIis. d when this tourist put Oh uni
form cap and went through the cars,
taking ny the checks for baggage hound
10 tie hotel that had so greatly excited
! Mn? Well, no. I only wondered
what wages his undeniable talent CON.
marhCd.
The Other Fellow Traveller
who amused me was a man who had
lost one Of the four bundles which his
| rather severe wife had entrusted 10 hl.
charge.
GLOW did you come to do It," She
asked.
IL lost my reckonin', Nancy" he
meeklv replied and then seeing that she
was not in a mood To consider excuses, he
turned to me with the rast Of the expis-
Eation. ~ alters keep count OF my
fingers We see, but my hands amt relia-
bic no longer.' He held up "A hand
from which a finger vas missing. 81
chopped of that finger last spring, and
that's what upscts my calculations.
There WIZ just rs many bundles cz |
had fingers on the hand that ! told EN-
oil On-but IL must % been t'Other
hand"
Hands suggczt feet, and that reminds
me OF those belonging t Kate tinrari.
she was IA beauty five years ago, when
she married George fawcctt Rowe, the
| actor, and is 80 still. Rowe Was solicit
Ously tender then, though | telieve he
suhst quently gave her violent grounds
for divorce. He reluctantly consented
l" NJ "'put "h 'hc rag ~" '"""hS
her from the lobby Oh the occasion CON
| iided 10 friends his rage and pain, be-
cause she was showing her mere feet in
n II that shocked him. lie had
carefully instructed her to turn out her
toes, and there she was toeing in like n
knock-kneed child. This week she II
the fairy queen in q current spectacle
wholly skirtless, and ! call attention 10
her as u demonstration Of how much
ran be done by training. The manage
ment of her toes are all that could be
desired in the eXtremilics Of n stage
furry. FRANKLIN.