Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31
SUMNER REFLECTIONS.
A Traveller Makes Some Timely sussss.
tons.

tons.
Ciaetaa0f TImes-Sar.
The warm days of early summer bringing
a revival of business, suggestions OF I'M
proved trade, early vegetables and spring
bopnets, also recalls the beauties of the
country, with its bright appearance, buoy.
ant atmosphere and h~ealth-giving purity.
An this and much more is impressed upon
the mind of the traveller over the route nom
Cincinnati to Richmond. If there is in all
the land more delightful scenery it has es-
eaped nv notice, and / travel q great deal.
IF there are to be found anywhere more
beautiful mountains or as picturesque val
leys. ~prettier streams or wider crags, q more
beautiful meeting and entwining OF the wild.
ness of the mountains with the comforts OF
civilization than are offered by the many
inviting places through which one passes IN
coming from Cincinnati to Richmond, you
must leave this continent to find them. l
am moved to these suggestions BY thinking
of the great number Of people who are Just
now beginning to consider the momeutol3
question Where shall W. go this summer?
have seen about all that is worth seeing
in the Ca,skills and White Mountains: The
pleasure resorts along the north Atlantic
coast are an old story to me, as they are to
most summer tourists. have pretty we'll
done the Northwest, yet in none of these
did I find such a combination of all that
makes q summer trip delightful as was al
forded last summer By the route through
which | have Just hastily passed. The line
is dotted with beautiful and attractive noun
tain resorts, where the widest range is per-
mitted in the price one may pay n the
~luxuries to be enjoyed. From the inexpen'
siye rate Of the farm house TO the luxurles
afforded by such o hotel as the hygeis at
Old Point Comfort is a range as great as the
IMAGINATION can well compass. Yet even
the Hygeia with all its modern conveniences
and Injuries, with its location u~nequslled
in the world, with its perfection OF appli-
ances and u~nequalled popularity, to those
who so desire is really an inexpensive place
OF course, there are to be had apartments
fit for a prince, and our social loysEsts who
epioy them are permitted to pay in princely
STYLE, but the house is so large hat there are
accommodations for many hundreds a. very
moderate prices. Those who were at the
hotel last season viii scarcely recognize It
now. so numerous and so great have been
the improvements. The office and front
mart of The house have been completely re.
6u;;.. and the dining hall is now q place OF
marvellous beauty and most artistic IN de-
sign and finish. 49,,
every pretty" remarked to a leading
| New York hotel man whom | met coming
out.
| been examining it with great care, and am
convinced that there is but one equal to II
in the country. ~
You ought to know; tell NE why this
place is so popular ..
"Many things have contributed to IT.
First Of ~. good management. PhoeOas IS
. can;ps Then its fine l~0cstion, great
| bcalthuIness and not least the shoulder
straps
"The what?
The shoulder straps, Fortress Monroe
being right here, and the hotel always well
patrori1ed by,,army officers has helped along
! amazingly. At nearly all summer resorts
| there is a great scarcity Of gentlemen, but
The society ladies who come here are sure Of
pleasant acquaintance and gallant escort;
in the army officers they meet
A few minutes ride from Fortress Mon
roe is Newport News, where the Hotel War
wick will be found equal to the best hotel:
of Cincinnati or New York, and Mr.. Siner
ton Is another model hotel a Both Of
these ore directly on the salt water, anc
have most excellent bolhing. These places
are connected by steamers with Baltimore
New York and Boston, and during the sum
mer months daily excursions are made to al
these cities at very moderate rates, while boat
are run several times a day, and the price
of a trip is a mere trihe. In fact one cal
have ali the boating that is desired at a yer!
slight Expense.
All this about the extreme eastern end o
the line, but on the whole of it, after reach
ing Karawha Falls going east, are to b
found summer resorts well worth visiting
and most of them very inexpensive.
The region OF which the famous Whit
SULPHUR Springs forms the centre is dotted
with springs and hotels, and at every station
can be seen explanatory sigu-boards, AM
c~onveyances ready to take passengers Il
come place Of at least local fame. Sum
ming this up, l an prepared to say that ii
no section of the country will the seeke
after summer pleasure be better please'
than in the country traversed BY the Chesa
peake & Ohio Railroad. The line extend
through a region of unsurpassed beauty
and il is O kind Of beauty tina
is striking and fascinating in the extreme
II is accessible to the people of this section
and what is an important consideration, tn
prices are moderate, and the money extend
ed brings a big return in pleasure and il
function LEAF.