Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-27
LETTER FROM NORFOLK.
CORRESPONDENCE Of the Alexandria Gazette

TCorrespondenee of the Alexandria Gazcttc.l
NORFOLK, Va, July %, lSs5.-1n order
to set a good example to other seekers after
rest and recreation, l send you letter by
way of remembrance May other sojourners
at summer resorts remember that the editor
of the GAZETTE, like satan, takes no
vacation.
Until yesterday the Thermometer had
registered 90 degrees, and even more every
day for week, but there is always breeze
during the day, and at night this message
from the sea becomes delightfully."- emphatic.
In the forenoon persons from distance ar
rive daily to take trains for Ocean View
and Virginia Beach; after dinner the Nor
folk people leave the city in throngs. There
are twenty trains day to and from the bay
shore and ocean, besides the steamers to
Old Point The Red Men gave an excur-
sion 10 Virginia Beach last Wednesday
and sold 5000 tickets at thirty five cents
apiece-the regular round trip ticket costs
| fttv cents. l went down on the narrow
gauge road, eighteen miles long, with a
pleasant party, on that day, and found -
refuge from the heat of town. The hotel
was crowded. Among the guests were DR..
Garnet and Mr.. H. G. Dulaney, Of Wash
ington, and Bishop Dudley and family, of
Kentucky. Mr.. Dulaney thinks Virginia
Beach the best bathing place on the At
| lantic coast, es its ncarness to the Gult
stream keeps the water always warm enough
for dip Unfortunately, the hotel is small,
and some difficulty about titles has pre-.
vented the building of cottages. OF course,
this will, in time, be remedied, and then
Virginia Beach will become a resort OF re
nown TO be visited annually by thousands
of strangers.
The building lately occupied by the bro
ken hank was sold yesterday TO the new
bank for SCI 900. This latter will open on
the first Of August with capital of $780,
600. 1t will employ ten clerks.
Norfolk is steadily recovering from the
prostration of the terrible bank failure of
April. With all its advantages the momen-
tum gained in 1876 cannot be overcome, and
the time is coming when this will he big
lily. You would be amazed to learn the
amount of money left here during the sum.
mer months By the throngs of visitors aud
cXcilrsonists.
The irinl of Whitehead and Balm, the
syharics who managed the exploded bank,
will take place i'll November next, and there
is widespread assurance that then the
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and clear the commercial atmosphere.
Widows and orphans were the chief suffer
ers from the great robbery, although every
citizen was sufferer through the loss to
trade and blow to confidence; and frag
mcns of the wreck will be seen for many
| Years to come.
The Journey hither on the Potomac
steamers is a delightful one; the fare is
low, and the table is well served and pro-
vidcd with delicacies.
The Rev. G. j. Holt has been called to q
church in Harlem, \. Y, but his acceptance
of the call is doubtful.
The streets of Norfolk are lighted by
electric lamps of the Brush patent, and the
old town looks very gay at night The
supply OF water is being increased by con
Meeting the mains with another lake. Rents
are high and real estate is held at tall fig
urcs. If there were no mosquitoes, this
place would have few drawbacks.
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