Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-08-27


ed by malice and hate. [ have been
workingman all my life. have advocated
the labor cause, and it is for this l am to
die. I will mount the scaffold with firm
STEP"
life AT THE ORKNEY.
A VISITOR WRITES AN ACCOUNT OF IT
AN ADMIRABLE LANDLORD-HOW LIFE
THERE IS MADE PLEAsANT-THE FARE
THE CoMPANY-GOv. LEE, TWO
BISHOPS. MANY CLERaYMEN AND THE
MILITARY.
&C., &C., sc.
Correspondence Of the Staunton VINDICAToR.)
ORKNEY SPRINGS, VA.
August, 1886.
The question is asked here every day, why
it is and who it is that everybody seems
so we'll contented and satisfied with him
self and everybody else at Old Orkney.
''Dear Old Orkney" as the habitaes like to
speak of the place. think it is mainly
because Cab Maddux. the proprietor, has
the mack of making folks feel at home. If
he sees newcomer sitting off by himself
looking lonesome, he goes up in his CHEEKY
way and wants to know how he is getting
along, finds out what is lacking. and puts
him among cOngenial company right away.
If he is quiet man he introduces him to
some of the preachers or settled old fell
lows 1.-THE place is full of preachers.) Ifhe
ic mn or
he gets him into a ten pins crowd; If he
likes billiards, or cards. or tennis he soon
finds him partner, and if he is for girls
aud fun, SO is Cab, and he will have him
in the ballroom dancing with a pretty
girl before he knows what he is up to. I
| never saw big man as handy on s'the
floor" He can make up more couples for
dance on ten minutes notice than pro-
fessional leader of the German, and every
body seems to be suited wherever he puts
them.
A MODEL LANDLORD.
never saw proprietor of place take
so much personal pains to make people
comfortable. He is all through the dining
room two or three times every day while
the people are eating. stopping first at this
table and then at that, to see it his guests are
being properly attended to, and if he thinks
any one is not satisfied he is positively I'M
happy. He said the other day, 81 don't
think there is any body here who is dissa-
tisfed except that lady sitting yonder on
the portico, and if l knew what she want
ed would send to New York for it TO-
night but what would get it," His
jokes pass around among the company and
afford amusement for whole season, and
he can get joke out of as compromising
material as anybody you ever saw. His
crowd was late coming this year, as every
where else, owing to the cold damp season,
and it was then before be had filled up. a
grave bishop asked, ''Mr. Maddux, when
do you expect your largest company p
':In November" said he. very promptly;
"When my creditors come to see me"
HOW THINGS ARE FIXED.
Another strong point. The proprietor
is good Judge of human nature. He has
the happy faculty of getting the right man
for the right place and then he gets just
the right sort of work out of him and
everything runs smoothly-in the hotel
where Mr.. Burke of the Carrollton, Balti-
more, and Mr.. Day of the same city, are
first assistants; in the parlor where the
proprietor's bride is mistress of ceremO-
MES; in the ballroom where all help; in
the dining.rOom where the two grand
head walters in their claw-hammer coats,
are as watchful as hawks; in that we'll
arranged modern kitchen where trained
cooks put up everything nice that any
other cooks can put up; at the stables
where the horses are as fat as Dutch
stock and as fast as racers; in the rooms
where everything is as neat as new pin,
and in your bed where everyone tumbles
in on best hair mattress. improved springs,
and tucks himself away for the night be-
tween linen sheets.
WHAT WE EAT.
But how about the fare !? Well, we are
thirteen miles from the railroad, but that
doesn't make any difference. The road is
splendid and the horses fast, so we have
everything that they have anywhere else
and some things that other places haven't.
What do you think of soft shell crabs,
reed birds, rock. salmon, perch and such
things, out here in the mountains? And
as to fat mutton, tender lamb and juicy
beef, they grow on this Shenandoah grass
and the woods are full of young chickens,
and our French cook can make all the
fricassees and pastry ''doins'' that you
ever heard of; sc we are y K on the cuisine,
if that's what you call it.
EVERYTHING FIRsT-CLAss.
The buildings and conveniences and the
| location are all frst-class. But 1t was not
until th year that the company got things
fixed to suit Mr.. Maddux. The great hotel
of four stories contains the office; a very
handsome, completely furnished parlor
that will seat 800 persons; very large,
pretty dining-room, and one of the most
elegant and spacious bathrooms in Vir-
ginia; a billiard room, bar and barber
shop, and great many chambers and
lodging rooms besides; while the wide por
ticoes which extend for three stories around
three sides of the great building are
famous places for promenadlng and lOung
ing. The papering, stuccoing and painting
are new and tasteful. and make the whole
place look fresh and new.
Besides this Virginia House, as it is
called, are two other large buildings, con-
nected with it by covered bridges, known
as the Maryland House and Pennsylvania
House; also, a row of pretty two-story
cottages on the east side OF the drive.
They are neatly lettered over the doors
New ork, Philadelphia. Baltimore Rich
mond, Charleston, Savannah and New Or
leans, and make very arlstocratic homes
for families. There are, too, quite num-
Der of vine-clad cottages among the trees
on declivity nearby, the whole furnish
ing accommodations for about 300 guests,
BEAUTIFUL PLACE.
Altogether, what with the magnificent
oaks. the pretty walks, the grassy lawns
and the pretty shaded drives, there are few
as pretty and pleasant places in the noun
tains and it is destined, as heard an old
Springs-goer from South Carolina say to-
day. to rival the White Sulphur. Mrs. Will