Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-08-17
SUMMER|NG NEAR HOME.


WHAT rs GOING ON AT M'GILvRAY PARK
WHERE IT IS, AND HOW YOU GET
THERE CABINS AND TENTS IN PLEN-
TY-WHO THE VISITORS ARE-THE
POLITICAL COMPLEXION-FROM MILL
BORo sPRINGs-CATCHING BIG BASS.
&C., &C., sc.
reported for the Staunton VINDIcAToR.l
MCGILyRAY PARK, Aug. 13.-If any
of your readers should ask where NC
Gilvray Park" is, refer them to the
map of Augusta county, and looking in
the extreme Southern part of Riverheads
district they Will there find it so marked
Then if they should determine to make a
pilgrimage here, they must first make
Greenville their objective point, and get
the genial and accommodating postmaster
there, Clay Palmer, (who sends a daily
mail here), to give them map of the
route through the pines. via the Greenville
station on the Shenandoah Valley R. r.
and Y. M. G. A. Chapel-the road Is five
miles.
No "Grand Hotel'' has yet been erected.
but there are quite number of cottages
(a-la-log cabin style) and tents in profu-
sion, artistically arranged in semi. circle
around the grounds, under the supervis-
ion of L. T. McGilvray the founder and
hospitabe chief manager of this popular
resort.
In the centre of the Park stands the
ballroom, and the amusements are as
varied as the beauties of the place.
Now who are the visitors? Let's 60
over the register and select few names
from each section represented. We find
Prof. W. b. Smith, McDonogh School;
Mrs. Patterson and family and Miss Mary
Price, Baltimore, Md; Mr.. 10th and
daughters, Richmond Va; Mr.. JAKE Van
Lear, Little Rock. Ark; T. G. HALEY,
Boise City, Idaho Ter; Rev. DR.. Hemp
hill and wife, Savannah, Ga; Rev. W. B.
McGiIvray, Richmond; Miss Ella Brown,
Florida; Walter Gregory, Boston, Mass;
Misses Sharp and LIE Rier, New Jersey;
J. B. Mofett, Kansas City, Mo; Miss
Chambers, N. j.; Cadet Gilkeson. V. M.
I; DR.. A. Fl. Weir, Staunton; Col. John
u. Lilley and family. Capt. G. 6. Merritt
and family, A. A. Sproul and family, Jno.
III. Carson and family, Alex Bumgardner
and family. w. F. Smith, Misses Sue and
Julia Smith, Mrs. Mary Randolph, Jno
B. Smith and family. DIR. B. R. Smith and
wife, Miss e. Palmer, Mr.. M. F. GilkesoE
and wife, Miss Annie Cochran, Lee
Christian and sisters, Messrs. Van Lear,
Jos. Pelter, Jos. D. and J. g. Cochran, W.
W. Sproul, Lacy Black. Jas. B. smith and
family, and Rev. A. 81. Hamilton, all, and
many more from Augusta county.
Arch. G.. Christian. Jas. L. Templeton,
J. A. Thomas, Lewis Bumgardner, A. A.
Sproul, Jr., Washington & Lee University;
DR.. Walter Tate. Wythe county; VIM.
Swain, England; Miss Maggie Coiner,
Waynesboro; Miss Steele, Raphine; j. W.
Churchman, Joanna; RI Snapp, S. V. R.
R.; Misses Tate, Greenvllle; Miss Alice
Patterson, Baltimore; S. b. Slower, E. G.
Harrison. and others, Staunton; Mrs.
M. B. Mauzy, Miss Virginia Do
naghe, Folly Mills; DR.. r. w. Murray.
5woope's; r. N. Montgomery, Raphlne;
Mr.. Rosen and family, j. T. W. Hawpe
and wife, Miss Alma Hawpe, Augusta
county; Taze Bumgardner and Miss Linda
Bumgardner, Bethel.
To name all would require you to issue
an extra. But there is one name I must
not omit-"Y ankee john" Ask the wor-
thy Chairman of the Committee on Re-
trenchment and Reform of our Board of
Supervisors, "Who Yankee John is ?"
He will refresh you with an expression al
most anomalous in the South, since the
war, viz: my Wallet, Sir"
The white hats worn here make the at
mosphere somewhat CIeveandish, while
some of the pictures of Harry Tucker that
circulated in Staunton on convention day
are so popular with the lady visitors, that
Harry might be suspected of favoring
woman Suffrage"
More anon. TRANSIENT.