Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-31
WYTHEVILLE.
A TOWN BY NATURE ENDOWED WITH
MANY CHARMS.
The Ashsvills Of virsiuia-Kany Rich
mondsrs and Southern People Sum-
mering fhsrs-A Pretty
German.
Correspondence Of The Rchmond Dlspstch.l


WYTHRvILLE, August %. 1888.
A traveller visiting Wytheville for the
first time is impressed by tue glorious
beauty with which bounteous nature has
endowed this town. Situated in the
southwestern part Of Virginia and built
in cup on top Of the Allegheny noun
tains %, 900 feet above the level OF the
sea, it is one Of the highest points In the
State.
The air is pure and invigorating. and
il possesses oil through the summer
months the charm Of an even tempera-
ture, making exercise at all times plea
sure; while in the winter, notwlthsiand-
ing its height, much benefit hns been
derived by those suffering from pulmo-.
nary diseases on account of the rarlted
condition Of the atmosphere.
( The ride from Lynchburg to Wythe-
vile takes five hours over ,the Norfolk
and Western railroad through the most
beautiful country in the State OF Nir-
GINA. Tall mountain peaks rise up on
every side, interspersed by broad val
legs, where fat cattle Craze and where
the people look prosperous and happy.
A tired man coming from the hot city,
where the air is as that of furnace,
feels that he has struck the happy land
of Canaan the land of milk and honey
"where the weary are at rest.
Besides the natural attractions OF the
place, and ! know of no spot where the
scenery is more beautiful, Wytheville has
many handsome residences, beautiful
churches, fine schools, picturesque drives
and walks, where the eyes Of an artist
could linger with satisfaction. Main
street is a broad avenue, shaded by rows
of trees, where the summer visitors
promenade in the evening after the q
o'clock tea to the chalybeate fountain,
to drink of its waters, and to indulge IN
u little friendly gossip.
This town is well known to the far
southern people as a summer resort
Families from Texas. Louisiana. Georgia,
and other States have been coming here,
season after season, to spend the sum-
mer. come for as long period as ten
years.
There is none OF the routine TO be
found which is characteristic OF fash
ionable watering place, but enough
eayety and pleasant social life to keep
the young people from wishing they
hadn't come. Men and women leaving
the city for change and rushing off to
fashionable summer resort find no real
vacation. 1t is merely an exchange OF
dissipation from one place to another,
and when they return to the city in the
autumn they are in no way strengthened
in health by their summer outing.
Wytheyille boasts of two good hotels
and numerous boarding Be-
sides, many private families take board
ers in summer at moderate prices. The
accommodations cannot now meet the
demand for board There is no finer
outlook in the country for largo sum
mer hotel than Wytheville. Right in
the town is a beautiful site within
short walk of the chaly beate fountain,
with fine shade-tre and on two sides
an extended view of the mountains,
which upon a clear day seem near enough
to touch, and upon others, when enve-
loped in a mist, like blue veil let down
from Heaven, appear far away.
Truly this is the Asheyllle OF Virginia.
Every week the German Club, or
ganized by the young gentlemen OF the
town, gives an entertainment at Sections
Hall. On last Wednesday evening was
the german Of the season, being favor
german, with supper afterwards. All
who attended were III full evening dress,
thirty couples dancing, and about 100
spectators. Tho chaperons sat upon
elevated seats, that each might have
full view of the young ladies under
charge The chaperons of this day
never are caught mapping, and whatever
happens, good, bad, or Indifferent, they
are very apt to see, and there is often
more rivalry among them as to their
girls than among the young ladies them
selves.
The society here in summer is cosmo-
politan, and upon any social occasion
every State IN The South is represented.
Among those present at the german and
in Wytheville were several
Of your Richmond people: Judge and !
Mrs. l.. l.. Lewis, Mrs. j. G. Walton,
Miss Belle Perkins, Mr. Ed. Walton, Mr..
Many, Mrs. +. T. Robinson,
Miss Mcdowell, Misses Henning, Miss
Cyanne Williams, and Misses Dodson.
Mrs. Tyler Kent, formerly Miss May |
Walton, of Richmond, has made Wythe-
vile her home. and by her sweet man
ners and lovely vocal talent is a great |
favonte and addition to the Wytheyille |
society.
The farmers in the Southwest work |
hard and make their business a success.
They are not living on the recollection
Of what they had before the war and be-
the contrast between the past |
md the present. but they are q live peo-
pie and are working to make the present
1 success, and they have succeeded.
MFRRYWOOD.