The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03
ROMANTIC sUMMERVILLE.
Something About the Much-Advertise
Resort We Read About.

Something About the Much-Advertised
Resort We Read About.
1t is supposed that a large portion Of
the great American public is now look
ing forward to the time when, leaving
its cool, comfortable home in the city,
it shall betake itself for health, rest
and recreation to a crowded and un-
healthful locality called a summer re-
sort. And as the determination of
particular place of torment is gener-
ally a matter of some difficulty, the
following valuable remarks on Sum-
meryille are gratuitously given:
Summerville has situation. Not
an eight-dollar-a-week situation, but a
high altitude, a lake-girt. a get-up-
early-and-see-the-b acknowledgements sit
uatiOn. For Dame Nature was very
kind when she fashioned this little spot
of beauty, and very beautifully did she
scatter broadcast lasting memories of
her matchless self (This means that
Summerville mas about as many
swamps, brier bushes, mosquitoes and
copperhead snakes as any other resort
of its size.)
The town is accessible by five pro-
posed railroads, so that the traveller
provided with pair of good walking
shoes will have little trouble in reach
ing his destination. Excursion tickets
on these proposed roads are sold from
all the principal points in the United
States at greatly reduced rates.
The excellent and commodious hotels
of Summerville, magnificent structures
of the Colonial style, with accommoda-
tions for more than one thousand
guests, are conducted entirely on the
African plan, this being considered far
superior to either the American or Eu-
ropean plans. The fundamental prin-
ciple of this plan of bookkeeping is
that if a guest wants any thing he has
to hunt for it himself. Besides this
novel feature, the management has
gone to great trouble and expense in
its aim to make the hotels equal to any
in the country. To this end a corre-
spondence has been opened with the
New York Fake Company, having in
view the placing of a monster sea-ser-
pent in the nearest lake; while for
elderly, unmarried ladies arrange
ments have been completed to have an
imported scandal arrive once a week.
AS a sanitarium, too much can not
be said of Summerville and its fresh,
invigorating air, its pure medical
springs and its low malarial swamps.
The one doctor of the town, unable to
get any patients, was compelled long
ago to earn his daily bread by marry
ing beautiful heiress; and it may be
said in all truthfulness that invalids
invariably express themselves as feel
ing much better after they have left
the quiet shades of Summerville.
The town itself has all the push and
energy of a modern summering place
and offers many attractions of high
order. At the Grand Opera House, on
Main street, a company of striking
merit has been engaged to play u
rs Cabin during the entire sum-
mer. The leading photographer, also
on Main street, has arranged to have
strings of large-sized fish always on
hand so that fishing parties may take
away with them artistic souvenirs in
the shape of tin-types representing
each member of the party carrying
string of fish. On returning to
the city, these pictures may be shown
to admiring friends with some remark
such as: What do you think of this
for one hours fishing?"
An entire page might be used in
giving the names and addresses of
people who, having visited Summer
vile once, never returned.
And where is Summerville? Why
it's everywhere; among the advertise
ments in newspapers, on the last page
of the magazines, in the fashy PAM
phlets that are sent you; in short, Sum-
merville is the much advertised Sum-
mer Resort that we read about. w.
II. Wassell, in Time