Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-07-30
AT THE OLD WHITE.
NEWS FROM WEST VlRGINIAS FAMOUS
SPRINGS.
White Sulphur Crowded With Pleasure Seekers
Medicine Men and Lawysrs-TerpsichOrsan
Rscrsahons-Many Forms Of Anuse-
msni-Personals.

Medicine Men and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
RscrsadOns-Many Forms Of Anuss-
msnt-Psrsonsls.
Special Correspondenes ofRe Register.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. VA,
July 28.-The recent hot weather along
the seaboard and in the interior has proven
very gratifying to the managers of noun
tain resorts, and of the seskers after cool
air and rest "the Old White" is receiving
full share. Every train brings additions
to the sojourners here. Daring the past
week the arrivals have averaged nearly
two hundred daily, and on two days ex-
cesded that number. The result is easily
preceptible to the most casual observer.
The Offices corridors and galleries are
thronged with guests Of both sexes ard
divers sges; the picturesque pathway that
leads the stroller by Lovers Leap (who
ever heard of a summer resort without a
Lovers Leap p is trOdden by many cooling
pair; nearly every cottsge is inhabited;
under the ancient oaks on the main lawn
numerous lace-cspped maids tend the
numerous progeny of numerous guests "of
quality.n aud there are yet left tennis
fends sufficient to keep that game going
almost necessarily.
1t is all matter Of taste, suppose, or,
perhaps matter Of fashion, bat if l
wanted to enjoy myself and had to resort
to either tennis or marbles, would return
to that pastime of halcyon bOyhood and
make the air gay with 'no fudgin' 4"
rather than Fifteen love-"
A DANCERS PARADISE.
The ball room is nightly a scene Of daz-
cling magnificent splendor, the natural Sc
quence OF bright eyes, Worth costumes
sparkling Jewels and the electric light,
the latter (though it strains my gallantry
to remark i,) being the principal agent re-
sponsible for the admirable general effect
Certain il is, nevertheless, that the vOtaries
of Terpaichore who frequent this place are
conceded by those who visit both Old
Point Comfort and Saratoga, superior in
appearance, grace and dress to those of
other resorts. The wherefore l DO not
propose to explain, bat lesve TO the gen.
tie readers philosophy. The favorite
dances. ont of the ordinary, are the mill
tary schottieche and the York. The for
mer is rather the prettier of the two, IN
my estimation, and far prettier than the
Highland fling sort of schOttische (the
technical name for which has slipped my
mind) which Yves such a rage here two
years ago. But everything is danced here
that has been invented since, in the ex-
pressive language of chic New Yorker,
dancing was taken from among the fine
arts and placed among the athletic sports.
BIG MEDICINE MEN.
As current dispatches to the REGISTER
announced, the tribe of West Virginia
were left to worry along as best they could
without medical attendance several days
last week, tbs chief medicine men having
gathered here for three days pow-wow.
A poodly number of hesleTs were in at
tendance, though the large membership OF
the organization should have insured still
A larger turnout Among the prominent
physicians and surgeons present were 5.
liz. Austin and A. S. Patrick, Of Lewis
burg l. D. Wilson and J. A. Campbell,
lofWheel.ng A. K BaIbee, of Point Pleas
ant w. d. Caldwell and ". Q. Dabney,
resident ply sicians here; o. r. Enslow and
III. D. Myers, of Huntington d. Mayer,
W. P. Hogue, @. T. Richardson and w.
W. Tompkins, Of Charleston Harriet B.
Jones. of Weston ]. D. McOOnahsy, Of
Buffalo Leonard Eskoy, of DenWU0d !
Thos. r. Evans, Of BIT. Carbon ]. w.
Ford. of Talcott NJ. A. Gates, of Ron
ceverte V. r. Mess, of Barboursville; I.
F. RAYMOND, of Frankfort George Van
don. of CAperton, and number Of famous
lecturing professors from Baltimore and
Richmond.
LEGAL LUMINARIEs.
The learned bar of the Old Dominion is
we'll represented here inst now, the State
Association being in session in the Meiho-
dist church. Judge Robertson, Of Char
louisville, ia in the chair, and Hon. Thos.
M. Carter, of New York, is successfully
enactiDg the role of distinguished guest.
Mr.. Carter's address before that body this
morning, has been very highly compli-
mented by the barristeIs in attendance.
This evening they elect officers and adjourn
TO the banquet room, where eloquence and
champagne will uninterrupted flow
Most of the members will remain over &c
attend the meeting of the National Bar As
ISOLATION, on July 80. In the interim the
West Virginia Bar Association will meet
here and the Virginia BlackstOnes will kill
two-or better still, three-birds with one
pebble.
PLACE FOR sPoRTsNlEN.
There are not many sportsmen here,
most of the resorters being satisfied with
such enjoyment as the tennis court and
ball room yield. This is rather strange
inasmuch as game, both large and small,
abounds in the immediate vicinity. One
of the employees of the Grand Central
dragged" a three-hundred pound besl
within four miles of the premises one day
last spring, and it was not very good day
for bear, either.
Prof. Henry Laube, of Richmond, whose
Chesterfeldian grsces have long been ia
miliar 10 the habitues of this place, alone
has tried his luck at angling. He departed
one day this week clothed in much dig
nifty, blue overalls and white fore-and-aft
tourist cap. AS he was armed and accOut-
red in the most approved modern manner
there is every reason for suspecting that
he was highly successful, bat as his return
was much less Ostentstious than his de-
parture, and information on such subjects
never being absolutely authentic when re-
ceived direct from the angler himself, the
exact result of his endeavors cannot be
conscientiously stated.
LATER ARRIVALS.
Among the prominent people who have
registered here since my epistle of fort
night ago may be mentioned the following;
Hon. r G.. H. Kane, Ohss. n. Blackburn,
Frank Huntington and Randolph Harri-
con, of Lynchburg, Va; Hon. w. W.
Henry, Dr.. and Mrs. Landon B. Edwards,
Hon. D. B Munford, Hon. John H. Guy,
Judge and Mrs. L. L. Lewis, w. W. Cory,
Mr. and Mrs. Tazewell Elicit, Judge Geo.
f. Christion, Mr.. and Mrs. Decatur AK
tell and W. H. Sands, of Richmond; Mr..
A Hamilton and Hon. E @. Venable, Of