Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-06-26
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Buffalo Lithia Springs.

IMPROVEMENTS AT THIS FINE OLD RESORT
NEW RAILROAD. NEW BUILDINGS, AND BOWL
SG-ALLEY-wosDFRrUL CURES MADE By
THE WONDERFUL wATER--A GOOD COMPANY
AND MORE COMING.
BUFFALO LIrHrA SPRINGS. June %, 1890.
If had been dropped out of balloon
one of these cool nights upon this sweet
spot would have thought as soon a. the
day broke and could look about me that
| was somewhere in the mountains OF Viz
gina. For here | am among the green and
wooded hills. where the clear. pebbly
streams ripple gladly through the high
grass, where the great oaks and hicko-
RES spread their grateful shade. where
you wake ID the morning with the
cool breeZes coming through your
lattice and the birds are singing all around
YOU. with an appetite that nothing but
fried chicken. beefsteak. hot rolls. and
fresh milk will cure. for notwithstanding we
are IN old Mecklenburg county. IN Southern
Virginia. all these things are here, and
more too. And didn't drop from a bal
loon either, but came here as no one ever
came before this year-OR The cars. No more
long, hot, jOlting rides for the Buffalo
IithIa visitor fourteen miles from SCOTS
burg or seven miles from Clsrksyille. but
an all-rail route right 20 the place by the
new branch road from Buffalo junction
on the Atlantic and Danyille road-seven
hours ride from Norfolk ak hours from
Richmond. three hours from Danyille, and
four hours from Raleigh, n. c.
THE NEW BUILDING.
The visitor of former years finds other
most welcome changes. too. A handsome
two-story building containing twenty large
rooms and double piazZas from end 10 end
along both front and rear now stands at
the head of the grassy lawn, furnishing
the most desirable homes at the place. and
A NEAT NEW BATH-HoUsE
Of EIGHT rooms ornaments the foot of the
lawn, where the invalid finds what has been
so long needed here a hot llthla bath. or
a cold one if deSired-lust the thing 20
brace upa relaxed and languld system,
and near by is "a
sPAN-NEw BOWLING ALLEY
in first class shape for fun and exercise,
and the treshlv-painted band-stand under
the shade Of the oaks around Spring No. J.
not too far and not too near for the guests
TO enjoy the music. while the shaded seats
furnish a sweet lounging place for gOssips
and lovers during the heat of the day ana
coy trysting place by the moonlight.
WITH THE INCREASED ACCOMMODATIONS
room can now be provided for about two
hundred and fifty guests, and the new
buildings mentioned furnish perhaps
the most desirable location on the grounds,
the rooms being large and airy and over
looking the entire premises. There are al
ready about seventy persons here, the arri-
walls so far representing the States OF Nir-
giuia, North Carolina. Missouri. Georgia,
Rhode Island. Kentucky LOUISIANA, New
York. and Massachusetts. among whom are
DR.. +. f.. Powell. superintendent Of the
Georgia Asylum for the Insane, and Mrs.
Powell: Judge d. II. Hughes, of Kentucky;
Messrs. c. f. Whitlock and Irwin Watkins,
Of Richmond. Mr. G. q. Arnold, wife, and
daughters. Providence. Il. l. I. B. Lynd,
New Orleans; J. II. Waters. Norfolk; A.
b. Compton. Danville, William ChIyes.
New York, and others.