The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-13
SULPHUROUS SUWANNEE.
A SAVANNAH MAN WHO DRINKS
FORTY-FIVE GLASSES a DAY.

Love in a Cottage, With All the Con-
veniences of City Life-A Serpentine
Stream as Picturesque as the Ock-
Iawaha The Swimming Pool and
Sulphur Spring.
SUwANNEE, FLA, Jan. n.-Everybo
or at least nearly everybody in Savannah,
has heard of Suwannee Springs. Only a
small fraction Of the community, however.
seem TO have very definite knowledge of
the place. Mos people picture it as a re-
sort with a big country hotel, aud such
accommodations as are characteristic of
/ rustic inns. A more erroneous picture was
never drawn. Everybody knows how to
| get mere via the Savannah, Florida and
| Western, but unless notified on arrival at
| the station. the average passenger would
be very apt to ride past the alighting
point. as there is no village
| or anything else in sight to
Indicate that ne has reached his destina-
| tioa. From the depot to the resort proper
is mile and a half. The trip is made in
car which is a diminutive reproduction of
the cab of a freight train. Luggage finds
place on a miniature fiat car. The engi Ie
of this toy-like train is a demure boxing
mule. It's no narrow gauge track, how
ever, and the rails are heavy enough for any
ordinary train.
THE HOTEL PROPER.
The hotel proper aud its surroundings
surprise most PEOPLE, or at least that is the
experience of those here now. The main
building is two-story structure Of natural
coquina, and rel brick trimmings The
c0quina is o tanned from the banks of the
II ~ HnVyG vi a fatSy
hundred feet of the building. 1t differs
from the coquina used at st. Augustine,
tina used in the ancient city being an
artificial compound of shells, sand,
and Portland cement. Shells, starfish,
and natural roots are discernible In the
Suwannee petrifaction, and leal to the be-
lief that this section Of the Land of Flowers
was once the bottom of a sea deeper than
that into which McGinty took his famous
tumble. Adjoining the hotel is a smaller
building, similar in architecture and con-
structure.
LOVE IN A COTTAGE.
Scattered around these are eighteen two
room cottages, each containing
bath room with hot and cold sulphur
water fixtures, a stationary wash
stand similarly equipped, open fire
place, and closet. Each is prettily
finished in oiled pine, prettily furnished
little home as one could imagine. Between
every cottage is a pretty little fountain.
Meals are taken in the main blilding, and
the hotel table and attenda nee are equal to
that of the best hostelry in the state.
THE SPRING.
The spring and bathing pool are on the
edge Of the river few hundred feet from
the hotel, on e outskirts of grove made
picturesque by hanging moss. The river is
almost as winding as the Ocklawaha, and a
prettier stretch of scenery than that
afforded by its abluff-like banks would be
hard to find
The Okefi1okee is sixty-fve miles north
of here, and in coming that distance the
river flows 220 miles, To the Gulf in an air
line is sixty miles. The river flows $50 in
getting there.
DRINKING THE WATER.
The quantity of sulphur water that people
are expected to stow away here is some
thing enormous. If one were to drink all
that he Is urged to, every one
about the place would become a
walking hog 'head. There is no
bar here and the fluid never has stick in
it. A boy carries pail around every hour,
and each health seeker is expected to drink
at least dipperful each trip, and as much
more between clippers. One of the most
lulhDeTS now mere Is Mr. A.
Schreiner of Savannah. His best record to
date is foruy-hve glasses in a day, ten of
them being taken before breakfast. Mr.
Sehreiner came up as smiling as ever, how
ever, and it was not necessary to roll him
to resuscitate him.
SWIMMING IN MIDwINTER.
One of the characters of the place is a
prototype of Rip Van Wrinkle, who discards
his crutches and plunges into the bathing
pool at IL o'clock every morning. The
water comes gushing out of the rocky ba k,
but the aged swimmer finds the odorous
fluid as warm as in summer and a great
balm for his rheumatic limbs.
With better railroad schedule Suwannee
would be much more sought Among the
Savannah people registered here in the last
week or ten days are Hon. Gazaway
Hartrdge wife, and child aud nurse; Capt.
j. w. Catherarine of the Ocean Steamship
fleet; w. j. Lindsay aud family; Charles
Appel and wife; j. H Reid,
Mrs. K. Platshek, David S. Green.
baum, Mrs. J. j. Thompson. and
three children, Mrs. c. Ratz, Miss S. j.
Stegin, Alex. Hofheimer, s. A. Schreiner,
Thomas West, P. O'Keefe, Mrs J. G. Steg-
maier, H. G.. Appel and wife, H. C. Tregid-
go, Clinton NJ. Fielder, and s. Mann.