The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-09-05

Only one estate sells freehold q. aud
these are on conditions wlAeA ttuder.
the word ridiculous misuet ngs "a
equity OF redemption il sccurahle' ON o.
thirty wears purchase. 70 illustrate!
II a building site is secured at 500 per
year ground rental, after thirty years
and the payment altogether OF $4,000
it becomes "freehold," subject to nll
manner OF restrictive covenants, such
as that the property be not used for bus
mess purposes, that the. building upon
it shall not be in any manner changed,
that no additional buildings shall he
erected on the same site, etc. Every
such change imposes new agreement
and additional fees. believe 1t re-
uuires a license fec Of twenty-five dol
lars to merely add bow window. TO
ones house. A few rooms are being
added to the Bourne Hall hotel prop
erty on Poole road, and the license fee
for the change is $500. So that
while there arc from 200 to 400 resi-.
dences in Bournemouth each one OF
which cost $4,000 and upward, and
from twenty to fifty which have each
cost Sl25,OOO and upward, there arc
practically no people in Bournemouth
who absolutely own their homes, savo
the half dozen possessors OF the great
estates.
Nature and invalidism have made
Bournemouth. The climate OF Great
Britain is death yelled i'll humidity,
ever leaving in nearly every household
ineradicable pulmonary disease. There
are in the two islands enough aristo.
cratic invalids, or titled and untitled
rich people who have this sort Of inval-
ism in their families, to build any
where in England another city, rich
and great as London, in which to house
them. The pines, the sands, tho. sea
and an almost semi-tropical climate are
found in this magical city Of the ENG
lish Rivera" They altogether exist no
where else in Britain. This is solely
why wilderness, where heath covered,
pine hid sand dunes worth half CEN
tury since less than $50 per acre, has
been transformed into u spot more beau
tiful than the royal gardens OF Kew,
whore the same land in many instances
has profit making value of more than
100000 per acre.
NATURE blended WITH ART.
Bournemouth less than three hours
time from London, and is reached by
the London & Southwestern railway.
The first scent Of the sea air is at Poole.
Three miles moro and YOU are at
Bournemouth. There are Bourne
mouth east and west stations. These
are set far out from the crescent, pine
embedded city, so that those who
come within the fairy place shall see no
railway smoke and CRIME and never DO
disturbed by the locomotives whistle.
There is no dirt or poverty at Bourne
mouth. The most startling noise is the
swell OF the great orchestral bands.
Birds sing here as in the wildwood.
The primeval forest is still standing,
and the threnodies OF the wind in the
pines 90 on and on when night has
stiIled the birds.
Where the people have felled the
pines they have planted rhododcndrons,
the arbutus, the laurestina, myrtle and
bay, and myriad OF other shrubs and
evcrgrecns instead. These grow on the
south coast in almost tropical luXuri-
ance. The silvery Bourne, springing
along the heath at Kinson, scarcely
more than blue thread here, shows
the sinuous valley depth, with the vide,
fair city ascending to the east and west.
Its journey is a pathway through u
noble garden. Just before it reaches
the city edge and the sea 1t wimples
through m ever green and ever shaded
arboretum, sweet, solemn and still,
These gardens are interlaced walks,
drives and devious wooded hooks. Ave
nues OF ancient pines are softly mGlodi-
Gus here. The sun steals, through the
vaulted roof in tlecks and splinters Of
light This is the famous "lnvalid
Walk"
Tho shore and seacape at Bourne
mouth are the most beautiful TO be
found in Europe. The shore is a per-
feet crescent, facing the south, twelve
miles in length, terminating on the
east in the bold Christchurch head, and
on the west in the still holder headland
and stacks OF the Old Harry Rocks. The
foreshoro penetratedby one Of the hand
soonest piers in England, is IN eighth OF
a mile in width, golden and level, with
no pebble upon il as large as pea.
Behind this, broken only where the
Bourne meets the sea and shows its
sides tcrraced with superb villas and
almost palaces is a continuous cliff
OF pure sand, here and there
Indicated with tiny "Chincs. !"
The cliff is from 100 to 800
feet in height. All the "chines" are
merry burrows for children and lovers.
Lookout houses and shelters" line the
edge Tor miles above. BY night the
shore ablaze with light, the sea ablaze
with harbor and sailing lights. By
night or day the eye never rests upon
the sea without gltmpses OF hundreds Of
hundreds OF steamers aud sails. Straight
across the Solent, toward France, is the
Isle OF Wright, the Needles foam-white
at their feet. The whole Is a dream Of
majestic beauty and repose. Bourne
mouth ideal-for the rich. The poor
man can but look upon it aud steal the
rayishing picture for distant striving
hours.
INTERESTING SURROUNDINGS.
Although Bournemouth itself is new
one does not have to remain long visit.
or to find it, its near headlands and
islands aud it's outlying m9ors and
forests, rich in associative interest. In
its beautiful st. Peters church is fine
memorial window to the poet, KeDle,
who died in the Evergreen Valley"
leavin. to the region the legacy oil n
sanity name and blameless life. Ancient
Swanage, Just over there to the west be-
yond Old Harry Rocks, where time it
self seems dreaming was the fayorite
haunt Of that grand man and noble