Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-28
TOP OF THE ALLEGHENIEs.
In the GIades-A Perfect Summer Resort
Delightful Scenery.


Delightful Scenery.
SPECIAL telegram to the Register.
OAKLAND, August 25.-As / promised,
I will give you some items about this
lovely section of Maryland. Well, here
we are about 5000 feet above the sea,
some 600 feet above the village Of Oak
land and the beautiful site of Deer Park
and Mountain Lake, on the Baltimore
& Ohio main trunk. My friend Colonel
Jno. E. Wood, with his delightful fami-
ly. reside here and own the place OF
nearly 1900 acres Of land. We rise the
mountain from Oakland and are two
miles above. 1t is really the glades OF
the Allegheny mountains, rising to ?, 500
feet, aud in points 5000 feet,
and then fattening out for
two miles to be broken by some beauti-
full sugar-loaf peak, which in turn seems
pushed away by some peak, till all along
the furthermost horizon, apparently be-
low where you stand, and yet you are on,
level plateau. The prevailing timber
consists of hard woods, with Few
cIumps Of white pines intermiXed. The
whole country is covered with the rich
est luxriance Of wild flowers, really sup
plving all need OF flower culture. The
hills are covered with beautiful blue
grass, diversified by the big red thistle,
which can be seen q mile away, giving
great variety by its bright mingling
with the hundred other bright blossoms.
The house has accommodations Tor
thirty guests, has eighteen rooms all
with open fire places. and is construct
ed of wood, with two porticos covered
with vines. There is sun all day and
one surely gets 1t at the earliest morn
ing hour giving freshness to the air and
yigor to the worn out body, and drying
the.dew on the grass of the extensive
lawn, so that just after breakfast one
NAV start on his rambles over the hills
and far away, or go with the little
ones, of whom there are fourteen
here now, and stop their chattering
with game of croquet. The table IS
beyond cavil, the menu being abundant
and suitable to all palates and needs,
good beef steak and lamb chops, with
6fi6rsoe1d ar1Sl IN esE6sEE1 SifgSr case affd
clabber, milk and cream without stint
rolls and bread as light and puffy as
snow-bals, mullins hot, brown and
puffy.
The air Is so bracing that one can
stroll before breakfast and get up an
appetite of an and for an OK. The at
mosphere is full OF celebrating ozone
and the morning scenery perfect while
the prices charged are reasonable,
being S25 per month only.
This is the ideal spot for
asthmastics, veritable eastern Colo
RADIO. Persons suffering from asthma be-
gin to lower their shoulders before reach
| ing these mountain plains and soon the
expectoration begins to flow from the
bronchial tubes, affording at once relief
from the attack. What a godsend il
thousands of ESTIMATES knew of just
such place when they could throw off
these paroxysms of difficult breathing
and rest in security during their stay,
gaining strength and freshness with
which to begin the coming winterl The
attitude is so great and the mountains
separate, so that as far as the eye can
reach the view is lovely and eX-
|
season august is 60 deg. at breakfast,
at 10 a. m. it is GA deg, at noon about
20 deg, and at p. m. 1t is 76 to as deg
Then at night il runs down to 70 deg,
and by early morning Is 60 TO 90 deg.
again. You need covers; every night
have been here generally one blanket.
This is just the spot for sanitarium
and Summer sojourn combined, or for
either, that l know of. Oakland and
Deer Park both have larger hotels,
and many asthmatics and persons with
heart troubles resort there 600 feet be-
low this point with benefit. Many
coming from the North and far West,
while the cities are largely rep
resented. Just on towering
hill, in sight of the Oakland pike,
and within few hundred feet Of the
railroad is a slope with three fine
springs of the cleares, free stone water,
with gradual descent to the railroad,
and with two streams conveying just at
the foot of the mountain, where
meadow OF several acres spread out 20
form the finest meadow. The mountain
is of easy ascent and can be approached
WlIQOub ally UNNECESSARY
1t overlooks miles OF lovely valley,
glades and hills, all rich in coloring
from flowers, forest and grass, while
the railroad trains pass below ike sil-
very serpents bent on their journey East
or West. The river with It's red water
0llstening beneath the sun reminds one
Of huge band Of gilt threading its way
among the hills.
think with proper taste, tact and
enterprise, and at q small expense, COM
pared with many other places, a sani-
tartan could be placed here, which in
beauty OF opposition, In usefulness and
in moneyed return would justify much
care and which would be beautifully
patronized as health giving resort and
as place specially suited to bronchial
ADD nervous affections. Being less
than two mfies from Oakland IL would
draw, aud the railroad would be but too
glad to establish station at the foot Of
the slope. 1t would draw from the N,
G. & E., then, too, a new railroad is
being built from Pittsburg to Oakland.
passing within mile OF the spot. Here
the invalids might literally throw physic
to the dogs, getting good food and
quiet natural sleep, while the bracing
alp of the Alleghenies would do the bal