The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-17
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK.


Tho Red Letter Week at the Assembly.
Great Preparations for @. A. Il. DAY.
Special Correspondence Of he intelligence.
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK, MD, August
l5.-sunday was a delightful day, as
near peyfect day as we will experience
in this life, and we'll was the day en-
joyed by the hundreds spending their
vacation on this mountain summit.
Never has Sabbath seen SO many peo-
pie IN tho park; never have the hotels
aud boarding houses been so crowded /;
never has there been such an attractive
Chaulauqua programme as this seasons.
Tie talent who appear upon the plat
form, the singers and musicians who
furnish us with delightful music, the
teachers who interest US are the best to
be obtained by a liberal expenditure OF
money. From the beginning to the
close Of the season the best talent has
been engaged.
No Chautsuqua grounds in tho land
will have as strong programme, but
few equal that which We now enjoy. No
wonder Mountain Lake Park is having
such successful season. Twenty-Five
more cottages could easily have been
ronted to persons desiring 10 spend the
summer here, had We had them. Noun
tain Lake Hotel had nearly half hum
dred applications for room and board
more than they could ill. Grace Cot
tage has fed as many as go at q single
meal. Superintendent Rudisill has been
kept busy showing lots, and has dis
posed Of quito number. Contractors
are figuring on new cottages to be
erected this fall and early spring. The
Assembly House is full, and Friday last
turned away twenty-five persons. Oak
Hall, Hotel Dennet and Miss Harris
still have room.
The Mountain Lake hotel company
fled articles Of incorporation Saturday
last. G. Masden, st. Louis; @. w. Bald
win, Washington; w. L. Davidson, Gin
cinnati; Hon. G. Hamil, Oakland, and
i. A. Rudisill, Mountain Lake Park, are
the directors OF the new company. The
new building, to be erected on tho west
end OF the present building, will be
four stories in height; have thirty-tive
rooms, finished and furnished in the
best style; steam laundry will also be
erected, with servants rooms on the
second floor. The order for the build
ing material has been given, and work
on the hotel will commence the close of
this season. Mr.. Jarboe, of Oakland,
will have charge Of the erection OF the
building.
Fairmont has had as many as 20
people in the park; there are now 40 Of
its citizens living here. Pittsburg has
added more than sixty to our popula-
ton. This week will be red letter
week. Saturday q special excursion OF
twenty-five hundred people will come
to the park. @. L. S. @. Recognition
Day is announced for the 18th, with
one Of the most attractive programmes
OF the season, Prof. Chas. +. Underhill,
John Temple Graves, OF Georgia, Rev.
S. H. Day, Of West Virginia, Prof. John
II. Denote, OF Indiana, and others.
Sunday, DIR. @. R. Barnes, OF New Jer-
sev, led q devotional meeting at a. m.
AT II a. M, DIR. Jahu Dewitt Miller
preached a magnificent sermon to q
crowded auditorium, who listened with
intense interest. Many an eye was
bathed in tears. He chose the words OF
David, "Thy word have l hid in my
heart" as his text. At s p. M, Rev.
Frank Russell, DID,, of New York, adj
dressed another large audience.
Thomas E. Davis, candidate for gov
ernor on the Republican ticket of West
Virginia, spent Saturday in the park.
Professor Miller, Republican candidate
for superintendent OF public schools of
West Virginia, has cottage at the park.
He is fine scholar. The Republican
party is to be congratulated upon nomi-
mating such man as'he, an earnest and
successful teacher, an old soldier and
the friend of the public school system.
Among the recent arrivals are: Will
]. Willis, Wheeling: Miss Sydney Pan
cake, Romney; Mrs. Mary Pancake,
Keyser; R. W. Hazlett, Mrs. D. G. List,
Charles W. List, Wheeling; A. B: War
den, Grafton; A. R. Campbell, D. w.
Chadwick, Wheeling, guests OF the
Mountain Lake Park Hotel.
Will. Willis, Toronto, Canada; An
drew Watson, Jackson, Mich; superin-
tendent shoats, of Grafton division Bal
timore & Ohio railroad, spent Sunday
in the Park.
S. L Allen, of Grafton, purchased
lot on the southeast corner Of G and
Oak streets. The lot adioined his lots,
and gives him a beautiful plat Of
Mrs. Ora Brown, of Grafton, who oc-
cupies the Masden cottage, has twenty
nine boarders. s. Pye, agent OF the NJ.
E. Book Concern, OF st. Louis, Mo-, is a
guest ofthe Mountain Lake Park Hotel.
Great preparations are being made
for G. A. Il. day, the 2Sd inst. General
o. o. Howard, commander of the United
States army, Corporal Tanner, late
United States pension commissioner,
and other notables are to be here. The
Baltimore & Ohio will run special trains
and give low rates. This is to be made
the GROWING day of the assembly.