Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-05
VIRGINIA JOTTiNGS
Hot Springs and Cool Summers for Those
Who Have Leisure and Means.
Progress of Modern Times shown by
Summer Resort Changes
Politics and People.
Of The Evening Star.

spring py the WaySlde. he STUCK his face
down into the water, and jumping back
violently, he rushed for his wagon. shout
ing to the boy holding the lines: Drive on.
Bill. and drive fast: we're only half a mile
from HI"
That Is one OF the traditions OF this place,
and 1t must be true. for IT is told Of every
other hot spring / ever attended in
my long extended travels, and surely every
body who had anything to do with a hot
spring In the beginning is not a-prevari-
Gator.
Three years ago the traveller to these
springs rode twenty-one miles in a stage
coach. from Milboro, and only a few years
prior people came all the way overland
from Staunton. Gen. Washington rode All
y, way on horseback from Wash
followed. for there is a party Of washing
tonians here now who came on horseback
I understand the walking is also pretty
Home Club feel like taking an outing
In this valley, where the Hot. Warm and
Healing Springs are located. the new order
OF things in the Old Dominion Ia possibly
felt more strongly than In any other sec
ton. and by the new order Of things i
mean the march Of progress. This place
until three years ago IL remained very
much as IT was in the beginning Plain
LIVING Living at the hotels tallow candles and oil
manners and good. ole Virginny doin's"
generally. But now the railroad has brok-
en- through the wall OF the old things. and
north, with its energy and its Formally.
has possession, and the dude and the dog
cart car, u the belle and the bul-pup the elec.
swell and society. are in the ascendant.
Isn't II BETTER" you ask
1t is more progressive; IT is up with the
times; Ii Is modern; is is what the
age demands; it is the inevitabie-yet
am too much Of an old fogy to say it is
better.
Modern Progress.
Within my recollection. and within that
OF many younger than I am. remarkable
advance has been made in this summer
resort portion of Virginia. For some time
after the war Staunton was the nearest
rail- point from the east to the Virginia
springs Then, by degrees. the rails reach
ed out until they came to White Sulphur;
twenty years ago the Chesap eake and Ohio
had come to the Ohio river at Huntington.
w. Va, and there IL stopped, fifty miles
from any connecting rail, and steamboats,
carried freight and passengers between that
point and Cincinnati: less than ten years
ago the rails went straight to the queen
city. and since that time the greatest de-
velopment has taken place among these
resorts. The old has been pushed aside
and the new has come in; civilization we
may say, has forced itself into the noun
tains, and the aspect OF the people and
country is no longer what it was. For the
quaint old hotels. with their piilared porches
and grand old trees, We have the modern
architecture and the shaver lawns; and the
stage coach has been knocked OF the track
At Basic City, Goshen, Clifton Forge.
Covington and Hot Springs are hotels
which seem to have moved down from the
north. and even White Sulphur, the shrine
OF southern society, has been somewhat
modernized by a new addition to the hotel
1t has all been done so suddenly, too, that
though. and the old Virginian can find
none OF his past, except in few remain
ing places where the arrival and departure
OF the stage are the events of the day.
Hot Springs. the piece de resistance as
We say In Paree, of this letter, Is the Ba-
den Baden Of America in it's Geographical
appearance and In it's waters. The noun
tafns come down close on the sides. and
stretch away into a pleasant valley with
the hotels and cottages dotting the brows
OF the gentler activities.
There are all kinds of waters. hot and
cold, and. as In an artificial bath tub. they
nome So1 .n STs e hS,, sosesher A. one point
cool and babbling brook. and the sensation
is peculiar when one sticks his hand down
sand and gravel over which it flows
Politics and Thfnes.
was talking to a man with only one arm
and We drifted into politics, touching on
silver. tariff and pensions.
Il See" said 1. that you are short an
arm Did you lose Ii in the war;
Yes. at Antietam." said he.
0f course you get a pension?" said l.
"No?" said I in surprise. thinking how
easy it was to get one nowadays.
Are you voter? said J.
Ibid you ever try TO get oneg" said i.
No., said he
ness"
Neither do L. said he.
You are the kind of patriots the country
needs" said I.
They didn't seem to think SO when I got
shot" said he. e
why not" said I.
Because they shot this arm on" said he.
ana as ne smiled softly il began to dawn on
and in Virginia "we' wore the rray sna
they" wore the blue.
This reminds me that these waters are
quite non-pontical, and Charlie the fat old
colored man who bosses the big pool Of nor
water, has splashed the water on Robert r.
zee; Gen; Johnston. JAS G. Blaine. Allen
" Inurman ana very many lesser lights
OF equally divergent political belief.
Mr.. NJ. Z. ingalls,, who has sprung 70
that he is talked of as a possible Sena,or
from OHIO some day, has a cottage herr
ne has also his private car and IL NAV be a
Der is 400. l asked a brakeman how shat
number happened to be there and he "a I'd
S IeSs1se 4 was the number Of the car, and
oiqn ask any more questions
There are plenty of summer girls here
from Washington. New York. BaItimore
.1an.ono anu the west, and they wear the
unmistakable imprint OF swelldom' I call
snem summer girls because II is summer
time: Inc real genuine summer girl Is.
however, not or that set. She is a natural
proouct who whoops IL up emotional y
sn9 otnerwise, and as a result is rather
pao form, don't You know. She's a darling.
tnougn, just the same, and she has All the
run that Is in sight, though she Is out Of
sight herself. In the matter of men I
have seen several very wide brim hats
several pairs OF white trousers. possihIy
one pair Of snowy spots and some few
otner indications Of masculinity
There was a large gent from New York
tsihing 10 group on the Virginia piazza.
All strangers. as Mr.. A. S. Hewitt OF New
YORK walked across the lawn.
Tammany Echoes.
There goes Hewitt" said he. Hewitt,
has row with everything he tackles He's
down on Croker now. Croker doesn't care.
| though. Cookers on top Croker has an
once In Tammany Hall. Man comes to see
Croker about an Office Croker saws: Saw.
didn't you have IL last year? DO you want
the earth? And that man lays down in
the road Another man comes He doesn't
get to see Croker at all. But he knows
what II means. He lays down In the road
too. Bourke Cochran is another big Tam
manyite. But be amt like Croker. Croker
has made million dollars somehow. Cock
ran Is rich. but he gets fees In his law
practice. Cochran Is the finest orator In
the country, but he doesn't look IT"
He kept on this line for some time, and
then he got back to Hewitt.
Col Brice is Hewitt's son-in-law," he