The morning times., 1896-08-30
NEW SUMNER RESORT FOUND
Linden, a Virginia Village, Popular
With Washingtonians.
Quaint Buildings, With an Old-Fash-
toned Mil. the Principal At
traction OF the Place.
(Special 70 The Times.)


have for many years teen familiar with
the branch of the Southern Railroad cross
ipc the Blue Ridge Irorp Manassas to stras-
burg aud several OF, the villages along the
li,e have Teen popular us summer resorts,
but Linden. which forty years ago had
fifty inhabitants. has during that time
| gained only hundred more.
This year, for the rIIrsL time. Washington
| people have cone, aud Linden has become
popular at a bound. In few years il
will probably he fashionable, and hotels
Will he erected, but 10 Will lose much OF the
| freshness and quaintness that make il SO
delightful now. ..........
Ii is remarkable that people did not dis
cover il before. Some small ads in The
Times brought them here this reason, and
those who are here now will bring their
friends next year. JI
The principal part of the town consists
OF one street or pubic road. at one end
OF which is an o!dfashioned mill with
an overshot wheel: at the other, u quaint,
ancient looking, One-story stone building
that is the postoffice and general
store. Another stone building. evidently
erected many years ago, CONTAINS the
ticket Office and a store.
Three stores and u barber shop, where
the village tOnsorial artist shayes h is
customers on the front porch, seating them
on a splnt bottom chair, complete the
business section.
1t Is all SO delightfully."- rustical that visit
ors from cites never tire OF it. BOarders
and citizens hold an informal reception
Every evening ut O'Clock at the depot, II
heiDg the time for the train from washi ing
ton to arrive.
1t is a sporimaD's paradise The citi-
zcns 20 out in the morning and kill a
dozen squirr els before breakfast, long before
cpeople of Washington awake, and about
he time late Dewspapermen are going u
led. Wild turkeys abound and only twenty
live miles away is a mount ain W here enough
deer are killed 10 supply the village with
venisoD during the winter months.
Three miles away. over good roads, is
The Shenandoah, the point in the river
where bass are most plentiful and least dis
turbed.
LuIay Caverns. Winchester, Warrenton
and the ancestral home OF William Jen-
Dings Bryan. are within easy driving dis
distance. They have good horses here
II bearing the same relation TO Virginia
from the breeders standpoint that the
Aae Grass regions do 10 Kentucky. There
are chaly Dea;e sprlngs, old gold mines. old
copper mines, and other points OF interest
There are a few local celebrities, who
are very interesting. Stewart Waiter has
a stock OF hunting stories, all personal
experiences, that would fill book while
i'll Hicks could give points to Isaac Wal
on 10 that renowned piscatorial seie1tist
We're stiil living.
There are no hotels, which fact is a
great attraction. There are boarding
houses. the mis.resses OF which pride them
selves upon their cooking and take it rs
"A calamity II their guests have no appe-
tites.
There is music at these houses, and they
play country games, give dances aud have a
good time generally. as their ancestors did
half a century ago. The people are in
eiligent and refined. the Virginia love of
ancestry and Of locality being wen de-
veloped.
Among the celebrities OF the place should
be mentioned n five-year- boy who has.
for a year, been a confirmed cigarette
Or the W ashinetUninns sotourning here at
present are DIR. l.. C.. LOOMS and family,
Mrs. F. ]. Dung and daughter Mrs Jessis
Smith and dauctser, Miss N. A. Johnston.
Miss Clara Chapman, Mrs. Deihart and
laughter. ]. &C. Roberts and family Mr..
and Mrs. Ellis. Mr=. Lvles. Mrs. Noonan and
laughter. Miss Frenub and Miss Cunning
ton, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank l.. Welles, Mrs
VI r. Vote and daughter, and Miss Con
nelly.