Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-09-21
THE WHITE SULPHUR.
Correspondence Alexandria Gazette. I

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Green-
brier county, w. Va, Sept. 2O.-The
season at the old White Sulphur
Springs is nearly closing. 1t winds up
the 1st of October. They have had 500
to 900 visitors at one time and they
have now about hundred. Six years
ago the popularity of the place, by bad
management, suffered great snock.
Old patrons of the springs, unable to
obtain the smallest, simplest comforts
of life, such as might be had in the com
monest country tavern, were driven
away. The springs were avoided and
a great watering place which had been
one of the leading resorts of the coun-
try, ran down to almost nothing. 1t
was painful revelation to those who
had enjoyed this grand assemblage OF
the choice society of the South in its
best days. The hotel is now much bet
ter managed. The crowd is increasing
year by year and the desolation is gone.
One did not see this year the distin-
guished men of former days but there
have been number OF very agreeable
people here. Many people are not hap
Ply unless they are in great Yankee
mob ike that at Saratoga, Atlantic
City, Long Branch or Coney Island.
For my part J. do not want to quit the
city in the hot months to see and be
jostled about by great crowd of vul-
gar, pushing people. | want some
thing-yes, good deal Of ma
ture, and a moderate number of
people bounds my desires for hu-
man companionship. [ long for the
roads and the mountains or th1 seaside,
and "too many cooks spoil this broth"
l have been over much OF the world
and | have yet to see in this
or other countries o more lovely spot
than the White Sulphur. 1t never APP
peared to more advantage than it does
today. l mean the natural beauties.
cannot fully understand why this
famous mineral spring, the superiority
of which to any in this country cannot
be questioned, should not have here
every year its many thousands of visit
ors. 1t is nearer to the South than any
other watering place. 1t is nearer and
more convenient to Louisville, ST.
Louis, and Cincinnati than any eastern
resort, and it is fully as convenient to
Chicago as Saratoga, or Newport, or
Atlantic City, or any of the eastern
watering places. 1t is on the line of q
great railroad connecting the Mississip-
pi valley and Tidewater with two
trains day and beautiful scenery to
traverse. Some day these western
people will find all this out and they
will come here in droves. One can
come here from Washington or Alex
J andria in seven hours. There used to
/ be a number here from both cities
Richmond has been we'll represented
here this year. Richmond always had
q warm side for the "old White"
! One familiar with the past history OF
the White is reminded at every turn Of
this or that family or of some distin-
guished man. Here you see the Bran
don cottage-once General Lees. Here
YOU have Mr.. Jas. NJ. Masons cottage.
Here is Com. Maury's, and here the
Hampton and Singleton cottages. Il
one were to forget these things the old
servants are here to remind you. The
manager has done wise thing in holds
| ing on to q number of these old ser
vants-any one Of whom is better than
the vulgar parvenues of eastern re-
sorts or a thousand of the Cuban in
surgents and brigands for whom we
nave Just waged costly war.
There is little political talk here but
heard little to-day at the spring.
Two or three of US had little chat on
the silver question. 1t was chance
rencounter, only surface deep, when
lovely woman Clipped in to enlighten
us. She had, like parrot, picked up
one or two phrases or catch words from
somebody VINO didn't known anything
about the great question that has divid-
ed political economists and thinkers for
quarter Of century, and, of course,
she "knew it ALL" Women are allow
ed monopoly of cookery, fashions,
society matters and theology, but all
this is only mere break fast for them.
Theologians, doctors, lawyers, clerks
and warriors, they readily rush to the
front in political economy and all the
arts OF government: besides managing q
bicycle and babies. The day will soon
come when they will be signing for new
worlds to conquer and the tyrant man
will be expected to supply it and then
take back seat. If the serpent had
told Eve that all this was coming she
would not have believed his story about
the apple or anything else, and the
whole face of history might have been
changed. VISITOR.
THE COLEMAN.SANDERS SUIT.