The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-07
NICE PE0EP lie AT
B0NNY BEL AIR
A Clerk Avows That No Lady Would
Go on a Hay Ride.
BUT He WAS OUT OF REACH.
"A Question Which viii Be Settled in
some Serious Fashion, Short.
Eat Chaperone iii the Wagon
Gets = JoItin.s.
BUT HE WAS OUT OF REACH.
especial Dispatch to The Tines.)

NEWCASTLE, VA, August 4.-Mr.
Francis T. A. Juniin Of Chicago, left this
pleasant mountain resort to-day. a score
or more Of friends we're at the depot to bid
him "good-bye," and at.ested 10 the fact
that he will be missed from Bei-Air. Mr..
Junkin is the attorney for the Atcfson,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and makes
his home in Chicago. He is, on MS mater
nal side q nephew of that great lawyer
the president OF the Virginia Bar Associa-
tion-Maior William Z. Anderson. OF Lex
ington, who was also one Of the heroes of
the Lost Cause, and. on his paternai side,
wall Jackson. lie is one of the merriest-
hearted young fellows 1t has been my
pleasure to meet in a long time. During
his stay al Bel-Air he was the life Of the
company.
Mr. Junkins mother, who is still here
with others of her family. was a daughter
of Colonel Frank I. Anderson. owner of the
grand Cd colonial home Of Mount JOY,
in Botetourt county, which was burned
during the march of what Colonel Co
wardin once said was the Devil in The
Valley-tEunter,s Brigade.
A LOVELY WOMAN.
Mrs Junkin is a lovely woman OF that
rare and gentle type OF anti-war Sentility.
Her home al present IS in New Jersey.
Mrs William E. Anderson, wife of the
great attorney, is a charming lady, who,
judging from her ken appreciation OF de-
tails of any subject in which she is in
terested. I think, she would make no poor
lawyer herself. She is greatly interested
in this section as a field for charitable and
Church work; is the prime mover II the
prospective erection Of an Episcopal!an
Chapel in Newcastle, since there's no
church or chapel Of this denomination in
all the county. Her three daughters add
much TO young company at Bel--Air- Major
Anderson owns q good deal OF mineral land
some miles below here, and . little tank
with him, whose word is entitled to much
consideration, ELECTED the fact that Craig
is next to the richest county in the State in
mineral ores. Very little Of t, however, Is
developed
There are now at BeI-Air crowds OF
pleasant people, who enjoy the days as
much as possible and the nights more.
That lovely society deyotee, Mrs. Clarence
Boy5in, is here now, and she seems like
an electric spark on the ballroom floor
The ballroom, though small, has double
windows one above the other, and by
which I. current of cool mountain wind
is turned into the room and kept stirring.
HANDSOME GIRLS.
Among the handsome girls now seen on
the floor in the waltz one notices that
blonde OF striking cool dignity, liss Fan
ME Lewis, of Richmond. Just n an oppo-
site style is the elder Mss Nash, Of Nor
folk, a black-huireI, darll-eyed girl, with
a complexion Of warm rose tints. All the
girls this season seem to be pretty, dainty,
airy creatures. like a swarm Of butter
flies. There are now among the other
guests here Miss Taylor. Misses Boyk!n
Miss Pace. Miss Gibson. Miss Binford,
.,lrta Nor I1Er,
little song-and-dance fairy, Hilda Frank
lin, all of Richmond: Colonel Nash and
family, of Norfolk: Mr.. Straus, Of Roa-
nolle and many others.
\ HAY RIDE.
Some OF the young gentlemen of the
town got up a pleasant hay ride last week
to entertain some visitors TO the place.
Mr.. Charles Eakin, the popular private
secretary Of the n. Z. rSDessard Company
was the chief mover n the pleasure, and
he had planned to give his guests mid
night luncheon ut the mine store, about
seven miles below Newcastle. The night
was cool and delightful, starlit, and as the
hay wagon rumbled past the sleeping
farmsteads ana Weakened the bulldogs TO
sonorous growls. the boys in the wagon
played a concert on. shr.n French horps.
and those who could sng. sang! annie
Laurie was not forgotten. nor annie
Rooney" nor the score of Just One
Grip as the boys fell under the influence
OF the soft win5-CooIed darkness.
A FAT CHNPDRONE.
There was long. slim. learned profess
sor in the company, and a stout, short,
though merry-hearted chaperone. these
two experiencing for the first tirns the
mysteries Of a hay wagon. must have suf-
fered some discomfort. But martyr 70
pleasure knows nothing of discomfort. Ask
the golfer, on a hot day? She feels no more
tho rays of the sun than did Joan of Arc
the flames of fire But, in this case the
ladies We're rudely awakened from their
dreams Of pleasure by an incident of man
~ supremacy II was from clerk in a
store at an upstairs window He
calmly announced that mo lady would go
on hayride." That was something of a