New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-10
SUMNER RESORTS IN VIRGINIA.
MANY ATTRACTIVE PLACES REACHED BY THE
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO.

No summer resort region is widely known
in this country than the mountains of Virginia.
High and healthful situation mineral waters of
great efficiency. and of have given the
springs of the AIleghanes and Blue Ridge a de-
served reputation and many visitors The Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad directly through the
most attractive portions of Vrgina's mountains.
and with Its branches affords direct routes travel
TO all or them from the centres of population. The
handbooks entitled The Vrginas Past and Pres
ent" and Summer Homes issued by this COM
panN. give many interesting facts about the region
traversed by the road and the resorts in the
mountains from 1850 to 900 feet above the sea,
which may be reached by IT, and where unsur-
passed facilities for physical and mental recupera-
ton abound.
These resorts include all the famous hot warm
cold. sulphur, alum. chalybeate sweet and healing
springs OF which successive generations. from the
days Of the stage coach and the pllion those OF
the drawing and the automobile have
proved and tested the medicinal and recuperative
qualities The world famous Virginia Hot Springs
are in valley twenty-five hundred feet above
the sea. surrounded by mountains rising If
teen hundred feet higher. and are reached
by a branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio
which leaves the main line at Covington. The
water flows from the springs a a temperature OF
100 degrees. and at the splendid bathhouse facili-
ties provided for any temperature desired by
bathers These waters are prescribed for variety
OF diseases and prove remarkably eficacous. The
every facility for benehting by the use Of the
waters and enjoyment OF the mountain air Oppor-
tunites for golhng riding driving and wheeling as
well as for indoor amusements and exercise are OF
the finest.
Five miles away 10 the north by stage are the
Warm Springs. which have been frequented by gen
Grafton after generation OF Virginians and others
The especial features here the TWO great bath
ing pools. into which thousand gallons OF water
at temperature OF Sc degrees flow every minute
and which have united capacity Of a hundred
thousand gallons The larger reserved for women
and children. To the south Of Hot Springs at a
distance OF three miles the healing springs IN.
water Of which Ia OF superior quality and has been
shown by analysis 20 be almost the same as that
at famous German springs.
Perhaps the best known Of all Virginia resorts
is the White Sulphur Springs in Greenbrier Coun-
~. with Chesapeake and Ohio station alrnos, al
the doors OF the Grand Hotel. which with its
hundred cottages is the largest at any summer re-
sort in this country. The waters here have been
unrivaled in popularity for a century ana the So
ciul life OF part OF the country has centred
at this resort. The surrounding scenery is re-
markable for beauty and variety. and there IS every
opportunity for its enjoyment In connection with
the beneficial effects OF the White Sulphur water
and all forms OF outdoor and indoor amusement.
Among tho other resorts In the Virginia Noun
tans 10 which the Chesapeake and Ohio affords d.
access the Old Sweet SPRING. reached
from Allegheny station: the Sweet Chaybeate
Springs nine miles from the same station: the
Red Sulphur Springs twelve miles from tine Lowell
station: the Salt SULPHUR Springs fourteen miles
Fort Spring station; Rockbrdge Alum Springs
nine miles from Goshen; Millboro. the main line:
Nimrod Hall. on the Cowpasture River. reached