Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-08-08
BEDFORD SPRINGS, PA.


July tho busiest MontI, the Allegheny Re-
sort Has Had In Many Years--August
Promises to be just MS Gay-A CeaseIess
Round of Pleasures.
Special Correspondence Of Gazette and journal.
Bedford. Pa, Aug. 3.-July was,
without doubt, one of the merriest
months Bedford has known for the last
10 Or 10 years and August bids fair to
be just a. gay. The arrivals keep
abreast of the der artures and there are
those who predict that the season will
lie lengthened beyond it's usual limit,
owing to the large number OF engage.
ments for the last two weeks of August
and the first two Of September.
The week has been more than full,
with amusements OF every order imag-
Unable, from the big card.party given
by Mrs Samuel Bancroft, Jr., OF Will
mington, to the birthday party by
means of which Frank w. Paul. the
well-known Philadelphia attorney, en-
tertained the small folk OF the Bedford
Springs Hotel.
Mrs. Bancroft's party was, probably,
the largest affair Of its kind of the
Bedford season to date. There were
present about 40 of tine best euohre
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| dainty luncheon was served and then
followed the presentation Of the hand
some prizes. These were won by Mrs
Beatty, Mrs. Hickok, Mrs. X j. lIalde-
man and Mrs. James Dull of Harris
burg Mrs. j. b. sRoberts, Miss q.
Bright Mrs. Lawrence Riggs, Miss
Crowl, Miss Hilles, Miss Maulsby and
]. r. Roberts of Baltimore: George II.
Tyler of Philadelphia and Charles b.
Kenny of Pittsburg.
| But, OF all the Bedford divertise-
nients OF this or any other season, there
MAYER was one, in the opinion of the
small hoy OF the Bedford Springs Hotel,
| that o1ald hold candle to MT. Paul'a
birthday pai ty and u wasn't Mr.. Paul s
| birthday, either, for the birthday be-
| longed to one OF the boys WIN composed
| the crowd that went to the Willows and
raised tho racket that gave, 50 they say,
the proprietor, nervous prostration. All
| that Mr.. Faul bud to do with the party
was to give il, hire the wagons, order
the supper OF the Willows and foot the
| bills The little men and women owned
the occasion, and ~ every boy and girl
old enough to have had birthday was
invited, some idea OF the commotiou
may, perhaps. be obtained.
An instance of the wonderful powers
of the Great Magneeia spring has been
| given in the case of j. g. Cassatt.
brother OF the president Of the Penn
| sylvania Railroad Co., who, two
weeks ago came to Bedford in a
condition that made 1t impossible
for him to get into his carriage
at the station without assistance. For
two days following his arrival at the
Bedford Springs Hotel Mr.. Cassatt was
unable to leave his room. He then
began to take the Bedford cure. =
| which is simply the drinking of and
bathing 10 the water from the Greai
| Maguesia, under the advice OF com
| peteEt physician MIR. Cassatt's case
that of Or. Peasants OF Baltimore. the
house physician of the Bedford Springs
| Hotel. Today Mr. Cassatt takes his
morning walk about the mountain, his
three meals regularly and does not hang
back when he Ia invited to join one Of
the mountain climbing parties thai
daily leave the hotel for some one o.
| the more or less distant SUBMITS. DR..
i W. ii. Hulshizer, now at the hotel
i and member of the Pepnsy vanif
State Medical Board, gives it as hi
opinion that there is In Europe nj
spring that can rival the one that has
brought fame to the little spa amid tn,
crests Of the Allegheny Mountains il
4 Southern Pennsylvania.