The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-13
SUMMER TOURISTS RETURN.
SAVANNAH PEOPLE ARE GETTING
HOME AGAIN.

Fame. Now Has New Spring and
Hotel in south Carolina.
Savannah's summer tourists are re-
turning home. From the mountains
and the seaboard they are pouring
back daily. Hundreds are yet to
come. but most of business men and
/ the male resorters generally are back.
The opening of the schools shortly
will bring back the mothers and the
children.
The exodus from Savannah this sea-
son was probably the greatest in the
| history of the city. Railroad men say
| they have never known anything like
it. 1t is the biggest summer resort
business they have ever enjoyed, and
! the number OF departures is some
where in the thousands. not in the
hundreds. In fact. the whole South
land seemed to have the summer re-
sort fever this year and up in the
mountains of North Carolina and
Virginia the trains of the Southern.
Seaboard and other leading lines have
been crowded going both ways many
departing or moving on and others
coming in to take their places.
At Saluda, Hendersonville, Waynes-
vile. Ashevine and other Carolina
points favored by Savannahians, the
trains have been overcrowded for the
last two weeks, chiefly with the de-
parting tourists. Seating room was in
great demand and the wise traveller
found it necessary to engage his sleep
ing car beth at least a week ahead
Otherwise it was a case of an all-night
sit-ua.
At the Nearby Resorts.
While the majority of Savannahians
preferred the Northern resorts and the
| mountains, there were some who
sought the well known places nearer
by for the virtue of the healing wa
tiers or simply for rest and quiet recre-
alton. Among the most popular of
these was Glenn Spring, S. c., situated
near Spartanburg, probably the most
popular resort in South Carolina with
the people of that state and not I'M
! known to many Georgians for the vir-
tues of it's healing waters.
Glenn Springs has a reputation ex-
tending back for at least q hundred
years, and the tradition is that the
spring first attracted attention because
the sick deer came there to drink its
waters and the wounded ones to lave
their injuries in the healing mud. Lo-
Gated in the, hill country of Spartan
burg county and close to the North
Carolina line, it enjoys the cooling
breezeS from the hills while possessing
all the advantages of the low country.
The large hotel sits upon a high hill
from which well-made paths and road
ways lead by more or less circuitous
routes to the spring below. The ho-
tel is a large building, and is said to
be capable. of accommodating 500
guests.
| Guests From Every Where.
There were certainly over 300 COM
fortably housed there during a part of
| August and the hotel register showed
| the average for the season to be well
up teuthe' 200 mark. The hotel and
the Springs property, including the
railroad from Spartanburg, is owned
and conducted by the seven Simpson
Brothers, as clever a lot of gentlemen
as one could meet in a summers tour
The property. has been in the family
for years and they feel a personal pride
in its well-earned reputation as well
as a business interest. The property
is in fact quite a paying one, not only
|. because, of the liberal patronage of the
hotel, but because the reputation of the
water has given it a wide sale and
large quantities are shipped the year
through. 1t can be found on sale in
Savannah and practically every other
| city of Importance in this section
| There are several Savannahians who
are warm believers in it's merits and
keep constant supply on hand.
i The chief ingredient of the water
| seems to he ApSOTn salts with soma
| lithia, iron, magnesia and other prop
| critics, and its value seems to lie in
| the fact that 1t operates both upon the
kidneys and the liver. 1t is especially
| recommended for rheumatism, dropsy
and stomach troubles, particularly in
| digestion.
| The best evidence of the virtue of
| the waters is in the number of guests
| who can be found at the hotel who
| promptly testify to the remarkable
| benefits which they have received
| from the water in the past Some
| remarkable cures of rheumat ism
| dropsy and liver troubles were narrat-
ed to the Morning News representa-
tive by people of unquestioned stand
ing and Veracity, some of whom were
themselves the best living evidences
| of their own statements. The Messrs.
Simpson have among their records a
| copy of the Charleston Medical Jour
nal of 1851, in which there is a lengthy
| article by well-known physician of
that date in the shape of a report
| to the Charleston Medical Society upon
! the value of the waters, with numer-
Gus cases taken up and cited in de-
tail of cures which had been effected
! there.
People Who Go There.
Not only the people generally. but
| the politicians, professional men and
people of note of South Carolina fire.
quent the spring during the
| summer season. The preachers
are particularly in evidence
and furnish a degree of sobriety to the
crowds which does not characterize
the average summer resort. Religious
services are held in the parlor each
/ Sunday night. On the other six even
| ings dancing is engaged in in the
1 ball room at the other end of the build
ing, good music being furnished. Card
i playing furnishes the principal amuse-
ment for many others
Among the Savannah people who
| availed themselves of the springs this
season We're Mr. and Mrs. j. E. Grady.
Miss Marie Grady, Mr.. Theodore Groot.
Rev. w. c. Schaeffer. Mr. H r. Rob
ertson, Mr.. and Mrs. John Power, Mrs.
F. NJ. Boggs, Mr.. l.. w. Neeson. Mrs.
w. j. Middleton. Mrs. Taylor, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. f. Lubs, Mr.. G. c. Warn and
Mr.. and Mrs. II. E. Ransford and chill
| dren Mr.. Ransford was accompanied
by his two sisters, Mrs. Henry Deceive
of Atlanta and Miss Agnes Ransford
4 of Clayton. Ga, who added much to
the life OF the Savannah party.