Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-08-10
AMONGST THE MOUNTAINS
Cool Brcezes Waited From "Way
Side" Inn Among The
AlleqhanieS.
Special Dispatch 10 Evening Capital.
Mountain Breeze Hotel.


Mountain Breeze Hotel,
Mineral County, w Va.
August .. 1904.
When asked by some friends two
days since as the train neared Keyser.
Where are You going?' the writer
replied To the Brahmin's heaven
on earth--a place where l know no
body and nobody knows me- 1.-The
ideal resting place of a body tired out
by constant, unremitting, regular men,
tai work.
From the balcony Of Mountain
Breeze Hotel, TO the west, the eye
sees the lofty and rugged SUBMITS of
the Alleghanies upon whose initial
slope the "Way-Side Inn rests. A
quarter of mile eastward begins TO
rise the PERCEPTIONS heights of the New
Greek Mountains, whose rocky castles
crown q range of sublime and pictur-
esque beauty. The mountain breezes
blow cool and invigorating. The
thermometer at p. IN. registered so
degrees.
One does not even have TO think or
talk here unless he chooses. 1t is
enough TO look at the grand noun
tains and admire their splendor and
magnificence. Hard by the hostelry
passes the old northwestern turnpike,
now public road, which crosses five
miles hence the top of the Allegha-
MES. The walk or drive up this trail
discloses scenes of inspiring beauty, as
the road winds in and over, upward
trend, among the gorges of the noun
tain, or clings closely to its steep and
wooded sides New and varied views
of valley and mountain present them
selves TO the delighted traveller. while
the mountain springs burst ever and
anon TO refresh the body and charm
| the vision.
When night falls, a calm silence,
almost holy, in its serenity, possesses
the field and farm, and one lies down
| to slumber amidst the cool of the
mountain air and the sweet repose of
mountain stiffness. New Greek, its
head above the rocky frontier, pouring
| through the mountain side, runs
through the fertile plain, between the
New Greek and the Allegheny Noun
tains. This rocky and gurgling stream
affords fine fishing with the gig by the
flare and flame of the fiambeau. Two
| fishermen near here two nights since
bagged in this way nearly forty fish,
bass, suckers and cells. This is creek
| where the boast of resident of this
section was that there are some pools
in this creek that a man can hardly
wade across. -
This section has its curiosities
Looking for pools where fish could be
| found, the writer saw in the midst
of the creek, implanted in 1.-THE eternal
rocks like legend of the past, most
perfect and beautiful impression of a
| sea-shell, written there when time
was young, and man unborn. Near
this mural inscription of an unknown
| touch, when old ocean rolled its rest
less waves across the SUBMITS of the
Allegh@ nies, is a cave. yet unexplored,
of which there are plans in which the
writer is personally interested, of
near and immediate inspection.
The host in this section believes in
making ample preparation for the sup
port of the inner man of his guests
A bill of fare for supper represented
Fish and bacon, bread, butter, cot
| tage cheese, honey, stewed apples, pre-
served gooseberries, jelly, apple but
ter, potatoes, string beans, cucumbers,
beets, slaw, coffee, milk and Force, -
on call, apple pie with sugar ana
cream.
After one days entertainment "mien
host, evidently concluded that he
had sized his guest up and in conf
Dental manner. There being no bar at
tached to the hotel, asked if his
boarder would have some beer or
tonic, = which he kept to accommo-
date his patrons. Knowing what beer
was and not knowing what "tonic"
was, the kind otter of both was cour-
teously declined. 1t was subsequently
learned that tonic" in this section
means sarsparilla, but whether or not,
the sarsaparilla of the mountains is
the same as that which flows in the
valley of the Severn, the writer is
unprepared to say now, and has a
most wholesome fear of trying to solve
in the future the question of person
al inspection. E. S. r.
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