Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-08-16
IN WIlDs OF WEST VIRGINIA.
AnnapoIitan Says He Is Enjoying
The Outing.


Mountain Breeze Hotel. New Greek.
Mineral county, w. Va, August
IL. 1905.
This is q land of milk and noun
tains, rocks and riilss honey and hay
stacks Herds LOT sheep. fat cattle
brouee on the green tillsides. great
granite b0ulders. wood clad and fissur-
ed. lift their lofty heights above fer
tile valleys, crystal streams hum
through and over their rocky beds. the
busy bee gathers honey from white
fields. of buekwheat, and haystacks
rise everywhere from broad acres OF
luxuriant grass.
Well was this hostelry named Noun
tain Breeze, for never is the day I'M
comfortable under theshade of its por-
ticos or beneath the trees of its lawn.
Located on the initial slope of the
AlIeganies, where the nold Northwes-
tern pike crosses the mountains, nine
miles west of Keyser, w. Va, the pros
pect, from its verandas, displays the
circling Alleganies aud the New Greek
mountains in the sublime beauty OF
towering heights, rugged crags and
rolling ranges.
Between these swings New Greek.
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its cadences, as it leans over rock and
ridge. sound like the hum of human
voices in the near distance. Here the
bass darts and bites with its wonted
vigor. The old mill, the shaking
rock and the precipitous banks give
added picturesqueness TO the foaming
rill aid laughing waters.
Here civilization and W ildness
meet in happy union. The hostelry,
hitting farm life to the accommoda-
tions of the hotel. gives the comforts
of bed and board, while the proxim.
ity of mountains brings the rugged
ness of the untamed to the very door
of our inn. So the good housewife,
only recently, when she went TO a
field on the farm to hunt up her tur-
keys, found two wild mother turkeys
with their broods at the spring. They
did not even fiutter, but giving a
warning cluck" like any sedate hen
might, walked calmly Off up the hill
with their flocks.
Civilization affords, in this place.
three dinners day, called from con-
ventional usage, breakfast, dinner
and supper, each meal represents the
mid day board, and breakfast today
ended with apple pie. With curd,
honey, bacon, milk. preserves proceed
ing. and then all not told. THE board
bill at the end of the week is moderate
in proportion.
There is cherry air of happiness
about the vale aud mountain. The
simple manners of the people charm.
Ii traveller afoot is found along the
road, the passing vehicle is sure to
take him up. 1t is part of the
ethics of the country. One chivalous
spirit waited for me yesterday to end
my breakfast in order to give me a
ride up and down the mountain. and
them clinched the courtesy by making
him the favored party, declaring that
he would wait twenty minutes any
time to have company over the noun
tain. / made day of it, and enjoyed
the ever.chauging views OF most beau
tiful mountain scenery drinking inthe
air on the very top of the Alleganies,
the cold waters of Sandstone Spring
New Greek valley is inhabited by a
law-abiding people. Brawls. drunken
ness, thefts and murders are things
almost unknown. No saloons infest
the valley. Every few miles there is
a church-the Southern Methodist and
United Brethren predominating. A
kindly spirit exists between them. AT
Clayville. the site Of Mountain Breeze
Hotel, so generous was this feeling,
the United Brethren who had Secured
most of the scholars of the neghborhood
to the detriment of the Southern
Methodist Sunday school, literally
concluded to suspend operations this
year, in order that their Methodist
brethren might have the benefits of a
successful church nursery. +. s. r..