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Twins of the Alleghanies. 
 
DEER PARK AND OAKLAND: 
 
 Twins of the Alleghanies. 
 
 By jr THOMAS SCHARF, LL.D. 
 
 Author History of Maryland, Etc. 
 
 BALTIMORE: 
 
 THE L O R B O R N PUBLISHING COMPANY 
 1887. 
 
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 Copyright. 1SS7, 
 
 By C. K. Lord. 
 
 MAY 26 1919 
 
THIRTY times has the chock of the New Year struck 
 since an artist, poet, and scribe — "Porte Crayon," of 
 gentle and pleasant fame — told in sketch and song and 
 prose of "A June Jaunt" over the iron pathway that 
 in the year 1857 only surmounted the crests of the royal 
 Alleghanies, to link the commerce-bearing waves of the 
 Atlantic to the fructiferous fields of the sun-kissed Ohio 
 Valley. No such felicitous pen or deft pencil had pre- 
 viously illustrated the romantic beauties or the stern 
 <Trandeur of that now historic and familiar region of Mary- 
 land and the two Virginias, wherein the mountains climb 
 
toward the clouds and form that summit of the Appala- 
 chian chain on which the waters part to flow eastward to 
 the sea and westward to the ri\-er. In that auspicious 
 and deHghtful rose-month of three decades gone by, the 
 tourists (who were then the guests of the Baltimore & 
 Ohio Railroad Company) viewed in that shifting panorama 
 of picturesqueness that intervenes between the salt and the 
 fresh waters no scene of natural loveliness upon which the 
 eye would so linger, or to which memor}- would re\ert 
 WM'th more reminiscent fondness, comparable with The 
 Glades — a curious shallow dip in the crown of the moun- 
 tains that seems as if formed at a moment when the 
 volcanic forces of a prehistoric geologic period were creat- 
 ing the contiguous peaks and had left this beautiful basin 
 to settle to an intermediate level in which the crumbling 
 tufa turned to productive earth and nourished the germs 
 of the thick and verdant woodland through which the 
 crystal trout-streams murmur and lave the feet of the bald 
 and jutting rock masses. It is as if Nature had set this 
 smooth and opalescent pearl to shine in contrast with the 
 sombre grays and browns of the giant cliffs that close it 
 in, and, having finished her work, had bequeathed it for 
 the welfare and enjoyment of the toil-worn and brain- 
 harrassed people of the finishing quarter of the nineteenth 
 century. 
 
 Some adumbration of the beneficent future of The 
 Glades may ha\'e crossed the mental vision of those June 
 excursionists of "the time before the war," for "Porte 
 Crayon " was not the only one of them who had pen and 
 ink and type at his command ; and they have left some 
 charming records of their impressions of the pleasure, and 
 even some faint prefigurings of what might be when the 
 world grew richer and better, and the surging tides of 
 
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travel swept across these everlastintj mountains. They 
 were quite daring enough to imagine that in some distant 
 time there might possibly be other stopping-places on The 
 Glades than the tidy little public house at OAKLAND, 
 where they feasted on trout and waffles, and the}- unani- 
 mously resolved that they would tear awa}' the veil behind 
 which the jewel of the Alleghanies had been secluded. As 
 pioneers in the labor of creating the light that develops 
 the sparkle of the gem the}' must not be forgotten ; but 
 surely their venturesome thought was not bold enough to 
 encompass the coming years, when genius, enterprise, and 
 liberalit)' should have established at the opposite extremi- 
 ties of The Glades those glorious and superb refuges from 
 the oppressions and ills of urban summers — Deer Park 
 and Oakland of the present day. 
 
 When the sagacious and prescient minds that control 
 the great railway corporation determined to create in the 
 tonic and translucent atmosphere, three thousand feet 
 above the level of the sea, an ideal Summer Home, to 
 which the public should be bidden, the}' bent to their 
 work with energy and lavishness. All the resources and 
 judgment acquired b}' architects, builders, decorators, and 
 sanitary engineers were freeh' enlisted in the formulation 
 and accomplishment of plans that should carry the names 
 of the twin resorts with honor throughout the land. It 
 would have been the common error of a false and mere- 
 tricious taste to seek to overla}' the simple and unadorn- 
 able grandeur of these mountain wilds with tawdry 
 devices, but a correct and generous appreciation of the 
 value of the surroundings dominated the scheme upon 
 Avhich Deer Park and Oakland were established, and, as 
 a consequence, we have two retreats that are unique in 
 the United States. There is nothing else like them ; and 
 
there can be nothincr else like them in those features which 
 conduce to the perfect restoration of mental and physical 
 robustness, the supreme peace, the salutary enjoyment, the 
 days of luxurious ease, or (as one chooses) of invigorat- 
 ing exercise, the associations of cultured and genial society, 
 the nights of unbroken and profound rest — all the medi- 
 cines outside the pharmacopoeia that build up a strong 
 and exuberant vitality and go to solve in the affirmative 
 the problem whether life is worth living. In the system 
 which rules upon the crest of the Alleghanies, the happy 
 medium is attained between the noisy and incessant whirl 
 of certain resorts that merely transfer the routine of the 
 city to the country and the discomforts and desolation 
 of existence in humbler refuges in which people have tried 
 to persuade themselves that they were recreating, because 
 their beds were hard, their rooms untidy, their steak 
 burned, and their biscuits underdone. There is comfort, 
 elegance, luxury, on the great eastern "divide"; but from 
 the stately hotels and dainty cottages one plunges into the 
 primitive forests, or ascends to the eternal crags, and 
 leaves the world behind. 
 

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 DEER PARK. 
 
 1 HE approach to Deer 
 P\Kk from the east is a fit 
 piepaiation for a sojourn at the spot. 
 On that 'June Jaunt" of 1857 was 
 an impressionable Frenchman, who 
 began ejaculating " C'est magnifique!" 
 in a lively tenor, as soon as he had passed Har- 
 per's Ferr)-, and kept it up for mile after mile in crescendo, 
 until his voice was lost in altissiiuo and the clouds, some- 
 where^ about Altamont. He was a gentleman of fortunate 
 discernment, and had an admirable, though sententious, 
 gift of expression, as has been attested by innumerable 
 thousands who have since passed over the route with much 
 
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the same sort of comment. For it is maijnificent to trace 
 the coursing streams of tlie Potomac upward and westward 
 to where they seek their sources in the sparkHng mountain 
 springs ; to look, on the one hand, up to sheer and frown- 
 ing precipices, and, on the other hand, down to their kin 
 tumbHng into the gorges far below ; to feed the greed of 
 the eye upon the rock wall, from which a profuse vegeta- 
 tion starts out wherever a crevice has permitted a deposit 
 of mold and earth ; to watch the tall oaks and hemlocks 
 and pines swaying to the winds; and to catch the far-off 
 and mellowed glimpses of the Blue Ridge, where it lifts 
 its irregularly curvated heads into that indescribable azure 
 atmosphere that colors it, and from which it rightfully 
 derives its name. 
 
 It is from almost a surfeit of the glory and pathos of 
 nature that the gaze of the traveler greets the evidences 
 of a refined civilization upon the plateau of Deer Park — 
 a noble elevation overlooking the mountain range at every 
 point of the compass. Here, perched up where the breezes 
 are laden with ozone, where it is a perpetual delight to 
 watch the sun emerge from his bath in the eastern mists 
 and sink to rest in the ruddy splendors of the western 
 horizon, and where the radiance of the moonlight flooding 
 the summits and sharpening the edge of shadow is a never- 
 to-be-worded poem — here is where man has gathered about 
 himself, in the midst of the adult hills, all the appurte- 
 nances that science and mechanics have invented to smooth 
 and soften existence, and set himself down to recuperate 
 exhausted forces by transfusion into himself of the rein- 
 forcing and exhaustless currents of the Mother World. 
 There was a marvelously truthful significance in that an- 
 cient Grecian myth of the giant who, when thrown to the 
 earth in combat, needed but to touch it to rise revivified 
 
and with the strength expended in the struggle renewed 
 and increased; which symbolizes the refreshing power that 
 Nature transmits to those who place themselves in contact 
 with her, and in the heart of the Alleghanies she is most 
 profligate of her health-dispensing forces. 
 
 It is a satisfying picture which the vision embraces as 
 it takes in the long, sloping promontory at Deer Park, — 
 the smooth lawns, laid out with the perfection of land- 
 scape-gardening; the plats of blooming flowers; the sparkle 
 of the fountains; and the handsome hotel building, with its 
 spacious verandas, furnished with chairs, sofas, and lounges; 
 the annexes on each side; the cottages, the billiard houses, 
 bowling alleys, and perfectly appointed bath houses, half 
 concealed and half revealed; the archery ground, the tennis 
 ground — everything that a wise catering to a brigade of 
 guests could suggest and an unstinted use of capital could 
 command. It has been a never-neglected maxim of the 
 Baltimore & Ohio management to discover the wants of 
 the sojourners, and supply them; and so, from year to 
 year, improvement has followed improvement, until it now 
 seems as if the acme of excellence has been reached; but 
 if Deer Park can be made anything nearer a mundane 
 paradise than it is at present, there is no question but 
 that the finishing touches will be supplied. It is not pos- 
 sible that they can be numerous or ijnportant. 
 
 The popularity which it has been the well-earned for- 
 tune of the resort to merit, has steadily grown from season 
 to season. To the founders there was, perhaps, somewhat 
 of a surprise in the fact that in the first year the demand 
 for accommodations was heavier than could be met. but 
 they at once provided against another such emergency, by 
 enlarging and adding to the buildings ; and it is the proud 
 record of Deer Park, since that time, that, while the 
 
season sees it thronged, there is none of that crowding 
 which robs a summer holiday of two-thirds of its pleasure. 
 Such a wise adaptation of room to the public requirements 
 is so infrequent in the administration of summer resorts as 
 to deserve lasting merit. The same judicious policy that 
 dictated the constant extension and embellishment of Deer 
 Park prevails in every feature of the management, and is 
 the reason why its reputation is national and flattering. 
 
 Before the lines now being written are put into type, 
 the usual spring consultation in the domestic cabinet, on 
 the question, ''M7icr£- shall ivc go this summer?'' will have 
 been held in many thousands of families; and it is a mat- 
 ter-of-course assertion that few decisions will be reached 
 without a canv^assing of the tempting inducements which 
 Deer Park holds out. 
 
 What are they f 
 
 The MOUNTAIN SCENERY crops up, as the first and 
 readiest answer to the interrogatory. Nowhere else within 
 convenient reach of the whole country between the Atlan- 
 tic and the Mississippi is there anything comparable to it 
 for diversity, picturesqueness, and charm. It unfolds fresh 
 beauties day after day, as one pushes his way along the 
 mountain paths, follows the sparkling streams, or gains the 
 summit of any of the acclivities, and beholds therefrom 
 the ranges that seem like gigantic earth-waves upon which 
 the spell of immortality had suddenly been laid. 
 
 A second reply is, its SUPREME HEALTHFULNESS. To 
 the jaded men and women of the cities, worn down with a 
 winter of work and with the duties of society, it is as near 
 a panacea as anything on earth. They come to The Glades 
 in mental and physical debility; they return home with 
 quickened pulses, rich blood, strengthened muscles, ex- 
 panded lungs, and alert minds. There are tonic properties 
 
in the breath of these forests and in the mountain zephyrs 
 that, in the providence of Nature, exist to brace up the 
 the enfeebled frame and restore intellectual vigor. Not the 
 least of these functions is the cure of sleeplessness — a 
 malad)' that the tension of the nervous and hi^h-strun<^ 
 life of successful Americans has particularly inflicted upon 
 them. The \ictim of insomnia knows that his defenses 
 against all diseases are broken down, and he knows, too, 
 that no medical skill can bless him with the "Sleep that 
 knits up the raveled sleeve of Care." But where Science 
 fails. Nature comes to the relief of her children, and, away 
 up here on the backbone of the Appalachian ridge, the in- 
 somniacs, who may be numbered by annual hundreds, have 
 found that consolation which only an insomniac can under- 
 stand, — real sleep, perfect sleep — the sleep in which body 
 and brain conjointly share, and from which they emerge 
 ready to take up the burdens and fight the battles of mor- 
 tality. All visitors to The Glades have remarked upon this 
 especial property of the atmosphere, and a long roll of 
 invalids have been benefited by it. And in all other re- 
 spects Deer Park is a sanitarium without being a hospi- 
 tal. When the annual convention of the American Med- 
 ical Association was latelj' held here, the most eminent 
 physicians among its members were requested to make an 
 investigation of the sanitary conditions, and the result was 
 a certificate, signed by the committee (which comprised 
 some of the most prominent sanitarians in the country), 
 declaring the precautions and arrangements in this regard 
 to be practically faultless. The water was found to be 
 brought from a crystal spring into the house, by gravita- 
 tion, and stress was laid upon the fact that the stables and 
 vaults were so far removed from the hotel as to preclude 
 any possibilit)' of contamination. Since last season an ad- 
 
ditional and bountiful supply of \vater has been added from 
 the celebrated boiling springs, which are distinguished for 
 the great curative value of their watei. As to the sewerage 
 system, the servants' quarters, the kitchens, and other sub- 
 sidiary buildings, the report highly commended their excel- 
 lence in all the features that sanitary experts could insist 
 upon. All the serious illness at The Glades resorts is that 
 which is brought there by valetudinary guests, and the able 
 physicians of the hotels, Dr. T. BARTON BkUXE, at Deer 
 Park, and Dr. J. L. McCC)MAS, at Oakland, often find time 
 hangs heavy on their hands for lack of professional work. 
 
 The third answer relates to the METHOD OF LIVING. 
 Mention has already been made of the pleasing exterior 
 and environment of the Deer Park Hotel, but they are 
 only a promise of the content that may be found in the 
 interior. The Company have placed in charge of this and 
 the Oakland House, Mr. GEORGE De SHIELDS, formerly of 
 the Grand Union Hotel (^Saratoga), the West End Hotel 
 (Long Branch), and the Riggs House (Washington). It 
 will thus be seen that the manager is a graduate of schools 
 that have afforded him a broad experience. The cuisine at 
 the Deer Park Hotel has never been anything else than 
 up to the mark of the foremost hotels and restaurants, and 
 has been noted for certain luxuries that ate only to be ob- 
 tained in the mountains. It is hardly worth while to say 
 that under the present administration there will be no 
 change, unless it be for the better, if that be possible. 
 But the table is merely one of the recommendations of 
 the Deer Park Hotel. The newcomer is rather astonished, 
 at the outset, to discover that the entire house is lighted by 
 electricity; that the bedrooms are very much larger than 
 dry-goods boxes; that the furniture is substantial and 
 elegant, the carpets soft and thick, the beds downy and 
 
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the coverings generous ; and he marks down the differ- 
 ence between this and some other place at which he has 
 endeavored to make " vacation " spell " pleasure." Through- 
 out the hotel there is an air of quiet and sterling refine- 
 ment that is in keeping with the character of the guests 
 who have stamped their insignia upon it. The society is 
 notably cultivated; drawn mainly from the best circles of 
 the eastern and western cities and the national capital, it is 
 representative of the strongest and most polished strata of 
 American life. This is true of both the hotel residents 
 and of the "cottagers" — the occupants of those charming- 
 bits of Queen Anne architecture that dot the grounds, some 
 of them owned by private persons and others rented out for 
 the season by Mr. De Shields. The cottages are furnished 
 in modern style throughout, with everything needful for a 
 cozy and comfortable home for the summer. The lessee 
 having nothing to provide beyond the bedding, is soon ready 
 to " house-keep " in the mountains, with a capital market 
 and facilities — the equal of any similar place of correspond- 
 ing character. The cottages are all quite roomy, with an 
 abundance of porches, and are located amid grand old trees, 
 giving shade and splendid playgrounds for the little ones. 
 Deer Park has become a favorite refuge with many of the 
 leaders of statesmanship, art, letters, and science, and they 
 have given an enviable tone to its social forms. 
 
 In addition to lighting the premises with electricity, and 
 providing an abundant supply of water from the famous 
 boiling springs, a number of additional improvements have 
 been added since last season to both Deer Park and Oak- 
 land, which must call forth renewed praises of the liberality 
 of the management in leaving no known want unsupplied. 
 At Deer Park, additional spacious and perfectly appointed 
 bath houses have been erected, and so arranged as to meet 
 
the wishes of all. There are small bath rooms and lari^e, 
 and a Ljreat, grand pool for swimming, in each division — 
 that is, separate pools for either sex — and so constructed 
 as to permit the swimmer or the novice to disport at pleas- 
 ure, and without the slightest danger. Steam apparatus is 
 so connected as to enable the maintaining of a proper 
 temperature of both water and atmosphere, and it is be- 
 lieved this improvement will be one of the most popular 
 ever made at Deek Park. 
 
 The PLENTIFULNESS OF AMUSEMENTS is a fourth answer. 
 No hour can hang heavy on the hands of anyone who is 
 disposed to spend it in pastime. The drives over the moun- 
 tain roads are unfailing attractions; and as Deer Park and 
 Oakland are but six miles distant, and connected by a 
 superb carriage-way, the mingling of their respective guests, 
 to a great extent, identifies them in interest and occupa- 
 tions. The walks and the paths that may be penetrated on 
 horseback can not be neglected by the enthusiast that seeks 
 to solve the secrets of the mountains; trout can be found 
 in great abundance in the adjacent streams, and for the 
 hunters of large game the teeming Blackwater Country is 
 not far distant. At Deer Park and around it there is con- 
 stant occupation for every sort of temperament and dispo- 
 sition. An excellent orchestra is maintained during the 
 season; informal dances or more elaborate social events are 
 always on the programme, and some very notable affairs of 
 society have taken place here. At various times each week 
 the orchestras of the two hotels are combined, and grand 
 concerts given, which compare favorably with those of the 
 winter months in the leading music halls of the principal 
 cities. The twin resorts have first-class liveries, perfectly 
 appointed laundries, telegraph and express service, and, in 
 short, everything which can be found at the leading summer 
 places. ^'^ 
 
A fifth reason for the celebrit}- of 1)KKK T'AKK is its 
 ACCESSIBIIJ'I "^■. Located directly upon the main stem of the 
 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, it is easily and quickly reached 
 from every quarter, all trains, in each direction, making it a 
 stopping-place. Leaving New York in the afternoon, and 
 Philadelphia by the new Philadelphia Division of the Balti- 
 more & Ohio Railroad, at 4:50 P.M., the stranger arrives at 
 Deer Park the next morning for breakfast. From Ikilti- 
 more, aii)' of the dail\- trains make the run in seven hours, 
 and from Washington the time is sixty minutes less. From 
 Pittsburgh or Cincinnati, the journey occupies but the part 
 of a day or a night, while from St. Louis it is not (piite ten 
 hours longer, or a little more protracted than from Chicago. 
 The trains of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company arc 
 made uj) of as fine and perfectly appointed coaches as there 
 are on the Continent ; the sleeping and parlor cars, the 
 buffet and dining cars, and even the ordinary day coaches, 
 banish all the tliscomforts of travel, and the trains are re- 
 nownetl for the fast time made. 
 
 The sixth and concluding merit attaching to Uei'.K I'akk 
 is the MODHRATE IIUTEI. RATES in Comparison with the 
 benefits afforded, the accommodations enjoyed, and the at- 
 tention paid to the comfort of each individual guest. Such 
 a table, such pleasant rooms, such music, and such a round 
 of amusements do not, in the o[)inion of the management, 
 justify the exorbitant charges made elsewhere at resorts of 
 the highest class, for which reason the dement of economy 
 has something to do with the selection of The Glades where- 
 in to profitably pass a vacation. Prices range $60, $75, and 
 $90 per month; $15 to $21 per week, or $3.50 per day for 
 transient guests. A matter of some moment is that there 
 is no stage or omnibus riding to be done, as the trains stop 
 at the platforms of the hotels. 
 
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 OAKLAND. 
 
 Al 1 that has been said of 
 Dri:R Park, except as to the 
 iiuidents of location, appHes with 
 hke ai)propriateness to its twin, 
 \ 0\kl \MJ, which is situated six 
 miles westward, on the mountain 
 edge, from which the route trends 
 across the West Virginia country, passing through the savage 
 majesty of the Cheat River before it debouches upon the 
 plains watered by the confluences of the Ohio. It really 
 does not matter a great deal \\hether one takes up his 
 abode at Deer Park or at Oakland. If he desire to be 
 out upon the open mountain, with a tremendous panorama 
 spread before him, he will select Deer Park; if his fanc)' 
 rather runs toward an abode under the cool umbrage of 
 those forest monarchs that entitle OAKLAND to its name, his 
 choice will centre there. 
 
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The hotel is set in the midst of an exquisitely beautiful 
 park, in and around which are the noble oaks of centuries' 
 growth, while the walks, the lakes, the drives, the flower-beds, 
 and the fountains environ it and them. From the front of 
 the house the eye roams down through clustering foliage and 
 across the purling brooks, until it rests upon the spires and 
 roofs of the pretty village of OAKLAND. At the rear of the 
 hotel the mountain towers to an overtopping height, and 
 constitutes a sharp and strong contrast, with its undisturbed 
 naturalness, to the symmetrical proportions of the hotel and 
 the graceful diversity of the grounds. 
 
 The visitor to Oakland and the visitor to Deer Park 
 can not help making acquaintance with the sister of the place 
 which either may have settled upon for his summer residence. 
 In the season, the roadway which connects them takes on the 
 similitude of a fashionable avenue in Central Park, Fairmount 
 I'ark, Uruid Hill Park, the drive to the Soldier's Home at 
 Washington, the Mount Auburn road in Boston, the Lake 
 boulevard at Chicago, the Cliff House road of San Francisco, 
 or any other of the suburban avenues of the great cities upon 
 which horseflesh may be speeded and the beauty of women 
 and the gallantr>- of men displayed. Many of the guests of 
 The Glades houses bring with them their own fine equipages, 
 and make a show upon the mountain avenue of blooded stock 
 and the most elegant specimens of the art of the carriage- 
 builder. Those not so fortunate as to possess their own teams 
 find at the livery-stables good horses and vehicles of every 
 description that may be desired. More than forty miles of 
 excellent driving-roads are open to use, and are especially well 
 constructed, being almost as smooth and even as race-tracks. 
 
 As at Deer Park, so at Oakland, the original hotel 
 buildings have been supplemented by wings at each extremity, 
 connecting with the main structure by covered passages. The 
 
ball-room at Oakland is an extension of the east win<T 
 toward the mountain, and opening from the main parlor as 
 well as out upon the gallery. The front of the hotel is given 
 up to spacious cool verandas, and the interior arrangements 
 are peculiarly attractive. The lower floors are occupied by 
 drawing-rooms, parlors, reading-rooms, offices, and the com- 
 modious dining rooms. They — and the sleeping-rooms above, 
 en suite or single — are so constructed as to afford the very 
 best circulation of the clear, fresh mountain air, and at neither 
 Oakland nor Deer Park is there a living apartment which 
 does not look directly out upon the exterior scene ^ — a vast 
 difference from hotels built around a quadrangle and having 
 the interior rooms open upon a dark court that is a foe to 
 ventilation, sunlight, and vista. The furniture and bedding 
 are such as a connoisseur in the accomplishment of procuring 
 ease provides for himself at his own home, and usually seeks 
 for in vain outside of it. 
 
 To a previous reference to the atmosphere of The Glades 
 as being an antidote to insomnia, there may be the addition 
 made that it is an infallible remedy for that most distressful 
 and exasperating of all ailments, hay fever. The altitude is 
 an enemy of the latter disease, and sufferers for many years 
 have declared that here they found relief which had been 
 denied them at any other place where they had sought a cure. 
 Malaria and its kindred evils — in fact, any sort of zymotic 
 disease — can not exist on these mountain heights, and the 
 chronic victims of them discover, after a sojourn of only a 
 few days, that the malefic germs are being exterminated from 
 their systems. President Grant was one of the many who 
 acknowledged the grateful and health-restoring effect of a 
 stay on The Glades ; and a hay-fever invalid who had been 
 tortured with the disease for over thirty years sent to the 
 management a voluntary assurance that he had there secured 
 
more benefit than at any other si)ot he hatl ever visited, and 
 that he enjoyed perfect immunity from attacks during his 
 entire stay. This high and moderately dry atmosphere is 
 equally efBcacious in the cases of enervated women. There 
 is on record the case of a lady who arrived on The Glades by 
 an evening train, and who for sixty nights previously had 
 known no sleep that was not induced by narcotic drugs. 
 Within a few hours after her arrival, and while the nightly 
 medicines were being prepared, she fell into a profound slum- 
 ber that, at the end of eight hours, was only terminated when 
 she was awakened by her husband, who erroneously feared 
 that such a sleep could not be natural. Incidents of this 
 sort, covering a multitude of chronic and acute ailments 
 which have been ameliorated or cured at the twin resorts, are 
 numerous and well authenticated. 
 
 Flies and mosquitoes, the pests of the seashore and low- 
 lands, are not known on the summits of the Alleghanies, 
 which are phenomenally free from all kinds of insectivorous 
 life. When it is remembered that the lower forms of such 
 life develop most and thrive best in noxious atmospheres, 
 it will be understood that their scarcity in these regions has 
 an essential relation to the salubrity of the Alleghanies. 
 
 To sum up the attractions of The Glades, it may be said 
 that there is positively no natural or artificial feature lack- 
 ing that leads toward the ultima of a pleasurable vacation. 
 The world is growing so very much wiser than it used to 
 be, that the selection of the place and method for spending 
 a holiday is now usually a matter of careful and perspicuous 
 judgment. It is all the better that it should be so, for a 
 choice made without deliberation is likely enough to be a 
 torment in the end ; therefore, a consideration of the induce- 
 ments which Oakland and Deer Park hold out is espe- 
 cially'desirable. The advantages to health, the character of 
 
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accommodations, the tone of society, the Hmit of expenses, 
 should be duly weighed ; and it is not feared that in any of 
 these essential respects the hotels of The Glades will be 
 dwarfed by comparisons that embrace all the resorts toward 
 which summer travel tends. 
 
 The season will open June 23, and continue until about 
 October i. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Comjjany issues 
 round-trip, low-rate, summer-excursion tickets, good to return 
 until October 31, which will be on sale at all its offices. Mr. 
 De Shields, manager of Deer Park and Oakland hotels, 
 may be addressed at the Queen City Hotel, Cumberland, 
 Md., until June 10, 
 and after that date at 
 Deer Park. Diagrams 
 of the hotels, with full 
 explanations of the 
 location of rooms will 
 be exhibited by him 
 to all applicants, thus 
 facilitating the selec- 
 tion of accommoda- 
 tions. 
 
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