. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . Salt Sulphur Springs,the location of which is grand in the , and the water lias for anumber of years been well known. Red Sulphur Springs, another noted resort in the Valley, is reached byrail to Lowell Station, twenty-nine miles from Fort Springs, and thencefourteen miles by stage. The Red Sulphur water is a widely celebratedspecific for all forms of pulmonary disease, and these springs are fastbecoming the Mecca of consumptives. The appointments at the hotel arefirst-class and are equal to entertaining fully three hundred persons.
. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . Salt Sulphur Springs,the location of which is grand in the , and the water lias for anumber of years been well known. Red Sulphur Springs, another noted resort in the Valley, is reached byrail to Lowell Station, twenty-nine miles from Fort Springs, and thencefourteen miles by stage. The Red Sulphur water is a widely celebratedspecific for all forms of pulmonary disease, and these springs are fastbecoming the Mecca of consumptives. The appointments at the hotel arefirst-class and are equal to entertaining fully three hundred persons. The Valley resorts visited by the party are all within a days ride fromHarpers Ferry. Visitors from New York and Eastern points find itmost advantageous to take the midnight express on the Baltimore andOliio, thus having sleeping and parlor cars to destination. Philadelphiavisitors also prefer tliis iijoht train. Baltimore and Washington passen-gers have Ml) necessity lor sleepinji ears, as trains with parlor cars attached Picturesque B. and 0. 113. \c on tlif Band O at con\enient hoius the morning to arrntat the resoits during thesame day or evening Asall fast trains run through1 Harpers Ferry, travelers from the West expe- ^ rience no difficulty, every facility being afforded for mak- ing prompt connection. Those who may have occasionIf- i to look up railroad guides to ascertain the hours of %-— i travel necessary to make a trip to the Virginia Valley should take the time to Harpers Ferry and add fromone to eight hours,— the latter the time of the run to White distance by stage from point to point has been given in each instance;and while the guides are handy for those familiar with their pages, toothers who are unaccustomed to them the necessity for a long and tedioussearch will be obviated if, in wishing to make a close estimate of theextent of the journey, they will but remember or refer to the data alreadygiven in this publication; a careful reading of
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