The sewerage and sanitary arrangements are the best that modern engineering could achieve.

There are many people who desire to leave their city homes and visit resorts, but are not desirous of living at a hotel. For these persons there are delightful private cottages in the immediate vicinity of the hotel which are fully equipped and beautifully furnished for housekeeping if so desired; but should the occupants wish, they can arrange for their meals at the hotel. It has been customary to open these cottages on June 1st of each year, the hotel proper opening June 24th.

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prevent any impurities falling therein. The two swimming pools are each so spacious and the water so delightful that the visitors to Deer Park enjoy all the pleasures of bathing, the same as at a watering place. One of these pools is for the exclusive use of ladies and children and the other for gentlemen; the temperature of the water is regulated by a complete system of heating. Turkish and Russian baths are connected with the swimming pools. A supplementary amusement building or Casino is provided with billiard and pool tables and an immense bowling alley.

The "Glades " furnish enchanting drives

The most delightful crystal clear water flows in superabundance from a mountain. spring. Not far from the hotel, in a beautiful spot is "Boiling Spring," issuing from the rocky heart of the mountain. It has a daily flow of 150,000 gallons of purest water, even supplying the two large swimming pools of the hotel. Deer Park water as a table water has no equal, and is by analysis absolutely pure. The water is highly recommended by leading physicians. The spring is about two miles from the hotel and is encased in a wire house, securely roofed and locked to absolutely

and bridle paths through the mountain. forests and consequently a suitable livery establishment is one of the features of Deer Park. Vehicles of all kinds can be furnished, from a dog cart to a tally-ho and good horses are available for either driving or riding. Accommodations are provided for horses and vehicles to be brought by guests to the Park. There are excellent roads for cycling; tennis courts, ball grounds and golf links are provided in the spacious grounds. A well laid out nine link golf course will be a feature of the coming season. The morning band concerts

and evening hops at the hotel are not overlooked.

Notwithstanding Deer Park has its own individual attractions, it is favored with the very best transportation facilities, the lack of which is so often a detriment to a summer resort. It is situated on the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and is only 11 hours ride from Cincinnati or New York; 8 hours from Philadelphia; 6 hours from Baltimore; 5 hours from Washington; 6 hours from Pittsburg; 8 hours from Columbus; 15 hours from Indianapolis; 21 hours from St. Louis and 18 hours from

Chicago. From each of these cities through Pullman sleeping cars land passengers at the hotel. The day trains have parlor observation cars and dining cars.

Were Deer Park desirable for no other reason, it would be for its most delightful air and water. Nature supplements what man has supplied by such surroundings as would render existence in a log cabin a delight. The absolute purity of the air is like invisible champagne to the lungs; it brings roses to the cheek of the invalid, strength and health to the weak and overworked brain and body.

About four miles from Deer Park is Mountain Lake Park, the annual meeting place of the Mountain Chautauqua and camp meetings. The Mountain Chautauqua was established in the fall of 1881, and every summer it is the scene of unwonted interest, as large gatherings of intelligent people hold their religious and secular meetings in build

Heights Hotel. There are also six or seven small hotels and many good boarding houses, besides over two hundred cottages, which have their temporary occupants during the entire summer. This resort has been very popular with the states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, and each summer there are days set apart for special

entertainments, when at such times excursion rates are named to cover quite a large contiguous territory and each excursion is eagerly patronized.

Two miles further west is Oakland, which is a little city with a regular population of 1,500 people and is a thriving little town. It contains many beautiful homes and is most picturesque.

ings especially provided therefor. The large Auditorium seats about 2,500 people, adjoining which is a large building consisting of lecture and school rooms devoted to educational features. Ample provision is made for guests in the Mountain Lake Park Hotel and the Loch Lynn

STAIRCASE IN COTTAGE.

There are innumerable lovely private cottages in the neighborhood of Oakland owned by residents of distant cities, notably: Cincinnati, Baltimore and Washington. These cottages are occupied every summer, and their owners claim the climate is the most delightful to be found.

The well laid out driveways through the "Glades" connect these three mountain retreats.

As has been said, to reach these resorts from any direction, the visitor must pass through the grandest and wildest scenes in the Alleghenies. The west approach is along the Cheat River Valley, from Grafton

to Terra Alta, W. Va., where the magnificent distances and depths unfold in panoramic bewilderment. From the East, the first 150 miles after leaving Washington, is along the Potomac River, through Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg, in the renowned battlefield region of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

Six miles south of Hancock, W. Va., on the eastern slope of the Alleghenies, lies Berkeley Springs, one of the oldest resorts in the country and patronized by the Washingtons, Fairfaxes and other families of historic fame.

The beauties of the mountain tops

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rivers lies Harper's Ferry, at the base of Bolivar Heights, in West Virginia, and under the shadows of Loudon Heights, Va. and Maryland Heights. This historic town, unsurpassed in beauty, is becoming more and more a summer resort. A well equipped hotel on Bolivar Heights commands the finest scenery of river and mountain. There are several other hotels and all in turn receive a good share of summer patronage.

South of Harper's Ferry, along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, lie the many resorts in the Shenandoah

around Cumberland, Md., have been discovered by the nature-loving populace and ere the spring has been very far advanced a beautiful hotel will have been completed on the top of Baehr's Mountain, which has become famous in legendary lore, on account of its "Lover's Leap." This mountain, which overlooks the town of Cumberland, forms a great stonewall, with precipitous sides to the railway track. To lovers of magnificent distances, the scene from this mountain top is most enchanting.

At the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, the beautiful valley of the Shenandoah commences, and on the rocky promontory enclosed by these two

THE SPRING AT JORDAN'S WHITE SULPHUR.