This place will be ready for the reception of visitors and boarders on and after the 12th inst…. Families which desire to escape the heat, dust and contagion of the city, and who contemplate a summer resort in distant regions, will do well to ascertain for themselves, by trial, whether this place near home, is not an agreeable and convenient substitute.
The grounds consisting of groves and meadow, upland and lowland, will be found suitable for walks while a copious and cool spring of mineral waters, of tried and known medical virtues, will be found healthful and refreshing whether taken internally of used externally in bathing. In diseases peculiar to this climate, this water is known to be efficacious, as numerous cases of remarkable cures will attest. Rheumatic and liver complaints, disorders of the kidneys, and those arising from the abuse of mercury, coetaneous diseases and external sores, in various forms, have yielded under the uses of these waters, when the medicines of the physicians seems powerless. The bath house will be supplied with these waters, at any temperatures desired, and also with pure rain water for those who prefer it. Hydropaths will find the necessary appliances for their use.
The principal building for the accommodation of boarders, consists of a large stone Hotel, built at great cost which has just been renovated. Five or six cottages disconnected from the main building, have also just been refitted, and will accommodate those who wish to “colonize.” The rooms will be neatly furnished and the table well supplied.
A Circular Railway, to be erected in a beautiful grove near the house, is in progress and will be found a fine exercise in air for ladies. A bowling alley and other amusements will be found in other parts of the grounds for gentlemen. Stables may be had for horses, so that gentlemen with families, who wish to return daily to business in the city, may be accommodated. An omnibus will also make daily trips to the city.
Refreshments of all kinds in their season, may be expected – the ice house is filled with excellent ice.
Cheltenham is situated on the New Manchester Road, and on the Pacific Railroad, about three and a half miles west of the city of St. Louis, at a convenient distance for morning or evening rides from the city. Roads macadamized. On the opening of the railroad it will be about five minutes from the city Depot.
The undersigned trusts that his thirteen years experience in this city, connected with public houses, most of the time in the Planters’ House, has qualified him to give public assurance of a well-kept house worthy of their patronage.
J.M. HAWLEY
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