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PINEHURST, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1898.
PRICE THREE CENTS.
UNEQUALLED ADVANTAGES.
Winter Resident's Tale of Pine
hurst in a Northern Paper.
A Good Description of Our Pretty Village
and Its Surroundings.
Some two years ago an article appeared
in cue of the magazines relating to Pint
burst, a new village anions the long-leaf
pints in North Carolina, and from that
time we have had a desire to see the
place for ourselves. So at noon on one
bleak winter day we took the train in
IJoston and at nightfall on the following
day reaehed Southern IMnes, where an
elect l ie ear took ns six miles across the
count rv to Pinehurst. Here we found
delightful quarters awaiting us at the
Holly Inn. We came hy the Seaboard
Air Line, through Philadelphia, Haiti-
more, Washington, Kichmond and
Raleigh, which is one of several routes
one may take. "
The novel project of the village of
I'inehurst was conceived lv Mr. .lames
W . Tufts of IJoston. For years his at
tention has been called to people of deli
cate constitution, who suflered from the
rigor of the northern winters, and who
were unable to pay the high price neces
sary for any degree of comfort in any of
i ne southern health resorts. He had
had a large experience in charitv and in
philanthropic work and had come in con
tact with many teachers, clergymen and
"tiiers, whose lives might be prolonged
by a temporary residence in a milder cli
mate. :uid tor some years lie had been
considering how these people of small
means might 11 iid such a home.
Alter looking Ver the country with
this thought in mind he came in the sum
mer of 1W to the village of Southern
Pines in North Carolina. Some years
before Professor Kerr, the state geolo
tffct, had made a most careful investiga
tion in this state and in others with the
view of finding a Spot which should ooin
hine all the qualities of a natural sanitari
Uu. The location he selected is on the
'nlinination of an immense sandy ridge,
locally this is known as Shaw's nidge,
he name coining from a prominent
family long resident here. The waters
falling upon the roof of the old Shaw
homestead divide and lind their way to
thu Little and Peedee rivers, each about
'"'teen miles away. This ridge and all
adjacent country for many miles is
Piaetically covered with the long-leaf
pine, which constitutes the chief growth
of the region. A physician, the iirut to
'"ake a home in this region, was directed
,y the state geologist to this dry ele
vated ridge, as it met the happy medium
i" climate, being exactly in the centre of
the temperate one and the highest and
dryest section in the whole long leaf
pine region. The residents of this region
are exempt from the rigors of the North
and West, and are also free from the
enervating influence of locations in the
more southern and warmer latitudes.
The State Hoard of Agriculture, im
pressed by the report of the state geolo
gist, and by correspondence with eminent
physicians, developed the plan of South
ern Pines. Since then the region has
been repeatedly investigated by medical
specialists and many are the testimonials
to its qualifications as a natural sanita
rium. Many also are the testimonials of
those who have come to this locality
invalids, unable to live in a colder cli
mate, to have either recovered entirely so
that they experience no dilliculty in the
changeable New England climate, or who
have made homes here and enjoy what
they never can in the old home the
priceless blessing of health.
This was the region that Mr. Tufts,
with his heart full of his philanthropic
scheme, came to examine for himself.
Little did the proprietor of the Ozone at
Southern Pines realize that in the quiet
unassuming man, who signed the hotel
register with the name James W. Tufts,
and whom Iih drove about the country,
was one who was to evoke out of this
southern forest, what no inhabitant of
the old North State had ever dreamed to
see, a Yankee village, with all the mod
ern improvements and luxuries which
wealth and science have at their com
mand.
The problem which Mr. Tufts has un
dertaken to solve is the making ot an
ideal home for people needing rest and
recuperation in a mild climate, where the
rich may have every luxury and the
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poorer every conuort. .ner uiorougn
examination of the country, Mr. Tufts
purchased in duly, 1895, six thousand
acres on this dry elevated land six miles
from the railroad station at Southern
Pines. The location is in Moore county,
a little south of the centre ot tne state.
Hie soil is almost pure sand. Let it rain
ever so nam aim uuhu&l io u
tops raining the ground is perfectly dry.
In manv respects tne climate is eiy
much more agreeable to northerners than
that of most of the resorts further south.
Mr. Tufts enclosed one hundred acres
within a wire fence. The town was laiu
out under the direction of Frederick Law
Olmsted of Olmsted, Olmsted & Elliot,
the eminent linn of landscape architects.
Many thousand shrubs and plants weie
set out. Mr. Tufts that first summer
built a hotel, casino and forty houses of
different size and architecture. As by a
magician's wand the village arose. A
perfect system of drainage was laid out.
lare power house was ouut inu
thoroughly equipped, so that every ave
nue and every room in every cottage is
lighted bv electricity. Mr. Tufts has
ilso built an electric road to the railroad
station at Southern Pines. Hie water
tor drinking is absolutely pure. It is
forced up by steam from three deep
bored wells and there is a very abundant
supply. We think it is the best water we
have ever found in any resort in the
world, and it has been proven that its
use is very beneficial in cases of rheu
matism, weak digestion and kidney
trouble. Mr. Tufts employed the best
architects and engineers, etc., to carry
out his plans, sparing no expense, and
giving his own attention to the minutest
detail. Nowhere else in the South have
we found arrangement for the comfort
of guests so perfect, whether in the
high priced rooms of the Holly Inn or
in the smallest of the eottages. The
whole air of the place is light and bright
ness itself. Every one notes the unusual
number of windows, not only in the
hotel and large houses, but in all the cot
tages, and the electric light has been
distributed with the same lavish hand.
The Holly Inn is the most homelike of
luxurious hotels. There are reception
rooms, reading rooms, writing rooms,
smoking rooms and a large music hall
on the first floor, which is surrounded by
a spacious veranda. The dining room is
one of the pleasantest we have ever seen.
The pretty waitresses are from good
northern families, and although un
trained, show how intelligence tells in the
performance of any duty. Some are girls
with delicate lungs who are in this way
enabled to escape the severe months at
the North. The cuisine is all that could
be desired. The hotel has this year been
enlarged and Mr. Tufts has built a beau
tiful village hall seating some three
hundred. Here entertainments are held
as often as once a week. An entertain
ment committee is formed among the
guests the first of the season. On Sun
day service is held in the hall. There is
also a very pleasant bright school-house
at the foot of the village green and a
teacher from one of the public schools
at Providence is employed to teach the
children of guests, that they may keep
up with their classes at the North.
Next the Inn is the Casino, a large and
pleasant building with reading room,
barber shop, billiard room, etc. Here is
a large homelike restaurant and a home
bakerv. There are several large board
ing houses kept by experienced northern
people. There is a large store where one
may find a greater variety and assortment
of goods than in many a northern village
of twice the size of Pinehurst. There is
a farm and nursery in the village. The
milk is better than any we have found in
the South, a carefully selected herd of
cows being kept on the place. Amuse
ments of all kinds are provided tennis,
croquet, and shuffle-boards, and several
large golf fields. For children there are
swings, and tilts, sand hills and games
without number. There is a beautiful
deer park also on the estate with a fine
herd of deer.
We are always interested in types of
people in different localities. A good
place to study them here is the village
store early on Saturday evening, when
the country people for miles around,
black and white, come here to do their
trading. Ulacks in every shade of color;
shining polished faces gleaming from the
depths of big' sunbonnets, coquettish
mulattoes with small sailor hats perched
on the top of an abundant crop of wool.
Hoys in every stage of ragged ness and
full of monkey tricks. Men in rags, in
sweaters and overalls, occasionally an
airy fellow in white shirt and brilliant
tie, with a stylish if somewhat battered
hat set jauntily on the side of Ids head,
others in very comfortable working
clothes. Almost always the faces are
bright and jolly, occasionally one dark,
gloomy and forbidding.
The whites are in the main a poor class
of small farmers. The blacks form
about one-third of the population of
North Carolina. They have always,
even in the days of slavery, been better
treated than in many parts of the South.
Now they have all the rights of citizens,
and their rights are secured by the same
safeguards of law as are those of the
white citizen. The white population of
this part of North Carolina are descend
ants of a, large company of Scotch who
came here, some voluntarily, but most
of them by compulsion, after the disas
trous defeat of Culloden in 1740. They
still retain in a remarkable degree the
national characteristics.
We had a desire to visit the home of a
typical North Carolina farmer, so one
sunny March morning we chartered a
donkey cart, with some misgivings as to
the conduct of the donkey to be sure,
and having persuaded the gentlemen of
the party that a long walk was absolute
ly indispensable to their well-being, we
started, the ladies driving the donkey,
the gentlemen walking behind. After
passing through the gates of Pinehurst
the road lay for a long distance through
a great pine forest, i lie sky was per
fect, the air balmy, and the donkey
trotted along in the most amiable and
accommodating manner.
We soon came to a small lake of beauti
fully clear water and had to ford a
stream as clear as crystal, with a pretty
pebbly bottom. We have not often found
clear water in the South. The donkey
behaved very well in fording the stream,
though he required not a little urging to
breast the deepest part of the stream;
and so we came to Mckenzie s mill and
farm. We drove into the barnyard
where a number of young calves were
running about. Almost nothing but
white sand could be seen near the
ground, but there were peach and apple
and pear trees coming into bud and luxu
riant rose bushes and honeysuckles.
The family greeted us hospitably,
father, mother, ten children and a few
older people whose relationship we did
not quite make out. We were invited
into the best room, with its floor of white
(Concluded on l'agc Five.)