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VOL. III., NO. 1.
PINEHURST, N. C, NOV. 3, 1899.
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THE VILLAGE OF PINEHURST
An Ideal Winter Home for Health,
Rest and Recreation.
In the Heart of the Pine-clad Sand-hills
of North Carolina.
The Only Village in the Country Where Those
in Consumption Are Excluded.
The seasons have again rolled around
and the cold winds of autumn warn our
Northern friends that the time has come
for them to once more seek a winter
home in the Sunny South far from the
land where the Ice King will soon reign.
Of the many winter resorts whose
merits are heralded abroad, the village of
Pinehurst, Moore County, North Car
olina, stands in the front rank, with
facilities for comfort, recreation and
health unequalled by any other hamlet
in the country.
A glance at the map will show that
North Carolina occupies a position about
midway between the rigorous climate of
Maine on the north, and the enervating
heat of Florida on the south. Somewhat
south of the centre of the state, and
about equally distant from the cold fogs
of the Atlantic on the east, and the
bitter winds that sweep over the
Alleghanies on the west, lies Moore
County, a rolling upland region covered
with forests of the health-giving long
leaf pine. Here in a delightful climate,
and amid pleasant rural surroundings
where the breezes are laden with the
aroma of the pines, Pinehurst is located,
at an altitude of six hundred and fifty
feet above the sea.
The soil is almost pure sand from ten
to ninety feet deep and quickly absorbs
all moisture, leaving no surface water
even after the heaviest rain. Mud and
malaria are unknown. The air is re
markably dry and abundantly charged
with ozone produced by the exhalations
from the long-leaf pine. The balsamic
odor of the pines of every variety is
famed as a specific for the cure of diseas
es of the throat and lungs, but the high
est medical authority declares the long
leaf pine to be the most efficacious among
them. No case of consumption was ever
known to originate in this locality, and
Pinehurst is the only village in the
country wher consumptives are ex
cluded. Here those afflicted with weak
or impaired respiratory organs or whose
strength has been overtaxed by the de
mands of social or business life are pro
tected from consumption at a time when
the weakened system is peculiarly sus
ceptible to infection by this dread disease.
The temperature is about the same as
that of Southern France and Northern
Italy, but the climate is much more
genial, owing' to the dryness of the at
mosphere, and the chill produced by
dampness is not observable here.
This section has long been a popular
place of resort for those afflicted with
weak lungs, bronchial or asthmatic
troubles, and general debility, and thou
sands can testify to remarkable benefits
resulting from a sojourn in the pine
clad sand-hills of North Carolina, where
for pleasant social life, ample facilities
for rational recreation both indoors and
out, and at the same time imbibe health
and happiness with every breath of the
pure invigorating air. And accommoda
tions are provided to meet the wants of
people of varied means, from the very
moderate-priced but comfortable and
well-furnished two-room suites for house
keeping in the cottages, to the luxurious
apartments in the mammoth "Carolina,"
the largest hotel in the Old North State.
The townsite of one hundred acres is
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VIEW FROM THE STOKE, LOOKING EAST.
Nature has been so lavish of her gifts
conducive to health.
Pinehurst is a pretty up-to-date village
with all modern comforts and conven
iences, and was designed to meet the
wants of a large class of refined people
whose inclinations prompt them to spend
the winter months in a mild equable
climate in pursuit of health or pleasure.
It was founded in 1895 by Mr. James W.
Tufts of Boston, who purchased six thou-
located in the centre of the six thousand
acre tract, and was laid out in the form
of a beautiful park by the eminent land
scape architects, Olmsted, Olmsted &
Eliot. Broad streets and walks, shaded
bv thousands of semi-tropical trees, run
in graceful curves through the wide ex
panse of green lawn, and the numerous
pretty cottages set well back from the
road, amid ornamental shrubbery and
beds of flowers. A village green of sev-
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VIEW FROM MOM.Y INN, LOOKING WEST.
sand acres of pine lands in the most
healthful part of the sand-hill region,
and called to his aid a corps of eminent
specialists in different lines, who ably
supplemented the natural healthful con
ditions of the country, in the building of
an ideal health and winter resort. The
result is a unique village a village with
out a peer in the whole country. It is a
hamlet where all the houses are of at
tractive design, well built and surrounded
by beautiful green lawns, shade trees,
shrubbery and flowering plants ; a place
where one can find the comforts and
quiet of home, abundant opportunities
eral acres is centrally located. There
are no fences in the village to mar the
beauty of the place, but the whole
town is surrounded by a woven wire
fence to prevent the depredations of cat
tle and other animals.
The village is lighted by electricity,
the brilliant little lamps being found in
each room in every house, and there will
be no extra charge for these lights this
season. A large electric plant just out
side the town generates the current for
the lights and furnishes power for the
Pinehurst Electric railroad.six miles long,
which runs to Southern Pines, a station
on the Seaboard Air Line eighteen hours
from New York City.
A complete sewerage system con
necting with every house in the village
was installed under the direction of ex
pert sanitary engineers, and the main
pipes empty into running water far
beyond the limits of the town.
Pinehurst is supplied with an abun
dance of pure water which is pumped
from the celebrated Pinehurst Springs
into a huge tank centrally located, and
thence conducted under pressure into
each house in the village. The Pine
hurst Spring water is of exceptional
purity and exerts remarkably benefic
ial effects upon those suffering from
kidney difficulties and weak diges
tion. Large quantities are shipped
north, where its sale is rapidly in
creasing. Hydrants connected with the water
mains are placed at convenient inter
vals along the streets, and with the
fire alarm system, with its numerous
boxes scattered about the village,
afford ample protection against fire.
The making of Pinehurst was
started in June, 1895. During the
summer and fall the grounds were
laid out, the sewerage and water
systems installed, the electric rail
road constructed, and some twenty
cottages and boarding houses, a casino,
store, and a large hotel the Holly Inn
were erected, and the hamlet was first
opened to the public early the following
winter.
The first season commencing late and
with the confusion incidental to the stu
pendous task of transforming the wilder
ness into the beautiful park which is now
Pinehurst village, the management neces
sarily labored under great disadvantages,
but the people came in such numbers and
all were so well pleased with the grand
healthful climate and the convenient and
comfortable accommodations provided,
that the proprietor felt justified in making
many improvements and additions,
including the building of twelve more
cottages and a large boarding house, the
following summer.
The season of 1896-97 opened auspi
ciously and early in the winter it became
apparent that the accommodations were
utterly inadequate to provide for the
increasing number of people who were
attracted by the' unequalled facilities for
health, comfort and enjoyment offered
at this charming resort. Before the
season was over every building in the
village was filled to its utmost capacity,
and hundreds were unable to gain ad
mittance. During the summer of 1897 a large
department store, village hall, school
house, several apartment houses, and an
addition that doubled the former capacity
of Holly Inn were built, but the winter
following showed that the demand for
accommodations still far exceeded the
supply, and at the close of the season the
Hollv Inn was again enlarged, and a new