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VOL. IV., NO. 1.
PINEHUHST, N. C., NOV. 9, 1900.
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A NEW ENGLAND YILLA6E
Among the Southern Pines.
AN EDEN OF REST AND AN IDEAL
WINTER RESORT.
The return of every winter necessarily
brings to many minds the consideration
where they can pass the next five or six
months with the least inconvenience and
the greatest benefit to their health. In
creasing experience of climatic conditions
and influences shows that a vast number
of chronic maladies acquired in a com
paratively severe climate are stayed in
their course, and not infrequently alto
gether arrested by judicious change to
more favorable external conditions.
To decide on the location affording
these conditions is a task that takes con
siderable time and thought, but, as in
every other case where alternative prop
ositions of apparently similar value are
placed before us, we are naturally influ
enced by the experience and testimony
of others who have had to solve the same
questions.
The climate of Pinehurst, North Caro
lina, has been often compared by its
admirers to that of the liiviera, the fam
ous European health resort, but it pos
sesses, in reality, many features which
tender it far more desirable as a place of
rest and recreation, in the pursuit of
health or in its maintenance. The elim
of liiviera is not by any means a perfect
one. It has a heavy rainfall and many
rainy days. The transition from day
to night temperature is sudden and con
siderable, damp and chill evenings suc
ceeding to hot and dry days. It can, and
does, freeze there, though not often, and
it is tormented by some of the fiercest
and most disagreeable winds that blow.
In some parts, as at Nice and llyeres,
clouds of dust nuke life a burden.
None of these drawbacks is met with
-it, Pinehurst. The climate of the section
of the country surrounding this lovely
village is mild and soothing, and its
wonderful effects are noticable in the
cheerful manner of the favored ones
whose better judgment has led them to
select it for their winter quarters.
The village proper, which stands at an
'levation of 650 feet above the sea-level,
"I'Mitical, bye the bye, with that of the
lanious llomburg, covers a area of 125
iicres, and has been laid out literally re
gardless of expense, but under the most
skillful supervision, and with a constant
i'!v to its chief object, which is to pro-
i'l'' a delightful resting place for those
who are worried either by physical ills
,,!' mental anxiety. Either may arise
loin various causes, but the cure is the
:lne; perfect rest, agreeable surround
ings, cheery and refined society, and
above all, the sweet restorative of nature,
the best physician of all.
Amongst the chief adjuncts that go
towards making a health resort out of a
winter resting-place must first be men
tioned pure air. The air of Pinehurst is
dry, for the village is located on deep
sandy soil, securing perfect drainage.
The drinking water is of the purest, be
ing brought from deep wells to the sur
face by pipes driven forty feet into the
ground, whence it is pumped to the town
reservoir. Chemical analysis shows it to
be drinking water of exceptional quality.
So highly is it prized for its beneficial ef
fects in cases of kidney trouble, weak
digestion, etc., that quantities of it are
sent North.
Another prominent feature is the ab
sence of that dampness which so fre
quently harasses the residents of the
Northern States.
inestimable value. Owing to the free
dom of the climate from rapid and con
stantly recurring changes of frost, rain,
mist and mild weather, the invalid spends
the greater part of the day in the open
air, and scarcely knows what confine
ment within doors means. The long
spell of propitious weather enabling the
full influence of the genial atmosphere to
act on his frame, his bodily vigor returns,
and he finds himself able to enjoy a fair
amount of exercise, whether walking,
riding or driving. The functions of
digestion and assimilation are improved;
the standard of nutrition is raised;
healthy tissue is formed, and morbid de
posits are absorbed and eliminated. The
temperature of Pinehurst is, on the
average, twenty degrees higher than that
of Boston, a fact of the greatest impor
tance to those who are threatened with
lung or bronchial trouble, and the safety
from the severe and biting atmosphere of
lilUD'S-EYE VIEW OF riNEIIURST.
While Pinehurst is a place where the
healthy can confirm their robustness,
and the sick can hope to become quickly
convalescent, the advantages to those
who are actual I v recovering from an
illness when they arrive there are rapidly
manifested. The great danger of relapse
is known and feared by all physicians,
and valetudinarians have to be very care
ful that they do not incur, or run the
danger or incurring, a return of the ail
ments from which they are recovering.
Open-air exercise is invariably of great
benefit to such, and here, in Pinehurst,
they can sit out under the blue skies, or
walk about outof doors almost every day
during the winter with pleasure and
comfort, breathing in the tonic and
gently-stimulating air that brings "heal
ing on its wings."
To those who have not as yet attained
any marked degree of convalescence,
Pinehurst will prove a curative agent of
the North U a strong inducement to the
residents of New England and Canada to
visit this Southern Elysium, and breathe
for a time the health-giving and health
restoring breezes of this favored spot.
The resinous outpourings of the sur
rounding pines, from which the village
takes its name, possess wonderful cura
tive and healing properties, and the fact
that no cases of pulmonary consumption
have ever originated in this locality, is
the best proof of this.
To regain health, or to preserve good
health, if we are blessed therewith, we
require not only pure air, pure water,
good food and good lodgings, but con
genial surroundings. These are all found
in Pinehurst, the latter perhaps to a
greater extent than in any American or
European health resort. Everything
that the mind of man could conceive has
been done to provide rational and harm
less sources of amusement for the guests.
There are golf grounds, that are admitted
by the leading experts to be unsurpassed
by any in the North; facilities for
croquet, bicycle riding, tennis and in
fact, almost every form of out-door sport.
A Casino where high-class performances
are provided for the winter evenings,
excellent roads for walking, riding or
driving, a fine bowling allej', etc., etc.,
make up allocation which combines all
the adt&ntages of a sanitarium with the
best pleasures of a residence in Southern
Europe or Italy.
Apropos of the places just mentioned,
while it cannot be denied that great bene
fit has often been obtained by those who
have visited the chief resorts there situat
ed,yet it is apparent that, when we consid
er the preliminary fatigue and annoyance
of a journey thither, the game is fre
quently not worth the candle. The prin
cipal objection to persons in delicate
health undertaking a long sea voyage is
the uncertainty about the influence to
which he or she may be exposed ; while,
on land, the traveler is, to a great extent,
his own master, and has power to control
the surrounding conditions. lie may
regulate the day's journey according to
strength or inclination, he may linger in
such places as have agreeable associations
or environments, he may hasten over
those of an opposite character; but when
once embarked upon a voyage, whether
he find himself crowded in a dark close
cabin, lying on a narrow hard shelf,
port-holes rigidly closed and the atmos
phere he breathes poisoned by noisome
odors, the rain pouring on deck making
escape from his prison, even for a few
minutes, impossible; when he feels he
would give all his worldly possessions
for a breath of pure air, or a few hours'
cessation from the perpetual din of the
engines within and the waves without;
he is perfectly helpless, he must go
through it, day after day and night after
night, until the weather changes or the
voyage is ended. This mania or fad for
seeking abroad and under conditions of
supreme difficulty that which lies at our
very doors, and can be obtained with
ease and safety, is hard indeed to explain
or account for.
Here, within a day's journey from any
part of New England, is a city of refuge
for those oppressed by constitutional
delicacy. It covers 6000 acres of land,
purchased by and marvelousty laid out
under the direction of the owner. Here
he has provided a resting-place for the
weary, where at trifling cost and without
incurring any of the risks or dangers
above referred to, they may recuperate
the failing forces of nature, build up
strong constitutions, form delightful
acquaintances, enjoy many kinds of ra
tional amusement and recreation, and, in
a word, be perfectly happy. Let the
letters published in this and former issues
of the Outlook bear witness how well
conceived has be the plan, and how
perfect and satisfactory its execution.
Pinehurst is alike a home for the mil-