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VOL. IV., NO. 2.
PINEHURST, N. C., NOV. 16, 1900.
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THE BERKSHIRE HOTEL
Opened for Another Season last
Monday.
This Popular Hostelry Is How Ready for
Guests.
Pinehurst, acknowledged by all to be
one of the most delightful places in which
to spend the long winter months, where
one may escape not only the severe cold
of the North but also the malaria and
rheumatism of the extreme Southern
.states, is particularly fortunate in its
' hotel accommodations. Among the hotels
which have helped to earn for Pinehurst
such an enviable reputation, none are
more justly famous than the Berkshire,
which opened Monday under the man
agement of .Mr. F. B. Kimball, of Orwell,
Vt. This is Mr. Kimball's second season
;is manager of this house.
lTnder the direction of Mr. Kimball,
who has, since his arrival with his as
sistants, been a very busy man, the
hotel has received a thorough renovating.
The house, which proved so popular with
our Northern visitors last season, will not
lack patronage this season. The main
building is two stories high and extends
along the street facing the southeast.
Three two-story ells extend to the rear
with wide spaces between them, thus all
the rooms in the house receive an abund
ance of pure air and sunlight. The hotel
now provides accommodations for over
one hundred guests. A broad covered
piazza, extends along the whole front of
the building, commanding a tine view
across the lawns to the beautiful pine
grove, and on the south side is a large
sun piazza. The grounds are attractively
laid out and planted with ornamental
plants and shrubs, among which are some
line specimens of the box bush. The
whole front of the southwest part is
occupied by the parlor. This is one of
the handsomest apartments in the village,
with its walls and ceilings decorated in
Iniis XIV style. The centre of the
ceiling is painted to represent a patch of
blue sky, with masses of tleecy white
clouds and dotted with numerous bright
colored birds and buttertlys, while about
the edges are clusters of roses and other
Mowers. The color effects are especially
line and show the touch of the hand of a
master. Surrounding the centre-piece,
and around the upper part of the wall
also, are relief decorations. All the deco
ctions in this building are the work of
the New York artist, Mr. Axel Selen,
whose work is the finest in the village.
The parlor is well lighted by large win
dows, and a door opens on to the piazza
"i front. At the rear a large corridor
'""ins through the building with a ladies'
toilet room close by the entrance. One
of the main stairways lead from the parlor
to the floors above. The balance of this
end of the building is devoted to sleeping
apartments. These are among the most
desirable in the house. They are large
and airy with their windows opening
toward the South and having large com
modious closets, will prove especially
attractive to elderly people and those in
in poor health. These sleeping apart
ments are very convenient to all the pub
lic rooms. Leading from the parlorat the
right is the ladies' writing room, an
attractive room furnished with several
colonial desks in mahogany, an attractive
room which is sure to prove popular.
This room connects the parlor with the
main hall of the house. It also lias a
door opening to the piazza. The main
entrance to the hotel is in the centre of
comfortably seated at the tables in this
room. Back of the dining hall is the
serving room containing a steam table
and every convenience for the proper
serving of the food. Just beyond is a
large kitchen fitted with a double French
range, Acme oven, charcoal boiler and
all the apparatus needed to supply
the epicurean tastes of the guests.
Adjoining is a tine pantry and cold
storage room, the latter being connected
with the Pinehurst cold storage and ice
making plant. The office and smoking
rooms at the right of the hall are bright,
cozy apartments. They have been thor
oughly renovated and refurnished, and
the walls and ceilings decorated in the
Louis XV style. Connecting with this
room is the gentlemen's writing room
which is tastefully fitted with writing
t.ibles and every convenience for the
THE HEItKSHIUE HOTEL.
the building and opens directly into the
main hall. Directly in front is the
entrance to the dining hall, and on the
right is the office and smoking room.
On the left is one of the main stairways
and at the end of the hall is the door lead
ing to the ladies' writing room mentioned
above. In all of Pinehurst's hosteliies,
special effort has been made to make the
dining room particularly bright and
attractive, and the Berkshire is no excep
tion. It is a line, well lighted apartment
38 x 56 feet, with high ceiling, and
is finished in North Carolina pine.
A large open fire place of finished
brick is located at one end where the
blazing fat pine logs diffuse a pleasing
warmth and light on cool days. The
walls and ceiling are beautifully deco
rated in colonial style. The sides of the
room contain numerous large windows,
and myraids of electric lights hang from
the ceiling providing an abundance of
light. About one hundred people can be
scribe. The second and third floors are
devoted entirely to sleeping rooms.
These are large and pleasant, well lighted
and handsomely furnished. Every room
has a commodious closet, electric lights,
steam heat and call bell. Many also
have open fire places. All the beds are
furnished with fine mattresses and
springs. The entire building is cheerful
and tasteful, no modern convenience be
ing lacking. It is lighted throughout by
electricity, heated by steam, has electric
call bell in each room, and is supplied
with the justly celebrated Pinehurst
spring water. The hallways are large
and light. The toilet and bath rooms
are conveniently located on each floor
and the plumbing is all the most fastidi
ous could desire. Five wide stairways
on each floor provide ample means of
exit in case of fire which, however, could
hardly occur as the house is well sup
plied with the best of chemical fire
extinguishers. The excellent cusine is a
prominent attraction at this house and is
presided over by an experienced French
chef, and the waitresses are all white
girls from the North.
Mr. Kimball needs no introduction to
his guests of last season one of the
most genial and courteous of gentlemen
he has always been a popular landlord.
A hotel man of many years experience
he has made a most enviable reputation
in his business. For the past fourteen
years he has owned and managed the
Eagle Inn, an attractive summer hostlery
charmingly located in Orwell, Vt., where
he has met with signal success in cater
ing to the constanly increasing number
of people who annually visit the pictur
esque Lake Champlain valley during the
summer months. He possesses in a
marked degree that rare talent of the
ideal host, the art of making a stranger
feel like an old friend whose presence is
an honor and whose every wish it is a
pleasure to gratify. In his efforts to
make his guests comfortable and happy,
Mr. Kimball is ably seconded by his effi
cient clerk, Mr. P. II. Butterworth, who
last summer was at Hobbs Inn, Wolf
boro, N. II. A hotel man of many years
experience, Mr. Butterworth, with his
happy faculty of anticipating the wants
of the guests together with his pleasing
personality, will be deservedly popular
with the patrons.
Mr. Kimball brought with him several
of his employes from his Northern hotel,
among them being his cook, the quality
of whose work has been tested and
proved in the past. The waitresses and
other help are experienced and capable
in their several lines and all who pat
ronize the Berkshire this season are
assured competent service.
Mr. Kimball wishes to extend to his
guests of past seasons here and in the
North his thanks for their patronage and
hopes to greet them again this season.
A large portion of the rooms have already
been engaged and every indication points
to an exceptionally successful season.
The following letter from one of our
old residents and subscribers shows the
esteem in which The Outlook is held
by the people in the North.
New York, Nov. 2, 1900.
Editor Outlook :
Although 1 do not expect to be In
Pinehurst this winter, I still feel a
friendly interest in the place for old
acquaintance sake, and I would like to
subscribe to your interesting little paper,
The Outlook, in order to keep in touch
with all that is going on, and also to
send you my present address, so that if
you have any new and interesting printed
matter this winter you could kindly for
ward it to me, as 1 always have, and
shall still continue to do so, speak a good
word for the place and people to my
friends. Yours truly,
Mrs G. E.
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