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(Continued from Page Three) ders than probably any other town in the
Others come for the winter, and go back state, and probably than any other place
and tell others, and so it has come to be its size on the continent. I am told
like the locust story, in which one locust a a a& informal gathering one night
came to the barn and took a grain of las winter sixty men were present who
wheat and went away, and another one were rated millionaires. But money is
came and took a grain of wheat and went D0 big factor at Pinehurst. Men
away. with big pocketbooks come to Pinehurst.
You know the story. It was a great So do men with big intellects. Educators,
year for locusts, and the farmer had his bankers, scientists, statesmen, politicians,
barn full of wheat and a locust came plutocrats and probably some Bolshe
and got a grain and flew away, and pres vs or Pinehurst is as democratic as a
ently another one Well, they came to South Carolina election. Novelists write
Pinehurst. Last year they tell me about their stories at Pinehurst. Ambassadors,
thirty thousand people applied for ad- cabinet' ministers, soldiers from the
mission to the hotels in this sandy army, Annie Oakley, golf experts,
region and could not be accommodated, jockeys, agricultural experts, everybody,
So James Tufts laid the foundation, for even to the cattle and horses and dogs
a community that should give health and tnat tave tteir names among the high up
little farms to many people and the on the registry.
. " A 1 1
pians never, materialized. Ana so Pinehurst is twenty-five years old,
Leonard Tufts builded a community And the one thing to me is that it is still
that had never been planned, and the same old setting of Sandhill bar
which is now planning and which is to rens, with the marvelous climate, al
be built on still broader scale and though man has worked wonders all
magnitude, and here we find now a around. The peach orchards of Pine-
deveiopment mat oegins any piace you hurst are as renowned as the cherry
want to start with the beginning line, fields of Kerasund in Asia, and men are
and goes out all over the lower end of making fortunes from the peaches and
Moore county, part of the adjoining peach orchards from the sandy hills
counties, including the biggest artillery Peaches, tobacco farms, cotton fields,
post in the world, which the government dewberry vineyards, scuppernong grapes
is now constructing at Camp Bragg, are creating in the one time sterile region
and a lot more of North Carolina. a paradise. James W. Tufts had put his
Pinehurst was quick to recognize the foot in the land of Canaan, and like
value of golf as a winter occupation. Moses, he died before he was allowed to
Southern Pines started out witn cro- realize the marvelous story that has
quet, but that did not seem to have the been made by the people who followed
engine power on the steep grades and his lead. Pinehurst has grown in the
Mr. Tufts installed a golf course, quarter of a century to be a positive
That led to another, and all devotees of creation, with a purpose that will now
outing sports know the result. At more surely follow certain lines. Where
Pinehurst now are four eighteenrho-le James W . Tufts bought his sand hills is
courses and another one over at South- now a community that could hardly be
era Pines. Two or three 'more are bought for a thousand times what the
planned at Knollwood, which is the philanthropic pioneer paid for it.
legitimate offspring of Pinehurst and Homes, hotels, farms and orchards, to say
Southern Pines, and Donald Boss has nothing of the new developments that
his eye on golf possibilities all around are in the kettle, Pinehurst has been a
this neighborhood for miles. Golf has steady transformation scene. Except the
come to perfection at Pinehurst. Golf farm and orchard that adds to the pic-.
is viewed from two standpoints. The turesqueness of the place it has not an
player sees in it a game. I was in industry, for Pinehurst is a vacation, a
Pittsburg a few days ago and naturally day off. It is the source of many hun
I had to foregather with the old chaps dreds of thousand dollars to the people
who in the fin de siecle had been my com of the surrounding country, for Pinehurst
panions in the newspaper world. They is steadily expanding, and employs a
confessed to me that they had to have small army of people in season. It
daily reports of Pinehurst golf stuff in buys enormous quantities of things from
the season. To us it is news to print. the farmers. It pays a gigantic pro
Golf, gun club work, the races, the portion of taxes, and without a shudder,
coming and going of notables from I have seen Pinehurst grow from the
everywhere, now make the news that must sand, and see that it is growing as much
be telegraphed out from Pinehurst every as it has grown, and that its influence
day, just like from New York and Wash- is to bring the surrounding country f or
ington. Pinehurst is a little town with ward along with it. But having seen
no corporate existence, yet it . is the end the plans and how many of them were
of a Pullman run from New York, and discarded and how many things grew up
as many as seven Pullman cars have that were no more planned than Topsy
pulled out from the station on one train, who just growed, I make no . forecasts
starting on their journey northward, about the future except that we are go-
It will not be long until a solid Pine- ing somewhere and are on the way, but
hurst train will run between Pinehurst have no idea where. Pinehurst has been
and Washington, nor long until air plane a helper in many ways to the community
service will be in operation, for the as well as to itself. It has introduced
traffic is heavy, and it is traffic that has here in the Sandhills the idea of the
the money to pay the freight. Pine- electric light, the modern conveniences
hurst has a bank, schools, hotels of the for the home, the landscape garden, the
most elaborate type and the highest order picturesque in rural life, the good roads,
of service, but no mayor, town council, for Pinehurst has been the father of good
nor anything1 of that sort. In season it roads, and nobody knows what all Pine-
has more wealth represented in its bor- hurst has done for North Carolina. The Southern Pines, North Carolina
Pineflmirst Peparimemt
Have a complete line of high-grade goods
in all departments.
Your patronage is solicited.
Telephone Your Wants
Phone 127
The Antiseptic Powder to
shake into the shoes be
cause it takes the friction
from the shoe, freshens
the feet and makes walk
ing a delight.
Shake Allen's Foot-Ease
Into your shoes before go
ing on the links and no
tice the difference in your
comfort, which often af
fects your score.
The Government sup
plied 1,500,000 Ibs.of Pow
der, for the Feet to the
troops during the war.
Be sure to get the genuine
Allen's Foot-Ease. At
dealers everywhere. Sam
ple Free by mail. Address
ALLEN S. OLMSTED.
Lo Roy, N. Y.
Cottage Scbool
for
3308 anb (Bfrls
Why not bring your children
with youf They can continue
their grade work here.
MISS MARY CHAPMAN
Principal
Merchants & Miners
Transportation Go.
STEAMSHIP LIKES
Between
Boston and Norfolk
Most delightful route to and from
PINEHURST
Tickets include meals and stateroom ac
commodations on steamer
A. E. PORTER, General Agent,
NORFOLK, VA.
MYRON W. MARRf M. D.
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
FOR
PINEHURST
Office at the CAROLINA
Office rioirs: 10 to 11 A. M. or by Aopointment
FR HA. lit?
The very best house with the very best
Furnishings in the very best Location The
very best Oarage property in best location
including some of the very best vacant business
Lots I can give you the very best price.
WHIDIIAM
SOUTHERN PINES, - N. O.
Dr. Ernest W. Bush
OSTEOPATH
VISIT JACKSONVILLE ON YOUR TRIP
SOUTH
Two great attractions are the 18-hole golf
course at Country Club and
HOTEL WINDLE
You will enjoy your game on the course and
your stay at the hotel. European plan, com
plete, modern, steam heat; convenient to every
thing. Cafe in connection, next to City HalL
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PROP.
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