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TEE PINEHUBST OUTLOOK The Soil of the Sandhills TAGE 6 Bion H. Butler Spring Suits, Shoes, Shirts, Scarfs and Such Wear in the Men's Shops SUITS hand-tailored in specially chosen fabrics SHOES distin guished by custom embellishments in design SHIRTS, ready-made or to measure SCARFS from Paris or Spitalfields Carmoor-London golf jackets and all the other phe nomena of man's apparel, present ing not alone the seasonal consid eration of being Spring-like, but the rare quality of being unlike conventional selections for Spring. If you are looking for new ideas in clothes, furnishings and shoes, we urge you to come in when you next come North. We are selling something more than something to wear. We are selling the priceless satisfaction that comes from know ing that not every Tom, Dick and Harry is wearing it! FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK MEN'S SHOPS Separate Entrances on West 38th and 37th Streets Warren S. Manning is working out a radiates from Pinehurst, including Knoll great dream of making the North wood, Southern Pines, Lakeview, the Carolina SandhDls one of the foremost surrounding villages, and territory even recreation grounds of the world, and as farther out than can be utilized, and he conditions are favorable no doubt he proposes to connect the entire hill region will set in motion a project that will sue- with the finest roads that can be built in ceed whether it shall be done in his day this admirable region for road building, or not. He has picked the North Caro and to have roads, villages, and settle lina Sandhills because here Nature has ments and developments of all types a given him the best opportunity. A place part of the one big proposition, where a big outing resort may be estab- with this end in view Mid-Pines Avas lished must have the proper climate, and located, and the whole plan of Knoll particularly it must have some means to wood and Edgemore has this one idea in overcome the drawback that humidity mind. From Pinehurst to Lakeview Mr., brings to a surface that gets muddy in Manning has his outline clearly defined, damp weather. Two soil conditions and ju the area around Pinehurst in all govern the difference. Where clay directions where development has not abounds on the surface it is impossible already so shaped the future that the to make an outdoor recreation resort, for fleid is not flexible enough for remodel- clay holds moisture, and moisture in clay ing Pinehurst has been developed along is mud. That was the cause of the cost- the line Mr. Manning works on, and as ly disappointment when the government the plan unfolds Pinehurst will be the located an army camp at Charlotte, for converging point of all the lines of in Charlotte was one of the worst mudholes fluence from the big cluster of smaller that the army experienced. But sand is units round about, and the whole area never muddy for the sand crystals are will be connected in one gigantic park not soluble in water, and therefore sand that will be harmonious in design and in never makes the soluble mixture that we construction and in purpose, call mud. There the government profited primarily the 8eheme be that of a by its experience at Charlotte, for it se- rccreation proSpeet. Although the lected Camp Bragg, the. greatest artillery gan(Ihi1 count ig now priacipaliy a location in the world, for its big training wiuter regort Mr Manning saya he ex. school out of doors. Camp Bragg can- pcetg to gee it ft gummer favorite as well not, get muddy if it should want to. popular Mecca for winter visitors. Mr. Manning has seen what the gov- He proposes that it shall be the capital ernment learned with its camp at Char- of thojJe athletic sports like golf polo lotte and its camp in the Sandhill coun- trap shooting stock exhibits, but that it try of Camp Bragg. So he realizes that ghaU aUj0 be fhe MgMy attractive home the first essential of his big recreation gection that wiu appeal tQ thousandg of center must be the dry surface of the le who want somethinff away from North Carolina Sandhills, and the North the geyere northern winters. The park Carolina Sandhills because in Middle feature win interest that class, and with North Carolina is the mild climate. the help of the picturesque agriculture Sandhills farther north would not serve f the SandhillSf peaches, cotton, and because to begin with none suitable can other floral c of t acreage, the be found, and then the weather is too cold fam wiu einphasize the park feature by tor winter use. fco Mr. Manning naano th interestinr character of the farm choice but North Carolina Sandhills, and g Luekily the orchard with its to tell the truth he needed nothing else. millions of trees to blossom with the The North Carolina Sandhill country spring, and the cotton field with its con- is a collection of sandy knobs left in the tinued blossom all summer long to add broad area that has worn down through to the beauty of the neighborhood, and long ages of erosion, with the crystalline the home building, and the athletics, and rocks of early geological ages covered the minor features are all developing with the interesting deposit of alternat- together with each other yet separately, ing sand and clay that gives this section an,d Mr. Manning's plans are material its peculiar character. To the east of us izing every day, and with all the separ is the solider type of land, mixed with ate influences helping each other. more clay and organic matter a stiffer, Th a iPnsil10. on, and as stickier soil. To the northwest is the new lightg are thrown on it day by day metamorphic slate and granite ' belt, cov- -t ig t gee th t few g more ered with a thin coating of clay. The wiu make the Pinehurst neighborhood Sandhill country is a long thin strip of ono of the mogt alluring quarters of the sandy ridges narrowing down into South big United gtateg The SandhilLg Coun Carolina, narrowing up into Johnson t ig WQrth wM1 nQW but what win it and Harnett counties, wider in Moore be in twQ Qr three vearg Qr half a dozen than any place else, and reaching its or eight Qr ten? greatest width and broadest tables in the section of which Pinehurst is the center. That means that Mr. Manning -pish, weighing more than 150,000 tons has designed his Sandhills resort with. and yaiUed at $35,000,000, were landed Pinehurst practically in the heart of the at Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, dur scheme. The plan a a complete unit in0. a recent twelve months .
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