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VOLUME
ONE
THE PILOT
NUMBER
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1920
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New Development That Means Much To Our Section
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What is probably the biggest enter
prise ever attempted at once in the
county, and what promises to lead to
one of the biggest things ever under
taken in the State, started last Friday
afternoon when the stockholders of
Knollwood at their meeting at Pine-
hurst decided to begin operation on
the half million dollar job that the
architects have planned, and which
will grow into millions in the next
few years.
James Barber was elected presi
dent of the corporationfor next year,
Lenord Tufts vice-president and
general manager for a period of five
years, and A. S. Newcomb, secretary
and treasurer. The stockholders were
made directors. Those are James
Barber, of the Barber Steamship Co.,
an institution that is said to have
steamers sailing into every part of
the globe worth visiting, Leonard
Tufts of Pinehurst, J. W. Gorrigan
of New York, H. B. Swoope of New
York and Pensylvania, coal-operator
of means and ability, H. H. Rackham,
the attorney who incorporated the
Ford Motor Co., L. M. Boomer, repre-
sentingthe Waldorf- Astoria Hotel of
New York H. A. Page, Jr., A. S. New
comb, S. B. Richardson, T. A. Kelly
and J. Talbot Johnson, a bunch of
Moore county men who were the fath
ers of the proposition. ^
The Knollwood company during the
summer bought from H. A. Page, Jr.,
some 5,200 acres of land connecting
Southern Pines with Pinehurst. At
the meeting Friday it was agreed that
the acreage immediately west of the
Seaboard Air Line railroad should be
the site of the first development, anc
that it should take the course of
winter resort creation, to be on the
most modern lines, and for this pur
pose about a quarter of a million was
appropriated, to be followed by more
as fast as it is called for by the work
of contractors. Already the first of a
system of avenues has been built to
connect Pinehurst and Southern Pines
and the road system will be one of the
jobs tackled at once, and carried out
on an elaborate scale. Donald Ross
was notified at the meeting to begin
work this week on No. 1 golf course
which he has already surveyed ond lo
cated, and which is to be an eighteen-
hole course, and the best that money
can make. -He says he will have it
ready for use when the season opens
next fall. After No. 1 course is com
plete he will proceed directly to the
No. 2 course. These^ courses are lo
cated on the w^est side of McDeed’s
creek one on either side on the road
that connects Pinehurst and Southern
Pines, and which has just been built
by the Knollwood corporation.
On notifying Mr. Ross to proceed
with the construction of the golf
courses a telegram was dispatched to
Aymur Embury II the architect who
has made the plan for the club house.
and he is instructed to locate his
building and prepare for instant com-
mencment of construction. The club
louse will be a structure over 500
eet long and three stoHes high. It
will have a living room 36 by 86 feet
in size, a dining room 36 by 76, .100
bed i;ooms, card and billard rooms, 2
arge sun rooms that will be practical-
y a large collection of greenhouses,
and a lot of other things it is hard
to classify. One big room 28 by 70
will be a sort of play room or amuse
ment hall for such diversion as may
>e desired, and another feature will
be an enclosed park of roome for mov
ing pictures with balconies surround
ing in with tea or informal lunches
or similar parties can be given while
entertainments are in progress. A
swimming pool of ample size is an
other feature, as well as two large fire
proof locker rooms, one for men and
one for women. A department for
servants 100 by 32 feet and three
stories high will take cae of this
problem.
A-bout the club house willbe various
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other conveniences for sport, includ
ing six tennis courts, and such things
as may be suggested. The location of
the club house will be on the left of
the road running from Southern Pines
to Pinehurst,and about three-quarters
of a mile from the crossing of the
Carthage road, and about half a mile
from McDee’s creek, where one of the
most desireable golf courses in the
South will be created. The course is
almost wholly in the cove and valleys
and the knobs are covered with pine
groves the effect being to shut out the
winds on the blustery days, and to
give a fine prospect to sunny days,
which abound.
The Knollwood corporation will
continue to be the operating organiz
ation in handling this big affair, but it
will work under two different heads.
Leonard Tufts will be the general
manager, and he has been given ab
solute authority to handle the proper
ty according to his own judgment, the
only repuirement being results. This
is a pretty liberal schedule, but Mr.
Tufts has showed by his work in the
Sandhills that he is equal to the job.
As the objects are in view he will di
vide the property into two sections
the one east of the Seaboard being
alloted to sale and development in
big and little farms, winter homes
village property inlots or acrage orch
ards, vineyards, or whatever the peop
le care to make of it. This section
will be placed in the hands of one man
who will be Mr. Tufts* manager for
that section. Onthe other side of the
railroad will be the section in which
the golf enterprise will be locatec
and that section will be in the hands
of another manager under Mr. Tufts
The two will be handled separately by
their managers, and the side east of
the railroad will continue to be known
as Edgemoore Heights and operated
under that name. This will be distinct
ly a real estate development and sale
proposition j- much after the idea that
Mr. Page was carrying out when he
sold the property to Knollwood.
Edgemoore Hights has about 2,500
acres, lies well and will be in demand
for home sites and farms as soon as
it comes on the market, which will
be as soon as the plans can be shaped
up.
Making the plans does not mean
simply laying out a few farms and
ots and then offering the property for
sale. The most systematic survey ev
er made in this section will now be
undertakken, and every piece of gro
und will be studied as an individual
tract and also as a part of the big
scheme that it is about to fit into.
Roads will be laid out on a still more
extensive scale, and built. Maps in
detail will be drawn and printed, and
comprehensive advertising prepared
so that when selling commences it will
be on the most intelligent and syste
matic basis ever undertaken in Moore
county. All the experiences gained at
Pinehurst, Edgemoore and elsewhere
in the community will be brought to
bear, and such development made as
will show the values of the property
to be sold. The marketing of the 2500
acres of Edgemoore will be one of
the interesting features of this move
ment.
When Mr. Ross has defined his golf
course boundries and Mr. Manning
has completed his survey for parks
and other improvement he will pro
vide avenues that will lead to such
adjacent territory as has not been
taken for golf and park land and
there will be established home sites of
from an acre upwards, which will be
offered for sale. The prices have been
fixed on these sites at $1,500 an acre.
In order to encourage building pro
mptly the first buyers who locate their
sites will be given a rebate of $1,000
an acre if they build within the year,
$750 if they build in 1922, and $50('
if they build in 1923. About 400 sites
are available around the golf courses
and if they are utilized as rapidly as
thebuilding locations have been taken
at Pinehurst in the last half dozen
years, five or six years will see this
part of the property covered with
handsome modern homes, and with a
fine club house, hotel and various
facilities for winter sports and amuse
ments.
It is canndently predicted by those
who are most familiar with the devel
opment of the Pinehurst section that
in half a dozen years the settlement
will be continuous throughout this
territory described and that from six
to ten thousand people will be in the
city that will have grown up, and that
inside of 25 years here will be created
a community that will have the great
est housing capacity of any city in the
state. This is the basis the projectors
of this scheme are figuring on, and
they are men who do not shoot many
arrows in the air.
The golf scheme that is to be the
first unit completed will not be ex
clusively to the first members who go
into the club. An arrangement is con
templated that will take care of the
lome owners in the neighborhood of
the courses, under certain restrictive
conditions, although these are not yet
determined. Another idea entertained
is a bachlor’s appartment at the vicin
ity of the club house to accommodate
the chronically unattached who do not
appreciate the society of the women
and children who might.stray into the
club house or be quartered there with
their men folks. Other things are also
contemplated to make the winter pos
sibilities as comprehensive as any
place on earth offers. These will be
worked out as the development un
folds.
It is the expectation that arrange
ments can be made with the McQueen
light and power service for what ser
vice will be needed for the various de
velopments, and as the Southern Pines
water plant is not far from the club
house site an effort will be made to
have water service extended from that
town to the new community. The
plant was built with the idea of serv
ing a much bigger town than Southern
Pines is yet, and to accommodate just
such growth as promises now at Knoll
wood, and it is hoped a bargain can be
struck. Mr. McQueen is broadening
his lighting plants so that he will
probably be in shape to go ahead in
this work by the time his service will
be needed.
This is a general way the outline
of what is projected for the expansion
of the Moore county resorts. It is a
scheme of such magnitude that it can
not be comprehended. Before it is car
ried very far it will-mean-the expend
iture of several million dollars, and
that will mean a permanent winter
population of so many people that
Moore county will not know itself.
The men behind the movement have
ample capital for anything they want
to do, and besides they have the
acquaintance and standing that will
bring the people to them from all
over the North.
Entertained at Rook
Miss Annie McGill delightfully enter
tained the younger set at a Rook Party
last Friday evening. .Delicious candies
were served. Those present were Misses
Agnes Smith, Jessie Brooks, Lois Sanford,
Jewel Edwards; Messrs. Gordon Thomas.
Will Smith, Arthur Thompson, Clyde Cox
and Eugene Keith.
On account of the crowded conditions of
our advertising columns we had to leave
out considerable reading matter which
will appear next week.