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VOL. IV., XO. 0.
PINEIIUIIST, X. C, .TAX. 4, 1901.
PRICE THREE CENTS
THE CAROLINA.
Its Welcome to the Twentieth
Century.
The Carolina opened its doors on Tues
day, the first day of the Twentieth Cen
tury. This will remain a memorable
incident in its subsequent history, mem
orable also to those who were its first
guests and who celebrated the Xew Year
at the first dinner served within its walls.
There was a goodly company present
and they were well pleased with the
effort which has been made to bring the
building to a successful issue and for all
the comforts and conveniences which
have been so lavishly provided.
The Carolina is well assured of a huge
patronage on account of its equipments
for a first-class hotel as well as on
account of the increasing good repute of
IMnehurst as a winter residence. Mr. J I.
W. Priest, the manager, has a large
clientage of his own, who are apt to fol
low him from the various summer hotels
which he has conducted in past years,
wherever he goes. Guests from all parts
of the country have engaged rooms for
the remainder of the season. Every
effort will be made by Mr. and Mrs.
Priest to meet the wants and tastes of
their guests, in table, in attendance, and
in all those minor matters which in detail
are so many and seemingly insignificant
but whose absence is soon felt and
whose presence make all dwelling places
so agreeable. The game ideas which
have built up Pinehurst and brought it to
its present prosperity have pervaded the
plan of this new feature, the great Caro
lina Motel, and although its terms are
higher than any other accommodations
to be found in the village, it is hoped by
its founder, Mr. Tufts, that this may not
'nake any distinctions in the social and
friendly spirit, which has thus far been
so eminently characteristic of the place.
Pinehurst, as it is to-day, is very differ
ent from the resort originally planned
hy its founder and owner. In its original
inception it was to be a collection of
small cottages, one or two boarding
houses and a small moderate priced hotel
to accommodate people of modest means
who were in need of rest and health. It
was designed to be a winter home for
those who could not journey to Cali
fornia, Florida or Southern Europe, in
search of warm winters, who dared not
expose themselves to the tuberculosis
wludi is found in all these places. Pine
,mi I is still this but much more.
i!l"!h cottage after cottage has been
add-.'d, and hotels have increased, it has
J"''1' difficult to keep pace with the
1 ,u 'Rising number of visitors who come
th'ther, and still more so to minister to
wants of a class that is each year
becoming more numerous, the wealthy
and fastidious people who have found
that Pinehurst is for many reasons pre
ferable to older and more fashionable
resorts. To meet this new and wholly
unexpected need the Carolina Hotel has
been erected, and the same attention that
has supplied beauty and comfort to peo
ple of simpler tastes, has been used to
gratify those whose demands are more
luxurious and exacting.
There are many styles of architecture
each with its own special name as the
classic, the gothic of the old world both
of which have beeu copied and modified
in modern buildings. Then there is the
Queen Anne for which there was once a
great passion among architects. So
many montrosities were built after this
style that its vogue has become dis
credited and the wit who named these
ambitions attempts at architecture a
"Queen Anne front and Mary Ann
behind," finally extinguished it.
The Carolina does not belong strictly
If any special name were required for
the description of the architecture of the
Carolina probably Colonial would be
that name. It is also painted in colonial
colors, yellow with white trimmings.
The situation commands a view of the
whole village and the surrounding coun
try in all directions. The grounds appro
priated exclusively to the hotel are exten
sive and are laid out in walks, bordered
with trees, shrubbery and flowers. On
this, the 4th day of January, roses, pun
sies, pinks and English violets are still
in bloom. The grounds were prepared
and planted more thin a year ago, so
that there is no appearance of newness
about them, nothing half finished or left
in disorder. There are croquet grounds
constructed after the newest plans, tennis
courts and the electric road passing the
entrance of the hotel runs by a new and
separate branch directly to the most
extensive and diversified golf ground in
this country. On the golf grounds at
their highest point is a new building
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to any particular style of architecture,
although it has points of resemblance to
the Italian, especially in its projecting
balconies, its cupolas and the facade and
general outline of the music hall. The
double cupola is noticeably delicate and
line in its effect without a trace of those
regular turrets and towers, which along
the seaboard seem to strive to advertise
themselves by mere size and height.
The Carolina is kept down upon ground
lines which was neccessary on account
of its great size and mass and this gives
to the house a comfortable and homelike
appearance. It also brings all parts of
the building into harmony with each
other. Xor was there any need for
external effect that the Carolina should
be lifted into the air for it already
crowns the highest eminence in the pres
ent compass of Pinehurst. In general
then it may be said that the architecture
of the Carolina is fitted to the purposes
for which it was designed, and when
this is the motive the result seldom fails
of producing a work of beauty.
designed expressly for the use of golfers
with every convenience, lockers, dress
ing rooms, open fires, and an opjn bal
cony for spectators. The station house
of the Aberdeen & Ashboro Railway, by
which passengers on the Southern Kail
way arrive in Pinehurst, is live minutes'
walk from the Carolina. The electric
road also connects at S mthern Piniis
with the Seaboird Air Line, m iking six
trips daily each way, and extra trips
when desired. The village of Pinehurst
has every convenience required for a
winter residence; a general, or as would
be called in a large city, department
store, a post office with five mails arriv
ing and departing every day; a tele
graph, telephone and express office, a
general olliue for the transition of all
the affairs and business connected with
the management of the village; and all
these are under one roof centrally located.
Besides these accommodations there is a
printing establishment where all the
printing for the three hotels, the Caro
lina, the Holly Inn, the Berkshire and
programmes for the various entertain
ments at the Village Hall, is done. It
also executes job work of all kinds and
in as good taste and workmanship as is
turned out by any office in Boston. The
menu card for the first dinner at the
Carolina on Tuesday evening last is a
beautiful specimen of the embossed work
and printing which can be furnished by
the Pinehurst establishment.
In former numbers of The Outlook
have been given full detailed accounts of
the interior arrangements, decorations
and furnishings of the new Carolina
Hotel. These we will now briefly con
dense. The central portion is four stories
high and is in the form of a T. Thus all
the rooms are open to sunlight and air.
At the eastern end of the main building
is a music hall, seating four hundred
people. The exterior of this hall is a
beautiful example of Italian architecture.
Here an orchestra gives concerts every
day. There is a separate building for
the employees, fitted up with every con
venience for their comfort and is a
model of its kind. There are three broad
piazzas. A few turns around them are
enough for a constitutional. The interior
appointments are as complete and luxuri
ous as money, skill and taste could make
them. There are 250 richly furnished
rooms and 49 suites with baths. There
are telephones in each room, open fires
electric lights, steam heat by a new
method, elevators, velvet carpets, per
fect beds, purest of water, a dining room
for 500 people, spacious lobbies, main
and side corridors, writing, smoking,
and reception rooms and parlors. These
are finished in oak and make an outfit
unsurpassed in the southland and cer
tain to attract visitors from all parts of
the north and west.
Huston Twentieth Century Welcome.
Dr. E. E. Hale, Boston's most distin
guished son at present, and Pinehurst's
son by adoption, has just made a dis
covery how the city celebrated the incom
ing of the 18th century two hundred
years ago. It was thus: just on the last
minute of twelve o'clock, midnight,
December 31st, 1700 A. D., a trumpeter
from the top of Beacon Hill, which then
and ever since IJostonians have consid
ered the highest piece of land in America,
blew long and loud to the four quarters
of the heavens. To be sure his blast was
rather fainter toward the pagan colonists
in Xew Hampshire and the recalcitrant
Baptists of Rhode Island. But they
heard it and trembled to hear, for they
recognized in it the triumphant note of
Puritanism. They thought the next cen
tury would be for them a fearful period
of persecution, trial and suffering. Ther
could not foresee that all would end in
peace and union when the great struggle
for civil independence in 1776 should heal
all dissensions and unite all creeds and
sectional prejudices under one banner.
When the trumpeter had come down
from the pinnacle of Beacon Hill, which