VOL. XI.
spp:cial early season number, 1907-08.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
DURING THE PAST SUMMER
Yast Amount and Wide Range of Im
portant Work Accomplished.
CJolf Courie Perfection, Utility 11 ant
Development and Vlllag-e
Improvement Lvad.
HE past summer has been
the busiest in the historv
yl of the Village and by
A t L lilt; 1111)1 lllipui L(li-lt
in the vast amount and
general character of the
work accomplished. As a result Pine
hurst starts upon the present season with
facilities more than adequate to meet
constantly increasing demands ; in fact,
much of the work being in anticipation
of coming needs.
First and foremost among the work
has been the attention to the new and
old eighteen-hole golf courses, thousands
of dollars having been spent with results
which are beyond the expectations of
the most sanguine, both courses being in
prime condition and the new equal to
the old in every particular, this subject
being covered fully in a special article
upon the second page of this issue.
Equally prominent has been the develop
ment and perfection of the various utility
plants, power house, dairy, market
garden and poultry farm; Village im
provement and beautitication, new roads,
general repair work, repainting, impor
tant changes and additions, and a score or
more of various details which play their
part in the completed result.
I'OWKK HOUSES CHANGES.
Important work at the Power House
has included complete overhauling of the
steam heating system and the instal
lation of two additional generators to
perfect the service, the shipping in of
coal sufficient to meet the requirements of
two thirds of the season, construction of
a new trestle for coal cars, the addition
of a new boiler for power purposes and
a new electric driven pump; an equip
ment more than ample for requirements
for many years to come and one which
will be able to successfully overcome
any and all unforseen emergencies.
DAIRY FARM.
The increased equipment of the Dairy
is most marked, the number of milch
cows having been increased thirty-three
per cent., giving one hundred new milch
cows at the height of the season, ample
to more than supply all demands.
Farming has been conducted on an
extensive and satisfactory scale in the
provision of the winter's food supply, five
hundred tons of ensilage and two hun
dred tons of cowpea hay having been
raised and stored.
The Piggery of thoroughbred Berk
shire stock is in thriving condition and
will, as usual, care for the waste prod
ucts of the Dairy, an,d the farm build
ings and surrounding grounds are in per
fect condition.
POULTRY FARM.
The stock of the Poultry Farm has
been tripled during the summer, some
thing like two thousand hens and chick
ens, five hundred ducks, and half as
many geese, turkeys and guineas, con
stituting the present equipment;
with an enormous flock of young pul
lets to ensure a continuous egg supply,
and numberless broilers, capons, ducks
and turkeys to meet the demands of the
hotel tables.
The raising of quail for use in restock
ing the Preserves has been most success
ful and will be carried on extensively, as
well as the breeding of various varieties
of pheasants for exhibition and stocking
purposes.
Farming has been carried on success
fully, sufficient corn and large quantities
of cowpea, peanuts and chufa being
raised for the winter's food supply."
MARKET GARDEN.
Most marked lias been the extension
and improvement at the Market Garden,
including the addition of a large hot
house with plans for another, many new
lettuce and other seeding beds, and the
installation of a new heating system,
connected with the power house; an
equipment which will not only supply
the Village with more vegetable delica
cies than it can use, but will per
mit of the shipment of the oversupply
to points in the middle south less for
tunate. Special attention is also being paid to
the cultivation of cut flowers roses,
carnations, violets, etc which new hot
houses provide for.
During the summer large quantities of
dewberries, watermelons and cantaloupes
were raised for the northern market, so
successful being the results that a large
tract of land will be devoted to this next
summer.
GOOD ROADS.
Perfection of the roadways has been
carried on extensively, the completed
work being a new clay road from The
Carolina to the poultry farm, a new road
through the centre of the Village from
the Dartmouth to the Palmetto, a new
eastern Village green road, and the road
to the Dairy.
Activity in the township has also
developed into definite form, a tax being
voted and several miles of new road to
be built during the winter ; the work to
be carried forward as rapidly as the in
come will permit.
A new road between Pinehurst and
Southern Pines is already under way.
about one half completed and work
progressing rapidly.
VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT.
The work of Village improvement has
been extensive, embracing all depart
ments, and including general repair work
and the painting of The Berkshire and a
large number of other buildings, the
doubling of the office capacity of The
Berkshire, the addition of twenty bath
rooms to The Carolina, the remodelling
of the store and the enlargment of the
Outlook Press building, doubling of the
capacity of the laundry, completion of
the new school building equipment, a
new gun club house, and additional traps
and new equipment at the pistol butts,
a new baseball grandstand, enlarge
ment of the livery stable and the build
ing of a new stable for the use of the
Village, two new cottages for Village
employees, a County school for white
children, work upon the new Dickinson
colored school building, work upon the
cottages of Mr. G. F. Blake, Mr. G. N.
McMillan and Mr. Frederick Bruce, anew
golf work room and additional lavatory
and dressing room at the Country Club
house, and general repair work on hotel
and cottage furniture by expert work
men which has occupied the entire sum
mer. VILLAGE BEAUTIFICATION
Special attention has been given to Vil
lage beautitication shrubbery, plants,
roadways and grounds with marked re
sults ; results which since the first, have
made possible the remarkable changes
which are so clearly set forth in the
series of comparative photographs which
are the feature of this issue, and
which are treated in a leading story upon
this page.
DETAILED INFORMATION.
The various work of the summer is
covered fully and in detail in numerous
special articles throughout the paper,
particular attention being given to the
excellent prospects for quail shooting,
trap and pistol shooting, horseback
riding, baseball and other sports, as well
as the numerous social affairs planned,
which, combined, will make the season a
banner one in the history of the Village.
WATER SUPPLY.
Adequate for all present and future
needs is the Village supply of pure
water; monthly examinations, both
chemical and bacteriological, being a
new and permanent fixture in this connection.
TWELYE YEARS' CHANGES
"Sand Hill Desert" Is Transformed Into
Dreamland Oasis.
Comparative Pictures Tell Graphic
ally Marvelous Story of One
Man's Achievement.
VVELVE years ago, what
there was of the present
Village of Pinehurst is
concisely summed up in
the photograph "Pine
hurst AS IT WAS IN
1895," which appears upon the adjoining
cover page : a desolate waste of pine, oak
and sedge grass. Just the plain, un
adorned "sand hill desert," as it was
known for years, and as it stretches away
round about Pinehurst today; God's
country to be sure, with glory in the sun
shine and life in the air, but to the aver
age eye, barren, waste, useless land in
which no one had ever seen possibilities,
in which few would have admitted they
were to be found.
Today, one finds in place of this the
Ideal Village, which twelve years ago
existed only in the creative brain of its
beloved founder, the late James W. Tufts
"Pine-hurst" in all tiuth, a "Home
Amid the Pines." A home because every
where are evidences of loving, thought
ful care ; an Ideal Village because it is
complete, perfect, unequalled.
Twelve years ago I But an incident as
time is reckoned, with the day since the
first tree was cut and the first stake
driven seeming only yesterday, and yet,
within that time the Desert has been
transformed into a Dreamland Oasis ; an
Oasis such as one would conjure from
Aladdin's lamp ; a dream made reality by
the "Aladdin of the Pines" as Mr. Tufts
has been so aptly termed by a well known
North Carolina writer.
The feature of this issue is a series of
comparative photographic reproductions
showing Pinehurst as it was and is; re
productions printed side by side and with
out comment, for the pictures tell their
story more graphically than words. And
a marvelous story it is, one which might
be doubted but for the indisputable
proof; a story which will, doubtless,
never be again equalled, and which few,
even those most closely associated with
the Village can fully recall, so remarka
ble have been the changes.
In the midst of the present, the past
fades into oblivion ; in the presence of the
past, the present seems impossible ; yet t he
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