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s s VOL. XIII SPECIAL EARLY SEASON NUMBER, 1909-10. FIVE CENTS SOUTHWARD-HO! BY ADTO! Capital Highway Association Opens Up Hew Route for Winter Touring. leading Tourist Reiortiof the middle South are the Attractive Objective Point. OUTHWARD-HO ! will be the slogan of automo- bilists during the present season, striking evidence of the w o n d e r f u 1 in crease in popularity of motor touring and a significant indica tion of the permanent place it is to oc cupy. As a natural consequence of the new route comes the desire for winter touring, resulting, no doubt, very largely from its summer popularity and the ob jective points are, of course, the winter tourist resorts, just as they now are dur ing the summer season in Northern territory. The specially interesting local feature is that there is a new delight in store for Pinehurst visitors who bring their motor cars, for the road makers, under the direction of the Capital Highway Asso elation with Pinehurst as the active headquarters, have been busy for five months past and the results achieved are little short of marvelous. Southward for two hundred and fifty miles to Cam den, Aiken and Augusta, and northward for approximately the same distance to Richmond, the route is open, and by New Year's day this entire distance of five hundred miles, while not in ideal condition, will be practical for motoring with the exception of one gap of a few miles on the route to Richmond, which will be easily negotiable most of the time, and steadily improved until per fected. The connecting links, for the most part of sand, are being rapidly closed. By the time the regular winter season is on, our guests may run down to Camden, one hundred and thirty miles, in a day, over a delightful road. From Camden, through Columbia to Aiken, is one hun dred miles and the road is smooth with no hard grades. Twenty-five miles be yond Aiken is Augusta from where good roads lead to Savannah, one hundred and forty miles, and to Atlanta, one hundred and eighty-five miles. Thomasville, in lower Georgia, is connected with Atlanta by good roads. So we will have the four state capitols Richmond, Raleigh, Co lumbia and Atlanta linked together, with the famous resorts Pinehurst, Camden, Aiken and Augusta between at convenient distances. Our former guests know the splendid roads hereabout sand clay we call them, smooth and firm, dustless and mudless stretching like ribbons of gold along the sand ridges, dipping now and then to cross a rippling stream and running in and out among the pines. To paraphrase old Dr. Boteler, per the lamented Izaak Walton, u Doubtless man could have made a better road for motoring but doubtless he never did." This is the kind of road which the two Carolinas and Georgia have been building this year. Virginia's type is different, gravel being used where we use sand. Both kinds are fine, durable, economical to build and to maintain. It is a constant joy to motor over these smooth roads, even at a pace far below the speed limit. The ultimate purpose of the Associa-, tion which is promoting the Capital j We wish to impress on motorists the fact that the Capital Highway will be the only attractive, indeed, one may say the only possible winter tour in the United States. Sand-clay roads do not freeze. Rain does not make them muddy. Snow seldom falls along .the route of the Capital Highway below Richmond and when it does it is " Like the snowfall in the river, A moment white then melts forever." Instead of storing your car, bring it with you, Oh Tourist, and winter in the South will reveal new charms to you. There are many interesting and delight ful places to see. You can visit your friends at other resorts ; you can meet the citizens of the back country ; sociable, hospitable people whom you will be glad to know. You can explore many a town which heretofore has been rather inconvenient to reach. Seventy five miles above Pinehurst is Raleigh. A MOONLIGHT PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CAROLINA BY MR. TYLER L. REDFIELD. Highway, is to push it on to Washington where it will connect with an excellent macadam road which Maryland is build ing, and thence by Baltimore and Phila delphia to New York. The link from Richmond to Washington one hundred and thirty-five miles, will not be com pleted before the latter part of 1910, and we would not advise any ore to under take to motor down to Richmond the coming season. But from Richmond to Pinehurst we hope the roads. will be all ight and we hope to have them marked by the first of the year. Our guests can ship their cars by rail to Richmond or Pinehurst, or by water from Boston, Providence, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington to Norfolk or to Savannah For fifty miles out of Norfolk there is considerable sand, but after reaching the Capital Highway, the tourist will have easy sailing, if an auto may be said to sail. The State's museum there, containing specimens of North" Carolina's minerals, agricultural products, fauna, etc., is well worth stopping over to see. From Raleigh two routes lead North toward Richmond, one by way of Wake Forest, the site of the State University, and Frauklinton, a cotton mill town, thirty miles above the capital. The other route goes by Durham, a thriving, enterprising city of thirty thousand people, twenty-four miles from Raleigh, Durham is a famous tobacco market anl manufacturing town. It is the home of the Dukes, who are at the head of the tobacco manufacturing in dustry of the world. Durham is destined to become a great industrial point. This county has many mile3 of fine macadam road and its public spirited citizens were the first to aid the Capital Highway. Thirty miles north of Durham is Oxford (Concluded on page 13) VILLAGE SMILES A WELCOME Everywhere are Gratifying Evidences of Summer of Accomplishment. Q Cottage Colony Extension, Golf Conn .Perfection and Good Hoad De velopment are Feature. ELDOM has the Village shown more gratifying evidence of the results of a summer of accom plishment, smiling its welcome as it does, in prim, orderly,, neatness, with smooth, white roadways winding in and out. among shrubbery glowing in the rich green of early fall and hotels and cot tages gleaming in new paint. Changes and improvements there are everywhere indicative of thought which anticipate extension and development in all de partments which provide in advance for future growth, evidences of loving care which give the place more and more the character of a private estate and make the visitor a privileged guest. Never has Pinehurst been better pre pared to welcome its friends and to old and new the greeting is one which makes the heart glow with a realization of life's real meaning; a pleasing pic ture of New England energy and thrift, glorified by the bright sunshine and blue skies which make the best days of early northern October so delightful, for in this southern clime. Autumn disdains Dreary Winter and, rejoicing, passes swiftly on to greet Radiant Spring. Complete unto itself, unequalled in equipment, Pinehurst remains, exempli- fying the pleasures of life in the open as they are not exemplyfied elsewhere. Perfection in climate and natural advan tages, the purest of air, the brightest of sunshine, and the best of water were the nucleus of it all, and 'round this the splendid Village of today has sprung in fourteen short years, until Pinehurst and health and happiness are now synony mous, one may truly say, the wide world over. As it is " Wonderland Vil lage " to the child, so it is to the thou sands who flock here during the season; a " winter-summer" resort where days, weeks and months, blend into one per fect whole of hours happily spent. ; COTTAGE COLONr EXTENSION. Most gratifying of all, indicative as it is or tne permanent place l'inenurst holds in the hearts of its admirers, is the Concluded on page 9)
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