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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
he
to dispose of it. Garrett stated that
wished to use the picture of the vine on
. his Scuppernong bottles as an advertise
ment and ' that he had offered a very
handsome figure for the vine. ' He desir
ed also to use the grapes from this vine
and to develop the latter by cultivation
and the most careful attention.
: This vine is about two miles south of
the site of old Fort Raleigh, which was
the one built by Sir Walter Raleigh's
second colony, known as the "Lost Col
ony" but which is now known to have
amalgamated with the Indians of that
region and gone to the up-country, the
center of its new home being what is
now Robeson county. The scenery
round about is very remarkable Quite
near are dwelling houses and beyond
these the shining stretch of shallow
sound, generally but a few feet deep, the
water not being salt, though so near
the ocean and only separated from the
latter by a narrow sandbank, but being
. of a golden hue, looking as if burnished
when the sun shines upon' it. The
house3, which, are more than a century
and a half old, are covered with grey
moss from top to bottom and this makes
the most beautiful weather stain imagin
able. Not far . away is Ballast Point,
where the English colonists first landed,
and within sight, if one views the region
from the top of a house or of a tree,
there can be seen the place where the
Federal troops landed when the island
was taken from the Confederates
very early during the Civil War, after
ouiie a blood v battle and the cauture of
almost all of Col. Shaw's Eighth Regi
ment of North Carolina infantry. Hard
by, as stated, are the remains of the fort
built by Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists,
its star-like outline yet strangely distinct
and now marked by the state with gran
ite pillars, though the shape is yet so
perfect that every outline is clear.
The woods are thick here and there,
vast sand dunes roll their shining globes,
with an incessant whispering noise, down
steep slopes, overwhelming the forest as
these dunes or mounds, some sixty feet
high, advance, remorseless. When there
are open spaces the ground shows every
evidence of cultivation for centuries.
There is an air of age and of the olden
time everywhere and it arrests the atten
tion of every visitor. No where in the
country does such a combination of old
and new appear ; the old fort linking the
place with the days of Queen Elizabeth;
the Confederate earthworks ; those built
by the Federals; the vast quantity of
shells and shot exposed when the wind
blows the water out of the shallow
sound ; the quaint old houses, built in a
style long out of vogue ; canoes adroitly
carved out of trunks of great tupelo or
gum trees, aud mingled with these the
stirring gas boats, the discharges from
whose engines are like those from gat
ling guns in action ; the old-fashioned
people, slow in speech and in manner
and retaining all sorts of memories of
long-gone days, and here and there new
settlers, many from the north, who in
winter and summer make this island, the
largest in North Carolina, their resort.
In winter-time the banging of the guns
shows that the duck hunters are abroad,
Ainriia nf swan and sreese and
ttUU CLO L Ulguvo w. a
ducks pass overhead, sometimes
most unending procession.
in al-
From a height the roaring ocean, deep
ly blue, can be seen through gaps in the
high banier of sand, known locally as the
"banks". The opening or inlet through
which Sir Walter's colonists sailed into
the sound and thence to Roanoke Island
has been closed or else has shifted its
place long ago, but there are others
through which entrance is to be had.
No more primitive people are to be found
in the country than those along these
banks. They are hospitable to the last
degree and they travel by boat entirely.
It is a watery world and the people who
come to the grand old grapevine and
have come for all these scores of years
I make their journeys in boats. It is in
deed a place for a pilgrimage.
The Indian days are kept in mind in
the name of the county seat. Manteo,who
was the good Indian who was the first of
his race to be baptized in the Church of
England, while Virginia Dare, the first
born of the new colonists,' was the first
person of English birth to receive that
holy rite on this continent. In other
towns, one also a port of the island, the
names of other Indians are preserved,
Skyco and Wanchese. So on a court
day the white boats like birds come
hurrying across the water if the breeze
be fine, or else loiter while their masters
sit lazily astern and smoke the pipe of
peace. For them no brain-storms and
no hurry or worry. They epitomize the
story of quaint Roanoke Island, where
the name of the chief hotel is "Tranquil
ity House" a most fitting title.
Fred A. Olds.
Train Dispatching' lj Telephone
. The Aberdeen & Asheboro Railroad
has purchased telephone equipment to
take the place of the telegraph for dis
patching trains. A central station will
be established and a switchboard install
ed at Biscoe. Four telephone lines will
enter this switchboard and will termi
nate at Asheboro, twenty-seven miles
away ; Mount Gilead, twenty-five miles ;
Ellerbee, twentv-three miles, and Aber
deen forty-seven miles, including
branches. There will be twenty-one
telephone stations on these four lines.
Through the medium of the switch
board at Biscoe, the dispatcher will be
able to reach any station he desires, and
the traffic on the entire road will be un
der his supervision. Arrangements will
also be made for connections with
several local lines at Biscoe.
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