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WHE finest, the most unique, and the best located all-the-year
(f 1 resort hotel in the world is being built in Asheville, N. C.
J It will be opened July ist, 1913, under the management of
Wm: S. Kenney, of The Mount Washington, Bretton Woods, N. H.,
and Hotel Clarendon, Seabreeze, Florida.
It is being built of the great boulders of Sunset Mountain at whose
foot it sits. It is being built by hand in the old fashioned way,
ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF, and will be full of rest, comfort and
wholesomeness.
It is being built plainly, but as richly as man can do it. Four
hundred one-piece rugs are being made at Aubusson, France ; the
furniture is being made by hand by the Roycrofters ; the silver hand
hammered ; and the "big room" will contain two great stone fire-places,
capable of burning twelve-foot logs.
In front of this hotel, GROVE PARK INN, are one hundred and
sixty acres of golf links and lawn, and all around, miles of majestic
mountains and the wonderful climate. The Hotel Company owns eight
hundred acres around the hotel and consumptives will not be taken.
For particulars address. Wm. S. Kenney, Mgr., Grove Park Inn,
Asheville, N. C. Southern Office until April 20th, Hotel Clarendon,
Seabreeze, Florida. New York Office, n 80 Broadway.
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THE HIGHLAND PINES INN
Weymouth Heights, Southern Pines, N. C.
THE Highland Pines Inn is a new hotel, Southern Colonial style, with modern
conveniences and luxurious appointments. Has 60 rooms en suite with private
bath. Excellent orchestra. Nightly concerts and many social events.
Accomodations for 200 or 250 guests. Open December 1st to May 1st. CharmiDgly
situated on Weymouth Heights with extensive and delightful views in all directions.
Behind the Inn are the 2,000 acres of the great Weymouth Woods, among whose
giant long leaf pines run many miies of hard, picturesque and well-kept roads, the
freedom of which is accorded the guests of the Tnn. Ihc Southern Pines Country
Club golf course five minutes walk from the hotel. Auto bus service to the Pine
hurst Country Club. For rates and reservations address :
A( l. Creamer Lessees and Managers M. H. Turner
Southern Pines. North Carolina
DANIEL BOONE'S LIFE STORY
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North Carolina Claim ramoui
Iluntvr and Trapper an Its Own
PART I CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK
BEYOND question the
boys' hero, so far as
America is concerned,
is Daniel Boone, and he
will probably always re
main the ideal as hunter
and trapper, Indian
slayer and master of
wood-craft. Everything
about his life lends itself to romance, and
it can be said of him, as Kipling said of
the late Admiral Robley D. Evans, that
he had lived more adventures than any
man ever set down in print. There is an
added interest here in North Carolina in
this subject because Boone was really a
North Carolinian. Though he was born
in Pennsylvania, he was brought to
North Carolina by his father when fif
teen years old, being one of a family of
nine children. His father was Squire
Boone, that being really his name and
not a title. His father was of English
descent and his mother was a Quakeress.
on solid ground. About a hundred yards
away is the Boone spring, and on the
river bank almost overhanging it is
Boone's cave, which the family called
the 14 devil's den." Above the cave is a
knoll from which there is a noble view
of the Yadkin, there quite broad and yet
deep. The cave is an underground pas
sage, with an entrance three feet square,
through which one goes into solid rock
about eighty feet in one direction and
forty feet in another. The surroundings
of the site of the house and of the cave
are about as wild today as they were
when the family lived there, and in
1911 Philip Sowers, the owner of the
land, which is in Boone township, made
a gift of the site to the Daniel Boone
Memorial Association, and the latter has
duplicated the Boone cabin and restored
the spring. There was found in one of
the old cellars above referred to a stone
on which the name 44 D. Boone " is cut.
Below the cabin and cave are the Boone
bottom lands, and near by is the Boone
ford of the Yadkin, and a little way
across the river are the remains of
Boone's Ford Baptist Church, of which
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LAKE AT DEVIL S DEN IN DAVIDSON COUNTY, N. C.
The family settled in what was then
Rowan County, but what is now David
son. Rowan then covered a vast terri
tory and was on what was known as the
frontier, with rude forts on its westward
side, outposts in the long-continued dis
putes with the Cherokee Indians and a
few of other tribes, though to be sure
the western North Carolina Indians were
not so fierce as those in the eastern part
of the state, the Tuscaroras, for example,
or those further to the west and south
west of the frontier.
Squire Boone and his sons built a
cabin on a very high hill which over
looks the Yadkin, river, twelye miles
from Salisbury and the same distance
from Lexington. Until a quarter of a
century ago about half of the rude stone
chimney of the house was standing, and
when the Civil War began parts of the
log house, which was what is known as
a double house, having an opening in
which was the great chirmey, could be
seen. There were two cellars to the
house, the chimney and the partition be
tween the two very large rooms resting
all the family except the great Daniel
himself were members.
There was a great celebration of the
restoration of the old cabin and many of
the people gathered to attend the dedi
cation. Replicas of the old-fashioned
flat-boats were on the river, some Indians
were brought to the place and old fire
arms were on view, while some of the
mountain people made quite a long jour
ney to the spot in their wagons and on
horseback, men, women and children
traveling and living as they did in
Boone's day.
Young Daniel worked with his fam
ily on the farm, but his real love was
for his rifle and the woods, and long
before he reached his majority he was
full of the pioneer spirit. Directly after
he became of age he was hunting one
night, k4 shining deer," and caught a
glimpse of what he thought to be a
deer's eyes, but suddenly the eyes dis
appeared. He heard the noise of some
thing running through the undergrowth,
pursued and soon reached the home of
another setiler. He was astonished to