s VOL. XVI, NO. 11 SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1913 FIVE CENTS SOUTHWARD-HQ BY ADTO! Pinehnrst the Starting Point for Motor Tonrs to Far South Resorts W. W. Meek with Finds Moore County Itoade Good .Enough for Sixty mile an Hour Average THE speediest thing in the line of automobiles that has been attracted to Pinehurst by Moore County good roads is the "National" racing car in which Mr. W. W. Beckwith of Burling ton, Iowa, explored the territory round about. Mr. Beckwith left enthusiastic age running time was between forty and sixty miles per hour. To be more specific, Cheraw, sixty-five miles distant, was an easy forenoon's trip, and a visit to Columbia (over one hundred and fifty miles) and return possible in a day. Another jaunt included a trip to High Point and back in a single day, eighty five miles each way, and Mr. Beckwith in leaving for the South, emphasized the fact which is being generally recog nized, that Pinehurst is the starting point for the journey Southward, for the ship ping of cars here is comparatively simple. Sand If ill Farming: Association Preliminary steps were taken on Thursday which will undoubtedly lead to the formation J of-the " Sand Hills Farming Association ;" its object to col lect and disseminate agricultural imfor- A Da j in the Open M. F. II. and Mrs. J. T. T witty were hosts on a merry equestrian picnic early in the week ; Uncle Nat's campfire lunch eon a spread long to be remembered. In the party were Mrs. Herman Hegeler, Messrs. F. II. Coe, S. W. Wilkinson, Herman Hegeler, Master James Mundy and the Misses Reed, Clara Reed, Elea nor Reed and Whitman. Annual Tin Whistle Dinner Elaborate plans are making for the annual team match and dinner of the Tin Whistles which is scheduled for Monday evening, March 10th, at The Carolina. President, Henry C. Fownes, Club Captain, J. G. Nicholson and C. L. Becker of the Board of Governors, have the program in hand. MOORE CO.PARK ASSOCIATION Its Mission to Establish Reservations Along Public Highways Annual Meeting; Shown Prosperous Condition of Alfa In and Im portant Work In Hand THE FIRST annual meeting of the Moore County Park Association at Carthage was well attended, and reports of accomplishment during the year past point to a future of usefulness which commends icself to visitors, f Briefly the purpose is to acquire and hold for ,, tf. ... --"V- , i O- , mrn,rxr I . , Jt JP W it f Vv ' K -1 V . . . , rSIiT V:iV'T 1 over the accomplishment of five years and confident the number who will gather here almost wholly for the en joyment of winter automobiling purely from its recreation standpoint, will in crease from year to year until this clientele becomes an important factor. Mr. Beckwith's car is about as clean cut a model as clever designer can fashion, set low down with heavy wheel base, and every line indicating speed. Some idea of what might be expected of it may be gained from the fact that it has a record of an average of eighty seven and a half miles per hour on a five hundred mile run, which means that during the test it must, at times, have made better than one hundred miles. . In trips round about here, Mr. Beck with found no difficulty in taking the turns at a fifty mile speed, and his aver- mation among its members, which will include the entire Sand Hills section. Sufficient money has been subscribed to employ a secretary who will be located at Pinehurst and devote his entire time to the work. The idea and the life of it are due to the interest of Mr. Roger A. Derby of Jackson Springs, one of the several young men who are developing the farm ing resources of the section in a big way, and it is one of the . most progres sive that has come as the direct result of good roads, northern capital and energy, and its benefit to the section is ines timable. Previous to the meeting Messrs. Derby, Frank Page of Hoffman, R. W. Pompelly of Samarcand and George Leach of Aberdeen were guests of Mr. Leonard Tufts at luncheon at The Carolina. Mr. Whittemore Win at Traps Parker W. Whittemore of Brookline was the winner of the weekly hundred target trap shooting handicap, scoring ninety-one with an allowance of eight targets. W. R. Delehanty (12) was sec ond in eighty-five and J. F. Shanley, Jr., (0) thiid in eighty-three. TenniM Tourney for Little Folks A tennis tournament for the little folks is being arranged by Miss " Olive Hutchinson, the entrance including Mas ters Herman Hegeler, Stacey Robeson, James Tufts and James Mundy, and Misses Louise Hegeler, Sarah Smith and Grace Franklin. The first of the usual golf tournaments for the boys is also being planned and there will doubtless be putting competi tions which will include all the children. the exclusive benefit of the public, land suitable for maintaining public parks. Residents of the County have respond ed liberally from the first as is shown by the ready support which was given in laying out the Pinehurst-Jackson Springs boulevard. When completed this will give a right of way of one hundred and twenty feet in width. "The possibilities for the Association are limitless," says Mr. Warren H. Manning,' a landscape architect of inter national prominence, "and even in a simple way, remarkable results may be accomplished. Take for instance, the removal of a single tree which opens up a vista, or clearing away to bring into prominence a distinctive group of trees. If And this same idea may be carried out in almost endless variation and always with telling effect." SPECIAL MOORE COUNTY GOOD ROADS NUMBER WITH MAP SUPPLEMENT