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rHE finest, the most unique, and the best located all-the-year
A resort hotel in the world is being built in Asheville, N. C.
It will be opened July ist, 19 13, 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, 11 80 Broadway.
THE HIGHLAND PINES INN
Weymouth Heights,
Southern Pines, N. C.
A. I. Groamor Lessees and Managers 7V. H. Turner
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npHIS BEAUTIFUL COLONIAL STYLE HOTEL was erected
during the past summer. Located one mile above Southern Pines, within
five minutes' walk of the Country Club. More than fifty rooms which con
nect with private bath. All rooms furnished with best box spring beds and
hair mattresses. Cuisine and service unsurpassed. Booklet upon application.
THE I IN IV
Charlevoix, Mich.
Summer Hotels
HOTEL OTTAUA
Ottawa Beach, Michigan
THE PICTURESQUE LUMBEE
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WE PUT our canoes in
at Blue's Bridge on the
Lumbee liiver, just
southwest of Pinehurst,
the famous winter re
sort in High Sand Hills
of North Carolina, and
started down stream.
That part of the Lum
bee (Croatan for beautiful water) lying
between Blue's Bridge and Lumberton,
for a distance of one hundred and thirty
seven miles, more or less, has never been
purveyed by the Government. No boat
in the history of the river had ever made
the voyage. Dugouts and bateaus or
made this section and especially that
part of it lying between Blue's Bridge
and Wagram, a distance of forty mile?,
their domestic headquarters. They are
so unaccustomed to boats of any kind,
and especially to boats and paddles that
make no sound, that they are often
caught off their guard.
At first the wild beauty of the stream
absorbed our attention, aside from the
skill required to navigate this river-canal,
that always seemed to be going straight
ahead, but that in reality winds in the
ratio of three miles of water to one mile
by land, and that races around some
corners or "cow faces" at the rate of
ten miles an hour. Of course there are
straight paths now and again, " reaches "
the rivermen call them, and at all times
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rafts, for local use and fishing out in the
"logans," were the only floats known.
For the greater part of the distance the
river winds through a wilderness of tim
ber that has never seen an axe. The
stream is so crooked in this sand hill
region that rafting is out of the question
and it is too able in itself and the river
bottom is too dense for successful logging
operations. On this account the cypress,
the gum, oak and juniper, along with
occasional groups of lowland pines on
the hummocks in the swamps, have been
allowed to stand, although men with
axes looking for a dollar have pissed
that way.
This stretch of river country has long
been the safe retreat and breeding place
for the wild game of this region. Some
of the "ox bows" that make up the
river bends are a mile deep. Turkeys,
raccoons, deer, bear and wild hogs have
the water, except on the short side of
some of the bends is bold right up to the
banks. In many places the great trees
nearly met overhead and our roadway
resembled the nave of a cathedral. Pale
green mistletoe, wistaria vines and the
red bugle decorated the trees' on either
side high up, while iron wood blossom?,
blue flag blossoms and dogwood in bloom
determined the character of the wainscot
on both banks, for it was in the month
of April this run of the river was made.
Even in December the stream is fascinat
ing and beautiful, for the colors linger in
the foliage until January, and.in Febru
ary and March the holly, mistletoe, pine
and bay bush afford the needed green f or
contrast with the gray bark of the
cypresses, the brown bark of the pines
and the gray Spani&h mos to be found
on the lower levels. The river water
itself is rich in color, juniper water it is
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