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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
THE HIGHLAND PINES INN
Weymouth Heights,
Southern Pines, N. C.
EVOLUTION OF PINEHURST
A, I. Creatner Lessees and Managers Ai. H. Turner
THIS 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 witli private bath. All rooms furnished with best box spring beds and
hair mattresses. Cuisine and service unsurpassed. Booklet upon application.
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Opposite Union Station Plaza
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A. W. CHAFFEE, Manager
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The Magnolia
PINEHURST, N. C.
Stum Heat, Electric Lights, Excellent Tabla
SOUTHERN PINES HOTEL,
Southern Pines, If. C.
J. L. POTTLE & SON. Managers
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Delightfully Palatable and
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ON SALE AT
Pharmacy and'all Hotels
in Pinehurst
Buckhorn Lithia Water Co.
Spring: Bullock, N. C. Henderson, N. C.
Hand loom rug weaving by native weaver
Native potter and potter's wheel
Indian basket weaver Colored wood carver
Arts and Crafts Shop
General Office Building
LIFT-THE LATCH TEA ROOM
Plnebluf f , N. C.
The Misses Little.
Real Estate Opportunities:
5,000 acres located four miles east of Southern Pines, at $8.00 per acre
600 acres on Railroad between Carthage and Pinehurst, at $8,000.
235 acres within one mile of Pinehurst, at $17.50 per acre
E. T. McKEITHEN - ABERDEEN, N. C.
Mr. Ilion II. Butler Par Uniqa
Tribute In New and Observer
3 UNDOUBTEDLY the
most unique newspaper
tribute of the many
paid Pinehurst comes
from the pen of Mr.
Bion H. Butler in the
Baleigh News and Ob
server. For nine years
past Mr. Butler has been
a resident of the section, and previous to
that a special correspondent whose as
signments carried him into every state of
the Union with a fourteen-thousand-mile
journey to eastern Russia to look over its
oil development as the climax of a bril
liant career. Returning from the Czar's
country through Constantinople and
Armenia at the time of the massacres, he
gathered the material for a second story
of an entirely different character, and
also saw as much of the Turks as he
cared to. 1 Mr. Butler's interest in
North Carolina was first aroused by a
visit to the State in 18S2, at which time
he determined to make it his home on
retirement, and residence here has only
strengthened his belief that it ranks
second to none in industry and agricul
ture. T Mr. Butler's story :
THE EVOLUTION OF PINEHURST
Pinehurst, March 22. One of the most
interesting bits of evolution, or accident,
or whatever it may be concluded to be,
that has unrolled its curious length in
North Carolina, is Pinehurst, an opera
tion that is not what it started out to be,
nor what it is likely to be.
Pinehurst today is one of the leading
winter resorts for well-to-do people of
the country. A vast estate of eight
thousand acres, self-sustaining to a large
degree, capable of housing many hun
dreds of visitors, employing a thousand
people, containing hotels, cottages,
farms, power-houses, the minor indus
tries necessary to such a large institu
tion, a community of nearly three thous
and persons at certain seasons of the
year, coherent in a way, individual in a
way, a town without mayor, council,
officers of any sort, no taxes for munic
ipal affairs, for the property itself is the
municipality, a town with a newspaper
and a postoffice, but without a town or
ganization, yet one of the leading towns
of this section of the State, Pinehurst is
a singular and interesting paradox.
It has several of the finest hotels of
the State. More automobiles ' are in
Pinehurst than in any other town of its
size, but only a few are owned here.
More wealth is represented in Pinehurst
than in any other town of its size in
North Carolina, but only a single wealthy
man is a factor in Pinehurst. Good
roads, handsome walks, the town planned
by a famous landscape engineer, shrub
bery like a private garden lining every
drive, private cars standing on the rail
road sidings waiting for their owners to
move on, hundreds of men and women
traversing the golf links, and not a sign
of anything to employ the people of the
town except the town itself.
An absolutely patriarchal Eden, ruled
conducted and maintained by one man,
it is probably without a peer in the
whole country.
Pinehurst is a good example of the
accommodations of theory to experience.
It commenced in 1895, when James V.
Tufts bought several thousand acres of
land in Moore county with a philan
thropic idea in mind, and although it has
been run with a purpose of making
money for its owner, which it probably
does, the original intention was far from
what the present course has come to be.
James W. Tufts came to Southern Pine s,
where he was impressed with the fruit
possibilities, and also with the healthful
ness of the climate. He was taken with
the notion that if the consumptives of
the North could come down into North
Carolina sand-hills and plant or buy
fruit plantations where the work would
take them out in the air and sunshine, they
might shake off disease and lead a profit
able and hopeful life.
So he proposed to make small fruit
farms that could be sold to such people
at reasonable cost.
He arranged his plans for this end, but
before he had gone very far along the
road Dr. Hugh Cabot, a Boston special
ist, advised him against gathering so
many sufferers from a disease that was
just then coming to be recognized by the
doctors as contagious, and Mr. Tufts
then abandoned the small farms for con
sumptives plan, and set about to make a
winter resort.
The winter resort grew and thrived, as
its present magnitude testifies. Where
Mr. Tufts had intended to make a dem
onstration peach orchard, golf grounds
were laid out. Just about that time the
San Jose scale, which has made such in
roads in fruit culture, reached this State,,
and the peach industry was seriously
affected. Pinehurst as a fruit philan
thropy passed from the face of the earth,
the site of the model orchard was sown
to Bermuda grass, and the crop of cad
dies that has been abundant on that part
of the place in the years that have gone
by, has probably brought more money
than peaches would.
James W. Tufts in 1902 died, leaving
Pinehurst to his son, Leonard Tufts, who
has proven a worthy successor, for the
young man has been moving along on an
intelligent, although often doubting,
pathway, arriving frequently at a point
he did not suspect when he started, yet
willing to try another part as soon as
the first was chartered.
One of the first important departures
was that which lead to the breeding of
Berkshire pigs. It commenced, like
everything else at Pinehurst, in an at
tempt to do something which appeared
to have no relation to results that fol
lowed. To dispose of the waste at the accum
ulating hotels and cottages Mr. Tufts
gathered a bunch of razor-back hogs.
These cleared up the garbage in satis
factory manner, but the razor-back pig
has no sympathy with the lard can. He
is of the bacon type of pork producers