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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK fair price, and that those receipts would be currency in the Sandhill circle. So the Board of Trade saved the cotton sit uation to the great increase of its strength and glory. The way the board handled the sweet potato crop was typical. The sandy soil of the section is admirably suited to rais ing them, but the natives produced chief ly the yellow yams which they liked. The West and North want dry sweet potatoes. The Board of Trade procured the seed of the best varieties of dry sweet potatoes and saw that it was distributed. They also made arrangements with the rail roads to furnish them heated cars for Winter shipments. The farmers took to the proposition with a will. The Board of Trade is epitomized in the story of Roger A. Derby. He is a New Englander and his friends attribute to him a most adventurous character. Having considerable wealth he missed the great adventure of making a living, so he chartered a ship and went in search of a sunken Spanish galleon, traveled around the world, had a look at the jungles of India, and generally comported himself like a Richard Harding Davis hero. Hav ing heard of what was going forward in the Sandhills he came down here, bought a farm a little larger than any other, and a little farther from civilization than any one else had cared to go. There he worked out a system of tenant farming all his own, which consisted chiefly in giving the tenant a square deal. Meantime the Board of Trade was building fine schools to take the place of the old time cabins; but they were too far away for the kids in Derby's neighborhood. So Derby made the coun ty authorities a proposition to build a first class school, if they would furnish the funds to run it. The county agreed. Mr. Derby went to New York, and called upon sundry philanthropic persons of wealth. In this connection he probably called upon himself first. At any rate he returned to the Sandhills with a roll of money and. a famous architect. Among the wire grass and pine trees he built a model school house, and a model residence for his teachers, who were also imported. There were about fifty children in the immediate neighborhood who were ex pected to attend. They did. Also, they talked about that school, and every little cracker out in the brush that heard about it put a couple of biscuits in his tin buck et and set out for the Derby School. One day Mr. Derby received a call from six substantial farmers of another neigh borhood. They told him that they had sold out and moved to his vicinity so that their children could attend his school. They had about thirty boys and girls between them. The total enrollment of the school is now about a hundred and fifty and it is still increasing. Derby shows you his school with that particular brand of joyful pride which belongs to people who have created something good. He has found his real adventure. Another pillar of the Sandhill society is Mr. Leonard Tufts, also an ex-New Englander, and the owner of Pinehurst, the Winter golf ground. Mr. Tuft's establishment was not intended to be what it is. His father bougth the land with the intention of establishing a colony for the" tubercular, who were to support themselves by raising peaches. The San Jose scale made the peach business im practicable at the time, and a little later someone found that Pinehurst had an ideal climate for Winter golf. Within a a few years, the colony which had been intended for the sick and needy has been entirely appropriated by the well and wealthy. While the Sandhill people are very much in earnest about the development of their country, they are not too busy to have fun. They meet in solemn conclave to decide such momentous questions as whether a goat will eat wire grass, but they also have dinners and dances and fox hunts particularly fox hunts. Mr. James Boyd, erst-while of somewhere in Pennsylvania, but now a Sandhill planter, is the leading local exponent of this sport. He holds two hunts a week all through the season, everybody is invited, and an amazingly large and assorted ag gregation attends. First a hunt break fast is served sometimes for two hun dred persons and then the party takes the field. There are pink coated chaps on blooded jumpers, and there are tenant farmers riding plough-mules bareback. The musi cal notes of hunting parties mingle with the throaty blare of the home-made steer's horn trumpet. A swarm of bay ing black-and-tan hounds pour from every direction. The hunt is on. It is proba bly the largest, most varied and most Democratic hunting party that takes the field in America a whole community brought together by the universal spirit of fun. llvyrtler's JLuck John Heydler, secretary of the Nation al League, who had been playing from 18 to 36 holes daily in preparation for the qualifying round of the North and South Amateur Championship, drew an early starting hour for the round Mon day morning and started out by making the first two holes in four and five. Then didn't it rain? But Heydler is not a golfer with whom the elements can inter fere when he is going right, and he pro ceeded with the good work to the bitter and aqueous end. Under the watchful eye of Father Sheedy he turned the ninth in 41 and came down the home stretch and to the Club House door in the same figure, handing in a qualifying card of 82 a remarkable score under the conditions and by far the best score he has ever made at Pinehurst. What Heydler wanted to say when his eye caught a placard announcing the post ponement of the qualifying round until Tuesday on account of the ram, is not a matter of record, Father Sheedy being at his elbow at the time. The incident reminded Heydler of the only home run he ever made, when, play ing at Washington, he knocked the ball over the fence in the first half of the ninth. This was a signal, he says, for a heavy fall of rain and the calling of the game, the score going back to the last even inning and the sole home run of his existence into the discard. Send The Outlook to your friends. It tells the story of the week and saves letter writing. TROPHIES and PERSONAL ARTICLES In Gold, Sterling, Bronze and Leather The Gorham Company is known the world over for its line designs. Special atten tion is given to the production of Trophies, Cups, Medals, Pins, Badges, and Emblems for every purpose. THE GORHAM GO. Silversmiths and Goldsmiths NEW YORK Gorham Silverware is to be had in Pinehurst at "The Jewelry Shop" Gorham Silverware is to be had in Pinehurst at "THE PINEHUEST JEWELRY SHOP" JBREtTON WOODS IN THE HEART OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Improved Golf Course Full 6,450 yards I THE MOUNT ATLEASAJf T Ralph J. HERKIMER Winter: The Ochlawaha Hotel Eustis, Florida THE MOUJIT WAIlI!f OTOM D. J. TRUDEAU Winter: Hotel Ormond Okmond Beach, Fla. Information at 243 Fifth Are., New York, and all of Mr. Foster's offices 49-BBETTON WOODS SADDLE HOBSXS AT QBMQND THIS WIMT1B Pictures of all Tournaments and Players at MERROW'S Pinehurst Studio Artistic Photographs Made and Films Developed About Half Price The very best automobile ser vice in the district can be obtained by telephoning Sugg's Livery Stable Southern Pines We pride ourselves that we can furnish instant and good service at a great deal the lowest rate in the section. If you need a car for a long trip' or the after noon you cannot afford NOT to 'phone us.
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