Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-29
A GEORGIA SUMMER RESORT.
Where There are Always Cool Breezes
and NO Mosquitoes.

MT. AIRY, GA, June 27.--This charm
ing and healthful summer resort is as yet
but watering place in embryo. Though
hotel has been established here nearly
ten years, the place is just beginning to
\ attract attention by its advantages as a
| place OF refuge from the heat and malaria
OF more southerly sections. The hills are
dotted with pleasant little cottages, sew
eral having been built this summer and
some now in process of erection. Savan-
nah, Atlanta and Albany appear TO
appreciate most fully its pleasant
features. Gen. A. r. Lawton, Of
your city, has built several handsome
! cottages here which are rented out. He Is
now completing large one for his own
4 use. Mrs. Maria White and Mrs. Rogers
are among the cottagers from Savannah.
/ The former, from a family of priests and
! Bishops, has been doing noble work for
her church. She has rented a cottage
/ here, added "A chapel to IL and has the
| pulpit occupied at regular periods
throughout the year. Rev. Mr.. Eppes, a
selI-sacriicing missionary, who lab0rs
among these mountains, is the only
clergy man coming TO this place regularly.
A large congregation assembled at the
chapel to attend the services on last Sun
/ day. Mrs. White Is building a church
! here. She is making 1t a labor OF love,
and though she could have doubtless had
| 1t completed ere this by soliciting help
and bringing lahorers from Savannah,
she Insists that the mechanics OF Mt. Airy
shall build their own church, and so
the work Is progressing slowly. Among
the prominent cottagers are Judge S. s.
Hall, DIR. J. NJ. Johnson, Mr.. w. T. and
! Ashford Flint, of Atlanta, with their
! families and Mrs. and Miss Rawson, Miss
| Agnes WEIGH and Mr.. w. Il. Mitchell and
family, of Albany. AS yet but a com
| paratively small number of guests appear
10 be at the hotel, though among them are
| Col. Hoge, of the Atlanta Journal, and
his family, Judge Hopkins and family, OF
| Atlanta, and a number OF ladies from
| Savannah and elsewhere. This place
offers but few attractions for young
| people. AT present there are no amuse-
ments OF any kind, no music, no livery
stable, no games, not even billiard
table in the place. A few young
Albanians who were attracted
here this week by the growing
fame of the place left after few DAYS
stay to seek life and gayety at some
livelier resorts. A band, aud conse-
| quently dances every week, IS promised
after July |, and that will add somewhat
| TO the pleasure of the guests. l suppose
the various amusements that generally
make life endurable at a summer resort
will gradually cluster around this one.
The quiet of this village, with the cool
and delightful breezes which come sweep
ing TO the summit OF this mountain from
over the Blue Ridge, which stretches
north and west OF us, while mountains
] seem to surround US on every side, the
pleasant society, the pure freestone
water, the absence OF mosquitoes and
other insects, and the entire relief from
malarial troubles. make this a delight
full resting place for ladies and children,
and 1t well deserves its airy title or It's
still more picturesque appellation of
1.-THE Gem Of the Mountains.v
/ paid IA visit a few days ago TO the
Swiss colony called "New Switzerland"
two miles and half above us. With its
queer foreign appearance, its picturesque
depot, covered with Swiss carvings. It's
queer Imprinted hotel, tenantless, except
by its owners, who in queerly made
clothes and wooden sabots upon their
feet, clatter through the empty rooms and
show them to an occasional visitor, the
Catholic Church unused, IL all seems
like page from some foreign book OF
travel.
Gainesville, New Holland, White Sui
phur Springs, Tallulah and TOccoa Falls,
Nacoochee Valley, and various other
popular watering places, favorite resorts
for Savannah people, are scattered within
a few miles Of this place, within easy ac-
cess. A large party is at New Holland
to-day, and at these various places the
season has fairly opened.