Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-04
M0REHEAD CITY.
A FAvoRITE EoRTH CAROLINA SEA
SIDE RESORT.
The People who Frequent It-peEsonGl
Notes.-The Present and the
Expected.
From a Regular corcespoudsntl

ATLANTIC HOTEL,
MOREHEAD CITY, y. o.,
July 2, 1886
The interest the Dispatch always
manifests ia North Carolina Affairs Is
matter not only Of general comment
but of general pleasure As well. IL Wa
during the late war that the daily
Dispatch became known in the State.
but Of course the knowledge was not
general, a. it is in these later days.
Heie at Morebesd the paper is read
Just 90 at Warm Springs, at the other
extremity of the States lons-drawn'
out limits. There be people who fancy
that North Carolina offers only moan
lain resorts. but seekers after
truth will End healing and balm
in many springs, and such
watering place here as would Ger
tsinly satisfy the sensible people who
like watering.pla-e because there Is
water. As coast resort on a large
scale Norehead City is the most south
EN-. Wilmington has near at han1
resorts of local prominence, while Sag's
Head, not a great deal further north,
though marked by many merits and
phenomenal natural beauties, lacks the
hotel accommodations which, in this
day ard generation, ell save the most
primitive health.seekers not only de-
nand but must have. The natural
drift Of plcssDre-seekers has been and
is northward in summer, snG, as this
place becomes known, 1t year after
year gains q larger patronage from peo-
ple from the more Southern States. In
DAYS gone by the North Carolnian OF
means gathered about hlm bis family and
spent the summer Ut the GIeenbrler
White. lie ignored df that be the
prouer phraSe) almost entirely his Own
superb mountains, with their sky
reaching SUBMITS and their grand
picture gueuess, their cool and balsam-
laden breezes. while he also
looked coldly. if at all, upon
the charms Of his own generous
sweep Of sun-kissed coast, whose waters
bad for three centuries evoked the
astorishment Of the lover OF nature, the
angler, and the sportsman. But In
these later days some people have
found out new things. That knowledge
spreads, and before a great while all
will come to know that their own State
is, both east and west, sanitaripm.
There are pleasant people gathered
here, and as many as seven Statessrere
presented. North Csrolinians have SOM
| queer ideas perhaps as tO"resorts. - PEG
| ple have banded it down as one Of the
"thev.say traditions that the coast
| shonld be visited during later June, u
Of July. and half OF August. Thcc %.
seaside is taboo and the rash 1, a.
the mountains. In a fashionable va,
| the mountains are u the sea
rs university 70 2 college
the place where one finishes.
So the people here nOT will by an
BY rally to a man " at the mountain
resorts. What they miss by tAal'
early departure they never know
They miss laterAugust aud all Of Sep
TENDER, the finest month at the coast
delicious as are those which come
earlier. If happily this suggestion q
seaside possibilities should have effect,
your correspondent will not think INT
labor in vain Of making what IS GER
tainly a sensible suggestion.
Georgians have Of lato years takor
quite a fancy to Morehead, and fron
that State many Of the guests OF th'
Atlantic Hotel come. Only the ad
vance guard is here as yet. TENNESSEE
is well represented by Mrs. NJ. A
Reed and Miss Reed, of Nur'reesboro'
Mr.. and Mrs. J. j. Duffy, Mr.. an.
Mrs. II. NJ. James and Miss Lee james
Mr.. G. ". Frazier and his charming
and talented daughter, Miss Boyle, o
Memphis. Many other Tennesseean
arrive next week. PARKWAY Cincin
natl is represented By Mrs. George Y
Law. Miss Edith Law, Miss Branch
aud Mr.. and Mrs. William Grihin
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Benthuysen, o
Columbia, s. c., and Mr.. and Mrs. "
r. Harvey, Of Greenyille, Miss, ar
here for the season. Raleigh usual.
has brilliant representation and
large one. This season, so far, tn
cspiial is not so largely represented
Among those now here are Rev. Dr. I
f. skinner, his wife, and family, IN
Guiding bis daughter, Miss Eliza Skin
ner: Colonel Paul T. FaiSon, wife an
family, including his daughters, Mise
Pauline and Annie Faison; Attorney
General Theodore F. Davidson and w,i
end their friend. Miss Annie william
Among the popular guests are Mr.. an
Mrs. Basil Manly, Dr.. and Mrs. +. ="
Hughes. and Mr. and Mrs. James \
BRYAN. Of Newberne ; Mr.. and Mira. v
T. Jones, Carthage. The hotel physician
, is DR.. \. ". Knox, Of Raleigh, an Rbl
practitioner, and very popular insoc'st
= as well. Governor and Mrs. Scale
are expected next week. With the a
, rival Of his Excellency this becomes
effect. as in name, the " Summer Cap
d toll" The Old Dominion IS 10 has
; some representatives here next weel
, for Mr.. Charles Early, Mr.. Field'n
l and daughter, Mr.. X. u. Sally an
. family, Mr.. W. r. Nichols and fam
r ", and Mr.. j. f. Routh an
e family have all engaged room
: for the season, beginning Monday
: The Atlantic Hotel, which Is tn
c wear in new hands. is 50 we'll manage
: as to please its patrons as well as 9TH
: people who like 10 know tina. their sta
[; is doing well and improving in all r
i spects. Its present $50 guests a.
+ happy in the consciousness that th'
o are comfortably and admirably cart
8 for, and that the spacious hotel G.
= and will soon give similar weicou
J to $50 more pleasure, comfort, a.
u health.seekers.
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