The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-08-16
THE HOTELS OF AsHEv1LLE.
Crowded With Guests and More
Coming in Every Day.

Notwithstanding the fact that the
enemies of Asheville are circulating
false and damaging reports regard
ing the health ofour city, the yisi-
tors to the mountains for the Sum-
ner season continue to pour in on
every train. Those that come here
in face Of sill these maiigning ru-
rno9, and miss ;atcm5nts IS 10 the
true s;itU- nf ;llinss, .;fe mast gree
ab'E strpr;Efel to finsl upon their
arriva lii Ashevii., Mt a single
gtsi ite. of7t.ulh. or single fouaaa-s
tom lar the scurrilous sianders ut
tered against us by M 81 who seek
our financial depression and the
depreciation of our popularity as a
heaitlI resort at the expense of
truth, honor ana justic-. They soon
fini out that all they have heard
are talsehoods of most palpable
nature, and the first thing they do
upon ascertaining the truth, is to
write to their friends at home a
truthful and honest description of
Asheville; its status of health, and
its climatic advantages, and urge
upon them to pack their trunks
ard come at once to this El Dorado
of health, hope and happiness in
the mountains cf Western North
Carolina And these friends act
upon their advice and come right
along, regardless. in a great meas
ure, of tie malicious lies that are
circulated by parties to whom truth
and honor are really strangers.
AT Battery Park we find that one
hundred and eighty-fve guests are
comfortably quartered, and enjoying
life to its fullest measure. Not a
single sick or even indisposed visi-
tor is at the house, and among those
there we found residents from al
most every State in the Union.
They are there from the heat-stricken
cities of the South to the polaric
cities of the extreme North. They are
there from almost everywhere, and
they are satisfied, happy and con-
tented. They give no credence to
these miserable rumors, because
they have carefully analyzed them
in search for foundation, and have
not found one scintilla of truth or
cause for their utterance. Manager
Steele. of Battery Park, has shown
US letters upon letters from people
living in other States, which come
from them filled with praises of
Asheville's health and advantages,
and assuring him that they placed
no faith in these absurd reports,
knowing as they did from expert
-ence, their complete falsity. In ads
dition to all this, quite a number of
these correspondents have signi6ed
their intention of coming to Ashe-
vile and bringing along with them a
party of their friends. Some of
them have even engaged rooms at
the hotel, and will arrive here in a
few days. The reports concerning
AsheviIie are denied by some of
these parties, who nse very emphatic
language in their denials.
Who the parties are circulating
these reports, we know not; but of
one thing we are absolutely certain:
That is, whoever they are, they
have villified truth, honor, justice
and every other characteristic OF
honest men. in the interest of those
whom vengeance will be surely
visited upon, sooner or later.
At the Swannanoa hotel, we find
the house crowded with visitors,
and like those at Battery Park, are
from every point OF the compass.
There is no fear of sickness among
them, and the reports that have
been circulated against Asheville,
are laughed to scorn by them.
There is not single case of sick-
ness of any description at the
Swannanoa, and, indeed, there does
not exist the slightest 1ear of an epi-
demic even among the most scary
and timid. They fully realize the
fact that there is no cause tor alarm,
and we learn that they, also, are
writing to their friends to come to
Asheville.
Oakland Inn" and the Grand
Central hotel, are filled with visitors
from all over the Union. They are
healthy, lively, and as happy as can
be. When asked about the rumors,
they reply, almost invariably: "Oi
course we know that no such thing
exists; we know they are lies out OF
the whole cloth, and that is what
wetell our frierds at home in our
letters"
Asheviile Sulphur Springs hotel
and the boarding houses in the city,
are in the same category as the other
places we have mentioned, aud
everywhere in the city We have
been, the cry has come, Owe are
filled up, and are expecting more
people than We can conveniently
accommodate. We shall have to
enlarge our accommodations in or.
der to meet the demands made upor
us by an unusually heavy summel
travel"
And again we say to the people
be not deceived by the false rumorl
and libels upon the fair name o
Asheyille. These rumors are il
every instance miserable lies, anG
/ their authors are liars of that clas
of humanity that even the deVi
would refuse to associate with il
his sulphurous domain. Place n
faith in them they are not true.