The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-20

Dcnison is having a home built there
The First Presbyterian church has pur
chased lot and will probably build il
the spring.
1t will be only fifteen minutes rid
from the depot to the Sulphur Spring
hotel, which, with its 800 acres of sur
rounding timber land, is owned by tn,
company. The hotel has been leased fol
ten years by DR.. Karl Won Ru k, who i.
at present at the head of Winyah SAM
tarium. The 65 acres adjoining the ho
tel are included in this lease. Forty O.
these will be laid out in fine park, with
well graded walks and drives, and pleas.
antly located summer houses. DR.. Won
Ruck gives as his chief reason for leaving
his present building that he wishes to go
where the air is not full of dust, caused
by not watering the streets, and that he
also desires a level stretch of shaded
grounds, where his patients can take
their exercise without being doomed to
be everlastingly either plodding up or
down hill.
The hotel will be enlarged by having
an L added, which will give a capac-
ity of 125 rooms. New plumbing
will be put in and all sanitary
convenienCes will be introduced. There
will be passenger and freight elevators,
billiard rooms, parlors and reading
rooms and fire escapes on each
floor. Wide verandas will enclose
the first and second stories, giving
1,5O0 lineal feet of piazza. The whole
house will be furnished in the best
style. The floors will be painted andco
cred with rugs, and the walls and ceilings
will be painted. BY this means the rooms
can be kept thoroughly disnfected, by
taking up the rugs and washing the
floors and walls with disinfecting solu-
tions. Everything will be done to remove
the slightest danger of transmitting dis
ease by germs.
The water will be brought from two
springs, which are two miles and a half
in the rear of the hotel, and at an eleva-
tion of 36O feet above it. BY means of a
hydraulic ram the water from the sui
phur springs near by will be carried into
the hotel, where it can be used tor
drinking purposes or for baths. Also 40
acres in the rear of the hotel are to be
converted into a woodland park.
The work will not be begun until spring
but the company is bound by a heavy
forfeit to have it completed by the first OF
October, 1890. The total cost of the
contemplated improvements in the hotel
will be about $4,000.
A descriptive brochure of the properties
of the West Asheville Improvement Com
pany was issued recently from the presses
of THE CITIZEN Publishing Company. In
typographical taste and perfectncss of
execution it stands as a Southern work
"IhhOhI q pNSl SluS Nv SluC
with the work of any part of the United
States. 1t is beautifully illustrated by
photo-engravings from sketches taken
from the Sulphur Springs hotel and other
points in the vicinity. The plates were
executed in Chicago; but the printing, a
delicate artistic operation, one requiring
skill taste and Judgment, was done in
THE CITIZEN office by Mr.. Alvin Gherkin,
a native Of Asheville, and trained to his
work here. That the printing, so ad-
mirably done, was the first work of the
kind done by Mr.. Gherkin proves the
fine artistic instincts of that gentleman,
who at once reached the summit of excel
lence in a very difficult branch of his bus
mess.