The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-11-07
WE ARE THE PEOPLE.
ASIIeVilIe'S Popularity and Adj
Vantages Growing Daily.

This is the So-called dull season for the
hotels in Ashevic That is what every
one says. The summer season has ended
and the winter season has not vet begun.
None of the hotels expect to do much
business. But they are doing it. Here
is what A. LoomS, the entertaining and
afTable clerk at the Battery Park hotel,
says:
"The prospects for the coming winter
are that we will have larger crowd
than we ever had before. September,
October and November are the dullest
months in the year, except from June to
the fifteenth of July, but, during this pc
riod, we have had twice the number OF
guests that we had last year during the
same time
This mere increase i'll the nun az of ar
rivals in Asheville is, to be sure, o. great
benefit to the place, but its Importance
is marked by the fact that many of these
people are only awaiting an opportu-
nifty, in order to invest their capital here
Dr. Chas Hunter and DR.. Z. D. Letting
well, now stopping at the Battery Park
hotel. who are prominently connected
with the sanitarium located at Danvllc,
n. Y, are investigating Ashevilc and its
immediate vicinity with view to build
ing a similar sanitarium here,
The particular and specific advantages
of this climate are becoming more and
more widely known. Col. Fincke, who
arrived at the Battery Park hotel few
days ago, has been spending some time
in Europe for the benefit Of his health
He was advised to come to ASheville,
and within torty-eight hours after his
arrival he made the statement that he
had already been benefited. DR.. S. Z.
Boynton, who was one of Garficld's ply
sicians, came to Ashevilc with the in
tcntion of going on to California, but he
is still at the Battery Park hotel and
will remain there all winter
Everything indicates that the coming
season will be very prosperous one for
Ashcville. Invalids and capitalist are
nocking to this place from all quarters.
Have they confidence in Ashevlle's con-
tinuous and steady growth and pros
perity? Note the capital they have in
vested. Do they recognize that Ashcvillc
possesses climate which knows no rival
The faith, which they possess in its vir-
cues, can alone answer that question.
Let one example suffice, 1t is one of the
many cases which daily comes under our
observation. He was a bright, intellect
ual man. Europe had been his home for
many years, and finally Florida had been
visited for the benefit of his health, as he
was a consumptive. He sat in the smok-
ing car, keen and alert, and as he con-
tentedy smoked his havana he RECALLED
his audience with brief extracts from a
career, full of activity and interest. His
pale, drawn face showed that he was an
invalid, but how much of one, no
one knew. Picture to yourself the dis
may Of his visitors when he told them
that one lung was gone, and that the in
sidious disease had already fastened
itself upon the other That any one
would smoke, who was in such a condi-
ton, was almost too incredible to be
ieve. Those that saw him smoke, cX-
pressed, it as allloyal Ashevillians would
as being due to his great confidence in
the recuperative powers of the Ashevillc
climate. 1t is certainly true that the
closer he got to Asheville the more he
smoked.