The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-08-14
MOREHEAD CITY.
The Summer Capital of North
Carolina.

"down by the deep sounding sea- to
spend season during the summer
time, this editor has not found 1t. NO
seaside resort possesses greater charms,
for nowhere is such a diversity OF at
fractions offered as at Morehead. The
Atlantic Hotel, under the admirable
management of the Foster Brothers,
50 ably assisted by Dr. G.. ". Black
nall, is surpassed by no house any
where. The building itself is 4 large
and airy structure with a capacity tor
accommodating 1000 guests, com
fortably. 1t is we'll furnished and ele-
gantly appointed throughout, while
the table fare is all that could be de-
sired. Sport in the way OF fishing,
sailing, surf bathing, &c, is fine, no
place surprising Morehead in this re-
speCt.
OF the splendid manner in which
the editors were entertained here after
the adjournment of the convention in
Durham, the following resolutions
speak for themselves.
At a meeting of members OF the
North Carolina Press Association held
on Monday afternoon, July 2oth, i'll the
Atlantic Hotel, Morehead City, Mr.. j..
p. Caldwell, President of the Associa-
ton in the chair, the following resolu-
tons were unanimously adopted:
Resolred. That the Press Associa-
ton of North Carolina do, with most
heartfelt sincerity, hereby tender to Mr..
Julian S. Carr their thanks for the del
icate courtesies and exhaustless kind
ness of which the Association. collect
lively and individually, have been the
recipients, EMBEDDING them in Durham
with the solicitude of generous and all
providing hospitality accompanying
every step, anticipating every wish,
and investing every incident of the late
meeting of the Association at Durham
with the charm of q personal kindness,
which embraced every member OF the
Association in the delicate tlattery Of
its attention and conveying to the mind
of each one the impression OF man
worthily and unostentatiously using
the gifts of well earned and well de-
served fortune for the public good in
its wisest and most expansive arms,
not the least of which is involved in
the recognition of the power and in
huence of the press, directed to its
proper aims. And the members of the
Association further recognize the prov
ident hand and kindly care of Mr.. Carr
in anticipating for them the elegant
and bountiful Inequalities of the At
lantic Hotel Company at Morehead
City, Of which company he is president,
giving the members of the Association
opportunity to learn by personal OBJ
servation that the sagacity, enterprise
and libcrality so usefully and conspic-
uously illustrated by Mr.. Carr in the
Ills lOl vi IllS tOllllCNllOll With lilS SItS
of Durham, has additional illustration
in the perfection and magnificence of
watering place, become under his ALL
spices, one of the most renowned on
the Atlantic Coast.
Resolred, That the thanks Of the AS
sociation be most cordially rendered to
DR.. G.. w. Blacknall, whose name is
so inseparably and pleasantly associ-
ated with the fame. fortunes and pleas
ures of the Atlantic Hotel, and who,
on this occasion. has renewed, with
cordial carnestness. his devotion to the
editorial fraternity, of which he has
long been an ardent, sincere and use
full friend.
Resolred, That the thanks of the AS
ISOLATION be rendered to Foster Broth
ers, the proprietors of the Atlantic
Hotel, to whom the Association is in
debted for so much attention, comfort
and luxury during its stay with them.
And the Association takes the occasion
to testify to the perfection of man.
agement which has deservedly won a
widely difiused fame. And in this con-
nection the Association would express
their gratified sense of the care and So
licitudc for the comfort of its members
by the clerks, Messrs. Campbell and
Branch, and by ali other employees of
the hotel.
ResOlred. That our most especial ac-
acknowledgements are due to the masters
of the swift and beautiful "sharpies, ="
who with their picturesque fleet ''walk-
ing the water like things of life," have
thrown a halo of poetry around our life
of prose, and made skim over the
water under their skillful pilotage a
memory to cling with unfading tenac-
ity through all the future journey of
life on the more prosaic terra tirma.