The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-16
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
a Word Upon MODS illustrations in
the New York " orld.

the New YORK W GRID.
Editor Morning Nei0s: The New York
World of Aug. 80 contains humorous &C
count of Buncombe county, North Caro-
lima, its people, roads, ETC., touching, as it
goes along, the immense work of George
W Vanderbilt near Asheville, that is well
written. and as a fun-making production
does Justice to the pen of Mr.. Edgar w. Nye
Rut il is calculated to mislead some people
as to the character and intelligence of the
"native population of that glorious
mountain country and of the south, for
thew are all alike. The writer makes the
mistake that all northern writers have made
in dealing with our section. Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe took an exception
and endeavored to illustrate it
as rule in her book, "Uncle Toms
Cabin and SO the writer in the New York
World illustrates the style, character,
standing and intelligence of tho native
Western North Csrolinian by snuff-eating
old woman, and a monstrosity, with
matched breeches. held up to the arms by
homespun galluses, astride a raw-6oned
Ouadruped called horse. This is all well
enough for fun, but to some it may not con-
vev correct idea.
The "native population" so-called, of all
the states of our union is marked by very
slight difference. In New England this
specimen of the genus homo would call a
COW "keow," while the same class of indi-
vidual In the south, though pronounclng
this word correctly, would shock the cult
ursd ear with lover yandern for over there
But fortunately this class does not embrace
all the people of the sou,h, nor even of
Western North Carolina. They are the ex-
ceptions The rule will show a people of
fair education, good sense, honest, hos
pitable, kind and brave. No better
soldiers ever answered the call Of the roll,
or ever stepped to the music of fife and
drum than the brave men Of North Caro-
lima. They were the pride of the confed-
eracy and it is but just to them to say that
the article in the New York World does
not give fair idea of them. although writ>
ten evidently in the kindest spirit.
As to the roads around Asheville the
Worlds correspondent does not do the
subject justice. The road from Ashsville to
SKyland Springs, eight miles Is the worst
road in America. There cannot be another
one like it. At least this was its condition
three weeks ago when | rode over it. but
it is accounted for by the fact that the road
was turned over to a syndicate by the
county for the purpose of making o maca-
damned road Of it, and this syndicate failed
to do anything with it, and the county was
poweress in the premises until the charter
obtained by the syndicate could be forfeited.
This IL Is said, mas now been done, and the
road will be placed IN better condition.
The New York World should send an
artist to that section for the purpose of
illustrating it in a way that will convey a
correct idea of it. Fun is very good
thing, in its way, but the mountain country
of Western North Carolina is not thing to
make fun Of Asheville, from a small,
unknown and Insignificant coun-
try town, has grown in ten
years into the Importance OF city on ac-
count Of the magnificent scenery to be
found there. One feels that
nature has exhausted its resources upon
this charming place, and this is not to be
said of Asheville alone Switzerland can
not furnish a sublimer spectacle than Is to
be seen on the Columbia and Asheville
railroad from Trion to Saluda, nor will the
valley of the Delaware compare with that
of the French Broad from Saluda to Ashe>
Vile. Indeed there is hundred miles
square Of Western North Carolina that must
become the very Eden of the
south. Here upon this lofty ridge,
above the line of frosts, the people of
the north will gather in winter
and the people of the south in summer.
Here in this charming ''land of the skyn
where the robins nest is found, where the
suns light is brightest and the blue sky is
bluest; where the heaven-kissiug mountains
are robed in ether or lost in garments of
mist, will the north and the south meet to-
gethsr The magnificent Konnelworth Inn
at Asheville and the palace of George w.
Vanderbilt are "events which cast their
shadows before" J. L. W