Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-11-11
TO ASHEVILLE CITIZENS.
AN APPEAL ALI. SHOULD
ACT ON.

Progress and Claims of the Move
ment to Draw People to Ashe.
Vile az the Rest of all the Il escorts
Row Claiming Attention.
AT meeting of portion of the citizens
of Asheville held last night in the court
house to consider and devise methods to
farther advance the interests of the city
as associated with fuller knowledge Of
its characteristics and advantages, and
reader and cheaper access to participa-
ton therein by visitors from abroad, the
following committee was appointed to
bring before the people of Asheville the
conception of their duty and interest in
securing such desirable participation,
to wit DIR. w. c. Browning, Messrs W..
F. Tomlinson, !. D. Murphy, B. A. New
land Matt Atkinson and J. d. Cameron.
In the discharge of their duty the com.
mittee assumes that every man i'll Ashc-
vile is interested in whatever promotes
the welfare and expands the fame of the
place Of which he is a resident because
whatever enhances the general good,
acts directly upon individual concern.
Shall it therefore, he necessary to make
appeal for the active and public express
sion of interest as if the conscious sense
of such interest was a dormant scnsa-
ton, to be awakened only by rude and
loud alarm at the danger growing out
Of neglect or indifference, or by lnilaming
the imagination by pictures OF the pc
culiar splendor of scenic. climatic and
natural splcndors, of which hitherto it
had been idly unappreclativc? The COM
mttee does not think either appeal to
apprehension or reference to the force
OF Imagination to be needed but the com
rnittee does think that the community
has trusted too confidently in the splen-
dors of their position and possessions,
relied too blindlv upon the force OF their
effects upon themselves, and cores
pondIng sympathy and extent of knowl-
edge upon the part of the other parts OF
the country tn such degree as to have
generated a general and intultivc i'm
pulse to seek Asheville us the natural,
undisputed elimination of all earthly
expectation.
In the right conception and happy en-
joyment OF their own felicity, our people
forget that there are other communities,
H.. l., t,l h, In
bitions, it may be, the same vanity that
possesses them; that keen and active
rivaries inspire untiring energies to pre-
sent each and all these communities IN
the attitude Of superiority to all other
competitors; that, to hX attention upon
them, and make them the favored
centres of attraction Ior health or busl
ness, the most active and the most 81
gacious steps are taken to win the favor
and patronage of travellers; and that TO
this end, the effective aid OF cheap rates
and close connections have been sought
as the most conducive to the Objects
sought to be attained.
To these, the people of Ashcvlle,
thought not oblivious, have been strangely
negligent, They have relied too much
,,n,n that t,nn cI,,,nsa which thry
,pnnr p has @ wa,,n% ] the rrnutotion of Ashc.
liz -, C,,nr,r, winds to the remotest
,nI. t on W ths ~. LII Th"v ,orgrt that her
cnnnrn;t;eS NM are alive and awake. uu-
ceas;n"iv nrsss;ns thr;r superior claims
~ "S;J nnns;d.ra,;nne r thsy fnrnet that there
;s ,nnrltunns t,d,. of the rich. the
,,lsasrrs ssster The invalid or the in.
rcstor everv winter sweeninp through
,hs snr,h ss.l;na in ;,s gsn;al climate.
,nd sn.n;, at,rac,;nrs rrLrf mr. reiupe
,rnm the r;gors nf mort hern and north.
western m w;ntcr temmra1ure
Ths n,rnnse If The committee is To
dra am ,,tnn,;nr m those considerations
,a" and - ;n1',n. s,rh stcns as will lead IN
nrocure,nant u W ] ,or Ashry;Ilr nj n LARGE nro.
pfn,t,n,, -, ,h. h.nrGts nj vide and ren
pa, ,,,ti,',;,, nS ,ts ,rsr;,s aud advon,
,a' tn',l' ,"o'N n"d ,h;aa,' 80 secure from th,
."Ss' i'"u '!;o, . srs, nt one owr
sta,e % " ard nis" nf all the connect;ur
sell, Is =, a"u 1,has s+a,os srrh rcdmred cx,
,o"us W o'"> ,'s q ,, ,h;s ,,;t, ter,