The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-24
BISHOP AND DIMPLE. LUCILLE
AND JOE
Have a Gay Time in the Mountains
of North Carolina.

Editor Manning Times left Spar
tanburg about midday last Tuesday and
reached Ashcvillc in about seven hours
ride
Lucille Bishop. Joe and Dlmple We're
wild with excitement as the grand masses
of trees and earth loomed up on either side
Of the railroad track shortly after leaving
Spartauburg OutburStS of surprise, first
from one and then the other Of them. ctme
with every breath. had warned them to
keep their heads inside the windows. but
Joe yentursd to peep down into a deep
raviae We were crossing, and Yelled out.
"Oh, see billy goat and q playhouse.
Out went every head. and mine. too. 1t
was a COW with bell on and . mountain
hut with the family seated on the piazza.
II WAS 50 far below US that everything ap-
peared in '.lilliputian" style
We got a glimpse of Saluda as We
passed. l was there in 81 The familiar
scenes brought recollectons OF happy girl
hood--free from care and responsibility,
no cloud had ever darkened the sunshine
of the heart. In one brief decade how
many sad and crushing sorrows have en-
tered in the retros, ,,ect. From sirlhood,
Backward, turn backward, oh time, in thy
flight, -
Make me child again, Just for one night.
The natural scenery throughout the en-
tire route was beautifully grand.
On reaching the city we were transferred
to the electric cars, and were carried about
mile up into tLcscity.
Asheville is situated in the very bosom
of the mountains, IL miles west OF the
Blue Ridge The French Broad and the
Swannanoa rivers meander on either side
of the city. No picture nor description
could do justice to this lovely site. The
architecture is varied and beautiful. and
the painter has excelled himself IN the
embellishments.
We all were up early Wednesday morn
ing. as l had promised the children to
carry them up on Lookout mountain. We
took the electric car ami rode up the
mountain as far as it could carry MS, and
then began our ''up hill plod. When We
reached the summit Bishop asked. ." here
is the mountain we were climbing we
found it much harder to descend each III
turn had tumble over the rocks and
bushes.
After viewing every public building and
point of interest in the city we drove ont
to YunderbiltS Biltmore. 1t is five miles
out. The grand scenery presented one
beautiful panorama after another. The
wheat was being cut and shocked IN the
fields. The deep and vivid green's OF the
mountain sides contrasted beautifully with
the yellow harvest The sides and tops Of
the mountains are cultivated. Some OF the
rows curve like half moons, and 1t seems
| impossible for q horse to circle around IN
field among so many rocks.
The Vanderbilt estate contains nearly
10000 acres, besides his hunting park
covers $1,000 We obtained pass per-
uittiuo US to ride over his estate. There
are about twelve miles OF brick-pared and
macademized roads Our pass was coun.
tersigned at three different places during
the drive this is necessary on account ci
inlposters, who have stolen so many OF tue
growing flowers aud evergreens.
The palace will be completed IN October.
It is built of marble style Of the French
Renaissance, 375 feet long and l5C feet
wide. Busts and statues are placed IN
every nook and corner. Bishop says be
would be afraid to walk about that house
at night. The gardens within the granite
wall are handsomely arranged. The nat
ural advantages have added so much to
the artificial decoration of tke landscape
gardener.
Granite stair-cases mp and down grass
covered hillsideS artificial lakes bordered
with green shrubbcry and flowers OF every
hue; electric spray fountains playing on
| all sides cover acres and acres. The pros
pective shows beautiful picture, and sur
passed any grandeur had ever seen.
I saw for the first time IN my life show
windows on the prominent thorouShfareS
filed with kegs and bottles OF whlskey
and wine with labels of fancy lettering.
| The drugstore windows are regular coa.
servatories, some Of them having playing
water fountains ir them. We saw num-
Der of ordinary water coolers sitting out IN
front of the bakeries. Bishop, with his
usual curiosity, proceeded to quench hls
thirst from one of them, thinking, us l die,
that it was water passed on. Bishop
stopped. filed his glass and drank it down.
The bystnders were amused ut his pro-
cedure' when Bishop said: Il wanted
water. it's lemonade, but l will drink It
any wav." 1t was cider-tive cents glass.
There are twenty-five churches III AShe-
Vile, and population Of alout 1900.
Rev. II. H. Chrietzberg, recently OF the
South Carolina conference, and who de-
livered the scholarship gold medal OF the.
Manning Academy in '92, has charge OF
the Central Methodist church and Is reco--
nized as one Of the most eloquent minis
ters in the city.
1t would be delightful TO spend an entire
vacation up here but home interests de-
mand limit to our stay.
ELLA c. ALSBRooK.
Asheville, n. c., July g. 1895.