The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-20
CHARMING Nj, AIRY
Other Obs.Ivatini.S About the
Little CIV
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IT'S MANUFACTURERS AND 9TH
Err BUSINESS INTERESTS.
ITS S. N DID CltM &
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Mt. Airy, y. c., May 19.-(Staff Cor
respondence,-There are IA few things
that make life worth living, even during
the hottest OF the heated term. Among
them are invigorating mountain breezes,
pure, refreshing water and comfortable
abiding places. In the midst of these
the scorching days of summer fit by with
out leaving their blight upon the Invalid
or the care-worn.
All of these are found in great abund-
ance at our little mountain city, Mt.
Airy.
Nature provided the two former and
thoughtful and efficient managers of Mt.
Airy summer homes have provided the
other.
Mt. Airy has besides these all the ad-
yantages that can be found IN an enter
prising energetic little city. 1t has daily
mails, telegraph and express offices,
churches. halls, and thousand of as hos
pitable homes as can be found in any
part of our sunny Southland. 1t has
banking. shipping, trading facilities that
are of convenience at all times to the so
iourners within It's gates. 1t has beautl-
full shaded streets. picturesque noun
tain drives and many places where the
mind or the eye may pause and be inter
ested and enchanted. IT has broad fields
budding and ripening into abundant har-
vest. Factories whose hundreds of well
paid operatives sing good cheer to the ac-
compartment OF humming machinery.
Chills and fever and malaria are lost in
the wilds of the towering mountains ere
they even threaten an invasion of the
beautiful little city.
There is something always going on,
IL 10 t.,lIy 10 a MN ON mi
to engage in. some social pleasures avail
able to keep the monotony out of the
summer days. however long they may
seem. At the popular Blue Ridge, and
at the Sulphur Springs hotel there are
guests coming and going each day. There
are buses and buggies and Surveys with
merry parties scudding along the shaded
mountain driveways. You can't get lone
some at Mt. Airy, unless you just make
up your mind that you will neither talk
nor be talked to. The matrOn or the
maiden may find interest or amusement.
The children may rough and tumble and
frolic and fill every day with new
joy, the gentlemen too find abundant
ways to interest and amuse themselves.
1t has been said that scarcely person
ever comes to Mt. Airy and stays day
without coming again, the first opportuni-
ty that presents itself and if the summer
wanderer comes to stay week they gen
orally stay month, and then leave with
reluctance, the real beauty that is de-
rived by the invalid from a sojourn in this
delightful mountain climate is always
perceptible and what the climate fails
to do in restoring health the splendid
mineral water does.
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Of course, the name and a small part of
the town has been here for 10 these many
years, but it is only in the last dozen years
that progress and activity has been max
ing the greatest strides. 1t has attract
ed good people from every section OF the
State and from a number of other States
made permanent citizens of them and
made them enthusiasts over its many ma
tural advantages. The principal part
of the little city, both the business and
resident portions are new. The buildings
are attractive in appearance and pleas
ing of design. The homes are shaded by
native oak and maple and Hickory, the
la WINS are green with native grasses and
decked with variety of blooming flow
ers.
The merchants and manufacturers are
enterprising and aggressive and yet they
have time to be particularly hospltable
and agreeable. The ladieS-God bless them
here and everywhere else-are possessed
of those charms Of manner and OF person
al characteristics of the handsomest ana
sweetest women in the world-the women
of Carolina-Mt. Airy is appreciative too,
of the good will and good wishes or ats
friends everywhere. 1t is a reading town
and the best papers and magazines ma
welcome here. 1t is one OF the pest
friends the News and Observer has a
mong the towns and cities of the State,
and I am told that more copies of the
News and Observer comes here than an
the other State paper combined. All
these things makes one fond Of the beau
tiful little city among the clouds.