The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-24
The @ltsstngtr.
OUR ILLUsTRATED SUNDAY
EDITION.

The Messenger issues this morning q
sixteen page edition. The aim II t0
present to our own home people as wei
a. to distant readers, an illustrated
account of this section, embracing tt
tales, historic scenes, historic tradition,
Its beautiful cenery, its charming
pleasure resorts, it's famous forts, is
famous plantations on the Cape Fear,
1fs romantic associations, It's many at
fractions, it's numerous residences and
hotels at the several beaches, n all
as far as possible amply illustrated
nearly every picture being taken for
this special issue. We trust this effort
To instruct, to entertain n to popular
:txe Wilmington and its agreeable and
very enjoyable surroundings will be
duly appreciated by our readers and
friends generally. The editic will be
large, as large orders ave &C. In ad-
vance. Wilmington and Wrightsviile
and Masonboro and Southport and the
memorable historic points on the cape
Fear river that flows by our city, and
more than twenty miles below empties
into the great Atlantic ocean,, after
widening for man. miles into a great
river almost a bay all richly deserve to
be better known to people resident in
this very city, and surely to the state
and country at large. The Messenger
seeks to contribute to hat end.
A New Yorker once visiting Wrights-
vile, years g now, before it had be-
come so populOus and the numerous
dwellings had been erected that adorn
30 gracefully the seashOre and Wrights-
Vile and MasonbOrO, was so Impressed
with the natural attractiveness and
advantages of the places, that he said:
81 would certainly like to ave a sum-
zmer home here and If nearer to me I
, would have one." That these already
popular resorts will grow in attrac-
tons and appreciation is plain. Year
by year they will become better known,
as Wilmington will be, and more and
more people will seek winter homes in
the city AM summer resorts by the sea
side hard by.
Mr.. James Sprunt's excellent volume
entitled 1.-The Lower Cape Fear, Its
Tales and Traditions" has been free
Iy drawn upon and we doubt not its
reading will repay the d Mr..
Sprunt has done excellent work illus
trative Of this very interesting section
of North Carolina. 1t will be seen
that Southport and Carolina Beach are
we'll pictured. The Messenger is under
special obligations to MI. ede
Meares for very important aid render
ed in writing much of the descriptive
text of this issue. Without his most
valuable assistance this number could
scarcely nave been gotten out.
The old town near the mouth of the
Cape Fear, Southport, has been well
honored by that excellent and venera-
BILE gentleman, DR.. G. w. Curtis, who
gracefully and pleasantly tells Of the
good old times as well as the new town |
overlooks the wide river flowing
to the mighty unresting sea. DR..
was born in the north. He was
graduated at Dartmouth college in the
--I:L T-.l-~ TYorro anna on /
well known in North Carolina and in
which he won fame and position as a
lawyer and jurist, was a member. He
to North Carolina in 1848, bear
ing a letter of introduction from rank
lin Pierce, of New Hampshire, after
ward president of the United States.
He began the practice of medicine at
Shalotte, but in 1849, removed to South
where he has since resided, re-
and venerated for his virtues,
his intelligence, his fidelity to princi-
pies. He is a democrat of democrats,
and very much of a southern man In
and principles, revering the great
and pure men Of the past who gave
prestige and fame n glory to the
south.
We think you will like the way Car
DINA Beach and Wrightsville Beach
are illustrated and described. You can
SeI d teIN IdlI VI ~ /
from what is presented, and those not
will be astonished to know how
the two places, including Masonboro, |
near to Wrightsville, have grown.
When the reader turns to page IA n
reads the list Of summer residences at
the three sounds and the two beaches, !
will marvel. There are at Wrights-
willie sound thirty-one residences; at
Wrightsville Beach there are ffty-one
-1o;Iaroac ond pp1h1i0 h1i1dinPQ. Qf |
Carolina Beach thirty-nine; at Mason
boro sound ten, and at G~reenville sound
eleven. A total of 142 residences and
hotels.
There is a fine steamer, the Whining |
ton, hat runs to Carolina Beach pier,
and to Southport. The railroad to
wrightsville sound and beach Is COM
paratively new n excellent. The &C
commodations at the hotels are salts
factory and they are well ~patronized.
We give a view of the steamer and
many of the scenes on the river will
attract, as well as some of the scenes
on Carolina Beach. Greenville, Dud-
ley's creek and Wrightsville beach.
The view of the Shell Road from Will
mington to the Observation-Disclosures eight
miles-is particularly well done.
Then there is the famous Lake Wac
camaw that is a sheet Of water of rare
beauty. You will hardly find a rival
in any southern k 1t has long been
a favorite place of resort for those who
admire a sheet Of water of uncom-
mon beauty, enjoy good fishing
and quiet summer life. The Mes
senger gives q description of h
lake and surroundings as they now
are, and avails itself of an interesting
col written by a young English
man an hundred and sixty years since.
All this and the other well filled eight
pages of this issue we hope will give
our patrons and friends p~leasurable,
perhaps even uncommon, entertain
ment.
In cases where dandruff, scalp dis
eases, entailing falling and grayness
of the hair appear do not neglect them,