The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-16
MT, AIRY IN SUMMER
The Beautiful Little City Of the
Cloudland.
FAMOUS SULPHUR SPRINGS
IT'S REVIVING AND REFRESH
ING SUMMER CLIMATE.
IT'S MOUNTAIN cycLoRAMA

An0 Us MANY RVT6CtiOnS ~ TicASoUt
Home for the Weary Summer
Wanderer and Health
Seeker.
Mt. Airy, n. c., May 15.-(Staff Cor
respondence. I'm all our picturesque land,
enchanting skyland, there is not more
attractive spot for the summer wanderer
to find rest, health and pleasure than the
charming little mountain city of Mt.
Airy.
In the general typographical arrange
ment OF this section Naturesdid its level
best. 1t left a beautiful plateau of roll
ing highlands, ON which to build a pros
porous city, surrounded it with broad fer
tile valleys and productive table lands
and then fringed the whole with grand
cyclorama Of majestic mountain gran
deur, clothed in the most varied and gor-
geous fashions of an almost perpetually
blooming wildwood. 1t threaded the
picturesque landscape with many rivers
and riverlets whose busy waters murmur
sweet melody as they wind around the
peaks and the fields. Mt. Airy is located
twixt two of three smiling rivers and just
below the town the voices and the waters
Of the two rivers meet and join in duo
of wild and wierd but inspiring music.
Mt. Airy is mountain girdled. On every
side of the little city stand towering sch
tinels forming an irresistible picket line
against the advance of the elemental
neutrality-suspicious. and storms-ma jestic
peaks they are with their feet bathe1 by
the waters of the trickling brooks and
their brows dampened in the vapor of the
rolling clouds.
From over these gold-washed hills and
down. the cliffs and valleys come sum-
mer, breezes as pune AMI refreshing as
ever repainted the tint of the rose on the
paid cheek of weary health seeker.
The same great hand of nature ar
ranged also in this favored section sub
teranian laboratories in which are COM
pounded some of its most wonderful spe-
cites for healing mankind.
The famous Mt. Airy White Sulphur
Springs is one of these. For fifty years
the waters from this bold and buoyant
spring have been healing the sick and
refreshing the weary. 1t is no exaggera-
ton to say that this is one of the finest
sulphur spings in the world. Its waters
medicinal properties--as is shown by anal
ysis that make it equal to the wrold re-
nowned Green Brier White Or. any spring
of its kind in the country. These springs
are delightfully."- located-four miles-over
a beautiful drive, from the town of Mt
Airy, in a-wooded meuntaim glen on the
banks Of the IArrarat rivers The springs
hotel is open for the season and a num-
ho,. hox a1poo DIV rrira
water from this famous spring is also
kept in abundance, fresh from the
springs at the Blue Ridge Inn in Mt.
Airy.
This popular resort is kept by that
prince of hotelists, Mr.. Geo. II. Quincy,
formerly of the Hotel Qniney, ofeWin-
ston, n. G. The Blue Ridge. Inn is one
of the States most desirable summer
homes, the building is comparatively new
The plans are modern and every conven-
fence of first class hostelry are found
here, the accommodating proprietor, his
charming wife and his two accomplished
daughters, all join together to make the
sojourn Of their guests at all times cheer
full and pleasant.
Mt. Airy is a thrifty busy little city. 1t
is the market place for a broad scope of
prosperous farming country, and the mar
ket is laden each day with the choicest
products of the field, the garden, and the
orchard with the morning dew on them.
These advantages enable the hostelries
to provide their summer guests with the
best of edibles and the best of accom-
mOdations at prices commensurate with
the stringency of the times.
The little city of Mt. Airy is filed
with people as pleasant and agreeable
as is the delightful country they live in,
and a month or a season spent among
them can but conduce to the pleasure Of
the visitor and the visited alike.
The good people OF this little mart of
the mountains. This health environed,
rfver-washed little sky
land city, bids a generous welcome into
it's gates to those who seek a cool health
full summer home, a high, dry and per-
fectly pure mountain climate.
The best accommodations at reasonable
rates and mineral waters that have few
equals and no superior. Mt. Airy is east
ly accessible from any part Of the State,
via the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
Railroad connecting at Wilmington with
the w. n. and N. Railroad at Fayette-
vile, with the Atlantic Coast Line, at
Sanford with the Seaboard Airline, at
Greensboro with the Southern, and at
Walnut Cove with the Norfolk and West
ern. Summer rates from all points. The
trip up and down the winding Arrarat
River via the Guilford Battle Grounds,
Rural Hall, and Pinnacle, Pilot noun
tain, and other historic and interesting
points is at all times pleasant one. The
rivers will smile as You glide by, the
mountains will charm your vision, the
choristers of the forest will sing for your
>leasure. The fields will yield of their
fruit for your qualification, the springs
will bubble for your relief, and the even
ing breezes will fan you into peaceful
slumber while you linger at enchanting
Mt. Airy.
+. 3. ARENDELL.
OAK RIDGE, 10: GREENSBORO, 6.