The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-25
DIR. HALE ON PINEHURST.
He Writes to the Outlook About Il Pop
uar Winter Resort.

DR. Edward Everett Hale spends
part of his winters at Pinchurst, Moore
county, where he says. after working in
Boston, he comes down Into the woods
and refreshes himself by preaching each
Sunday, dedicating n church now and
then. making addresses and reading his
stories for various good causes and fill
ing up the intervals with writing the
numerous books, lectures and literary
articles which he always has on hand" y
Writing of his last visit DR.. Hale
says:
Ever since that l have been saying
to tired people, and people worried
about the war; and people who have
notes to meet, ''why don't you go to
Pinchurst? At Pinehurst," | have
said. there is no care. At pinehurSt
you do just as you choose. At Pinehurst
you simply breathe sweet air and drink
pure water under the blue sky and meet
pleasant people, and YOU do not know
that there is any worry in the world.
Why do you not sell all that you have
and with the money buy tickets to
pinehurst!" | generally say that they
cost fifteen dollars and a half apiece;
am not quite sure whether this is true
but ! hope it is because l have said so
SO often. l generally say also that 1t Is
no matter about return tickets because
they will never want to coma back again.
Simply and really. my recollection of
Pinehurst is of Il place where nobody
worried me, where | was not afraid of
ANYBODY, where | wanted to get out of
bed when / woke in the morning, and
wanted to go to bed when it came to
be $3.50 o'clock ut night. Is not this, per
haps. the method of the next century!
If one were to imagine an ideal home,
would he not say that it was place
where the drainage had been arranged
first and the water supply second, and
the light for the night third, and the
houses fourth and what You ate and
drank last? Would he not say that
there was n nice postoffice and post
mistress and nice shop with nice peo-
pie to keep the shop, and that you bought
things cheaper than you ever bought
anything in your life before, and tina
there was Il nice room to spend the even
ing in. with lecture or II concert or a
stereopticon? And would not this de-
scribe Pinehurst?
This is what say to the outside peo-
pie Now.
NO. 2. There is an inside aristocracy
ut the North This consists Of the peO-
pie who have been at Pinehurst. Those
it,e inc highest in rank--they are Il
sort of dukes-whO have been there
three years. The marquiScS and barons
come next: they have been there two
years. And then come the baronets and
knights, and they are people who have
been there only one year. You meet
them all with sort Of Freemason grasp
YOU have wink of the eye, which says,
We have been to pnchurst, and no.
body else has: we know all about it,
And these people ask how Mr. HodginS
peaches are getting on, and they ask
about the McNeils and the McFarlands
and the McGregors, and they ask what
has been going on in the Village Hall.
They ask if Mr.. Everett is there, or Mr..
Beale is there. and how long Mr.. Tufts
stays.
Then YOU turn round and say to
them: why are you freezing in BostonE
Why are you not iii Pinehurst! Then
they say that the war has come on and
that they are afraid stocks will fall or
that Spanish frgatc will lombard a
country residence at Little Bears Head
Then YOU say: You are fool. If yol
go to Pinehurst there will be no Spanish
frigates, and you will forget all about
stocks, and in short, enter into life
there as you do not anywhere else.
Then they say that this is so and that
they have been fools and they go home
and pack their coat boxes, and YOU see
them before you read this letter.
Il find that this class of what ! may
call the aristocracy of PinehurSt en-
larges every year. All of us are CRATE
full to Mr.. Tufts and Mr.. Benbow and
the Messrs. Spinney and to General Car
rington and to the commissioners of
Moore county, and to the justices of the
peace of Mineral Springs township, and
tor Mr.. Picken, the minister of Mount
Beulah church, and to Mr.. Olmstead and
Mr. Atwood and Mr.. Sise, and to Mrs.
IJpham. and to everybody else who has
done so much to introduce the twentieth
century and its methods at the end of the
ninteenth. In high places and IN low
places, we advise other people to go
South. young man. and to go South,
Young womanr And when they ask us
where to go, we tell them to go to
Southern Pines and look out for troll
lev. which has a nice Mr.. Stillings for
it's master, and that he will take them TO
the promised haven. All who have any
sense go.
Some Of us have to stay here. TO heel
the hurt of our people. But this we are
sorry for and we send our affectionate
regards to all who are within the sacred
precincts"