Evening journal., 1899-08-10
souTHERN suMMER REsoRTs.

To one who has seen the mountain
region Of North Carolina it seems in
credible that so many thousands of
people, in quest OF pure air, magnih-
cent scenery and healthful surround
ings, should annually flock to the Ad-
irondacks Of New York and the White
Mountains OF New Hampshire. These
latter resorts do not compare in any
respect with the North Carolina coun-
try. Their so-called mountains are
dwarfed by those Of the "Old North
State" while, as for lakes, trout
streams, hunting grounds and land
scapes at once gracious and majestic,
there is no approach to a comparison.
Yet, year after year, our people jour
ney in regiments to New York and
New Hampshire, spending vast sums OF
money for mountain cottages and
Summer fare, while within eighteen
hours OF Washington is a region inf
nitely more attractive in every way
better for health, for bodily comfort,
for outdoor sports, and for gratifica
tion OF the artistic senses. Everybody
knows or has heard of Asheville.
Thousands have enjoyed its wonderful
scenery and been restored to health
balsamic zephyrs waited from the
mountain sides But how few know or
even guess that there are a hundred
possible Ashevilles in that sapphire
handsome on the Piedmont plateau,
others higher up-and that magnif-
cent lakes and clear streams filled
with trout abound on every side. There
is a district larger than the State OF
20 noa fu
we'll provided with excellent inns and
the most picturesque driving roads,
and with room for tens of thousands
of Summer homes in the most beauti-
full locations imaginable. The area is
as large as that of Switzerland; the
climate is more equable and whole
some the opportunities for healthful
outdoo life far more abundant and at
tractive.
Northern people have begun to rec
ognize the Southern States as refugees
from their killing climate during Feb
ruary, March and April. and beautiful
residences are springing up in Aiken,
Thomasville and such points in the in
/ terror. while all along the coasts Of
Florida and the Gulf, as far west as
New Orleans, splendid and luxurious
hotels aue to be found in great num-
bers. But for the heated period the
tide Of travel turns ever northward,
with its concurrent stream of money,
Notwithstanding the fact that in west
ern North Carolina there are loftier
mountains more gracious valleys,
\ greater opportunities for fishing hunt
ing and open-air recreations, and the
most bracing and beautiful climate in
the world. This can be accounted for
upon only one hypothesis-that the
people generally know nothing of the
unparalleled beauties and resources of
North Carolina.
Virginia has Jared much better in re-
spect OF having her attractions made
notorious. For generations past such
resorts as the Old Sweet, the Green
bricr White Sulphur, Capron, Orkney
Rock Enon and others of like fame and
character have enjoyed a national
I reputation, while OF later years such
magnificent sanitariums as the BATH
County Hot Springs have taken rank
2 with Carlsbad and Aix-lee- -Bains For
l more than half century the Green
brier White Sulphur establishment has
been centre and a common meeting
ground for the old Southern aristoc-
racy, and there the best society of that
;, section has been always typiied anC
, represented. The field of Virgins
health resorts may be said to be com
pletely occupied. In North Carolina
: with the exception of Ashevillo, which
O mas no Summer season, we have sim.
h, ply magnificent territory as yet prac.
tically unexplored.-Ed Editorial from tho
j. Washington Post, Washington, d. c.
a July 3, 1899.