The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-21
UP-TO-DATE MOUNTAIN TOWN
Progressive Mount Airy Splendid
Summer Resort-Progressive Bust
ness Men-Many wflmingtonians at
the Several Hotels


Mount Airy. N. c., August IA.
Editor Messenger:
Among the many pleasant mountain
summer resorts Of North Carolina is
pretty Mt. Airy. lust now the hotels
are all crowded.
Mr.. Reynolds, manager Of the White
Sulphur Springs hotel, informs me that
recently he has had TO turn away 100
or more for want of accommodations,
and that forty or more are now want
ing rooms
Mrs. Rosa E. Vickers, Of the Blue
Ridge inn, has about all the guests
she can care Of.
Mr.. Dixie Gilmer, Of the Mitchell ho-
tel, Fancy Gap, Va, on the top o. the
Blu Ridge, is also crowded, l am told
The nights are pleasant up here, but
recently during the day il has been
very warm
The crops are running in all this sec
ton of country for want Of rain.
There are quite a number Of Will
mington people at the springs, and in
| the city. Among those stopped at the
Blue Ridge inn are: Mrs. Z. j. Price,
Mrs Storer, Mrs, Mcleod, Miss Ellen
| Bellamy, Mrs. z. NJ. Bethany, Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert McClammy, Mrs. Chas.
Bloome, Mrs Jas. F. Woolvin. Mrs. ].
D. DeRosset, Mrs. r. =. DeRosset and
Master R.. c.. DeRosset n Miss Eliza
Bellamy.
Mt. Airy is gradually recovering from
the very dull time which followed the
boom of a few years back, and there
is nov a steady and solid Improvement
going on all rou in the way OF build
ings for stores and private residences.
Messrs. Thos. Woodroffe & Sons, one
of the most extensive granite and
stone handling firms of the United
States. are continuing to make large
shipments of their fine Mt Airy gran
lite to various parts OF the country
While they ship their goods in almost
every direction strange to say their
principal field is Pennsylvania. They
are just now supplying the Newport
News, Va, Shipbuilding Company with
some of the finest blocks of granite
that your correspondent has even seen
Some of the blocks will bring the com
pany forty to fifty dollars laid dowr
in Newport News
noth splendid addition to Mt
Airy's improvements since your cor
respondent last visited here, is the mar
row gauge railroad which exIend
from the town to the White Sulphur
springs and on beyond some distance
| 1t will soon be extended to. the distanc
of more than twenty miles, it is said
: The change from the awfully no
: nights which your correspondent ex
perienced last week in some of the east
ern counties to the cool and bracini
nigtS up here and the sight of tn
grand and beautiful scener
all round is very refreshing 1t
worth more than the cost of a tri
!, from the eastern part of the state u
. here to get a sight of the grand an
towering old Pilot fountain alone. ]
5 is one of the wonders of the Mort
Carolina mountains, and of the worlt
/ will say.
The county of Surry, unlike her sis
ter, Forsyth, failed to fall into the Ay
= cock and amendment column by g.
@ votes, though much hard work wa
lone by the democrats of the count.
= The hardy mountaineerS, many {
Y them, could not be made to understan
Y the great Importance of the amend
ment. o.
: Among Mt. Airy's many importar
n and substantial institutions are theFir:
q National bank, of which Mr.. Tho
Fawcett is president; Mr.. G. L. Hank
vice president, and A. G.. Trotter an
= NJ. L. Fawcett, cashiers; The Mt. Ali
News, one of NORTH Cardinals goo
- weeklies, MI. T. J. Lowry, editor; tt
: Granite City Lane and ImprovemeI
), Company, Mr.. T. B. McCargo, secr'
= tary and treasurer; many nice me-
= camille establishments, tobacco war;
houses, prize houses, factories, etc
; and, / might add, most of the improve
- mentS necessary to the makeup of a
y up-to-date, modern young mountai
= city. Respectfully,
= J. A. CREWS.