The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-04-20
IN The Land
OF FLOWERS
NOTES OF A JOURNEY IN THE
NEW SOUTH.
The First Of a Series Of Letters Of
Travel Descriptive Of a 5000 Mile
Itinerary Which Included Many
Points of Interest South of Ma
sons and Dixon's Line.
,ecial Correspondence Of The Tribune.

Southern Pines, N. c.. March 5.
n EADEl,S of The Tribune, having
N formerly made summer tour
with us among the wonderlands
of our North American continent
amid the geysers Of the wonderland
world in Yellowstone Park, to the gla-
ciers of our Polar province, Alaska,
and through the scenic wonders of the
queens dominions from ocean to ocean
are now invited to follow us on a
winter tour through the New South.
which we hope will prove one of en-
joyment as we'll as education.
Yesterday we reveled amid snow
drifts, blizzards and ice gorges, with
the thermometer at zero; today we
breathe the balmy air of Southern
Pines in North Carolina; tomorrow we
can bask in the sunshine Of our sunny
South, amid orange groves and flowers,
and may even pluck and eat the yellow
balls with the mercury at IS degrees
in the shade. Wonderful transition,
this, within thirty-six hours.
The fashionable world has elected to
make its summer pilgrimage to the
Adirondacks and the White mountains
of New Hampshire; to
ihc old Granite State,
Where the hills lofty, magnificent and
great,
for rest. recreation and exemption from
summers heat and hay fever, the Pres
idential and Francon1a resorts being
the objective points. Today these
same people (maybe sem-invalids) can
secure immunity from the discomfort
and ills of the icy north (where old
Boreas has this very mcment wrapped
all visible things in a mantle Of white)
and find many winter resorts in near
southern cline and thus enjoy an even
temperature all the year. The same
facilities which go towards making up
an ideal summer outing in New Eng
land are found today among the pine
forests of Southern Pines, n. c., where
we are at this writing enjoying it's
balny breeZes with hundreds of others
from the north, south, east and west,
with the thermometer at seventy de-
grees in the shade, also among the
orange groves and charming bits of
tropical scenery in Florida that we
expect soon to reach.
THE CHANGING SOUTH.
The south is undergoing a great
change. Its attractions are fast be-
coming known to the northern public
This work of improvement has been
going on for years. Each recurring
season develops new places of resort
With a mild climate intended by ma
turc for rest and comfort Today the
new south has its full share of we'll
appointed hotels, every season adding
to their popularity. Many of them are
simply counterparts Of, and equal in
every point to the famous hostelries
found in the fashionable north. For
instance. the million-dolla Hotel JEFF
ferson at Richmond. Va, the Carolina
and also The Holly Inn, of Pinehurst,
and the Piney Woods Inn. of Southern
Pines. N c.. are simply transplanted
hotels from Saratoga, Long Branch,
Newport, Bethlehem and many other
mountain resorts of the north.
To the railroad and steamboat lines
are due much of the credit for the
change which has brought these ideal
winter resorts of the south in such
close proximity to it's northern neigh
Dor. and the improvements in travel
ing facilities are such that a southern
trip is simply luxury and that too
with much less expense than in the
old days of Dixie. when the term win
tel resort WAS HdTuly kBOWn IN the
United States.
The inducements thus offered have
developed a tremendous stream of tour
list travel, not only in search of health
and recreation, but business. The
transportation facilities are being
taxed to the utmost and the hotels
are doubling their capacity to meet
the growing demands upon them and
they are not able to provide for the
incoming guests as the travel SOUTH
ward exceeds any previous year.
MODES OF TRAVEL.
Where shall we so for our winter
outing and escape the rigors of the
Arctic north is the anxious inquiry,
and over what road shall we travelp
There are as many avenues out of
Gotham as there are roads leading into
Rome. After a careful examination of
the different route we chose the New
Seaboard Air line, and its connections
with the great Pennsylvania system to