The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-25
NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE IN
THE SOUTH.
Piney Air, Heavily Charged with
Ozone; It's Pure Spring Water,
Equable Climate, Beautiful Land
scapes, Splendid Hotels, and
Modern Comforts and Conven-
fences Charm Every Visitor.
Like an Oasis in the Desert.


England village of Pinehurst?
a natural sanitarium up among
the sandhlls OF North Carolina,
at an altitude of $50 feet above sea
level, half way between the rigorous
climate of Maine on the north ana the
enervating heat of Florida on the south
equally distant from the cold fogs
of the North Atlantic on the east and
the bitter winds that sweep over the
AlleEhenies on the west. This village
is located six miles from Southern
Pines, is connected with the latter by
+ 1ehurst Electric railway, and is only
eighteen hours ride from New York
by the seaboard Air Line and by the
Southern railway. A through Pullman,
leaving New York at 4:30 p. M. reaches
Pinehurst the next morning at ii.
The route Is through an exceedingly
romantic and historical. country. Even
the very ground where Wheelers and
kilpatrick's armies met in battle dur
ing the civil war. Is within a short
distance of Pinehurst.
Travellers on reaching here never ask
the reason for its name. The balmy
air, laden with the aroma of the pine
forests. gives it away at once. and
If they have ever visited New England
they at once recognize a model New
England village in Pinehurst.
LIVE OUT OF DOORS.
People here live out OF doors all
winter. and suffer no Inconvenience
The temperature is about the same as
that of Southern France or Northern
Italy. 1t rarely falls below A degrees
In winter, and the air. 1t is claimed,
is much more genial remarkably dry
and abundantly charged with ozone.
uroduced by the exhalation of turpen-
tine from the long-leaf pine. 1t is so
balmy and eXhilarating that one is
likely to give himself up unconscious
ly to inhalinE and eXhaling 1t, as was
our experience.
The soil is almost pure sand, from
ten to ninety feet deep, and quickly
absorbs all moisture. leaving no sur
face water even after the heaviest
rain. Mud and malaria are unknown;
there are no stagnant pools to breed
the germs from which so many of the
race, like the writer have suffered
No case of malaria or consumption has
ever known to originate in the
locality of Pinehurst and immediate
vicinity. Those afflicted with weak or
impaired respiratory organs. or those
"IlbSt SlItHSl II has DttIl bNtTldStl DS
the demands of social or business life.
are surely benefited here. even protect
ed from consumption. 1t is surpris-
ing how sooA low weakened system
recuperates after breathing the bal
samic odor of these long -leafed pines.
The gates of Pinehurst are ever open
as a refuge to those whose lungs and
throats cannot endure the rigors of a
northern winter. but not to the con-
firmed consumptive to menace the
health of the otherwise invalids and
the enjoyment of other guests. Pine
hurst is as handsome an up-to- date
village as one can recall-a yankee
village" dropped down in the woods,
with all modern convenences and COM
forts, designed to meet the wants of
large class of refined people who
desire TO spend the winter months in
mild, equabe climate in pursuit of
health and pleasure. AS winter re-
sort it is surely a wonderful success.
far exceeding the highest expectations
of the founder.
THE FOUNDER.
1t was founded in 1895 by James w.
Tufts, of Boston, multi-millionaire,
of soda water fountain fame, who
pine lands right in the heart of these
pine-clad sandhills, and began to make
a place of refuge for the oppressed
invalid, IAN abode of peace and rest,
where there should be all things to
delight the eye and comfort the body
and to refresh the soul" Being man
of faith as well as good works, he
commenced first to lay 1t out in the
most artistic lines by eminent land
scape architects from Boston, and dur
ing the past years it has increased
steadily in attractiveness, and to-day,
let me say, 1t Is the ideal place in
which ito loaf and invite your soul"
In fact, this village is the physical
embodiment of a business mans
dream"
The town site itself is simply a hun
dred acre tract, laid out in the form of
beautiful park, with gracefully broad
winding streets. Thousands of semi
tropical shade trees run in graceful
curves through the wide expanse of
green, velvety lawn, with numerous
pretty cottages amid a profusion of
ornamental plants and shrubbery and
beds of flowers which bloom all winter
long. In this setting are three large
and attractive hotels, besides dotted
"ipoHu Heie anu tnere HIty attractive
cottages, unique in architecture. each
bearing the name of some distinguish
ed author, statesman or city of New
England, the sign appearing conspicu-
ously at the entrance. Some cottages
contain only four rooms, to accommo-
date the fastidious bachelor; Others
are larger, to meet the requirements of
lar" family or social club; while
an. -.iese surroundings looms up the
stately Carolina" the largest hotel
in the state, the picturesque Holly
Inn" and the home-like berkshire, F"
all second to none In the country in
beauty of architecture in full har-
mony with the surrounding landscape.
Besides the above named, there are
a handsome casino, a village hall, cap
able of seating four hundred; a COM
modious school house, the postoffice, a
telegraph and telephone office, and
large department store, comprising
six buildings all told. the entire plant
remaining under Mr. Tufts owner
ship and control, with no land or
houses for sale-truly n unique village
without a peer in the whole country,
While II Is the home of the millionaire
people wirh moderate means can find
comfortable accommodations within
the limits of their purses, and unique
feature of the village rule is that So