The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-29
A FAMOUS SEASIDE RESORT.
The Atlantic Hotel. Morehead CITY

The Atlantic Hotel, Morehead City.
No State in the Union is possessed of
a more pleasant seaside resort than is
North Carolina, with it's Morehead City
There was never any one dissatisfied
with Morehead. It is a summer resort
just plenty good enough, and it's a place
to live during the summer with great
comfort There is no use to try and
catalogue it's attractions There is a
magnificent stretch of smooth sands for
the waves to tumble over. near the At
lantic Hotel. You can gather shells. go
fishing, boating, yachting, sailing try a
surf swim or idle the hours away on the
beach. Morehead City is the summer
meeting place of the people of the South
ern States, the Mecca for rest and re-
creation. 1t is the summer home too of
thousands of North Carolinians, as we'll
as of people from other States who wish
to enjoy an outing amid surroundings
moral, artistic and delightful. The fame
of Morehead City is spreading over the
country as an ideal resort, it has many
attractions in the interior, surrounding,
yet perhaps the larger number of visitors
find most enjoyment in and upon the
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the surf beating on the beautiful beach
of the banks, and with the ocean sleep
ing in CLASSY stiffness along the sandy
and pebbly beaches of Bogue banks
Morehead City is delightfully."- situated
upon a peninsula, surrounded by the
sounds of Bogue and Core. in close prox-
unity to the Atlantic ocean and only a
few miles from Cape Lookout. In the
waters of the sounds surrounding the
hotel, children play unattended, indeed,
everybody goes boating and bathing here.
There IS no surf and no wind, and so
clear is the water that all the wonderful
vegetable and animal life on the bottom
Of the sound may be seen through the
lotion of a glass bottomed boat, as if
the water were crystal The waters
around Morehead City abound in fish, it
is a wonderful fishing ground, and on
any morning or afternoon a fleet Of
sharIies and skiffs may be seen outward
bound in search of the giant drum, reach
ing in weight easy of a hundred pounds,
and Spanish mackerel (the gamest of all
fish, in fact they are called the "Caval-
iers of the sea- the frolicSome and
plentiful trout, the blue fish, with his
peculiar grunt, black bass, and other
denizens of the salty deep, while now and
then an immense sea roe will become at
tachcd to ones hook.
In the heart of the season there are
between five hundred and a thousand peO-
pie around Morehead and pleasure reigns
supreme, happy young and old people
spend the hours there, sailing, fishing,
bathing, loating, etc. These are a few of
the things that make every hour at
Morehead worth a week of reality at
home, and in the matter of recollection
year. The curling surf says swim; F."
the wharf with lines hanging out all
over it importune fish" and dainty
sharpies invite one to sail over the dane
ing waters of the old Atlantic and visit
the wonderful places of interest that
abound there bort
This magnificent seaside resort opens
for the season of 1901, on June 18th, under
the management of Messrs. l.. W. and
G. w. Scoville, of the Hotel Aragon,
Atlanta, Ga, gentlemen whose names
are synonymous with success in the hotel
field.
The management are preparing a series
of entertainments for their guests during
the season that will surpass anything
ever before attempted, their pleasures
and comforts will be looked after