The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-24
AMID COOL HEIGHTS
Up the JunaIuska Drive to
Eagles Nest.
WaYesville and the Celebrated White Sulphur
Springs. A Fertile and Beautiful Sec
ton With Good Hotels.
(staff Correspondence

Waynesville, N. c., July 19.-I arrived
here last Saturday and by ten o'clock
Sunday morning I was tramping up the
great Junaluska drive 10 Eagles Nest.
1t is two miles from the court house to
the toll gate of this beautiful drive. and
then three and a half miles up, up and
still higher until height of 5000 feet
has been reached. The road is a splen-
did one, and at various points sign boards
tell of the different places of interest.
The distance is designated by a mile post
every half mile
| could write columns about this beau
tiful fertile section and signally fail to
begin 70 do it Justice; it must be seen
to be appreciated.
At Eagles Nest, perched right upon
the very top, is located an elegant little
hotel of forty bedrooms. 1t is first
class from top to bottom, and is under
the management of mine clever host.
Gel. f. A. Luck.
From the front veranda on the edqo
Of a precipice you can look down a
sheer wall of nearly 5000 feet, and as
far as the eye can reach away in the
distance is range after range of high
mountains, the tops of some seeming TO
pierce the sky. There have been many i'm
provements in the way of building hand
some residences, hotels and business
houses since my last visit here. There
are now as many as seven hotels and
twelve boarding houses in the town to
accommodate the many hundreds of sum-
mer tourists that annually visit Waynes-
a nd IN 1nINr
Springs. Besides there are from twelve
TO fifteen boarding houses out in the
country from one to twelve miles from
Waynesville that furnish accommodation.
People from South Carolina, Georgia
and the eastern part of this State are
coming in on every train, and the out
look for large crowd and very sue
cessful season is highly encouraging.
The Kenmore Hotel, at which l am stop
ping, is truly q delightful haven of rest
for the hungry, weary traveller. 1t is
owned by Mrs. Geo. E. Knight and she
is assisted in the management by her
clever. genial son, Charles, and her two
charming daughters, Misses Nellie and
George.
There was an opening german at the
White Sulphus Springs the night of the
litE 1here were from fifty to sixty cou-
pies on the floor, and it was a most de-
lightful occasion, not only TO the dancers
but to all lookers-on. The springs still
flow with the same bold stream of ma
lures best of prescriptions for the cure
Of the many ailments the human body is
feir to
The lumber business is carried on here
extensively. The finest kinds of apples
grow in this section. The poultry and
egg business is conducted here on an i'm
mensc scale. The lands are generally
fertile, and know of no more favored
place in which to live long and happy
than Waynesville, Haywood county.
There are many inducements to be Of
fered to anyone from this section to en-
gage in manufacturing industries, farm
ing or fruit growing. Recently Mr. John
Farrior, of Charlotte has purchased
large farm upon which is a young 40
acre apple orchard. He, with his family,
are at present boarding at the Kenmore,
tut contemplates moving out two miles
to his farm this fall
Friends in Eastern Carolina if YOU
want delightful place at which to spend
the month of August, come to Waynes-
Vile. H. F. HARDY.