The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-12
(Staff Correspondence

Morehead CITY, April ll.--NeVer III the
history of this famous resort have the
prospects been so brilliant for summer
season and never has so much been done
to make the Atlantic Hotel and sur
roundings the most attractive resort on
the South Atlantic coast
With the entire buildings. cottages,
pier and grounds illumed by electricity,
new board walks and piers, new bathing
houses in the sound, steam launches in
addition to the various sailing craft for
the pleasure and convenience of guests,
a regularly established schedule by steam
with the beach and Beaufort and the hun
dreds of improvements to the hotel
proper, including private baths, dining
rooms, cafes and the like, Morehead
City will be the gayest resort and the
best attended of the seashore's attrac-
tive places.
The old engagement books carrying
numbers of names of guests for this sea-
son mas been lost during the negotiations
attending the change of management but
Manager Earle Turner has announced
this fact in time and requests all who
had engagements to notify him at once
that their particular apartments may be
reserved.
The hotel will open June 18th for it's
most brilliant season. This years sue
cess is assured by the letters now being
received daily asking for accommodations
during the season The public generally
responded promptly to the situation when
it was announced that the Atlantic and
North Carolina Railroad had bought the
hotel property and would improve it,
giving the hotel improvements common
surate with the Importance of the re-
sort.
North Carolinians will be Joined by
numbers of Georgia, South Carolina and
Virginia favorites in addition to the
habitues of this resort from those States.
No stone will be left unturned to have
the hotel and other improvements COM
plete two weeks before the date for the
opening ball, which is to be made the
most notable social event in the history
of the States most popular resort.
Now one sees more than a hundred men
working to this end The electric light
ing plant is being installed as fast as
the parts arrive; the piers are under con-
struction; the suites of rooms are being
fitted handsomely with private baths and
arrangements are completed for a per-
feet furnishing of the great hotel.
Manager Turner is one of the most
capable hotel men in this country. He is
a resort specialist and has q reputation
envied by many of the most prominent
hotel managers. He is on hand directing
the work. looking personally into every
detail and though he has a great I'M
dertaking before him, it is easily seen
that he is just the man to accomplish
all this Arrangements have already been
completed to supply the most elegant
table ever before Morehead City guests.
President James A. Bryan and General
Superintendent S. L. Dill, of the Atlantic
and North Carolina Railroad, have an
nounced double daily train service with
fast schedules, every train fitted with
elegant day coaches and parlor cars and
the crowd will be handled in the best
manner possible.
Announcing the coming season, the fol-
lowing was issued today:
THE MANAGEMENT.
The Atlantic and North Carolina Rail-
road Company having purchased the At
lantic Hotel at Morehead City, will con-
duct the same during the coming sea-
son through its manager. Mr. Earle Tur
ner, formerly of Atlantic City and more
recently of the Mecklenburg Hotel, Chase
City, Va. 1t is the intention of the
Railroad Company TO make this house,
as summer resort second to none on
the Atlantic coast. An electric plant is
being put in, and both the Main Build
ing and the Cottages. will be brilliantly
lighted. Suites of rooms are being fitted
with private baths, additional bath rooms
are being placed on every floor and also
in the Cottage Row. All bath rooms
will be supplied with hot and cold water
and furnished with porcelain tubs and
up-to date fixtures and plumbing. There
are now under construction. new piers
Is feet wide, running far out into the
sound, with seats on either side, new
bath houses, which will be looked after
by special attendants, a new Laundry forty
feet wide by seventy feet long, in which
steam and all modern washing appliances
will be placed; covered ways connecting
the main building with the cottages and
the railroad platform, which will be
lighted at night by electricity, and new
writing, reading and smoking rooms 70:
gentlemen are being fitted up A neW
steam launch has been secured which
will make regular trips on schedule time
from the hotel pier to the surf and also
to the town of Beaufort. A fine orches-
trail band has been engaged and nothing
will be left undone to make the present
season the most attractive in the history
of the place. Every effort of the mana
ger will be to make the table one of the
best on the Atlantic coast, and the SER
vice in each and every department will
be such as only experienced help can rem
der. The hotel will be open on the 18th
day of June and kept open until the
first day of October. Double daily trains
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