The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-23
WAYNESlILLE, MECCA OF
TOURISTAND HEALTHSEEKER
Its Invigorating Summer Climate and Nun
berless Attractions to be Found IN
its Vicinity.
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he pleasure or meeting anoIner ola TREND
from the eastern section. DIR. Fl. Johnson,
formerly OF Grifton. He has recently
moved here and gone IN the drug bust
ness He has neat, ell-supplied store,
with full line of all kinds of drugs and
fancy articles. Among the real estate and
insurance men ] will mention Mr.. John
r. Bass He has been a resident of
Waynesville thirteen years. While con-
Quoting the insurance business, he handles
ali kinds of real estate, farm and timber
lands, town property, etc Others engaged
in the same business are Messrs. Hannah
q Briggs. Mr. Hannah is of the law
firm of Crawford e Hannah, and Mr.
Briggs is editor of the Waynesville
Courier. semiweekly, up-to-date Demo-
cratic paper. 1t deserves a good patron
age, and the support of this entire section,
and | doubt not gets it. All of the above
mentioned gentlemen are heightened. re-
liable gentlemen, and all business placed
in their hands, either by interview of
letter, receives prompt attention.
Among the hardware firms is that of
Marsteller & Pegues, both formerly of
Florida The latter named has been here
three years as book-keeper for the W. Fl.
Cole Lumber Company. They have re-
Gently gone into business and carry full
line of hardware, queensware and gro
cCries
HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES.
The White Sulphur Springs Hotel is a
large brick structure, with a handsome
two.story frame annex erected about 100
yards from the brick building. These
buildings will accommodate $50 to 500
guests at least. They are surrounded by
twenty-five or more acres of beautiful
grassy lawns covered with majestic shade
trees. They are fitted up with all con-
venient, modern improvements. There is
also large bath house and barbershop
and livery stables on the grounds Messrs
Young and Branch, who run the Swan
nanoa aJ Asheville and the Imperial at
Hendersonvlle, will also run the White
Sulphur Spring Hotel this season. They
viii open the house within the next few
days. The mere mention of these gentle
men. who are old and popular hotel people,
y guarantee of the comfort and pleas
ure of all who will spend the summer
months with them, either in Asheville,
Hendersonville, or last, but not least,
Waynesville
In town there is the Inn. This house
las recently been improved and return
Ished throughout. TT is up to date in
every respect. tt has so bed rooms and
all modern improvements and has baths
electric lights and bells, and all other mod
ern improvements. The house has
changed hands recently. Mrs. A. q.
Smith is proprietress. and Mr. Prior post
manager.
The Kenmore, at which 1 am stopping
Il well known to commercial travellers
and summer tourists The hotel il under
the management of Mr. Charles R.
Knight. assisted by his mother, Mrs g.
W knight and her two daughters. Since
last season q large. handsome annex has
been added to the Kenmore. The house
IS up-to-date in every respect with all
modern improvements. (See ad In want
column of this paper9
The Chicora Lodge, another pretty ho-
tel located on Main street, just up the
hill from the station. can accommodate
thirty guests. 1t has baths, electric
lights and all other eonveniences, and the
able Is supplied with the best of every
thing, as in fact all of the hotels and
boarding houses are. Mrs. George E.
Pegues is the proprietress of the Chicora
Lodge
Besides the hotels mentioned, there are
the National. Willis and Bonnie Castle,
and in addition to all these are numerous
boarding houses, where board can be had
for from $3.50 up to IS and $40 per week
Board at the hotels ranges from So to
$3.50 per week. Special rates will be
made for families From one and a half
to six miles from Waynesville are a
good many country boarding houses
EAGLES NEST.
In August Of 1900 / passed Waynesville
going west. About two miles beyond
looked out of the car window on the
right and my gaze was attracted by an
object so high above me that I could not
determine what 1t was / asked and upon
enquiry was told it was the Eagles Nest.
At once l was seized with the desire to
fly with eagle wings to that spot; how
! wished that could go there, having at
the time not the slightest idea that my
wish would be granted, but it was first
last July and again a few days ago. If
there is anything that can compare with
it in Western North Carolina or any
where else, / do not know OF it, Perched
upon the very summit of huge crag.
o,VVU IeeC ABOVE sea leVel, IT Is truly the
prettiest little nest of a hotel / ever saw.
1t has three floors, containing AS bed
rooms. most of which are on the second
and third floors. On the first floor are the
dining room, office, ladies' parlor and
gents bath rooms 1t is handsomely
furnished in every department from top
to bottom On the front or south
vefanda you look over into dizzy depths
1000 feet below, and off in the distance as
far as the eye can reach are to be seen
peak after peak, while below is a most
beautiful valley country, and the town
of Waynesville about three and a half
miles as a bird would fly. But the dist
ance from Waynesville by the turnpike
road is three and half miles to the
tcll-gate, and two and a half miles from
there to the court house. 1t is one of
the most attractive mountain drives /
know of in Western Carolina | will not
attempt to describe the beautiful scenery.
for I know | can not, but, reader, come
and see for yourself.
A short distance from the hotel is d
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