The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-04-14
(Staff Correspondence.)

AlOEcncdu lily, Aplll l1---NChtI III tit
history of this famous resort have the
prospects been SO brilliant for a summer
season and never has so much been done
to make the Atlantic Hotel and sur
Ioundings the most attractive resort on
the South Atlantic coast.
With the entire buildings, cottages,
pier and grounds iliumed 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 has 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 its
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
il was announced that the Atlantic and
North Carolina Railroad had bought the
hotel property and would improve it,
giving the hotel improvements commen-
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, when IS to be made the
most notable social event in the history
of the States most popular resort.
Now one sees more than Il 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 a reputation
envied by many OF the most prominent
hotel managers. He is on and 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, lave an
nounced a 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
read Company having purchased the At
lantic Hotel at Morehcad City, will con-
duct the same during the coming sea
son through its manager, Mr.. Earle Tur-
Ecr, 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 a 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 an(
up-to-date fixtures and plumbing. There
are now under construction. new pier.
16 feet wide, running far out into tn
sound, with seats on either side. new
bath houses, which will be looked aftel
by special attendants, a new Laundry fort,
feet wide by seventy feet long, in which
steam and all modern washing appliance
will be placed; covered ways connectin.
the main building with the cottages anC
the railroad platform, which will b.
lighted at night by electricity, and new
writing, reading and smoking rooms TO
gentlemen are being fitted up. a ne
steam launch has been secured whic
Will make regular trips on schedule tim
from the hotel pier to the surf and ais
to the town of Beaufort. A fine ,orchcs
trail band has been engaged and nothin
will be left undone to make the prcsnn
season the most attractive in the histor
of the place. Every effort of the mana
ger VIII be TO make the table one of tn
best on the Atlantic coast, and the ser
vice in each and every department Wi
be such as only experienced help can rcn
Ger. The hotel will be open on the 15t
day of June and kept open until tn
first day of October. Double daily train
on fast schedules connecting at Goldsbor
with the Atlantic Coast Line and th
Southern Railway for all points, Nortl
South, East and West. and at New Der
with the steamers of the Norfolk ar
Southern Railway Company for all point
North and East will be run during tt
season.
For rates, which will be most reason
able and within the reach of all, app
to S. l.. Dill. General Supt. A.. e. n.
r. r. Co, New Bern. n. G., or Ear
Turner, Manager Atlantic Hotel, Nor
head City, N. c.
THE ATTRACTIONS.
TO those familiar with our seaside l.
sort il is a fact recognized by all, TIL
from Bar Harbor on the coast of MAR
to TAMPA. on the coast of Florida, the
not ono that cOmDareS with MOrehe;