The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-23
SOCIETY FACES THE
MECKLENBURG
Great Throngs Now at
Chase City.
Big German Next Friday When New
Pavilion will be Opened Spec
iaI Rates from North Carolina
Points.

| Especial to the News and Observer
! Chase City, Va, July 22-The
Mecklenburg filled up rapidly last and
this week. The guests embrace peo-
pie from many cities and sections and
still they come, and never before was
| this resort in better condition to re-
ceve and satisfy all Corners Hotel
guests have delightful breeze all the
| time and the nights are very cool and
| pleasant
| Around the cool and shady spring
! house with its broad porcheS and
rooms convenienceS have been added.
| Near the other recreation and pleas
ure buildings such as the dancing and
music pavilion and the bowling alley,
on the slope side, is the newly fitted
up club house in a cool and shady
place. Under the walnut apple and
| locust trees are many rustic benches
| scattered over the lawn of heavy
green grass and, here lovers are wont
! to do their WoOing.
An arched electric lighted pathway
| and promenade leads to these points
of pleasant resort. All day long boys
play ball, and the young folks are try
! ing their skill at archery and other
! games at different points on the lawns.
| The older set settle down to card par
ties at all hours while the music sends
forth sweet melodies through and
| from the hotel rotunda.
| Friday week the new pavilion will
| be opened with a grand german when
it is proposed in this connection to in
augurate a special weekend railroad
service to this place. Tickets good
| from Friday until Monday from Rich
mond, Raleigh, Danville, and other
points.
At least two or three germans will
hereafter be a regular feature of every
week at the Mecklenburg entertain
! mentS.
On Tuesday the Honorable Henry
BlOunt of Wilson, delighted an appre-
ciative audience that filled the lecture
| hail of the Mecklenburg. with his ia
| nous and humorous lecture, Beyond
| the Alps Lies Italy"
AS more room is needed in the hotel
| for guests a sample room for drunf-
| mers has been established outside
most conveniently, and the mineral
| water department offices have been
| removed to the club house.
There is no medical convention be-
| ing held here though there are often
many doctors here and among those
now here are Dr. D. F.. Everett, of
Raleigh, N. c., DR.. Stancell, of Mar
garetsville, n. c.. and DR.. L. Landlord,
of Norfolk, Va
Capt O. ]. Hayes, an active hale
and happy Confederate veteran has
charge of the livery hire here and in
! this capacity is having a lively time
with the lovely and lively young ladies
CT the Mecklenburg whom he daily
instructs horse back riding, which is
| q labor of love, 50 to say, after you
hire your horses. The Capt. has en-
gagements days ahead while the eX
ercise proves very beneficial and heal
thy. and adds much life to the many
attractions OF the Meclenburg. The new
livery is very much in demand other
wise.
Polk Miller and his quartette were
here tonight. Everybody wanted to
hear him as nobody ever tires of Polk.
His representations are like
the song of Home Sweet Home" that
never wears out. and to the older peo-
pie his performances carry them back
to the plantation lifeNand it's traditions
and happy experiences, but ne'er for
get while the further Father Time
separates one from them, fainter
grows the echoes of that once charm
ing life, now represented by the ban
io and old negro dialect and song,
and these too, will soon be no more,
with no one left to faithfully portray
that old and enchanted life.
No one who was here last March
and who witnessed the great Neck
lenburg Fox Chase Meet will ever for
get it, but the coming and GROWING
event of the second meet, but first
organized one, for this fall, Oct, "a
to 28th, inclusive, is destined to eclipse
al former events, and for which prep
lrations are now being made in re- |
ceiving a great membership. Initia-
ton fee of $1.00, yearly fee $500 en- !
titles members to all privileges, ger
man, etc. Correspondence points al
ready to much enthusiasm in antici-
patton of the next great Virginia and !
North Carolina Meet.
Among weel-knoWn people here for |
some weeks are Hon. f. NJ Simmons |
his Wife and two daughters, Capt E. I
]. Parish and wife, New York; Mrs.
G. A. Mebane and Mr.. B. H. Mebane |
and Mr.. G. A. Mebane, Jr of Spray,
N. c.; Ext congressman Bum, with his
two daughters, of ROCKY Mount; Col. !