Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-22

! again. ever 'eae"
Tbs brings the narrative up to the time
| wnen commissioner West poked HIS red
/ beard out OF the tent flaps and the subse-
9uent proceedings. Then came the drive
o oomn me mountain. II should rather be
caueo the ran down the mountain. You
SAT IN the hack, your knees braced against
she seat In 'front.' your eyes staring. and
tSa your breath. wondering whether
the dappled grays would clear the no1t
curve IN their headlonE career or nl,Ins~e
IIne Wnole outfit over the precipice Vice
PRESIDENT Culp, however went calmly 70
s s,',s,. ana only woke up when the oavaIcade
swung INTO the comparatively level road
a1o headed westward on the second stage
OF the journey You know II takes a FOOD
oeaI 10 jar man who is accustomed 70 a
Mr.. Culp is VS. @s
An hours drive through a valley NJ sur-
Passhs ioveliness brought the party 10
tEn fairneid' the third Of the group IN
ILe sapphire country. Here the Travellers
were entertained at luncheon IN a naviijor
On the shore of the lake, belonging to ths
,,ano ot appointed hotel which stands
upon the BLUM. facing the sheer nrec5rics
OF Bald mountain, that drops a fbo,1ssnd
leet 70 the waters edge, on the Opposite
size OF the lake. After the second round ~
81 STa 6 p celebrated Fairfield mint
luIeps bets were freely made that anvbodv
IN the crowd could scale Bald mountain
n tIee-naiIe drive around the lake started
the cavalcade on the homeward drive 10
Ioxaway four hours distant Hardly had
the first mile been reeed of when n +a.u
hove In sight ahead with two men inside
frantically waving their hats Closer IN
spection showed the inmates of the rio "a
be the rocking chair brigade who v1er,
t H on the porch at Toxaway the day be-
iore They had stood IL for twenty-four
hours and then set out In chase of the com,
missary wagon. First aid to the Injured was
rendered on the spot. and the caravan
moved on to visit the almost regal domain
of Col. Backus of New York and south
America, the millionaire rubber man. This
estate is intended to rival Biltmore the
vanderbilt property at Asheville. and is
certainly a paradise of lake. stream, noun
tain and forest
In that country they don't think anything
of throwing dam across a valley between
two mountains and backing up water 10
make a thousand acres of lake, which soon
teens with trout from the mountain
streams, and which attracts game and wild
fowl of all kinds. Deer and bear frequently
come down to the shores Of the newly made
lakes to drink. No animals-that is, OF
familiar form-were seen by any of the
party on this trip.
Evening, with the sun dropping behind
grand old Toxaway mountain and tinging
thu great lake with its dying rays, found
the crowd back al the hotel enjoying the
luxury of porcelain tubs after the twenty
four-hours roughing. Next afternoon Vice
President Culp conJured a special train
from the transportation department by
those wiles familiar only to vice presi-
dents, and sped the party back to Washing
ton on the Southern's fastest schedule. II
may be said in passing that the crowd fore
IDLY cut on Col. Barbour Thompson's
at Charlotte and Insisted on his taking the
back track to Atlanta.
The development of the wonderful Toxa-
way country has been the outcome of the
application of nothern capital to southern
resources. An unbroken wilderness on top
of a mountain has been turned into fair
land. an artificial lake with shore line Of
fifteen miles constructed by the erection Of
a dam; splendid hotels built out of the
tive hardwoods. highly polished; railroad
bed gashed out OF the side of a mountain
to give access, while electricity, the tele
phone and the telegraph network the woods
where but few years ago the panther and
the bear found the solitude they crave.
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