The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-11-15
HendersonyfIle's Availability.

Under the above caption, Rev. A. r.
Love writes most interestingly in the
Biblical Recorder of the advantages
possessed by this town as the place for
the great Baptist Chautauqua, which is
to be held somewhere in the Western
part of the state. The article follows:
l note with interest what DR.. Pres
fridge says in the last issue of the Bap-
tist Argus with reference to q Baptist
Chautauqua. | am not only heartily
in favor of the project but especially
delighted with the fact that DR.. Pres
fridge, while not committing himself to
Western North Carolina, is favorably
inclined toward our beautiful and de-
lightful section. I feel confident that
the brotherhood at large will agree
with him in this matter when they are
made acquainted, as he is, with the
superior advantages this section offers
for such a gathering. In the first place,
it is about as centrally located as any
other desirable place within the bounds
of the Southern Baptist Convention In
the second place, 1t has no superior as a
summer resort in all the South. And
we do not hesitate to say that among
the many desirable places in this Sec
tion Hendersonville has no superior.
The great and constantly increasing
crowds which flock here from summer
to summer bear witness to this fact A
census of'the hotels and boarding hous-
es last year showed that more than ten
thousand guests were registered here
during the summer months. The num-
Der for this year will no doubt go far
beyond. And yet, there is room. We
have three magnificent hotels that &C
commodate. about three hundred each
and about fifty good boarding houses,
some of which accommodate q hundred
guests.
Our main streets are very wide, ma
cadamized and shady. We have cleo
trio lights, water-works, street cars, ten
or twelve large livery stables, in fact,
everything necessary to make a visit to
our town pleasant.
Laurel Park, about a milo from the
city, reached by the street cars, is one
of the most beautiful natural parks in
the South.
The far-famed Toxaway Lake and
Sapphire country is only q few miles
from our town, reached by a branch
road.
But what is even more to the point
we have q large new Auditorium,
just built this summer, that will seat
three thousand people. The building
was put up by a stock company, formed
of our W citizens, for the especial pur-
pose of inducing such bodies as the
proposed Baptist Chautauqua to come
to u town.
This year the use of the building was
given totDr. Clarence Strouse of Vir-
ginia, to hold . ChAutauqua. His
Chautauqua was q great success.
Crowds locked to nearly every enter
tainment. He will be given the use of
the building again next year for the
same purpose. But his Cbautauqua
will not be held until August and if the
Baptists could meet in June or July,
there would be no conflict whatever.
/ am authorized by the Henderson
vile Board of Trade to not only ex-
tend to the proposed Chautauqua, a
most hearty invitation 10 come to our
town, but to assue them that the Board
stands ready to serve them in any way
possible. / am also authorized by the
Auditorium Company to say that they
will gladly donate the use of their
building absolutely free of charge:
Hendersonville is on the main line of
the Southern from Knoxville to Jack
sonville, within twenty-five miles of
Asheville. We have four passenger
trains each way, daily, during the sum-
mer months.
AS for entertainment at the hotels
and boarding houses, it can be had
at from six to twelve dollars per week
-frst-class accommodations.
AS for tuberculosis, there is no place
in all this country freer from it than
Hendersonville. Our hotels and board
ing houses positively refuse to take in
known cases or even suspicious mi
Among the projects that the business
men assure US are In sight for Hender-
~sonville in the near future, is a man.
moth lake that will be without an equal
as an artificial lake, in the South.
Now, Brother Bailey, if you r in
favor of the movement and of Western
North Carolina as the place for it, I
will appreciate it if you publish this
letter for the consideration of the
brethren. With kindest regards, I re-
main,
Sincerely yours,
y A. R. LOVE.
Hender ;onville, N. c., september 20.
1906.