The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-01-28
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Hendersonville, with a popu-
lation of five thousand, is today
growing more rapidly than any
town in the South!
But two, or possibly three
cities show a larger volume of
building operations than Hender-
sonville.
No town in the mountains can
show so large a gain in summer
tourists.
Almost in aday Hendersonyille
has grown from a struggling
mountain village to a modern,
beautiful, clean and compact
town.
Wonderful as has been this
transformation, short as has
been the time required, it bids
fair to be surpassed a hundred
fold within the next few short
years!
Great enterprises have been
told of in this paper, from time
to time, and many of them are
now actual realities or on the
verge of becoming so.
But plans of so vast and far
reaching a character, so stupen-
dous in their scope, are now in
their formative period, are now
in the hands and brains of level
headed business men, that when
they arel1nally consummated, as
they will be, the past story of
HendersonVille'S marvellous pro-
gress will seem dull and uninter-
esting.
These gigantic plans are now
being carefully worked out by
men of affairs who generally do
what they start out to do, men
who have, or are able to get, am
pie capital for their consummation
The attention of capitalists of
the first rank has been drawn to
this town, and he who would pre-
dict its future five years from
now must be bold, with the keen
judgment of a successful busi-
ness man and the imagination of
a poet and a dreamer.
The reasons for this towns
wonderful growth and still more
wonderful future, are not hard to
find.
On a level plateau, 2250 feet
above the oceans waves. sur
rounded by the dark blue noun
tains, height overtopping height,
peak rising behind peak, with
here and there a solitary giant
standing solemnly aloof, and
with far-off ranges so faint that
it is impossible, to tell where the
emerald heights and azure sky
blend, Hendersonville has the
most superb location possible for
any town.
Climatic conditions peculiar to
itself, absence of fog and damp
ness, freedom from contagious
diseases, with pure and abun-
dant water, good schools and
churches, modern hotels and
high-class boarding houses, with
moderate rates for the service
rendered, are a few reasons why
Hendersonville has become the
principal resort of the mountains.
The tourist accommodations have
trebled here during the past two
years and this summer promises
to test the capacity of the town
to take care of its guests.
No town in the;South possess
es a more magnificent thorough
fare than Main street. Sixty
feet of macadam, with twenty
feet of cement sidewalk on either
side, it commands the admiration
of every visitor to the town and
is constant. advertisement of
the public-spirit and go-ahead-
ness of Hendersonville.
The two beautiful lakes, Osce-
| ola practically finished, and the
gigantic Kanuga where hundreds
of thousands of dollars will be
spent and which will be finished
this season, is ample testimony
as to what monied men think of
this towns future. These two
beautiful lakes are realities, di-
rect outgrowth of the stupen-
dous project to encircle the town
with a beautiful body of water,
and which gigantic proposition
is now being carefully looked in
to by men able to carry it to a
successful issue.
The proposed electric belt line
railroad, practically a necessity,
| is gradually assuming definite
and concrete form. The electric
railroad from Hendersonville to
Asheville will be built, the per-
manent survey, costing many
thousands. being completed.
The permanent survey of part of
the Appalachian Interurban has
/ been started, with a complete
engineering corps in the field,
and this third railroad means
much to this town.
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