The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-24
IS SURELY s
MECCA FOR SUMMER TOURISTS

the Columbia State, who has been
spending his usual summer vacation
in Hendersonyille, write Interestingly
of conditions here this season. He
says:
Hendersonville, N. c., Aug. 1S.-
Civilization is nearer to Henderson
vile than to any other place in North
Carolina. 1t is easier to come up here
to cool down than to Asheville, Way
nesville. Blowing Rock, the Highlands
Brevard or ToxaWay. If the people
OF Civilization would duly value the
great blessing they enjoy in this near
ness to a night of refreshing sleep,
let one of them enter Pullman on
the 7:10 morning train at the Union
Station and see-the SteWed sisters,
the parboiled brethren and the babies
fried-On-one-side who have come out
OF much tribulation in the singeing
cities of South Georgia and Florida.
We of the capital of Civilization do not
understand what a sweet advantage we
have over the rest of the world in be-
ing able tC come. to Rendersonville in
six or seven hours. 1t is worth an
early rising once in a summer to be-
hold the FloridanS in the contortions
incident to getting cat Of their berths
and into their breeches and things af-
ter ten hours CT travel from the land
OF blistered blossoms, though it must
be said that a Jacksonville girl under
goes an astonishing transformation in
the Is minutes that she spends in the
end of the car with women over the
door, When you enter the Pullman
at Columbia you can't help seeing her
as she stumbles from behind the cur
tains into the narrow aisle and
grOpes between the dress suit cases,
much as you wish you could, but when
she emerges and sits down to await
her cantaloupe and coffee from the
buffet you Wc1ld like to be introduced.
Two and Half by AerOplane.
So in fact il is a wonderfully fine
thing tc be two hours and half by
aerOplane, ten by motor car or six
and a half by the Southern railway
from HendeI sonville and one takes
it in when one looks upon hundreds CT
poor burned out and dried out folk
from New Orleans, Montgomery. Tam
pa and other long lost spots in the will
derness VINO have allowed themselves
to be hauled in winter Pullmans S6
and as hours in the summertime.
More refugees from all parts of
Civilization, including its Square
Meals capital, are here this summer
than ever before and even the Char
lotte people are welcomed, inasmuch
as they can't come to Hendersonville
having no aercplanes, without slipping
down to Spartanburg, changing trains
and coming up again, thus getting a
thin veneer that enables them to pass
and repass without being conspicuous.
In fact, since using around here part
of my time am being hurled towards
the conclusion that Charlotte people
are almost good enough and hkable
enough to live in the sally League" "
The FireleSs Cooker.
For the swelled numbers of summer
fugitives in Hendersonville there are
two explanations and the first is that
the earth appears to have BEEN baked
in a fireless cooker early in the spring.
1t was never cool in June in 1911, so
the flight began a month earlier than
usual The second is the Southern
railway. That transportation cCm-
pany is doing it's duty at last. The
trains are numerous and fine and they
are running. for the most part, on
schedules that do not need to be re-
vised downward. The Carolina Spe-
cial is good enough for the inhabi-
tants even of pennant-wining town
to travel by, its appointments are lux
urious and delightful, and include
among them Capt. "Bony" Chase of
course. In the dining car is to be
found what is, fear, the only steak
from a well born and aristocratfcally
brought up Western steer that sue
ceeds in discovering South Carolina.
The train service is so good that the
Columbians are, allowing the hinges
to grow rusty en- the bunkers wherein
the lurid parts of their vocabulary are
stored. The trains are so frequent,
the crowding is Sc little, the making
of the schedules so regular and the
temper of travellers so we'll kept that
I am tempted to call on Brother Taft
to direct attention to the repentance
and conversion of General Sam Hard
wick in his Thanksgiving proclama
ton.
Nevertheless it would not be polite
to the readers Of The State to allow
the Southern" hence unscathed to
go" and it would be highly improper
to say anything that would endanger
a soulless corporation with imitation
OF it's vanity. Remembering that Hen
Jacksonville is now one ofthe most i'm
portant passenger stations, for four or
five months in the year, on the South
Atlantic lines CT the Southern, how
lncOmparably superior are the station
accommodations of Orangeburg, New
berry, Aiken and South Carolina
towns CT their class to those here and
how the passenger accommodations of
Hopkins. Bookman, Santuc and Aston
are net less admirable and inviting
than these of Hendersonville, one is
disposed to suspect that the South Car
olina railroad COMMISSION must have
a purpose in life other than to stir the
ambition of Cansler of Tirzah.
5000 SWarming SchoOl-marms.
In Henderson county today it is
rational guess that there are $4,000.