Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-01-23
Extracts From DR.. John E. Ennis In.
tereStfng Letter to The Democrat.
BrimfHH of True-Blue
Optimism.

Here are few brlef extracts from
letter from winter tourist in st.
Petersburg, Fla, none other, by your
leave, than DR.. John e. Ennis, well.
and favorably known in Henderson
Vile.
Mr.. Moore and myself really take
pleasure in our effort to assist your
club in making known the many at.
fractions to be found in your beauti-
full city. / think our work cannot
fail to more than double the number
OF tourists you will have from this sec
ton next season and in addition we
Will give you number of permanent
settlers. Here In this city we find,
that every new tourist will, If pleased
with the place, bring others the next
season. Yesterday six hundred tour
lists arrived from Ohio 5 on aneciaRt
Trains This morning another tratn,
brought In large crowd We have
fully one thousand tourists here from
Ohio, the result of having State As
sOciation. -
How glad am to see you now have
a Georgia Association. Next season /
will personally make an effort to or
ganize Associations in other States.
The Democrat, issue of the 9th inst,
has just arrived and read with great
interest. Your Personal Mention" ia
splendid and If continued during the
tourist season will prove highly in
teresting to visitors.
I have arranged fully for Mr.. Will
cox to be our guest reference is
here made to Mr.. Willcox's anticipated
visit to st. Petersburg, account of the
n no10hroffn &Ian
How I wish representative Of your
paper could be present at our enter
tainment February 21st reception for
Carolinians). If such thing is pos
sible, our club will make you our guest
and entertain you as beftting one of
the Royal family.
Many thanks for marked copy of
Democrat. 1t is now a paper any
town may be proud of.
Sincerely yours,
JOHN E. ENNIS"
The foregoing letter speaks for it
self. Moreover, it literally rings with
the spirit of optimism, which rightly
translated is "Boosterism" or Boost
ism" whichever term is correct. DR..
Ennis evidently carries with him a
well-charged battery of the same
wherever he goes. It's eleetrifying in
fuence was felt to good purpose in
last summer, and one
is stimulated by the very thought that
Hendersonvil1e is to feel ''the current"
again this summer. DR.. Ennis and Mr..
Charles E. Moore rightly deserve the
of Chieftans of the Boos-
ters' Clan. They have rendered both
Hendersenville and St Petersburg eff
fective service in turning the tourist
tide in these directions and too much
cannot be said in praise of their
splendid efforts.
And, by-the-way, referring to ST.
Petersburg a mighty fine feeling has
sprung up between Hendersonville and
"The Sunshine City," as st. Peters
burg is aptly styled. The organiza-
ton of Florida Club here last sum-
mer and of an Auxiliary to the Greater
Hendersonville Club in ST. Petersburg
his winter have promoted and fostered
ed the feeling. That Hendersonville
is acutely interested in all that per-
tains to the welfare of st. Petersburg
gees without saying. The growth of
st. Petersburg has been and continues
to be almost phenomenal. The De-
mocrat has been making notes from
time to time of it's progressiveness,
and has embodied them in an article
in this issue entitled 'The Sunshine
City, Etc."-News Ed.