Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-07-18

outside Of its pretty location, that is
hardly true now. The town has been
developed by the erection Of hundreds
of expensive buildings, including
summer homes, boarding houses, ho-
tells, and all kinds of commercial bus
mess is fiourishing. The public water
reservoir is located on neighboring
mountain, and the water comes to the
city through pipes under tremendous
pressure from gravity alone. There is
an adequate sewerage system, first
class lighting system, 70 we'll paved
streets and all modern conveniences
While 1t is out of the question to get
exact figures as to the population, the
common impression to be gathered
from those who seem to be best In
formed, is that the figures vary from
about 5000 in the winter to $4,000 or
20, 900 in the summer.
South Carolina is probably better rep
resented at Hendersonville than Is any
other border state; but the South Car
olinians do not constitute the majori-
ty Of the population. The people come
in large numbers from Florida, Georgia
Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mis-
souri,, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Mary
land, New York, Massachusetts,, and in
fact every state in the Union. While
the town proper is built with reason
able compactness, It probably has less
homes than are to be found within a
radius Of half a dozen miles out. In
fact the most beautiful and expensive
homes are .on the outskirts, and we
cannot fail to be impressed with the
millions Of dollars that have been in
vested by rich folks in the effort to es-
cape the summer heat and have a
good time.
Flat Rock, a few miles south of
Hendersonville, Is made up mainly of
the homes of rich South Carolinians
from Charleston and other coast local
tiles; but there are also living at this
place many other distinguished former
South Carolinians who have won fame
and fortune in other states. like for in
stance, Frank B. Hayne, Of New Or
leans.
There is not a great deal Of tubercu-
losis in the Hendersonville country;
but the editor was very much surpris-
ed at coming in contact with such a
large number Of people who seemed
more or less indisposed. Inquiry devel-
oped that malaria was the principal
trouble. Folks living in malarial dis
tricts leave home in very good condi-
tion; but shortly after their arrival
such malaria as they happen to have
in their systems begins to make trou-
BILE, and for some days they have to
fall back on quinine and other reme-
dies. After the malaria has been erad-
icated they feel fine; but 1t Is said
that they must continue to be careful
upon their return home, as very often
they have to become re-acclimatized.
There are all kinds Of people at Hen
dersonville of course, and they live all
kinds of ways. Some go there to get
away from business, some in order to
the better attend to their business, and
some solely in pursuit Of pleasure.
There are hundreds of solid substanti-
al people there who are as staid and
as steady as in their homes. They put
in regular hours Of work during the
mornings, take their maps in the af-
ternoon, go motoring, driving or walk
ing in the evening and retire early.
On Sundays they go to Sunday school
and church, and lead exemplary lives
generally There are others Of course,
who are there mainly for pleasure In
accordance with their own ideas, and
spend their whole time in pursuit Of
the same. There is very little illegal
liquor selling in the town, and under
the Webb law most Of the liquor con-
sumed is brought by those who want
1t for themselves and friends as pri-
vate baggage, about the only way the
stuff is not liable to seizure.
Governor Blease came up from Co.
lumbia Sunday evening, having run
over from Spartanburg while on his
way to Glenn Springs, and was taken
in charge by Senator McLaurin, who
gave him, Mr.. Leon M. Green and the
editor Of The Enquirer, a spin around
the town and out into some of the
pretty country beyond. The governor
stopped at the Wheeler house that
night, and next morning the party
went over to Asheville and lunched at
the Langren, the magnificent new no.
tel which is now the boast of the cele-
brated mountain city.
The ride around Hendersonville
with the governor was an interesting
and novel experience, more especially
in connection with the extent to which
1t upset some Of the editors precon-
ceived notions. For instance it will be
remembered that last summer some of
the newspapers hit upon the idea Of
calling upon the people at Henderson
vile and other parts Of the mountains
to come home and save the state. The
demand was so loud, so insistent and
persistent as to lead the unsophisti-
Gated to believe that every South Car
oinian who was sufficiently prosper
GUS to be able to raise the railroad
fare to Hendersonville, and the price
of nights lodging, would surely vote
against Governor Blease If he could
get back home in time. The coming of
the governor had been unheralded;
but fully dozen or more people
shook hands with him at the depot,
and as he was whizzed through the
streets in an automobile over a dis
tance of less than a mile, the people
who waved their hands, raised their
hats, or otherwise extended pleasant
and respectful greeting, was certainly
more than fifty. Indeed it was like
an ovation.
The run to Asheville, a little over
twenty miles, was made in just one
hour, the speed being possible by rea-
son of the splendid roads that follow
the valleys along the sides of the