Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-07-30
HENDERsoNYILLEs OFFER.
The Educational Committee Going to
Atlanta Makes Report on Trip.

s 9tA - 7Ons1lAS cluD TO Atlanta, COM
posed of F. s. Wetmur, w. S. Miller.
: T. Durfee and w. A. Smith, made
the following report to the club in re .
gard to their visit with a view to in
cucing the educational committee OF
he Methodist church to locating the
proposed three million dollar UNIVERSE
ty in Hendersonville:
Your committee sent to Atlanta to
procure if possible, location of the
Eastern University of the M. s..
Church, South, asks to report further:
That passing over the possibilities
: q procuring the location of this insti-
tuition at Hendersonville we think We
Can not over-estinate the good that
will come to our enterprising city from
this effort and we recommend that
every effort be made by the club to
utilize this opportunity, the greatest
IN the history of our city to place the
true merits of HendersonvilIe as a re-
sort of the world and suggest that a
communication, suggestive of the fol-
lowing strong points be sent to as
many daily papers as possible
Hendersonville in presenting her in
dacements. to the subcommittee Of
the Methodist Conference at it's meet
ing in Atlanta on July 14th, took the
position that the evangelization of the
world was the principal object and
greatest motive which the church. ha
or could have in the construction of a
great theological University. That
while it would take much money e.
construct and equip the buildings ami
saIrange and ornament the grounds, the
greatest thing to be considered was not
how to get the money, but how best rc
spend it in order to promote the work
III hand. That the most important
work that could be used and thought
of was the word Life. Temporal AMI
Eternal" That's Gods Instrumental
ty in sustaining and continuing life
was the hand of man. That this in
Yolved the necessity of having physi-
,al. intellectual and moral strength.
That physical strength is a pre-requi-
site to Intellectual and moral strength
and that the three indispensable re-
duisites to physical strength was pure
cir, pure water and pure food.
That the geological and Topographic
ical conditions of Hendersonville aided
byits altitude and latitude make it tbs
most ideal locality for the promotion
If health and physical yigor of ans
city in the Appalachians and there.
fcre the superior of any place within
the territory of the Southern Metho
list conference. That the topography
os Hendersonville is briefly described
,.y saying that it is located on a pla
eau of this Blue Ridge Mountains.
Hith an era of approximately 15o
square miles of comparatively leve.
and, surrounded by a system Of
;uountain ranges with an elevation OH
IL sides in a perfect panorama, ar
anged amphitheatrically, with the eX-
,eption of a few miles on the South
asst from which there is a declivity
nto the Green river gorges and can
ions, making a sudden drop of approx
imately 1000 feet. At the bottom o.
this drop the temperature is from 10
10 Is degrees warmer than at the top
@op This causes the hot light air TO
use and the cold heavy air to fall SO
las to- make an arrial disturbance
which creates an air !, drainage anu
.auses the air in this plateau to move
rapidly down the mounl aiHg to fill the
void caused by the rising of the warn
:. ,trn. -4+Fhis continuous motion fur
,isheses scientific cause and. hence
he reason. fdf Hendersonyille haxigi;
80 little humidity and SO much dry air
md so little fog: 80 -.
Upon these conditions Henderson:
vile, predicate it's claim fsr haYing
/ the purest. healthiest air to be found
the Appalachians. To this sama
ormation is attributed the we'll known
and generally conceded fact that Hen
tersonville has the coolest and Durestt
gater to be found in the Appalach
ans Thus she claims that Hender-
;enviIle's pure water furnishes the twa
indispensable requisites to health to
i degree beyond that which it is posi-
ole for any other place to furnish and
hat as pure water and pure air. Gre
ate and sustain health and as health
md physical vigor is of more import
ence than gold and silver and can not
,e weighed in the scales of money, she
las to offer that which money can
i not buy and therefore can not b
i measured by millions or billions.
The investigations of these claims
| nd TIA nronf Of their existence alone