Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-11-04
HENDERsoNvILLE HIGHLY
BOOSTED By TAMPA PAPER

tribution from Miss L. Watts, Sec
retaryof the Laurel Park Pleas
ure club:
Hendersonyil1e, NC, Oct. 19.-I
Specialize company with s
rarty of eongenial friends, it was
ny good fortune to leave the heart
Of Florida behind me and come
for a summer stay In Henderson
vile, the Land of the Sky.
We reached here on the afternoon
of May 6, and from that moment
up to the present time the weather.
has been idelaistic. A more per-
feet climate In every particular
could not be found if one was to
search the world over. While
farther South there has been
floods and the most intense heat,
and farther North it has been cold
and damp and rainy all summer
long, we have had none of these
extremes. Our days have all been
warm and sunny, with a refresh
ing rain now and then, but no fogs
nor dampness.
Those strare June days" immor-
talized by our beloved poet, Yo-
well, can be found here every day
In the year.
HendersonviIle, and particular
tly Laurel Park, situated about &
mile an da half from the center Of
the town, is an ideal spot in every
way. Given a country where the
climate is perfected :the air so
pure and bracing, up among these
grand mountain peaks; where
the water stands the highest Test
o. purity; where the scenery is
beyond comparison; where the
people are all congenial, and what
che ask more? That Henderson,
vile has been filled all summer
with tourists-from Florida, South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, be-
SIDES representatives from many
other States in the South and
North as well, is sure proof that
the place is worthy of the highest
commentator.
There are glorious drives no
matter which way one turns, and
glorious walks in every direction
In laying out Laurel Park, W.
A. Smith, the owner and discover
er of the park, certainly had an
leye for the beautiful, for it is one
of the prettiest spots In the whole
State. A lady visitor here who
has been all through California
and the great Northwest, told the
writer that nowhere IN her travels
had she seen anything to compare
with Laurel Park In its natural
scenery.
As chairman of the Press Asso
ciation the writer was recently
taken through both the public and
private schools, for which Hen
Jacksonville is famous; the Fleet
lSchool for boys at Highland Lake,
ene of natures's Fairgrounds sit
uated about two miles and a half
from this center; Blue Ridge
School for boys situated about Z
mile from the center; Fassifern,
Iovely Fassifern, a private school,
fol girls and in every one of these
schools, both the public and the
Iprivate, the highest standard Of
scholarship is maintained. Where
good schools are to be found, there
one will also find good citizens.
The Patton Memorial Hospital
was also visited and Henderson
vile can be justly proud of this
institution, for no better equipped
or better managed hospital could
possibly be found anywhere.
Last, but in no ways the least,
are the excellent churches to be
found here-nearly every demon
ination is represented and all
stand as monuments to the moral
character of its citizens.
Tourists come here from all
over the South in large numbers,
Florida standing out as the ban
ner tourist State.
It will be with the deepest re
gret when she shall be called upon
to leave the place and shall hail
with delight the tune when we
shall find ourselves once more on
the train en- route for Henderson
vile, the beautiful.
A FLORIDA TOURIST
FROM NEW ENGTIAND