French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-01-18
GOLF LINKS
NECESSARY
Dr. John E. Ennis Writes How GOla
Links Have Helped st. Peters
burg, Since Completion.
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.
Editor of The Hustler

Editor of The Hustler:
/ There. is no attraction we possess
that has proved more beneficial to
our city than the golf links, COM
menced last year with nine holes, fiI1-
ished this year with eighteen, and now
considered one of the finest in the
South. In this day and age the
wealthy class who desire rest and
recreation, either in summer or winter
demand a golf course, and only visit
such resorts that furnish this amuse-
ment.
The course here consists of two
hundred acres of land, situated four
miles west of what was several years
ago our city limits The ground is
undulating covered with Palmetto
and scrub oak, seemingly not well
adapted for such a purpose, yet now
where the links we completed we dis
cover no location could be better. The
grounds face on Boca Ceiga bay. a
beautiful sheet of water. separated
from the Gulf of Mexico by narrow
stretch of land and can be reached by
sail or steamer from any point on the
coast.
Since it was made known that golf
links would be laid out on this loea-
ton : boulevard was made from the
city limits to the bay and a tract half
mile wide on each side of the same
was taken in by the city. This Cen
tral boulevard is one hundred feet
wide, paved with brick and already has
! fine sidewalks on each side, The
trolIy was extended from the city on
this boulevard to the bay and there
adjoining the golf grounds was laid
out plot of ground for village call
ed Davista. This great undertaking
was one of many complications and to.
many seemed wild and hazardous. It
took time and money to secure the
right of way for the boulevard, to
build the trolly hne,i to build, the sea
walk several miles long on the bay, to
pave the savenuesen hundred feet wide.
and five miles long with brick, to lay
sidewalks and electric lights to lay
out the brick and build club house
at the cost of $40, 1000. Yet we all now
see the expense though enormous was
trifing compared with the benefit
each and every one of our citizens
have received. A trip by trolly or auto
viting and pleasurable ride in Florida.
It would require a column of your
paper to describe the beautiful homes.
the parks. the play grounds the Sun
set hotel and other attractions on the
route all made in two years largely
by tourists connected with and owners
Of the golf grounds.
To sustain the link there is a home
membership. of one hundred and fifty:
Transients pay $25. per month or one
dollar per diem.
The golf links have brought US this
season for the first time in our his
tory a rich class of tourists who are
buying plots and building costly
| homes One wealthy man was so
pleased with the links that. he pur-
chased ten lots and will build numer-
Gus houses to entertain his friends.
| People of Hendersonville, you can
have golf grounds and several small
parks at a trifing expense. While
ours cost millions yours need not cost
but little over 500, 900. You can issue
and sell city bonds for raising the
means and you will ct once be known
the world over as one. of the greatest
F., summer resorts in America. Your
population will rapidly increase. The
wealthy men who come will build
homes and start great enterprises that
will double the values of all your real
estate. Your taxes will not increase
to any large extent. Such is our ex-
perience here. Yours truly.
JNO. E. ENNIS.