North Carolina education . ower andlook down upon beautiful Chunns Cove (Sleepy Hol-low), and upon the city and the French Broad Rivervalley. The growing village of Weaverville is now con-nected with Asheville by an electric railway of eightmiles length, through pretty rolling country. The lineis served by handsome double-truck cars which run toPack Square, and the trip is a very popular one. The attractions of Asheville which are most nearlyunique and unrivalled, and which are undoubtedly mostfamous, are its bridle paths and carriage drives. Thelivery service is excellent, and there are few g
North Carolina education . ower andlook down upon beautiful Chunns Cove (Sleepy Hol-low), and upon the city and the French Broad Rivervalley. The growing village of Weaverville is now con-nected with Asheville by an electric railway of eightmiles length, through pretty rolling country. The lineis served by handsome double-truck cars which run toPack Square, and the trip is a very popular one. The attractions of Asheville which are most nearlyunique and unrivalled, and which are undoubtedly mostfamous, are its bridle paths and carriage drives. Thelivery service is excellent, and there are few greater de-lights to be offered the tourist than rolling throughshady woods, along lofty ridges, and beside foamingstreams, with vistas of wild mountain scenery openingup on each hand. The most celebrated drive aboutAsheville is over the Biltmore estate, where George has erected the costliest private home inAmerica, in a setting of unsurpassed natural , a model village, with All Souls Church, at-. VANDERBILT HOME AT BILTMORE. tended by Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt, and the famous Bilt-more Industries founded and patronized by Mrs. Van-derbilt, should be visited on the way. Then one drivesthrough the picturesque lodge gates, over miles of mac-adam roads bordered by flora from every land and clime,circles the stately, gleaming mansion, visits the dairy,piggery, hennery, and farms and returns along thecool sand road, framed in cane and willows, down theFrench Broad. Victoria, Connallys View, the Normaland Collegiate Institute, the Home Industrial School, andthe remarkably picturesque ruins which are all that a re-cent disastrous fire lest of the famous Kenilworth Inn,can be seen on the way back. * * * Sunset Mountain Drive is a delightful and very popularone. It climbs lovely Sunset Mountain by loops and cir-cles, through flowery woods, and crosses the entirerange which bounds Asheville on the east, passing alongthe ridge by Overlook Park; Zealandia, the cast
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