. North Carolina and its resources. plants. Two good church buildings are completed and two more areto be built soon; there are five good hotels and half a dozen boardinghouses, besides a goodly number of furnished cottages for rent to thosepreferring light house-keeping. Two private schools are well patron-ized. The Seaboard Air I^ine railroad has encouraged, fostered andpromoted the growth and development of Southern Pines and shouldnot be omitted even in so brief a sketch as this must be of this Pines is within twenty-two hours of New York city. PiNEHURST. Rest the pines say
. North Carolina and its resources. plants. Two good church buildings are completed and two more areto be built soon; there are five good hotels and half a dozen boardinghouses, besides a goodly number of furnished cottages for rent to thosepreferring light house-keeping. Two private schools are well patron-ized. The Seaboard Air I^ine railroad has encouraged, fostered andpromoted the growth and development of Southern Pines and shouldnot be omitted even in so brief a sketch as this must be of this Pines is within twenty-two hours of New York city. PiNEHURST. Rest the pines say to the pale health seeker, thenoises and the cares that have infested thy life else-where come not here. Rest, and be healed by , and be healed by night. Night and day we willnot fail to encompass thee with life giving influences. The magic wand of wealth and philanthropy, in the hands ofMr. J. W. Tufts, of Boston, Mass., has caused to spring from thevirgin forest of Moore county, a beautifully built city, as a resort for. Piny-Woods Resorts. 287 the afflicted. Five thousand acres are included in the holding, andon it has been laid out picturesque Pinehurst. The celebrated land-scape artist, Frederick Law Olmstead, was employed, and his tasteand skill are amply displayed in the work at this resort. The Boardof Agriculture also rendered assistance in locating this its field is rather unique in that its philanthropic originator hasbuilt with a view of relieving the afflicted with small means, as wellas the more fortunate, financiallj, it will be worth while to reproducea paragraph from his little book: Pinehurst is not intended to be asanitarium for hopeless invalids. It has no hospital features. It is abright cheery village, artisticalh- laid out, possessed of all modemcomforts and conveniences, carefull}- controlled so as to make itssanitary and other attractive conditions permanent. It invites thosein whom disease has not progressed so far as to render
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