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Mnlubrlly of till fcei'llou. This feature is characteristic of the country adjncent to the Blue Ridge. No other range of long nettled countieH van hIiow ho small n ratio of mortality as those that lie at the western base of the Blue Rid sc. The following table gives the ratio of consumption in several sections of the country. The figured indicate the number of deaths from thin disease in every one thousand deaths : Northern New EuRlauil ( nearly ) 850 MinurioU and California, 130 Kttuluuky and Tennessee, 10V Western North Carolina, 80 But the ratio of consumption generated in a country is not a test of its relative capacity for promoting recovery when the dis ease is established. The low lands of the South generate a much less ratio than the colder regions of the North, and yet, as the statistics of mortality in the army clearly show, they tend quite as much, if not more, to promote its progress when exist ing. The hot, moist Southern atmos phere by inducing debility and fever hastens the progress if the disease. On the other hand, the extreme cold of higher Northern latitudes prove fatal by exhaust ing the small heat-producing ca pacity of the consumptive. A moderately cool and highly in vigorating atmosphere has been found to be by fur the most fa vorable. Altitude has come to be recognized as indispensable to any considerable proportion of recoveries. It is, in fact, one of the most important conditions. The beneficial effects in almost all cases are felt soon after reach ing the bracing air of this moun tain region. Very soon after ar rival the appetite improves, the cough is moderated, night-sweats cease, and the patient enjoys more refreshing sleep. And accom panying this improvement there is a feeling of increased strength and vigor. This region possesses a greater number of conditions favorable to recovery from lung diseases than any other part of the United States. 1'rof. Dickson, of .Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, states that the health of himself and family has nowhere improved so much as in Ashevillo Ho is "not aware of any other spot in Europe or America so full of all that is desirable as the country of Asheville. Ashevillo, for many years, was known as a summer resort only, but since the erection of several large all-the-year-round hotels, its fame has gone forth through out the Northern States, and to day Asheville is a greater winter resort for the Northern people than it ever was a summer re sort for the Southerner. Now the advantage of the climate, both in summer and winter, is so woll known that tho town is full of visitors the year round, and the crowds are growing larger all the time. The wealthiest men in the world have turned their at tention to Asheville.and are buy ing property here. RAVKNSCHOrT Roa4 Kal Of which an illustration is given, is on tho Western North Carolina Railroad, just below the remarkable engineering for which this road is famous. About the hotel for miles the track can be seen twisting and turning up the sides of the mountain to gain the height of the SwHiinanoa Gap, when it gradually descends to the French liroad valley and Asheville. One of the sights of the place Is the fountain said to be the highest from natural pressure in the world. No mora delightful place can be imagined in which to spend the hot summer months, The Citizkn is indebted to n pamphlet issued by Messrs. Nigc low si Jones, real estate dealer, and to a special edition issued by the livening Visitor, of ltuloigh, for matter used in this issue. Till) OA KM, One ol' AnIiv1I1'n MonI Allriio. live IIoIvIm. Tiik Oaks Hotki. opened in Jan uary, 18W), is an elegant and well 'conducted house in every depart ment. The rooms are large, airy and well ventilated. This hotel is situated in a large oak grove, with fine shade and plenty of (WISH flllllT fnil. or.... i" " "..v iw.ii c,M..ic-n iiuiii j very oesr sanitary results. the centre of the city. Luwuof the views to be had tennis and croquet grounds, swings, hammocks, etc. Electric street cars pass the door every ten minutes, and guests can come from depot or go to any part of the city for Ave cents. The house is furnished with gas, electric lights and bells, hot and cold baths, city hydrant water, cistern water well liltered. Fresh new milk, mostly from our own cows. Butter selected with great care. Largo oilice, dining rooms, double parlors, musical instruments' of various kinds. A large, well mounted telescope, with an ele vation of eighty feet, from which the views of the city and moun tains are grand. the location of this hotel is well adapted for the comfort and en joyment of guests, occupying about one-half of a thirteen acre college campus, covered with oaks, pines, evergreens and (low ers. All other buildings remote, and yet in the besf resilient part of the city. Kates moderate. Terms by the week or month made to suit parlies. A. II. Sites, Manager; A. K, lieiulint:. Clerk ; II. .1. (ireenweli, i wner ami Proprietor. tntli-llllr IViiiiiIo 4'll-u. This is one of the most thorough most elegant and best equipped Institutes in the Smith. Literary course is extensive and thorough. Departments of Music and Art are unsurpassed. The building is large, well arranged, nicely fur nished, heated by steam, bath rooms with hot and cold water. Pupils have all the attention and comforts of an elegant and well- ordered home. Tho health record of the College is the best on the continent. If you want your daughter well educated, and high ly cultured, and at the same time surrounded by all the comforts of home, you can obtain these great benefits in this college at a mod erate cost. Write for cutalogue to 1'rof. H. E. Atkins, President A. F. College, Copies of this edition of the Citi.kn may be had at the count ing rooms, No. 0 N. Court Square. IIIUII SCHOOL. Npleadld I'reperly. The Asheville Loan, Construc tion & Improvement Co. Paid up capital, 3(M),(KK). (loo. S. Powell, president and business manager; W. W. Barnard, treas urer. Hoard of directors Hich inond Pearson, J. 8. Kankin,T, II. Cobb, J. S. Adams, Geo. 8. Pow ell. The company owns about six hundred acres of the finest building and manufacturing sites in the city. This has been beau tifully laid out into lots, maps of which can be had on application. Special inducements are being ollered to a limited number of persons who will erect first class residences at once. The demand for tlii property lias been unpre cedented in tho history of Ashe ville real estae, and its success as the popular residence part of the city has already been assured. St The property is now being laid 1 ,,e "'" ""r -' out with broad avenues, with : This mountain region, with its paved gutters and shade trees on j area of 5.700 square miles, had, each ide. Water, sewer and ; until within the last ten years, electric street railway running heen as secluded as a vast fortress through tho centre of the prop- i secured in its relative imieeessi erty. I'ark and lt.ke sites have j biJity. Adventurous population been left at convenient distances I had indeed found a way into its through the property and a com-j deepest recesses, for the charm, plete water and sewer plan has I the be"uty, the wealth of the heen adopted so as to give the I I . t. Some from points on this property are unsur passed in Western North Caro lina, and that almost means the world. The property is reached from the centre of Ashevillo by the best grades leading out of the city. The street car line just do cided on, and running out Hay wood, Academy and Mulberry streets, a distance of one and a half mile, has a maximum grade of seven per cent., and that for only about four hundred feet. So taken altogether there are probably no investments in the South that promise better re turns than these. For further in formation apply to Geo. S. Pow ell, president, Ashevillo, N. C. OI.KN ROCK ItMveiiM'rolt lllltli Nrhool for lloyo. Ravenscroff High School for Boys commenced its fourth year, being the second under Mr. Mac Donald's management, on Sep tember 17th, 18!H). The school owes its existence to the action of the North Carolina Diocesan Con ventions in 1SSII and 1887, which aimed at complying with the gen eral demand lor a Diocesan Class ical School of a high character. The school buildings are situ ated on high and extensive grounds, the property of the Dio cese, in the city of Ashevillo, anil thus nll'ord the advantages of perfect liealthl'ulncss, charming scenery, and ample grounds for sports. The main building is sub stantiullv built of brick and con tains the boys' dormitory, lava tory and common room, and the dining room and living rooms ol the household. The school-room is a separate brick building of ample proportions, whtr so all recitations are held. The number of pupils has trebled in the last two years. The home life of the boys re ceives the constant oversight of the Head Master and assistants, and in the use of the house and grounds the boys are treated as members or one family. 1 lie va rious games suitable to the sea son und the grounds are eneour aged by the Head Master, and carried on with his personal care, ana the irequent participation ol himself und his assistants. The school year contains three terms, the Christmas term, the buster term anil the t rinity term. ror the coming school year the Christmas term ends Dei ember 18th, 18D0, and the Easter term begins January 'Jd, I sill. The full course of instruction is designed to cover four years, and to prepare for admission to col lege or university. f he terms of admission are, for boarders, three hundred dollars per annum, payable half-yearly in advance. For tuition alone in case of day scholars, the terms are eighty dolLrs. For further information address the Head Master, Ronald MacDonalo, B. A. (Oxford.) ' . v-IS country could not be hidden from American people, prone to change, or alive to interest ; and from the beginning of the present century it had been occupied in j every part, organized into conn ties, each with its own thrifty county town, intersected with roads, and within itself strong and prosperous, but scarcely con tented ; for tho people, were prac tically enclosed within their bar riers unable to avail themselves profitably of their large internal resources, and, therefore, with out motive or stimulus to larger development. Around this gre it j mountain sonlusion, looking down i from a height of fifteen hundred j feet, the great current ol human life, with its uctive commerce and with its swelling tide of travel swept with ceaseless flow, ; nor paused to' find or force an 1 entrance into this upper region. If it beat at all against the moun tain wall, it was turned back ' again into the old channels, until ' at length human skill and daring led the iron horse by sinuous path up through gorge and rock until the brave adventurers looked .down upon this long-concealed ' western paradise. The kev was found, the door was opened ; and since" the transit of the Western North Carolina Kailroad across the Blue Ridge, in I8K0 the active stream which onco con lined its How to all below the IIOTK! mountains, now sweeps with re. sistless flow through nil the upper regions, traverses all its valleys, and climbs or pierces ali its mountain ranges, and gives, up there, all tho facilities of move ment enjoyed by those portions of the country more favored in natural facilities. The Western Extension of the Western North Carolina road, after ascending the Blue Ridge by a marvellous feat of engineering, overcoming the ascent of over one thousand feet in a devious course of nine miles, during which it passes through seven tunnels, completes the whole course of sj miles at Paint Rock, where it connects with the Tennessee load, and through that with all the mails of the Ohio and Mississippi val leys. A branch of this road, the Murphy Division, leaves the main stem at Asheville, and at present is approaching its terminus at Murphy, a distance of l.'JI miles. The Ashevillo and Spartanburg road, with a length of seventy miles, also overcoming the heavy mountain grades a few miles south of Henderson ville, makes daily and rapid communication with all the points lo the South and Southeast. Other lines of railroad are provided for. und in a brief period the mountain plateau will be as liberally inter sected with railroads us the plain country below. Mm. lliiltliiMil'ii Mclimtl for Uhlm This school is situated in the most ilesirablo residence portion of Asheville, at No. 40 French Broad avenue, and is an English and French home and day school for girls, conducted by Mrs. Bur gwyu Maitlaud, for many years associate principal of Mt. Vernon Institute, Baltimore. Mrs. Mait- land's residence is u large, com fortable, well-heated dwelling, with ample assembly and recita tion rooms. Mrs. Maitlaud is as sisted by competent English and French teachers. The course of instruction in cludes the usual English branches with French, Latin, German, In strumental and Vocal Music, Art, Needle-work, Dancing, Rid minimi other accomplishments. Mrs. Mait land has recently returned from Europe, where she spent much time in the schools of Berlin and Paris, and she is prepared to in troduce some of the best methods of those schools. For references and terms address the Principal. The MirMllN C 'Tin- l.nnd l The Shy." The mission of the Raleigh Renting Vinitot; on this first day of the dreariest season of the year, is rather a pleasing one. It is pleasing to note even the prosper ity of others. It is grateful to the kind heart to be able to carry good news to the disconsolate, news of relief to the suffering, to point the afllicted to a balm, and the depressed to a fountain from which flows the iuvigorating buoyancy, the antidote for lassi tmle. Such is the mission of the Vim'tof at this time. And not only so, but to tell of solid pros perity, not that booming, fever ish appreciation of property, that is the result of extraordinary ef fort, the apparent outcome of (7icic, sham sales, and all that, which may shine ever so brightlv while the glow is on, but when the smoke has cleared away and the Hare of the blaze is no more. nothing but ashes remain. It is pleasant in these days of noisy boasting ami llippmit asscr tations, to find a subject about which a statement of facts will shine as brightly as liction, ami truth ami moderation will put to blush the blatant balderdash of sensationalism. Such is our privilege to-day. Asheville, North Carolina, is in truth and verity a prosperous city. Her growth lias been the subject of adverse criticism for years, and bound after bound has been ;ixed as the ultimate limit f her progress; but each of thee has b.'on ignored, as in her almost phenomenal strides of prosperity. sin has overleaped them all, ami like the sturdy imk amid whose branches the storm-whols have shrieked their wildest .lime grows on. mi Asheville. without what is know as a "boom." has continued, her rapid growth ami her course is still onward. Hundreds who have gone to her borders seeking relief from what seemed hopeless maladies have found it, and with it they have found pleasant homes and profitable investments for their capital and energy, where they may enjoy their new lease of life. The columns of this issue of the I " are devoted to Ashe- ville and its vicinity, and mi or der that a correct view be pres. ented to the minds of our renders, we have, by permission, made numerous and extensive extracts from more felicitous pens, which we commend to llieir attention. Fi-oiii the Jlah itjh, .V. 6'., V'-niloi; Detrmhrr Ul, 1S:0. PUCES OP IXTKItKsT IN ANO AHOl'ND ASIIKVII.I.H, WITM HIS TANCKS. ' MILK. 1'Vriiiliiirst, ConiiiillyV llrivc Kklimonil Hill (. Swiinimtiiiii litivr und Wit t r Woilm .1 ('Hindi's I'ciik ,. -, Sunset llrivc Tuliliifosiiv hrivr 2 Sulphur Spiins Motel ,. is Smilli's Miiiiiiiiiin : HfiiinnttluT Miitiiiliiiii iivrrloiikini; City, (iillilmli- a,NOO t Anion Park lo Hickory Nut Pulls 'J'J Vimili'iliill I suite II I'isKfih Momitiiiii.iiUitu.lcri.Ti'H't,, 11 Milvlirll IViik " 11,730 " UH Cii'tni's llvuil 45 CniKK)' Mouniiiiii 11 Hut Springs. )' riiilnmtl 37 Summary UAIIK AT Tlllt I NITUII STATUS SIllNAI. SltaVICII STATION. WIN'VAII SANITARIUM, ASItllVILLU, N. Ulevnllnll nhovc Sei, a,:M fret, l.nlltinle .1.1. .'Ill N. Lonidtudr si 'Jil W. Iloura of ol.nerrntlon, T A. M a P, M unit B P. M. Hi'ir-iT)tl!friiitf mimlinimi mid minimum therm-nm'tern. Ittttrinnenln miniril In Ninmlnrd t'. S. Slvrinl Srrvlcv Shelter. Pnrnmrtricrvduc tlonit for nltltniU' nntl leinperiil uru til ii'J 'I' nvvriiiieit iihotil a A Inelien. oxuiif oliNerviUloim Hrtvr method uf Neitrcttl und Kninlir. SMSON. MONril. Mny 'line 'uly Auiin-I Sil winder. . "rloliur 'snmn Moulin , in i 71 I 7" . 117 . in . M .nut .j IUI Summer nl I'M). KAIII, ton ttUCK. B. S.. H. D II wiih Pretty fteurly the 4 or. reel Tliliitf. Asheville can well he proud of the weather for the month of No vember. While north, east and west rains and storms prevailed, this city has had a month with remarkably low humidity, clear, calm days, cool inijit!-', and not u day without sunshine. The rain fall was very light; much more so, in fact, Hum was altogether agreeable. TIih last week was hazy, hut this always happens this time of the year. Ashevilli', as a resort, is more than holding her own as far as weather, health, modern con veniences, scenery, and all those conditions so essential with any cliuiatii resort in the country. i 'fijrtW Suites Siftmil Service Station, ( H'rUYi Suiiiliiriiiiil, Aslwvillr.X, (.'. l.nt. an. ,'IH N , I.uiik. h-j I'll W. lilivat'u" iiliovc ma li-vi'l, U.UAo. I l!xjfurc ill inxtrumriu In II, R. Slnnl fccn'irt' HMclttT.I Summary of M. icmlcKkul ol rvuUoni fur NcvuiOht 1jii. MMNTIM.V M ISA TH.MI'KRATCRB." 7 a ill U i mill p miMiuill Mean I'l.lly i .luiiii an , ii si'ni !! Mt'iiu Monthly Kitnuc. Vuriiitiuu i O.i .'11.47. MAXIMUM T'i.MI'JJHATI-aU. llidh t" I Kite "1" Minn MI.HH lUll 11.1 Ul MINIMI M rimi'KHAITKK. " Ulllt! m Menu UN..". KKI.ATIVi; lir.MIIHTV I a p iii II. Ill U I' III nf..ai ll'illlv Menu. AIISlll.t'TIi IH-.MIIHTV. KiriiluN ut nutiKturi' H.-r vulik-fut'l uf nlr. ) 7 n in a li m U p in lllnily Mi-uii a .nisi I a..V.7 I ;:.iiv. I a.ui IIAIMMHTIvK. I CllllCl'i It, mm k vcl lit 3'.K.) 7 n in I 3 p in III i in 1 1 Huh ' Him-1 flmit :ui.a::iii.i,i uiu.aaiaiioiia i ii'u.uali ai. Menu nnri nu- it I t iminlh. .'lo.ai. K A INI' ALL, On 3 ilim-rcnt rin o.ol in. nr .iinr-: rnin iVH Cii'au-m inn., unt mi a .y tine ,-uv o 1 a. Ttiutl nir in. n. h ii 1:11 kninlu'l nlmuii 3 In. .,el-,vv t.vvriiKt' It iimnili - . WISH. SOU tin H ilnyn: ircntlc' lireeie. 17tlnvm inuilernttf uintl. :t tlum; cvvrv wind a iiu'; pivv.-tiliiitf flirectliin N. WHATllliH. No. elt-ur dnyit. Nil Intr l Nti. eintiily find I thl.vn ruitiy tlaya. wil hnit nni'.nint, O I'ZilNI-.. " I'er eetit. 'it pomlhle loo. Mean for Nov .i B.I per eenl. KAKL VON KrL'k"il M. I liircetor of oliervnlory C. P. Ain'iler, M. II.. Illntvrver, In I lorj Park Hotel. Now so widely famous has had an existence very brief in proportion to the fame and influence it has achieved. Its influence has been directly upon Abbeville; for the knowle.Ue of the existence of such a hotel has attracted guests, many of them renowned for intel lectual achievement; very many of 1 lii-iii noted for wealth, and lai'no numbers leaders or partici pants in the highest walks ol fash ionable life. The possession of a liuildinj: so capacious, of accom modation and entertainment so ample, or a niiimifieineiit so lib eral, has stimulated thought and energy to bring up every other institution and enterprise to its high plane; anil the fine ell'ects of this laudable emulation are seen everywhere; in the city of Asheville. The builder ami owner of this hotel was himself put under the stimulus, l'lacing the hotel where he did, he was forced into rivalry with nature. It has a frontage of over three hundred feet, and a width of one hundred and seventy-live feet. One of the greatest external charms is the long, broad veran das along the whole frontage. com manding the grand and lovely landscape, and catchimithe grate ful summer hreexe; in winter, when I he breezes change lo lierce cutting blasts, then these veran das change to long ulass conserva tories, I'l'oiii which the observer can look out upon the wintry scene with very comforting iletl ii ore ul the cold without. And this is a feature that secures the cliai'acb'r of an all the year round hotel; so perfectly cool u nil airy in summer, it is not the less warm and cheery in winter. Of this establishment, Mr. John Ii. Steele is the manager. of Meteorological Observations ;; i ifMt tii i j I i : I it II is i -ill i 1 I I 1111 1 1 n f I ii I 111 I iillslillllslillll i i 4-1 ?it mi sx mi m i wi ni in w ih nu iu wi iii m is M i iu hi rs hi mi ss rr iu in win is 711 111 7s m wi ! iw i 47 mi1 m 14 (vi. 711 M wi mi tin 1 4U si 17 ul: ini nn ms wi mi 41 nu iu in 41 4.14V1 o.nia siiim nun i nx i H 711 WI HA IW WI Wi 4A l 111 7K n (ft SI HA Ml H (HI 71 114 III I M 71 WI m II 4H 711 IW M IW 77 U4 M 4 III 711 IN IH III T'j 41 lit Mil t 7II 71 mi Ml Director of Obwmtorjr. FACTS ABOUT ASHEVILLE. From tlm Report of the Presl (lent of the lioiiril of Trade. Ten years ago Asheville con tuined a population of 2,fil0. To day she has a population of 12,000. In 1880 the assessed value of the property in the city was !)04,428. To-day it is iM,.m234, an increase of 500 per cent, in ten years. The increase of business in 1880 over the business of 18S8 was 25 per cent. As indicating the steady and continuous growth of the city, I will state that during the year 1K8! there were erected here 184 buildings at a cost of 528,000. The manufacturing business of the city is enlarging rapidly, and I make the prediction that within ten years Asheville will be the largest hard wood manufacturing city in the South. Dr. O. D. Smith, the well known scientist of Macon county, stated that Western North Carolina contained the hard wood with which the world is to be supplied in the nex, nity years, with one ex ception North Carolina has the largest percentage of forest area of any of the Southern States, the area in acres being 57.9 of the whole, and this percentage is greater in Western North Caro lina than in any other pait of the State. It abounds in the most valuable timber poplar, now growing so greatly in favor in tho Northern markets, and also in oak, hickory, black walnut, ash, cherry, locust, pine, etc. There are four miles of electric street railway running to tho most prominent points in the city. There are two systems of electric lighting, the arc and in candescent, by which the streets are lighted and also business houses, public buildings and pri vate dwellings. In addition to these there are gas works which share largely in such uses. There are three graded schools for white pupils and one for col ored pupils, educating altogether twelve hundred children. There are moreover two male acade mies, two female colleges, one female high school, and one theo logical school. Our railroad system connects us speedily with all parts of the country with double daily trains. It may be stated here that in our population are included about two thousand residents of North ern and foreign birth, the latter being chiefly English and Scotch. There are one hundred and forty-four business houses in the city; and iu this connection I will Btate that lust year there were only two failures, and those for small amounts. This is highly creditable to the good business judgment and high intelligence of our merchants, and it presents u record unsurpassed by any town of similar size in the whole country. ville. One of the first men of this country writing to the Atlanta Coimtitution sums up his impres sion of this city iu the follow ing: "1 have traveled in many of the countries of the world,! have en joyed the snow-clad heights of Switzerland in July, I have bask ed under the sunny skies of Italy, I have sailed along the golden shores of the Mcditcranean in December, and 1 have gazed over the Russian plains from the heights of the Caucasus, but up on a more entrancing spot than that upon which sits the Hattcry l'ark, like a bird of beauty, my eye has never rested. If you wish to save time, expense and trouble in looking for the beauti ful places of the earth come to Asheville. C. It; MOT' 4H 4A 4 44 7 HI III1 IM Ml I ID' WI Ml II HI III 6 WI. IW Ml 17 IM m 6 71 117 Ml 17' 8S Mli I WI Oil Ml 1111 U 71 I 77 IVillHtl TsjlMI 8f t) n l Ml l U l 4 It. IH . IB. 'r tl ia . I i s Til ml iH" s 0. r. AMBLBB, M. D, Obeemr.