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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1902
Page
3
A cotton buyer recalls a slow line from Pine Hill to Starge Easy where water ran dry and passengers used felt hats as buckets. While funnels cooled, a poker game bloomed aboard as the train finally lurched forward after the conductor yelled All aboard.
The Pinehurst Electric Railroad now connects with Seaboard Air Line trains at Southern Pines. A new timetable is forthcoming and a winter schedule will be arranged.
The Holly Inn undergoes rapid upgrades ahead of the season. The lobby floor will be hardwood, the rear open court becomes a 28 foot square smoking room with natural wood finish, and white enamel stairs. Re-papering repainting continues throughout. Bathing facilities are added to twelve rooms and a new brick oven replaces the old in the basement to enable bread supply for village hotels and cottages.
The writer notes substantial work on private family cottages, with six nearly doubled in size. A typical project converts a former kitchen into a dining room, adds kitchen and servant’s room at the rear, and rises two stories to create a new upper living space. Dormers are enlarged to brighten bedrooms and add a bath and toilet on the second floor, while interiors and exteriors are refreshed with paint and fine paper. The plan, varied across cottages, will push forward next season.
The village begins organizing a Fire Department and will push forward until fully equipped. Hose Company Number 1 lists Captain H. B. Stillings and members William McKay Thomas J. Gallagher KR. A. Barrett George Spangler George Colcott and J. W. Banner.
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