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RESORT
SECTION
VOLUME XIV., No. 32.
AUGUSTA THE IDEAL WINTER RESORT T % SOUTH
Magnificent Tourist Hotels—-Splendid Golf Links—A Beautiful Country Club—Many Miles of the Best Roads
in the Country—All These Factors Enter Into Augusta’s Ability to Make Comfortable
Thousands of Guests During the Winter Months
THE COTTAGE COLONY IS ALSO A LARGE AND DISTINGUISHED ONE
MANY OF THE MOST PROMINENT PEOPLE IN AMERICA REGULARLY SPEND THEIR WINTERS
IN CLIMATE-BLESSED AUGUSTA
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Sitirated Three Hundred
Feet Aliove the River, it
Commands a Superlative
ly Fcautiful View.
OFTEN ENLARGED
First S3nH.ll Structure Has
Been Repeatedly Added
To Until Present Struc
ture Has Been Attained.
Its Fame Has Spread
Over All the Land.
There is music in the name, and
there is charm ineffable in that which
the name evokes to those who have
seen and visited this beautiful tourist
hotel crowning the hills of •Summer
ville.
The hotel has an eminence of three
hundred feet above the level of the
Savannah river, and commands some
of the most superlatively beautiful
views of the river and the pine
crowned height above the river it is
possible to imagine.
No location for a hotel could pos
sibly be more desirable, situated as
it is in the heart of this beautiful
suburb, a suburb the tree-arched thor
oughfares of which are lined with
stately residences, some of them pos
sessing rare historic interest, and
many of them being the crowning ef
forts of modern architects who have
been given carte blanche for the ex
ecution of their plans by the multi
millionaire owners. The hotel is but
fifteen minutes’ ride to the very busi
ness heart of Augusta, and yet it is
as far removed from the noise and
bustle and dust and grime of the city
as though it 'were a thousand miles
away. No dampness of any kind ever
reaches to that lofty height, as the
United States government long ago
established when it elected to build
the Arsenal in Summerville, where
ammunition and arms would be safe
from rust. The average winter tem
perature, according to the weather
bureau located in Augusta, is fifty-four
degrees at 8 -o’clock in the morning,
for the months of December, Janu
ary, February and March.
The original hotel was rather a
small building, the capacity of which
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The
Hampton
Terrace
Hotel
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
THE HOTEL BON AIR ON THE SAND HILLS ABOVE AUGUSTA
was so quickly tested that it became
necessary to add to it again and yet
again until now it is four times as
large as it was at first. Not only
have there been added almost count
less bed-rooms each with its private
bath, and innumerable suites, for
those who come in large parties, but
many reading rooms, reception rooms
and other conveniences for the guests
have offered double attractions to
those who feel compelled, in spite of
the beautiful weather, to spend a cer
tain portion of their time indoors. Two
enormous sun-parlors are especially
attractive, and in one of these the
five-o’clock tea has become one of he
most important social events of the
day.
The dining room is one of the most
attractive in the country, and the
cuisine leaves nothing to be desired,
while the flowers that are used for
decorative purposes make the sojour
ner realize that indeed he is in the
land of perpetual summer. This be
ing an unusually mild winter in Au
gusta, almost all of the summer flow
ers have continued to bioom in the
hotel grounds, adding tenfold to the
attractiveness of the beautiful place.
The magnificent golf course is nat
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY I, 1909.
urally the centre of interest, but
other sports, such as tennis, squash,
billiards, pool, bowling, etc., are very
generally enjoyed. Automobtling and
horse-back riding of course come in
for a part of the attention of the
tourists.
The fact that the Bon Air Hotel has
been the headquarters for the presi
dential-elect party this winter, and
that nis is the preferred place of win
ter residence for John D. Rockefeller
and olher national celebrities natural
ly gives not a little zest to the inter
est the pleasure-loving and beauty
worshipping find in the place.
Being the resort of the very
wealthy, the hotel is always adorned
with magnificent toilets worn by
some having the reputation of being
the best-drfessed in the world, while
the halls and corridors, reception
rooms and parlors are constantly
alight with the most priceless jewels
owned In his counry.
This hotel is a favorite place for
bapqufts and private entertainments
given by Augustans and those who
have cottages for the season, and the
management of the hotel may always
be relied upon to make these enter
tainments beautiful beyond all con
ceiving.
Not for one season during the
twenty years of its existence has the
hotel ceased to be a paying invest
ment, and every year it increases in
popularity, having exactly twice the
number of guests today that it had
at this time last year.
HER FATAL ERROR.
He was supposed to be a poor but
otherwise honest young man, while
she was admittedly a thing of beauty.
"Will you marry me?” he asked.
“No,” she answered.
‘‘You are very short," he muttered.
“Ditto,” she replied. “That’s why
there is nothing doing in the matri
nfbnial line.”
“Oh, I don’t know,” he sneered, as
he extracted an obese billhook from
an inside pocket and displayed a
number of SI,OOO bills. "I’m not so
short.”
Whereupon the unwary maid tried
to fall upon Tiis neck, bul he graceful
ly side-stepped and she fell to the
floor In a faint.. —Exchange.
Our Winter Guests Jlre Most
Welcome, Says Mayor Dunhar
“Speaking for the Municipality I would say that we arc always glad
to have visitors to our city, whether they just drop In or keep steady
company. Even If, as a Municipality, we do not derive any direct ma
terial benefits from the tourists, there arc numerous ways in which our
interests are advanced, even by the sojourners in our midst. Our
civic pride is aroused, and we want to make a good impression. We
put our house in order, and don our Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. In
other words, we put our streets in repair and try to keep them clean.
Another thing, our city is advertised far and wide. The outside world
knows that we are on the map. Moreover, a certain percentage of
those who come to sojuorn settle down to stay, make good citizens and
tax payers, swell the population and the assessment roll, increase the
business and prove of great benefit generally. Socially, the tourists have
a tendency to induce intercourse and produce good feeling between the
various sections of our country. This broadens the mind of our people.
In short, our winter tourists prove a most valuable asset, and we arc
glad to have them with us.” MAYOR W. M. DUNBAR.
DAILY AND SUNDAY $6.00 PER YEAR
RESORT
SECTION
HAMPTON TERRACE
WONDERFULLY
BEAUTjFUL
Is Within Few Minutes*
Ride of the Heart of Au
gusta's Business District
on Sunny Hill-Top.
SUN IN EVERY ROOM
Regal is Only Word Fit
tingly Describing This
Winter Palace. Is Artis
tically Furnished in
Homelike Maimer. Under
New Management This
Season.
If there Is anything in the world
more wonderfully beautiful than the
view to be had from the front of the
Hampton Terrace hotel It Is some
thing that must be sought at the fur
thermost corners of the earth, for cer.
talnly In this part, of (he country
there Is nothing that can equal that
marvelous panorama of hills and skv
and of the city far down In the val
ley beneath.
Hampton Terrace Is so constructed
that front practically every one of
Its three hundred bed-rooms may bn
enjoyed a view similar In degree if
hero and there somewhat different In
character from that which la seen
when looking to the South, and »o
happily is the hotel constructed that
for at least four hours each day the
sun shines on every one of these
rooms.
From the first moment of its erec
tion, Hampton Terrace has been ex
tensively admired for Its architectu
ral perfections from the standpoint
of comfort and sanitation and no leas
for the beauty of the pictures upon
which Its window eyes open; but Just
at first its Immediate surroundings
were not thought to be as attractive
as they might, be made. Recently,
however, all this has been changed,
and the 'hotel grounds have taken on
a beauty that Is beyond compare.
Hotel and grounds together occupy a
whole hill, and every Inch of this
bill that is not covered with perfume
laden pines Is sodded In Bermuda
grass that gives way only In the im
mediate neighborhood of the build
ings to a number of rare and beauti
ful flowers. Skirting the bill is tlj#
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On the
Heights
of North
Augusta