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Appalachian National Park Association Newspaper Clippings, 1899-1902

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  • ASHEVILLE DAILY CITIZEN I Thb Daily Citizen, Democratic, is published | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1902. WESTERN CAROLINA PARK. THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN _SATUj?DAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1893 Editor The Citizen :—I have seen in The Citizen, Waynesville Courier, Winston Sentinel, and probably other papers articles endorsing the idea of a Grand National Park. This idea is not a new one i.i the minds of a great many persons, residents and visitors to this beautiful mountain country. If I mistake not, Miss Fisher (Christian Reid) now Mrs. Dr. Tierman I of Salisbury, author of "Land of the Sky," was one of the first to call attcn Hon to this matter. , Mr. Wilbur Zeigler, formerly of Ohio, and once resident here and now of San Francisco, Cab, has recently written a strong letter to the Winston Sentinel (Jan 19) warmly urging this project. Mr. Zeigler suggests the iBalsam, west of Waynesville, with Canty Fork Balsam as the centre, and taking in the head waters of Pigeon, French Broad and Tuckasccge rivers. Col. J. D. Cameron, I see, suggests in The Citizen the head waters of Nantahala. The Waynesville Courier names Cat- aloochee and adjacent mountains of Bast Tennessee and Western North Carolina— where from 100,000 to ,150,000 acres of primitive, unbroken forest, including the Whittier lands, can be had in North Carolina, to say nothing of nearly an equal average of the wildest of lands on the Tennessee side. I am intimately acquainted with the Balsam, Cataloochee and Whittier lands and could hardly choose between them. All are wild aud grandly beautiful. Distance from present railroad facilities is the only objection that could be given now, but the completion of C. K. & W. - railroad (Knoxville, Tenn., to Greenville, S. C,) would remove that, and this I regard as a certainty in the, near future. Of the locality suggested by Col. Cameron I really know nothing, I only know him to be an honorable gentleman of surperior taste aud judgment. If you Asheville and Buncombe, people will "meet us half way" I believe I will suggest thePisgah locality as a com- ■ promise between us. And really thislocal- ity possesses advantages over any other named for a park on a grand scale. I believe that some of your citizens contemplate the building of an electric car line to the top of Pisgah. If this is possible, then the building of a line along on the top of Pisgah ridge around to the Balsam forests, possibly even on to the head of Pigeon and French Broad rivers would be not only practicable, but easily done. There is splendid water power for electric motors or plants on each side of the mountain. This route j penetrates some of the wildest scenery I in our mountains. Pisgah's view is so beautiful and awe-inspiring that no ordinary pen can describe it truthfully. I Cold mountain, Sams Knob, Black Knob, Laven Cliff, the Devil's Court I House, Devil's Looking Glass. Moores , Knob, Ivesters Peak etc., are always in view on this line. Of the vast stores of timber hid away in these mountain recesses it would require many pages to truthfully describe. Balsam, birch, ash, cherry, cucumber and scores of varieties of timber. But, "Woodman spare that tree"—must be the edict, if a beautiful park is intended to be made. IV. W. String-field. Waynesville, Feb. 11. '93. ^^^^^ CHARACTER OF THE OPPOSITION TO THEMRK Baptist Minister Asks That Denominational Schools and Churches be Barred OUR DELEGATION IN HARMONY Rivers and Harbors Bill Has Full Support from the North Carolina Members (Special to The Citizen.) Washington, Feb. 14.—One of the i most important subjects considered I Wednesday evening- at the meting of ! the North Carolina delegation in the office of Senator Prltchard, which was held for the purpose of discussing state legislative matters, was the proposed Appalachian park. It seems that some opposition has manifested itself against the bill designed to establish the park. The opposition is from two sources, both due to a misunderstanding as to the purposes of the bill. The report is in circulation in the more mountainous sections affected by the bill that the small landowners will lose their homes in the event of its passage, while the latest opposition that has developed is from Rev. J. G. Pulliam, a Baptist minister, whose home is at Lenior. An advance copy . of a circular letter that has been writ- | ten by Mr. Pulliam has been received here and this letter was given attention last evening. Those present decided, while engaged in an informal talk after the meeting, to ask the papers to call attention to the letter so that the people of the state might know the character of the opposition to the passage of the bill. The writer says: "In view of the importance of the bill should not our senators and representatives in Congress defer the passage of the measure until it can be discussed in our Baptist associations and other meetings? There is no necessity for rushing it through Congress, as several things ought to be in the bill that are not there. One is, that no religious sect, society or denomination could put a church or school on any part of it. So after careful consideration and council with the brethren I have decided to send out this letter. To open most of western North Carolina as a park is certain to turn loose upon us many dangerous, destructive influences to which our people are strangers—socialism and anarchy, but worse than all these, Roman Catholicism, the most dangerous, insidious foe of civil and religious freedom. The Roman Catholic has failed as yet to get a foothold in the mountains of the south. For years she has I coveted the ground and had her eye upon it. It is generally believed that che opening of this park will be her long looked for opportunity. When I she wants to plant a school or church on any public domain of the United S she never fails to Succeed." The letter is regarded as a most extraordinary production, and no one can imagine how any person could have gotten such a conception of the provisions and probable effect of the bill. The meeting was very well attended, both the senators and most of the representatives being present. Messrs. Blackburn and Klutz were necessarily absent, the former having gone to Baltimore to deliver an address at the banquet of the Lincoln club, and the latter having been detained at home nit business. According to an arrangement made during the holidays, Major Moody mailed cards to the members of the delegation giving notice of the meeting, as the 12th was not only Lincoln's birthday, but Major Moody's birthday, and it was presumed that he could best remember the date of the meeting. Hereafter the meetings will be held regularly, both for the discussion of legislative matters and for social intercourse. Perhaps in no state in the union, even where the delegation is of one political faith, do tne members work with a greater degree of harmony, than the representatives of the Old North State. Even on the subject of rivers and harbors, a subject in which some of the members have no direct interest, the members have volunteered mutual aid. And they have also agreed that no appropriation should be asked for that was not, in the opinion of all the members, reasonable and just. Senator Simmons made this fact clear the last time the delegation appeared before the rivers and harbors committee. It is reported that Mr. and Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt will not return to Asheville during the coming summer, at least not for a long stay, and that they contemplate an early trip to Europe. Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt are entertaining at their New York residence, but they only give dinners and musicals. They never give dances. Representative Thomas called at the agricultural department yesterday, where he is trying to get a position for Miss Lula Stewart of Carteret county. Mr. Thomas has also endorsed the application of Dr.I.F. Hicks.of Faison, for appointment as assistant surgeon in the navy. Mr. Thomas feels that he will have smooth sailing in the next congressional convention in his district, the Third, as Captain John D. Kerr of Sampson county has announced his withdrawal from the race. Mr. Kerr also announced that he would support the present incumbent, which relieves the field of all other candidates. A gentleman, who has been studying the census bulletins closely says that at the last election 123,160 voters in North Carolina failed to go to the polls. There are only nine counties in the state in which the negroes have a majority of votes, eight of these coun- , ties being Chowan, Edgecomb, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, Scotland, Vance and Warren; The House committee on Postoffices and Post Roads has finished work on the post-office appropriation bill. The appropriation for free rural delivery has been increased over a million dollars, and provision has been made in the bill for a carrier service under the contract system, which applies to the star routes now. F. H. HOWDAND. / Proposed Forest Reserve. The advantages of the proposed Apala- I chian forest reserve were set forth at a bearing of the House committee on agrrlcul-i ture today, Representative Brownlow of Tennessee and Profs. Holmes anil McOee of the solentltic branch of the government , service being heard In favor of the project. \
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