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PHARMACY
24 SOUTH MAIN STREET
JOHN CHILD REAL ESTATE AND LOANS UTILICEBY A BROKERAGE BUSINESS.)
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Timber and Mineral La
LOANS SECURELY PLACED
DON'T FORGET
LAWRENCE PULLIAM
Fire Insurance.
ENULNEM HERMAN, CANADIAN, NEW ENGLAND, NORTHERN AND SOUTITERN COMPANIES.
JEST, STRONGEST, AND BEST.
CÓ TRACTOR AND BUILDER
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Thad. W. Thrash. J. M. Thrash.
THE PLACE TO BUY YOUR
China, Glassware, Crockery Lamps, Plated Cutlery, House-Furnishing, Wooden. AND TINWARE.
Charter Oak Stoves, &c., Very reasonable in price is the CRYSTAL PALACE. Thad. W. Thrash & Co., Pro prs No. 41 Patton Ave., Grand Opera House Building, TERMS CASH.
JONES & SHUFORD ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Nos. 5 and 6,
JOHNSTON BUILDING,
Chambers & Weaver, LIVERY,
-AND-
Sale Stables 15 & 17, Cor. Willow St. & Water, BETWEEN SWANN HOTEL AND EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Telephone No. 18.
Raysor & Smith,
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS,
31 Patton Ave., ASHEVILLE, N. C. Telephone 5.
Cortland Bros.,
Real Estate BROKERS, Investment Agents. AND
NOTARIES PUBLIC,
Loans Securely Placed at 8 % Interest. 24 & 26 Patton Ave.
Asheville Furniture & Lumber Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF Walnut, Oak and Cherry FURNITURE, BAND SAWED POPLAR.
LUMBER A SPECIALTY.
GENERAL OFFICE :
ASHEVILLE, N. C.
COLUMBUS F. GRIFFING,
REAL ESTATE,
AND
LOANS,
ASHEVILLE, N. C.
N. P. CORN, Contractor and Builder, AND
Superintendent of Buildings Of All Descriptions. Estimates Furnished on Short Notice. P. O. Box 496.
ASHEVILLE, N. C.
J. H. LAW, 57, 59, 61. So. Main, Crockery, Glass, Cutlery, AND LAMPS. Largest Stock, Lowest Prices Always.
Carter & Craig,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS,
OFFICE :
Legal Corner, 2d Floor,
1st Door to the Left.
W. O. MULLER.
WATER & COLLEGE STS. WHISKIES, WINES and BEER, Bottled Goods for Family Use,
A SPECIALTY. TELEPHONE 20.
MRS. J. L. SMATHERS.
First-Class Boarding 318 PATTON AVE.
Motor Car Line.
THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
THE COLLECTION OF NORTH CAROLINIANA ENDOWED BY JOHN SPRUNT HILL CLASS OF 1889
C971.11 A82f 1890
The National Bank
OF ASHEVILLE.
U. S. DEPOSITORY=+
"CAPITAL, $150,000€
OFFICERS
D. C. WADDELL, President.
W. W. BARNARD, Vice-President.
LAWRENCE PULLIAN, Cashier.
DIRECTORS
RICHMOND PEARSON.
J. L. CARROLL.
J. P. SAWYER.
GEO. A. SHUFORD.
D. C. WADDELL.
T. W. PATTON.
W. W. BARNARD.
S. F. CHAPMAN,
45 Patton Avenue,
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA,
-DEALER IN-
Standing Timber, Manganese
-AND-
IRON ORE AND LANDS.
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
LOCUST
INSULATOR PINS AND
TREENAILS.
Attention is called to the fact that Locust Insulator Pins last 20 times as long as Oak, and are twice as strong.
P. A. CUMMINGS,
Attorney at $ Notary Public.
No. 12 McLOUD BUILDING,
ASHEVILLE, N. C.
DEEDS PROBATED AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TAKEN.
SPECIAL ATTENTION TO DEPOSITIONS.
Abstracts and Titles made, and Real Estate Sold and Bought on Commission.
SPECIAL ATTENTION TO ALL BUSINESS.
B. F. P. BRIGHT, WILL GIVE YOU PROTECTION FOR
DEATH, ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS,
Combined in one Certificate in the Mutual Union Association.
Home Office, - - ROCHESTER, N. Y.
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I also represent the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, of New York. Its cash Reserve Surplus is .$ 2,668.108
Paid in Death Claims. 9.000.000
Insurance in Force, over. 185,000.000
The Central Trust Fund of New York is the Trustee of its Reserve Fund. The American Loan and Trust Company, of New York, Truatee of Special Emergency Fund. The Preferred Mutual Accident and Provident Fund Society, of New York, is two of the best Companies there are anywhere.
CALL AND SEE ME BEFORE TAKING OUT INSURANCE.
792471
Respectfully, B. F. P. BRIGHT,
Dr. BATTLE OFFICE, Johnston Building.
FULENWEIDER & BROTHER,
FINE
MEDIUM AND INDIFFERENT
GOOD,
BETTER,
AND BEST.
FOOT WEAR,
PRICES. COMMENSURATE WITH QUALITY.
10 PATTON AVENUE.
W. B. WILLIAMSON & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
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Furniture !
Carpets !
Etc., Etc.
16 PATTON AVENUE.
HEADQUARTERS FOR
Artistic Furniture,
DAVIS and NEW HOME SEWING MACHINES.
Established 1832-58 Years ago!
Our Specialty is :
Everything fine, good and lasting in Bank and Commercial Stationery. No slop-shop work about us. Full value given and fair prices asked.
In Binding and the Manufacture of Blank Books :
Our work is the very strongest and best, and our Patent Flexible Back Binding for all Full Bound Books, is the strongest and freest opening Binding in the world.
In Printing :
We have all the improved facilities in type, presses and stereotyping, which this pro- gressive age demands.
In Stationery, Paper, Etc.
Our stock is the largest and in the greatest variety of any in the South. Anything in demand by our trade we have.
In Lithographing :
We have the best arrangements for furnish- ing first-class Commercial and Bank work at the very lowest living prices.
Walker, Evans and Cogswell Company,
3 and 5 Broad and 117 East Bay Streets,
CHARLESTON, S. C
ENGLISH AND FRENCH
Boarding and Day School
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For Young Ladies and Little Girls.
No. 40 French Broad Avenue,
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA,
Mrs. BURGWYN MAITLAND, Principal.
(For many years Associate Principal Mount Vernon Institute, Baltimore.)
The Course of Study includes the usual English branches, with Latin, French, German, Instrumental and Vocal Music, Drawing and Art Embroidery. The School offers special advantages to delicate girls who wish to pursue their studies while benefiting by the salubrious climate of Asheville.
Apply to the Principal for circulars containing terms and references.
KENNILWORTH INN, ASHEVILLE, NO. CA. (In a forward state of completion.)
ASHEVILLE CITY
DIRECTORY
-AND-
BUSINESS REFLEX.
1890
WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY
Harry M. Falenweider.
PUBLISHED NOV. 1890.
CHARLESTON, S. C. WALKER, EVANS & COGSWELL CO., PRINTERS, 3 and 5 Broad and 117 East Bay Streets. 1890.
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TO THE PUBLIC, GREETING :
Herewith is presented THE ASHEVILLE CITY DIRECTORY AND BUSINESS REFLEX ; descriptive and illustrative of its representa- tive business men, together with an epitome of its manufacturing, commercial and industrial progress, including its natural and ac- quired attractions as a health and pleasure resort.
In presenting this issue to the public, the writer, sensible of the encouragement and support he has received in a work of this character, occupying nearly four months of continuous labor, takes this opportunity to acknowledge his indebtedness to those who in any way assisted him in compiling and publishing it ; and to the public for their very generous and hearty support.
To the whole-souled Mayor of Asheville, and to its business men, unequalled in any city of its size for energy and audacious enterprise and broad liberality, to the prosperous up-builders of its splendid schools, mannfactories, mercantile establishments, charming health resorts and beautiful honies, and to the daily and weekly press, whose kindly words of cheer and encouragement have given impetus to the enterprise, and to our friends and patrons at large, this . work is respectfully dedicated.
Asheville, north Carolina,
The Queen City of the Mountains, and Beyond Peradventure the Gem City and Metropolis of this Great, Charming Combine- A Domain of Fashionable People, Social Culture and Refine- ment-A City of. Magnificent Resources, Natural and Acquired Advantages as a Health and Pleasure Resort.
An impulse of energy and capital from the North and East along the highlands of the Southern region, marks the closing years of the ninth decade of the century of progress, which is re- markable not only because of its spontaniety, but because also it has been so long deferred.
That favorite field of exploitation, the boundless West, has of late years exhibited reactionery tendencies. It no longer yields its un- failing tribute of profit to the confident investor and thus of thou- sands of those who have suffered the rigors of its prolonged winters are held simply by their inability to convert their hard wou posses- sions into portable shape. There is an overplus of cereals and under supply of metals. So it comes that the vast repositories of ores and coals in the mountains of the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, Ken- tucky, Georgia and Alabama long since known to the world, at least by rumor, are now laid under tribute. The bearer of the theodolite are busy striking lines of approach for numerous rail- roads athwart the broad areas known to be rich in workable ores. For the first time in thirty years the balance of railroad construction has been during the year just passed, in favor of the Southern States Almost forgotten schemes for connections, extensions and terminals of long existing lines have been revived and put under way. There is in brief, activity everywhere-hence these remarks by way of pre- lude, in which we will outline many of the advadtages of our sec. tion which should stimulate workmen, business men and capitalists to a more liberal policy of treatment upon the attractions of our beautiful City and Queenland.
Asheville, combined with her surrounding mountain attractions and acquired resources, is destined in a few years to contrast and outrival in popularity all the natural grandeur or acquired beauty of Switzerland. Standing pre-eminent in comparison with the Eiffel
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tower, of national fame, and as grand and undulating as the foam- ing splendor of the beautiful and billowy waves of the broad At- lantic, thence we gather upon the threshold of this mighty city of education and modern civilization, commanding from its towering and lofty peaks the dazzling and enchanting view of the chain of the grand Southern Appalachian range, among whose majestic mountains stands Asheville, the Queen City of the Mountains. the proud and advancing city of this Southland, and the admiration of a multitude of shrewd and progressive people of this distended. far- seeing, ingenious and united kingdom. We are unable-surely it is inadequate-to rightly portray with human tongue or pen the manifold attractions she proclaims, which challenge comparison for inducements to capitalists, manufacturers, health and pleasure seek - ers, and for diversity of mountain grandeur and picturesque sub- limity, with the indescribable beanteous presentation of river and valley scenic attractions is not surpassed in the world. Less than two decades ago Asheville, unknown, inert and isolated, now repre- sents one of the most popular and widely known cities of its size in the United States, whose climatie conditions outrules and surpasses for general healthfulness the European resorts of Genoa, Milan. Turin and glorious Vienna, and any atmosphere yet explored or an- alyzed by strategic research or in the scale of human development.
Truly this is the place for gods and divines to luxuriate within by enhancing their longevity in breathing pure air, feasting upon conches of delicious splendor, feeding upon choice and dainty viands, which stands meet and irresistible to all good and cultured people. Hence we say, come with us, invest in our city, buy property, build you a home, co-operate with us in goodness, probity and justice. To all this, with our combine of advantages, we will make you rise to affinence, and dispel your intention of gathering fortune and fame from the occidental region which offers less solid inducements than our proud and sunny Southland. Come to our electric city, for it is folly to search elsewhere for greater treasures than ours. Wealth, progress, success, power and riches all stand open and eager to be grafted and handed down to those of energy and ambition to win.
To repeat, the attractions offered to the health and pleasure seeker are not surpassed in America. The ever-changing scenery and beautiful driveways from one to twenty miles are, without question. noticeable-some of the most peerless in the world- and our healthful suburban homes here at the close of the day's business and worry. Wearied humanity, longing for quiet and undisturbed repose from care and toil, can find that soothing rest that restores mental tranquility, invigorates the system and places it in a condition to withstand the cares and
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ceaseless annoyances of everyday life. To repeat, the romantic river and mountain scenery of this section are without rivals in the world. For instance, the views obtained between the Metropolis and Hot Springs, a distance of perhaps forty miles over the Rich- mond and Danville Railroad traveling all along the waters' edge or the beautiful French Broad is a scene of rare delight, royal grandeur, and matchless panoramic beauty. In the valley the swift flight of trains coming and going can be traced the advanc- ing and receding columns of steam and smoke lingering in their wake. These, with a thousand other attractions, combine to swell the heart and soul with awe and enchantment.
Asheville stands amidst the summits of the grandest mountain range in the world, and so far removed from all other cities of its class to be outside the pale of rivalry and jealousy. Asheville's su- perior attractions are everywhere admitted, occupying an elevated plateau of nearly 3,000 feet above the level of the sea, its air is always pure and bracing, giving it the rightful reputation of being the most healthful place in America, yet the chief glory of Asheville is not her climate or locality, but the enterprise and public spirit of her business men, absolutely outrivalling any city of its size in the world.
In every period of the city's development these men of foresight, enterprise and liberality have stood with open purses ready to pro- mote every scheme likely to contribute to the prosperity of Asheville, and it is to theni the city owes its greatest debt. No means of judi- cious advertisement of Asheville's greatness has ever been rejected or neglected by them, and prosperity has neither chilled their ardor or warped their judgment nor tightened their purse strings, and such men as we here have will soon quadruple the enumeration of our population to what it now stands, hence we proclaim her business men legion and her many attractions unfaltering.
Asheville, North Car lina, the capital of Buncombe County, is on the Western No. Ca. Railroad, (a branch of the famous Richmond and Danville Railway Systems), and is delightfully situated in the valley of the beautiful French Broad River at the confluence of the Swannannoa.
It is surrounded by some of the grandest and most romantic mountain scenery anywhere to be found. The elevation is 2650 feet above the level of the sea, its high and healthful location and charm- ing views have made it a favorable Summer and Winter resort.
The natural products are principally the growing and manufac- ture of tobacco, which is an item of great magnitude ; also, extensive deposits of iron and manganesiate ores in this vicinity, (together with the statement from a well known scientist of the country that
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Western North Carolina contained the hard wood with which the world was to be supplied in the next fifty years. It abounds in that most valuable timber, poplar, now growing so greatly in favor in the Northern markets, and also the oak, hickory, ash, black walnut, cherry, locust, pine, &c.) Extensive gardens and truck farms, stock raising, dairying, and every choice vegetable that is suitable to the taste of the most epicurean and Cosmopolitan class who dwell con- stantly with us in this attractive city of the mountains. North Carolina is noted for its mountains.
In this State the Appalachian system attains its greatest height. There are twenty-four peaks which are higher than Mount Wash- ington, in New Hampshire, no less than sixty which are over 6,000 feet high.
The principal mountain range, as we pass to the westward are the Blue Ridge and the Great Smoky. These lie nearly parallel to one another.
The Blue Ridge crosses the vicinity in a southwesterly direction. . It contains many peaks of considerable elevation, and reaches its greatest height in Grandfather Mountain, 5,897 feet above the sea.
It is the great Water Shed of the State.
The great Smoky range extends all along the western border of the State, and separates it from Tennessee.
It is known under various local names, such as the Iron Moun- tains, in the North, and the Smoke, in the South. The great Smoky range is the master link of the whole Appalachian system. Its highest peak is Clingman's Dome, 6,600 feet above the sea, but a number of other summits exceed 8,000 feet.
Between these two ranges are numerous high peaks and massive spurs rising from the plateau ; of these, the loftiest are the Black Mountains, which are so named from the forests of dark balsam firs that crown their summits. One of this group, Black Dome or Mit- chell's High Peak is the culminating point of the Appalachian Mountains, and the highest land east of the Rocky Mountains.
It attains a height of 6,688 feet above the sea level. (This peak was named in honor of Dr. Mitchell, a distinguished professor in the University of North Carolina, who perished June 27th, 1857, while exploring this region, and was buried on the summit of the moun- tain.) The mountain region of North Carolina is one of the most beautiful portions of the United States. The mountains are fertile to their summits, and are clothed with magnificent forests.
Nothing can surpass the picturesque loveliness that bursts upon the traveller, and objects of interest to tourists and pleasure seekers in this mountain region is daily gaining fashionable and pleasing notoriety. It would require a vast field of language to describe the
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great attractions of this majestie country, and we proffer to the world, in this feeble writing, the advantages of coming among us with your capital, energy and enterprise. We promise you, at a near day, the proof of all we say. In this city now are represented some of the noted millionaire kings of the country, and monied indi- viduals and corporations are fast discovering the right field for such embarkation. Apropos, one of the old and savage divines of the Cal- vinistic order of the seventeenth century, has a dictum of the last great judgment day to be held in some vast valley, and surrounded with a complete circuit of impassable mountains, which preelude escape on all sides. He must have had in mind some conception of the great Smoky Range vale, with Mitchell's high peak and Cling- man's Dome, and all the cloud and sky-tall range that completes the mighty parapet.
Western N. C.to-day, with its lovely climate, elear streams, pure springs, in many places gushing out in great volumes of curative chemieal mixtures of salts and alkalies at a temperature of 140 degrees. So that these rivers which run through the valleys never have a film of iee on their surface, and the vast sweep of amphitheatrical roek and hill-sides. These points, and many others the pen can not portray, combine to make Asheville the drinking cup, theatre dome, or puneh bowl for " the play of the gods." Whatever figure you liken the place to, you will not find another place just like it on the round globe. At least so say the best travelled tourists who visit here from Summer to Winter.
Out of the rocks forming the walls of the eanyons through which we ride, at a dizzy height above the valley below, the art of the skilled engineer has hewn and blasted magnificent roek beds for travel, and as we wind the pass on the decline the seene that bursts upon the snow-capped peaks that glitter in the blue sky, down, down, down, to the beautiful vision of Round Knob, it is one of the grandest and sublimest of descriptions. In faet, many other points of interest, including the mountain hamlets which are seen in a sur- vey of this divine work of nature. The natural fountains, in close proximity, divide and sends a crystal stream each to the broad At- lantie on the east and no less majestie gulf on the southwest, and ever spraying the atmosphere, making it, in its entirety, the sublimest description the eye and soul ean conceive. The most vivid imagina- tion eannot conjecture it, unless seen, and when seen, a sense of its immensity is overpowering.
In these mountains we have the most awe-inspiring and scenie gran- deur on the Continent, and alone worth a trip from the Old World to the New to see. But Asheville has the most positive and extensive sanitary attractions in her mountain homes only equalled east of
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Denver, and very much resembling Italy and Southern France, and if she had been advertised one-fourth that those world-famous re- sorts her hotels might now be double in size and quadruple what they are in numbers. But rapid increase of tourist and regular sea- son visitors is sure to come as individual advertising by those who have been here, and is sure to be given and will induce great num- bers to pass the hot summer months and mild winter ones in a mountain winter and summer retreat, so refreshing to our jaded nerves, weak lungs and torpid liver, which is more potent than the zephyrs that classical liars attribute to the mythological " Vale of Tempe."
As a residence city Asheville has no superior in the United States or in the world. It is practically a city of homes, with all the ad- vantages that may be found anywhere, together with many that ex- ist nowhere but in the delightful health-giving climate of North Carolina. In general beauty and attractiveness there are no cities of its size that compare with Asheville. The beautiful situation of the various residence portion, with the grand mountain scenery always in view, sometimes as exquisite vistas at the end of a street, and again rising up as a background to the valley beyond. The cleanli- ness and complete drainage of the streets, the bright sunshine and pure air, the peculiar beauty and taste of the city itself, with all its home-like aspect, combine to make it attractive. Add to this its superb school system, musical and literary culture, pure water and a thousand other advantages that combine to perfect a pabulum of nutriment and delight. To repeat, Asheville is a city of homes, and among them are many which would be considered models of beauty and elegance wherever found.
It is also the architects paradise as there are so many beautiful sites to build upon.
The styles mostly in favor in Asheville now are the English and Romanesque which are now used almost entirely throughout all the cities of notable advancement. There are no pilasters or columns, but the Roman arch is everywhere. Another style those who build now are running to, is the modern Gothic, which is ex - tremely picturesque and pleasing. It would not be possible in this article to do full justice to this feature of Asheville. Numbers of their fine homes are set down in the midst of magnificent lawns and surrounded by pieces of statuary, fountains and other accessories in ornamentation. In and about Asheville are all the inducements of beauty and loveliness that could be wished for. Truly this is now the veritable Poet's Corner of the earth and whoever can and would flee the "maddening crowd," will find here indeed sure rest to his weary soul and glad rejuvenation to the body if it can be
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secured below the skies. To conclude, Asheville is the Electric City, the Gem City, the Crown City, the Queen City, the Altitude City of the South, and is destined in a few years to be the largest business centre in the State, most fashionable health and pleasure resort in the world.
An index estimate to her present possessions as a metropolis would give her credit for :
Population in 1880. 2,610
Population in 1890. 11,913
Number of manufactories in 1890
22
Employees of manufactories
1,415
Capital invested in manufactories
$1,107,000
Value of product ..
2,073,000
Annual general merchandising, about
6,000,000
Real estate transfers over.
2,000,000
Banking capital, about.
500,000
Banking deposit, (average,) about.
1,000,000
Internal revenue collections, Western district, of which
this is a large part, over.
2,000,000
Asheville is the most progressive city in the South.
Asheville is the healthiest city in the world.
Asheville has fifteen miles water mains.
Asheville has the finest climate in the world.
Asheville has more beautiful residences than any other city of its size.
Asheville is building a $100,000 Postoffice.
Asheville has five miles Electric car line and two miles more under active consideration.
Asheville will soon have a twenty mile suburban Electric railway.
Asheville is building three immense hotels, the aggregate cost of which will be $1,500,000
Asheville has more wealth than any city of its size in the South.
Asheville has the cheapest priced real estate for its growth of any city in the Union.
Asheville has the finest grazing, dairying, stock raising and vege- table growing seetion in the South.
Asheville has 32 churches and societies, prosperous and represent- ing all denominations. Asheville has 47 hotels and boarding houses, majority of them elegant, and complete in all appointments.
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