The great Four Seasons Hotel at Harrogate, Tenn., has been reopened.
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Messrs. G. S. Atkins & Sons, proprietors of the Ocean Hotel at Asbury
Park, N. J., have bought the Brock House at Enterprise, Fla., together
with 2300 acres of adjacent land.
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Messrs. Stephen Green, of Philadelphia, Martin Lane, of Wilmington, and
Levi Z. Condon, of Baltimore, have organized the Luray Caverns Co. to
operate the Luray Caverns, build a hotel, &c.
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The proprietors of the San Marco hotel, of St. Augustine, Fla., as one
method of entertaining their guests, allow them to pick, for use in the
hotel, vegetables and fruits from the hotel garden, and on pleasant
mornings many of the guests may be seen before breakfast picking
radishes, peas, tomatoes, lettuce, &c., to be served at meals.
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The business men of Columbia (S. C.) are talking about raising money
to build a great hotel. Since the change in the Atlantic Coast line
route, by which Columbia is put on the main line between Florida and
the North, it is thought that a big resort hotel could do a profitable
business.
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The outlook for the coming season at Mountain Lake park, in Western
Maryland, is very promising. Twenty or more new cottages will be built,
and many of these have already been spoken for.
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The Royal Poinciana hotel, of Lake Worth, Fla., which has been erected
on the site of the old McCormick house, is doing a large business.
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The Macon (Ga.) news is urging the building of a great hotel at Macon
in emulation of Savannah and the Florida cities.
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The Florentine hotel, at Huntington, W. Va., has passed into the hands
of Messrs. L. H. Cox and R. F. Jones. Mr. Cox is from Louisville, Ky.;
Mr. Jones formerly conducted the Joy house at Findlay, Ohio. They state
that large improvements will be made.
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The Hotel Indian River, at Rock Ledge, Fla., has 350 guests and expects
to be crowded all through the month of March.
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A new hotel is to be built at Charleston, S. C., at a cost of something
like $450,000. It is to cover a block 150×545 feet. The plans provide
for broad verandas adjoining the parlors and opening upon a garden
space to be larger than any similar grounds owned by any hotel in the
country.
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Fort Worth, Texas, expects to have a new and first-class hotel.
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The court has refused to confirm the recent sale of the Oglethorpe
hotel at Brunswick, Ga., and has ordered a new sale.