The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-05-04
4 SPLENDID SUCCESS.
Florida's Plea for One of the Confederate
Homes.

The Jacksonville tFia.) Times Union
urges the location OF one OF the Confede-
rate Homes at that place. 1t says:
The movement for raising fund to build
and endow Home for Disabled Confede-
rate Soldiers is meeting with such uneX-
peoted success throughout the country that
I the projectors OF the enterprise have been
induced TO revise the original conception
and enlarge their plans. AS first conceived,
the plan was for modest Home at Rich
mOnd, but the idea has met with such warm
acceptance everywhere, and the popular
subscriptions promise to be so large, that
the Central Committee have decided. so il
is said, to build two Homes, one to be To-
Gated ut Richmond and the other at some
point further south.
Atlanta is mentioned rs the probable
site OF the second Home, and Atlanta is q
very good place for il; bat we beg leave
10 suggest to the Central Committee that
Jacksonville is nearly as accessible as At
lanta-quite accessible enough for all prac-
teal purposes-and would be a far better
location for such an institution. No
doubt among the disabled and invalid SOL
dierS who are to avail themselves OF these
Homes there are many who would find
the Richmond climate severe even il they
were well and hearty, and who would
be entirely unable to endure the winters
there. For this reason alone ii is highly
desirable to have another Home further
south, but Atlanta is not the place that
one would choose on account of climate. II
is nearly As bleak in winter as Richmond and
quite as hot in summer, while, at all seasons,
the changes OF temperature are sudden and
severe. Disabled veterans from the Gulf
States would find the climate at either place
very trying.
Jacksonville, on the other hand. is an
ideal location as regards climate, and would
furnish exactly the right complement to
Richmond. The feebler invalids, those
who are afflicted with throat or lung trou-
bles, or who are cOnstitutionaly suscepti-
bic TO the influences OF cold, could be sent
here, where there would not be ten days
during the year when they would not en-
Joy outdoor life. On the other hand, a
temporary change from thi; point to Rich
mOnd would at certain seasons prove very
invigorating to the debihtated. And thus
the two homes would work together to the
greatest possible advantage Of the benefi-
Charles.
Other points in favor Of Jacksonville are
that it is just as good market as Atlanta,
that land adjacent to the city can be OBJ
tanned much more cheaply, and that, ow-
ing to the animal swarm Of tourists and
visitors, any little industries in which the
inmates of the Home might engage would
be far more profitable to them. And final
~, Florida's contribution to the fund shows
that her liberality and patriotic feeling will
never be appealed to in vain.
We hope that the Central Committee
will give these suggestions careful con-
sideraton before deciding upon the loca-
ton OF their second Home. The first one
properly belongs at Richmond. where the
idea originated, and whose citizens are
carving it through to success. For the
second and more southern one we are
confident that no city can show claims so
strong as those OF Jacksonville.