The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-15
The New Intcrlachen.
rKA DAILY News:

Saratoga, the village of Interlachen is
dropping its garb of infancy and child
hood and stepping forward into very
mature condition for a three-year- old.
A partial enumeration Of some Of the
contemplated improvements following
in the wake Of the new hotel will give
some idea of the movement in this young
Saratoga of Florida.
First is the extensive sale Of lots and
contiguous land to some forty Canadian
families who will enter and occupy.
Gangs of men are now employed in turn
ing the wilderness into a fruitful field.
The Congregational Church society is
proceeding at once to 'epaint, carpet and
seat their church with modern pews,
and inclose the lot with a neat fence.
VIM Schauss has the lumber on the
ground for neat and commodious cot
tage.
Mr. Reuben Brewer, of Great Barring
ton Miss, is purchasing the lumber for
q dwelling that will probably eclipse
most of the houses in Intcrlachcn.
Mr.. John Brewer and wife are daily
expected. His lot is enclosed ready for
the location Of a new house of 10 mean
proportions.
Warren Taylor, of Illinois, has re-
turned to stay and has purchased one Of
the most beautiful sites Oh Lake Chipco,
containing twenty acres, and will at
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tage that will be a model of beauty and
comfort.
Capt. Henry E. Andersen has pur-
chased OF Mr.. Wimberly, sixty-fiye feet
in front of the depot, and proceeds 1T
once to the erection Of q building for
offices where he will transact the grow
ing real estate business of Mariners lake
and surrounding region. The captain
means business and proposes to transfer
Staten Island to Florida.
Mr.. Hugo Friedlander, a wide-awake
Dutchman from Springfield, Ohio, who
knows a good thing when he secs it, has
purchased one of the best business lots
in Interlachen, and in q few weeks will
have under roof two-story business
house 24x40 which he will stocl, with
goods for central Florida.
w. j. Bickford, Green Mountain
boy, early transplanted to the south
with enough Yankee vigor and git-upa-
tiveness about him to secure the main
chance, has purchased the best business
corner in the city, and next summer will
have in readiness for the fall trade, a
two-s story house under 4 tin roof, 24x40
feet This is located between the two
hotels.
Francis & Long have erected a livery
stable near the depot with an eye to the
trade.
The Devereux block is receiving & coat
of paint, and the present week viii re-
ceive a stock of goods equal to any ever
brought to Interlachen.
Ilterlachen is reaching out her right
hand to Nannyille and her left hand to
Keuka is nodding to Mariners Lake,
and beckoning Pleasant Valley, inviting
all to close up the gap, every day be
coming less, between them. These
towns, in the not far distant future, it IS
predicted, will all be one, and with their
sulphur springs and fifty lakes, and
broad avenues, and beautiful drives, and
social life, and religions and educational
advantages, and first. class hotels, viii
be the Saratoga of the south. y santa
rum for the millions of frozen people Of
the north to turn their longing eyes to.
There is welcome for all-rich and
poor-who will behave themselves.
Among the recent arrivals are +. H0l-
ford and wife from Springfield, Ohio,
who are domiciled in their home on
Prospect street, II. X. Morrel wife and
daughter Lutte, of Gardiner, Maine, and
DIR. L. Parsons, a capitalist of Augusta,
Maine, who has purchased the property
of W. L. Proudft, and will fit up an ele-
giant villa. DIR. Parsons has tried a res
idence in southern California, which he
claims has no climate equal 70 Florida,
and has come to stay.
The congregations in the Congrega-
tional church, Sabbath morning and
evening, attest the satisfaction of the
people with their new pastor, Rev. John
McKean. The sociable last evening ad-
ded eight dollars to the fund for furnish
ing the church.
Tho people are proud of their new no.
tel, and are inviting their northern
friends to Saratoga cuisine, spacious
rooms, clean beds and warm welcome.
II Palatka overfiows, guests will know
whore to come. Several guests arrived
this afternoon from St. Augustine. -
The new Congressional Directory.
4 new edition of the congressional di-
rectory is out We notice among the
401 men composing the KILN congress,
a Baker, a Cooper, Fisher, n Sawyer,