The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-18
MORE OF WEST FLORIDA.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE FLORIDA
RAILROAD COMMISSION.

RAILROAD COMMISSION.
A Word About Thomasville-A Pleas
ant Country Inn-No Homeopathic
Dishes-Chipley's Growth and Sta
+istics indianapolis Colony-A Good
Emit Re 7ion-DeEuniak Springs
The Chautauqua Hotel-Mercantile
Dots-The Names of Some of the
speakers.
After a brief rest in his Macon home, the
writer took the field again, passing over the
Fast Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia and
the Savannah, Florida and Western rail
roads to river junction, and thence by the
pensacola and Atlantic to West Florida.
All of these great highways are in first
class condition and demonstrate the eff
fciencv and good management of those
who control them. We heard very little COM
naint of the Florida Railroad Commission,
and can but hope and believe that when a
nroper understanding has been reached be-
tween these functionaries and the people,
and the necessary notifications inseparable
from any new system have been made, as
was the case in Georgia, opposition will be
practically disarmed, and the general well
fare of the community promoted. Our first
nause save for a few minutes at Jesup, was
in Townsville, where at the
GULF HOUSE.
the passengers were served with a capita
dinner by the lessee, S. T. Philpot, under
the efficient direction of Mr.. George Il.
Fields, the polite manager.
En- PEASANT it is but proper to say that at
this stage of the season Thomasville is bet
fer patronized by Northern and Western
tourists and invalids than any place we have
seen. This is due, perhaps, to her
MAGNIFICENT HOTELS,
all of which have a goodly number of
guests, and also to the sanitive qualities of
her climate and the refined society of the
town
But ''all aboardw shouts the conductor,
and soon we are bowling along again at the
rate of forty miles an hour, cross the Chat
tahoochee, pass Mariana and speed on to
CHIPLEY,
where YOUR correspondent leaves the train,
and taking his cue from the sagacious drum
mers HES him to the Collier House, and
receives an old fashioned Southern welcome
from the genial landlady in the absence of
her clever husband, who is a native Geor-
gian. It was pleasant in these days of at
tenuated dishes constantly growing smaller
and
BEAUTIFULLY Less
with their homeopathic contents of cold
vands, administered by noisy and saucy
walters, to sit down to an abundantly sup
piled table where there was plenty to eat
and to spare, of fresh eggs, butter, chicken,
ham, ETC., served by the children of the host.
Commend me to these village inns, with
their cheerful pine-knot fires, and complete
abandon and freedom from the convention
aties of fashionable life.
A WONDERFUL HISTORY.
Five years ago Chipley, which bears the
name of the genial and big-hearted Vice
President and master spirit of the Pensacola
and Atlantic railroad, was an unbroken
solitude in the woods, with mot a stick
amiss.n Now, we learn from its popular
Mayor, Hon. G. w. Cook, who has been
elected for four successive terms and will
doubtless continue to hold the Office as long
as he shall consent to serve, that the en-
bryo city contains 700 inhabitants, two saw
mills two steam gins and one grist mill IN
side of the corporation, two churches, two
private schools and one public school open
four months in the year, and fourteen bust
ness place
Three physicians also reside here, but no
lawyer, and there is one newspaper, the
Washington County Times, owned and con-
Quoted by G. W. Payne.
COMMERCE OF THE TOWN.
Chipley has received the present season
| 100 bales of cotton, 200 barrels of syrup
| and IS, 900 pounds Of wool. 1t is also fast
| becoming fruit and agricultural center.
In the immediate vicinity no less than 10,
600 LeConte pear trees have been put out
the present year, and large VINEYARDS of the
onH Othar Of
which seem to flourish with great vigor in
this soil and climate Mr.. w. r. Lee,
agent of the
CHIPLEY LAND COMPANY,
which owns about 20, 900 acres in the vicin-
ty says that business lots 50x140 feet in
dimensions are worth from $1G0 to $3.50
each. Outside of the town prices vary &C
cording to distance and location, from
g 30 to $50 per acre.
From Nr. A. G. Chandee, the founder
Of an
INDIANAPOLIS COLONY,
comprising fifty individuals, who have pur-
chased 5000 acres of land, we learn that at
east forty of the number will become bona
rde settlers and residents. Many more will
follow. Mr.. Chandee, who has devoted his
Whole life to fruit culture, declares this
region is better adapted to that business in
sol and climate than any part of the Union.
lie IS very intelligent man and perfectly
enthusiastic on the subject.
CHIPLEY's BUSINESS FIRMS.
Among the principal merchants and
dealers here, all of them readers and sub
scrlbers to the MORNING NEWS, we give the
following: General merchandise, J. N.
Daniel, who, it may be said, really runs
Two stores and carries heavy stock; J. D.
farrlor q Bros, T. p. McKlnnon, W. M.
Mathews, Tindels e. McKinnie, Brash &
Go'I and John E. Register. j, b. Conely
qeals In fine liquors and cigars. T. K.
hangston, building contractor, is kept
constantly busy with the new Improvements
On loot. j. ID. Forester, nurseryman, re-
emily sold land in the outskirts of the town
LOT SloO per acre, which only three years
ago was bought at 81 so.
7. W. Hagerman e. Co. run branch
4ere OF their extensive lumber mills at
LongYlew, which turns out IL, 900 feet per
Mr. Daniel Nepper is also the owner of a
seam saw mill and planning machine with
q capacity of 1900 feet daily. H. j.
store.
W Z. Barnes, the new Postmaster under
ue Cleveland administration, is very dill
seit IN the discharge of his duties. The
01llce affords pretty fair criterion Of the
1owth Of the town. From nothing, five
igals ago, it has now been advanced to the
Shlty OF money order and postal note
'uce, ana sends off 5000 per week.