The Florida agriculturist., 1889-03-27

cate and pretty shades-grays, drabs, creams,
etc-with gables, towers, balconies and other
features in keeping with their style. In fact
everything about Lake Helen is ornamental
Even the shops and stables are pretty enough to
live in
LIVES AT LAKE HELEN.
The residents are representatives of wealth and
intelligence. They are nearly all Northern people.
mainly from New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
They include in their numbers scientists as well
as many literary lights Many OF them are OF
Among them is Mr.. Berlin H Wright. the
tronomer and the great maker OF astronomical
with him, is a distinguished botanist, and has the
largest private herbarium in the United States,
embracing over $4,000 specimens. Prof J: Willis
Westlake, of Millersville, Pa; q: f. Gould,
banker, of Saginaw, Mich, Col Schoonmaker, OF
Scranton, Pa, and many others well known all
over the country have winter cottages on this
lake, which rival in TASTE beauty and costl1ness
those at Long Branch or Bar Harbor.
DISTANCES.
Lake Helen and the city of DeLand are con-
nected with New York and all points North by
rail- via Jacksonville; from whlen laeger pIace p3t
they but four hours ride; with Titusville with
which they hold two direct communications daily,
with allsouthwestern Florida by as many routes
as you please and the southeastern coast country
is quite at their feet.
HOTELS OFDELAND C LAKE HELEN.
''Yes" replies the invalid or some other person;
Eyes, we have heard OF your invitation to DeLand
and Lake Helen, just as we are earnestly hearing
Florida. Please tell us about your hotels.
DeLand has four and Lake Helen has two good
home-lke hotels, with tables good enough Tor the
most fastidious taste, and at prices that will
strike every one as very reasonable, besides a
score or more of well kept boarding houses. The
hotel at Lake Helen, which Mr.. DeLand has called
the Harlan House, from his only son.. is, as q
whole, elegant and complete, with ahsolutelH
every thing in style that must suit the most
fastidious.
After thus literally providingfor their material
wants, Mr. DeLand arranged the amusements Tor
it's guests, or rather he utilized the diversions
which nature had freely provided Upholstered
boats at call, were put upon Lake Helen for the
free use of ALL Tennis, crOQuet, and archery
grounds were arranged and equipped Extra
fine billiard hall and bowling alley were also
built
THE SPORTSMAN NOT FORGOTTEN.
We trust that we have convinced readers
that DeLand and Lake Helen offers oil the need
full physical, intellectual and moral inducements
that can be required of any place, and that they
have fully resolved to make it their future home.
The average man remembers when he was a small
boy it his greatest desire to 'gO nSnlng,
though he whispered to his friends that he seldom
caught any thing-noteven a bite AS he grew older
he used to steal OF into the woods and pretend he
was hunting, but his success in that line was not
much more brilliant than in fishing For many
wears he has had no time to indulge in
either sport, but he ahas looked longingly
forward to some happy day in the future
when he could fish and hunt with clear
conscience and likewise with some probability OF
success Florida, my dear reader, is the Sports
mans Paridise, and Volusia county is in the Fer
restrial Eden. Here you find Deer, Turkey, Rab-
bits Quail, Doves and Wild Pigeonsin abundance
One can fish all day long in the lakes and the ST.
Johns river, near by, and catch something too!
And if ambitious of better sport than the lakes
afford, he can go to the Ocean, only twenty miles
away and catch nuHet Sheephead, Bass and
other excellent edible fish in any quantity,