The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-09-24
PREPARING FOR WINTER.
What is Being Dome to AccOmOdate
the Coming Tourists


All FLORIDA is now in stir, preparing for
The arrival Of the usual army of winter tour
ists
Hotel men and boarding house proprietors
are busy remodeing and charging their houses,
brushing, painting, laying carpets, planning
attractive little additions that will add to the
comfort and convenience of the coming guests,
and calculating on how many more they can
accommodate than they did last season.
The livery stable proprietors are unpacking
lap robes ordering new and stylish vehicles,
visiting the horse markets and selecting the
best and prettest horses to be found
Photographers are getting ready new Flor
ida scenes. Florists are carefully nursing choice
flowers that they may supply the tourists with
beautiful bouquets. Merchants are opening
larger and better selected stocks than ever
And in every line of business people are pre-
pairing to supply the wants Of winter visitors.
1t has long been standing joke with the
people of less favored States that Florida
lives on sick Yankees in winter and grts ard
'taters in summer.
1t is true that the tourists leave many thous-
ands OF dollars in Florida every winter They
have helped considerably to build up the State
Florida appreciates their visits but is not depend
dent upon them for support-far from it.
Flordas agricultural, mechanical and mineral
wealth will compare favorably with any of the
Southern Safes. She has natural attractions
possessed by none other. Her people are alive
and are diligently developing her varied re-
sources.
True the tourists are among the profitable
crops Of Florida, but we give them value received
They come here in what their physicians call
the last stages Of consumption, and our life Civ
ing ozone makes them whole again. They
come here for pleasure, and they get it, They
come here to spend their money, and we give
them every opportunity to crafty their desires
Florida is progressing and prospering. Tour
lists come here for pleasure-they see what
golden field there is for speculation; they in
vest, help to develop our resources, make money
and induce their friends to come and ioin in
the procession.
Tourists are well enough in their way specu-
lators help in some respects but what Florida
most needs is immi igratiOn-genuine and actual
settlers-good, honest, hcrny-handed sons of
toll; men who will purchase small farms and
help to raise grain and fatten hogs; men who
will help to make the country eifsusrafntng.
The kind of immigration wanted is men able
to buy homes here and who are not afraid to
work
Florida is no place for ignorant poverty
stricken foreign laborers. There is enough
che.p labor here in our native negroes-who are
by far better suited for the work in this Cline
We want immigration, but we want the best
people. We have no room for foreign paupers.
In the meantime we are getting ready to make
everything as attractive as possible for our tour
ist guests and for those who seek homes
We have here a State unexcelleG as a winter
resort ard we are not afraid to compare re-
sources and attractions with any competitor.
We invite the whole world to come and enjoy
our delightfully."- mild winters.