Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-03-10
SOUTHERN LETTER.
Places With High-sounding and Pre-
tentious Titles.
A Floating Palace Beautiful Lake Worth.
Florida's Many Resorts-An In
teresting Female Relic
juno, ON LAKE WORTH, FLA,
February s, 1892.

| FeDfuary o, loJz.
The account given, in the last letter
to The CHRONICLE, of our tour through
Florida. and the observations made there
on, closed, and the reader left at Jupiter
From the Indian River Inlet down to
Jupiter the scenery, along the river be-
comes much better; there are more i'm
provements, brighter looking settlements,
the cultivation of tropical fraits, the
pine apple. Sc, more extensive, and here
and there handsome villas, and nice little
towns among them; II miles below the
Inlet, is beautiful place called Eden,
looking charmingly, like well kept
fruit and flower garden-not the place
where Mother Eve gave Father Adam
the apple; but dare say the fruit in it
is quite as tempting. The wild ducks
sometimes called coots), are here along
| this river by the thousands. As our
boat tmoved along we passed from to time
time great tlocks of them swimming on
the water and spreading over an area of,
perhaps, an acre, so thick that the whole
surface of the water was blaekened by
them-a superb chance for the sports
mans gun, excelling that of "eiay pig
con" shooting enjoyed so much by our
St. Clairsville shOotists. In addition to-
the ducks, other wild game abounds, and
\ an occasional shot can be had at deer
or bear; and were it not contrary to Law
in time of peace, also an Indian. The
latter is frequently seen in the region of
Jupiter, standing on shore in almost
nude state full dress), looking at us as
we pass along. They are, however, ,peacea-
Bile, and often bring into Jupiter turkeys
and other game to sell or trade.
We met little above this place in
coming down, the private ocean steamer
of 2. Lorillard. of New York. This is
said to be the most magnificent house
craft aflOat on any water. With it is
taken tender containing veritable
barn, yard, stock, consisting of horses
(hunters), dogs, cows. chickens, etc.
Every convenience that money can buy
is to be had on this floating palace and
attendant caravansary-all the parapher- |
MALTA pertaining to housekeeping, driv
ing, hunting, fishing and sporting gener-
ally.
And now it is proposed to continue
the narrative and rambling notes by the
way, as far as may. Now first, it may
be proper to state that Jupiter is, as the
reader will see by looking on the map, at
the lower end or southern extremity of /
the Indian River, at which point there
is an inlet from the sea, called the .Ju-
piter Iulet, and also the Jupiter Inlet
Lighthouse. Here will be found the
novel Floating Hotel, which is nothing
more or less, apparently, than a large
steamboat fitted up as hotel. 1t seems
to answer the purpose as a hotel very
well. and besides it can be moved about
at will, and in this particular it is well
adapted for fishing and hunting, of which
it is said there is no place on the Allan
tic coast that excels Jupiter Inlet.
At Jupiter we change from steam
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eight miles, which brings US to Juno, a
ve]y little town with a post-oiiice, q
u res, hotel, and a number of neat cot :
,agej, also a newsy, spicy and well gotten
up, weekly paper, called the Tropical I
Sun. want to say here in passing that, 7
think the Jupiter and Lake Worth
Railway Company must have been some I
what sentimental when they named the n
stations on this little road; for it starts
It Jupiter, ends at Juno, and the two in L
stations, they named one We a
lus and the other Mars. So you see we q
tarted at the largest planet, Jupiter,
raveled by Venus and Mars on the way, j
md laI ded safe and sound at Juno, all .
n the space of a half hour Does not y
hat beat the proposed air ships? A
teamboat is in waiting here at Juno, to j
axe the tourist to the hotels and board al
ng houses which surround this beauti p'
ul sheet of water, Lake Worth, in the
ounty of Dade-in size twenty-five al
niles long and an average of one mile
4 width, lying parallel to, and about one ry
alf mile from the deep blue sea, the I'll
rater from which flows into it through
ne inlet at its head or north end, near II
unO. 1t is, therefore, tide water lake,
nd substantially as salt as that of In
le sea- 1t is a fact worthy of remark In
lat the tourist travel no longer centers Ju
one particular spot in this State
ormerly st. Augustine and Jacksonville gil
ere considered the only places in the SCI
,ate in which the tourist felt inter gu
tied, and these very naturally appropri- sly
ed all they could. But now things are
fferent. There are fine hotels and de- lei
yhtful inducements in many other gu
aces, and little Florida towns, whose tel
farming surroundings are now attract
g attention. Among them is Lake OF
'orth and its surroundings, which, in MI
y opinion, for beauty, healthfulness {
I'd source of delight, bears the palm he
I'd wears the crown as the queen of
lerida's resorts. 1t is, for the present an
least, practically the end of the tour. an
rs journey South. 1t holds locked in
, warm embrace every charm of Flori- vi
!, Incompatible and unparalleled. Dot
d along its borders are the deleetable HI
tie towns of Lake Worth, Oak Lawn for
ID Palm Beach or Cocoanut Grove as il Ger
also called; each of them has hotel
airing the same name, and nice board ag'
g houses, and also a number of neat Sal
zy cottages. We selected the Palm
each Hotel, which is located the far !
est down the lake, some eight miles, Ae
wing us the most extensive view and Oh
e longest sail on the boat, which land 70