The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-01-28
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was once a sleepy, old fashioned town
iullcd to perpetual repose by the languid
semi-tropical sea is now the most noted
and fashional winter resort in Ameri-
ca, famed abroad as we'll as at home. Its
three palacions hotels are in the winter
season the scenes of one continual round
Of gayety. Along the concrete streets
elegant eqnipages in charge of liyeried
grooms dash by, the smoothly paved
sidewalks are filled with gay and fashion
ably dressed promenaders and fashions
devotees fill tie countless bazars and odd
little stores to kill time between heats.
Nearly all of the fine residences are
winter homes of northern men. When
the season closes the town pulls itself in
to its shell and awaits for the next biz
card to blow down another flock OF
northern suckers.
The little town is as neat and tidy as
a country school mann at a Friday after
noon exercise. and to person with a
trunkful of money and a desire to cut u
dash is a most charming locality in which
to spend a winter.
We are strangers in a strange land
and want to sec what there il to be seen
and in a hurry. -Four Of us contract
with a darky to drive us around the city
in his n horse surrey for a 81 bill. We
drive down by the piazza. past the old
slave mart, by the Oldest cathedral in
the country-where We get cut out and
go in; around to the Oldest house in
Americas quaint little structure Will,
beautiful sea shells imhelded in lis
masonry, and a sign' Not for rent or
sale;" along by the sea wall, IL miles
long and four feet wide; through streets
just wide enough to spit across-as
Reeves OF Groton expresses it-past the
beautiful winter home of Lorillard, the
tobacco king, and others, the U, S. bar
racks aud finally pull up at old Fort
Marion. built 300 years ago. The fort is
still i'll a good state of preservation and
looks as though it would stand a long
siege now. The cannons and balls sent
from Spain are still there. The garrison
consists OF II regular, who takes us in
to underground dungeons, through low
arches OF masonry four feet thick, and
where the guide says it is not safe for
but ten people to so in, owing to tile
close air, and shows us other interesting
features of the ancient structure. The
fort is constructed of the native %coquina,
as are all of the ancient and modern
structures. The town was once sur
rounded by q wall. The Old city gait
and ten feet Of the wall on each side is
left as relic and stands at the head of
what was once the principal business
street. 1t is not over Is feet wide from
caIb to curb and one car almost shake
hands across il from the second stcr;
b%ai'opies. The street is filled with little
stores and bazars, in which all kinds OF
souvenirs and Florida curiositips tempt
visitors. One street connecting is Just
/ T ct wide.
Reference was madein former a article
to the magnificent horels. The Ponce
ne Leon taS not open for guests vet, but
was thrown open for the inspection oil
the party.
1t was Il tired lot OF people that board
cd the train for the return to Jackson
villa that night. Which feature was re-
lieved somewhat for the mon folks by
smoking sone fine cigars passed around
by Mr.. Jandon Browne OF the j. St. A. &
l. II. Railway.
Sunday was passed Quietly in jack
sonvillc. The mayor gave US the free
dom Of the %city-that is. we suppose so
from hearing nothing to the contrary
and that is SO far as the sleepy old city
went in the entertainment line. Ex-
Lieut-Goy. Fiefield of Wisconsin and the
writer were the guests of i. NJ. Jolly at
the Elks club rooms during the forenoon.
After dinner about fifty of us vent by
rail % miles down to Pablo beach, said
to be the finest beach Oh the coast.
Jacksonville is the metropolis OF
Florida SO far DIS population counts, but
in view Of the fact that two-thirds of its
population are negroes and the town is
fifty years behind the times the more
progressive towns and cities of the state
have no reason to envy it.
Some Of the stores in Jacksonville and
ST. Augustine are devoted entirely to
Florida curiosities, with stuffed and
live alligators Dredominating. In one
stole in the former city there must have
been 800 alligators, alive and mounted,
ranging i'll size from a nine-foot one
swimming around in a pond back of The
store to those six inches long, The little
ones sell for so cents, alive or "stuffpd."
We bid adieu to Jacksonville aud
Florida that night with Townsville,
Ga. the objective point the following
morning.