The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-06
PREPARING FOR THE TOURISTS.
The Florida Hotels Opened for the
Winter Season.

Winter Season.
Jacksonville, Fla, Dec. 5.-The two
crack hotels, the St. James and Windsor
have opened for the season, and both
greatly improved for a bigger business
than usual. Manager Campbell of the
St. James is an old stager. and for nearly
twenty years his familiar, genial coun-
terance has been seen in the Office of that
popular establishment. This season his
last years corps is with him. except Mrs
Hall for nearly dozen years the house
keeper, who is succeeded by Miss
LOthrnp. formerly with Mrs. Bowers al
Thomasville Ga. Manager Baker,
of the Windsor is new man
there, but well known as a joint mana
ger of the Everett, which his partner,
Mr.. Mclver, Is again conducting. The
new Duval, opposite the elegant govern
ment building, is soon to open, ana with
several other excellent hotels will enable
Jacksonville to entertain the expected
rush.
The new winter schedule of the rail
roads is gladly welcomed, especially the
| one that brings the MORNING News here
in time for breakfast hour reading.
There are a great many Florida people,
as well a visitors, who prefer this paper
to any other, and are always glad TO have
its arrival FASTENED by the fast winter
schedule
On Sunday next the new Jacksonville
I daily, The Citizen. is to make its first APP
/ pearance. The offices, occupying three
stories and a basement of a double store
building, are being fitted up in style, and
with everything needed that money can
supply, the entire outfit being tirst-class,
/ and the employees men of experience and
/ snap. Editor-in-Chief l.. S. Metcalf and
! wife are at the St. James hotel, where
/ they will board for the present, at least.
| He is a middle aged gentleman, of decided
| literary bearing The retirement of
! EditOr-in-Chief +. w. Hawthorne from
! the Times-Union to-day is considered the
/ first overture to the opposition that has
made the new paper certainty.
/ Whether Just or not | cannot say. there
! has been a great deal of feeling
/ against him, but it will hardly be APP
peased, so far as the paper is concerned,
! by his retirement.
The South Florida division of the Sa
vannah. Florida and Western railway
! has not issued its new time table to meet
| the changes tomorrow, as there is a gap
! on the High Springs 'cut Off to be com
/ pleted in order to fix the schedule for the
| new route from Tampa to Savannah via
that point While the Florida Central
and Peninsular railway has been active
on its new lines, the Plant system has not
been asleep by any means, and during the
next few weeks there will be inaugurated
some of the liveliest competitive work
ever seen in Florida. The people hope to
be benefited by it, and therefore, gladly
welcome the opening of the new lines of
| both roads.
Manager H. w. Priest, of the AltamOnte
! Springs hotel, at Altamonte, went up the
road last night with his family and will
soon have this popular resort ready to
/ open to a big business. Last winter he
/ was crowded and this season the pros
/ pect is for the same state of affairs.
/ Manager j. H. King, of the Tampa Bay
! hotel, has wisely opened month earlier
! this season, and also added thirty more
/ new rooms TO the ninety added for last
| winter He opens tomorrow and the
| MORNING News will be on hand to note
the improvements and chronicle the out
/ look at Tampa and the Port for a good
! winters business.
WAYSIDE NOTES.
| The Carleton hotel. on Bay street. OPP
/ posite the pOstOhice, is 10 be sold at
masters sale on the first Monday i'll
| January. Before the river front was shut
out by a high brick block the Carleton
was fashionable prosperous hotel, but
! of late years it has had many changes in
/ proprietors and almost continuous bad
luck
Lieut.. j. EstcOurt Sawyer, of the Fifth
| United States artillery, who won the rank
Of captain and assistant quartermaster
| over so many other applicants, is well
/ known in Savannah and Atlanta as a most
I elegant and courtly gentleman and ac
complished officer. In addition to his
army experience at home he has visited
Europe and studied the workings of some
| of the best armies on the continent.
The venerable and distinguished Bishop
| H. B. Whipple of Minnesota, has arrived
at his elegant winter home in Maitland,
/ on Park Lake, with his daughter, Mrs.
! Scandrett, and Miss Nellie and Master
/ Ben and Master hose, another grandson
for the winter
DR.. c. c. Haskell, late treasurer Of the
South Florida railroad, has been writing
to the Orlando Reporter in favor of pine
straw, etc, for a good roadoed. The
doctor has a stately mansion OH Matt
land s Fifth avenue, and the experiment
has given that street a solid and excel
lent driveway. Now that the subject has
been agitated other sections OF the
country are trying the experiment The
residents between Conway and Orlando
have joined hands in the movement and
already claim to have a splendid drive
way. Pine straw leaves, dead grass
etc, are both plentiful and cheaply uti-
lied in this work