The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-05
PROSPEROUS FLORIDA.
Getting Ready for the Winter Visitors.
Expecting an Excellent Business

+ Jacksonville Fla. Oct 4-No Ge0r-
. Fian can visit this city and look OF She
I nearly completed government postoaIce
. and courthouse and not feel proud Of the
. rraud empire state Of the south whose
marble quarrles can furnish the material
I for such g maeut 6ceut fire proof building.
A very conspicuous sign tells the pas-er-
by that the marble used in the elegant
. structure is from the Georgia quarries.
In all the south, ] presume. this is the
largest hauds0uest and most costly
building in which Georgia marble has
been used.
This government building is located
on the corner Of Forsyth and Hogan
streets. opposite the newly reconstructed
Duvai Hotel. and is seen from the clyde
steamship docks. the Astor building and
the Florida Central and Peniusuiar
railroad depot. On the Hogan street
corner is q very handsome tower, which
Is 10 contain a clock. aud this clock can
easily be seen by all steamers going up or
coming down the st. Johns river Jack
sOnville is justly proud Of this grand edi-
fee, so perfect in architectural design
and elegant in its outside finish.
l know few cities that have a better
record for pluck and perseverance than
our jacksonville possesses. Two big
fires one after the other devastated her
business centers. and yet she girded up
her lOins and renewed the struggle for
existence. To-day the waste places are
all rebuilt. or rebuilding The fremont
hotel corner is the last 10 be reconstructed,
and three new stores are now being com
pleted on that well-knOwn corner. The
Seminole Club block is rebuilt and OcCu-
pied, and back of the plucky Metropolis
our progressive evening paper. under
Carter & Russell's fine management. has
fine 2-stOry building Of its own hand
somely fitted upin all Is departments.
The Gov. Stafford. the Fred de Barry and
other river steamships are back from
their summer vacations at the north. and
the City Of Jacksonville is daily eX-
pected. Within a week most of our river
lines will be in full operation, the Clyde
steamships to New York will be on their
winter schedule and every branch Of bust
ness will be revived. The steamship
Brixham, with companion steamer, viii
form a new line from Jacksonville,
and the John G. Christopher viii run to
New York These lines viii give our
orange shippers plenty Of outlets for their
shipments, not 70 mention the Savannah
steamships that always get good share
of this business.
Judge Wright has hardly got his first
issue % L lDIlud Lie. a monthly maya
zine devoted to the interests of this state
fairly before the people when Major A. J.
Russell, late state school commissioner,
announces that he and Mrs. r. T.. Alex
ander will begin in December the publ
cation of a similar magazine, to be
called the Florida Sunbeam. Wei.
If one SUCH publication q can be
made 10 pay it is probable that two will
enrich the projectors Unfortunately. we
have bnn a dOyan n of Ii I'd
and all Of them, one by one, passed into
that bourne from which such publications
never return IL is also rumored that
new morning daily newspaper, backed by
bank account of $3.50 600, is to be started
here, and that the editorial force has
been selected. l have known Jackson
vile journalism for over fifteen years and
can easily predict the fate of this new
venture.
The railroads of the state, despite the
yellow fever guarantees on travel, are
putting on new trains and preparing for the
increasing travel from the north Many
Florida people who have been absent for
the summer are now returning. The
schools and colleges are opening. The
packing houses are preparing to move the
orange and lemon crops, so that there is
general increase in travel in all direc-
tions.
If the yellow fever is kept out of our
state, the present season will be an un-
usually busy one for the railroads, espec-
tally in orange and phosphate freights.
Jacksonville is preparing for a big
crowd of visitors this winter. The
Everett hotel, the largest in the city, will
reopen, but one Of the former proprietors
goes to the Windsor. The Placide has
been entirely rebuilt and is doing a good
business while the Duval has been re
constructed and enlarged by another
story. The old favorite, the elegant st.
James, on St. James park, will offer its
usual Thanksgiving day dinner to the
guests who have for twenty years past
found a cordial greeting beneath its
hospitable roof. Capt. j. X. Camp has
been its manager or proprietor all
these years, and holds his own with an
ever increasing popularity.
The St. James park is being greatly
beautified and winter visitors VIII find
our city unusually attractive the coming
season.
We are ashamed of our ill-paved
streets, but unexpected delays have re
tarded the laying of the vitrified brick
pavement TO replace the old wooden
blocks.