The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-01-07


SOutherners have learned that the aver
age northern tourist wants the best
thing out in the way of Accommodations
and will put up with nothing else. and
is willing to pay for it. It is a saying
in Florida that with a good crop of
oranges in summer and a good crop OF
Yankees for winter they manage to sub
sist very well. The hotels OF the south
ern winter resorts are the finest in the
world. This is saying u great deal. but
it is strictly within the bounds OF truth.
In the state of Florida alone the enor-
nous sum OF s23,OGO.OOO has been 6xpend-
ed for hotels within the past ten years.
Savannah was formerly only a stopping
off place FOR the eastern people on their
way to Florida for the winter. But now
since it has a finer hotel than any in the
city Of Chicago the city catches many
for the entire winter. Sayannnh's chief
hostelry is the De Sofa, a magnificent
brick and stone structure occupying an
entire square. It's cost was over a
million OF dollars. Some idea OF travel
southwark during the winter season
may be CLEANED from the fact that the
registers Of the De Sofa last winter show
upward Of 10000 arrivals.
1t was a tired lot o fpeople that return
ed to the special after doing the town,
and when the train pulled out for
Florida at 9 p. m. many Of them were
snoring in their births.
At Jesup, about GO miles from Savan-
nah, Col. D. II. Elliot joined the party,
to whom more than any other individual
the excursionists are indebted for the
pleasure of the week spent in Florida,
Col. Elliot is chief Of the Associated
Railway Land Department of Florida.
His home and Office is at Sanford. He
devoted. the entire week to the party,
made all arrangements ahead, and under
his guidance everything ran along rs
smooth as clock work. He knows Flori-
da as n farmer knows every spot on his
farm and all Florida seems to know and
like him. He caught the excursionists
to an individual, and should the genial
and courtly s%outherner ever strike South
Dakota OF Wisconsin it goes without
saying that nothing would be too good
for him.
Somewhere along about this time F.
NJ. jolly OF Jacksonville Joined the party
and remained with us during the week.
Mr.. jolly is the district passenger agent
of the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Ry. So far asst was i'll his power
to contribute to the pleasure Of the
tourists it was forthcoming. 1t is not
too much to say that the newspaper men
and their ladies partedswith these two
gentlemen with sincere regret.
At Jesup we struck what is known as
the Plant railway system, upon which
and its connections most Of the trip was
made through Florida.
At Z next morning the train stopped
in the pine woods of Florida over the
Georgia line some 90 miles. We passed
through Jasper, Fla, the homo of Prof.
Foreman, formerly principal OF the
kimball schools, ut 3 a. m. Many of the
excursionists were not awake when the
special stopped, and as they hurriedly
dressed and ~alighted from the tram, in a
heavy fog, all that could be seen in the
way of civilization was a cute and Hastily
constructed little station building OH
which in bold, black letters was the
single word "Suwanee." The building
was deserted, however, because the season
for travellers was not vet fully on. 1t is
used solely for the convenience Of pas
sengers en- route to the Suwanee Springs
hotel, located a mile away, and which is
reached by a tramway. Passengers are
transported by an ordinary street car
drawn BY a mule. By the means of this
conveyance and a fiat car most Of the
tourists We're conveyed to the hotel for
breakfast US rapidly as they appeared
from the train. Others walked, or
bumped themselves through the sand,
in order to sharpen their appetites- The
hotel is a tasty and roomY structure,
built after the same general design az
those at northern summer resorts and
trimmed with a peculiar, rough plaster
OF Paris like stone quarried on the banks
Of the Suwanee. The hotel and cottages
connecting are located in u natural park
of pines. A few rods away is the famous
| Suwapoo Cprinp tho p,oSio;po1 o,oJ;<s,,
Of which prompted the organization OF
the hotel company anc subsequent i'm
%prcyements. The hotel people say II the
spring will not cure a case Of rheuma-
tism no charge will, be made for board.
Tho spring bubbles out OF the ground
about twenty feet from the banks Of the
beautiful Suwanee river, famed in song.
Between it and the river is a wall OF
stone to protect from the overflow Of the
stream and extends all around the
spring &c as to form a swimming pool.
Steps lead down to the pool from bath
houses near by. Through an opening in
the wall the crystal water flows out and
joins the dark water OF the Suwanee
The spring flows as much wafer as the
average artesian we'll of this state. The
water is Of high temperature, emits a
strong sulphurous odor and tastes like
rotton eggs smell.
The suwanee river Is a beauty, q poem
and a symphony in G HAT. Our idea o.
it pictured q shallow stream flowing
through rice. cotton and sugar planta'
tions and with banks lined with the
humble darkies' cabins. On the contrary
1t ,sa narrow, deep stream Of black
water, winding ana twisting its way
through u dense semi-tropicnl forest
A walk along it's banks a few rods above
or below the hotel property brings on.
into a solitude SO quiet and dense that i
would seem a white man had never
penetrated 1t. 1t is SO different in up
| pearance from either the Hudson, Mis-