The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-25


Just about two for each family.
ana they were willing TO live as we did /.
| nothing new-fangled about them. They
went a-tishing, hired boats, paid us for
! our time, and when they left in the spring
each family had enough to last them
through the summer. And how is it now ?
| why, mans got to rack his brains to
| get even fish bait. The clans are gone
| farther out TO sea, roe mullet is getting
scarcer, and I'll tell you mans got to
hustle, for the cOuntry's going to h-ll
! Dy THESE improvements that snatch old
tlme boarderS from US and stick them in
| S5-a-day hotels. Doyou seer"
20, yes, that is, you folks object lowell
managed hotels and boarding houses be-
cause they offer to your One-Uime bOarders
! something better than you offered them
| Tor ABOUT the same money. You object
| TO the canal, because instead of man
! ulckerlng two or three days about the
cost of chartering a sailboat, steamboat
| VIII now carry whole family and traps,
| horse and feed, and at cost a dozen
times less than that of the lays-over'
! waiting tides, and, being sized up as to
| profits, as was Old-time winter board, you
must keep up with the procession, my
| friends, if you object to being 'trod upon
| or you'll"
Get left" shouted Cap'n Steve Bravo,
IF you don't get aboard" And the Ibis
began leaving in the distance thrifty Fort
PIERCE, with its large country stores, its
display of green corn, etc, which the in
dustriOus Indians had just traded for gro
cerles. There's a moral in this that will
be understood, when it is known that at
Fort Pierce only were fresh vegetables
seen while doubling the line of the East
Coast canal
Fort Myers has a rival in tarpon sports,
for during last week, on Thursday night,
Daniel NJ Bryant caught silver king
measuring 6 feet inch. On Friday night
another SparlIler measuring feet 6 inches
was landed by G.. S. Tucker They were
both caught in the Fort Pierce canal cut.
Hard work and pleasure were combined
to charming degree on the trip. The
genial Summers, whose happy, intelli-
gent face crowns a body plump with
| mirth, at no time forgot the object of the
committees mission; and Harry
Floyd, the good listener and close OBJ
server, was medium" in the legislative
| trio; while Col Jeems" Alexander's
versatility figured beautifully. Alex
ander's fine boy, and doubtless the people
of VOlusia will erect a monument to his
memory some day, for his efforts is try
ing to abolish the criminal court, re-
ducing the cost per word of kilograms
and by advocating the fish protection
bill, fathered by the Hon. Mr.. Morrow.
By the way, Frank Sans made a good
suggestion to the effect that by the
legislature simply adding 'salt water" to
the law now in force protecting (fresh
water) fish, the demands of the east
coast would be satisfied.
Capt. Dolph Sheldon of New Smyrna
accompanied "Jeems" on the trip to give
him pointers on the canal, as "Dolph'' is
an old-time pilot and knows every
''lump" which Volusia's son may have
forgotten since he ''waded the canal
from one end to the other" "Dolph" was
valuable aid to the committee Capt.
Steve Bravo turned the Sweeney over to
the command of one of the capable cap
tains waiting an opening" and went
| along. Steve's got good appetite for
everything requiring hard work and a
clear head, and he's cut out for high
admiral of the East Coast canal; but
withal the geniality of the 'nine" it was
a tired crew when Jensen's hotel was en-
tered, and all the mind boys we start
at o'clock was about knocked out
of them when a mezzO-basso voice an
nounced, "I'll go along, boys" Years
have rolled by since that same voice eX-
tolled the benefits of taking the Atlantic,
Gulf and West Indies railway and trans
portation from Fernandina to Cedar Key
as a beguiling tenor, and enabled
"JeredoN in finding his passengers among
those "4-foot high weeds that grew be
tween the ties of the great Yulee system ("
Yes, Girardeau the soul of wit, Girardeau
the unmatched and the only Girardeau
did go along. The "ninen were happy,
but "Jeredo" was mournful and sac, when
at Cocoa he boarded the Sweeney for
down river and the seven boarded the
night freight train for DaytOna.
It must be relieving sight to the
former unsettled condition of eXpectant
locators on the Halifax, Hillsborough and
Indian rivers to see the many vessels
from the nondescript fat to the trim sail
ing craft and the towering steamers-as
they go numbering down the canal Jupiter
bound, with building materials, platform
cars and railroad traps and, judging by
the many wheelbarrows, Mr. Flagler is
going to give each man his own turn out
Everything that can float is being utilized
in carrying the parts of the Hotel POin-
ciana and of the railroad to be extended
from Jupiter to the hotel site.
At Jupiter, Perry Holland with a crowd
of negroes hustle off cargoes from the
boats and onto the waiting cars, and as
the train scurries on to Lake Worth the
boats light out for Cocoa and Titusville
for more"
This hustle is not confined to the canal,
for inshOre, at times coming in view of
the water, then striking into the hum
mocks and through the high pine lands,
are the corps of engineers lead by Chief
Haines, seeking the places most advan-
tageous to the proposed railway. A line
is run and the land owner rubs his hands
and shouts II told you it would have to
run through my lands. Can't get around
it." Then comes the ''right-of-way man"
There's little talk, sometimes hot, the
right-of-way man leaves, and the positive
land owner is mad at his neighbor towns
people because they gave the right-of
way and substantial donations of land for
the depot and appreciation of the good
deeds of Henry NJ. Flagler, who is build
ing several hundreds of miles of railroad
without a ghost of a show of assistance
from the state.
AS stated some time ago the building
of the road all the way to Lake Worth
depends upon the inducements offered by
the land owners; they are the immediate
ones benefited, and should they not
quickly respond to the reasonable de-
mands Mr.. F7lagler is fully able to serve
the tourists by putting a line of boats on
the river from whatever point may be the
terminus of the extension of the ''St.
Augustine route" to Palm beach, for the
canal, by extra efforts with one Of the
new dredges, can be opened for Daviga-
ton next winter from Jupiter to Lake
Worth
A glance at the heretofore swamp
lands now being thoroughly drained by
the cutting of the canal shows that thou
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