The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-10
OUTLOOK.
Ii Is Encouraging for The Coming
Winter.

Talk About the Hotels and Public
Buildings-TheP Phosphate Industry.
The Movement of Lumber Other
Matters of General Interest.
Jacksonville. Fla, Nov. ST have
known this city for nearly twenty years
summer in more hopeful and energetic
manner than it is now doing. Every
where are to be seen signs of unusual
activity and prospective increase of 0usi-
ness. New stores are opening up and
vacant stores being occupied by new
tenants, and the various improvements on
Bay street indicate hopeful state of
feeling in financial circles. This week
the board of trade, the public library and
other organizations are in their elegant
new building on Main street, where they
have better and more commodious
quarters, in which new era of pros
perity awaits them.
Mr.. J. r.. Campbell, of the elegant st.
james hotel, on St. James park, is here
and putting his house in order for his
usual Thanksgiving day dinner, which is
always most notable affair Having
been i'm at these openings of and on, for
over fifteen years, / know what they are
and shall be there on Nov. 3D. this year,
The Windsor. Duval and Everett are also
brushing up for an early opening, and a
big rush of winter tourists Directly op-
posite the new Duval hotel the magnid-
cent marble government building is now
receiving its outward adornments. Mar
bic curbstones are being laid for the side
walks, and the grass plots and driveway
to the postoffice back door for delivery of
mail sacks from the railroads. This is
one of the best located and constructed
public buildings in the south, and a big
advertisement for Georgia marble
JACKsoNvILLE's NEW PAPER.
The new daily paper has taken definite
shape, and the people feel that it has not
only come to stay, but to be a power in
promoting the best interests of Florida
The offices are in the Acme hotel build
ing on Bay street, opposite the general
Offices of the Florida Central and PENN
sular railway, where ample facilities are
at hand for both editorial and business
departments as well as the mechanical
Managing Editor Loretta Metcalf and
some of his assistants are here giving
their personal attention TO putting the
plant in working order The name Of the
paper and many other important points
about it are still secrets.
AS the MORNING News has an extended
circulation in the state the people have
come to know a good paper when they see
it, and few ever expect to see anything
better in the shape of reliable journal
A railroad ride across half the state
yesterday revealed to me an unusually
active movement on the part Of orange
packers and shippers The packing
houses everywhere were open, and either
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shipments.
New settlers are reported in
all sections. and vacant houses
are rapidly becoming scarce in
desirable localities. At Port Tampa,
Punta Gorda and Fernandina the phos-
phate shipments have been most encour-
aging, and this industry has taken on new
life. The South Carolina disasters have
given a new impetus to phosphate mining
here, and our shipments show a steady
and profitable increase. A large amount
of new machinery is coming into the state,
and this indicates the growth of mining,
manufacturing and the lumber business.
All the Clyde steamships to New York
are now carrying heavy trAfghts of Florida
lumber.
THE CORBETT-NuTCHELL FIGHT.
VIII Corbett and Mitchell fight here2 !
think not While the sporting element
and the hotels and railroads favor the
movement, the religious element is
strongly opposed to the brutal exhibition,
and will leave no stone unturned to stop
it. The EpwOrth League, of the Trinity
Methodist church. has sounded the first
alarm, and other churches and organiza.
tions will rally to its support. Althou Oh
the money has been raised to secure this
great attraction it is extremely doubt
full whether it will materialize here The
active sporting element of Jacksonville is
not extensive nor is it compaCtly organ
lied, as in New Orleans and other cities
and this fact is also against the success of
the energetic labors Of d few to
get the fight located in this city. Gloves
or no gloves it is simply a brutal prize
fight, and all Christian and humane peo-
pie are opposed to its taking place in
Florida.
The recent marriage here Of the charm
ing Miss Alice Meynardie reminds me
that her handsome Young brother, Willie,
is now the station master of the S., T.. &.
w. and j., T. & X. w depot, which also
embraces the Flagler East Coast Line
trains. Capt. j. ID. Meynardie, the de-
ceased father of these young people, was
one of the most popular and efficient con
ductors out of Savannah on the s.. +. &,
w. r. r., and his son, Willie has so fol-
lowed in his footsteps that he is now one
of the most popular young railroaders in
the south. His promotion has not only
been steady and sure, but Justly earned.
He is full of energy, thoroughly posted in
all his duties, and never forgets that he is
public onicial and must have a pleasant
and prompt reply or helpful act ready for
every patron of his lines that needs it,
His OLD Savannah friends, and those of
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