The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-08
A MODEL TOWN,
Where Everybody Seems to Be Happy
and Prosperous.

ana Prosperous.
Maitland, Fla. March while our
little city is not. and never has been, on a
boom, 80 the present season is the best
ever known here in all branches Of bust
ness. On Saturday 2.496 boxes of oranges
we're shipped By our four large packing
houses, Isaac NauderuOol, the Barlow
Bros. Heard * Rails and Foulkes ~
Wallis. over 10000 boxes Of oranges
have gone from this station up TO cate,
so j. NJ. HOsElus, the agent. reports,
which Is a larger number than Is usually
shipped I'm "a whole year. Other branches
OF business are also correspondence
lively. Mr. George r. StiUh reporting the
biggest trade in his genera! store that
he mas known for years. Our hotels and
boarding houses are full aud for the first
time In years there is no, vacant house
20 rent i'm the place. 1t is true that our
little city Of Maitland is very dcsirably
located as TO health, soil, society,
etc, being but three miles from the
always full AltamOnte hotel at AltamonJe
Springs, ana only two miles from the
noted Seminole hotel at Winter park, all
located on the South Florida railroad, if
teen miles or so from Sanford.
Now, note this gratifying state Of af-
fairs here to call attention to the fact
that this has been a remarkably good
" AlAlf-l LOL = lDA lNll III Ll1H 4ldtbtA Vi new
settlers and housekeepers for the season.
While many hotels have not been as well
patrOnlzcd as usual vacant houses and
furnished houses have been in great de
maud and are very scarce if TO be found
at all, from Sanford TO Orlando, as I
happen TO know. This, of course, means,
finally, permanent settlers for our state
in the matter of families having some one
or more members that need our genial
winter climate.
Speculation in orange groves has had
backset, but our present mild
season has given genuine
impetus to the seeking of winter homes
here by the people of the north and west.
a hard summer may be ahead of US, but
the good business of the winter ought to
carry US through, nearly if not quite as
well as we Went through last summers
hard times. The cost of living here in
warm weather is trihiug as compared TO
the colder and more thickly settled Sec
tons of the country, and our people ought
not TO complain.
SOME NOTED VISITORS.
Maitland has become a somewhat noted
winter resort for ministers of the gospel,
as the venerable and beloved Bishop H.
3. Whipple, Of Minnesota, years ago To-
Gated here his lovely winter home on Park
lake, near the Park house and opposite
the Church Of the Good Shepherd, a me
mortal to his deceased son. The veuera-
bic Bishop Il. S. Foster, OF the Northern
Methodist church, is also a frequent Wis
itor here. Rev DIR. j. =. l<edney, Of Fair
bault, MINI, and Rev. DR.. w. l.. Pick
ard, of Louisville, Ky, have orange
grove homes here. Rev DR.. Charles
Beecher, of Pennsylvania, has.
been a guest at the Park House this win
ter, where Rev W. H. Felix, of Lexing-
ton, KY, and Rev. ). 5. Felix, of Au-
gusta, Ky, are now staying. Rev. DR..
James Little, of Richmond, Va, a guest
Of the Maitland house, has owned very
valuable orange grove adjoining the hotel
for many years. DR.. 5. Y. McCOrkle, of
Tennessee, has a lovely home here, and
at times has served as pastor of the Pres
byterian churches in Maitland Apopka
and Oakland. The fact that there is no
barroom, no drunkards and no loafers or
loating places in Maitland has made it a
most desirable place of residence for fam
lies with growing children. l.. r. Dom
MERCK, a wealthy New Yorker not only
paid Supt b. r. SwOope. of the South
Florida railroad $4,000 for his orange
grove on Lake Minehaha, but has eX-
pended more than that sum the past year
in an elegant residence and grounds
This fact shows that large investments of
this kind are still being made by north
ern capitalists.
NEW MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
On Saturday our municipal election
took place and infused some new and
active blood INTO the management of our
public officers. S. b. Hill, Esq, young
lawyer and very successful farmer and
fruit grower, was chosen mayor, and MIR
Geo. Z Stith, the leading merchant, and
Maj. J. $. Simmons, an old citizen,
aldermen; the other three members of
the board, w. O. Rolls Geo Randall and
w II. Watorhouse, holding over Mr.
Jere Clemens Townsend, bookkeeper for
Geo. T. Stith, was elected city clerk,
and as he is daily reader of the MoRN-
ING News, ne is sure to make good one.
EX-MayOr r. Turner became treasurer
and j. $ Brocksmith city marshal AS
this is a temperance community eX-
penses are light and taxation a mere
triae as compared to many other sec
tions. While we are greatly favored in
this respect, there are all over Florida
quiet and attractive residence towns like
Maitland whose record the present sea-
son is about the same as ours OViedO,
Lake Charm, AltamOute Springs
Formosa, Lake Mary, Longwood, Forest
City and Palm Springs are on this list