The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-18
N PINEAPPLE FIELDS.
Florida Gardens to Be Brought in
TOucb With New York Markets.

Rapidly Disseminating the Land of
Ponce de Leon.
(Copyright)
Fan Gallie, Fla, Feb. 17.-Only eight
borrs from Jacksonville to Eden! Only
. charming days run from the deck of
The CLYDE steamer to the Royal Popceana,
the new palace for long purses which is
buiIding the shelly shore of Lake
Worth. the jewel of the Peninsula
iorrpev of four days and possible week
IN q sand bar under the old regime. A
hare five days, perhaps less, from your
farm at HypOluxo. with its delicate crop
of Egyptian Queens or Sugar Loafs, its
early potatoes and onions, two weeks
ahead of those of Bermuda, to the eager
stalls Of Fulton Market! No wonder that
the inhabitants OF the east coast have
cone daft with an excitement like the
roId fever of 1S49, while the price of lands
has scared into ridiculously magnificent
figures.
The people Iof Florida have ceased to
laugh al Mr.. Henry M. F'lagler's gigan-
tic enterprises. They thought that St.
Augustine was simply his plaything, and
that it would prove a very expensive toy
even for his bottomIess purse, while his
nickel-plated railroad, with it's magnifi-
cent rolling stock, its engines with gllded
cowcatchers, puttins TO shame the old
fashioned, sophisticated log burners of
rival roads, and its fast time, was looked
upon as princely extravaganza from
which no profit could possibly be eX-
pected But he had longer head than
his critics and an eye which saw
many years further into the future
When reached Jacksonville after CO.
quoting with the Atlantic l found every
one discussing the new railroad and try
ing to prOgnOsticate its effect on that
smart seaport and on other towns whose
business interests have been agreeably
affected by the trans-shipment of freights
to and from the Indian river country.
When the scheme was first talked of
many people grew frightened, and de-
Charge that Sanford, Titusville, and other
towns similarly situated would be ruined.
But wiser heads tcresaw that any move
ment calculated to bring capital and i'm
migration to this section was going to
prove an all-round benefit in the end.
Some of the largest property owners of
Titusville, which is now the transfer sta
ton from the swiftest trains to the slow
going steam craft of the Indian river,
showed their faith in the future by erect
ing new houses, and otherwise improving
their property. And now the people here
talk hopefully of Mr.. Flagler's latest and
most daring enterprise.
Its the one stirring thing in Florida
now, said the citizens of Jacksonville.
As if to add emphasis to this state
ment, cheerful clang of steel on steel
came across the st. Johns from South
Jacksonville, where a Philadelphia
schooner was unloading rails for the new
line TO the tropics.
Don't 90 north until you have seen the
southern country was the universal ad-
Juration. And so it came about that took
out an accident policy on my digestive APP
paratus, which is bound to be sorely tried
IN South Florida, and ran down to take a
Sly, ut-Ot-the-SeasOn peep at Mr. Flag
ler's New Canaan. .-...
haven't been here long, but the uni
versal fever has caught me. l see visions
10 the night of glorious acres carpeted
frames see thousands of
crates of delicate sugar Ioafs
and ambrosial Egyptian Queens
going unframed to the northern
markets; / see the day wnen the people
OF New York will eat these pineapples as
they do down here, for breakfast. one to
each plate, as a matter of course.
tackled a fifteen FOUNDER this morning. so
sweet that sugar would have
been an insult, and so deli
clous that 1 left nothing but the
SKIN and the outside husk for the razor
oa.k to grunt over. All, how little you
fellows up there know the possibilities of
pineapple. Like the mama of the des-
erl' us lie IS tieeting, and once ripe it is
Soph destined to decay. Not until the
express and fast freight can 90 straight
from Lake Worth to Jersey CITY will
these prodigious Jumps of sweetness find
Laeir way in safety and perfection to
northern tables
In October the trains move with dig
MY and leisure across South Florida Il
Is Is only when those high pressure. always
INJURY northerners 1--WE are all ''yan-
heeS IN the Florida parlance) come
uo"il mere 10 escape the rigors of their
northern brand of winters that
neadlong speed is made, yes, and
PAD for by the selfsame yankees
VIII not say that railroading is exactly
cuedp even in the summer season, for it
Is more than five cents a mile between
I|o such well travelled cities as jackson
.l-.e and st. Augustine, and correspond
4uSIy greater when you get into the will
Ierhess But IL is a long way from home.
mere and travel is very light, and hav
must DE made when the sun shines, else
VINO would pay for the conductor and
engineer, for roadbed and fuel, and for the
Ven Ven thousand niggers digging with the
thermometer at l05 degrees in the shade?
PIX cents mile is cheaper than walking
IN South Florida.
III was on board of these cars that
lrst made the acquaintance of a Florida
'CracHer' in his natural state. What n
non ny ument of patience! What an epitome
Vi nope was that selfsame individual!
or years he has been watching. wait
. aI, Ior Ihe prosperity which never came,
anu mere IS farotf look in his mild blue
YES rom peering into the future at that
so'u fortune which he never doubts will
reach him in the end.
slower than a government mule is vorr
rue Cracker. II he ever possessed the
T. eT OF rapid locomotion he has lost
:. ~ III the lSzy atmosphere which rests on
.I-S summer land nine months in the
; rdI. lie walks slow. and somehow or
, Drl'gI. ne IS always a few rods behind the
>. ne last Coast train was full Of him
0.tS morning. He was in an unwonted
90N .1 Vi excitement, for he has been lis
il,uluG 10 the talk which was in every
DotS mouth regarding the Flagler en-
~ So. ana had swallowed the widest sup
oSlOlons without so much as winking
W.. only was Mr.. Flagler going to erect a
-A- ulncent mid-winter resort on the
T, Ia. an SIDE Of Lake Worth, said the
her-and he believed it-but he was
nTIio' 70 Pllld a grand city, and the model