The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-24
ORANGES HURT BY STORMS.
The Damage Will Greatly Exceed Ten
Per Cent.


Plants Plans for Controlling More
Railroad Property sanford's Grow
ing Prosperity Matters Of In
terest.
Sanford. Fla, oct 1.-THE Gate City of
South FloriIa is now wide awake for big
. seasons business. The river steamers,
. city of Jacksonville, under Capt. VIII
/ liam A. Shaw, ard the Fred de Bury, un-
/ der Capt T. W. Lund, Jr, are back from
+ their summers work in Boston harbor,
and making their regular run from this
# city TO Jacksonville. Although they are
/ elegant passenger boats, they carry big
freights also, Capt. Shaw, last week on
one trip taking a thousand boxes of
/ oranges into Jacksonville this early in the
season. The regular freight boats of this
/ line (the clyde are the Welaka and Ever
glade. In addition to the fine new wharf
of the Clyde Company the South Florida
railroad has a newly improved wharf
where all through freight and passen-
gers are landed without any delay of
transfer, as the cars back down 10 the
gang plank entrance. Thousands of visi-
tors, even old tourists not in a hurry,
prefer a trip up the St Johns river as
change from railway travel, and this fact
has made the enterprise of Count de
Barry in putting on the elegant steamers
city Of Jacksonville and Fred de Barry,
now owned by the Clydes, financial sue
cess as well as liberal feeders to the trade
and travel of Sanford.
1t has been a long time since Sanford
hailed the opening of a business season
with more hopefulness than she now ex-
periences. Everybody and everything
indicates a big rush of travel a lively
trade and more permanent settlers than
Tor many years past. Hotel managers
returning from the north and west all
unite in declaring that they expect a big
rush. and many of our large hotels are
to open earlier than usual on this ac-
count As TO winter residents and perma-
nent settlers, we have plenty of substan-
tial evidence that they are already here
and more a-coming'' right behind them.
All over Florida the demand for homes
and winter residences is unprecedented.
This has been a lively summer for build
ing in Sanford, yet the demand for houses
Is still in excess of the supply year or
so ago this was not the case but as soon
as the city voted bonds for paved streets
| needed sewerage, park Improvement md
/ new school building, the place took on
] new life and scores of fine residences
have been erected during the past ten
months. All our industrial establishments
/ and business interests have felt the bene-
/ fit of the bond issue
/ one of the drawbacks in the past to
| Sanford's growth has been a fear that
! the Plant system might absorb the Jack
| sonville, Tampa and Key West railway
! thereby make our Gate City of South
/ Florida" mere way station, instead as
now terminal point The revived
! rumors show that President Plant and
| his enterprising associates are sharply
/ watching the opportunities to consum-
mate such a purchase. If they have
| secured the Florida Southern railroad, as
! reported, they will be pretty sure to
! grapple up the main line of the Jackson
| vile, Tampa and Key West railway at
| the earliest possible moment. When they
| shall have secured this important miss
ing link" in the Plant systems through
! line from Tampa to Charleston it is
| more than probable that Sanford will
! cease to be a terminal point and the
| trains will make a through run from
| Jacksonville to Tampa. OF course this
| will call for a large reduction in con-
| ductors, engineers, firemen, etc, at this
! place, and lead to the removal of many
! excellent families to Jacksonville and
! Tampa. Still, in the event, Sanford would
remain something of a railroad center.
/ We have the Sanford and ST. Petersburg
| railroad marrow gauge) to the Gulf coast,
! the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
! branch that goes to Tavares and
! and Eustis, the Sanford and Indian River
| railroad (branch of South Florida rail-
/ road to Oviedo, and the Jacksonville,
| Tampa and Key West railway train to
! Titusville and Indian river country. All
| this is sure to make our de-
pot lonely place of trans
fer, even with through trains from
| Jacksonville to Tampa. Then the fine
hospital and shops of the South Florida
railroad are located here, and the Plant
system owns the magnificent Pico block
at the depot, covering a whole square,
that will no doubt continue to be used
for office purposes, thus keepink a good
force of clerks here. Altogether the ex
pected change may not seriously effect
our city
Rev. DR.. Roland It. Hall of Greenwich,
Conn, formerly pastor of the Union Con-
| gregational church at Jacksonville, has
been out to Mt. Dora to arrange the pro-
gramme for the Chautauqua of which he
is president, and he is hopeful of an unus-
ually large attendance and interesting
session this winter.
The 10 per cent estimate of damage to
the orange crop by the first severe storm
will have to be largely increased to cover
the damage done by later storms and
heavy winds. Much fruit has been
thorned and not a little bursted from
excessive rains. Florida has not in years
had such a prolonged rainy season, or
such heavy downpours of rain. The lakes
are way up in G., and the ground water
soaked for a siX-months' severe drought.
The Florida readers of the Morning
News have been surprised at the bright,
clean, appearance of the paper lately, and
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weekly. But the last Sunday issue fully
explains and illustrates, with cuts, the
secret and shows how enterprise can win
deserved success. Usually these articles
are not illustrated and the reader fails
to understand how new type can be cast
off each issue, but your article, it'll its
numerous mechanical devices, makes the
mystery plain and shows the wonderful
progress of modern typographical skill.
1t may be of interest to the
honored descendants of Gen. Hugh
Mercer in Savannah, to know
that the Daughters of the Revo-
luton in Los Angeles Cal, have organ
lied a chapter called Eschscholtzia chap
ter, with the venerable and famous Mrs.
Gen. Jessie Burton Fremont as regent
and they feel justly proud that they re-
present many distinguished colonial pa
triots, notably Gen. Hugh Mercer" The
tea drank at the collation. was brewed in
camp kettles used by Gems. Washington
and Lafayette during the revolutionary
war, and now heirlooms in the Dorsey
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