The morning news., 1894-11-22
AN EPIDEMIC oF SUICIDES.
The Orange Crop Promises to be an
Excellent One.

The Orange Crop Promises to be an
Excellent One.
Sanford. Fla. Nov. I.-There seems TO
have been an epidemic of suicides here
during the past ten days, three unfortun-
ates having taken that route out of this
wicked world. The last of these. Judge II.
Seagrave Adams, on SATURDAY afternoon,
was peculiarly. sad. He had a charming
wife and a lovely little daughter and
might. but for love Of the social glass
and its troying associations, lived an
honored and useful life instead of filling
a suicides grave in the very prime of his
career.
The deceased came from Roswell. Ga,
years ago where his parents We're wealthy
and influential. Owing 20 luxurious hab-
its in later years, he spent his torture, but
? couldn't give no his love OF luxury. To
this can be attributed his financial troubles
of recent years and his hnal suicide. His
friends had been very helpful to him and
last year he was county school comuis-
sloner, and this year reelected Justice OF
the peace. He was also manager of the
Sanford opera house and drum major of
the Second battalion band being fine
musician and of a handsome, military
bearing, strikingly like Sam W. Small.
The rainy season still holds on and pro-
/ poses to break the record, Travellers by
/ boat up the St Johns who remember
/ climbing to steep gang pianks
/ at the wharf will be surprised
/ to learn that it is now on
/ level with the deck of the steamers. the
/ water in Lake Monroe being up very near
! to high water mark. On many lakes the
gardens and truck patches have been
ruined by the prolonged overflow. OF
course a rainy season from June to No
I yember has been a great grass promoter
/ ana Orange county has this year made
/ more hay than ever before IN its history.
| Capt George H. Fernald, superintendent
/ of the mechanic department of the South
I Florida fair and an extensive dealer in
| agricultural implements, tells me that the
/ demand for haying tools has been uupre-
I Cedented. I can trace twenty-five moving
machines that have been put in service in
this county the present season. This is
grand record for a sandy, orange grow
| ing section where baled hay from the
north has always found 2 ready and profit
able market.
While oranges are dropping some there
seems to be every prospect of a good crop.
In fact, there never was greater activity
in the orange business at this season Of
the year New packing houses here, at
Orlando, Oakland. Winter Park. Alti-
monte Springs and other points, as well
as the enlargement of Improvement OF
the old establishments, indicates perfect
confidence on the part Of packers and
buyers in a good seasons business. One
thing is assured, that whatever
the fate of the grower the pack
ing houses win gather in large amounts
of money to distribute to their employees.
and this fact is what makes the orange
traffic of such value 10 a town or city.
Pickers handlers packers and shippers
[ must be paid in cash and this keeps
plenty of money in circulation for the
grocer the butcher and the dealer in
fancy goods. But for this, there would be
as dark a side to orange culture as there
I sometimes is TO cotton growing. While
the owner of a grove may not always
figure out satisfactory profit to himself,
he is consoled by. the thought that his
oranges have given profitable employment
to many deserving men and helped the
business of his town very considerably.
The previous predictions as to vacant
, houses have been more than fulfilled resi-
/ | dences along the line of the South Florida
] railroad, vacant for years, are this sea
Y son occupied and the demand has already
Y | got beyond the supply. 4 notable instance
% is the elegant ana eommodious residence
I near Woodbridge station. Ola Lakes char
ity in front and Seminary in the rear
, ! built by the late DR.. NeVins and for year.
Y given up to the bats and owls 1t is very
, superior house in construction, and lovely
f / for situation. Last year Mrs. Gen. L. 5
- Grant. while a guest at the Altamont,
q Springs hotel, made an offer for IL as
- . winter residence, but II fell into the hand.
| I of President John ". Brown of The Firs
4 / National Bank of Sioux city la, who Il
| now occupying il with his family. Th'
! purchase and occupancy Of such property
all over South Florida, shows a healthie
boom than the state has had in years past
= As to winter tourists, the hotels are op
ening earlier than usual and makinl
great preparations for great rush San
ford already feels crowded and wants
= President Plant to enlarge the f'ico blocl
|, into big winter hotel. AItamonte Spring
3. opens Dec. 10, the elegant Seminole a
Winter Park, on Jan. !, and the famou
Tampa Bay on Dec. 3, under Manage
: King. The best evidence of a rush i
c seen in the immense number of tramp
n from the north already flooding the state
;. II is a settled fact that when they swarm
6 here early in the season in big number
. it is safe to look for an overflow of GOO
! paying tourists to follow. At all events
a everybody is hopeful of this, although tn
~ tramp nuisance has become a crying evi,
! and the seVereSt measures are now be
! ing resorted to for protection agains
. their ravages. Railroad conductors hav
X to go armed constantly to control then
:, when they raid the trains for FIRE
% rides.