The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-01

| three sides of a parallelogram inclos- l ing pool 150x50 feet are a double line
 of perfectly appointed bathrooms
 This great swimming place is supplied l by constantly flowing sea water, vary | ing in depth from two and one-half to
 seven feet; it is just the place for a quiet swim, while those who desire to
 may skip down across the sands and
 revel in the tunbling surf. As has been mentioned, the gulf stream wash
 es up within a mile of the beach just l here, which raises the temperature of the waters to from seventy-six degrees to eighty degrees even in the winter I months, and this warmth may be un- l derstood to be most congenial when by comparison we remember that on the | shores of the sound very seldom, per | haps not more than on two or three l days in August or early September, is the water anything like as warm. The bathing pavilion is arranged with an extensive observation deck, and it is
 there the hotel guests spend the hours
 between eleven and one, themselves
 bathing or watching those that do.
 This is not all the bathing pavilion of
 fers, for there is the excellent orches-
  to; then the handsome little children with their shovels and pails, and many children of larger growth" dabbling in the sands; and for all there is the
 ever changing, restless sea, and such a
 sea is this on the edge of the tropics;
 clear, bright and sparkling, and what a
 witchery of coloring; close in such tints
 of green, delicate beyond description,
 and further out in ever varying degree,
 are the shades of blue. finally so deep
 as to become purple far off where the
 gulf stream steadily keeps it's four mile
 an hour pace northward Scarce day
 goes by but one or more steamships
 bound to New Orleans, the isthmus or
 Havana pass so close in shore that
 those on the beach can easily see the
 passengers; then 8 general salute hap
 pens, colors on ship and pavilion are
 dipped and whistles sounded-a pleas
 ant episode all round. Palm Beach is
 a good place to be lazy, but much
 better place to be active, for there is
 every facility for the noble sport of
 hunting and the peaceful pursuit of
 fishing. Deer and gators are the large
 game while quail and duck are really
 so common that the keen edge of de-
 sire to kill them is dulled. Sea-trout,
 channel-bass, pompons, gronper and some other bait fish abound within the
 still waters of the lake, while amber
 jack and king-fish are plenty off the
 ocean front of the hotel. In this matter of fishing it is we'll to get right down to something definite, and this Is a fact: Last Saturday I saw party of five of the guests come in and lay their after noon's catch out on the wharf to be photographed; there were ninety-seven king-fish and two amberjacks. The king-fish averaged over ten pounds each and the amberjacks weighed re- spectively forty and twenty-five pounds! Another catch by a boatman and one man the same afternoon was forty-three king-fsh! And these catch es, learn, were not the largest of the season. There's one institution here, among the many, that it will never do to speak of; indeed, it is worthy of an article all by it's lonesome self, and that is Captain Bravo and his steamer, the Santa Lucie. They must be taken to- gether; one can't imagine them di- vorced. The steamer is long, strong and marrow; the captain strong, broad (winded) and just long enough. The steamers got a search light forward, good engine and a great big stern wheel; the captains got a pair of as handsome eyes as you can find any l where 6his overheard a lady passen- | ger say), a well knit physique and no wheels anywhere. even in his head. | The Santa Lucie makes frequent trips | across from the hotel to the terminus of the railroad on the west side of the lake. From two till five in the evening, as they call 1t down here, Captain Bra ve gets together a company of people and takes them up 8 few miles to an
 island which is said to have been the veritable spot where the piratical buc- lancer, Captain Kidd, planted his treas tres. Captain Bravo's passengers lon't care a blame about Kidd, his is- and or his treasures; all they want Is
 Q hear Captain Bravo lie about them! And how cheerfully the captain does He will tell the most stir ing Indian yarns about his father and )sceola, their close intimacy and their mutual hairbreadth escapes It would ,e good surmise to make that anoth- 1T year Captain Bravo will claim some me or two of his grandfathers went with Captain Kidd the sto- y would dovetail in nicely with the ; aptain's present assurance that he .nows just exactly where Kidd's poodle les buried. Long life to the genial in- l entor of marvels, and may his stories
 ever grow less! 2
 The shore of Lake Worth for a mile 1 Q the southward and two to the north l yard of the hotel is dotted with many ( ne villas, winter homes of the wealthy / rom all over the land. Among them c ne extensive place is that of Thomas ' dams, Esq, of Brooklyn, with a I Nontage on the lake of one thousand c eet; the property extends back to the cean half a mile away, making about r inety acres. MT. Adams has in pro- sss of construction comfortable cot t tge amply shaded by stately trees and \ by garden of flowers at nee extensive and beautiful. Fruit I 'ees of all the varieties that thrive ere, the lemon, orange, cocoanut, O uara, sapadillo, plum, &c., and c Itchen garden of several acres war F Lnt an abundance of all these tooth b ,me things. One cannot help revert o g to the immensity of this whole en- S rprise, the coming but two years ago f, to this almost a wilderness and so N