The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-28
WINTER PARK.
summer Dizziness I'm Full Force, But
the Outlook Good.


Winter Park. Fla. July 27-This is prov
ing one Of the dullest summers ever
known here since the boom OF several
years ago panned out and put US in the list
OF steadily. but slowly. growing new win
ter resorts.
The freeze has robbed US OF some OF our
best citizens. DR.. Eager being OF the num-
Der. Still. we have DIT. Henckel left. and
to show that we are pretty healthy. his
practice covers several adjoining towns
and cities. In fact. doctors are not in
great demand in this. the healthiest sec
ton Of Orange county. At Maitland there
is just now no doctor as DR.. Hurd is out
Of practice and Dr. Packwood is paral-
yzed. Altamonte Springs has no doctor.
and Longwood but one. while at Sanford
two have died and two moved away, and
a third, DIT. Waldron. who married the
daughter OF the late Gen. John r. Brooke,
L. S. A., goes to Savannah to reside this
week.
This healthy state of affairs is what
keeps Winter Park and adjoining resorts
in prosperous condition. while other less
favored sections 80 under. Florida has
many paying industries, yet winter tour
lists and winter residents bring us more
hard cash than anything else.
When the freeze came last winter
there was hardly a vacant house TO be
found in all this lake region. While there
may be a falling off in the laboring class
next winter, we feel pretty certain that
there will be a big crowd of tourists and
winter residents here to put money into
active circulation.
Rollins College will lose a few students
from the families dependent upon orange
culture, yet the outlook for an increased
attendance is good. Rev. DR.. Hooker and
Prof Fard are this summer up in the
mountains Of Georgia, with headquarters
al the new temperance town Of Demorest,
and they are much pleased with their
surroundings.
The burning OF the block OF stores oppo-
site the depot has given an unusual dull
ness to that side of town. but when or
anges come in again the handsome new
packing house will make things lively
there.
Some of our wealthy citizens have made
valuable improvements this summer; not
ably Mr.. Comstock, whose faith in or
ange culture does not seem to have been
shaken by the freeze. The Rogers house
and the Seminole hotel will be opened up
with a number Of improvements. The
the engineer was killed later on by at
tempting to board moving train at Or
lando
Some people are hard TO please. While
the railroads wer giving cheap excursions
In every direction. In and out of the state,
not few GROWERS say the officials ought
to give fruit and vegetab BILE excursions to
the north and west. This would enable the
growers to get rid of their surplus pro-
ducts of field, grove and vineyard Such
persons forget that the passenger traffic
of a railroad is quite distinct from the
freight business. An editor gets a free
pass TO New York, but If he ships a bar
rel of potatoes or a box of oranges, he has
to pay freight. There viii hardly be any
cheap fruit or vegetable excursions this
year.
In school and church privileges no place
is better provided. than Winter Park, and
good preaching of some kind is always at
hand. The Congregational church. on ac-
count of Rollins College, has the largest
attendance and the greatest prosperity,
but the Rev. j. II. Martin. jealous and
popular young preacher of the Northern
Methodist church, has had remarkable
success here and will soon take his grow
ing congregation out of a hall, where 1t
has worshipped for some years, into a
handsome and comfortable new church ed
ifice. This fact shows that our northern
and western residents are not abandoning
Florida because of the freeze. For nearly
every one that goes we have two new COM
ers to fill the vacant places.