The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-29
SANFORD SETTINGS.
The News of the RailrOnds-TwO
Promising industries

Ihe news OF the HatIrOndS-TWO
Promising Industries.
Sanford, Fla, May 2S.-With the incom-
ing of Superintendent Ford the new or
der of things" has been somewhat re-
versed. The administers headquarters
have been moved back to Sanford from
Lakeland, and this brings again into our
community four or five excellent families
of train dispatchers and clerks. Master
of Trains L. f. bennington brings back
with him Messrs. ParlSham. Chappalear
Strait and Walker, who have received a
most cordial welcome.
A week hence the dull season of travel
will open so far as the river is concerned.
The Clyde steamer Fred de Barry makes
her last trip, as she goes with the City
of Jacksonville to the Boston and Nahant
summer line. Then the old freight steam
er Everglade, with limited passenger ac-
commodations, takes the run from jack
sonville to Sanford. But while slow, she
is sure, and Capt. Shaw will be her mas
ter. River travel has been unusually
heavy this year, and so has the up-river
freight traffic. Take it all in all it is safe
to say that the steamers have done
better average business than the rail
roads.
Developer E. w. Henck has gone north
to sell bonds Of, the Florida Railway
Light, Power and Heat Company prepar-
atory to commencing work In dead earn
est after securing a charter from the gov
ernor. Whatever his success may be in this
matter, Col. T. j. Appleyard and his west
ern capitalists seem to have started at the
bottom and are working up in their similar
movement. They have secured a charter
from the legislature, approved by the gov
Improved railway, to run from Jackson
vile, via Palatka, Sanford and Orlando, to
Tampa Bay. We shall, therefore, have an
electric railway in the near future.
A few years ago cotton seed was almost
worthless except as fertilizer, but now its
great value is fully understood. So with
the once despised palmetto, now source
of dozen or more paying industries. San
ford has taken hold of two, and is hoping to
see them both prosper. The tannery has
already built up a fine business and the
palmetto process of curing hides promises
to become general all over the country.
Palmetto wine is now being made here by
a company composed of prominent citizens
Editor j. w. wellington being "a leading
spirit This wine is not intended as bev-
erage, but for medicinal purposes, and as
its virtues have been fully tested this new
industry ought TO succeed.
pie in this section are heaping praise on
Col b. w. Wrenn, the new passenger traf-
fc manager, for the best summer schedule
we have had in a long time for public
convenience. Then the awfully cheap eX-
cursion rates give everybody a chance to
ride up and down South Florida. Division
Passenger Agent Frank NJ. jolly is a hus-
tier of the first water. and has already
personally conducted half dozen of these
cheap-rate excursions for white and col
ored people, and proposes to give more Of
them during the summer. The railroad
company makes money, and the people
lose nothing by going.
The Sunday services of the Grand Army
of the Republic in Florida this year with
very few exceptions, were participated
in by the confederate veterans, and the
preachers made the discourses appropriate
to the blue and the gray alike. This was
true of Jacksonville Gainesville, Ocala,
Orlando, Maitland and other places, and
the old confederate veterans express them
selves as greatly pleased with this liberal
arrangement. AS a general thing. the ser
mons were able and patriotic, the singing
especially good and the attendance Of old
soldiers quite gratifying.