The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-13
RAILROADS AND FRUIT GROWERS
Home Markets and Manufactured
Products Have Helped Bad sea


Sanford. Fla. Aug. 12.-When superin-
tendent Swoope resigned from the South
Florida division Of the Plant system.
some years ago. II was thought that ow-
ing to his long connection with and init
mate relations TO the road and employees.
his successor would have a difficult task
before him. But such has not been the
case. Superintendent Ford came here
from the Florida Southern railroad with
enough experience TO enable him to take
up the work where Superintendent Swoope
had laid it down and carry IT forward
without a hitch. Being a man Of plain,
pleasant manners ne soon attached all
classes Of employees to him In a most cor
dial bond Of sympathy, and the result has
been most gratifying to all concerned.
That resident Plant is satisfied seems
evident from the fact that Superintend-
ent Ford has just had the Sanford and 81.
Petersburg narrow gauge line, from San
ford 10 Trilby, added TO his already eX-
tensive mileage. He now has charge Of
the three Plant lines running into this
city, which gives greater Importance 70
his headquarters here.
This has been the dullest summer for
railroad business for many years. a great
many people left early in the spring for
the north and west but the stay-ait-home
population don't travel much even at
rock bottom excursion rates. Some
families have gone to the Atlantic coast,
mostly to Sea Breeze and Coronado Beach,
and this makes a little local travel. Sea
Breeze is across the river from Daytona,
and is an adjunct of CITY Beautiful" the
latter being a winter resort on the river
opposite Flaglers Holly Inn at Upper
Daytona. The leading spirit in the city
BeauufuP' and Sea Breeze enterprise, is
Col c. &. Post, the husband of Helen
Wilmans, the noted advocate Of Christian
Science, etc. They came south from Chi
cago and settled at Douglasville, Ca, to
found a colony, but In time her. religious
Cd views and his advanced republican
peoples party zeal caused their removal
some few years ago to near Daytona.
Despite the fact that all the railroads
are doing losing business this dull sum
mer. the farmer and fruit growers COM
plain that they can make little Of any
thing from their shipments of fruit and
vegetables, owing to high freight rates
and uncertain markets. But for our home
markets, which nave been unusually good
fruit and vegetable growers would have
had very hard season. There has been
a great deal of local peddling this sum-
mer, from house to house and II has
whose groves were frozen have not hesi-
tated to pick blackberries In large quanti-
ties, and bring them to town
for sale. And out OF this
lies have put aside a handsome sum of
money for a rainy day or another freeze.
Kelsey plums, Japan persimmons, Cat
ley guava's, etc, are now being largely
cultivated by people who formerly cared
only for oranges and lemons. The pine
apple industry has been given a new inn
pulse by the medical profession. DR..
Frank s. Parsons, of Philadelphia, and
| Dr. Homer c. Bloom have published sew
eral articles in the leading medical and
/ hygienic journals on the great value OF
the juice of the ripe pineapple in the
treatment Of many forms Of disease. The
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| pineapple growers of the east coast and
| will probably extend to other sections OF
| the state. Mr.. Thomas E. Richards,
| proprietor OF the famous Eden Pineapple
| Plantation" on the Indian river, has es-
| tablished factory at his place where the
/ Juice of the pineapple is extracted and
! shipped to Shull, futile & Cos. chemical
| laboratory in Philadelphia, where it Is
| properly treated and put up in bottles un-
| der the name of pima
pin" which has proved OF
/ great value in catarrhal disorders. As the
! Juice is extracted only from ripe pineap.
| pies it offers a fine market for the fruit
| that is too ripe to be shipped. In view OF
! the thousands Of pine apple plants set out
| last year and this season. this new de-
mand for the fruit promises to do much
| to prevent an over-stocked market in good
| seasons.
1t is just such relief as this that oul
! fruit growers need for many other of theil
! products. Only a few of our grape growers
grapes into wine. Some half dozen grow
ers have done this with good profit, while
| hundreds of others have lost money or
! their grape crops. IT there is no ready
market for wine 1t really becomes more
valuable the older it gets, while the grapes
from which it is made are a perishable
| product. The same is true of guavas
! peaches, pears, etc. Some good wives know
how to utilize all the fruits of this kind
that their husbands cannot market. They
put up jelly, jam, preserves, etc, and
where the quantity is larger than needed
for their own families, as is often the
| case, the surplus is sold to less fortunate
famiiesI know a cultured lady (wife of a
once distinguished confederate general
| who is the son of a deceased Georgia
United States senator), who nearly sup
! ports herself and husband by making the
| above named articles for sale. She lives
| in South Florida, where all kinds of fruits
| are easily grown and her rare skill in MAX
! ing jam, jellies preserves, etc, secures
her a ready sale for all she puts up.