Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06

money at the business, especially
when he includes bird plumes and
alligator hides and teeth among his
trophies. Usually these hunters start
out on a two weeks trip in the Ever
glades, carrying their provisions in a
small dug-out canoe, which they force
through the shallow streams and
iagoons of the swamp. They are pre-
pared to shoot anything from the
gaily plumaged ibis to the diamond
backed rattlesnake. Everything
killed has some commercial value.
The plumes of the birds are sold to
Northern miIline-s, the alligator skins
and teeth to the manufacturers OF
leather goods and the skins and d
of deer, bears and rattlesnakes Greg
ular dealers in Jacksonville. A sue
cessful two weeks trip IN the
Everglades may net the hunter 500
or $500.
The camper has all the advantage
of the professional hunter, except thai
he does not kill unfortunately. The
beautiful birds of the air do not tempt
him, except for a specimen or two to
take home. But the deer, bears,
quails. cranes, alligators, snakes and
turkeys will afford plenty of lively
shooting.
There are only two kinds of people
who live at these summer resorts-the
rich and the poor-those who shine
shoes and those who pay 81 to have
their shining done. The editors are
doing their own shining and many of
them are thinking of doing other peo-
ple's.
A QUAINT OLD CITY.
St. Augustine is not only old but
very quaint. Some of the streets re-
mind you SO much of Old Mexico. At
st. Augustine one sees Fort Marion,
the old Spanish Fort; built of CO.
quina. Begun 1865 as San Juan de
Pinos by the first negro slaves brought
to America, finished as Fort San
Marcos in 1856, and changed to Fort
Marion i'll 1925.
The gateway at the head of st.
| George street. All that remains of
the old city wall. Built about 1920.
The sea wall begun in 1890, finished
by the U. S. Government in 1852.
Cost $780, 900.
The Cathedral completed by the
Spaniards in 1891. Burned in 1887.
Rebuilt the following year, the old
walls remaining.
st. Francis Barracks at south end of
sea wall, an old Franciscan Monastery.
Built about 1740. Now used by the
United States troops.
Dade Monument in Barracks Gem
etery. Major Dade and his entire
command, no men, were massacred
by the Indians during the Seminole
war in 1885.
The Spanish Moresque Palaces,
Hotel Ponce de Leon Hotel, 'Alcazar,
Hotel Cordova.
Ponce de Leon discovered Florida
in 1912.
Drives about the city, around the
horn, Garnett's orange grove, Hill
dreth's orange grove, Magnolia grove,
| Jessamine swamp, Moultrie road,
Moultrie and grape vineyards, pine
barrens, new cemetery, mile
swamp, Picolata road, Palatka road,
Ponce de Leon Springs, Hanson'f
swamp and sugar mill ruins, Buena
Esparanza, to Anastasia Island over
the new bridge, ruins of old Spanish
light house, new United States light
house, coquina quarries, South beach
driving and bathing.
Pedro Menendez founded st. Aug
Justine Sept. 8, 1865.
Spain ceded Florida to England in
1893; in 1888 it was coded back to
Spain, and in 1921 it came under the
flag of the United States.
The Plaza containing the Confeder-
ate monument, the old slave market
and the only monument extant COM
memorating the new Spanish Consti-
tuition of 1912.
The old portion of city and narrow
streets and overhanging balconies.
st. Augustine %antedates Santa FL
by about 4 years. This is a fact thai
can be proven by Chas. B. Reynolds
author of s'Old st. Augustine"
The mean annual temperature of st
Augustine is SO degrees; for spring
So; summer, so; autumn, II; winter
So. The rainfall is chiefly in the sum
mer and autnmn.
Florida was admitted as a State il
1S45. r. M. WHITE.