The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-25
WINTER PARK POINTERS.
Travel Increasing - Good Winter
Business Ahead-CIny Roads 81 Re-
aIity-Hnrd Times Getting Easy.

ality-Hard Times Getting Easy.
Winter Park, Fla. oct 2S.-The trains
southbound are now crowded with winter
residents and summer absentees who are
coming home. Winter Park is getting her
share of this travel and already our beau
tiful city is putting on winter airs. There
will be no vacant houses here this sea-
son. The recent visit of President Plant
and Manager Hathaway has started the
ball in motion
A radical change has just been made in
our public school system. Our large,
handsome two-story school house is one
of the best in the state and our public
school has become noted in the past for
its excellence. But this year it has been
deemed best to transfer the higher depart
ments to Rollins College, where the stu
dents will have much better facilities for
advancement. This plan also gives ma
terial aid to the college, which it really
needs, while our public school can get on
under the division without difficulty. If
Winter Park really desires the growth
and permanent success of the college her
people will be obliged to give it all the
local support possible. The college grounds
are spacious and beautifully located, and
the building attractive and comfortable,
and the friends of the institution hope to
put it on a good financial basis in due
time.
Orlando is agitating a Good Roads
Congress-" but the best way to get good
dirt roads is to go ahead and make them.
That's the way we got our two clay roads
to Orlando and our own city streets and
walks improved; and the same is true of
Orlando. 1t is not the men who go to
road congresses and write long articles
on good roads," who do the practical
work that gives the country the desired
improvements in public highways. These
things come from earnest, iiberal-minded
men, who saw wood and say nothing"
Such men have made Orlando and Winter
Park, and DeLand and Daytona, etc,
famous for their fine streets and walks
and clayed or shelled country roads. Flor
Ida don't hold many road congresses, but
she beats any other state similarly sit
uated, in the progress she has made in
this direction during the past five years.
Winter Park now has two clayed routes
to Orlando, both made the present sum-
mer.
While it seems hard to realize the fact,
the impression deepens daily that the late
freeze was blessing in Disguise" Wide-
spread and general as was the Gestcuc-
tion in its pathway, it did not like the
recent cyclone, sweep away the homes ana
live stock and fences, etc, of the people.
Most of them have rallied from it's raw
ages, and only few, comparatively, were
really ruined. Before the freeze gardens
were neglected, farm products few, and
many varieties of fruit entirely over
looked Now gardens are everywhere.
farm products abound and nearly every
home has its poultry yard. But in the
matter of strawberries alone, not to speak
of other small fruits, people who gave
away their strawberry plants as too trou-
blesome are now buying new supply and
replating. The demand for plants has
been very great this season and many
families will have delicious berries on their
tables this winter. This is only one or
the "home living" habits enforced by the
late freeze, and explains how our people
have pulled through so well.
EX-Supt. B. R. Swoope of the Plant
system, who formerly owned the original
site of Winter Park, was here a few days
| ago from his old home in Virginia, en-
route to Tampa, where he has business
interests. He is a sharp investor, one
who knows when to buy and when to
/ sell, and he expresses the opinion that
/ Florida has held her own under adverse
circumstances better than any other Sec
tion of the country. We have fewer ca
lamities and more blessings than many
of the pretentious states. Hard times. ,"
he says, is the cry everywhere he has
been, and yet he sees and hears less of
1t in Florida than elsewhere. One thing is
certain, many people who left here to
better their condition elsewhere have re-
turned and re-established their homes
here and every day new settlers are pur-
chasing property in our midst.