The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-09-26
MoRGANTowN VIRGINIA. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER
FLORIDA WEATHER.
Not SO Warm as it is in West Virginia.
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special Correspondence NEW DOMINION !:
AVON PARK, Florida, Sept. Is
Florida has population of half a
million people most of whom enjoy
themselves, and in one way and an
other are making good living. De
Soto county, in which | reside con-
tains about 1000 people OF whom
only 400 are negroes. De Soto coun-
ty is way down South. One would
think that if there is any place in
the world that would be extremely
hot it would be that county, and at
times it is hot-extremely hot. /
remember one time when it was 100
degrees in the shade when | thought
some men who were shingling upon
house roof some distance away
would drop dead by reason of the
heat, but not one of them appeared
to suffer from it and without com
plant kept steadily at work. Why?
Because in this State it is very rare
that the wind does not blow from
some quarter to drive away the great
heat. This is proven from the fact
that the medical records of this state
show that it has no cases of sun
stroke or mad dogs.
Every one of full age and under
standing surely remembers the heat
in the North last August, when in
New York and Chicago human be-
ings and domestic animals were dy-
ing by thousands, and at this same
time our people in Avon Park and
the rest of DeSoto county were com
fortably at work in their groves, Or
chards and gardens. They were
famed by the healthful southern
breezes blowing from Ocean to Gulf
or Gulf to Ocean. Dame Nature
does not seem to have made the
comforts for the North that she has
for the South.
August 10th last the people in the
Northern cities died by hundreds
from the heat but the newspapers do
not report that human being was
uncomfortable in Florida. A prom
inent New York lawyer who sailed
from New York for Florida at
time when people were being driven
to death, suicide and insanity, came
to this town and remarked ''the
North for discomfort and death,
Florida for life and comfort
Let us compare and one can read
lily see that there is not much differ
ence in degrees of heat as one would
naturally suppose.
This comparison is from the rec
ords of August 10, 1896 at II m.
New York SO degrees, Boston 81
degrees, Chicago SO, Baltimore 80,
Philadelphia 80, New Orleans 95,
jacksonville 95, Tampa "a, Avon
Park 81, Key West 80.
No where in Florida nor in New
Orleans were people dying. In Flor
ida men were at work in the full
sunlight upon the ground and upon
the house top. Now why is it that
thousands die in one part of the
country and in another part people
are comfortable? A physician tells
me OlldO IL is tut ulltTeHce III uu-
Nudity and nothing else. Perhaps
you understand, / do not.
Here at Avon Park our pine APP
pies, guavas, melons and many other
fruits are ripening. Here and in the
rest of South Florida the people do
not eat much meat, but large guam
titles of fruit. Our people are healthy,
happy and prosperous, all because
they can live out doors or in the
house as they please, twelve months
in the year Last month / told you
about trout.
Now it is September. There is
frost in the North. People are talk
ing politics more than business. l
ask you to rest from politics and
answer the question "Why is it that
it is not as dangerously hot in South
Florida in summer as it is in the
great populous North.