The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-26
WINTER PARK NOTES.
The Big Seminole to BE Cleared Next
Monday


Winter Park, Fla, March 24.-The Cos
ing of the big Seminole hotel on Monday
next in one sense brings our season" to
close, in that it stops the street car line
and cuts us off from the benefits of a fine
orchestra.
Fortunately, however, our pretty little
city has come to be noted for it's winter
residents, people who come early and stay
late, occupying their own elegant winter
homes or rented furnished houses. And
while hotels and hotel guests are a well
come addition to our business population,
it is safe to assert that we could live with
out them.
The final ending of the season and the
beginning of dull summer dates from the
closing of Rollins college, early in June,
when many families and students go north
for the summer. Most of these people,
however, have groves and residences or
other property to be cared for in their alb
sence, and this gives desirable employment
to many persons, who need something to
help them through the quiet summer.
The recent Horticultural Fair, held here,
and which attracted so much attention all
over the country, wound up its affairs,
thanks to a generous Chicago broker who
has a beautiful winter home here, with a
surplus in its treasury, and bright hopes
for next seasons fair. The Winter Park
Horticultural Association has elected its
officers for the new year, and holds its
weekly meetings for special exhibits of
products and discussions upon best meth
DDS of culture, etc.
There has been a steady growth in the
dairy business in this vicinity, and while
the milk sales run low in the summer,
iG q good
in excess of the supply And our dairy
farms are no cheap affairs, but are pro-
vided with the best of mich herds and
have all the buildings, etc, necessary
to successful dairying. The hotels used
to rely largely upon condensed milk and
canned cream. because in former years
our dairy herds were too small to meet
the demands of big hotels. All this is
now changed, as under proper manage
ment it has been established that large
herds of fine dairy cattle can be kept in
a healthy condition in South Florida
Some years ago fine milch cows were
very scarce all over the state, and such
a thing as dairy herd was unknown. In
nothing has Florida shown greater prog
ress than in this matter of dairy farming.
The coming of the Georgia Press Asso-
citation to Florida is hailed with great
pleasure by scores of Georgians who have
located in this state, and not few OF
them members Oh the FlOTlud IT6SS AS
ISOLATION, who will greet their brother
and sister journalists, from Palatka to
Miami, as they journey to the latter place.
The popular secretary of the Florida as
ISOLATION, Col. T. J. Appleyard, formerly
of the Columbus. Ga, Enquirer, has been
invited by President Cabaniss to meet
his party at Palatka and accompany
them to Miami, where they take the
steamship to Nassau. Col. Appleyard has
recently carried the Florida association
over there, and is fully posted on all mat
ters of interest to President Cabaniss in
the conducting of his party over the same
route.
Bishop H. b. Whipple has just returned
home from Miami and that vicinity and
he tells me that the region around Cocoa
nut Grove, where the famous writer and
canoist, Kirk Monroe, has a lonely home,
is the paradise of America and is destined
to become a winter home for people of
wealth and culture, who wish to surround
themselves with all the luxurious growth
of a semi-tropical region This, OF course,
does not refer to what Millionaire Flag
Ter has done to help nature become more
attractive at Palm Beach and Miami, but
applies to the native forests of palms and
the luxurious wild growth of vines and
plants and flowers on every side that daz-
zles the beholder
Now that the good roads movement has
taken hold of Florida In a practical way.
and substantial clay and shell roads and
streets are rapidly multiplying, another
movement has been inaugurated similar
TO the one In California, to have the Flor
ida legislature, that meets in April, pass
a wide tire act, like the California law
Just enacted requiring all future tires to
various wagons to be from three to six
inches In width according to weight of
the wagon. OF course, this does not APP
ply to wagons now in use, except to such
as may be repaired In the running gear.
but to new wagons hereafter constructed.
Many farmers In our state have adopted
wide tires and found them of great SER
vice on our deep sand roads. Narrow tires
and heavy loads threaten great damage
to our new clay roads especially, and some
harm to the harder shell roads.
The Princess OF Wales learned TO spin
Some time ago, and is now an expert with
the distaff and wheel.