The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25

with the new year. The truck farming
business, pineapple and strawberry cul-
ture are all greatly enlarged this season.
with promise of remunerative returns,
Despite the loss of the Florida Midland
Rdllroad, which now has its terminus at
Clarcona, the once lively city of Long
wood holds on TO a living remnant of BUSH
ness. The hotel still remains closed and
the Variety Works are deserted yet West
Longwood has a fine class of well-to-do
people whose support helps the depot set
Element to keep up a lively appearance at
train time There are many fine groves
surrounding the town and most of them
are coming into bearing again. Some OF
the owners are now residents who spend
their winters here, with their families
and this adds quite materially to the vol
ume of business done by the retail mer-
chants.
This place is one of the dead towns in
summer, few of its property owners liv-
ing there all the year round. 1t is Just
now opening up the season, and with fat
tering prospects. Manager Savage, from
Mt. Desert. Me, is 10 open the hotel and
then the crowd will come. Massachusetts
and Connecticut are regular and liberal
patrons of this hotel, and the Westing-
houses of Pennsylvania There are many
elegant winter homes there and the society
is unusually "high-toned" Mrs. Gen Grant
and Miss Rose Cleveland have each spent
a winter at the Bradlee Cottage, now call
ed THE White House." on their account.
Charming Maitland" as Mrs Gen.
Grant calls it, has got a move on itself
this season. and the outlook for the winter
is unusually bright Manager Thompson
reopens the Park House with December,
at which time Bishop Whpple and wife
and the Morris family will arrive to occu-
by their elegant winter homes near the
hotel. with the advent of the distinguished
Bishop the other winter residents of
wealth and culture begin to come, and
then the season opens in dead earnest. The
splendid groves here are again bearing
and Heard & Rolls have opened their big
packing houses and are shipping extern
sively. Neglected groves are being cult
waited now and every body feels encoura ged
by the present outlook
Winter Park is having a glorious re-
vlval in all her interests Rollins College
has taken on new life under President
Wards jealous efforts and liz now al the
high water mark of prosperity. Winter res
idents are coming in so numerous that a
scarcity Of dwellings Is sure TO result. The
Rogers House is open and the Seminole
Hotel opens on the middle Of January. The
business part of town has been greatly i'm
proved for the winter season, probably
more so than in any place on the line Of
The railroad from Sanford TO Tampa. And
this is always an unanswerabie argument
In favor Of the prosperity Of a town. When
the merchants are busy and prospecting,
all other industries prosper.
Having supplemented her pineapple
boom with a big increase in strawberry
culture and truck-growing, Orlando SUI
hurbs are just now in a high state Of
prosperlty-in fact, so much so that vacant
corner lots in the heart Of the city are
rented out for strawberry gardens. The
outlook for winter residents and tourists
is quite encouraging. The San Juan Hotel
is already open and doing a good business,
az are half a dozen other smaller but
attractive hotels. Orlando, like Sanford
and Winter Park, Is dry town, but out
side liquor dealers are zealously looking
after the jug trade In this county 50 no
one is obliged to suffer for drink. Or
lando is the pioneer of good streets and
country roads is now reaping a rich re-
ward for her missionary work in that d-
recti0n and the drummers give the livery
stables a large patronage on this account
in preference TO railroads