The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-19
FROM FROST TO FLOWERS.
First Trip Of the New York and
Florida Limited,

Florida Limited.
When the New York and Florida
Limited rolled out Of Jersey City on
January 16, for its first flight of the
winter, the season of migration to the
sunny southland was formally and
brilliantly opened. This edition de
luxe of travel operated by the South
ern Railway System and connections,
was greatly admired by crowds gath
cred at the start. When the last for
tunate passengers arrived on the 1910
ferries from New York, and when at
314 n m. the magnificent train flashed
out from Broad Street Station, Phila-
delphia, for the magical swiftness OF
the change from winter icy grip to the
balmy summer skies of Florida in one
day of travel.
The train which began this regular
winter service on January 16 will be
run daily. except Sunday, until the
early part Of April. and for the in
augural trip all the accommodations
available had been engaged long in
advance. mo wonder it's filled up
every day of the season." said an old
railroad man yesterday. THAT New
York and Florida Limited Is all the
advertisement 1t wants itself. Just
look at it and go aboard of 1t once
That's the most luxurious train in the
world. and I've looked over most of the
crack flyers"
The train which aroused the veter-
ans experts highest admira ton was
composed of Pullman Compartment
cars, Drawing Room Sleepers. Library,
Dining and Observation cars, furnished
ana finished with unique taste and
richness. In the Compartment cars.
each was complete in itself, to be used
singly or en- suite; while the Drawing
room Sleepers were the ones used by
President Mckinley and party in their
recent tours. The Library suggested
the reading room of a perfectly ap-
pointed club. with easy chairs and So
fas. writing desks. and the latest peri
odicals. The Observation car at the
end of the train. with sides and ends
or plate glass. and a spacious enclosed
PLATFORM was veritable sun-parlor
with piazza attachment. From bath
rooms to barber shop nothing was
lacking to replace every comfort and
convenience left behind by the pilgrim,
In house. hotel, or club. no matter how
SACtlIeHtly appointed.
This train Is whrled through solid,
a flying palace, between New Yorn
ana st. Augustine. excepting one Pull
man Drawinkroom Sleeping car which
leaves the train at Blackvile, S. c.,
and goes to Aiken and Augusta and
one Pullman Drawing-room sleepar
which leaves the train at Jacksonville
and goes through to Tampa.
To leave New York at lunch hours of
one day, by the New York and Florid,
Limited. and be strolling in the palm
gardens of st. Augustine a couple Of
hours before one needs to dress for
dinner the next afternoon, is to leave
discounted the fairy tale Of the Fly
ing Carpet"
from January to May, in what is
scarcely more than an over night fight
is the calender of steam racing with
the calender Of the sun. The seasons
seem to be flashed by as if the round
were completed in a day. instead of
year, Yet Florida is four or five
months distant in air and sky and sea
ana vernal, caressing loveliness. St.
Augustine, whittier the pilgrim is
borne In his home on spinning wheels
is an ideal entrance into charm of the
Florida winter time. The picturesque
atmosphere of old Spain fingers vet
after three stony centuries, in the
crooked streets. while trim Northern
play golf around the gray
and ancient fort and city wall, and
stroll about the palatial hotels which
are world famous for luxury and har-
monious splendor of architecture.
From Jacksonville or ST. Augustine.
travellers by the New York and 7lori-
da Limited are able to reach any OF
the attractive regions of the sea-
washed and sun-bathed peninsula. to
Tampa and the West Coast, and fur
ther on to Key West and Havana. or
down the East Coast to the tropica,
paradise of the Indian river and Lake
Worth with the superb chain Of hotels
and from Palm Beach across to Mas.
sua. or direct from Miami to Havana
The interior of Florida also is filled
with popular and charming resorts by
blue lakes and pine forests and mango
groves, which are reached soonest and
most pleasantly by the Southern Rail-
way System. Florida draws more
winter birds of passage to her WITCH
erles every year and in many favored
regions the hotel accommodations have
had to he notably increased since last
year. What Is called cold weather in
that latitude is never more than a
day or two of bracing air, quickly for
gotten in the flooding sunshine AMI
soft winds which calls to the out-of-
door life Of the northern summer.
Whatever the habits or bent of occu.
patton. Florida in these DAYS fails not
to satisfy bountifuly, whether it be
hunting, fishing. sailing, bathing, golf,
tennis. bicycling, loatinR. the society
life and color of Bar Harbor or New
port or the pursuit of health ana
for their own sake.
The New York and Florida Limited
Philadelphia daily at 3.14 p. m.
files to and fro. mighty shuttlecocl.
OF steel, weaving the seasons to it's will
and setting at defiance all the caleu-
ders invented by the wise men: from
winter to spring, to summer in a day,
and the Transformation wrought while
On the most magnificent train in the !
world What theme for a fairy story
!, would have been a few generations
ago.