The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1905-03-04


k0No0 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. o-0O
~ Miles from St. Augustine.
EoUo one way ...........................-&2.20
Rouad trip. ............... 40
DAYTONA is situated upon the
west bank of the Halifax River at its
fairest expanse and midway between
Its source at Bulow Bay and its outlet
at Mosquito Inlet. 1t is in latitude
20, seventy four miles from St. Au-
Justine and one mile from the Al
lantic Ocean. AMI is acknowledged to
be without rival for beauty among
the villages Of the South It's sight
is upon what liz known ny high ham
mock land that was crowned by
nature with most royal growth Of
majestic forest trees, and among
these trees is the town of today, with
its beautiful cottages and we'll graded
walks and streets. The result is
that all along the wide avenues that
intersect the town are lorilv live
and water oaks and hickories. man
Of them draped with graceful fes-
toons of the gray Spanish moss, that
oversrch the street and walks. and
al.ong these are intersp-rsed tall
tropical palmettos, glossy leaved
magnolIas, fragrant bays and coral
bcrrled holly, and many other variie-
lies, while in many places the wild
grape, the trumpet vine and the
smpelopsis climb and ding among
the branches forming shady bowers
and adding grace and beauty.
The town lies parallel with the
Halifax River, and extends for nearly
two miles along the shore. This
river is the delight of the angler and
the yachisman and forms one IF the
town 3 greatest attractions.
The main avenues that run par
allel with or intersect tn, river are all
lOO feet wide, except Beach street,
which is about sixty-hve feet, but
has a half-mile Of open. beautiful
water abutting upon it's eastern side,
where the salt waves .ebb and flow
and along and across which comes
the cooling, invigorating and health
giving breezes from off the wide
Atlantic, which temper and render
the Halifax climate one of the most
perfect in the world. Daytona has
many miles of we'll graded, married
and shelled roads and streets. ren-
dering it the
WhesImsn's Paradise
and added TO these. but a mile away
are thirty miles of smooth, hard
beach, that affords an unrivaIled
course for ong-distance cycling and
driving or automobile racing. No
town of equal size, North or South,
numbers 50 many wheelmen, and
cycling liz favorite pastime with
the tourists summer and winter.
The Beautiful Cottages
the. have been erected during the
past years and are being built are
rendering Daytona as famous for It's
hne homes as for lis beautiful river. /
trees and avenues, and they are
adding yearly to it's attractions.
Not the least of these attractions
to those securing homes in the South, /
and ranking second only To health
falne:s and perfection Of climate. is
the fact that lis population is chiefly
composed of cultivated and intelli-
gent people, accustomed To the re-
hhemenis of home and social life. ,
Added to these features are GOOD
IL
churches, good public and private
schools, stores, hotels, laundry, meat
markets, novelty works, an opera
house, electric lights for street and
house illumination, a good telephone |
system, ice factory, Lily Water !
Works, and hot and cold baths etc !
and everything else can be procured
that IL necessary to make life COM
Portable An important feature in
the healthfulness of the town is the
Mater Supply
which is derived from numerous
flowing wells, of which there are
probably 800 in the corporate limits
This How il secured by boring wells
to the depth of from 80 to 40 feet,
passing through several strata of
rock, and this depth assures purity
from all surface contamination. The
water is slightly hnpregnated with
nAgnesia and iron, and holds sui
paur in the SHAPE Of gus which soon
passes away.