The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-12-01
ATTRACTIVE FLORIDA.

The fame Of Florida as an American
winter resort is world wide, and much
of this is due Ito its great number of
excellent hotels. This great tropical
peninsula has many and manifold at
fractions for the tourist apart from the
hotels. 1t is our nearest land ito the
equator; it's sea beaches are the finest
in the world; it's rivers, lakes, bays, in
lets and minor streams are beautiful
beyond description; its forests are
filled with rare tropical trees it's cult
waited lands are redolent of orange
blossome, magnolias and a thousand
other exotic blooms. There are many
miles Of superb roadways, and these
are being added to with rapidity; the
cities, towns and villages are thriving,
prosperous, progressive; the state is
grtdlroned by excellent railways which
touch every important point; and--to
cap the climax-there is a splendid fleet
of fine passenger steamships-th
Clyde Line-which connects Jackson
ville the capital, by direct, all-water
service with New York.
The traveller to Florida by the Clyde
Line has the opportunity of stopping
over at Charleston, if he desires. This
strikingly beautiful city is in the midst
of a resort section that is famous
throughout the country. Summerville
is but twenty-five miles away place
noted for It's magnificent pine forests
and a climate that is peculiarly dry,
mild and bracing. All through this
section are to be found winter resorts
of wide reputation which provide all
the comforts of social life and the fa-
cilities for outdoor sport. The Clyde
Liners are much used by the people on
their way to Aiken, one of the liyeliest
of these winter gathering Places much
like Newport with its wealthy cottage
colony and its busy life in the open air.
Charleston Is the most convenient
transfer point for those journeying
from the north to Ashville and it's vi
entity, and the resorts of the "Land of
the Sky and the Sapphire Country"
The run Of the steamers from
Charleston to Jacksonville takes from
twelve to sixteen hours, and the trip
from the mouth of the st. Johns river
10 Jacksonville is one of the most de-
sehtful river trips in the United States.
From the moment that the Florida
coast is sighted, and the palms growing
in the sands at the oceans edge, all is
novel. The wide, shallow, twisting riv-
err winding through the vivid green of
the low lands that are broken with
narrow and broad inlets of the stream,
the tall, 'bare-stemmed pines of the
south floating green roof over the
palms that are the underbrush make a
series of fascinating pictures as the
steamer sweeps smoothly along, per-
haps in the level sunlight of the early
morning, and turns to the different
points of the compass in obedience to
the demands of the tortuous channel
with it's broad surface but narrow path
for vessels. Twenty-Five miles of this
tropical panorama passes before the
eyes of the traveller ere Jacksonville is
reached and the steamer ties up at the
Clyde Line wharves in the heart of the
city.
Messrs. Sweeney & Kelsey, the we'll
known general steamship agents, who
have very conveniently located office
at 102 Church street, have made a spe-
cialty for several seasons of sending
parties to Florida by the popular Clyde
Line
The fine steamers and superior SER
vice of this line make it the ideal route
to Florida,