The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-24
By win T. sheehan.

be health resort. It is filling the destiny that nature meant for It.
 It Is the highest point from Maine \ to Galveston as far distant from tide water as Citronelle. If one cares to use figures which are often more elo- quent than any words. no matter with what care they are seIectedshe may say that 1t is 366 feet above the sea level. Think of that, when the place Is so convenient that 1t might also be con- And Mobile Is only five feet above the sea level.
 citronelle is on what might be called an anti cline. The highland lands make their final break there. The earth slopes away from citronelle |, every to the West and to the South the lands are low lands. It Is on the final apex which reaches out to the Gulf of Mexico.
 And having fitted the point with a clear and high atmosphere and lifted 1t from the surrounding country. na- ture clothed the place with a garment of verdant pines. the most heaIthfui and the most vigorous trees in all the world. It Is a privilege to breathe their fragrance when one is tired or exhausted,
 The spIendia Scenery.
 It Is no less privilege to gaze upon
 
 far South, which surrounds the place One may stand upon the high points in Citronelle and let his delighted eyes sweep the horizon for a full twenty miles. Be,ow him Is a delightful car. pet of pines. They are green and con tentlng even In February. The pines are tall and graceful, but they do not reach the feet of him, whose gaze wonders over the satisfying scenery.
 About the whole is the soft air, of the Gulf coast. the languorous climate,
 which woos one from the disquieting thoughts that may have troubled him, and lifts his soul to peace and content
 ment, which invests every blade of
 grass. every signing pine, every bed of pine needles with peculiar, an ipsptr- ing interest. It is a climate in its fascinating Iuxurfance which makes one feel at peace with mankind, which in- spires him to believe that God Is in his Heaven and all is we'll with the world.'
 l The Northerner has found all this. He is quick to appreciate the best in nature and climate. quicker than his Southern brother Out of which grows ] the fact that Citronelle, once South ern village is now a Northern town. The Northern man claims the place as his own. He has come Southward in such numbers and built his homes for rest and quiet so often that he now quite outnumbers the original settlers.
 He has succeeded in making Citronelle most beautiful towns that one could find stretched along the slope to the sea from Maine to California.
 The TOwn's Fascination. It is in it's prime, this fascinating little place of Citronelle, in the month of February. The hotels are filled
 and every cottage holds it's owners as.I tr.0 Nras a | place when one owns cottage there to spend the winters among the rigors of the Northern climate.
 The hegira southwards begins with the first biting blast of winter and when the cold of February is on Cit | ronelle Is at It's best. It can show a ] population at that time of between l l,500 and 1000 people. In wealth and l intelligence the winter citizenship of | Cttronelle will undoubtedly compare | with any that of any other town of its | size in America Tn fact, it's popula- | ton Is drawn exclusively. one right l say, from the wealthier. the moro in- ] telligent class. barring the negro pop l ulation of the town which is neither | large nor small But the negroes are | given a separate suburb of their own | where they have their churches, their | lodge rooms and their cabins. The | Northern cottage owner and winter l tourists who have been coming to Cit l ronelle year after year and who know | the negroes. more or less, do not think highly of them. Certain philanthropic | schemes which they have evolved for | the uplifting of the negro have not | turned out exactly as they were plan | ned. Somehow, the negro, at least the l Cltronelle negro, has not measured up to the ideal the Northern man had of
 him when he came South and tried to I do something for htm.
 l It Is the pleasure of the tourists and
 cottage owners to give hearty praise | to small negro colony living just | outside of town in the country, whose l members have conducted themselves in i q way to please industrious Northern l CTS. The country negroes have farm | ed well. have established nice homes. | and contributed In part to the upbuild- | ing of Citronelle, so far as their good
 behavior and industry might do 1t, But | the town negro-the colony within the | town has proved sad disappointment. ] The NeErO's Place.
 1 In studying the splendid and the l healthful resort at Citronelle that is | neither here nor there, has no part 1 in the matter bearing on the town. ex- l cent to. afford an interesting example 1 of the attitude of the Northern man
 when he is brought into close relation | with the negro and learns to know him
 as he really Is, without pretense on tho one hand or prejudice on the other. Men | of wealth and of energy are engaged | in building up Citronelle so that the
 world shall know of its charms, and tt l shall be recognized as what 1t really is one of the most delightful winter 1 resorts in America and fin their calcu-
 latlon the negro IS given no eonsidera
 ton, but he Is in Citronelle given l equal and exact justice and treatment l with other citizens. In most Northern ] cities especially these made up Of inn migrants of moderate means, the pres
 ence of the negro Is deprecated and his 1 coming Is discouraged. but in this, | Citronelle is different from other North | ern made towns in the South.
 | A few years ago Citronelle was what l it had been year after year. a charm ing little village on high hill of pines, delightful place to live and to | grow strong, and not much larger than 1t was when the war broke out But
 the people who now make up the pop ulation of the town have firm faith tn its future and they are making sac rifices of money and energy to have that future realized. They are unwill- ing to concede that even Aikibs' which has drawn so many Eastern millionaires to the pines of North Carolina Is sn- | perjor to the Alabama resort. And m
 truth what Akin is to the Eastern
 of independent means Cltronetle DIGS
 fair to be to the man of the West,
 It is convenient to the two metrop- oles of the Middle West Chicago and e, Iauis and its charms have been