The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1906-12-08
HORIDA'S ARMY
OF TOURISTS
Marshalin& to Invade the State-Some
Interesting Facts About Our Won.
derful East Coast Country.

derful East Coast Country.
A recent issue of the Rochester Demo-
crat and Chronicle, one of the leading
upstate papers in New York, contained
some interesting information concerning
Florida, and especially the East Coast
section, with its wonderful chain of mag
nifcent hotels and its unsurpassed rail
way system. That paper SAYS:
More practice, perhaps, would faeili
tate handling the soldiers of Uncle Sans
army. The armies of peace at all events
mobilize rapidly and yet successfully.
They are always at it. Even now these
armies are gathering again, this time for
the annual advance upon the winter re-
sorts of the south. The vanguard is
ready to make its annual capture of the
baths at Virginia Hot Springs and to
find recreation in the mountains of west
ern Virginia and the CarolinaS. In few
weeks these and other hosts from every
part of the land will begin to move on
to that marvellous stretch of surf-beaten
sand which marks with an unbroken line
OF foam the eastern coast of Florida
from the mouth of the St Johns. at the
northeastern corner of the state, through
nearly FIVE degrees of latitude to Miami
an entire state given over to 4 great
winter playground, forming the nearest
American approach tn the famous
Riviera.
An army Of 10000 tourists visits
Florida each Winter-an army five times
as large as that which wears the uniform
OF Uncle Sam, and approximately as
large as that which goes to Europe in
the course of year. Yet there is no
undue excitement over the coming of
such host. Practice has prepared the
way for its every step. For its trans
portation fleet Of ocean-going steamers
ply regularly from the northern coast
cities throughout the season. From New
York and Chicago and other cities of the
north and west parlor car trains dash
southwark conveying this pleasure-seek-
ing army in its pursuit of summer
There is no mad scurrying for tents or
timed goods, as is the case when few
thousand boys in blue get busy. In the
commissariat for the care of this vast
army are included the facilities afforded
by hundreds of hotels and boarding
houses, from the eight or ten-dollar q
week cottage, accommodating half a
dozen guests, to the palatial hostelry
ntted with every convenience and luxu-
ry for hundreds. At jacksonville is To-
Gated the distributing point for the
transporting of the battalions of pleas
ure-seekers as they progress down the
coast from one famous winter resort to
another. On one side the ocean is al
ways at hand, and boating and bathing
may alternate with sight seeing and ex-
eursions by land through deep forests OF
orange groves full of fruit.
An enthusiastic flank movement is
generally executed by detachment OF
the main army of peace, much as is
done in real war The detachment is
made up of those who like to invoke an
ICY shiver through gazing on gruesome
rehcs OF past days when history was
written in blood. The objective point
Ia keeping with the smile, is old Fort
Marion. relic of Spanish dominion
whose construction was begun more
IMAM three centuries ago, and within
whose grim walls are to be seen chill
dungeons, secret passages, wells, quick,
sand traps and all the terrifying instru.
ments of torture which attend Spanish
regime in the fifteenth century.
Were all this an invasion of troops
even without resistance, the story would
not move so quickly Neither would the