Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-05-13
IN THE SUNNY SOUTH.

for the MONITOR snort aCCOuhN VI ny
trim south and this will endeavor to
dc, hoping that it will prove interest
ing TO those who have never 20 1he
privilege of visiting the sunny and
historic south.
Our party. numbering Il, steamed
out Of New York harbor late IN
the afternoon Of Wednesday, Jan. IS,
1907 on the Clyde Line steamship
Iroquois. The first night out we en-
couotered rough seas and the next
morning found most of US more or
less seasick. but aside from this,
which for some Of Us was trouble
enough. no mishap attended our voy-
ags. The weather continued much
the same as that we had left Ia the
north until we passed Cape Hatteras,
when it suddenly became warm ana we
all discarded our overcoats and prom
enaded the decks in the warm sea
breeze and sunshine.
We awoss Saturday morning to
find the ship lying at anchor 10
Charleston harbor. 1t was oeauu-
fol morning and one that shall
never forget; the sun was SHINING
brightly in a cloudless SKY, and the
air was warm and still.
NV stateroom mate and L went
ashore at once, hoping to see the en-
tire city in the half day allotted US.
To our surprise we found the city IN
gala dress, and We quickly learned
that it was to be our privilege to tour
this famous city on the one hundre0n
anniversary of the birth OF General
Robert E. Lee, this day being jan
uary 10, 1907.
Among the many places we visited
that forenoon was St.MichaePs church.
Here was pointed out to US the pew
in which Washington, Lee, and Aaron
Burr had worshiped in the old days
We spent some time in Magnolia
Cemetery, where the Federal and the
Confederate sleep peacefully side by
side. The chief ornament of the Gem
etery however is the tropical luxur-
lance of live oaks and magnolias:
MANY of the old. buildings in the
city have cement patched rents in
their walls, which bark back to the
earthquake of 1886. AS we left the har-
Dor that afternoon everyone looked
hard and long at Fort Sumter, fixing
the picture of that historic old fort
in their memories.
The last thirty miles of our voyage
from Charleston to Jacksonville was
ND the st. John River, and here we
had our first view of Florida's far
famed beauty. From Jacksonville the
Journey continued south over coun-
try of sandy soil, and through i'm
mense tracts Of long leaf southern
pine.
On Sunday afternoon our party
arrived at Ormond, my own journey
from Barton having been thirteen
hundred seventy Ave miles.
Hotel Ormond Is built on a warm
peninsular between the Halifax River
and the Atlantic Ocean. In the vicin-
ity of the hotel there are many
beautiful walks, shaded by trees hung
with Spanish moss, which lead by and
through the orange groves to the
beach. The trees for the most part
are pines, palmettoes, live oaks and
the bay, but also saw many of the
magnolia, umbrella and mulberry
trees. Just word about the world
famous Ormond Beach; this beach ii
three hundred feet wide and thirty
miles long, hard and aside from it
gradual slant toward the sea is leve
as a floor. Here l saw Marriott attemp
to lower the worldwide AUTOMOBILE
record of twenty. eight and one fit
seconds held by himself, but the bes
he could do was a mile in thirty-tw
seconds.
During the course of my work an
otherwise came in contact with tn
native negro a good deal and
found him happy, easy going ind
vidual but rather inclined to shirk n
work. My own work was pleasar
but the sulphur drinking water of til
region was very distasteful to one VIII
had always been accustomed to pull
May Pond water.
From the hotel took two side trips
one to Daytona, thriving little eli
Eve miles away, which surpass'
Ormond in beauty, and the other te
miles through jungle-like scenery l
the Tomoka River. In the water
this river many alligators make the
home. My entire stay in Flori'
was a continual stretch of warm su
shiny days hardly broken by thr
showers of short duration. Leavil
Ormond for the north in early APP