The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-12-24

GOING TOCUBA BYTHEFLORIDA
COAST.
Starts January Eleven.
Round Trip Rate from Hen
derson $4,000, Including all
Expenses, Railroad and
Steamer.
Personally Conducted Tour by Mr..
Charles H. Travelling Pas
senger Agent ct the Seaboard Air
Line, ChaperOneJ by Mrs. GattiS.

senger Agent ct the Seaboard Air
Line, Chaperoned by Mrs. Gattis
Concerning tile personally con-
Quoted trip to Cuba by Mr.. Charles
H. Gattis, travelling passenger agent
of the SeabOard Air Line, advertised
elsewhere. to start January 18th, the
News and Observer SAYS this:
It's winter time in North Carolina now,
but summer in full foliage is Just thirty
hours away. or if you want more of it
lust add twelve hours and get the bios
som in its brightest hue by abiding
awhile in Havana, the capital city of the
Island of Cuba.
1t is dream of delight the getting
there, the varied attractions along the
route being ever changing surprises that
whet the appetite for what is to come
when the Cuban land is reached 1t is a
trip that is worth while knowing about
even if it is never taken, but there is good
fortune in this respect for hundreds OF
North Caroinians who are going to the
Summer Land in January.
This delightful trip down the east
coast of Florida and across the waters
OF the Gulf to Cuba has been arranged by
the SeabOard Air Line, which will take
personally conducted party from North
Carolina on the eleventh OF January in
IL special Pullman train to the end of
the land of the United States and
on a specially chartered steamer across
the waters to Havana, with a railroad
trip to the points i'll the interior Of Cuba.
1t is to be a record breaking trip in
pleasure, in comfort and in sight seeing,
made at such a low figure that the cost
will be a bagatelie compared with the
returns from it.
This personally conducted trip will
COS t ST. 50 for the railroad and steamer
expenses from Raleigh with rates from
| other parts of the State in proportion,
while the expenses en- route, Pullman
fares, carriage drives, meals, visits to va
rious entertainments, board in Havana.
lunches, sight seeing expeditions, will
be only such rs to make it trip of de-
light. The entire trip will be made from
January Ii to % inclusive with final
limit of five days more for those who
wish and will be in charge of Mr.. G H.
Gattis, of Raleigh, travelling passenger
been over the route and spent some time
in Cuba planning for this trip, which will
be the delight of ali who go on it, while
Mrs. Gattis will chaperOne the party.
For so little money no more charming
outing can be imagined, for it's one that
will take those in it into a strange land,
into Il foreign atmosphere, where all
things seem odd and queer to the traveller
from the United States
Southwark no! is the trip, and the
party OF over a hundred for which ar
engagements are being planned will gather
at Raleigh to make the start on the
| special train. which will leave here on the
afternoon of January eleven SO as to
pass through a tropic land in the day
time. All that is to be done by pas
| senger is to pay the charges for the trip
and thereafter there is nothing to do but
to take life easy and to enjoy himself, for
Mr.. Gattis will attend to all the details.
With nothing to worry or annoy the
! trip will be one of pure delight all
! through.
| Columbia and Savannah will be passed
! during the first ght and there will be
sunrise shortly before Jacksonville is
reached, where there is to be stop for
| drive over the city and visit to the
ostrich farm. Out from Jacksonville as
| the trip is continued towards st. Angus
tine over Flagler's wonderful road, the
| Florida East Coast, the vegetation of
| when st. Augustine is reached there will
be another drive/and a visit to spots of
historic interest in this city full OF at
| fractions.
Swinging out from st. Augustine the
travellers will find that they are now
really in a land of summer time and
| those with the lightest clothing will have
| the best of it. Out of the car windows
though snow and ice have been left in
North Carolina, there will be seen a sum-
| mer time growth, the palm trees OF vari-
Gus kinds increasing in size as the train
PUSHES on it's way South. The next stop
will be at Palm Beach and here will be
seen the greatest resort hotels in the
world, where is gathered the wealth, the
luxury, and the society circles OF the
North, all out to have q good time at
place where is nothing but a good time
to have
| From Palm Beach the party, still on
the Fforda East Coast road, will go on
its way to Miami. where a stop on the
return trip will be made for a visit to
this picturesque city, crowded with
visitors from the North, where palm
trees and tropical growth is seen every
where When the train pulls out from
Miami then it is that there will be seen a
greater change in plants and trees, with
now over the most wonderful part of Mr..
Flagler's road, where it soon becomes a
case OF going to sea on a railroad train.
AS time and distance pass speedily, the
train is soon dashing across the wonder
full concrete road made from key to key,
each key being in reality small island.
AS the train passes there can be seen on
one side the waters of the Atlantic and
on the other side dense tropical growth
while as the spaces from key to key are
crossed there is nothing but water to be
seen on each side, the track of the road
beng built upon the ocean bed between
the keys, at places the large viaducts be-
ing so constructed as tol let the water go
dashing through them, passing on their
way to the open sea.
At Long Key there will be short stop
and by the side of the road will be seen a
great grove OF large cocoanut palms,
which are beauties, and then again the
rush South till Knights Key is reached
and the steamer is taken from Key West
| and from n or n1ooo 10 IN, bo