The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-06

nearly hundred miles of unsurpassed automobile roads up and down ths coast, and new roads are being pushed into the interior. penetrating to Lake Okechobee and the Everglades. .
 There Is the Jingle Trail, down which men and maids may stroll or be car- ried in wheel chairs. It Is three miles of tropical jungle, beauty with all the tropical jungle ugliness carefully cut out and banished by that same magic of money. At the-very doors of the hotels are the golf grounds. well-kept and not too sporty" And not very far away may be founda palace where- in the fekle goddess of Fortune holds court and permits those who have gold to woo and.s sometimes, to win. In the safternoon one may have tea on the lawn, with a good band to fur nish an accompaniment for the con- versation so that drinking tea may not become too much of>an effort for even the most fatigued of milHonaires. If one doesn't care for tea--there are other things. If one is a woman and has money there can be no paradise without. shopping district, and Palm Beach Is an up-to~date paradise. So there are shops. rich ones. and jewell CTS and milliners and modistes are ever ready, during the season, to cater to the whims of the woman who wishes to buy something new. There are rows of shops on either side of the main corridor in the Royal Poihciana. and there is a little row of wooden storehouses outside. The little store rooms are of exactly the kind that are pushed into the background of a coun- try village when the brckiayer first comes to town. But for all that, they rent for $2.5o0 for the season of three months
 The landscape gardner has conspfred with the Southern sun and the warm Gulf Stream to make Palm Beach thing of beauty and a joy forever to the eye. recent popular novel has thrown a glamor over the professional services of landscape engineer at Palm Beach which has caused great interest among persons to whom Palm Beach Is forever and ever financial possibility for more than a few days at a time.
 Across the little strip of land that is the theatre of this great scene- painting. stretch two avenues connect ing Palm Beach on -the-lake with Palm Beach on-the-sea. One of these is for pedestrians, and lies between two rows of palmetto trees. The other is for wheel chairs and for the little mule power tramway. and 1t is lined with rows of beautiful feathery, fairy winged Australian pines.
 By the side of the lake, running south from Whitehall, is a long curv- ed walk, protected by a sea-wall of masonry and ornaInented by cocoanut trees: These trees came here as the result of an accident. Years and years ago the Spanish brig Providencia, la den with cocoanuts. was lost off this coast. The nuts fioated ashore and finding a congenial soil and climate, settled themselves and grew. Along Il. .s.f h. a..A T pieces of cannon, the souvenirs of the wreck of a Spanish frigate many and many year ago.
 The landscape gardner has brought tropical trees and fruits and flowers from every part of the globe to en- rich this noney-made. Eden. There is the traveller palm which Is the sole hope and succor of the thirsty Arab in the deserts of the East. One may pierce its stem and 1t vii yield good, sweet water. There Is the sfeathery pine of Australia and the gnarled and twisted pine of Japan. the date palm from Syria and the sapodiIla tree from the West Indies. Flowers bloom in wild profusion and one asks the names only to be bewildered by the strange replies. A
 But most beautiful of all, if one will stay until the early spring, Is the royal poincfana, which gives it's name to the great hotel which has made Palm Beach famous all over the world. For the most of the year its dark green leaves, which look like gigantic ferns, spread out in umbrella fashion to shade its bare branches. for the leaves grow only at the tips of the twigs. When winter comes these leaves slowly drop away and leave an ugly. scraggy tree that is most unsightly in It's sur of tropical greens. But not for long. The spring comes. and as in the North it tempts forth the saucy cactus and the modest violet. here 1t quickens the sap in the poinciana tree and turns 1t to fire.
 Yes. to fire For the tree bursts into a very flame with it's riot of red bloom. It Is the red of the crest of the furnace, the red of the sea-coal fire. the red of the pine-knot ember. Flame tree,' the simple folk call it; royal poinciana." say the educated,