Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-11-19
THE FUTURE OF ANERICUS AS A
TOURIST POINT.


pect as tourist point, especially as
town catering to the moderately rich,
the well-to-do who are seeking ac-
commedations not of the most luxurious
! character but rather those that offer
| comfort, congenial surroundings, and
the opportunity for pleasant life in
climate that Is delightful and bracing,
that town is Americas.
Six things unite to make this an
ideal tourist point. First and foremost
Is the climate. The winter weather
here is superb. No more delightful
climate can be found in the south. The
air is dry, cool, bracing, but not cold.
No snow. no ice. no slush, but a sue
cession of sunshiny days that tempt
one into the open air and make ex-
istence a pleasure Then the city is
healthful. No other town in Georgia,
regardless as to its size, presents as
| enviable a record as Americas In this
respect. The white mortality rate
here is probably the lowest in all
Georgia. Well drained, supplied with
an ample allowance of pure water for
all purposes, with an air free from
malaria, no place presents more al
lurements to winter tourists in re-
spect to heaithfulness.
After these considerations, of course,
| comes the matter of accommodations
The Windsor Hotel is a magnificent
property A one hundred room hotel
In city the size of Americas Is ample
to provide for the commercial travel
and tourist travel as well. The hotel
presents a fine appearance, it has a
pretty interior, it IL supplied with
large piazzas, and its rooms are of
good size and attractive. All that Is
needed is the complete overhauling to
which it Is to be subjected within the
next sixty to ninety days by the new
pfoprietors and the refurnishing that
will add to its comforts and appear
ance. The hotel Is home like and with
its new equipment will reflect decided
credit upon the city and meet the re-
quirements of the tourist travel that
we may confidently look for.
| After prospective tourist visitor
has considered these matters of cu-
mate, health and hotel accommoda-
tons the next thought is naturally
that of pleasure. Here Americas also
will be in position to offer attractions
sufficient to draw to it the moderately
rich class it will seek to cater to. To
the lover of automobiiing the country
offers many miles of fine highways,
among the finest now to be found in
| Georgia Already there are forty to
fifty miles of excellent roads. BY next
winter there will be between IS and
100 miles of level we'll drained, per-
feet roads over which tourists can
drive, with many other miles that,
while inferior to these new magni-
icent highways, will increase the dis
tances that can be- travelled about the
city in comfort To the lover OF out |
door sports there will be the gole links
and the tennis courts ct the country
club. Thereis not a question Of doubt
but that the country club will be a |
working factor in the life OF the city
before that time, within I'D aext three
to four months in fact Then there Is |
the fishing and the hunting for the
sportsman. No better fishing can be
found than that within radius of a |
few miles of the city, and partridge |
and dove shooting, as Is we'll known, is
to be had here equal TO anywhere in
this section.
Now these things make up a cata-
logue OF reasons why Americas should |
prove an attractive spot for the class |
Of travel we will be seeking next win
ter and perhaps even before this win
ter is over. To these we can, IL We |
get to work with vigor. add another
the proposed military road to the Au- !
Jacksonville national park and cem-
etery. This road of ten miles. If Sc
cured. as is probable, would make a
magnificent road for automobiles,
with one of the greatest historic spots
of the South at the end. The beautiful |
national cemetery there, with its 49,
900 dead, and the prison camp grounds
adjacent, are we'll calculated to draw /
hundreds of tourists to Americas, es-
pecially when we are prepared to Of
fer the other attractions we have
summed up above.
Now this matter of tourists is no
phantasm. 1t is solid. concrete fact.
We are assured the rates. we are as
sured the advertising. The prize is
within our reach II we win but take it.
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