The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-03-19
fine CLIMATE
OF FLORIDA
A Most Valuable Asset Says Well
Known Baltimore Editor
APPLAUDS DEVELOPERS
He Says that fIorda's Development as Fine
Winter Resort, a Peoples Playground
Has Hardly Begun to be Achieved

LAS an asset, Florida's climate Is
worth more than Pennsylvania coal
and iron, the latter, naturally will be
exhausted sooner or later, the former
will continue to the end of time" so
spoke Richard H. Edmonds, editor of
the Manufacturers Record, who is
prominent visitor to the city, says the
Jacksonville Times Union.
Mr.. Edmonds has been sojourning in
South Florida and when seen by Times
Union representative he talked interest
ingly Of the wonderful climate and the
development of the state as winter re-
sort. "An acre of good climate" said
he, lis more valuable than an acre of
coal. All that man has will be given
for life and Florida's climate means
health and long life to many who cannot
stand the rigors of the bitter searching
winds. the SHOWS and the billiards of
the North and East.
"Some time ago little girl living in
Cleveland becoming weary of its long
winters said: Father will heaven be
divided up into North, East, South and
West, as the geography divides up the
country?' why do you ask that?' an
swered the father. Because she re-
piled, if it is so, want to ask the
Lord to let me live South in heaven
THAT little girls longing for the land
of sunshine and flowers, about which
her mother, Southern woman. had
often told her., has been answered be-
fore she leaves the earth and she is now
living in the land which to her seems
Paradise.
1.-THE far seeing men like H. B. Plant
and H. M. Flagler and others who real
lied what climate meant in a nations
assets, have rendered great service to
mankind. They made possible the
turning of Florida into nations play
ground-a nations resting place, where
the pleasure seekers, the rest and health
seekers, and where tired nerves and
weary bodies can find escape from ice
bound regions.
whether the aim of such pioneers
were selfish or philanthropic, and am
inclined to give them credit for both,
they are benefactors of the people and
their good works shall live long after
they have crossed over the river to
rest under the shade.
"Florida's developement," continued
he, 'as winter resort - peoples
play ground, has already begun. Our
country is new as compared with other
nations and it is only within the last
few years, broadly speaking, that the
American people in large numbers have
been accommodating wealth to afford the
luxury of winter trip to the south.
Their name is now becoming legion and
every day is adding to the number. AS
population grows and wealth expands,
there. .will be an ever more rapid in
crease in the desire of the people to
own winter homes in the South, or to
spend at least part of the winter
here.
"Our country is making such vast
strides in material advancement and in
population that the winter movement
southwark may, at almost any time, run
ahead of the facilities for caring for it.
l have watched every phase of South
ern development for twenty-five years
and never before has the tendency of
people from other sections to move to
the south been more marked.
cat present Florida and Texas are
the chief drawing states, but there is
gradual movement into every Southern
state of the best class of Northern and
Western people. The signs are every
where multiplying that this is only the
advance guard of many thousands who
will annually pour into this section to
their go ID and the South's. The work
of the south during the last quarter of
a century; it wonderful advance in ag-
rculture and manufactures; its activity
in city building; its development in fruit
and early vegetable growing; the widen
ing knowledge of its life giving climate
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