The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-12-28
~ Z. G. DEMAREE.

~ e. DEMAREE.
one Of Daytona's browning glo-
RES is her incompatible beach. Mol
one who hax, ever set foot upon its
smooth. packed sands: no one whoi
ever pedaled q bicycle over its ex-
pansS: no one who ever drove al
p1ancing pair Of horses and listen
ed to the popping OF their steel shoes
upon its asphaltum-like face; no one
who ever steered high-power au-
tomobfie down the broad stretch of
wave-washed and surf-packed sand
but realized chat it Is a world beat
er, world-wonder. Go stand upon
this wide speedway and see che hap
py souls flil by in joyoHs mood, and
answer whether this is not one OF
the seven modern wonders.
The Placid, PeiIucid Halifax River.
Where think you is water with more
picturesque surroundings? Nearly a
mile wide. fringed with tropical vege-
tation. artistic cottages with roomy
verandas looking out upon her bosom
gamey food fishes in countless num-
bers beckoning, as it were, to those
with rod and reelj her bosom fleck-
ed with duck and coot and snowy.
winged sea birds, which sit about as
X for The sport of bobbing upon the
waves; watch that lubberly old
white headed pelican pouch a fat
mullet, and that fish hawk struggling
upward with his floundering load he
snatched from the water.
See the beautiful launches, spick
and span, with hampers and lockers
bullying with refreshments, both solid
and liquid, ready for cruiseupon tn
beautiful surface. Take out your field
glass and sweep the river from
| Ormond bridge to Ponce Park
light house. then say whether the
Halifax ism: thing of beauty and
a joy forever, and one of the modern
wonders.
The EnchantingIy Picturesque Ridge
wood.
q Ridgewood avenue is upon the cres
Of broad ridge, straight as the crow
flies and the wide spreading branch
es of the heavy-trunked live oaks ex
tend their giant arms across the mag
nificent vista, forming an arch, ane
from these extended arms great fes
toOns Of Spanish moss sway as the
trade winds from the tropic seas
fan them. Looking straight aheat
down this white she'll street one ha
the impression of a fairy path Will
alasn draperies, but as you NOV,
along and cast an eye first to the
: right and then to the left you SEE
) distinguished cottage homes in tn
most delightful settings.
See the glistening leaf of the gran
s magnolia which nature has varnishe
as no artists brush ever could; an,
) the cabbage palms with their burden
Of SNOWY fruit and swaying palms
see the lovely holly with its exquis
5 ute berry; see the climbing vine
Z run riot in the trees; see the cryI
,oga mons forms which gain a foot
hold on the great oaks and STATED
: palms, and surely you will join i
the chorus and say that this is
! world wonder fo1. haauty
Surprising Beauty of Our Cottaq
II Homes.
No one of Daytona's attra ctions
perhaps, commands more nearly un
versal attention and praise than doe
the arlistic cottages. The owners
these charming villas hail from ever
corner Of the country and they brin
their own architectural plans an
build upon them, and, as the arch
lecture of one section of the countr
differs from the architecture of al
other SO do our homes differ
outward appearance and structur
beauty from one another. There al
no monotonous rows of strikin 81
similar build ugs but the eye, as
sweeps by, is treated to a kaleidt
scopic change which keeps the min
wondering, what next?"
1t IS not only the exterior of man
OF rhese homes which rivets attel
ton; W1ah.E they are models of CO..
Venlence, and the finishing and fur
lshlng give evidence of the elegant
and cultivation of those who worke
1t all out. Indeed, it is the interit
arrangement and artistic furnishiI
and shading, more than the exterit