The National tribune., 1910-05-19
, ATTRACTIVE ST. CLOUD.

The future of st. Cloud is now well
assured. All accounts and enumera-
tions agree that there are fully 5000
people, among them the very best that
there are in the Grand Army, settled
there in comfortable homes, delighted
with the climate and their surroundings
and enthusiastic as to the future of the
| delightful place where they will reside
for the rest of their days. Undoubtedly
every man and woman will have his
years prolonged by residence in that
charming, equable climate. They are
, sending back home such glad accounts
!, as will bring down thousands of their
} comrades and friends next Fall and
Winter to help them build up st. Cloud
into one of the most beautiful and inn
portant towns in the State.
1t is a town which is attracting at
tention all over the country, and as the
years go by it will become still more
and more an object to which all eyes
will turn. The character of the men
and women who have already settled
there and who have the destinies OF
the town in their hands is exceptionally
high. Nowhere else at the beginning of
a. town has there been gathered so
many men and women of superior in
telligence, morality and public spirit
Never has there been a settlement in
(which there have been SO few undesir
ables and such a large proportion ener-
getically devoted to making model
community, in which everyone will be
getting the highest and best that is
possible out of life. Not only will they
have comforts and enjoyments which
they cannot find elsewhere in the eli
mate and the salubrity of air and soil,
but in the high character of the com
munity, which will be such as to be ey-
ceedingly attractive to visitors and set
tiers. In the substantial and tasteful
nature of its improvements st. Cloud
Surpasses any other community outs de
of the greater cities. An unusual num-
Der of the houses already pat up by the
settlers cannot he surpassed anywhere
for tastefulness and comfort. and to
these are added improvements Of the
highest class by the Seminole Land and
Investment CONF pany. Among these are
the charming hotel of T2 rooms. the
ornamental First National Rank Build
| ing. the powerhouse, waterworks. ice
plant. electro lighting and telephone
exchange To these must he added the
Post Office Building. the Grand Army
Hall, the new IS. 900 school house which
will be shortly begun, the fine Metho-
| dist church ana other eiiices of wor-
| ship. The Seminole Land and Invest
ment Company eoHtempates the con-
struction. as soon as other owners can
be brought into raccord, of magnifi-
cent boulevard around Lake East Toho-
pekaliga and the Improvement Of the
lake front with parks fine residences
hotels. lighthouses and other construc-
tions to make the town unusually pleas
ant for residence and attractive to tour
lists 1t cannot help becoming in the
near future one of the greatest places
for Winter resort in the whole South
ern country This win not only be on
account Of its great natural attractive
ness and the character of its improve
ments. but still more on account of the
character of the people who are already
living there. The people in the North
will want to go to visit, live with and
settle among just exactly the people
that they find at st. Cloud and whom
they can find nowhere else, This is a
great fact which has not hitherto re-
ceived the attention which it deserves.
Elsewhere visitors and settlers must
necessarily encounter communities of
highly mixed and uncertain characters,
while a, st. Cloud they are all on the
same high plane of citizenship and pro-
gressive AmericaniSm.
AS to the possibilities of making q
living in ST Cloud there is no doubt.
Everywhere around the town are OBJ
ject-lessons in success, where indus
trious, capable men are making more
off a small piece of land than any
where else in the country. This is
something that does not have to be
tried out and demonstrated. 1t is act
ually in sight wherever one goes. 1t is
true that the soil is said and at first sight
contrasts unpleasantly with the rich
loan Oh some Ol the Country from WHICH
the visitors may come, but this impress
sion is quickly dispelled by seeing what
men are actually doing with it. 1t is
the soil that gardeners and truck men
everywhere prefer. Oranges, grape
fruit, lemons. figs and all manner of
garden stuff are seen growing luxu-
riantly and successfully wherever men
have devoted themselves with ordinary
skill and industry to their production.
No part of the United States has such
a prosperous future as Florida. and st.
Cloud combines more features of attrac-
tiveness and profit than any other loca-
ton.
Rt. Rev Samuel Fa:!aws, G. A. R.,
and a prelate whose fair fame for
learning, abilities and high Christianity
extends thru the length and breadth of
the land, has purchased lot and tract
in ST. Cloud, and will hereafter spend