The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-02-24
ST. PtItRSBURG'S SUCCESS
\ Florida Town. W hIch Built for the
Future. L. Reaping It's Reward I'm
the Present

The annual celebration Of Washing
tons birthday a, ST. Petersburg We'd
nesday BY far exceeded in magnitude
and brilliancy any Of the celebrations
Of previous years. Many new features
we're added 10 the great parade and
the other entertainments and celebra-
ions during the two days Of the cell
ebration at the different public build
ings
They say -. Petersburg has 5000
population and 10000 visitors. and.
Judging by the vast throng on Cen
trail avenue fully three-fourths OF them
must have lined that magnificent thor
oughfare during the parade.
BY the way, il j. very unfortunate
that when cities are born. their par
ents do not give them plenty Of street
room Land is cheap then and space
devoted to streets and sidewalks in
after years becomes an asset of untold
value. This St Petersburg Central
avenue running east and west, straight
/ up from Tampa Bay for two miles, is
/ so feet wide. between the curbs. paved
with vitrified brick and the sidewalks
on either side are 25 OF 80 feet wide.
! and both walks and street are always
clean.
:
for costumes. regalia and decorations
for the great celebration. This prop
erty Will be preserved for another
year and added 20 as changes and new
! ideas suggest themselves.
. There were thousands in the parade
and many beautiful figures and drills
were executed. Company after COM
pany of the school and college students
followed from the tiny kindergarten
tots TO the high school boys and girls
There were the band. the military and
the blue and the gray
One Of the most touching features
of the parade was an old Mexican war
veteran drawn in a small cart by a
company of boy scouts. The old
veteran was very feeble. but the warn
sunshine of the Sunshine City" and
the patriotic spirit that will linger a
long as life lasts, beckoned him ana
he was stimulated sufficiently to take
part. Last year there We're three OF
the veterans Another year-whc
knows-he. too. may be with his com
rades.
There was a goodly line OF the blu,
and gray veterans. Some had come il
since last years celebration. but Z
number of the faces were missing ant
.
In the parade one beautiful CIR
with long flowing hair was Sunshine
for the Sunshine City" one Dixie.
another Florida" and another Lib
erty.'
The Independent published a pro
fusely illustrated and intensely inter
esting edition Of 10000 copies, 8:
pages. The edition was PRACTICAL,
exhausted a 10 cents copy yester
day afternoon and the posoffce offc
iala We're busy getting them off to tn.
thousands Of friends in the North
From this and much other judiciou
advertising by the papers, the boar,
of trade with a fund provided in tn
bonded deb; of the city) thousands o
people are interested in the city eac.
year and hundreds of them come Their
to live and many others 70 spend thei
next winter. Thus the chain is end
:; less and ST. Petersburg will double il
population in very few years.
St Petersburg is not afraid of bonds
, Bonds have been the making Of til
city. They have very large bonde
debt. much larger. if we are not mis-
taken, than the 100000 issue Ocal
, proposes to attempt TO vote, but the,
have obtained results-results the
could not have obtained in a hundre
. years without bonds. The schoo
, houses and school equipment are wort
more than ten times those OF Ocal
and bonds have helped to accomplis
,his good work
II is nearly four years since tn
writer was in St. Petersburg before
. and he believes he is safe in sayin
that the assessed valuation Of prop
erty has NOR. than doubled.
Hundreds Of acres of land are bein
reclaimed bodily, from the bay. or fill
ed where formerly too low to be of an
value. This is being done by both tn
= city and private parties. and the Ian
SO reclaimed is worth thousands
. dollars per acre. with the added valu
: of deep channels and harbor room &c
= countless small craft right along III
;, bay front.
= Every Ocala citizen and propert
owner would be benefited and mis- civ
pride famed into flame could he Sc
the great things ST. Petersburg hs
d done and i doing-for they have on
u just started TO working nicely-by Il
: pulling together and keeping everlas
| ingly at il and advertising and first
all We fully believe. came this.
Mr. and Mrs NJ Werlin from low