The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1911-03-22


BY l. c. DEMAREE.
One OF Daytona's GROWING glo-
ries is her Incompatible beach. No /
one who has ever set foot upon It's
smooth. packed sands: no one who
ever pedaled a bicycle over its ex-
pansc: no one who ever drove
pranciag pair Of horses and listen
ed to the popping Of their steel shoes
upon its asphaltumlike face: no one
who ever steered a high-power au-
tomobi;e down the broad stretch of
wave-washed and surf-packed sand
but realized that it is a world beat |
er, a world-wonder. Go stand upon
this wide speedway and see the hap
py souls fiji by in joyous 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 reel: her bosom fleck-
cd with duck and coot and snowy
winged sea birds, which sit about as
il 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
} snatchei from the water.
I See the beautiful launches, spick
and span, with hampers and lockers
tulging with refreshments, both solid
, and liquid, ready for a cruise upon 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: a thing of beauty and
joy forever, and one of the modern
wonders.
The EnchantingIy Picturesque Ridge
I'll wood.
81 RidgewOOd avenue is upon the cres
: of broad ridge, straight as the crow
3 flies and the wide spreading branch
es Of the heavy-trunked live oaks ex
4 tend their giant arms across the mag
nificent VISTA, forming an arch, ant
) from these extended arms great fes
toons of Spanish moss sway as tn.
!. trade winds from the tropic sea-
I fan them. Looking straight ahea,
down this white shell street one ha
the impression of fairy path wi&l
s 'hisn draperies, but as you NOV
& Along and cast an eye first to thu
3 right and then to the left you SCI
s. distinguished cottage homes in tn
g most delightful settings.
8 See the g]istening leaf of the gran
81 magnolia which nature has varnishe
Q 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 exqui:
tte belry; see the climbing vine
I run riot in the trees; see the cryl
'os>a mons forms which gain a foo
hold On the great oaks and STATED
palms, and surely you will join i
the chorus and say that this is
world wonder for beauty.
r Surprising Beauty Of Our cottae
LARVAE
No one of Daytona's attrac
perhaps. commands more nearly ur
versal attention and praise than do,
the artistic cottages. The owners
these charming villas hail from evel
corner If the country and they bril-
their own architectural plans al
build upon them, and, as the arch
lecture of one section Of the count
differs from the architecture of a
other so do our homes differ
outward appearance and structur
beauty from one another. There a
no monotOnous rows of striking
similar buildings but the eye, as
sweeps by is treated to a kaleid
scopic change which keeps the mi
wondering, What next?"
1t - not only the exterior Of ma
r Of these homes which rivets atte
ton: w,.h.c they are models of &C
j., venience, and the finishing and fu,
izhfng give evidence of the elegan
81 and cultivation of those who work
y it all out. Indeed, it is the interi
arrangement and artistic furnishi
and shading. more than the exteri
appearance that gives a surpassi
charm to Daytona homes This +.