The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1911-03-23
~ L. c. DEMAREE.

BY L. c. DEMAREE.
One OF Daytonas GROWING glo-
'ries IL her Incompatible beach. No
one who has ever set foot upon It's
smooth. packed sands; NO one who
ever pedaled a bicycle over it's ex-
pansc; no one who ever drove
pranciag pair of horses and listen
ed to the popping Of their steel shoes
upon its asphaltum-lfke face; no one
who ever steered a high-power au-
tomobiie down the broad stretch of
wave-washed and surf-packed sand
butt realized that it is 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 reckoning. as it were, to those
with rod and reel; her bosom fleck-
ed with duck and coot and snowy
winged sea birds, which sit about as
II for the sport of bobbing upon the
! waves; watch that Mbberly old
white headed pelican pouch fat
murlet, and that fish hawk struggling
4 upward with his f10undering 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 cruise upon tn
) 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
y wonders.
The EnchantingIy Picturesque Ridge
al
8 RidgewoCd avenue Is upon the cres
s of broad ridge, straight as the crow
g flies and the wide spreading branch
8 es of the heavy-trunked live oaks ex
q tend their giant arms across the mag
g nificent VISTA, forming an arch, anG
8 from these extended arms great fes
81 toons of Spanish moss sway as the
= trade winds from the trOpic seas
3 fan them. Looking straight aheat
q down this white shell street one ha
g the impression of fairy path will
8 ahfisn draperies, but as you move
& aaong and cast an eye first to th<
g right and then to the left you SET
8 distinguished cottage homes in tn.
9 most delightful settings.
9 See the glistening leaf of the gran
q magnolia which nature has varnishe
- as no artists brush ever could; an
= the cabbage palms with their burden
Of SNOWY fruit and swaying palms
J see the lovely holly with its exquis
tte berry; see the climbing vine
! run riot in the trees; see the cryI
'Oga mons forms which gain foo
hold On tie 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 Cottaq
Homes.
No one of Daytona's attraction
perhaps. commands more nearly un
versal attention and praise than doe
the artistic cottages. The owners
" these charming villas hail from evel
corner If the country and they brin
q 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 mon otOnous rows of striking
similar build ugs but the eye, as
. sweeps by is treated to kaleid
scopic change which keeps the mil
wondering. What next?"
It j. no: only the exterior of mai
,1 OF these homes which rivets ate
ton: w,'h.c they are models of co
), venience, and the finishing and fur
- iShing give evidence Of the elegan
,Ci and cultivation of those who work
y it all out. Indeed, it is the interi
arrangement and artistic furnishi1
and shading. more than the exteri
appearance that gives a surpassi1
charm to Daytona homes. This fe
ture justly merits prominence as a