The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-15
THOSE FLORIDA
LAND SCHEMES
DR.. Brady Says They are
All Fakes
ESPECIALLY IN THE EVER
GLADES; SAVE YOUR MONEY
AND KEEP AWAY.

My candid opinion is that a man
. who is well-fXed here, is a fool to go
down and take up land in the Ever
i glades."
Such was the opinion Doctor R.
w. Brady expressed to a Citizen man,
Tuesday evening, to whom he de-
nounced, in the most scathing terms
the contemplate efforts of the Flor
ida land boomers to part Wayne
i counteans from their hard-earned
money.
Along the edge of the Ever
glades, people have gone in and
cleared off the land, and gone to
raising tomatoes. l couldn't find a
man among them who could say
he'd made money at it.
They tell you the climate is
worth 500 an acre, but the soil amt
worth a d.
If you have the fever, go down
there and look the land over, before
you burn your bridges behind you.
You can find Florida literature in
every house in Wayne county.
Land schemers are thicker than
feas on a dog. It's perfect craze.
McElroy of the Tribune is always do
ing that sort of thing. He will buy
10000 acres at 81 an acre. Then
they sell it on the installment plan,
s. an acre down, and $5 a month.
They get the first month four times
the price what they pay.
You can't see any of those things
that these glittering prospectuses
show you on paper when you go
down there.
g 1t costs $50 to 500 an acre to
clear the land. There are palmetto
roots as thick as a mans leg. After
they are torn up and burnt, they are
no use to the soil
Loring, Honesdale glass cutter,
who moved from here to Elmira,
toes, and dropped all the money he
took there.
IF you are in bad health and
want to go there, you'll do well to
make your living. Florida climate
beats California climate for an in
valid. W.
(" For any one to say you can make
money, it's all a pack of lies from
first to last. I've been there five
Winters
Doctor Brady, by the way, was in
Florida, twenty years ago, and he
: WAS down there as late as last Win
ter and knows whereof he speaks.
A farmer here that thinks he's
going to sell his farm here, and go
down to Florida, and make money,
makes a great mistake.
Il met a Mr.. White, who used to
i've in Massachusetts. 81 was 72,"
he said, when l came here II years
hgo. It's prolonging my life" He
was wheeling a barrow, when l saw
him, and working a great big orange
grove. I've just held my own, fl
hancially," he said.
Florida has been doomed ever
Bince the days of Ponce De Leon. 1t
has it's boom, and it has it's drop.
Even women come down and take up
b homestead and live in a shack.
Take it in the Winter months.
You hardly ever see any water.
Wherever they bore down, they find
sulphur water, and it's warm.
There are cypress ridges in the
Everglades connected by lakes vary
ing from half to a quarter. mile in
width. There comes the wet season,
when the whole business is under
water.
"They catch water in cypress
wells from the roof.
They tell you, you can raise su-
gar cane and bananas. You can
raise them, but they're not the kind
10 take to market and get a price
for them. They're small.
Every place you go to in Florida
has had its day. When you ask them
. why they can't make a living, they
Bay Porto Rico, Hawaiian Islands,
tYuba, has killed the pineapple indus
! Try here"
ASK a man How long will it take
you to get an orange grover
i ooh, about five years." he'll an
3wer,
What do you do in the mean
ime?"
well, scrub along"
How are you getting along?"
Making a living. That's all
pare about. If l do that I'm salts
led.
'The soil of Florida is like sand
! bn the ocean beach.
Down at Koressian there is a re-
igious sect that believes the earth |
snt round but hollow sphere.
4 DR.. Teed, of Equinunk, the inven-
FOR of a water wheel, went down |
here and became the head of the
Bect. He died year ago last Christ !
7nas. His followers put him in a |
kault, at Estero. They're waiting for
Feed to resurrect.
They are living on COW beans. |
! They are so devoted to their religion.
rhey have thousands of acres. They |
were driven out of Chicago. They
were named after Cyrus.
A barber said to me one day.
. Doctor, I'd like to prove to you the
world isn't round but a hollow
Sphere"
Never mind" l said, "I don't
hrgue with my barber"
'They claim the sun is 1000 miles
from the earth. If a man lives a
perfect life, they say, he won't die"
Doctor Brady is a man whose rep
htation for truth and veracity as at
ested by the speech of the COM
nunity is of the very best. He is