The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1911-03-08
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~ L. G. DEMAREE.
One OF Daytona's GROWING glo-
'ries is her incompatible beach. No
one who has ever set foot upon it,
smooth, packed sands: NO one who
ever pedaled a bicycle over it's ex-
pansS: no one who ever drove a
prancias pair Of horses and listen
ed to the popping Of their. steel shoes
upon its asphaltum-ltke face; no one
who ever steered q high-power au-
tomobiie down the broad stretch of
wave-washed and surf-packed sand
but realized that It b world beat
er. a world-wonder. Go stand upon
this wide speedway and see the hap
py souls fit by in joyous mood, and
answer whether this is not one Of
the seven modern wonders.
The Placid, Peliucid Halifax River.
Where think you is water with more
picturesque surroundings? Nearly a
mile wide. fringed with tropical vege-
tation, artistic cottages with r0omy
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-
ed with duck and coot and snowy
winged sea birds, which sit about as
il for the sport of bobbing upon the
waves: watch that burberry old
white headed pelican pouch a fat
mullet, and that fish hawk struggling
upward with his floundering load he
snatched from the water.
Il See the beautiful launches. spick
and span, with hampers and lockers
tulging with refreshments. both solid
, and liquid, ready for 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 isn':: thing of beauty and
joy forever, and one of the modern
wonders.
The Enchantingly Picturesque Ridge.
ii
81 Ridg"WOCd avenue is upon the crest
OF broad ridge, straight as the crow
flies and the wide spreading branch
es of The heavy-trunked live oaks ex
tend their giant arms across the mag
nificeNt VISTA, forming an arch, and
from these extended arms great feS
f,f iSh bo
!, trade winds from the tropic seas
8 fan them. Looking straight ahead
2 down this white shell street one has
} the impression of fairy path with
8 ofasn draperies, but as YOU move
Wong and cast an eye first to the
right and then to the left you see
s distinguished cottage homes in tbs
most delightful settings
3 See the glisten!ng leaf of the CRANE
s magnolia which nature has Vanished
2 rs no artists brush ever could; ant
: the cabbage palms with their burdens
Of SNOWY fruit and swaying palms
(. see the lovely holly with its eXquis
lite be.ry; see the climbing vine!
1
| .osa mons forms which gain a foot
! hold IN tie great oaks and scatel,
palms, and surely you will join il
The chorus and say that this is
| world wonder for beauty.
/ Surprising Beauty Of Our cottae
Homes.
No one of Daytona's attractions
perhaps. commands more nearly un
versal attention and praise than doe
the artistic cottages. The owners G
these charming villas hail from ever
corner IT the country and they brin
their own architectural plans an
build upon them. and, as the arch
lecture of one section of the countr
:, differs from the architecture of al
other so do our homes differ i
outward appearance and structur;
beauty from one another. There ar
no mon otonous rows of strikingl
similar build ugs but the eye, as
sweeps by is treated to kaleidt
scopic change which keeps the min
wondering, What next?"
1t is no. only the exterior Of man
Of these homes which rivets after
ton; w,'h.C they are models Of col
venience, and the finishing and fur
ishing give evidence OF the elegane
- and cultivation Of those who worke
y it all out Indeed. it is the interic
arrangement and artistic furnishir
and shading. more than the exterit
appearance that gives a surpassir
charm to Daytona homes. This fe
ture justly merits prominence as a