The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1911-01-05
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~ - ~ GeEsuSSnE
One Of Daytona,s GROWING gio-
ries is her incomparable beach. No
one who has ever set foot upon It's.
smooth. packed sands: no one who
ever pedaled 3 bicycle over its ex-
pans: no one who ever drove q
p1ancing pair OF horses and listen
ed to the popping Of their steel shoes
upon its asphaItum like face: no one
who ever steered a hfgh-power au-
tomobfie down the broad stretch Of
wave-washed and surf-packed sand
bus realized chat it Is world beat.
er. q world-wonder. Go stand upon
this wide speedway and see the hap
py souls flil 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 fIeck-
ed with duck and coot and snowy
winged sea birds, which sic about as
If for the sport Of bobbing upon the
waves; watch that lubberly old
white headed pelican pouch a fat
muFlet, and that fish hawk struggling
upward with his noundering load he
saaIched 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
beautiful surface. Take out your field
glass and sweep the river from
| 0rmoad bridge to Ponce Park
light house. then say whether the
Halifax ism. thing of beauty and
JOY forever, and one of the modern
wonders.
The Enchantingly Picturesque Ridge
/ wood.
RldgewoCd avenue is upon the creS
OF broad ridge, straight as the crow
flies and the wide spreading branch
es of The heavy-trunked hive oaks ex
tend their giant arms across the mag
nificent VISTA, forming an arch, ant
from these extended arms great fes
Loons of Spanish moss sway as the
trade winds from the tropic seas
fan them. Looking straight aheat
down this white she'll street one ha!
1.-THE impression of a fairy path witt
ahsn draperies, but as you move
saong and cast an eye first to the
right and then to the left you see
distinguished cottage homes in tht
most delightful settings
See tho glistening leaf of the gran.
magnolia which nature has varnishet
as no artists brush ever could; ant
the cabbage palms with their burden
Of SNOWY fruit and swaying palms
see the lovely holly with its exquis
lite belry; see the climbing vine:
run riot in the trees; see the cryp
'oga mons forms which gain a foot
hold on the great oaks and stateI.
palms, and surely you will join ii
the chorus and say that this is +;
world wonder for beauty
Surprising Beauty of Our Cottag
Homes.
No one of Daytona's attra ctions
perhaps. commands more nearly IN
verSal attention and praise than doe
the artistic cottages. The owners Q
these charming villas hail from ever
corner Of 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 structure
beauty from one another. There ar
no monotonous rows of strikingl
similar build ugs but the eye, as
sweeps by, is treated to kaleidc
scopic change which keeps the min
wondering, What next?"
1t is no. only the exterior of man
Of rheS9 homes which riYets after
ton; w,tb.c they are models of cor
venience, and the finishing and fur
lshing give evidence OF the eleganc
and cultivation of those who work