The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1911-03-21
ev L. c. pEMAREE.

BY L. c. DEMAREE.
One Of Daytona's GROWING glo-
'rfes is her Incompatible beach. NO
one who has ever set foot upon 1cs
smooth, packed sands; no one VINO
ever pedaled a bicycle over It's ex-
oanse: no one who ever drove
pranciag pair of horses and listen
ed to the popping Of their steel shoes
upon its asphaltum-like face; no one
who ever steered a high-power au- I
tomobiie down the broad stretch OF
wave-washed and surf-packed sand
but 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, PeIIuctd 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-
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 lubberly old
white headed pelican pouch a fat
mullet, and that fish hawk struggling
upward with his noundering load he
snatchei 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
8 glass ana sweep the river from
OrmOld bridge to Ponce PARK
light house. then say whether the
) Halifax ism. thing of beauty and
a joy forever, and one of the modern
, wonders.
The EnchantingIy Picturesque Ridge
& wood.
81 RidgewoCd avenue is upon the cres
s of broad ridge, straight as the CROW
g flies and the wide spreading branch
s es of The heavy-trunked live oaks ex
= tend their giant arms across the mag
g nifice,lt VISTA, forming an arch, an,
3 from these extended arms great fes
81 toons Of Spanish moss sway as tn,
!. trade winds from the tropic sea
81 fan them. Looking straight ahea
g down this white shell street one ha
g the impression of fairy path wit
8 'hisn draperies, but as you NOV
g aeong and cast an eye first to tn
8 right and then to the left you SCI
Is distinguished cottage homes in tn
9 most delightful settings.
8 See the glistening 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
: lite berry; see the climbing vine
i run riot in the trees; see the cry]
.osa mons forms which gain foo
hold On tie great oaks and Scatel
palms, and surely you will join
The ch oTus and say that this is
world wonder for beauty.
r Surprising Beauty Of Our cottae
Homes.
II No one of Daytona's attraction
perhaps. commands more nearly ur
versal attention and praise than do,
the artistic cottages. The owners
: these charming villas hail from eve
corner If the country and they brir
Il their own architectural plans al
build upon them, and, as the arch
lecture of one section of the count
y 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 build ugs but the eye. as
sweeps by is treated to a kaleid
scopic change which keeps the null
wondering, What next?"
1t is no. only the exterior of mai
r OF these homes which rivets attic
ton; w,'.h.C they are models Of CO
venieEce, and the finishing and fur
= ishing give evidence Of the elegan
81 and cultivation of those who work
j. it all out. Indeed, it is the interi
arrangement and artistic furnishi
and shading. more than the exteri
appearance that gives a surpassi
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