The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-04-28
FORT PIERCE
IMPRESSIONS
Recent Visitor Enthusiastic for
Future of This Section
SPIRIT OF PROGRESS
Everybody Has Faith in The Future OF
Fort Pierce, and Everybody Was Most
Courteous to Answer Questions
Washington, D. c.. April %. 1911

Washington, d. c.. April %. 1911.
Editor ST. LUCIE COUNTY TRIBUNE:
When had the pleasure of visiting
your little city month or so ago you
very kindly suggested that. after my
return home | should write my 'im-
pressions. am almost afraid to at
tempt it for it may take the form of an
advertisement and | may be termed
"booster' for at the very beginning
of these impressions" | want to whis-
per that | got sand in my shoes" and
ever since | have reached home | have
talked Florida in my waking hours and
dreamed of the Gland of sunshine and
flowers when sleeping. Perhaps the
beauty of your smiling country i'm.
pressed me more by comparison than
any other way, for since reaching Wash
ington have found nothing but cold,
rainy, disagreeable weather, so miser-
able that one can not he lp but long for
the warm, sunny Southland. Yet ]
must say that for "dry town. | found
Fort Pierce the "wettest' place ever
saw, the Friday after my arrival there,
the wind blew a gale and the rain poured
in torrents but when it stopped the roads
quickly dried and nature smiled through
her tears.
What impressed me most? is ques-
ton which first suggests itself. The
answer unhestatngly give is the
unanimous spirit of boosting among
the Fort Pierceites. Everybody had a
good word to say for Fort Pierce. Every
body had faith in its future, everybody
had faith in his neighbors. everybody
talked with evident sincerity and every.
body was unfailingly courteous and
ready to answer questions And | asked
plenty of them, nobody escaped me,
the young man at the drug store, the
afliable cashier at the han k, the smiling
young lady at the typewriter, the boat
man, the automobile repair man. the
maid. the matron, the children, every
one smlingly answered questions and
all praised Fort Pierce, it's wonderful
climate, its choice fish. its early yege-
tables, its far famed Indian River
oranges, its pneapples In fact, IN all
nv quest only found one man with a
'grouch" and he, poor soul was work
/ inc too hard toappreclate his blessings:
/ Were | writing an advertisement OF
/ the Florida East Coast Realty Go. /
( would elaborate upon the courtesy
shown me by Judge Andrews when he
! took me out to visit the Fort Pierce
Farms, the property of this company,
/ lint suffice to say | found the Judge
most entertaining and convincing and
did not, in my further travels south
/ find anyone who so patiently explalned
situations or so faithfully answered
questions. In fact ! found all the men
If that company that | had the pleasure
Of meeting sincere, honest appearing
men. whose chief desire was not TO
secure .'srckers," nor to paint glowing
word pictnres of impossible crops and
UNPARALLELED profits, but to secure PEG,
/ ME to purchase their farms VINO wo",,
hcromp useful citizens and who Wouid
in turr trv TO make st. I.ucie county
nnn of the solid, reliable counties OF
/ Florida. and it vas this impression
rhat carried nome with me and nave
Frequently referred to 1t.
wish | had time and space to de-
s,,ihr a couple of visits | made. One
r. the hpaulful grove managed by Mr..
Sidney Williams and the other to the
KnbIcpard Pineapple Plantation. me
latter place visited on Monday March
jim We were taken up the Indian
River. that beautiful poetic river, IN
Mr. Kohlgard's fine new motor boat ana
after we reached the plantation were
Griyenall over the place with one OF the
gorcmen who very kindly explained
ryery ding we asked of him, and then
we're graciously entertained to luncneon
in Mr,Koblegard's charming bungalow,
hv Mr.. Koblegard's equally charming
,yife; returning to town late IN the
afternoon via the river:
Nv visit to Mr.. Williams grove wa !,
made in company with the Judge;
( We found Mr.. Williams very pussy p ach-
ing oranges but he stopped tne p'o'e''
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