Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-04-24
DR.. TYRRELL 4
FLA. PLANTER
Local Physician Buys 95
Acres in South.

DR.. G. W. Tyrrell has purchased
ninety-five acres on the West coast
Of Florida, on the Caloosahatchee,
and is making plans to have one OF
the finest orange and grape fruit
groves in the South. Thirty negroes
under the direction of Foreman F.
A. Lane, are at work clearing the
ground preparatory to setting out or
namental and fruit trees. DR.. Tyr
rell will leave for Florida on Thurs
day and supervise the work for the
next two weeks
Bought 1t Six Months Ago.
DR.. TyrrelI purchased the planta-
| tion six months ago, following q
plan conceived a year ago after his
trip around the world. While on
that cruise, in conversation with H.
c. Squires, then vIce-president Of
the Standard Oil Company, talk
drifted to Florida and incidentally
| the west coast. Mr.. Squires' elo-
| quent description of the beauty Of
that section appealed strongly to the
local physician and he visited the
banks of the Caloosahatchee before
returning home. Caloosahatchee is
| an old Indian name for beautiful
| River" "Caloosaha" meaning beau
ttful and "hatthee," river.
There on the banks of one of the
most beautiful rivers in America DR..
| Tyrrell will lay out his plantation,
and, ten years from now, when he is
| old and lazy, as he laughingiy said
this morning, he will spend the win
| ter months there. A bungalow will
be erected at once and the planta-
| ton and garden plans advanced as
| soon as possible.
| To Plant Fruit Trees.
| On the place will be planted Pic
grape fruit trees, 100 orange trees,
and 250 ornamental and raro trees
chosen from all over the world by
DR.. Tyrrell, while on his cruise, and
secured by him after a long eerree-
| pondence with the United States gov
| ernment. Fourteen of the tree;
we're given by the government out
right. The trees are now IN this
country and will sCtI be set out, using
the dynamite process to loosen the
| soil. Two of the trees are from the
Straits Settlements.
| A large irrigation engine. pur-
chased from the Fairbanks Company
of New York, is on tile road and Will
| be used for irrigation work during
the dry season, which IS now in full
blast. When the pIanta ion is fin.
ished DR.. Tyrrell expects to have the
| two creeks, running through the
place, furnish all irrigation neces-
sary. The engine will then be used
| for lighting purposes. The two
creeks mentioned are deep enough
for a five-foot draught boat to navi-
gate considerable distance from the
mouth.
A mile of wire fencing has been
purchased from the American SteeI
Wire Company, 80 Church street
New York, and will fence in practi
cally all the place. The river bor.
ders on the plantation for two miles
| but of course, no fence will be uset
on that boundary
! To Have Steam Yacht.
The plantation is twenty-five mile:
from a railroad, transportation be
Ing entirely by boat. Two boats rur
past the place daily, and another line
at irregular intervals DR.. 1'yrreIl':
plans for a steam yacht have moi
been completed. The place is neal
Engleside, Fla, and is considered by
| the local physician to be the prettiest
place he ever saw in this country. He
has been down twice in the last siI
months, after closing for the land
He said today that his present plans
include his practicing here for tht
next five years, at least.