The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-14
JUST GOSSIP
BY THE GOSSlPER.


The city is filling up with visitors
rapidly now and many Of the hotels
are filled to overflowing. Many tour
lists who have been spending a part
of the winter season in the resorts
farther south are now making their
way back north. stopping at various
places and timing their stops to
bring them home just about the time
the snow has disappeared for good,
the country begins to put on its dress
Of green and the birds begin to sing
in the fields. Recently the head of
a party which has been stopping at
all the most prominent winter resorts
farther south and is now making its
first visit to Daytona, was heard to
prettiest OF all. So favorable an i'm
preston has the city made on this
man that he has already engaged ac-
commOdatiOnS for next season and
declares he will never look elsewhere
for a place to spend the winter. He
says he never heard of Daytona I'M
til he reached Palm Beach on the
way back from Miami, because the
name OF the town was not shown on
the railroad timetables in the north
and he changed the plans of he fam
lily after arriving at Palm Beach 70
| make a stop of one day here. Now
he proposes to stay here for three
weeks and eliminate the propo sed
! stop at ST Augustine. That's one
instance where we fooled the Flaeler
syndicate.
What has become OF the movement
for good, hard-surface road the full
length of the East Coast? short
time ago the Jacksonville board OF
trade was full of enthusiasm on this
subject and proposed to at once call
of the counties through which the
proposed road should be built, for
the purpose of discussing ways and
means. Nothing further has been
heard of the proposed convention and
in the meantime the tourists who are
automobile enthusiasts and enjoy the
use of their machines during their
| winter stay in a warm climate are
waiting to learn if 1..ere is posi-
bllity they Will be able to drive the
cars through to Florida next fall O.
II they must come without their all-
tomobiles. Some of the East Coast
towns are now connected by good
roads and united effort IS ali that is
links. y good road the full length
OF the East Coast would be one OF
the biggest boosts which could be
given this section OF the country.
The judgement seat ii front OF
Wall Aces place of business on
Beach street. where many matters oi
import to the city are discussed in
evening council. was occupied as us
ual Monday night The proprietor
of the emporium held down the
bench The Commodore was on
deck. with near at hand Realing TO
i, support. Jacks son was there and
Lie man as we'll as truthful men were
} gathered around this center of de
bate, when the conversation shifted
from alrships to wind Instruments
, and the warm air thus put in circu
latiOn seemed to loosen up the purse
strings Of the party. We do not care
for airships, they are fakes and Dc
not fly said they, but what We dc
want and badly need IS music ant
music by the band" An American
Don joined the group and gentle
) Spring lowered on the outskirts. ant
these likewise seemed permeatet
with the desire to list to music b,
German band or band Of any 9th
er nationality, just SO Davtona ha: