The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1912-02-29
MANY WANT
TO Sell LAND
IN FLORIDA
FACTS Of EVERGLADES RUMPUs
As SEEN 81 WASHINGTON NAN
ROW BROUGHT ON ~ FRANK
cLARk's lNslNuArloN THAT
DEPARTMENT or AcRlcuL.
TuRE SURPRISES FACTS.
tBy Victor Ellott.)

ruRE SURPRISES FACTS.
tBy Victor Elliott.)
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2s.-t an
pears that the Florida Everglades
scandal has been many months a
brewing. Only this week Major j
0. Wright of the department of az
ric0ture calmly told the Moss inyes-
tsgati0g committee OF the house of
representatives that he had known
OF irregularities" in the service in
Florida for several months and that
the department itself had been cog
INFANT of difficulty in the south ever
since the trouble started
Major Wright excused himself by
te~lSns the committee that he had not
wanted to involve superior officers by
forcing the matter IN the newSpa-
pers and thought the safest method
OF procedure would be to let the cat
out of the bag when it scratched the
men holding the opening.
Just at present the Moss SnveS-
tigating committee fees that it's
hands are being scratched and it is
not only going to let the cat out of
the bag but intends to turn the bag
upside down if the lurking feline
does not show a disposition to make
. its debut. The secretary of agricul-
ture does not appear particu ary per,
: turbed. however. which leads many
to believe that the bag VIII be found
empty.
. The meat of the matter is that
Representative Frank Clark of Flor
: ida suddenly arose in the house the
i. other day and made startling charges
! against the department of agriculture,
! which are in substance that the said
+ department has knowingly gone into
!, business with certain alleged I'm
!, ScrupUlouS real estate dealers. There
!. is no doubt that the unfortunate
/. state of Florida is overrun with wild
cat real estate operators. trav
eser seeking the tropical majesty o.
the solitudeS OF the Everglades
. which his geography heads him x
believe awaits him at the other enc
3 Of his railroad ticket, is graevoush
2 mistaken. He cannot alight from I
n train in any part OF the state withoU
. being confronted by briskmanoeret
= man who thrllSts q round edged car
! under his nose, and at the sam
49, time some dSrkSkinned deni7en o
N the Everglades makes grab froOn hi
u u impedimenta.
n The round-edged card bears a Ii
N gend rivallng any OF those pre-
- pounded by the late Hans ChristIal
Anderson and his distinguishes CO
leagues in the art OF fairy<alemG
gering 1t tells the traveller tbs
- the man who has accoSted him
ready and willing to sell him fC
- practically nothing certain lands
Z the Everglades, guaranteed by go
9 eminent experts to raise anything 1
: all IN the way of vegetation from Il
q green-petaled orchards 10 gray
9 trees Of course this briskmanners
< the time he is addressing the hope
to-oe prospective purchaser, lazy CT
3 coolies and similar tropical reptik
= are comfortably wa1lowiRg in three
. four feet of water, black JUMP
: water at that, over the very acr
9 which his round edged card lauds
9 the skies.
met a man the other day W
Z had just returned from Miami, viii
is in Southern Florida, and TO rea
: which you must run nearly the {
2 tire length of the state. He told I
. secretly, as If he were par
Z ashamed of the confession a
Frank Clark had been talking abe
two days them, that he had p
< chased a villa sight in Florida,
z he said, lust as a souvenir" tt
is the way they all do. A census
4 the number OF visitors to Florida "
actually purchased land from the n
. estate agents would be apPallh
Such purchases are made by
2 thousands. There are several tn
and real estate agents, who must
making a living, for all are VI
much alive. The real estate az
is one of the chief items in the po
. lation OF the state. They are
. thick as the leaves on the trees.
! We care to employ a hackneyed
dian simile, or If the desire TO b;
further back possesses US, We q
liken them to the lice OF Egypt
mortalized in the Jewish folklore
l have another friend who IS
voice of that most indolenG OF
the muses., philosophy, who has do
out a theory on why people buy I
in Florida
The basis Of his theory IS
tremely antiquated. It even a
dates that pleasing period in Am