The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-06-21
IMPRESSIONS OF
A NEW YORKER
]. E. BEANS, OF COLUMBIA UNI.
vERSITY, A BOOSTER FOR
LAKELAND SECTION. /.

It's far swing of the pendulum
that carries New Yorker from the
Icry of the subway guards order to
step lively, please" to the song of
the mOcking bird and red bird and
the splash of the waters in Florida
lakes, all in the space of few days,
but J. f. Beans, instructor, depart
mcnt of engineering drafting in Co.
lumbia university. New York, who
arrived here Friday, is fast becoming
| a Florida booster.
Mr.. Beans, who has purchased
grove site in the observation-disclosures
dale tract, adjoining the directors
grove of the Florida Lakeland Homes
Co., north OF Auburndale, says h.
has spent his life dangling from a
strap in a crowded street car, but
that it doesn't need second sight to
forcsce the possibilities of this sec
ton OF Florida and that any one
,, who sees what has been done and
| hat is being done cannot fail to be
enthusiastic over the future.
If northern city people understood
tn real conditions of this highland
lake section of Florida this country
would be the Mecca for the thou
| sands of people who now 90 to crowd
ed summer resort lakes where the
climate is no more comfortable than
it is here right now and where the
other advantages of fishing, bathing
and boating do no. begin to compare
with what have found here. Since
| have been here the temperature
has been as perfect as it could pos
sibly be at any of the lakes around
New York, Chicago or Minneapolis
1.-THE productivcncss of the high
ridge land around Lakeland and Au
| hurndalc speaks for itself and this
| Auburndalc country is as attractive
as any country | have ever seen and
i il has more possibility of making an
attractive place for a home than any
place know of
with Il grove site on the high
ground of this section and II bunga
low site overlooking the chain Of
beautiful lakes in Auburndalc, it
would almost seem as if the last fly
had been removed from the city
man ointment for, by cooperating
with his ncighbOrs it should be pos
sible to develop the grove by sor,
Of absent treatment method and dur
ing the process use the bungalow
site as Il vacation playground, and
when the time comes that he finds
impossible to respond to the subway
guards order to step lively please"
he is sure of a delightful home site
in delightful climate and a fully
bearing grove to furnish the neces-
sarics and some of the luxurics of
l:tc.
AS Il vacation camping ground
there is nothing more to be desired
for it has good shooting. fishing, sail
ing, canoeing. and motor boating on
Il connecting chain of five of as beau
tiful lakes as it is possible to find.
with your home at one end and Il
railroad station at the other.
1T seems TO me that this combi
ration of building Il pleasant ana
profitable home for old age and hay
ing delightfully."- perfect vacation
playground of your own in the mcan-
time is most practical and has here
toiorc been very much overlooked by
, the people o fthc northern cities"
Mr.. Rcans will remain in Auburn
dale overseeing the work of clearing
the site for his grove and preparing
ground for the trees until the call
of duty takes him back to Columbia
University in the fall lie expect
his brother also an instructor i'm the
university. and his father. Mr.. H. I
+ Beans. paymastcr OF the burlington
read in Omaha, who have purchased
: land adjoining his. 10 join him hers
t within month or -. All three are
planning ON improNing their proper
~ this summer. and spending nj leas;
Il portion of their future time in the
lake regien Of Florida.