The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-10-16
Lakeland
Is A Good Town
In Which To Live

kindly to my last about the good
things around Lakeland / am en-
couraged to continue the story.
In that enumeration l did not
reckon that about four square miles
of real values are comprehended in
the corporate limits.
l am advised that these estimates
are about two million dollars tax
values. If we add to these the about
81 100000 of resources of the three
banks and 100000 of city property
and franchises, we have q total of
$3,50O,0O0, and this aggregation of
values is, l believe, modest, and is
also most conclusive evidence that
Lakeland and her citizens are pros
porous.
Two years ago couple of the
most capable bond experts in Amer
lea in making an inspection of Lake
land as whole, and the city's fran
chises, said to me: Lakeland can
safely stand bond issue predicated
on 100000 basis of $4OO, OOO."
AS l do not know the values of
the A. c. L. railway shops, depots,
yards and trackaee, all inside the
city limits, they are not included in
this reckoning, but they ought read
lily to be worth another million of
dollars and doubtless cost that
amount.
OF far greater value than all OF
the above, however, is the general
and continuous good health of the
people of Lakeland and with the now
splendidly modern and ample no.
tel and high class boarding house
accommodations and the most reas-
enable charges thereat, and with
cafes like the Colonial, Loyal and
City, and the romantic parks, walks,
drives and roads winding around
and about the lakes with the boat
ing, fishing, picnics, and quail and
snipe shooting, and all nearby
cities, and the sea coast-of both
Atlantic and Gulf within one to two
hours by motor car or rail, and
hard roads to all over. If tourists
could be put wise as to these attrac-
tive conditions in their home towns
thousands of them would ticket
round-trip to Lakeland direct--make
winter headquarters here and day
trips to surrounding towns, mines,
lakes and woods, and life to them
would be as it is to us" summers
dream in winter"
And being here at the time of the
Polk county fair, to be held in
Lakeland, they would see and ap-
preciate the exhibits of citrus fruits,
farm products, garden stuff, straw
berries, chickens and livestock, etc,
and very many of them will make
winter homes here and more of
them will settle permanently.
This imaginary fear of hot sum-
mers does not brighten any sane per-
son who considers or thinks?
The nearby and almost surround
ing oceans, about three sides of
Peninsula Florida, and the at least
two-fifths of the SURFACE of the area
being deep, fresh water lakes, with
the flow and ebb of the tides, and
the agitating tradewinds sweeping
almost continuously across the
because of the saltiness
Of the seas, acts precisely in prin-.
ciple as does the putting of salt in
with ice in freezer to CONCEAL milk |
into ice cream and super-ccols the
air.
And every person with even so |
little as an open-ended thimble full |
Of brains ought know and most folks |
who live the year round here do
know, that for above reasons, this
peninsula in summer is generally
cooler than any territory of equal /!
extent in the United States remote
from the oceans.
For these same reasons people |
throughout civilization flock to the
lakes and seasides in summer.
A few people because of the fad
go even from Lakeland to the noun
tains and sea shores in summer. But
I'd delight to see any bunch of these
fadist and would be fashionables
stood up in company with an equal
number of stay-at-homes, in the
presence of board of competent
physicians and surgeons in a com
petition test as to colors, healthful-
ness, physical soundness, and gen.
eral good condition. My observa-
tion and experience has been and is
the stay at homes are most of them
alive and we'll, and for the summer
exiles, inquire of the doctors and
the druggist, and in several cases
Futch & Gentry and Kimbrough can
give you fixed information. Recent
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