The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-07-15

their horses and took them as tro-
lphies to Manatee, to arrive at the
Whitaker Bayou, our small boat
harbor TO stop at the old Whit
aker mansion which now stands
jail forsaken and alone on the side
of the road and here we pause and
become reminiscent for "fond
memory brings the light of other
days around us" and we again, in
our minds eye, at the door, one of
the best of all good and fond
mothers and friends, and we fan
cy once, more the youthful pleas
lure derived from eating those
great big slices of loaf bread
spread thickly over with the fresh
yellow butter and this sprinkled
with sugar and all chased down
with a pitcher of buttermilk as
fresh as the daisies. She did her
mission well and faithfully and
well has she deserved for some Of
her progeny are making names
and history today for our country.
To arrive at the city of Saraso-
ia and there note the changes
since the first landing at this place
by Hunter and Skinner in 1874
when the erection of large sani-
torium for treatment of tubercu-
losis cases was undertaken, after
the same enterprise had been
swept from Sanibel gsland by the
hurricane of the 9th Of October in
1873. Now it is a modern city
you can get anything from Bry-
an higbball to the finest hotel ac-
commodation, so i am told.
Through Big Sarasota pass from
here you can again see the break
ers on the bar and look on old
mother ocean in the distance. We
go on south and come to where
Big Sarasota bay ends and Little
Sarasota bay begins, to see where
Chandler Yonge once had a ship
yard afd made a boast that he fed
his family and friends on clans, to
pass the mouth of PHILIPPE creek !
and remember our old-time friend !
Drumright with his apiary (bee
farm we called it, to look over at
the mahgroves where in the olden
times we used to get stuck when
the tide would leave us and we
would sometimes have to spend /
The night waiting for it to rise a.
gain to get through, and some
lines spend the whole night fight
ng sand flies and mosquitoes, to :
lrrive at White beach, the first !
,oting precinct established south :
II Manatee and where good oys- :
ers grew, to arrive at the old }
Webb place, now called Osprey ,
md owned, | am told by Mrs. >
Potter Palmer and stand OH the /,
most beautiful and picturesque s
,romontory on the west coast OF 6
florida, where looking to the +
westward over the narrow ever Z
,reen islands you have a magnifi-
ent view of old mother ocean,
While north and south we see the a
livery threads and in places g
roader expanses of Little Sara "
ota bay lined and jutted by the 7
utest emerald green mangroye is e
ands and headlands, and we re- v
lember that right here we gath t,
red the finest oysters, and again el
re think of people who are gone
. the country from whose borne
o traveller returns, and we won 5
er if we, too, will soon be strik- vi
lg that trail. But we have now d
rrived at the Frank Blackburn d'
lace and are living over again CT
ne camping at the old PHILIPPE p'
,ell ON the island-side of this la
rettiest of all these pretty bays, b'
nd we walk the beach for turtle
night, dig their nests in the
arly morning, gather clans and
ysters from the clear waters of .,
he bay or catch all kinds of fish
your will and pleasure with =
cd and reel or net, cross to the