Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
COLONEL WRITES FROM
THE sunny SOUTH
Left st. Louis In Snow Storm, But Is
Now in Semi Tropical
Climate.
WILL DO SOME FISHING
Says Everything Even Fish Comes
To Him Who Waits and
Watches and Works.

Birmingham, Alabama, Jan. 20, 1915
II left st. Louis last night in a big
snow storm and here ! am in the Sun
ny South. Travel is becoming more
delightful every year. A feature Of
the Seminole Limited's steel equip
ment is the steel Sun-Parlor Obser-
walton Car that is carried through
between Chicago and Jacksonville.
An enclosed sun-parlor observation
platform, particularly adapted to a
journey a part Of which is in the rig
orous north, and part of which is in
the balmy, semi-tropical souh.
A commodious parlor for the ladie,
and gentlemen, with a semi-private
writing room, and with such broad
plate glass windows as to make it
also an observation compartment. A
large smoking room for gentlemen
also an observation room, owing to
its aisle partition being practically all
of glass above the wainscoting--
having every convenience and com
fort for social lounging, while enjoy
ing from both sides of the car the
scenic attractions of the trip.
Finally, located in the middle of
the car, for convenience in serving
both the smoking room and the OBJ
s~ervation parlor, is a buffet-kitchen,
differing materially from the ordina-
ry buffet in cars of this kind. The
buffet is larger in size and has all the
paraphernalia of an up-to-date kitch-
en-; thus providing unusual facilities
for efficient service of the refresh
ments and light lunch order.
notice all the freight houses in
the South are filled with cotton, and
money will be close here until the
crop is sold. l expect to reach Sar-
asota tomorrow night when | am go
ing to catch some fish or know the
reason why.
A friend writing me says:
Sarasota Bay, New Pass, Big Pass
and Little Sarasota Pass, to say moth
ing of the Gulf of Mexico, all in
Of Sarasota, furnish ideal places
for deep-sea angling.
always something doing, not on
ly in the fishing, but in the catching,
and that's what counts. Coming back
with a big string is what makes one
feel good. Tarpon (Silver King,)
this gamy monster is caught in large
numbers and also Kingfsh and Mack
"All the year, the waters are alive
with Pompano, Reddish, Channel Bass,
Drum, Whiting Trout, Jack, Yellow
tail, Mango-snapper, Grunts, Floun-
ders, Rovalia, Cavalia, Jewish,
Sharks and many other varities.
"The angler and hunter can find no
place better adapted to his needs
than Sarasota. Not only deep-sea
fishing; but fresh water (bass) fish
ing is so plentiful that an hours run
from Sarasota brings one to as fine
a stretch of ~sub-tropical and virgin
country as one would wish to find.
Quail, duck, turkey, rabbits, squirrel
and other small game are plentiful.
There is a river winding through this
territory that teens with Wide
mouth Black Bass (weighing from one
to twelve pounds,) Brim, Sun-fish and
but the best part of it is
that these fish are not backward
about biting, and one who can cast a
fly or troll a minnow, could ask
no better sport than can be found in
this territory. Only an hours ride
town, and yet close enough to
nature to make one feel hat civiliza-
ton is a thousand miles away"
If | can't catch fish under such cir
cumstances, you will never find it out.
Some of my friends think l haven't
enough patience to catch fish, on the
other hand / have some friends who
know | am not so bad at "watchful
waiting" and all things (even fish,
to those who wait-and watcn
and work.
R. M. White.