The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-15
PENNSYLVANIA MAN WRITES OF
THINGS HE SAW AND LIKED
IN THE SOUTH.

from Pennsylvania, fulfilling prom
Use to friends in the North, wrote the
following letter, which appeared in
the Altoona, (Pa.), Tribune in an is
sue of March 4. The letters is as
follows:
This letter is to fulfill a promise
made to my friends, to tell them OF
this farmers trip to the sunny south
land. l left my home, beautiful Nor
rison's Cove. Monday, January 10, for
/ Fruitland Park, Florida, distance OF
about 1900 miles, arriving Wednes-
day evening, January II, shortly after
10 o'clock.
Oh. what a pleasant party of Penn
sylvanians | had to mingle with on
our trip from the frozen northland as
we sped on our journey southwark to
the land of winter sunshine, fruit and
flowers. | spent about a week at
Fruitland Park, and Eustis, Florida
Then sped on about 100 miles further
south to this beautiful city. st. Pc
tersburg. 1t is situated on the beauti
full bay of Tampa about 275 miles
south of Jacksonville. Tampa bay is
part of the Gulf of Mexico. This
is the most beautiful sunshine city
ever had the pleasure to visit 1t is
quite a Paradise. With it's 100 feet
avenues and streets lined up with
palm and other beautiful tropical
trees and flowers in abundance.
We can hardly make ourselves be-
lieve that two or three days travel by
railroad or steam line could land peo-
pie from the North in such a delight
full climate in Florida My wish is
that more of my friends, especially
my aged friends, could share with me
in the beautiful sunny land where
these fine orange groves have just
produced crop of golden fruit and
at this time are putting on both buds
and orange blossoms for another crop,
there's no winter here. vegetation and
fruit of all kinds growing - months
in the year. This is certainly a Won
derful climate. Beautiful flowers in
full bloom all the year round. All
varieties of birds to cheer you and
make person feel happy, with their
sweet songs. The hooking bird in
my judgment has outclassed them all
as a sweet songster.
will try to tell you about the fish,
although I am not much of fisher
man. occasionally go out with a
friend, whose acquaintance have
made, who is from Union City, Ohio.
He is quite a fisherman. A few days
ago he caught four salt water pike
that averaged 10 pounds each. They
are fine fish; never at any better.
There is a great deal of sport here
catching fish, as there is some very
gamy ones in these lakes and bays.
Here are trout, pike, bass and mack
erel and hundreds of other kinds.
Florida is noted for her springs,
lakes and bays that are full of differ
ent varieties of fish. Also in the
forest I am told. you will find all
kinds of game.
There is at this present season
several thousand tourist strolling in
the shade or sunshine of these fine
avenues and streets or lingering on
the hotel verandas enjoying them
selves. | never experienced or saw
people so sociable and kind in my
life. They just seem to me like one
big family of the North that come
south to get better acquainted with
one another. and also to get acquaint-
ed with these southern friends There
are people here from almost every
state in the union. To give you an
idea Of how the different states are
represented will give you a few fig.
ures that you see at the Board of
Trade where the tourists are request
ed to register their names, and what
state they are from. Ohio is repre-
scented at the present time by 1,605
tourists, Pennsylvania by 1872, New
York by 1,70S. Indiana by $50, ILL
nois by 957, and so on each state is
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