The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-15

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~ Norton had sort of feeling
that 1 was a Bush League Co
lumbus-a discoverer as it were-and
while I'd heard lot of nice things about
Mrs. Newfoundland of her many wonder
full achievements and all that sort of
thing-now I had really discovered her,
and after talking with this remarkably
clever woman, found her to be not only
! one of the best informed and most up-to-
date business women 1 had met in many
a day, but a woman of a great deal OF
personal charm and attraction
Her speciality is building towns; imagine
it if you please, little, tiny mite of
woman undertaking such a tremendous
thing!
She talks about parkways and drives,
and miles and miles of shell road, and
hotels and houses and taking the raw
material and building great beautiful,
wonderful places out of just clay and
motar-well-like you or 1 would talk
about buying a Vogue pattern or a
"Butterick" Il suppose they still use
"Buttericl<' patterns like they did back
in the early sixties), and cutting out
dress and making it!
Really, Mrs. Norton is quite a remark
able woman; she knows everybody, every
where who is worth knowing she hob
nobs with bankers and has the real es-
tate bee" ns her bonnet through dab
bling about in stocks and bonds and
things. And she knows more about blue
prints" and wiggly little maps that look
like crazy quilts, all squirmy and funny,
with blocks of vacant lots and streets
and all--than you or I have ever known
in our lives about anything, and she's
an ardent suffragist
Mrs. Norton's latest activity is the
town she's built in Florida called ALLAN
dale" just six miles below Daytona,
where they have the famous race course,
you know. Here, out of mere zare plot
of ground-13oO acres-with nothing but
rocks and sand and the gloriously beau
tiful ocean front, she's whacked into
"coquina' and built the most attractive
sort of houses and put the name of AL
.landale" on the map; her own home,
which is pictured most charmingly, bears
the euphonious Indian name of "Tolo-
locke Lodge" which in the Seminolel
tongue means Palmetto Palm
There was a popular aphorism which
l recall when 1 lived in THE Land Of
Flowers to the effect that God made
the country and man the town-but man
had beat him in Florida" and truly the
work of human hands with the marvellous
ly God-given material in this tropical
cline has been something phenomenal.
Any tourist who has been to Florida
will tell you that what Mr.. Flagler has
done for that state is something almost
beyond comprehension; the East Coast
is a living monument to the brains, en-
ergy, and capital which Mr.. Flagler in
vested there
There is no more attra ctive spot in the
world than the American Riviera, and in
all the long stretch of coastwise scenic
beauty, none is more widely known than
the Ormon- Daytona beach.
In speaking with Mrs. Norton about
town building and why and how she did
it, and all that sort of thing she said:
1.-The idea of bungalow colony struck
me as being something quite original
and out of the ordinary. There are so
many people who would like to have
homes in Florida away from the noise
and confusion even of the small city So
this locality and the conditions appealed
to me SO strongly that ! decided that
it would be good place for town. So
went to work to make my plans. Today
Allendale is very charming little town,
quite modern in every way; telephones.
beautiful drives artistic homes, an at
tractive hotel, postoffice and everything
that spells convenience
Three years ago Allandale was just
a vacant spot on the east coast of
Florida" she said. 1T looked as if it
was just waiting for somebody to come
and make it's acquaintance and do some
thing with its naturally beautiful re-
sources. Today there are so homes;
there are miles of shell roads and hun
dreds of magnolia trees and oleanders,
thousands of eucalyptus trees which we
have planted, making Allandale one OF
the most tropical and beautiful places
in Florida
lone of the things that has made the
town SO unique is the material used in