The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1917-01-19
.PALATKA HEIGHTS
LOGICAL LOCATION
For Baptist General Hospital
and Masonic Orphanage.
Editor Palatka News:

Trade Monday two subjects of great
Importance to Palatka were discussed,
the location of state institution for
the care of the orphaned children of
members of the Masonic Order and
state hospital that the Baptists of
Florida have decided to build.
Palatka is the logical place for both
of these institutions because of it's
central location and it's transportation
facilities and above all its healthful-
ness and attractions as residential
community.
In my opinion there is no site more
favorable for these institutions than
Palatka Heights and l appreciate that
when | say this there are many who
will differ from me. But l have in
mind another city where the condi-
tions are almost identical and where
for many years just such splendid
range of hills, as Palatka Heights
with its magnificent home sites and
unsurpassed location for a winter ho-
tel and golf course were long neg
lected to the great detriment of the
city's development.
Today the Sand Hills of Augusta
is one of the most attractive winter
resorts in the South and brings thous-
ands of tourists there every winter.
President Taft delighted to visit there.
John D. Rockefeller is another dis
tinguished visitor, and many more
could be named. The Hotel Bon Air
and the Augusta Country Club, with
one of the finest golf courses in the
country, are the attractions that
brought them there. There are the
magnificent view, the healthful sur
roundings, the invlgorating atmos-
phere far above the river valley on
Palatka Heights that there are on the
Sand Hills of Augusta, and not until
the people of Palatka realize what
splendid and surprising asset they
have that other cities would utilize to
such great advantage will they see
Palatka take her proper place among
the most attractive tourist cities of
Florida. We want these institutions
and we want golf course. With
golf course established a magnificent
tourist hotel will soon crown the
Heights. Palatka has many more
natural advantages and a-trctions as
a tourist resort than Augusta.
These thoughts that have grown to
conviction have been brought home
to me by recent visit to Augusta
which prompted me to write an edito-
rial in the New Florida under the cap
tion, ~ Am Willing To Sow That 9th
ers May Reap" 1t is very pertinent
to the discussion of the best location
in Palatka for the Masonic Home and
The Baptist State Hospital and it
may be worth while reproducing it,
as follows:
81 am willing to SOW that Others
may reap"
These words and the sentiment that
they embody are an inheritance
handed down to the editor of the New
Florida by relative whose life has
been an inspiration to the writer, and
to whom he is indebted for the ad-
vantages of good education and the |
benefits Of close association with him
in the work Of upbuilding a sister
state.
The traveller arriving in Augusta,
Ga, on emerging from the Union
Station views the heroic statue of |
Patrick Walsh, erected by the people |
of Augusta as an appreciation of his |
self sacrificing efforts to build up that
community and the Empire State of
the South.
On a recent visit to Augusta the
text of this editorial was brought di-
rectly home to the writer, by a friend
who recalled an occasion when Pat
rick Walsh standing in the middle of
the splendid avenue of Augusta
known as Broad street and pointing
in the direction of a glorious sunset
to the far famed Sand Hills of Au-
gusta, now one of the most famous
winter resorts of the South, said:
when am gone, the people who call
me a. dreamer will realize that those
nils are one Of the finest residence
sites in the world"
| recalled then a Sunday afternoon
hat | walked with Patrick Walsh and
| visitor to the top of the Sand Hills
and as he told of the wonderful fu-
.ure that was in store for Augusta
when her people appreciated their ad
rantageS, he gave expression to that
principle that has made his life one
or men to pattern their lives by;
81 am willing to sow that others '
nay reap"
Nearly year ago Augusta was t
'isited by great fire that left many {
# its finest homes in ashes. Scarce 5
Y one of those homes has been re-
,uilt on its old site, but the Sand !
Hills, long since the site of many at
ractive dwellings, that are verifying !
he prediction of Patrick Walsh, have t
eaped the benefit of Augusta's fire {
n the accession of numerous new res 5
dences and has taken a long step to- p
Yards the realization of its future as {
ne of the finest residence sites in the
world.
The seed sown by Patrick Walsh are '
'earing fruit and generation after {
will continue to gather the ,
harvest he was willing to sow that
'thers may reap.