The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-02-16

Florida has her seven wonders. and
among the natural ones we enumer-
ate: % Coral islands and reefs of
/ the Southern end of the State-the
only part of the United States grow
ing in area; CD st. Johns river-larg-
est and longest stream flowing north
| in the United States-and tidal for
100 miles; go Silver Springs near
Ocala-with flow of water ample to
/ float steamboats,: t4) The sponge
fisheries on the Gulf Coast-the only
ones in the United States; (5) Royal
Palms Park in Dade County-devel-
oped by the Federation of Women's
Clubs; 90 Lake Okeechobee, the
largest body of water solely within
the boundary of any state; and 90
the largest phosphate deposits and
mines in the world.
Then Florida has her man-made
seven wonders; ID Pecan grove near
Tallahassee. $4,000 trees-the largest
+ in the world (2D Camphor plantation
of 5000 acres near Paltaka-the only
one in the world; tSl Roadway bridge
t-21a miles long-at Miami-the
longest of the kind in the country;
/ (4 Deering mansion and grounds at
Miami costing $4,000. 900 finest sur
burban home in the United States;
! t5D Issue of the Tropical Sun at West
Palm Beach containing an advertise
ment of sixteen pages for one store
the biggest display space ever tax
en- by one concern in a newspaper in
the United States; 60 Largest drain
age district in the Everglades an en-
iterprise undertaken to rescue for cul-
tivation an extent of fabulously rich
soil. quite equal to the area of Rhode
Island, a state containing over half
million population; ca A railway at
seattle Florida East Coast Railway
extension to Key West-one of the
most daring and colossal feats of en-
gineer ever attempted and completed
in America mil ana miles of con
crete track high above the waves and
as safe as on the distant shore.
There are seven more wonders how
ever in Florida: % Tampa, a fac
tory city without smoke stacks. but
il makes lots of smoke its cigar out
put exceeding any other city in the
south, t2) trees not known to botan
lists anywhere else on earth-the
Tumion taxifolium and Taxus Flori-
dana-yarieties of evergreens and
growing naturally nowhere else ex-
cept on the eastern bank of the Apa-
lachicola river-but specimens have
been transplanted to several city
parks; go Largest mines of fuller's
earth in the country and producing
(4 The oldest cities in the United
States; St Augustine and Pensacola,
bu turn under the Spanish, French
English and American flags, and
about which cluster countless legends
romances and stories of absorbing in
terest; 60 the crookedest river in
America-the Oklawaha- along which
thousands of tourists journey on
whose banks We're enacted stirring
events in the longest and most stub
bornly fought Indian war in Ameri-
can history; t6) the largest and fin
est sea beaches lin the worldwide.
solid and as smooth as floor.-on
come a favorite pastime. and with it
surf bathing i'm all seasons. on the
longest salt water shore line i'm the
Union over 1000 miles to follow in
dentations from the Perdito river on
the Gulf to Cumberland sound IN Il
Atlantic giving Florida access to NOR,
of the world by water than any othe
state: ca Indian mounds and deposit
of fossil remains of elephants, tiger
and of huge beasts of early ages. ,
at Nero recent find of human IT
mains is declared to be that of
nan who lived here 25,O00 years ago
and the discoverery is being discusse
by American scientists.
And we go on with another serie
of seven: % the fine examples
hotel architecture and service equa,