The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-02-02
FLORIDA ALL THINGS.
TO ALL MEN IN WiN'6n
Julian Street in Golfers Airs HIS op'h-
ion About Matters in Florida

Julian Street. writing in Golfers
has the following to say about Flor-
ida. Belleair and st. Petersburg:
Florida in winter comes near being |
all things to all men. To all she Oh
fers amusement plus her climate ana !
in no one section is the contrast In
what amusement constitutes, ana
costs set forth more sharply than
where. on the West Coast OF the
State. St. Petersburg and Belleair are
situated side by side.
The Hotel Belleview at Belleair
compares favorably with any in the
State and is peopled. during the cold
months. with affluent golf maniacs, for
whom two fine courses have been laid
out
When the pipes supply water for
the greens of his home course at
look. Ind. freeze annually, George
I.aa
AIDE. for instance. knows that insto.-
of alternating. it is time for him to
take his white flannel suits hang
them on the clothes line in the back
ward until the fragrance of the moth
ball has departed, pack them In his
wardrobe trunk, and take his winter
fight to the Belleview, where he Will
find congenial company. Bellealr
turns up its nose at Palm Beach. IL
considers the game of golf as played
al Palm Beach a trifling game, and
il feels that the winter population OF
Palm Beach wastes a lot of time talk
ing about clothes and the stock mark
ct, when it might be discussing impor'
tant subjects, such as divers, mid
irons and mashies. The woman who
thinks il essential to be blond wheth
er she is blond or not. and regards
Forty-second street as the axle upon
which the universe turns, would be
I likely TO die of ennui in a week a.
+ Belleair whereas in Palm Beach, il
she died in that time, it would prob
ably be a delight-wth a possibilit!
t of alcoholism as a contributing cause
|, And likewise, though Belleair ha
r plutocrats in abundance, they are no
I; starred for their wealth. as are tn
r Palm Beach millionaires, nor yet 70
II their social position. but are rate
It strictly according to their club hand
70 cap. Hence it happens that if, SPEAK
n ing of Palm Beach millionaire yo
If ask How did he make it?" you ma
If be told the story of some combin
he of trusts, some political grating, Q
" some widely advertised patent med
g. cine; but if you ask in Belleair; "Ho'
}; did he make it? the answer is likel
at 10 be: He made it in 4, with cleek
IN Consider on the other hand st. Pc
to ersburg, wit hits cheap hotels, il
u boarding houses, its lunch rooms an
lie cafeterias. and its winter populatio
It. of farmers and their wives from tn
O. North. The people you see in S
r. Petersburg are identical with thos
so you might see on a market day in
to country town of Ohio or Indians
III Several thousand of them come al
nually from score or more of state
al and many family lives through tn
winter on less than some other fan
We lilies spend at Belleair in a week, {
err at Palm Beach in day. Yet S
n. Petersburg is happy. the city park
la full of contented people, most of the
middle aged or old. The women Ii
re ten to the band, the men play chez
ny ers under the palmetto matched she
e. ter, or toss horse shoes on the green
lg ward, at the sign of the Sunshir
UT Pleasure Cuban occupation whio
10 is St Petersburg's equivalent for Pal
Us Beach's game of tossing chips on Ii
green-topped tables of a gamblir
re house. And yet
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