The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-18
ANrAarlc FLORIDA
How Land Of Flowers" Appears to
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Peiiey.

How Land Of Flowers" Appears to
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Peiiey.
Tropical country and artic wealth
er down here, but all the same some
country" writes w. D. Policy who
with Mrs. Policy is making trip of
several weeks to some of the tourist
resorts OF the Florida east coast.
"Well, we've run the submarine
blockade and are in Florida at last.
Country principally skyline, scrub
palmetto. spanish moss and northern
ers in search of their health. We
left New York on Tuesday noon
and reached Charleston, S. c.. the
following Thursday night Pulled out
OF Charleston around midnight and
made Jacksonville about 2 O'Clock
Friday. The weather was cold as
FAR as Georgia. 1t rained on and on
most of the time. Coming up the st,
Johns river the temperature moder-
ated considerable. got into by b.
v. DIS the morning after our arrival,
shed my vest and entertained de-
signs on buying straw hat
ITO add to the pleasures of the
trip neither ! nor Mrs. Pelley were
seasick during the trip from New
York to Jacksonville. The boat was
darkened at night, however, scarcely
half dozen lights burning outside of
the staterooms for fear of subma-
rines showing up along the coast. ALI
windows were covered as soon as
darkness came and absolutely no
lights were permitted on deck.
There were more than "a dozen
Vermont folks on the boat from Rut-;
land, Burlington, Randolph and Rox-
bury. We met Rutland woman go
| ing down to Datona with her small
son and we've agreed to make it a
party and knock along together.
We are going to spend week
around Jacksonville and St. Angus
tine and then go down the st. Johns
river by steamer to Palatka and back
up to Datona. Our Rutland acquaint
ance's better half is coming down
next week with his car and we may
all motor down to Palm Beach. We
don't know when we're coming back.
Our return tickets are good until
May 20, 1918 We're going to knock
around as we feel like it and start
north when we've had our trip out.
I'm not in khaki next winter I'm
coming down here and bring the car.
Some motoring in this country! The
people in Vermont gave me the
wrong idea of Florida roads. We
have been out in car and there's
miles OF roads better than anything
the Green Mountain state has TO
Offer
The weather here in Jacksopville
has been like Vermont around the
srst Of September There is an DC
casional sun shower after which the
air is just about right neither too
warm or too cold, fTheres are flower
gardens galore about : Jacksonville,
and roses are blooming near the |
window where sit writing this let
ter.8 sf2ss s.sa kt3AsA fki
The country looks weird to a north |
erner who sees 1t for the first time. |
We have covered miles OF road lined |
with palms, southern pines and live |
oaks, all dripping spanish moss and |
Mt one place we saw acres of bain- |
boo. The color OF the sea sand I'M |
terested me, all pure white like salt /
with palms growing against the sky |
like the picture on a package of
Egyptian cigarettes. ga Et ga
jacksonville Is sure some live city |
The eolored race has busted in here |
somehow and sort of tinged the place |
with white teeth but outside OF |
hat this place belongs up north, not |
down in hckadaisical Florida This /
own supports three newspapers and |
al of them issue three editions |
daily-morning noon and night, and |
everything sells for nickle. |
haven't seen any of the little brown |
pennies since we struck town.
There's a big training camp right |
near here and there are more sol |
diers In the street than in Germany !
Being so near the West Indies there
is no sugar shortage here and for
the first time in weeks the war has
disappeared from the inside of my
coffee cup
1t seems strange to us to see the |
women doing their Christmas shop |
ping in white dresses and carrying |
their parasols and even more strange |
to think of the people in Bennington
going to work each morning through |
he snowdrifts
Regards to everybody, Keep your
walk shoveled and the ear lappets |