Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-02-01
ELECTRIC FANS keep
TOURISTS COOL IN SOUTH
Editor of the Ledger Finds Ft Myers
Decided Change in Temperature
From Mexico.
CLIMATE is IDEAL
City Of House Boats is Anchored TO
Shores Of Popular Florida Re-
sort-MOst Luxurious.


The fact that Thomas A. Edison
spends his winters here may have
nothing to do with the electric fan
being invented, but Mr.. Edison and
other northerners who seek this spot
as a refuge from the boreal buffetings
of colder climes must have recourse to
the fan in order to keep reasonably
cool even in January here.
There are many more tourists in
Florida than ever before and in the
southern part especially. Ft. Myers
has its share.
remember several years ago DR..
]. G. Moore and W. w. Fry wrote
the Ledger how they enjoyed the win
ter in this part OF the state, and l
am sure they were correct. The eli
mate is ideal, and the surrounding are
most pleasant.
Ft. Myers is town with 5000 in
habitants, and about double that
many tourists in its homes and hotels.
There is but one Fort Myers, and
ninety million people will find it out"
says Thomas A. Edison.
Fort Myers, the city beautiful, the
county seat of Lee, and the southern
terminus of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad, is located on the south shore
| ~ tho CaIoosabo4abao ,,ro, $3.50 af
the prettiest bay fronts to be found
any where, and fifteen miles from the
Gulf of Mexico, with which it is con-
nected by hard-surfaced Boulevard.
The city, beyond the reach of the
Frost Kings destroying hand, has the
tropical scenery of the West Indies,
and the soft balmy breezes of South
ern Italy. Here are subdivisions
planned by experts from the North,
where beautifying has been reduced to
science as well as acknowledged
as an art.
Thousands of Islands, alluring to the
tourist having a taste for fishing,
hunting and exploring their recesses,
are massed along the coast.
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison both
have handsome homes here on Cal
oosahatchee river.
The word "Calooshatchee" is the In
dian name for Crooked River" and
is the true appellation for this, the
deepest stream in Florida.
The trip up the Caloosahatchee is
one of the most beautiful in the state,
and the tourist should not miss it.
Other rivers are more famous, but
this is only because they have been
continually advertised.
The trip up the river is most fascin-
ating one. Extending for miles along
this beautiful stream are citrus groves
heavy with golden fruit, making pic
ture for the artists brush. The pal
metto and cabbage palms rear their
tall and stately trunks on either side.
The live oaks and water oaks stretch
their branches far out over the banks,
and about them are entwined wild,
Towering vines. Most interesting
to the tourist are the thousands of
air plants with their red blossoms.
The gardens here are most as at
tractive to the tourists as the orch
ards and groves of fruit, and all look
good to those of us who just came out
of snow storm.
One of the unique features of the
harbor is the "village" of house,
boats motored to the docks, or an
chored up and down the river. Some
of them are well furnished, handsome,
and convenient homest A modern
house-boat can be most luxurious
and pleasant home the year through.
The weather here is perfect if you
will keep in the shade from II a. m.
till 8 p. m. on some the hot days, and
the nights are ideal. The little folks
and some of the old ones are barefoot
ed, and the hum of the electric fan
sounds good. If you have any trou-
Bile about eating or sleeping, here is
the place to come, if you want to make
good. You can eat all the time you
are awake, and can sleep all the time
you are not eating, unless you are too
lazy to do either.
l see Mexico is to elect four Coun-
cilmen this spring, and hope all will
take an interest in the matter. Nine
teen hundred seventeen promises to be
a big year for Mexico, and quite a
number of important matters will
come before the council. If Mex
leo is to have business council, our
business men must take an interest in
the election. That's the way to make
city. R. M. WHITE.
FIT. MYERS, Florida, Jan. "a
l opened Mexico Ledger yesterday,
and read that Roy Mitchell was dead,
and within an hour saw by the jack
sonville, Florida, Times, that R. r.
Arnold, Sr., passed away there-both |
fine men, loved and respected by all |
who knew them. Surely in the midst |
of life we are in death, which comes
at any time to the young as well as
the old.
We miss the mules, fat cattle, black |
hogs, corn cribs and hay stacks, but |
find the sugar mills and fruit pack
ing plants here all flourishing.
There are more tourists here than
usual, as none are going abroad, and
most people prefer Florida to Cali
fornia for winter home. Not only |
oranges, grape fruit, and pineapples |
are being shipped out, but strawber-
ries are going north and south by the
car loads. Hampers of new beets,
beans, peas, turnips, onions, lettuce,
celery egg plant and all kinds of gar
den truck go north by every train.
There is not month in the year
when something is not coming out of |
the garden. Fresh fish, fruits, and
"green stuff" Of all kinds, is the fav- |
a.. L. e 4.