Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-05-15

ting on the benches. which line cen
trail avenue on each side OF the street
for blocks. and afford the tourists
pleasant resting places in the day and
long into the night These brothers
were watching the passers by and re-
marked how many had come too late. :
He saw couple come by. the husband
leaning one way and the wife cripple
another way. and they decided they
would not pass very we'll; then they
saw another man who was crooked in
different way. BY and bye they saw
nice looking pair coming along and
Our friend said: Now. Henry, / think
they viii do very weH,' and Henry
looked them over and agreed. Before
they got quite by the unconscious
couple stopped TO look in a shop win
dow and suddenly the husband turned
and shouted into the ear of his wife.
who was stone deaf. Mr.. Combs
turned to his brother and shook his
head and said: 'Ah, Henry, they won't
pass either So he begged us TO come
to beautiful Florida before it was too
late to rest
The next morning we had an early
breakfast and reluctantly bid our kind
hosts farewell and started on our re-
turn to Daytona. These good people
are most happily and comfortably
located on a nice, wide street in a
house so large they have four apart
ments to rent to tourists, living in a
fifth apartment in the winter They
have built on the original house which
is most comfortable and coy.
The climate is quite delightful, and
the flowers i'm the city are more
luXuriant and fuller of bloom than !
have seen in any part of Florida.
saw one hybiscis that reached to the
second floor of house and was full of
red blooms, as large as hollyhocks.
and a vine that ran over whole houses
and seemed a mass of single bloom,
saffron yellow, not unlike our trum-
pet creeper, only smaller in the
flower, but most profuse in blooming
we were surprised at the many re-
ligions that are flourishing here, the
result of the mixed population. In St
Petersburg there are 1000 Ohio peo-
pie and we seem to meet more from
Ohio than from any other State,
though nearly every State is repre-
scented, especially the Middle West.
One Ohioan explained the State being
50 well represented here, from the
fact that il was such 1 rich State; the
people had more money. Every de-
nomination seems represented from
Hard shelled' Baptists to Christian
Scientists and Holy Rollers As ]
stopped at a crossing to allow train
10 go by | WIS Mortified to notice
Ford car (of all things) with the
sacriligious words Jesus is coming
soon painted on it in large gold anu
red letters. ! felt a shock ! will not
forget for some time. There seems to
be an Episcopal church in every large
town. but very few Roman Catholic
churches, if any.
After leaving r mra we came
home another roC,e, by the town OF
Barlow, instead of returning through
Lakeland We passed large fertilizer
factories and saw them washing the
phosphate and rock out of the ground
with a large hose. The water carried
the fertilizer down perfect stream,
whence it was pumped into a large
factory. the valuable fertilizers eX-
tracted and the waste water poured
ont into q lake that was the most
beautiful turquoise blue in color
Around Barlow are also large fields
Of cabbage. which We're being shipped
TO the North This is irrigated by a
simple device of elevated pipes with
tiny holes in it at regular intervals.
which can be turned on as desired
We also saw strawberries, but they
have very little flavor. as have the
oysters in the Halifax river, which
can be ought at the rate OF five bush
els in an hour by the most ineXperi-
enced person. We passed the enor-
nous celery fields at Sanford and one
man there spent $4,000 on his crop,
having used Is tons of fertilizer to the
acre. He is getting celery off it now
a, the rate of $4,000 an acre, but has
10 pay prohibitive prices to labor. The
1arkey who nails up the boxes gets
$3.50 day and the packers gets Sc a
day. If the increase in the price of
labor continues as the growers seem
to expect, l fear the growing of celery
may be very seriously curtailed. |
was told the lettuce. which we saw by
he thousands, paid much BETTER
profits. The soil was as black as my
hat. and yet had to be heavily ferti-
lized
I'VE returned to Daytona after five
DAYS through beautiful orange groves
and oceans of grapefruit. much OF
which was lying on the ground; and
will not make another trip until we
start for dear old Maryland"
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