The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-02-04
ECHOES FROM THE SOUTHLAND.
753 First Street, S. W., Miami, Fla.
Jan. &c, 1921.
Dear Opinionites:

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Jan. &c, 1921.
Dear Opinionites:
1t has been busy week without
too much having been accomplished
at that. Mr. and Mrs Farrar of Rut-
land arrived Monday at lilo and we
were right glad to see them. They
brought tidlngs of a perfect sail
down the coast and of zero weather
! from southern Vermont. We have
also discovered Mr. and Mrs M A
Brown of Wilmington, Vt. and Bos-
ton at the Royal Palm hotel. The
Browns are down for two weeks but
another season they will get the
fever and increase the length of
their stay.
We have just been on an all day
picnic at Cape Florida. E w Howe
of Clyde Court made up the party,
numbering fifteen, and rendered us
the use of Mr. and Mrs Kinsman's
house boat for the sail down the bay.
The water was like mirror, so
smooth that in the shallow places,
we could see the grass on the bottom
of the bay We went over to the
Light House and picked up cocoanuts
on the wav Several other picnic
parties had made the cocoanuts
rather scarce; that is, the good ones,
but we all managed to find a nut
apiece which would shake" well.
They are no good unless you can hear
the milk wash around inside when
you shake it. We had some dinner
with fried chicken, cold roast pork,
pies, cake and ice cream and along
about three o'clock we started for
the trip back. While l am on the
subject Mr. Howe has an article on
Miami which is soon to come out in
the Saturday Evening Post, probably
sometime in February. He will give
you an intimate view of the life
down here for he knows most every
inch of the place and many of the
interesting people about here.
We have a novel electric sign
down at Elser's Pier. 1t faces Flag
Ter street and can be seen for a
mile. Advertising signs, the letters
being outlined by electric light bulbs,
are so arranged that they change au-
tomatically every nine seconds and
so far they have eighty changes. 1t
is expected that more will be added
to this electric sign board. 1t is in
teresting to watch the changes and
fully as interesting to watch the
crowd watch the sign.
Miami is looking for Sen. Harding
any day now as he has reached Palm
Beach. Unless the plans change
there will be no entertaining on d
large scale but the man of the hour
will be allowed to enjoy our beauti-
full climate and. our sports as a COM
mon, everyday mortal, But we are
all interested in his coming and
hope to see him somewhere, some
time while he is here.
We really have very few accidents
here considering the congestion in
the streets for there are more auto
mobiles per foot than in any city in
the country and everybody is on
pleasure bent. One day, last week
at the Beach a small child was
caught beneath the wheel of an
automobile, which was backing out.
Bob Steele, the special traffic man
at the Beach, who lost both legs in
the late war, and who has a sort of
rollerskate contrivance on which he
moves himself about, saw the child
beneath the wheel and reached her
in time to push her between the
wheels, putting his own body where
the child's had been and let the car
back on to him. Fortunately he was
not seriously hurt. Asked about the
accident later, he said 81 just want
ed to save the child, and | want
everybody to know that the kids are
safe at the beach as long as | am
around"
The kids do know it and they love
Bob Steele as they would love a big
brother. He has formed a club
among the children, which is called
the Freckles Club and one freckle
will admit youngster to this out #
door club. The first idea of this
club is to have good time out doors,
and they do all sorts of athletic and
swimming stunts. When the stunts
are done then they congregate artnd
Bob and he tells them wonderful
tales of fairies, of sailors and treas
ure trove, Indians and mighty hunt
ing tales. It's a new club but one
of the most popular at the Beach
Miami is growing all the time and
while building may not be quite so
brisk just now that the season is on,
pans are belnH maze LOT Jne largest
program even during the summer
and there is plenty of building right
now. Next to building, there is a
movement on foot to beautifv tire
grounds and all sorts of shrubbery is
being set out. Out here at River
side Heights, there is new asso-
citation called the Riverside Heights
Club which aims TO make this section
Of Miami a city of flowers. So far
we have rather more shrubbery than
flowers but there is no reason why
we shouldn't have all the old fash |
Toned flowers along with roses grow
ing plentifully. 1t is Just that The |
city has grown so fast that we have
MT gotten to il.
We are just at the morning of our
Everglades proposition, ] Thomp- /
son of New Zealand has been investi- /
eating our Everglades as a matter
Of information. He is in this coun- /
try to purchase drainage machinery \
10 the extent of S360,OOO and also to 1
study our methods. He said that 4
The Everglade soil in our vicinity is
similar to the muck and peat land 1
If New Zealand and he r.ral;rf,T