The Neshoba Democrat. (Philadelphia, Miss.) 1881-current, 1921-04-07

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al Palm Is the most stately OF trees
Its trunk is column Of masonry
smooth and symetricaL and OF the
color of grey stone. 1t is crowned by
an outcfopping Of yerdure, and II
the King OF palms. The Royal Ponci
Ana IL a tree like none 1 have ever
seen. 1t has a fine vague feathered
leaf and appears as though 1T is GOV
cred with u veil.
have seen ripe beets, roasting
ears, peppers, tomatoes, string beans
and most every other thing that h
good to eat In the vegetable line.
have eaten my first guayas, papais,
etc.
Miami is the cleanest and prettiest
place have ever seen. They speak
OF 1t as the magic city, and such is.
Islands are built by man right out
in the Bay, and money is no obsta-
Gle in the accomplishment OF their
purpose. A million dollar causeway
has just been built across the Bay.
saw 40 acres in the sea that is soon
to be converted into d public park.
Miami is full OF new hotels, and APP
preaching 1t from the sea, II one
closes his eyes a bit, one catches
something of the sky line OF little
old New York.
In Miami we were welcomed by in
comparable Bill Bryan. Mr. Bryan
is one of the few big men In public
life that had never heard. I have
heard him twice. and though no op-
portunity was offered on either oc-
casion for any flights OF eloquence |
saw enough to understand the mag
netism of his personality and the
charm OF his oratory We were all
entertained at his home Wednesday
afternoon. When l spoke above of
the two addresses at Daytona and
Miami had In mind a Miami that
has for one of its residents the great
At Miami shark hunt wal staged
for our benefit, and q picnic dinner
on Soldier Island.
We were taken out thru the ever
glades where canal boats on a
mamoth scale are doing what we
are Siufug IN very small way In
Kentawky and Beashea. Florida
now has 7S0 miles OF drainage canals
and most OF these canals are naviga-
BILE for small boats. Miami Is the
most rapidly growing city in the
United States. The population OF
Miami Increased 440 per cent in ten
years. One Democrat would not
hold ALL think of Miami. We are
now on the train bound for Key
West where we catch our boat for
Havana. We are riding over rail-
road that links up one Coral Key af-
ter another right out into the sea.
We thought OF foregoing our trip to
Cuba but we have been informed
that the Cuban Government is pre-
pairing to show us few courtesies,
and most of our party are on the
special train. The Easter festivities
at Havana are reported to be worth
while. We have a few friends from
Milwaukee on board who are antici-
pating much from a promised enter
tainment by Havana brewery.
P. S. For the benefit Of L. 8. Rus
sell. /. j. A.. Morris, A. j. Mayo, A. d
Sharp and Others who have tried to
eat Captain Golson out OF house and
home permit me to say that we had
the following for dinner yesterday
on the Island between shark hunts;
nut, ham, tongue and chicken sand
witches; fried fish and chicken; chick
en- and potato salad, celery, pickles,
olives, ripe tomatoes, corned beef,
veal loaf, potato chips, hard boiled
eggs, cream and American cheese,
oranges. apple pie and Ice cream,
salted almonds and pecans, peanut
butter, Quince pie, baked beans, cof-
fee, orange and grapefruit juice.
KEY WEST AND HAVANA
Our original itinerary covered
nothing especial for Key West. but
when the people OF that southern
most city learned that we were to
have IL few hours there we were met
by a motorcade and driven about
the Island. The roads Of Key West
lead nowhere and end soon. But for
rail- and water she would be COM
pletely isolated. Excepting her
streets in the city her few roads were
built for pleasure driving. A sump-
tuous spread was arranged for us at
the new hotel. the Casa Marine Our
pockets were filed with cigars, and
we were Joined In our entertainment
by the editors of Cuba, who had
come to meet as. They numbered
fourteen In all. and represented the
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