The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-12-02
ECHOES FROM THE SOUTHLAND.
1853 S. w. 1st St, Miami, Fla.
Nov. 25, 1921.

AS promised you previously on
similar journeys and with apparent
appreciation on your part, am
beginning my 1921 communications to
YOU through these columns. l shall
try to give only such incidents as will
be of interest and worth while,
written hastily, not to be always
taken seriously, but for what they are
worth to you.
Elderly people usually live and
thrive on past experiences, conse,
quently are inclined to 'reminisce."
Therefore kindly overlook this tend
ency on my part. | promise you at
the start to be careful and not bore
you with big augur" on your &C
companying journey with me on this
Southland winter sojourn.
1t is my custom to prepare sched-
ule for these long trips by automo-
bile, making hotel reservations for
night stops in advance, taking ample
time in making a reasonable mileage
between points each day; taking in
places of historic interest; getting
information from the natives; using
commercial hotels generally, the ul-
ira fashionable ones seldom, as my
means have come too slowly to salts
fv me in receiving no real value,
only style and show for the exhorbl-
tant prices charged. Times, however,
are rapidly changing. Hotels in New
England and the middle states are
not getting the patronage they were.
The managers don't relish having
too many vacant rooms. The OLD
custom of so much and "up" has been
replaced by "our best rooms at the
minimum price" The bubble OF
high prices has been pricked, sensible
people having saved money for this
very immergency refuse to pay it out
to profteers. The "gouge game" has
had its run and fails to function.
Those who made fortunes over night
during the war have most of them
separated themselves from their
money and consequently are not
bothering real people with real
money any more by keeping up war
prices.
Picture houses are little slower
in getting down to normal patronages,
although they are not crowded as
heretofore.
Now for the clog" of our trip by
automobile from Bradford to Miami,
Personnel: Charles Parker, Mabel Mar
tin Parker, Harry Elwood Parker,
2nd. Sara Knowles Parker and Harry
Elwood Parker Sr. Conveyance: Win
ton Limo-Sedan automobile. Distance
bv odometer 1884 miles. Actual run
ming time IL days. Gasoline con-
sumed 213 gallons. Highest price
paid for gas 29c, lowest at Jackson
Vile % cents per gallon. Oil used
about 215 gallons. Tire changed once
only on the trip.
Tuesday, Nov. l. Left Bradford 3
a. m. in drizzling, cold rain, arrived
Springfield, Mass. 1872 miles, p. M,
where we were guests of Mr. and Mrs
j o Belcher for the night.
Wednesday, Nov. 2. Springfield to
Stratford, Conn. ~ miles, guests OF
Mr. and Mrs B C Warner until
Friday, Nov a. Stratford to Doug
laston, L. /. rs miles, the guests of
Mrs Grace Parker Walker until
Sunday, Nov. 6. Douglaston to
Philadelphia, LOG miles, Windsor
Hotel.
Monday, Nov. Z. Washington, d. c.
l44 miles, Continental Hotel until
Wednesday, Nov. 9. Washington to
Spottsylvania Court House, Va. via
Fredericksburg, where we spent two
nights at the Spotswood Inn, a very
honey, well-run American plan hotel,
the territory adjacent being the
scene of the bloodiest conflicts of the
Civil war: Charlottesville, the Will
derness and the Bloody Angle, the
more prominent.
Friday, Nov. IL. (Armistice Day..
Spotsylvania to Durham, N. c. via
Richmond, Petersburg and Oxford,
N. c., 232 miles, Melbourne Hotel.
Saturday, Nov. IL. Durham to
Salisbury, N. c. via Greensboro, 102
miles. Yadkin Hotel
Sunday, Nov. 13. Salisbury, N. C.
to Augusta, Ga. via Camden and Col
umbia, S. c. 223 miles, Genesta
Hotel. although this hotel is
recommended by the A. A. A. we did
not find 1t very satisfactory
Monday, Nov. Ia. Augusta to Sa-
vannah, via Waynesboro and Sylvania,
1870 miles. the last half in rain
storm which made travel rather
QlIllculI. 1utSudy anu NtuhSSNdy
we're spent very pleasantly in Savan.
nah at The De Soto Hotel, one of the
best hostelries in the country, and
whose service and rates were of the
best and reasonable The Editor, as
member of the Atlantic Deeper
Waterways Association, at ended the
Annual Session being held there, and
was elected a vice president for the
ensuing year. He also called on B
Adams, formerly of Fairlee, who has
resided in Savannah several years
Mr. Adams seemed to be in the best
Of health, and promised to visit US in
the north the coming season.
Thursday. Nov. IL. Savannah tc
Jacksonville, Fla via Brunswick
Kingsland and Yulee, 173 miles. Hotel
Albert. Fifty-eight miles of this
between Woodbine, Ga and Yulee
Fla. is absolutely bad, some of it hard.
ly passable, and is the only link that
is not average highway between New
England and Southern Florida.
Friday, Nov Is. Jacksonville to
Daytona. 113 miles. Hotel Maryland
Saturday. Nov. 19. Daytona to
Miami OCT railoS Two davc ahead "a