The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-01-21
ECHOES FROM THE SOUTHLAND.
753 First Street, S. W., Miami, Fla.
Jan. II, 1921.

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there is nothing new to say abou
the weather for it continues to b,
} regular Miami weather, about like
July, with cool breezes and sunny
Skies, good golf, polo boating, auto
ing and swimming weather and what
more could you ask.
Because it. slipped my mind last
week, | am going to tell you little
about the Aamingo Hotel, opened
January First, as it is one of The
show places at the Beach. While
it isn't large as hotels go with
somewhere about one hundred forty
rooms, every room has a sea view
Looking southwark from the terrace
on the eighth floor, the Florida
Light, eighteen miles distant is
plainly seen. Looking east from the
same floor you can see as far out in
to the Atlantic as the eye can see.
Looking west there are the waters of
Biscayne Bay and Miami and the
open country. The Flamingo is fire
proof concrete building of eleven
stories and its cost runs up into the
millions. The first floor has great
lobby, ballroom, dining room, kit
chen, reading rooms, officers rooms,
etc. The lobby is tiled and the
walls are in putty, the tile being in
putty and dark blue while the cur
tains are in transparent silken
materials of green The ball room
is finished in reseda green with soft
green draperies. The dining room
is in blue and putty tile and a new
scheme of window treatment makes
L
ments are painted in a rosy flamingo
shade and the castings are striped in
famingo. The curtains are of the
sheerest dotted swiss, ruffied and
caught back with fiamingo bands
fastened under big roseattes- A
dark blue valence hangs over each
group edge with famingo, braid.
The lounge has a wonderful set of
frescoes with the fiamingo as the
censral figure. The grounds are of
the tropical variety and all the
shrubbery and trees have been trans
planted full grown so that the
grounds appear to have been there
since Miami was first built. A
japanese tea garden is fascinating
and its concrete dancing space is a
popular place for the guests to spend
the late afternoon. The hotel is
booked for the month of January
and February but if you really want
to come and you know Will Gale, he
would probably do anything he could
to get you a place there.
Speaking about hotels, there has
been a little stir here these last few
DAYS because the morning Herald
came out with a headline that
miami hotels are filled" They are
we'll booked but there is ample room
in Miami hotels for those who wish |
to come and the hotel men are not
keen to foster the notion, which is
circulated up state, that Miami is
full and turning away tourists.
Every day brings in new people
and among them are usually some of
our friends or acquaintance. The |
Hutchins family from Chicago are
we'll established now on the bay |
where Mr. Ralph Hutchins can have
quick access to his boat. Mr. and |
Mrs Denchfield and Mrs Ford of |
N. ]. are now more or less |
permanent Miami residents as they |
intend to make the south their year
around home. Mrs Ford and Mrs
will be well remembered |
in Bradford and Piermont, Mrs
Denchfield belonging to the Under
hill family of Piermont. Mr. and
Mrs G o Gridley and son Wilson Of
are now at their winter I
home at Cocoanut Grove, and more
are coming. 1t is one of the de-
Iightful features of Miami that you
tN1ann for |
friends all over the country.
Mr. and Mrs Carl Hall went fishing
Monday out about the gulf stream
and they report a great time. They
both caught amberiacks, weighing
around thirty pounds, and they are
yamey fish to land, but both sue
,eeded without help after about
thirty minutes of skirmishing with
.hese denizens of the sea. They
,aught plenty of other fish but
brought home only the King fish for
eating and we helped them out in a
way in disposing of these
Others go fishing too and
It the Anglers Club, where the art
# telling fish stories is profession.
hey are telling of the exploit of
Charles + Buroker of Urbana, Ohio,
Who landed a king fish and a shark
With the same hook. This is the
vay he says it happened He hadn't
lad much luck until all at once he
cit tug ut the Ene and he had
looked a king fish. There YVES a
ulash and the 9-thread lire stretch :
d as the pull at the business end
grew stronger. He man.
uvered with rare skill and landed
lis fish, but he couldn't see his king
sh for il had disappeared into the
nav Of a shark and now the fisher
nan rs wondering that he. didn't
ose his tackle The strange part
4 this story is that the fish didn't
ct away.
The Chamber, Of Commerce has
cen entertaining J Hampton Moore,
favor Of Philadelphia, this week. He
J the president of the Atlantic
)eeper Waterways Association and
'as here three years ago when the
met here. He is inter
sted in developing our water ways
nd our ports and we Miamians are
Interested that he should help Us in
ur getting a deeper channel across