The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-02-04

they spend in entertainment Most of these peo-
pie do not go to the hotels they have their own
homes winter palaces by the summer sea.
These varying pOcketbooks have caused great
variety in the decoration and cost of the hostel
ries, which seem to spring up all over Florida.
There are places for the rich man, the poor man
and for the man who has large family, but
has the money and disposition to give them a
good time. There places where one can Spehu
$40 day land up" also modest little hotels,
where So and 81 day is charged for room anu
meals. In nearly all of them the American plan
prevails fair average charge is So day
Even this amounts TO an enormous sum- FOR
if each of the 100000 persons stays on an average
of two weeks, that brings the total OF hotel
charges to $44SO0OO0.
Homes Owned by Northerners.
The homes also not all of magnificent pre-
tension. There are thousands of others Around
St. Petersburg has grown up large colony OF
reasonably priced homes, and at WeA Palm Beach
is another group OF homes owned by persons OF
unassuming prosperity. In Miami, which in the
last years has grown faster than any other
city in the country, and is now bustling place or
$4,000, still other houses which are not neigh
borhoOd show places. 1t is estimated that 10 per
cent of the people who go to Florida own their
own homes and that the average valuation is
about $1,000. But 10 per cent of 100000 is 40
0OO which gives a real estate valuation of $500
O00OOO owned by NOrtherners The tax from this
is source of profit to the state.
The cost of travel alone is tremendous. An
erage round trip fare, Including Pullman. would
be about 500 and when 100000 persons spend
that it a to the roads of $20O0O.-
600 And there's the gasOllnel
What is spent for amusement can only be
guessed at, for 1t is sum that varies according
to the and habits of the individual. Some
of those who beautiful homes and entertain
lavishly spend sums that make the ordinary trav-
elers' expenses seem picayune, and the people
who spend month at the great hotels also part
with considerable amounts for ordinary diversion
This Is outside the large which dropped
in OF the gambling places that may make
the Southern tour exciting
But Ii would probably not be wide Of the mark
to say that amount equal to the average living
cost Of So day is spent by every visitor TO the
Carolinas and Florida. which would amount to
more than $40OO0.0OO This would include golf
fishing, autong boating and all the diverting
sports that are offered by the ingenuity of the
promoting population.
Golf Is Popular.
Golf is perhaps the favorite diversion of those
who go South. There better courses in the
country. From the time the first visitors to Ashe-
Vile and Aiken tee up early in November until
the returning throng from Florida again invades
the Carolina and West Virginia hills there is a
constant procession of the best golfers In the
country over the magnificent courses. Many OF
the cubhouses huge and costly affairs, and
membership fees sufficiently large to appall
the average individual. But there are smaller
and less expensive links which crowded with
just enthusiastic stick swingers play the
more exclusive links.
Pnehurst always opens the golf season with a
tournament early In November. Southern Pines
takes of many golfers, Asheyille. Aiken and
Augusta all have good links. but when one reaches
Florida the number of courses almost would
able TO play courses from Jacksonville
to Key West One of the most famous Is the st.
Augustine golf course one of the oldest gofng
clubs IN the South There are two big courses at