Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10

thew snend 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 even for the man who has large family, Dut
has the money and disposition to give them
good time. There are places where one can spend
$40 day "and up" also modest little hotels,
where So and $4 day is charged for room ana
meals In nearly all of them the American plan
prevails. A fair average charge is So day.
Even this amounts to enormous sum. For
If each of the 100000 persons stays on an average
of two weeks, that brings the total OF hotel
charges to $44,800.0OO
Homes Owned by Northerners.
The homes also are not all of magnificent pre-
tension. There thousands of others. Around
ST. Petersburg has grown up large colony OF
reasonably priced homes, and at West Palm Beach
is another group of homes owned by persons of
unassuming prosperity In Miami, which in the
last ten years has grown faster than any other
city in the country, and is now bustling place OF
$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 $4,000. But 10 per cent of 100000 is 4O,-
600, which gives a real estate valuation of $780,
100000 owned by Northerners The tax from this
The cost of travel alone is tremendous. An av-
erage round trip fare, including Pullman, would
be about $100, and when 100000 persons spend
that it means a revenue to the roads of $20O00,-
600. And there's the gasoline!
What is spent for amusement only be
guessed at, for it is a that varies according
to the means and habits of the individual. Some
of those who own 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 sums which dropped
in some of the gambling places that may make
the Southern tour exciting.
But it would probably not be wide Of the mark
to say that an 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 $4OO00,000 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 are no 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
cOnstant procession of the best golfers In the
country over the magnificent courses. Many of
the clubhouses are huge and costly affairs, and
membership fees are sufficiently large to appan
the average individual. But there are smaller
and less expensive links which are crowded with
lust as enthusiastic stick sWingers as play the
more exclusive links.
Pklehurst always opens the golf season with
tournament early in November. Southern Pines
takes care of many golfers, Asheville, Aiken and
Augusta all have good links, but when one reaches
Florida the number of courses almost would en-
able to play courses from Jacksonville
to Key West. One of the most famous is the St.
Augustine golf course, one of the oldest goling
clubs in the South There are two big courses at