The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-01-13
ECHOES FROM THE SOUTHLAND.
1853 S. w. 1st St, Miami, Fla
Jan. 6, 1922.
Dear Opinionites:

Dear Opinionites:
We are safely in the new year.
Midnight, New Years eve, pandemo-
MUM broke loose, whistles, bells,
horns, automobiles, rockets and the
whole noise-making outfit announced
the fact that we had embarked on an
other year.
At seven o'clock Saturday morning
! Mr. and Mrs Hooker, Mrs Forsythe and
her young son, Thomas Jr., arrived
in Miami. We were glad to see them
and SO were the Gales and Walkers,
and they were glad to get here. They
liked the town at once and the
weather, although were were having
little cool time just to keep the
north company. They liked the sun
shine, the flowers and their new home
and the music which Pryor's Band
furnished afternoon and evening. OF
course, they like the Beach and the
Bathing girls parade. In fact, we
think few weeks will make them as
enthusiastic Miami boosters as the
Gales and Parkers are. We really
haven't got to showing them around
much yet as they have been busy
getting settled.
The streets are full of autos so
that driving is difficult and now they
are digging out the street car tracks
so that by next week we are promis-
ed a limited street car service and
in two weeks we expect full street
car service. 1t is a question how the
streets are going to be wide enough
with so many vehicles on it but
some way we will accommodate our
selves to the conditions as they arise
and, of course, the cars will be a
great accommodation to the thou
sands who are down here without
autos.
We have more people here now
than we had last year at this same
time. One day last week, the tele-
graph office sent out 5000 kilograms,
which would be a good years bust
ness for some offices.
Do you remember who said "Have
you a little fairy in your home" and
at floats" Well, Mr. and Mrs Will
liam Proctor of New York are at the
Lincoln Apartments at the Beach for
the winter and they make ivory soap.
Oh, yes, and we have with US Will
liam Lewis Douglas, the shoe man
and the ex-governor of Massachusetts,
who comes down every winter. He is
expected to attend the second meet
ing of the New England Society next
Tuesday.
By the way, the New Englanders
organized at the Halcyon hotel sun
parlor last Tuesday with about a
hundred present, the editor, Mr. Cross
and Mr. Hooker were there. The
president is Herbert Streeter, who
sort of started the organization 60
ing, and the treasurer is E M Law
renee of Rockland, Me. and Cocoanut
Grove, and the recording secretary is
Miss Clara Morgan of Greenwich,
Conn. The other officers and COM
mittees will be nominated next week
and the editor is a member of the
nominating and bylaws committee.
This club will be for social purposes
and also to be of such help as it can
in locating newcomers from the New
England States. 1t will be tangible
headquarters for New Englanders, and
it will probably have a large men,
bership. The Maine society of which
Mr. Lawrence was president voted to
submerge its identity in that of the
larger society so things start off
amicably.
We went to the opening Polo game
at the Beach yesterday afternoon and
a large crowd watched from the
side lines. The ponies and the riding
was magnificent and the game fairly
exciting as it stood five to seven in
the final score. It took about an
hour and half to play it out.
United States Senator Frank B
Willis of Ohio has come to Miami and
he is converted to the deeper water
project. He addressed the Ohio Club
the other night and he said Il ex-
pect to live to see the time when
within seventy-five miles of Miami,
every drop of sugar used in the
United States is produced here and
from this city; and that is
why it should become the business of
the country to extend every aid in