Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-05-31
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| HC iitSIS UOy WIN lUH tLO iiiS iliO-
/ ther with the story that he had seen
"a lion in the park" n arely had his |
! fr,ghtencu Imagination wrought to J
such a pitch that he believed what |
he said. But when man 81 its one |
CT the popular crowded wyt coast |
beaches and then writes tc h. home |
paper about tho women II { when !
| they go into the bath hou they |
leave all their belongings c!othes, |
! jcwclry, money, modesty, dis ty and |
womanhoOd-and go into t1a water |
like CATTLE" he is guilty OF gnosS ex-
! aggcration; and you will |. from |
the caption Of this editorial What ex-
| aggeration is.
J. Russell Wright, wrlttn in The |
| Keowee Courier, one Of tn, Oldest |
| and best known South farolina !
! weekly papers, tells Of his visit to |
ST. Petersburg, and inc entally |
takes slap at Tampa whiah is as
unfair and untrue as the st1tcmOnt |
he makes about the bathir hcach |
women OF this State. In ne lrst |
place, Mr.. Wright must hata been
badly befuddled with something, tor
lie says the Atlantic ocoal is six
miles north Of St PetcrsDvsG, aud
that Tampa is a dirty CT He |
says, describing the locate Of st. |
| Petersburg:
"'rhe gulf is four miles aa}t Of !
| the city, and Tampa Bay on Ja cast |
and the Atlantic six miles 0u.t&. The |
city goes wight up to the sea ~ on
the bay. 1t is twenty-five mil. te.oss |
the bay % Tampa. Tampa l. .r.ctly |
business city with 10000 aaople. !
Thirty-siX thousand OF thc. "e al
ions, and withal it is a dirty .Iy.'
we do not know whore Il, D., his
h2Gres showing there are 'l r.ysiA
thousand aliens" in Taml. The
Federal census report does aJ how |
j., and certainly at tha tim o! the |
draft, if there had been tn lGauy |
here, they would have bee oand |
cut. and the most~found w5 ome-
thing over a thousand. TT 'a IS a |
large foreign-born popula on in |
Tampa, but these people constitute |
one Of the strongest assets ~ the |
city They are loyal, good Norlers, |
have made the city famous cor its |
cigars, over million du boing |
made, and they Pay their Ia. - with !
the rest of us. And Tampa lad 49,,
900 tourists last season,
Fui Io says 81 Tamt aEl 'i !
,t& G dirty Sity' The h"al.ts yocogis |
! l,u 40, ,n.@ ,m,,L, IT rHEEt'B 1ghor |
, III neullh statistics Than his own oi.y
Charleston, and it's dean rate Is
lower than his upland city of.Ander-
| son, and it has the widest, most |
shaded, flower-bordered. ~ ASST ned
streets Of any city in tho Snuth. Its
streets are we'll paved, and are Kept !
swept, and the trash cau& are emp |
tied daily, and oftene i' some Of
the thickly settled paris o. the city.
Did the writer merely COMO over to
Tampa on Summing '."D and go
into some Of the poOreG oH&rtGra or
the foreign settlements: .Woly he
did not visit the businc.N arti0ns OF
Tampa, or go through dc ark, |
the Heights. suburb Be- ii. semi |
mole Heights, Bayshoru, .. any OF
tie many delightfully."- clean residen-
tial parts and suburb: Of the city!
Now, we hold no brief for the ultra
in bathing beach costumes. Certainly
enough has been said about the bath |
ing beauties of the west coast to ac-
quaint people with the truth about
them; but we cannot let go by what
this writer says without calling at
tentioH to the exaggcration, to say
the least. we quote him:
"The dress for both men and wo-
men is made just like the Indians
wore in the primitive ages, every
inch Of their limbs being entirely ex-
posed. Some OF them have hardly
enough clothes on to flag a train. IN
| the pavilion where they dress and
undrcss is Il long alley with little
rooms about six feet square. The al
| Icy is about four feet wide, the left
! hand booths being for the ladies and
! the right-hand booths for the men.
| Each door has a lock and key. Here
| they leave all their belongings
! n, hnc n nli.tT ny