The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-28
FLORIDA AGAIN BECK0NS TO
 TOURISTS
Real Estate Men in Glee- fuI Mood as Many Houses Are Leased.

The tourists are coming. heigho!
 The tourists are coming, heigho!
 Palm Beach. Fla. Nov. 21.-This should be sung to the accompani-
 ment of Scotch bag pipes, with a chorus of hotel men and real estate dealers dancing the Highland Fling iu the background.
 After the lethargy of a Ianguid sum mer Palm Beach now smiles inviting
 Consider these Palm Beach tour spin the tOddle top. and solomon in all his glory possessed not the hab- erdashery Of one of these.
 The Mecca of the mOneyedi the faggard-that's Palm Beach. Of course, the actual season will not begin until just before Christmas with the opening of the big hotels on the ocean front
 Season Starting Now.
 Already a drive over the island after dark will show lights shining from handsome homes along Royal Palm Way, Brazilian avenue, Worth avenue and Chilean avenue. There are a few homes open on the Ocean Boulevard, while rctinUes of servants are arriving every day to make ready the Palm Beach homes for their own CTS. Real estate men say that fully three-fourths of the houses have been leased and that practically every nor therner owning a home here vii loc- cupy it this winter. 4 house of seven or eight rooms in Palm Beach rents at SI5OO to s2.OOO for the season. f'he average price Of q room and meals at the larger hotels is about $3O q day.
 known as Lake Worth and spanned by two bridges is the mainland town of West Palm Beach, started some 25 years go when wCrkTuen who were building the Royal POiuciaua Hotel pitched their tents on what is now ClenatiS avenue, the main street O. the town. and crossed the lake n boats to get to their work W est Palm Beach. f- is estimated now, has between I2.gOJ and l5.00G population. It is the county seat of Palm Beach County, and naturally basks iu the reflected glory of the mILonalTes. playground
 Tourists are arriving in West Palm 1 Beach every day, as folk come to this town early in order to put their chlI- dren in school. 4 great many of nose who come to visit remain to buy homes and either keep them as winter residences or elect to stay in Florida the year round mus haS the town assumed it's present pro-
 me ordinary hve-roorn furnished house rents at from sG5c to $500 a season of six months and extends from anywhere in November to any where in May. Small apartments, ac- l commodauns two persons corn-or- tabIv. may be had for $20g season and up. Rooms in private reSldehc=s are rented to transients at from Sl0 10 S2O Q week Most Of -ae hotels are run on the American plan New Town Growing Accommodations offered 70 tour fsts in West Palm Beach were for
 rner1v out Of all proportion. Now, however, the supply has been in creased greatly, and the tourists are demanding the worth of their money. Many new apartment houses have been erected during the last year ! They are furnished attractlvely in reed and wicker furniture and equip ped with dishes and kitchen utensils : Of good quality. Payment Of season ] rentals usually are demanded -D tWO 1 or three iusLaIIm ments. In addition 70 1 new apartment houses there is one large new hotel now completed, and which will be open about December | 1.