Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-05-10
j. RUSSELL. WRIGHT WRITES
About 81. Petersburg, | la, the Land
Of Hoses and Perpetual Summer.

Oh ikoNt~ ah'i 'iptNIt.l summer.
st. Augustine, Fla. MHy !, l922.
Editor iluuwur Courier:
since being in tnis Nowcry laul
have visited many points o. Interest
and places OF note. ST. Petersburg is
the clcHncst city that I have ever
seen. 1t is altogether a tourist city,
From 23,0OO to $1,000 people come
here every winter. The climate is
ideal. There are more accommodate
tions here for the tourist than YOU
will find anywhere. The chamber OF
commerce employs the Scottish High
landcrs' Band from Chicago. They
contract with them for $50. 900 for
three months, and the band toots its
horns twice a day. The park will
seat from eight 10 ten thousand pcO-
plc-and all is free to everybody
resented here. Ohio alone sends
about four thousand every winter
More Yankees here ethan John saw. ="
| have spent part OF three winters
here, and have seen no frost yet.
This is where the roses never fade
and whoro thc flowers Nn'cs crasr
70 bloom. hayn never sarr aulN 4
display o. Nowtrs OF every ktu0 ana
tho lawns raNln, hu cHcojiali &ur-
whore iii Inu ouu,n. This is SAID 10
he the finest climate in the United
sport here--fishing, boating, SWIM
ming, diving, boat riding, and flying
through the air. There are eight or
ten ever-tlowing sulphur wells in the
city, ranging in depth from 200 to
400 feet. There are more mocking
birds here than have noticed any
where, and they sing day and night.
The Northern people wonder why
they can't have them up there | tell
thcm they can't live in their chilly
climate. They can live only in
1)iXie. There are no farming lands
around this city. and nothing is
grown except citrus fruit. Everybody
lives from the grocery stores. All
kinds OF fish can be caught here in
the bay and gulf. There is always
a cool breeze. The gulf is four miles
west OF the city, and Tampa Bay. on
the east and The Atlantic six miles
north. The city goes right up to tho
sea wall on the bay. 1t is % miles
across the bay to Tampa. The trip
is made in two hours by boat.
Tampa is strictly q business city,
with 10000 people. Thirty-six thou
sand OF these are aliens, and withal
It is dirty city. But here at st.
Petersburg. with all Of its clcanncss.
beautiful flowers, etc. the air is per-
fumcd with their sweet fragrance.
and The sweet singing Of the song
and 1.-the.
But the grandcst sight that | have
seen is 4 golden sunset in the Gulf
CT Mexico. Standing on the beach
On 81. Iatrlfk : Day, rs tnc sun WAS
about 10 set, as i, seemed. inio the
water, nature had thousand ways
and means Of rising above herself;
hut incomparably the NohleSt mani
ftstation OF her capability OF color
is In the sunsets. among the high
clouds. ! speak especially OF the
moment before tho sun sinks. when
his light turns pure rose color. and
when this light falls upon a zcnth
covered with countless cloud forms
OF inconccivable dclicacy; threads
and fakes OF vap0r, which in com.
mon daylight would be pure snow
white, and which give. therefore,
fair field to the tone OF light-therc
ts then no limit to the multitude and
no check to the intensity OF the hucs
assumed. Tho whole sky, from the
zenith to the horizon, becomes one
molten sea Of color and fire: every
black bar turns into gold, every rim
pie and wave into unsullied shadow
less crimson and purple and scarlet,