Evening star., 1925-10-18

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of Felix Gump, the inventor of Gump
soap. He has six servants to every
room in that house, and they say he
always makes each of them drink a
glass of buttermilk before retiring. A
rich mans hobby, you know" and
everybody laughs uproariously.
I'VE are now passing the Winter
estate of Silas Fiddlesticks. 1t is on
the right, ladies and gentleman. Mr..
FIddlestickS comes down every Win
ter in his yacht. which cost him
$4,000. 900. One may see the yacht
with the naked eye when it arrives,
and no charge, either
Pass Building Operations
And on we go, passing steam shovels
at work, dredgeS, thousands of men
hauling mud out of one hole and put
ting ii in another, countless billboardS
indicating countless subdivisions and
row upon row of street signs marking
the place where streets will he when
they are completed. Between the
streets are leGions of white sticks
designating the boundar ries of lots.
Finally we reach the outskirts of
Beaucoup t'romaSe, our destination.
There are beautiful little Spanish type
houses set in tloWercovered lawns
along streets which run between bor-
derS of CoCoanut palms, the green
nuts clustered in the foliage This is
the residential section, 4 year or so old.
Passing through the business section,
we see n town about the size of Gath
erSburg. Md. The difference is that
everything here is brand neW-and the
lots in this business section, we are as
sured cannot be bought now for
100000 each. The population Of
BeauCoup Frontage iS now 1,5o0. In
five years il Will hc l00. 1000. they say.
This has nothing 10 do with Miami.
The bus stops in front of a pavilion.
Some of the payilions are rough
boarded. two-Story affairs. Others are
Of Venetian architecture. amphithea-
trrs built around a crystal pool of
fresh water. We dismount and file
into the pavilion to hear the lecture.
The lectures are all very similar.
They last about 40 minutes and usual
ly begin with the creation OF the
earth and a short discussion concern
ing the history OF Florida. Then
the speaker gets warmed up gradual
ly. He frequently uses the phrases
"teeming millions and sun kissed
shores" =" He mentions the example
bought d lot and who. just the other
day leased it at a figure which will
make her independent for life. This
gives him chance to digress a bit,
and he says il is a crying shame that
well pay 81 100000 to a prizefghter,
but mot a living wage, ladies and
gentlemen. to those sterling young
women in whose gentle hands are
nodded the youth of this. our native
land
Statesmen Lead Applause.
audience start the applause. We de-
eide at first that we will not applaud,
as we have heard that stuff before,
But We get such cold glances from
the rest Of the audience that we
shout Hear, hear and clap our
hands. Completing the school teacher,
the lecturer begins on the state of
Florida in earnest. He describes its
size and pays a nice compliment to
the State of Georgia. just 10 show
there's no hard feeling. by saying
that Georgia is a little larger. He
tells Of the resources of the State, its
manufactured goods, and he quotes
great StatistiCianS, men of cold
hard reasoning who. in such and
such a magazine said that Florida
was such and such and suCher. He
points with pride TO the fact that If
a straight line is drawn on the map
north from Jacksonville il will pass
through the heart of Cleveland, Ohio,
and everybody from Ohio applauds.
He tells of the ships that pass up