The Washington times., 1925-12-10
C|TYPREPARES
FOR $4,000 IN
WINTER INF TX
Hotels, Homes and Apartments
Rise as Golf Courses and
Other Facilities Increase
By ROBERT @. NIXON

CLEARWATER, Fla. Dec. 81
Clearwater, winter colony OF many
Of the Nations foremost financiers.
writer's, artists and business men.
As resort and as f1ourishing com
mercial center this year as never
before offers exceptional opportuni-
tdes to both winter resident and per
manent home seeker
It's growth the past year has been
phenomenal It's building totals
have passed all previous records.
Hotels. residences and apartment
houses have been erected. Parks
have been improved and golf courses
and general resort facilities are bet
Ter this season than ever before.
912. 0O0, 900 SPENT
A building program totaling $13,-
O00. 900. carried on in hotel erection,
construction OF banks and office
buildings. erection OF 766 new resi-.
dences. building of apartment houses
and store buildings, construction Of
= 81 .o0O. 900 causeway across Clear
water harbor to Clearwater Beach
island. and opening Of 50 600, 900
scenic drive. the Gulf to Bay boule-
ward. have all taken the Sunset City
forward on the highest peak OF
building activity in history.
Several new hotels, constructed
along the most modern resort lines,
win open in Clearwater this year.
eoady. to accommodate $4,000 winter
aesidents this year.
Rogue. lawn bowling, checkers
and chess, tennis, horse shoe
pitching, swimming, golf, national
league baseball, motoring on the
finest system Of asphalt brick
highways in the country. speedboat
racfng, fishing, varied aquatic
sports, and innumerable warm
weather sports are available on an
increased scale this year.
Three golf courses, exceptionally
appealing to the golfer accustomed
to rolling terrain, served by pre-.
tentious club houses. offer the golf
enthusiast a paradise for rest and
play.
THREE ACCESSIBLE =
Two courses are adjacent to the
Bellevue Biltmore Hotel and are
jointly served by the beautiful
Bellevue country club house. A
third, one of the finest in the State,
ct the Clearwater Country Club in
the northeastern part Of the city.
Is the scene annually Of many
championship matches.
Long famed as a city that an
nuaIIy attracted men OF fame and
fortune for rest and recreation
such men as James Studebaker,
automobile manufacturer; Rex Beach,
writer; Sewell Ford, writer; George
AIDE, writer and humorist; T. K.
McCrae, Atlanta capitalist; Ring
Lardner, writer, and many other
national figures Clearwater this
year expects to lead all other cities
In the State as a resort city.
Clearwater il within short dis
lance of practically every city Of
consequence on the Florida west
coast. 1t is served by two rail-
roads. the Atlantic Coast Line and
the Seaboard Air Line The Sunset
City is twenty-five miles distant
from st. Petersburg and thirty miles
from Tampa. 1t is connected by
splendidIy paved highways with
both Of the cities and Is only an
hours drive from both.
IN ELEVENTH PLACE
During November, Clearwater
took eleventh place among 100
Florida cities for building. With a
total Of $57O,75o for the month, al
though the lowest figures for build
ing since July, Clearwater sur
passed the combined totals of Sara,
sofa, Lake City. Bradenton, Key
West and Ocala.
Clearwater Beach Island, gulf
beach of the Sunset City which lies
parallel to the city about two miles
out in the Gulf Of Mexico, is sched.
uled for the greatest development
Of any island In the State. When
cotnpleted the program will make
the island the Miami Beach Of the
Florida west coast.
A 81 100000 concrete causewAy IL
being built from the foot Of Cleve-
land street, main thoroughfare Of
the city, across Clearwater Harbor
to the island. The project In SEIZED
uled for completion early next sum-
mer.
Permit for building a $3.50, 900
hotel on the beach was issued re-
Gently and work il expected to be.
gin Immediately.