The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-05
ORLANDO LINKS
FLORIDA s PAST
WITH GROW TIL
Inland City Holds Historic
Interest; Picturesque Relics
of SeminoIeS Are Found
BY JANE WASHBURN

SCaCe IN all the naLlO0 DrlQgeS the
years a. does Florida. Five cen
turtles have passed since its real
history began. and yet today it is
considered one Of the newest in
point of development, so that
every other State watches it.
The American goes, and should
60, to st. Augustine as to shrine,
and lamp. has just claim to
recognition for it's colorful history,
but it is new to many travellers
that inland Florida also bears the
imprint Of the past, and that in
Orlando, center Of the Florida
Peninsula, the cruel Adelantado,
Pedro de Menendez, twice camped
with his retinue on the banks Of
Lake Eola.
SEMTNOLES REMEMBERED
Picturesque, too, though fear
some, were the days when the
Seminoles roamed the hills,
camped beside the lakes and held
their councils. Their council
fires have Redeemed the skies with
terror for the scant population
that huddled together for mutual
protection in the garrison houses
Of the time. One stood not far
from where the EIks' club house
now stands, and residents yet ac-
tive in the affairs Of the city re.
member about it.
To all that Orlando has of the
past, all the beauty of it's present,
and into all it's plans for the
future, Orlando welcomes those
who will be its guests for the
season, or for whatever part of
it they may come.
RECREATION VARIED
The welcome takes as many
forms almost as the sections from
which the guests will come. MI
sic, games, golf, casting, horse
racing, an air meet, a nine-county
fair, a water carnival, an all
States parade and pageant will
give glamor and romance.
Happy in it's location in the
center of the Florida peninsula,
half way from coast to coast,
Orlando draws to itself travellers
who wish to see as much as is
possible of the State. One may
breakfast in Orlando and lunch
in st. Petersburg, or lunch in
Orlando and dine in Miami, for
the motor roads are quite per-
feet. BY the air route, one may
breakfast in Orlando, lunch in
Atlanta and dine in New York.
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launches or fly--but everybody
goes. Havana, with its famous
marble Prado studded with ex-
otto trees, holds enthusiastic in
tereSt for everyone. Women
will here find a real shopping
center where foreign importa-
lions at reasonable prices are
the vogue. Men will find
Havana-"12 miles out"
After a while at Havana and
Miami the Tamiami Trail beck
ons north and west across the
tropical Everglades, home of
the Seminole Indians and ma
tive haunt of "hundred-hued"
birds and the surprising croco-
die. Many a motoriSt has had
to stop his car and patiently
wait while a reptilian family
wended it's obdurate way across
the road. The journey through
the Everglades is perfectly safe
however, for, though there is a
stretch of around a hundred
+ miles uninhabited by civilized
beings, the road is very good
and carefully patrolled at all
hours by the Southeast
Mounted Police.
After this educational jaunt
the Tamiami Trail leads to the
winter homes of Thomas A.
Edison and Henry Ford, at Fort
Myers, famed for it's beautiful
Royal Palms and then on to
substantial st. Petersburg, the
Sunshine City" where news
papers are given away when
ever it rains, a rare occurrence
indeed This West Coast city
boasts a recreation pier that
extends about half mile out
on Tampa Bay and is but a
25-minute drive from PasSe
Grille, a famed beach on the
gulf.
From st. Petersburg it's a
short drive to Tampa, one of
Florida's largest cities Tampa
holds an unusual interest in it's
tailor made" Davis Islands on
which a part of the city has
been built. North of Tampa is
Clearwater having a new cause
way. to Clearwater Beach and
its fashionable hotels.
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Before taking leave of Flor
ida it is a good idea, in justice
to yourself, to stop off at Or
lando, from which place the a
lake country and central Flor
ida is best taken in.
North of Orlando the "Happi-
ness Trail" continues inland
through mile after mile of a
sublime scenic beauty. The
natural splendor of the journey
through the AppalachainS to
Asheville, N. c., is diminished
not a whit by the city itself.
The city in the Sky" is nestled
in the romantic Blue Ridge
Mountains, and offers the finest
accommodations and has a
strong appeal for the sports
lover.
After Asheville comes the
far-famed Shenandoah Valley
and it's world renowned cavernS.
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