Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-12-11
Florida Pace
Speeded for
Season
Thursday Brings
Extra Train and
Plane Service
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. day two planes will be added to the
a.. Eastern Airlines services between
, Washington and Florida points, Civ.
ing choice of four planes daily from
. the Capital City. The new 10:4(
am. plane will land in Florida at
Jacksonville, Orlando, Vero Beach
West Palm Beach and Miami. The
, 3:35 pm. express flight will touch
Jacksonville, West Palm Beach and
Miami in time to sandwich in a bit
OF night life before turning in. New
streamlined cruiser type buses of the
Greyhound Lines are being used on
the run from Washington to Florida,
connecting at Jacksonville with
Statewide schedules of the Florida
Motor Coach Lines.
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Arrivals between now and Christ
mas will find St. Petersburg dressed
in gay and festive holiday attire,
with miles of multi-colored electric
lights and sparkling tinseled bunt-
ing. And the Christmas holidays
will be celebrated in a manner diff
ferent from that of the Northland,
with many happy parties repairing
to the beaches on picnicS and on
boating excursions.
Brilliant dinner dances, formal balls
and tea dances are already filling
the long list of social events begin
ming with the Christmas holidays
and extending through to April, to
which the st. Petersburg winter
colony is invited, including the an
nual New Year Eve functions of
the Army Navy and Dragons Clubs,
followed later by the annual Charity
Ball, Junior League revue and dance,
Orange Blossom Ball, Valentine,
Washington Birthday costume
dances and others.
Sixteen golfing tournaments for
professionals and amateurs are
scheduled for the Lakewood, Jungle,
Pasadena and Sunset courses.
Whatever may be the recreational
hobby of the visitor, he probably
will find it in St. Petersburg. The
worlds largest Switchboard club is
situated within the heart of the hotel
and shopping center. In all, there
are 1875 Switchboard Kinks. The
lawn bowling club is favorite of
Canadians. There are tennis and
rogue courts, archery and horseshoe
pitching lanes, miles of sandy
beach for bathing, pistol, skeet and
trapshooting ranges; bride paths
and riding clubs, facilities for deep
sea. inland and land fishing.
Greyhound races are run every
evening, with sprinkling of matt
nees. Even devotees of outdoor chess,
find accommodations underneath
the banyans or palms for their IA
vorite diversion.
From trailer camp cottages to
palatial suites in bay-front hotels,
Miami's accommodations will be flex-
ible enough to fit almost any purse.
The extensive building program in
1888 has resulted in wide expansion
of facilities to care for the city's
annual visitor population and there
fore has reduced accommodation
costs generally.
Entertainment ranges from the
free expanse of ocean beaches to
exclusive cabana clubs; from public
concerts in Bayfront Park to the
music of nationally famous name
bands in the swanky night clubs.
Fishing can be had for the price of
a rod and line for use at 100 free
places around Biscayne Bay.
Four dog racing tracks are OPP
Grating this season, with orchestraS
such as Paul Whiteman's, Rudy
Vallee's, Jan CARRIERS and others
providing popular music between
race times.
Thoroughbreds will begin running
with opening of Tropical Park on
December 10. Hialeah will take up
where Tropical leaves off, January
IL, for a 46-day meet. Jai-alai
(hi-lD, Spanish and Cuban sport
popular with American audiences as
well as the Latin visitors, will be
played for 80 days, beginning De-
cember ~.
New attractions this year include
Ice hockey and ice carnivals, with
teams in the Tropical Hockey League
competing three nights weekly-a
novel contrast to the average tenn
prature of 74.5 degrees that prevails
here the year around.
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Night spots of Miami Beach, which
often remained dark" until near
Christmas tide, have opened. Ell
Chico and the Five O'Clock Club are
getting brisk early play. Mother
Kelly's drew well in its opening
night.
Sports activities, of course. are by
no means neglected. The early
crowd seems to have chosen fishing
as its No. activity, although the
golfer. tennist and handballer is by
no means idle.
With the tourist influx to Miami
Beach's 191 hotels has come the
vanguard of the army which makes
fun and leisure possible. This army
is made up of domestic servants,
chauffeurs, walters, bartenders, soda
yankers and such. And it is the
most closely scrutinized group of its
sort in any resort city in America
Every person, before being allowed
to take such employment, must OBJ
tain a clean bill of health from the
city's Bureau of Identification. Each
applicant is flnQerprinted. which