Year: 1873




can only enter,ain three hundred. New,
We feel 30 well assured Of the pervadiug
dcsnc Of The wealthy class OF northern
people 10 spend the cold season Of winter
at the south, csuld they do SO aud have
the opportunity Of social festivities guar
auteed 10 them, which the aecommoda-
tious OF large hotels would aford aud
were il advertised that such seoommoda-
tons did exist at Jacksonville for the en-
tertaiument Of five thousand guests IN a
colony, you would have the five thousand
there next winter.


But YOU err In confounding the wants,
needs and desires Of invalids, with pleas
urc-seekcrs; aud make but seanty prep
aration or 10 preparation for the latter,
better paying aud more desirable class.
The invalid seeks the benefit OF your
balmy air, and wants little but shelter
and good food aud usually wants Il at
cheap rates. lie avoids crowds, as Il
rule; and hence they scatter Ia small par
ties all along up the st. Johns river, and
are found in every little place IN the
State. The tendency OF invalid travel Is
dispersion, not colonization; therefore
Jacksonville cannot derive any special
aud permanent benefit from il that is not
secured by the other resorts. Restaur-
ants, sleeping barracks and floating hos.
pitals are all well enough for iuvalids,
but are no provision for that element of
travel that seeks diversion.


A fashionable winter resort is bound
to be created somewhere in Florida That
kind Of travel will crystalize and become
fixed in the place that first provides for
1t large and commodious hotels, built in
a colony or contiguous. The demands Of
that travel make close neighborhood Of
hotels an essential to success. Allow me,
as an observant traveller, to warn your
people that to build large hotels at long
distances from each other-for instance,
one at Riverside, another at the lower end
Of Bay street. and others as widely scat
tered, built more with view TO enhance
the value of property in their several To-.
calities, than to meet the wants and con-
suit the wishes Of social pleasure seeking
guests-wIl fail of making your place a
fashionable winter resort; and the capi-
tai invested in such undertakings will
prove TO be dead loss. That policy Of
Improvement which best promotes the
interest and worth of the whole commu-
nifty, will in the end add more to the
value of property in the several localities
OF your city


In casting about for projects of trade,
industry or Improvements, that will most
surely add numbers and wealth TO your
already thriving city, there is none that
will so certainly do il as the building OF


large hotels properly located. Those
hotels will annually, in the near and far
future, bring TO your doors thousands OF
guests, and leave with You millions OF
money-to say nothing of the ever recur-
ring pleasure Of having genteel and po-
lite society to mingle with your own
equally refined people every winter sea-
son. You can rely. on that source OF
wealth in the future, when many of your
present Industries shall have failed or be-
come exhausted.


The future growth of population and
wealth in the whole country is a guaran.
tee of yonr success if taken hold of cner-
getically and your capital wisely expend.
ed No doubt the project as strongly i'm.
presses your business men as it does the


writer. But how to accomplish it2 il


the question. Well, do it as the Saratoga
people did. Put brains, public spirit,
business talent and common honesty al


the head Of your city affairs, and by the


will of watehfulpeople keep those quail


acquire title to one Of the blocks fronting


the public park and donate it to a build
ing company of two or more citizens up


on condition that they will build hote
upon il that will at the outset cost Sl00,


900. Let that company mortgage the
property to trustees and issue 81 ,00C


bonds for the amount required to con


strnct the hotel We must mistake lht


enterprise OF your citizens aud business


men il they would not by effort and sac


ritice raise the entire amount at home


The preference of the bond plan oyel
. stock subscription is obvious TO business
men. That hotel built will give you tive
, first-cIsss contiguous hotels, Oh higl


ground, dry, and fronting park that cal
be embellished and made beautiful witt
semi-tropical foliage.


That hotel built by your own exertion
will secure abundant capital from th,
! north that viii bay at even enhanced


valuation every block around that pari
for the erection Of great hotels. The ho
tells will all be grouped around the park
on high ground, away from the noise o
Bay street, aud the wants Of the fashion


able class thoroughly met, Gnd the futur
prosperity Of your city securely fixed
. The near future viii determine whethe
Jacksonville or some other town become
the fashionable winter resort Of the south
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