UIDE t^"=rv:« lii^^ASS^ar ^ Class Book. f- "^ /£' iiJ. GopyiightN"^ COPYRIGHT DEPOSrr "n*- . %^' ONLY Bil^EIlT ALL WATEK LINE BETViEEM mmmBmmmsSf Si. Johns River Service between Jacksoiwille ai\d Saivford, Fla., and Intermediate Landings The " Clyde Line " is the favorite route between New York, Boston, Phila- delphia and Eastern Points, and Charleston, S. C, and Jackson- ville, Fla., making direct connection for all points South and Southwest. TASTES T MODERN STEAMSHIPS AND FINEST SERVICE G L^VMHHi^ Co. General Agents »9 SisSc Si. New YoRic^ ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here ad%'ertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 10 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), ^5^ashi^gton (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). I TOURIST RESORTS. WHITE MOUNTAINS THE COLONNADE OF THE MoL .\ I 1 LLa^ iM u . 1 HE LEFT, THE MOUNT WASHINGTON AND THE PRESIDENTIAL RANGE BEYOND THE OOLF COURSE. LINE OF MOUNT WASHINGTON RAILWAY VISIBLE ON THE MOUNTAIN SIDE. NEW YORK TO BR.ETTON WOODS. Leave, 8:40 A. M.; Arrive, 7:38 P. M. Leave, 9 P. M.; Arrive, 8:40 A. M. Tiirough train to special station on tlie grounds of The Mount Pleasant and The Mount Washington at Bretton Woods, Ten Tliousand Acres in tlie HEART OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. 'I HE CLlMb TO THE CLOUDS ON THE MOUNT \VAt.HINGTON RAILWAY, Steepest grade is at "Jacob's Ladder," sliown in view, 1980 feet to the mile, or rising 13 inclies to advance 3 feet. Two trains daily from Bretton Woods; 2]/i hours on Summit for passengers by 9:33 A. M. train, arriving back 3:'^3 P. M. Tourists are advised, however, to pass the night on the mountain, in the comfortable "Summit House, " as the afternoon and early morning views are often the Fnest. Pure Air, "Pure Wafer. AT BR.ETTON WOODS. Ture "Deiight, Every comfort and luxury in the hotels, and every advantage for health and enjoyment out-of-doors. ANDERSON m. PRICE, Managers, Eretton Woods, N. H. Winter Hotels: "The Ormond," Florida, New York Hotel: "Bretton Hall " and "Bretton Inn-at-Ormond-Beach." -:- 85th to 86th Streets and Broadway. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed mattf of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), ^3^ashington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). ■ THE STANDARD GUIDE. r Iti Steinwacy PisLno C AS a reputation founded on the recorded judgment of the 1/ world's greatest artists of two generations and the com- bined opinion of the most eminent musical and scientific experts. That these famous pianos occupy the highest place in the musical world for quality and volume of tone, sublety of touch, mechanism, durability — everything requisite to the perfect piano, is best attested by the fact that they may be found in every capital and court of the world, in famous concert halls, in palatial hotels, aboard of luxurious yachts, as well as nearly all of the great ocean steamships, and, last but not least, in more than a hundred thousand homes. The possession of a Steinway Piano puts the seal of supreme Miniature Grand. Price $750. approval upon the musical taste of its owner. Catalogue mailed on application. STEINWAY -S "^ = B O 1) o - 3 r , to ^^ ^^ c o ii J? B ■r W .ti i> ^ W c « «« .— (U «) C C 3 O C (ID '^ (/) "' ex ii s £ D (33 _>■ *r B m o cs tn O T3 CO "^ W . 2 QQ •S =« ii "= (U o c m O Q G " ^§ ■S z CO W o Di c < •gu ^ X s^ «-. O) — CO .« Il> ^ s- (O T3 T3 ~ c S B STEJ^T} THE tOIJ^TE'R 0\7T OF ^DOOTIS Founded by JAMES W. TUFTS forth Carolina The Leading Health and Recreation Resort of the South. PINEHURST is a private estate, covering a teiritory about ten miles square, located about 700 feet above the sea, and singu- larly favored as regards climate. This region en- joys an unusual percentage of bright, sunny days, and is absolutely free from damp or pene- trating winds. For the accommodation of guests there are Four Splendid Hotels \ Fifty Cottages \ All under one management and ) ownership. Rates at hotels range from "62 50 per day upward. Two Excellent Golf \ Which are acknowledged to be the I best in the South, offer ample oppor- ,' tunity to the Golf novice and expert alike. The annual North and South . , . Championship Tournament is held on , ^ »^ ^ ■ , the Pinehurst links as an annual fixture. A 35,000 Acre Shooting Preserve has been set aside for the exclusive use of guests; and guides, dogs and con- veyances are always ready for a day's sport with the birds. GOLF, SHOOTIKG and TENNIS TOURNA- MENTS are held weekly ' - for appropriate trophies. \ ' A fine Preparatory - School, under the direc- ' ;". ,. tion of A. G. Warren, [ ,' ' ^ ?, head-master, enables par- i \ ■' / ents to bring their chil- i ^ ; -•■' dren to Pinehurst without ! ! '■ interruption of their course I - J - -.A of study. Pinehurst is the only resort in America from which consumptives are absolutetely excluded An ideal place at which to break the journey between the South and the North Through Pullman Service via Seaboard Air Line or Southern Railway. An exquisite book, with fac-similes of water-color sketches illustrating the out-of-door features of Pinehurst, will be sent upon application. PINEHURST GENERAL OFFICES, or LEONARD TUFTS, Ownei; Boston, Mass. PINEHURST, NORTH CAROLINA ASK MR. FOSTER tor further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St.' Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). TOURIST ROUTES. /? Catskill Mo\ii\tains THE Great Summer Resort with its Private Parks, Cottage Life, and over i,ooo Hotels, Boarding Houses and Farm Houses, where you may enjoy the best air and the greatest variety of scenery of any Mountain Resort in this Country. :: :: :: :: :: The Ulster €1 Delaware R. R. is the only Standard Gauge Line to all sections of the Catskills, and during the Summer Season you may reach this section in through Draw'ng-Room Cars and Day Coaches, from Philadelphia, Jersey City and New York. Four Through Trains in each direction every week- day, without change of cars. :::::::::: A /I Illuslr ted Summer Book, zinth map of the Catskills and complete list of Hotels and Bjarding Houses, to be re-issued about May rst, igo=;, will be sent free on receipt of 8 cents postage. N. A, SIMS, General Passenger Agent, Kingston (Rondout Sta.), N. Y. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 10 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinoiana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). TOURIST RESORTS. ■^MNWWMAMWM^^MWMlMMMtMMIMMnMMIMWMtM^^ HOTEL GRANADA Under New Management ^ St. Augustine Florida THE HOTEL GRANADA is centrally located, being situated on the west side of the famous Alameda, facing the Ponce de Leon, Cordova and Alcazar hotels, among tropical plants and shrubbery, comprising a scene at once the richest and grandest of any resort city in the world. The dairy, poultry and vegetable products used in the Hotel Granada are drawn from our own farm (which means pure cream, milk and but- ter, fresh eggs, fruit and vegetables), where we have taken every measure to insure their healthfulness and purity. $2. so per day and upwards. Rooms alcoved, single or en suite, with or without private bath. Special rates per week and to parties. C. E. FULLER. \ J. W. McGRATH. \ Proprietors ^•fmt^tft ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 10 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami(First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). ID THE STANDARD GUIDE. STANDARD GUIDE MAP OF ST. AUGUSTINE. REFERENCES. 1. St. George Hotel. 2. Gateway. 3. Plaza Market. 4. Barracks. 5. Post Office. 6. Cordova. 7. Ponce de Leon. 8. Alcazar. 9. Yacht Club. 10. Vedder Museum. 11. Granada. 12. Buckingham. 13. Magnolia. 14. City Building. 15. Florida House. 17. Methodist Church. [8. Baptist Church. 19. Presbyterian Church. 20. Cathedral. 21. Episcopalian Church. 22. Osceola Club. 23. Old Catholic Cemetery. 24. Cemetery. 25. St. Joseph's Convent. 27. Abbey. 28. Court House. 29. Golf Club. 30. Chautauqua. 31. Spear Mansion. 33. Villa Zorayda. 34. Casino. 35. Ocean View. X Standard Guide Information Bureau. II TOURIST RESORTS. I J *:; S ?*n^^^ C3 <- LE ii -a \^t*M a, c +- « M ^ o c J UJ D HH < 73 UO '^ 1) O c ^:i J ^^ UJ>H < c C/^J 1— ( .-3 !^ 1) ^ u- in ^ ^ ^ 12 TOURIST ROUTES- (luannicum Jtrult; n (, ane I' il1i[ -(^ aim Railroad. THE CUBA RAILROAD. This new line, completing the railroad connection between Havana and Santiago and Antilla, on the Bay of Nipe, is of standard gauge, and similar in its constructicn and equipment to the better class of northern lines. All of its important bridges are of steel and masonry, and the line generally is rock-ballasted. The xnain line passes along the center of the eastern and wider half of Cuba, and opens up a matchless and most picturesque agricultural region, and passes through the tropical forests of mahogany, cedar, lignum "vitffi, ebony and many other trees, h^ing with vines and millions of orchids. Palm trees of magnificent aspect and great variety abound everywhere. The famed Parana and Guinea grasses, covering most of the open districts and standing from six to twelve feet high, and green the year round, together with fre- quent running streams, make this an ideal cattle country. No food has to be put up, and no shelter is required. The rich soils everywhere are adapted to sugar, tobacco, cotton, corn and an endless variety of products. The swamps which occur at places along the coasts of Cuba are absent from the interior, which is high, dry and exceptionally healthy. The trade winds blow across Cuba every day, and bring to all parts fresh sea air; the extreme heat of northern summers is consequently unknown, and the humidity of other tropical countries is also unknown. MAP OF THE CUBA RAILROAD. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 10 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 13 The Standard Guide n ST. AUGUSTINE ^ EAST COAST OF FLORIDA AND NASSAU. ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA FOSTER & REYNOLDS Standard Guide Information Office 5F 1906 COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY FOSTER & REYNOLDS. The Park — St. Augustine Two eoBies Regelvld FEB 3 1906 ^ Cooyriffht Entry cuss cJ ••■ I COPY B. CONTENTS. . PAGE. St. Augustine j MiNORCANS 8 COQUINA 10 Memorial Church 12 Gateway 12 Plaza 15 Cathedral 18 Sea-wall , 18 Barracks 18 Museum 20 Fort Marion 23 St. Anastasia Island 27 Matanzas 27 Ponce de Leon 29 Alcazar 34 Cordova 2iA Jacksonville T,y OCKLAWAHA RiVER 38 Ormond 38 Daytona ■ 43 New Smyrna 53 rockledge 53 Indian River 54 Fort Pierce 54 Lake Worth and Palm Beach 57 Miami 69 Bay Biscayne 72 Seminoles 76 Other Florida Resorts 80 St. John's River 80 Magnolia Springs 80 Picturesque Nassau 99 Cuba , 108 On the Way Home no The Land of the Sky 112 IN OLD ST. AUGUSTINE. The old house on Hospital Street. Along the Seawall ST. AUGUSTINE, ORTIFIC\TION and defense were the first thought of the Spanish soldiers who founded St. Augustine ; and for three centuries the most significant feature of the town, which greeted the eye of the traveler as he entered the harbor, was the forbidding and por- tentous mass of Fort San Marco, set here to chal- lenge approach from sea. To-day, as the train emerges from the pines and palmettos, our first glimpse is of the towers of the great hotels, significant of welcome and hospitality, St. Augustine has become a fashionable winter resort, whose spacious hotels dominate the aspect of the surroundings, and in their luxury and magnificence have no equals in the world ; it is the winter Newport, whose visitors are numbered by tens of thousands, whose private residences are distinguished for elegance and comfort. Year by year the city grows more beautiful, and with each innovation and transformation adds to its attractiveness. The old has been supplanted by the new, yet the town preserves i distinctive character all its own, and there is now more than ever bef(jre about the old city an indefinable charm which leads one's thoughts back to it again and gladdens the face that is once more turned toward Florida and St. Augustine. The distances here are not great. Fort Marion and the Gateway on the north, the sea-wall on the water front, the Plaza in the center, with its Cathedral, the narrow streets, and the Barracks on the south — these are the features of the old town in which we shall be interested, and all lie within the limit of a mile. The principal streets run north and south ; the cross streets at right angles, east and west. The main thoroughfare, St. George street, extends through the center of the town to the City Gate ; from that point it is known as San Marco avenue THE STANDARD GUIDE. Treasury street, crossing St. George one block north of the Plaza, narrows at the east end to an alley, across which two persons may clasp hands. King street extends west from the Plaza to the River. The streets, with St. Sebastian narrow little their foreign names and foreign faces, their overhanging balconies and high garden walls, through w'hose open doors one caught glimpses of orange and fig and waving banana, were once among the quaint characteris- tics which made the old Flor- ida town charming and pecu- liar among all American cities. But the picturesque streets, of which touri&ts delighted to write, have almost ceased to be a pleasing feature of St. Augus- tine. Some have been wi- dened ; and others, shorn of their quaintness, are ill adapt- ed to the -swelling traffic. A portion of the native pop- ulation, distinguished by dark eyes and dark complexions, is composed of Minorcans. In 1769, during the British occu- pation, a colony of Minorcans and Majorcans from the Ba- learic Islands, in the Mediter- ranean Sea, were brought to New Sm.yrna, on the Indian River, south of St. Augustine, by an English planter named Turnbull. They were de- ceived by Turnbull and sub- jected to gross privations and at last deserted New Smyrna in a body, came to St. Augustine, were A BIT OF OLD ST. AUGUSTINE. cruelty, and lO THE STANDARD GUIDE. TREASURY STREET. From Bay Street.. defended against the claims of Turnbull, received an al- lotment of land in the town, built palmetto-thatched cot- tages, and remained here after the English emigrated. The Fort, the Gateway and the old houses are built of coouiNA (Spanish, signifying shellfish), a native rock found on Anastasia Island. It is composed of shells and shell fragments of great variety of form, color and size. Ages ago these were washed up in enormous quantities by the waves, just as masses of sim- ilar material are left now on the beach, where one may walk 'for miles through the loose fragments which under favorable conditions would in time form coquina stone. Cut off from the sea, the de- posits are in time partially dissolved by rain water and cemented together. The material of which the new hotels are built is a com- position of sand, Portland cement and shells. A wall is constructed of successive lay- ers of concrete ; as each layer hardens a new one is poured in on top of it. When com- pleted, the wall is one stone ; indeed, the entire wall con- struction of a concrete build- ing is one solid mass through- out — a monolith, with neither joint nor seam. The plastic material lends itself admira- bly to architectural and deco- ST. AUGUSTINE. II A GARDEN ON ST. GEORGE STREET. rative purposes, and possesses the very important qualities of durability and im- munity from destruction by fire. It was first employed in the Viixa Zorayda, worthy of note because of the architectural design and the elaborate manner in which the owner-architect has successfully developed his plan of an oriental building as appropriate to the latitude of Florida. The architecture throughout is Moorish, after sketches and photographs in Spain, Tangier and Algiers. Above 12 THE STANDARD GUIDE. the front entrance is the in- scription in Arabic letters : Wa la ghalib ilia lla — "There is no conquerer but God" — the motto which is every- where reproduced on the es- cutcheons and in the tracery of the Alhambra. The Memorial Presby- terian Church, erected in 1889 by Mr. H. M. Flagler, is an elaborate structure, in the style of the Venetian Renaissance, and in wealth of exterior decoration sur- passes any other building in St. Augustine. Ancient landmarks are disappearing, but the pillars of the City Gateway re- main as notable monuments of the past. Inconsequen- tial as the towers now ap- pear^ there was a time when they stood out bravely enough, and in their se- curity St. Augustine rejoiced. In those days they looked out upon a wilderness; the belated traveler hurried on to their shelter ; and the town slept securely when the Barrier Gate was fast shut against the midnight approach of a foe from with- out. Stoutly their walls gave their strength when it w^as needed, and defended for the King of Spain his garrison town in Florida. They have witnessed many a narrow escape and manv a gallant rescue. More than once have they trembled with the shock of assault, and more than once drive'n back the foe repulsed. To- day, dismantled and useless, out of keeping with the customs of the day and the spirit of the age, long since left behind by the outstretching town, the picturesque old ruins linger as cherished landmarks. _Here we are on historic ground. The gateway is the only conspicuous relic of the elaborate system of fortifica- tions which once defended St. Augustine. The town being on a narrow peninsula running south, an enemy could approach by land only from the north. Across this northern boundary, east and west, from water to water, ran lines of fortifica- tion, which efifectually barred approach. From the fort a deep ditch extended to the St. Sebastian ; and w^as defended by a high parapet, with redoubts and bat- teries. The ditch was flooded at high tide. Entrance to the town was by a draw- THE OVERHANGING BALCONIES. ST. AUGUSTINE. 13 "LINGER AS CHERISHED LANDMARKS. bridge across the moat and through the gate. Earthworks extended along the St. Sebastian River in the rear (west) of the town, and around to the Matanzas again on the south. The gate was closed at night. Guards were stationed in the sentry boxes. Just within the gate was a guard house, with a detachment of troops. When the sunset gun was fired, the bridge was raised, the gate was barred, and the guards took their stations. When once the gate was closed, the belated wayfarer, be he citizen or stranger, must make the best of it without the town until morning. 14 THE STANDARD GUIDE. REAR VIEW OF THE OLD HOUSE ON ST. GEORGE STREET. THE OLD HOUSE ON ST. GEORGE STREET. ST. AUGUSTINE. ^5 CHARLOTTE STREET, ST. AUGUSTINE. The Plaza is a pleasing bit of greensward in the center of the town. It is a pubHc park of shrubbery and shade trees, with monuments and fountains, an antiquated market place inviting one to loiter, and an outlook to the east over the bay and Anastasia Island to the sails of ships at sea. The open structure on the east end of the Plaza is commonly pointed out as the "old slave pen," or "slave t6 THE STANDARD GUIDE. MARKET," and it is sometimes alleged to have been of Spanish origin. It never was used as a "slave pen," nor as a "slave market," nor had the Spaniards any- thing to do with it, for they had left the country twenty years before it was built. The market was built in 1840, for the sale of meat and other food supplies, and it was devoted to that use. It was not until the influx of curiosity-seeking tourists, after the Civil War, that anv one thought of dubbing the Plaza market a "slave market." The name was THE NEW ST. AUGUSTINE. Looking from the windozvs of the Hotel Granada. invented by a photographer in order to sell his photographs. The "slave market," "Huguenot Cemetery" and "oldest house" yarns have been told so often to credulous visitors that there are now some residents of St. Augustine who actually almost believe the stories themselves ; but the facts are that St. Augustine never had a slave market nor a Huguenot cemetery, and that no one knows which house is the oldest. ^The park takes the name of Plaza de la Constitucion from the monument erected here by the Spaniards in 181 3 to commemorate the adoption of a liberal ST, AUGUSTINE. 17 MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. constitution by the Spanish Cortes. The Plaza monument to the Confederate dead was erected in 1872 by the Ladies' Memorial Association. Facing the Plaza on the west is the Post Office ; the east end is open to the bay. On the south rises the spire of Trinity Church. On the north is St. Joseph's PLAZA AND CATHEDRAL. THE STANDARD GUIDE, GROUNDS OF THE BUCKINGHAM LOOKING TOWARD THE ALCAZAR. Cathedral, completed in 1791, burned in 1887 and rebuilt and enlarged in 1887-88. One of the original bells bears the inscription "Sancte • Joseph • Ora • Pro • Nobis • D • 1682." Extending from Fort Marion south along the water front to the United States barracks stands a sea-wall of coquina capped with New England granite. It affords a necessary protection against the encroachment of the sea ; the site of St. Augustine is so low that under certain conditions of wind and tide the waves would inundate much of the town. In heavy east storms the water dashes over the top of the wall. The need of such a barrier against the sea was recognized at an early time. There is a touch of the humorous side of history in the spectacle of Spain, having chosen this bit of Plorida soil for a town, building first a fort to defend it from invaders, and then a wall to protect it from the inroads of the sea. The present wall was built by the United States, in 1835-42, as a complement to the repairs of Fort Marion, at an expense of $100,000. The length is ^ mile, the height 10 feet. « jComplementing the battlements and watch-towers of Fort Marion on the north, the St. Francis Barracks stand out conspicuously at the south end of the sea-wall facing the Mantanzas. They take the name from the Franciscan Convent, whose former site they occupy. The old building has been greatly modified by the -ST. AUGUSTINE. 19 United States Government, although not entirely rebuilt ; and some of the orig-inal coquina walls of the convent remain. A short distance south of the Barracks is the Military Cemetery, where are three low pyramids of masonry forming the tombs of officers and men who lost their lives in the Seminole War. The memorial shaft is commonly spoken of as ST. GEORGE STREET. Hkowing the Hotel Magnolia. "Dade's Monument," because more than one hundred of the soldiers interred here were those who perished in the "Dade Massacre," one of the most tragic incidents of the Seminole War. In x\ugust, 1835, Major Dade and a command of troops, no all told, were on their way from Fort Brooke to Fort King. At half past nine o'clock, Friday morning, August 28, they were marching through an open pine barren, four miles from the Great Wahoo Swamp, when they were fired on by a band of Seminoles in ambush, and all but three were killed. THE STANDARD GUIDE. THE OLD FIREPLACE IN THE VEDDER MUSEUM. The scope of the influence of the St. Augustine Institute of Science and Historical Society has been greatl}' enlarged by the purchase of the well-known Vedder Collection in Natural History. This collection, to which the late Dr. Vedder had devoted many years of his life, covers very completely the natural history of Florida. And now that this has been added to the Geological Arche- ological, Alineralogical and Historical Collection, the Society has a solid founda- tion that will eventually develop into a collection of the greatest value to both the man of science and the historian as well. It is the only attempt of the kind made anywhere in the State of Florida, and as such deserves the most hearty support both from the citizens of Florida and from those who seek the State and city for health and pleasure. The fact that the Museum is in an old historic house that has never been remodeled gives an added attraction to the sightseer and antiquarian. Our illustration shows one of the Museum rooms containing the old fireplace just as it has been used for so many years. As one of the coquina houses of a type that is rapidly disappearing, the building itself is worth visiting. The Museum is on Bay street at the corner of Treasury street, one block north from the Plaza. A LIST OF GOOD HOTELS For printed matter and further information of the hotels, routes, etc., here named A^K. Mr. Foster at the Standard Guide Travel Offices in Wash- ington, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Palm Beach, Miami and Havana, :: The figures indicate the page of the Standard Guide upon which the advertise- ment will be found. All hotels are on the American plan unless otherwise stated. The rates given are minimum. :: :: :: :: :: :: Florida Tourist Resorts. JACKSONVILLE.— Duval ($2.50) 56. Connally's (A. and E.) 58. New Hotel Victoria 58. Freid's Cafe. (Sightseeing auto 58.) ST. AUGUSTINE.— Ponce de Leon ($5) cover. Alcazar ($4) cover. Magnolia ($3) 12. Florida House ($2.50) 61. St. George ($4) 63. Granada ($2.50) 10. Ocean View ($2) 67. Marion ($2.50) 67. Abbey ($2) 67. Chautauqua ($2) 64. Buckingham ($2.50) 60. Lyon Building (rooms $3 per week) 62. Keystone 67. PALATKA.— The Graham ($2.50). Putnam House. ORMOND.— Hotel Ormond ($5) cover. Bretton Inn ($3; $15 week) 69. Mildred Villa ($2.50) 74. River View ($2.50) 74. D A YTONA.— Palmetto ($3) 71. ' Schmidt's Villa ($3) 73. Pines ($2.50) 73. Fountain City ($2.50). New Seaside Inn ($2.50) 70. SEA BREEZE.— Clarendon ($3) 7. Colonnades ($3) 72. PORT ORANGE.— Port Orange Hotel. LAKE HELEN.— Harlan-in-the-Pines ($3; $12) 78. DE LAND.— Putnam ($2). (John B. Stetson University 77.) UOCKLEDGE.— Plaza ($3) 76. New Rockledge ($3) 75. MELBOURNE.— New Brown House ($2) 58. .MERRITT.— River View ($3). PALM BEACH.— Royal Poinciana ($5) and Breakers ($5) cover. WEST PALM BEACH.— Palms ($2.50). Vir- ginia ($2). Anthony Bros., furnishings. MIAMI.— Royal Palm ($5) cover. Biscayne ($3). Everglade ($2.50). Bay View ($2). Southern ($2). Oaks ($2). March Villa.. COCOANUT GROVE.— Peacock Inn ($2.50). ORLANDO.— Tremont. SANFORD.— Sanford House ($2.50). SUWANEE.— Suwanee Springs Hotel. LAKE CITY.— Hotel Blanche. OCALA.— Ocala House (E. 75 cents) 58. .\LTAMONTE SPRINGS.— The Altamonte ($3). KISSIMMEE.— Kissimmee ($2.50). BELLEAIR.— Hotel Belleview ($4). FORT MYERS.— Royal Palm ($3). TAMPA.— Tampa Bay Hotel. WEIRSDALE.— Lakeside. PALATKA.— Putnam House. Cuba and Jamaica. HAVANA.— Pasaje ($4) 108. Alcazar ($3) 110. Inglaterra 109. Paris Cafe 110. Hotel C. Bohn. JAMAICA.— Hotel Titchfield, Port Antonio, 37. Resorts on the Way Home. SAVANNAH, GA.— De Soto Hotel ($3) 55. MACON, GA.— Lanier. NORTH AUGUSTA, GA.— Hampton Terrace. CAMDEN, S. C— The Kirkwood 55. COLUMBIA, S. C— Wright's Hotel ($2.50). SUMMERVILLE, S. C— Pine Forest Inn. GULFPORT, MISS.— Great Southern Hotel. CHARLESTON, S. C— Charleston Hotel 54. St. John Hotel 54. Argyle. ASHEVILLE, N. C— The Manor 95. Victoria Inn ($2.50; $12 week) 95. Battery Park 94. Heidelberg House 96. Margo Terrace 94. TRYON, N..C.— Oak Hall 96. PINEHURST, N. C— Holly Inn ($3 to $4.50). Berkshire ($2 to $3). Carolina ($4 and up). Howard ($2 and up) 8. NEW ORLEANS.— New St. Charles 46. CHATTANOOGA.— Read House. VIRGINIA HOT SPRINGS, VA. — New Homestead 19. CHASE CITY, VA.— The Mecklenburg. NORFOLK, VA.— Monticello. RICHMOND, VA.— The Jefferson (E. $1.50) 52. OLD POINT COMFORT.— Hotel Chamberlin 51. VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.— The Arlington 53. PINE BEACH, VA.— The Pine Beach Hotel 53. WASHINGTON, D. C— Shoreham (A. and E.) 49. St. James (E. $1 to $6) 51. Driscoll (A. $3; E. $1.50) 50. Gordon ($3 to $5) 50. Buck- ingham ($2.50) 53. Fredonia (A. $2; E. $1) 52. Richmond ($3) 52. PHILADELPHIA.— Aldine (E. $L50; A. $4). ATLANTIC CITY.— Marlborough. NEW YORK CITY.— St. Denis (E.) 42. Mar- tinique (E.) 42. Fifth Avenue (A. $5; E. $2) 43. Marlborough (E. $1.50) 43. Victoria (E. $1.50) 44. Flanders 44. New Hotel Albert (E. $1.50) 45. New Gregorian (E.) 45. CHlCACiO.— Chicago 15each 41. Virginia (E.) 41. BOSTON.— Hotel Leno.K 48. Summer Resorts. NIAGARA FALLS, CAN.— Hospice of Mt. Car- mel 46. NARRAGANSETT PIER.— New Matthewson. LENOX, MASS.— Hotel Aspinwall 47. EAST NQRTHFIELD, MASS.— The Noithfield 47. CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y.— Colonial Cottage 64. LAKE GEORGE, N. Y.— The Sagamore 55. LAKE CHAMPLAIN.— Hotel Champlain 39. WHITE MOUNTAINS.— Mount Pleasant, Mount Washington, Bretton Woods, N. H., 2. CANADA.— Royal Muskoka Hotel, Muskoka Lakes 29. Temagami 29. Foreign Hotels. HOTELS OF THE INTERNATIONAL PALACE HOTELS CO. 30. Grand Hotel de la Plage, Ostend, Belgium. Royal Palace Hotel, Ostend. Royal Castle of Ardenne, Ardenne, Belgium. Pavilion de Bellevue, Meudon, France. Pera Palace Hotel, Constantinople. Therapia Summer Palace Hotel, near Constantinople. Abazzia, Austria. Avenida Palace, Lisbon, Portugal. Hotel Terminus, Lyon, France. Hotel Ter- minus, Bordeau.x, France. Hotel Terminus, Marseilles, France. Riviera Palace of Cimiez, Nice, France. Riviera Palace of Monte Carlo. The Elysee Palace. Paris. Sanitariums. DANSVILLE, N. Y.— Jackson Health Resort, 40. W'ATKINS GLEN, N. Y.— The Glen Springs 38. ST. AUGLTSTINE.— Private Sanitarium 67. ST. .VUGUSTINE.- Shops— Surprise Store, 63; Kurth, 65; Pacetti, 66; Auto and Garage. 67. MUSEl'MS, ETC.— Jacksonville— Ostrich Farm. 5. St. Augustine— Zoo, 65; Vedder Museum, 68; Whitney's Old House, 66; Dodge's O'.d House, 65. GU.\V.\ JELLY.— Carnell, 70. PHOTOGRAPHS.— Kaiser; 69. TRAVELERS' CHECKS.-Knauth. Nachod & Kuhne, 3. TRAVELERS' SUPPLIES.— Florida Trunk Co., 55. ML^SICAL INSTRUMENTS.— Steinway Piano. 3. Angelus Piano, 88. TOURIST AGENCIES,— Thos. Cook & Son, 35. International Palace Hotels Co., 30. Raymond & Whitcomb. REAL ESTATE.— Newport, R. I., De Blois & Eldridge. Jacksonville, Christie & Christie 58. St. Augustine, E. L. Barnes 65. Daytona, J, \\'ilkinson 73. West Palm Beach, \Y J. Met- calf. Miami, E. A. Waddell. MINERAL WATERS.— Saratoga Arondack Spring 66. Orange City Mineral Water 74i ; Pope Automobiles 100. Winchester Arms Co. 101, 102. Laflin & Rand, and DuPont Powders, 101, 102. Chocolates. — Peters 103; Lowney's 97; Huyler's. Silverware. ^Watson & Newell Co., 105. Gillette Safety Razor 104. Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen 97. Singer Sewing Machine 99. Tourist Routes. Florida East Coast Railway, cover. .Southern Railway, 15-17. Atlantic Coast Line, cover. Seaboard Air Line, cover. Peninsula & Occidental Steamship Co., 21. Ocklawaha River (Hart Line), 6. The Cuba Raih'oad, 13. United Railways of Havana 13. Western Railway of Havana, 107. Herrera Steamship Line, 109; Menendez Steamship Line Santiago de Cuba and Jamaica, 108. Clyde Line, 1. .\Iallory Line, 73. Savannah Line, 20. United Fruit Co. Merchants' and Miners', 4. Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co., IS. Washington, Arlington & Falls Church Railway. Rock Island System, 25. Illinois Central— Dixie Flyer Route, 23. (Hieen & Crescent Route, 22. \'irginia Navigation Co., 45. Pere Marquette Railroad, 31. Ulster & Delaware Railroad, 9. Long Island Railroad, 35. Delaware & Hudson Railway System, 26. Boston & Maine Railroad. Rutland Railroad, 27. Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co., 33. Quebec & Lake St. John Railway, 27. Grand Trunk Railway System, 29. Canadian Pacific Railway, 32. Hamburg-American Line, 24. Chesapeake & Ohio, 19. Alissouri Pacific. Royal Flushing, Mail Route, 28. Oceanic Steamship Co., 34. White Pass & Yukon Route, 33. Peninsula & Oriental Steam Nav. Co., 30. Union Castle Line, 30. ST. AUGUSTINE. THE VILLA ZORAYDA. M "^m^^ '^^u^^S^asu'Q^^mm mmm IBIIDiDQBIB|||7|[|||| IllPlii THE FLORIDA HOUSE. THE STANDARD GUIDE. I' l-'ORT ilAraOX LOOKING TOWARD THE SEA Fort Marion is at the north end of the sea-wall and commands the harbor. It is open daily (admission free) from 8 A. M. to 4 P. M. Afternoon is the most pleasant time for seeing the fort. The sergeant in charge conducts visitors through the casemates. The fort, which is the only example of mediaeval fortification on this continent, is a fine specimen of the art of military engineering as developed at the time of its construction. It is a massive structure of coquina stone, with curtains, bastions, moat and outworks. Surrounding the fort on the three land sides is an immense artificial hill of earth, called the glacis. From the crest of the glacis on the southeast, a bridge, formerly a drawbridge, leads across part of the moat to the barbacan. The barbacan is a fortification, surrounded by the moat, directly in front of the fort entrance, which it was designed to protect. In the barbacan at the stairway are the Arms of Spain. A second bridge, originally a drawbridge, leads from the barbacan across the wide moat to the sally-port, which is the only entrance to the fort. This was provided wi.h a heavy door, called the portcullis. On the outer wall, above the sally-port, is the escutcheon, bearing the Arms of Spain; and the Spanish legend, which read: REYNANDO EN ESPANA EL SENr DON FERNANDO SEXTO Y SIENDO GOVor Y CAPn DE ESa Cd San AUGn DE LA FLORIDA E SUS PROVa EL MARESCAL DE CAMPO DnALONZO FERNdo HEREDA ASI CONCLUIO ESTE CASTILLO EL AN OD 1756 DIRPENDO LAS OBRAS EL CAP INGNro DN PEDRO DE BROZAS Y GARAY "Don Ferdinand VL, being King of Spain, and the Field Marshal Don Alonzo Fernando Hereda being Governor and Captain-General of this place, San Augustin of Florida, and its province, this fort was finished in the year 1756. The works were directed by the Captain-Engineer Don Pedro de Brozas of Garay" ST. AUGUSTINE. 2J Within the fort un the right of the entrance hall is the old bake room, and beyond this are two dark chambers, which were used for storage. On the left is the guards' room. The hall opens upon a large square court (103 by 109 feet). Around this court are casemates or rooms which were used for barracks, messroom.s, storerooms, etc. Some of the casemates were divided into lower and upper apartments. A beam of light is admitted through a nar- row window or embrasure, high up near the arched ceiling. From the first east casemate a door leads back into an interior dark room. From the furthest casemate on the same side an entrance leads back into a dark chamber, off from which a narrow passage leads through a wall 5 feet deep into a space 6 feet wide; and from this a low aperture 2 feet square gives access through another wall 5 feet deep, into an innermost vault or chamber, which is I9>4 feet long, 13 2-3 feet broad, and 8 feet high. The arched roof is of solid masonry. There is no other outlet than the single aperture. This is the so-called "dungeon" of Fort Marion. It was designed for a powder magazine or bomb-proof. When the fort was in repair the chamber was dry and fit for use as a safe deposit for explosives; but when the water from above percolated through the coquina, this bomb-proof or powder magazine became damp and unwholesome. For this reason it was no longer used except as a place to throw rubbish into. Then it bred fevers, and finally, as a sanitary measure, the Spaniards walled it up, and the middle room as well. They did this in the readiest way by closing the entrances with coquina ma- sonry. When the United States came into possession of the fort the officers sta- tioned here did not suspect the existence of these disused chambers, although among the residents of the town were men who had knowledge of them and of their prosaic use as deposits for rubbish. One of these residents once related to the writer his recollection of the disused powder maga- zine, as he was familiar with it when, as a boy, he was em- ployed at the fort. In 1839 the masonry above the middle chamber caved in, and while the engineers were making repairs the closed entrance to the innermost chamber was noticed, and investigation led to its discovery. Refuse and rubbish w^ere found there. The report was given out — whether at the time or later — that in this rubbish were some bones. From this insignificant begin- ning the myth-makers evolved first the tale that the bones were human, then they added a rusty chain and a staple in the wall, a gold ring on one PLAN OF FORT MARION. 1, bridge from barbacan to glacis. 2, stairway to barbacan. 3, bridge over moat. 4, sally-port, 5, hall. 6, bake room. 7, 8, dark rooms. 7 (left), guards' room. 9, interior dark room. 10, 10, casemates. 11, casemate. 12, interior dark room. 14, bomb-proof. 15, chapel. 16, dark room. 10a, treasurer's room. 10c, casemate from which Coacoochee escaped. B, bas- tion. W, water-tower. 24 THE STANDARD GUIDE. skeleton's finger, instruments oi torture, iron cages, a pair of boots, and a Spanish Inquisi- tion tale of horror. Facing the court on the north is the chapel. In the wall of the court oppo- site, the French astronomers who came here in 1879 to ob- serve the transit of Venus have left a marble tablet in commem- oration of their visit. In the northwest bastion is another dark room. Casemate loc is known as "Coacoochee's cell." Coacoochee was a Seminole chief, who at one time during the Seminole War was confined here; and with a companion made his escape by squeezing through the embrasure and drop- ping to the moat. The Seminole chief Osceola was also a pris- oner in Fort Marion, whence he was removed to Fort Moultrie, in Charleston Harbor, where he died. From the court a stone ascent leads up to the terreplein of the ramparts. This ascent was orig- inally an inclined plane for ar- tillery. At the outer angle of each bastion is a sentry box. The four walls of the fort between the bastions are the curtains. The walls are 9 feet thick at base, 4H at top, and 25 feet high above the present moat level. The bastions are filled CHAPEL ENTRANCE AND CASEMATES. I COURT OF FORT MARION. ST. AUGUSTINE. 25 THE SEMINOLE CHIEF OSCEOLA. with earth. The fort is surrounded by a moat, 40 feet wide, formerly deeper than at present, with a cemented concrete floor, and flooded from the bay at high tide. Along the outer edge of the moat are narrow level spaces called covered-ways; and wider levels called places-of-arms, where artillery was mounted and the troops gathered, protected by the outer wall or parapet, from which slopes the glacis. The fortification of stone (water battery) in front was built by the United States in 1842. The small brick building (hot shot furnace) in the moat dates from 1844. In different forms and bearing different names, the fort has been estabhshed more than three centuries. For two hundred years the fort was St. Augustine, and St. Augustine was Florida. At first a rude and temporary structure of pine logs. 26 THE STANDARD GUIDE. the fortification expanded in magnitude until it developed into the great stone fortress. In the years of its building the progress of such a work was slow. Con- victs from Spain and Mexico, and Indians and slaves, quarried the stone on Anastasia Island, ferried it across the bay, and toiled at the walls ; and it was not until the year 1756 that the work was considered finished. The story goes that the King of Spain, counting up the cost, fancied that the fort must have been built RUINS OF SPANISH FORT AT MATANZAS INLET. of gold ; and we may well imagine that successive Governors-General filled their pockets out of the job and went home rich men. The walls are built of coquina, which in its day was considered a very excellent material for this purpose, since cannon balls would sink into the wall without shattering it as they would harder stone. On the sea front of the southwest bastion are crevices, which according to local tradition were caused by British cannon balls from the opposite shore when the town was besieged by Oglethorpe, who in 1740 landed a force on Anastasia Island and bombarded the fort for forty days. In that age of crude artillery the coquina bastions were capable of with- standing a much more serious attack than that of Oglethorpe's batteries ; but the art of war has changed since then, and Fort Marion would quickly be shattered by modern guns. Shortly after coming into the possession of the United States, the fort was named Fort Marion, in honor of the Revolutionary hero, General Francis Marion. ST. AUGUSTINE. n St. Anastasia Island, lying in front of the town, between bay and ocean, is a favorite resort for excursion parties, and has many attractions for the tourist. The most pleasant time for a visit is the afternoon. The route is by bridge from King street, and rail, drive or cycle path. The Lighthouse is usually open to visitors. The light is a fixed white and revolving flash light, flashing once every 3 minutes, and is visible 19 miles. The purpose of the. variability of the light is to render it distinguishable from others. Thus, while the St. Augustine light is a fixed white light varied by a flash every 3 minutes, the St. Johns River light, the next one north, is a fixed white light; and the Cape Canaveral light, the second one south, flashes every minute. The black and white spiral stripes, which make the tower look like a grotesque Brobdingnagian barber's pole, dis- tinguish it from others by day ; the tower of the St. Johns River light is red ; that of the Cape Canaveral light has black and white horizontal bands. ^ Anastasia Island extends from St. Augustine south 12 miles to Matanzas Inlet, where there are picturesque ruins of an old Spanish fort which defended the sea approach to the town from the south. The name Matanzas (from the Spanish Matanza — slaughter) commemorates the massacre of the Huguenots, which occurred here in the year 1565, an event connected with the founding of St. Augustine by Pedro Menendez. The French Huguenots had established a settlement on the River St. Johns, and in 1565 Menendez came with a Spanish force to drive them out. He landed at the Indian village of Seloy, and on its site founded St. Augustine. The French, leaving a garrison in their Fort Caroline, sailed to attack St. Augustine, but their ships were driven south by a storm. Thereupon Menendez marched to the St. Johns, captured the French fort and put the garrison to death. Upon his return to St. Augustine he learned that the French fleet had been wrecked on the coast. He proceeded south to this inlet, discovered the Frenchmen on the other side, and by false promises in- duced them to surrender and deliver up their arms. Then he sent them boats, brought them, over in small bands at a time, bound them, blindfolded them, led them behind the sand hills, and there in the name of religion put them to death. r ■■ ■ ■ • ■ . 1 FORT MARION — THE WATER BATTERY. 28 THE STANDARD GUIDE. The Memorial Presbyterian Church, on Valencia street, erected by Mr. Henry M. Flagler in 1889, was designed by Messrs. Carrere & Hastings, the architects of the Ponce de Leon. The building material used was the concrete employed for the great hotels. The exterior has a wealth of decoration, and the great copper dome is one of the conspicuous architectural features, which contribute so much to the attractiveness of St. Augustine. Adjoining the church on Sevilla street is the manse. The church is open to visitors during the day. The windows by ]\Ir. H. T. Schladermundt, of New York, are among the most notable of recent examples of decorative work in stained glass. For his theme Mr. Schladermundt has taken the Apostles' Creed. Beginning with the rose window in the east the series proceeds to the right, the illuminated text of the Creed being accompanied with emblems as follows : "1 believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth," (The emblem is the earth upheld by flying angels.) "And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate," (The two large panels picture Christ blessing little children; and Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, with the ministering angel and the three sleeping disciples.) "Was crucified, dead and buried." (The emblems are the cross and the passion flower.) "He descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead;" (The emblems are the cross and the lily.) "He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Fathei- Almighty ;" (The emblems are crown and palm tree.) "From whence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead." (The emblems are scales, scroll and hyssop.) "I believe in the Holy Ghost;" (The emblems are the dove and the Holy Ghost orchid.) "The Holy Catholic Church ;" (The emblems are candelabra and olive tree.) "The communion of Saints ;" (The emblems are the cup and ripe clusters of grapes.) "The forgiveness of sins ;" (The emblems — outstretched hand and passion flower.) "The resurrection of the body," (The emblems flying wings and Easter lily.) "And the life everlasting." (The emblems are a hart drinking at a brook and the Tree of Life.) In the rose window in the south are flying angelic heralds proclaiming "Glory to God in the Highest." In the wall below a scroll bears the message, "Peace on Earth," with emblematic dove. t WINDOWS IN THE MEMORIAL CHURCH. By H. T. Schladermundt. ST. AUGUSTINE. 29 It has been the fashion in describing St. Augustine to lay emphasis on its Spanish character. With the one exception of the fort, however, no specially notable example of Spanish architecture was to be found here. Throughout the entire period of its rule from Madrid the town appears to have been always pooi, as the Boucaniers found it in the middle of the seventeenth century. And yet no COURT OF THE PONCE DE LEON. natural conditions were wanting. The sky above St. Augustine arches as deli- cately blue and soft as tliat of Seville. The sunlight is as warm and as golden as that which floods the patios of Spanish Alcazars. The Florida heavens are as radiantly brilliant by night, and the full moon floats as luminously above the Atlantic coast, as where the pinnacles and minarets of A'alencia glitter in its beams on the Mediterranean shore. Add to these natural adaptations the historic associations of Spain and the Spaniards, and there is little room for wonder that the visitor looked for some architectural monuments other than gloomy fortifica tions to commemorate the dignity and pride of the ancient Spanish rule. 30 THE STANDARD GUIDE. Some such reflections as these, perhaps, prompted the designers of the projected Ponce de Leon to look to the architecture of Spain for the style most appropriate for the structure. They found it in the Spanish Renaissance ; and this was well chosen, for it was the style of which the development coincided with the most glorious period of Spanish history. The historic symbolism of the decoration is to be observed at the very gateway of the court in the lion's masque which ornaments each of the gateposts. It is the heraldic lion of Leon, that sturdy Spanish town which so long and so bravely withstood the Moors ; and an emblem, too, of the doughty warrior, Juan Ponce de Leon, proclaimed in his epitaph "a lion in name and a lion in heart." Above the arch of the gateway, repeated in the spandrels of the panel arches, is the stag's head, which was the sacred totem of Seloy, the Indian village on whose site St. Augustine was built. From the gateway of the court the towers are seen for the first time in their full proportions. Each side of the square tower is pierced near the top with an arched window, opening upon a balcony, reminding us of the balconies of Mohammedan mosques ; and from them, at morning, noon or nightfall, we might almost expect to hear the muezzin's call to prayer. Cross- ing the court, past the fountain, we approach the grand entrance. This is a full- centered arch, 20 feet wide. Around the face of the arch, in a broad band, carved in relief on a row of shields, a letter to a shield, runs the legend, Ponce de Leon. Garlands depend from the shields, which are supported by mermaids. This is another suggestion of the sea as the source whence came the shell composite of the hotel walls ; and also of the sea as the field of Ponce de Leon's achievements. The suggestion is further emphasized in the shell-pattern in the spandrels of the arch, and yet again in the marine devices of the coats-of-arms on the two shields. The other entrances, on the east and west, should have attention before we leave the court. In the wall, on each side of the doorway, is a deep fountain niche. The water issues from the mouth of a dolphin. Above the door, in the key of the arch, is a shield with a shell device, and medallions with Spanish proverbs occupy the spandrels. The dolphins of the fountain niches have special appropriateness ; they are not only typical of the sea, but have a local significance as well, for the bay of St. Augustine once bore the name River of Dolphins, given it by Laudonniere, the Huguenot captain, who anchored his ships here in 1564. The allusion to the sea, in the dolphins and the shells, is a motive repeated again and again throughout the hotel ; even the door knobs are modeled after shells. While the decorations of the rotunda are true to the Spanish Renaissance style, the motives for them have been found in the Spain and the Florida of the sixteenth century ; the symbolism is of the spirit of that age and the impulses which then held sway. Painted on the pendentives of the cove ceiling of the second story are female figures typical of Adventure, Discovery, Conquest. Civilization. Four other figures represent the elements. Earth, Air,' Fire, and Water The decorations in the penetrations are lyres, with swans on either side. The lyres are surmounted alternately by a masque of the Sun god of the Florida Sr. AUGUSTINE. 31 A TOJETTI FRESCO. Indians, and by the badge of the most illustrious order of Spanish knighthood, the Golden Fleece, depending from its flint-stone, surrounded by flames of gold. Where this appears, the design of the border is the Collar of the Golden Fleece, the chain of double steels interlaced with flint-stones. Below in the spandrels of the corridor arches is seen the stag's head, the barbaric emblem of the Sun-worshiping Indians. Shields bear the arms of the present provinces of Spain, and on cartouches are emblazoned the names of the great discoverers of America. Cornucopias are favorite forms here, as else- where throughout the hotel. The upper dome is modeled in high relief ; around its base dances a band of laughing Cupids ; between these figures are circular openings ; and the vault above is all modeled with delicate tracery of pure white and gold effects ; casques and sails signify the military and maritime achievements of Spain ; and the crown of the dome is surrounded with eagles. THE STANDARD GUIDE, K.<:m^^M A TOJETTI FRESCO. A broad stairway of marble and Mexican onyx leads to a landing, Irom which is entered the dining hall. In delightfully antique letters set in mosaic in the floor of the landing is the aptly chosen verse of welcome, taken from Shenstone : Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been. May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. On each end, north and south, of the central dining hall is a panel of dancing Cupids, with roguish faces and outstretched hands, representing the feast ; some extend clusters of luscious grapes, and bread and cups of wine in welcome to the guests, while others ladle steaming olla from great Spanish caldcrons. On the wall above are pictured ships of Spain, with sails full set and gracefully waving streamers and pennants ; they are the high-pooped Spanish caravels of the six- teenth century, just such vessels as that in which Ponce de Leon came to Florida in his search for the fountain. On the pendentives between the stained-glass windows, allegorical paintings represent the Four Seasons. The grand parlor decorations are in ivory-white and gold, with frescoes by Tojetti of Cupids and garlands and filmy drapery amid clouds in the corner ceilings. < ^ 34 THE STANDARD GUIDE. On the south side of King street, opposite the Ponce de Leon, is the Alcazar, an adjunct of the hotel, and in architecture a fitting complement of it. The Alcazar is of Spanish Renaissance style, and of a design which, like that of the Ponce de Leon, is original throughout. Within is a court of flowers, shrubbery and vines, with a fountair playing in the center. The court — not unworthy to be compared with the patios of the Alcazars in Spain — is surrounded by an arcade, upon which open shops and oi^ces. Beyond is the Casino, in which are the great swimming pools of sulphur water from the artesian wells. The group of concrete hotels on the Alameda is completed by the Hotel Cordova. In style it does not follow the Spanish Renaissance architecture ; the suggestions for the heavy walls and battlemented towers were found in the strong castles and town defenses of Spain; it recalls those architectural monuments of the warring ages of the past ; vast piles of masonry, which grew with the incre- ments of hundreds of years, amid the conflicts of Roman and Goth and Moor and Christian. Thus the archway on the north fagade, formerly a gateway, flanked by massive towers round and square, was an adaptation of the Puerto del Sol, or Gate of the Sun, of Toledo, one of the famous remains of the Moorish dominion in Spain. The balconies of the lower range of windows are the "kneeling bal- conies" of Seville, so called because the protruding base was devised by Michael Angelo to permit the faithful to kneel at the passing of religious festivals. The Cordova and the Villa Zorayda were designed and built by Mr. Franklin W. 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I will be glad to give you also personal information concerning Cuba — hotels, modes of travel, hunting and fishing, lands, or about travel anywhere. I will plan tours for you and will give you cards of intro- duction to hotel proprietors and to other business people. If you wish to see Havana to advantage or to make purchases at the shops in the city, it will be worth your while to see me first. I will give you information that will save you both time and money. I accept no com- missions from transportation lines, land dealers, merchants or others. The information I give you is impartial and disinterested, and it is given absolutely free, no fees being asked or in any instance accepted. J sell Railroad and Stea??iship Tickets to all parts of Cuba and to Jamaica and the West Indies, and Sleeping Car Tickets to Santa Clara, Caniaguey, Santiago and all points on the line of the Cuba Railway. Have your mail addressed in care of Mr. Foster. 99 Prado, Havana. li will be carefully looked after and will be forwarded as you direct. Mr. Foster's Office, 99 Prado, Second door from Hotel Pasaje. Mr. Foster's office in Havana is the authorized agency for the sale of Sleeping Car Tickets, and for Railway and Steamship Tickets to all parts of Cuba and to Jamaica and the West Indies. 99 Prado. ASK MR. rOSTER. IN WASHINGTON ASK •N MR. J FOSTER r HERE • 1533 Penn- sylvania Av. I OFFER MY SERVICES to aid you in seeing Washington to the best advantage. I know a great deal about the city and its environs, and can tell you what to see and how to see it with the least expenditure of time and money. At my office are hundreds of descriptive booklets of different hotels, small and large, also railroad and steamship schedules, maps, guide books, plans of hotels and all sorts of travelers' literature that will be helpful to you. I will tell you which trains to take to make best connections, how to avoid night travel if desired, what is of interest along the way, which routes afford the greatest scenic advantages, how to combine most advantageously travel by water and rail. 1 can tell you the cost of railroad and steamship tickets and the rates charged at the different hotels. I will engage your hotel accom- modations in advance if you wish it, and will give you letters of introduction that will help to smooth your way. I am well acquainted also with the hotels of Washington, Philadel- phia, New York, Boston, Chicago and other large cities, and can aid you in selecting the one best suited to your needs. You are cordially invited to visit my office and to make free use of the services rendered here. There are no charges of any sort. No fees are ever accepted. Therefore: Ask Mr. Foster Anything at Any tiine about Any place Any^vhere WARD G. FOSTER. General Manager Standard Guide Information Office 1333 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone 973 Offices also at Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Palm Beach, Miami, Florida ; Havana, Cuba, "^^ mm OUR COQUINA COVER Is a photograph of Coquina, quarried from the St. Anastasia Island quarries, where the Coquina was found which was used for building Fort Marion, the City Gateway, the Sea Wall and the ^ old houses of St. Augustine. (See page lo.) Coquina deposits extend south from St. Augustine, and the peculiar shell-stone is found at many places on the East Coast. Nothing could _^ be more happily chosen for a cover design; it is unique, * ^ ' characteristic of the East Coast country, and is . thus appropriate and interesting. '.#5'* '*i**^;v mm^ ^ ^ FOSTER . < o H > bX) C O 1) o <; S '5 bO Q o :5 Q O O ^ i-T "S •3 !U (U 3 1) 'c3 en C en o H _"m 1^ a, o u en .2* < O I-i r- O 'S Oh tfi '5 t^ .H j: 13 1 C ^ a; "O Q (U C j; d O o -^ o ^ (U _aj 'c3 S; rt U) rC o O 03 O >, o 5 ^ O 43 w G ra rt 1L> < s bc 13 > CS! ">> C/3 m W rt C "O u 'Z, Q u ^ -Td I- tn G l- o s O o 4-1 (L) I-l •O < S O o T3 ^ 'i! •^ . rt O J3 I THE EAST COAST. 47 THE ORMOiND-DAYTONA MEETS. When autoniobilists would lower speed records, they come to the Oniiond- Daytona Beach, to the mid-winter meets of the Florida East Coast Auto- mobile Association. The wonderful speedway is a stretch of beach 300 feet wide at low water, level, smooth, almost as hard as asphalt, and extending twenty miles without turn, break or obstruction. Here the driver has before him an open course, which is absolutely safe, and is unmatched for straightaway driving. The Ormond-Daytona course is the fastest in the world. It is this quality which gives the course international fame, and makes it the Mecca of auto- mobile speed enthusiasts the world over. The Florida mid-winter meeting is the most important event in the automobile year. The initial meet, held in 1903, though largely impromptu, resulted in the lowering of automobile and motor-cycle speed records. The performances demonstrated the extraordinary qualities of the course, and attracted attention of automobilists everywhere. The second meet, held in 1904, was participated in by a large number of the best- known amateurs, and resulted in the making of sensational records, among them those by Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., whose record mile was run in 39 seconds;, ten miles in 6.50, or at the rate of 41 seconds to the mile; and 50 miles in 40.49 4-5, over a ten-mile course. The annual international automobile race meets on the Ormond-Daytona. Beach are held under auspices of the Florida East Coast Automobile Associa- THE FLORIDA SAND SAILER ON THE ORMOND-DAYTONA BEACH. 48 THE STANDARD GUIDE. fe-#v CLUB HOUSE OF THE FLORIDA EAST COAST AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION. tion. The Association was organized, and is conducted solely for the promotion of the sport, and is maintained by the dues of members and the entry fees paid by the competing sportsmen. The record trials are open to the world, and thus the meet has an international character. Foreign countries are represented, both among the patrons and the contestants. The Association has a most attractive and commodious club house on the beach, directly opposite the half- way post of the twenty-mile course. It displays the figures 39 of Mr. Vanderbilt's auto run. The club has a membership of two hundred, and among them many prominent and well-known people : AA\ K. Vanderbilt, Jr-, H. M. Flagler, Howard Gould, John Jacob Astor and many others. The club Secretary, Mr. J. B. Parkinson, gives this interesting description of the peculiar composition which makes the Florida shore unicivie among the sea beaches of the world : "Its sand is composed largely of the shells of the coquina clam, or Donax, peculiar to this part of Florida. The shells are about one-half inch long and very thin. For ages nature has been rolling them up, washing them back into the surf and pulverizing them. Examined under the microscope each particle is round, unfit for mortar, builders say, because its smoothness prevents it from holding together ; yet, strange to contemplate, the very moment a wave leaves the wet, apparently soft beach, these round particles settle down into a cement almost as hard as asphalt, beyond the comprehension of one who has not seen THE EAST COAST. 49 THE SPECTATORS IN FRONT OF THE CLUB HOUSE. it. Surely it must have been made for the automobile, for, regardless of weather conditions, there is no mud, no dust, tires are never heated owing to the moisture, and exploded tires are unknown. Here, too, the great dangers of road and track racing are entirely eliminated and man can never build a road as hard and smooth. Repairs are unnecessary, as twice each twenty-four hours it is entirely rebuilt by the tides. Immense holes may be dug, but the next tide hides every trace. Being almost level and with an average rise and fall of only 2 feet 9 inches at extremely low tide, this beach is from 300 to 500 feet wide and can be used from two hours after until two hours before high tide, thus giving an average of seven to eight hours for automobiling some part of each dav." World's Records at Ormond Meet, 1905. 100 miles, H. W. Fletcher, 80 H. P. DeDietrich 1. 18.24 10 miles, A. E. MacDonald, 90 H. P. Napier 6.15 20 miles, E. R. Thomas, 90 H. P. Mercedes = . 13.20 30 miles. E. R. Thomas, 90 H. P. Mercedes 20.27 40 miles, H. W. Fletcher, 80 H. P. DeDietrich 32.40 1-2 SO miles, H. W. Fletcher, 80 H. P. DeDietrich 38. i-S One mile record broken by H. L. Bowden, 120 H. P. (two engines of 60 H. P. each) Mercedes (Flying Dutchman No. 2) 32 4-5 Former record, 1905 34 1-5 Former record on Ormond-Daytona course, 1904, W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr. . .39 THE EAST COAST. 51 The automobiling opportunities are by no means confined to the beach. Driving has always been in favor at Ormond and Daytona, and much attention has been given to the making of good roads. The Ormond drives are famous for their excellence and attractiveness. They lead in many directions, passing through charming scenery, and reaching many interesting points. One pene- trates dense tropical forest, leading to ancient stone ruins ; another follows the river to a modern plantation, hospitably thrown open to inspection ; a third takes us through hammock and pine woods to the Tomoka Cabin on the Tomoka River. A favorite route is south on the ocean beach to Daytona and return by the Halifax River road ; or from Daytona one may soon go on to New Smyrna by the new hard shell road which for fifteen miles will closely follow the west bank of the river. The 35-mile round trip on the beach from the Inn to Smyrna Inlet can easily be made in one hour on a motor cycle. All these roads are adapted to the automobile, and every season finds upon them an increased number of machines. During the season of 1903-4, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Adriance, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., ran their 1903 auto car over 1,200 miles on the roads about Ormond without one road repair. Ormond is not alone in the possession of good roads. The streets and suburban drives of Jacksonville, New Smyrna, Orlando, De Land, Miami, Tampa, and other points are all good auto roads. Mr. Flagler's rock roads at Miami are a grand object lesson, and have given an impetus to the good roads movement, which has been taken up with much enthusiasm and is providing the East Coast country with a system of highways embodying the modern art of road building. Native material for roads is found in the coralline rock, which is soft and easily quarried, hardens upon exposure to air, and when crushed makes an admirable road metal. Another material extensively used is the oyster shell, drawn in abundant supply from the shell mounds along the coast, and another is the white marl of Ormond and Daytona. The roads already constructed, building and projected, form links of the great highway which has been planned to extend from Jacksonville south 350 miles to Miami to connect those two cities and St. Augustine, Ormond and Daytona, New Smyrna, Rockledge, and West Palm Beach, with spurs to De Land and other points. This great highway will be a broad, hard-surfaced boulevard, adapted to modern vehicles. The good roads movement now popular in the State, is promoted by the County Commissioners and Good Roads Association of Florida. The Associa- tion covers Florida. Hundreds of miles of roads are planned ; every mile means opportunities for automobilists, both residents and tourists. The advent of the cruising launch and that of the touring automobile have opened to winter jusitor and resident a new Florida, the resources and compensations of which are as vet hardiv realized. IN FLORIDA WOODS. The trees are festooned with tillandsia, popularly called "Spanish moss/ THE EAST COAST. 53 THE ROGKLEDGE SHORE OVERLOOKING INDIAN RIVER. New Smyrna, thirteen miles soutH of Daytona, on Hillsborough River, is the oldest settlement on the East Coast south of St. Augustine ; and is historically famous for the Greek and Minorcan colony, 1,500 strong, established by Dr. Turnbull in 1767. All along the river bank for four miles north and three miles south are scattered the ruins of old Minorcan houses, with coquina stone floors, chimneys and wells, curbed with hewn stone. The drainage canals, indigo vats and ruins of old sugar mills indicate large industries. Other ruins known as the "Spanish Mission," or "Columbus Chapel," and "Rock House" are by some people thought to antedate the time of Turnbull. New Smyrna beach stretches south for miles, with a firm, smooth surface, and is lined along the blufifs with the cottages of Coronado and other summer and winter residence colonies. New Smyrna is an outfitting point for fishing and camping parties. From New Smyrna a branch line of the Florida East Coast Railway System runs to Blue Springs, on the St. John's River, thirty-two miles west. This is the route to De Land and to Lake Helen, RocKLEDGE is named from the bold coquina ledges, which lend a picturesque beauty to the shore line. The foot walk for several miles on the high river bank, leading through one splendid orange grove to another, is very fascinating. There is a grand outlook across the river to Merritt's Island, which is also populous with villas, sfroves and gardens. The sailboats and rowboats and launches, the pedestrian parties one continually meets on the river path, the well-contented occupants of the elegant mansions that front the river adjoining on their broad verandas, the dolcc far nicntc leisure of the Rockledge winter resident, the orange THE STANDARD GUIDE. THOMPSON CREEK, ORMOND. pickers amid the golden fruit, and the skilled landscape gardening that emblazons the walks and grounds of the hotels with brilliant tropical flowers, all unite to make Rockledge deservedly and permanently popular with winter tourists. A favorite excursion is to the beautiful estate well named Fairyland. The pineapple growing district extends from here south to Palm Beach and beyond. The lagoons, commonly known as the Indian River, make a continuous stretch of water scenery for more than 250 miles, and with Biscayne Bay, now united with Lake Worth, give an uninterrupted water course of 350 miles, com- bining more of fascinating variety and beauty than any other in the United States. These connected inland waters vary from weird and twisting narrows 100 feet in width to spreading lake-like expanses from three to six miles wide. Sometimes they look out of inlets upon the ocean, and again into the mouths of winding creeks or fresh-water rivers that break the western shore. At one point the Indian River channels separate and wind among wooded islands, making one think of the lochs of Scotland. **" Fort Pierce is noted as a winter resort much visited by sportsmen. It is in r^m THE EAST COAST. 57' ORANGES AT ROCKLEDGE. the pineapple district. The section is one of interest, too, because of the rehcs of a bygone age and a vanished people ; there are Indian mounds, and the earth- works of old Fort Pierce, suggestive memorials of the days when the Seminoles were making a hopeless stand against fate. Back of Fort Pierce is the home of one branch of the Seminole Indians, and they may here often be seen trading their alligator skins, plumes and game for ammunition and supplies. Lake Worth and Palm Beach. — Southward 300 miles from Jacksonville i& Palm Beach, on Lake Worth. Here we enter the cocoanut region and the trop- ical paradise of Florida. Lake Worth is, like the other waters of the Indian River system, a salt-water lagoon, twenty-two miles long by an average of a mile in width, and separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a peninsula about a mile wide. Here is situated the Royal Poinciana, one of the largest hotels in the world, and royal indeed in respect both of its entirely unique surroundings and its magnificent appointments. Fronting the beautiful lake and commanding also the ocean view, it has the peculiar advantage of a lordly grove of cocoanut palms and the finest environments of tropical gardening. The magnificent hotel does not stand alone in respect of such environments ; for several miles along the lake front range other beautiful and highly improved estates with similar adornments of cocoanut palms and a great variety of other tropical flora. The climate is very greatly influenced and tempered both in winter and sum- mer by the Gulf Stream, which passes close to the shore at this point. The nor- mal winter temperature is about 70 to 75 degrees. 58 THE STANDARD GUIDE. PALM BEACH, LAKE WORTH, SHOWING WHITEHALL, RESIDEXU-: (IK M K. IIKXRV M. FLAGLER. Whitehall, one of the stately homes of America, is appropriately in the Spanish style of architecture, the house, btiilt around an interior court or patio, and having for external features the columned portico, pure white walls and red tiled roof glowing against the sky. The entrance hall, 110 feet long, with grand marble stairway and domed ceiling, opens into apartments treated in various styles of decoration and furnishing — the Library in that of the Italian Renaissance, the Salon in that of the period of Louis XVI., the ballroom, in white and gold, in the style of Louis XV., the dining room in that of Francois I. Tropical plants and trees from all parts of the world are gathered here. Walks shaded by groves of cocoanut palms are laid out in geometrical patterns, bordered with concrete curbs, and with lawns protected by curved sea-walls of concrete and coquina on the lake front. Oleanders, hibiscus and passion flowers iire in bloom. Mangoes, guavas, limes, lemons, oranges, figs, sapodillas, date palms, bananas, pineapples and early vegetables are common in all the gardens ; some have strawberries ripe in January, and tomatoes in abundance in March. Rubber trees, royal poinciana, paradise, coffee, traveler's and numbers of curious trees ornament the gardens, and the smarled, stragsfling arms of great live oaks, covered with knobs and bunches of two varietes of orchids and hanging moss, by weird contrast add to the beauties. Walks twenty feet wide and a half mile long, bordered with cocoanut palms, oleanders and azaleas, lead from the lake tQ the ocean with a steep and narrow beach, upon which with a magnificent surf the sea breaks, in color a clear, bright, ultramarine blue. Palm Beach ovv^es to a shipwreck the cocoanut trees which have given to it THE LUtUANUT GROVES AT PALM BEACH. THE EAST COAST. 6i IN THE ROYAL POINCIANA. distinguishing beauty and name. Years ago the Spanish brig Providencia^ cocoanut-laden, was cast away off this coast, and the cocoanuts were waslied ashore to find growth in a congenial soil. There was quite as much romance in the coming of the date palm to Florida ; from Syria the conquering Moors carried it to Spain ; and from Spain the Spaniards brought it here. The sago, fan, royal and other palms have been introduced. The palms indigenous to Florida include the low saw or scrub palmetto, which covers vast areas of the State ; and the cabbage palmetto, so called because of the cabbage-like growth, which is edil)le. There are other palms on the Keys. On the western shore of the lake are large pineapple plantations, each year increasing in numbers and in production. Thirty miles to the west is Lake Okeechobee, with settlements of the Seminole Indians, of whom some notes are given on another page. Lake Worth and its vicinity, like all the southern East Coast country, has developed rapidly since the advent of the railway, which has converted it from a region secluded because diflficult of access, and has put it in quick touch with the rest of the world. -o rt > en O "o tn 03 p O o 01 3 ii u rt JJ 1) tn a" tn ;-> >> & -O "'"' CO cn en •0 s 'H, H a; H en 1— I en T3 OJ 'S aj >, >, O o ^ -O nd o OJ s (LI CX ^ u o -a >, rt ht^ ^ U o en 5 I-. •TJ a o 71 3 bo o -^ O "" 01 ;-. I— I a; (L) ^ (U j3 "* +2 . CD ^ TT be '^ bJC ^ = rt o ^ „ =^ en ^ O G 0) 1J .t: (U ^ O OJ H o ^ -r; — u en r- CJ C H-5 2 ^ -G o .^ ;S a P i M-i O O (J >> o OJ o rt 2 < ■ - -^ a. ' tn o. '- ." o cr 1-1 s i = C -M ■" ^ >> o O M-i >. o Ml -^ o ^ ^ s Sis-^ G^-S-^ ^ cj to ^ C^ G O >-' "t« in o "5 Z != .^ O !-^ ^ G '"*"' O - - -^ ^ ;; -E 1^ o a o o o „ o be ■4-: a. +- H ? B > ■" a; en " o ^ -^ h ^ ^ -5 rt G o -^ tn ii oj O 3 u " a- -a ? O bo t Canaveral CKLEDGE 4 V ^ Jobc Sound LITTLE ABACO Al- GT. BAHAMA I. x> GT.rSAC A'Ml>otMr3^s, ISC.W^E IS, DRY T0RTUGA9 KEY WEST «^ .1 ^^^. ■^l O r i '-f ^ ELBOW K^» SALT KEy * W^ East coast Distances VIA THE East Coast railway Jacksonville to: Miles. St. Augustine 36 Palatka 64 Ormond , 104 Holly Hill 107 Daytona 109 7 Blake 112 5 Port Orange 114.7 Savage. 116 Spruce Creek 119 TurnbuU Hay 121 New Smyrna 124 Lake Helen 145 Hawks Park 127 Hucomer 1309 Oak Hill 136.4 Titusville. ., i54-4 City Point 169.3 Rockledge 175 Eau Gallic 189 Melbourne 194 Malabar 199 Micco 208 Sebastian 214 St. Lucie 238 Fort Pierce 241.5 Jensen 256.7 Stuart 260 Alicia .. .___ . 266 6 Kobe Sound 276 6 Westjupiter 282.8 Riviera 295.3 West Palm Beach 299 s Royal Poinciana 300.0 Palm Beach Inn 300.4 Lantana 308 4 Fort Lauderdale 341 o Riscayne ... 358.3 Miami 366.0 Nass.TU 509.0 Key West , 521.0 A CHARACTERISTIC EAST COAST LANDSCAPE. Photo copyright, 1905, by Kaiser, Daytona. 76 THE STANDARD GUIDE. The Seminole Indians are seen at various points on the East Coast from Fort Pierce south to Biscayne Bay. They are the survivors in Florida of a tribe which once engaged the anxious attention of the entire country. In 1835 disputes over the boundaries of the Indian reservation and quarrels over fugitive slaves, which the Seminoles were accused of harboring, led to the Seminole War- — the most costly and disastrous of the minor wars of the United States. At the end of seven years, in 1842, the Indians were subdued, captured and transported to the reser- vation assigned them, where the remnant yet remain in the Indian Territory. A portion of the tribe evaded deportation and betook themselves to this Southern country. They hid in the wilderness Everglades and still remain in tacit rebellion, and regard the white man with suspicious enmity. While one nation, they are divided into three tribes — the Big Cypress, Cow Creek and Miamis. The Big Cypress Indians live in the vicinity of Fort Myers, between Caloosahatchee River and the Gulf of Mexico ; the Miamis live back of Miami, on Biscayne Bay ; and the Cow Creeks are situated back of Fort Pierce and the St. Lucie River, which empties into the Indian River. They have no reservation, no land has ever been assigned them by the Government. Their dwellings are palmetto huts and framed houses; they have horses, dogs, pigs and cattle; and raise corn, sweet potatoes and other vegetables. Flour or starch made from the coontie or wild cassava has always been a staple article of food. The Florida Indians have cul- tivated the soil from primitive days; note the corn and other vegetables in the DR. JIMMIE TUSTANOGEE WITH HIS TWO WIVES AND THE CHILDREN. THE EAST COAST. 77 drawings of Le Moyne, who came to Florida with the French expedition of 1563. The dress of the men con- sists of a turban of folded shawls or handkerchiefs and decorated with a plume, a calico shirt, usually of many colors, with a kerchief or cravat about the neck ; and,, on occasion, leggins and moccasins of tanned deer- skin. The scalp-lock is care- fully protected. The Florida Indian's fashion in head gear has not changed in general character in centuries. Compare the turban of the Seminole of to-day with Osceola's in 1838 (page 25), and again with that of the chief Satourioua in 1563. The w^omen wear their hair cut short in front and coiled behind. Their dress is a long skirt with short waist or jacket. The jacket is decorated with silver or gold coins pounded thin and cut into various shapes. About the neck ANCIENT FLORIDA INDIAN COSTUME. From a drawing by Le Moyne in 1563. INDIAN MODE OF HUNTING ALLIGATORS IN FLORIDA. From Le Moyne's Narrative of the French Expedition in 1563. 78 THE STANDARD GUIDE. of the new-born girl is placed a necklace of beads ; others are added as she grows older, until the mature woman is fairly burdened beneath the weight of her necklaces ; and then with the coming of old age they are gradually discarded. The women are skillful with the needle ; some have sewing machines. The Indian canoe is a dugout of cypress ; it is propelled by sail or push-pole. In these craft the hunters go to sea to harpoon manatee. The Seminole depends largely upon the chase ; he is equipped with the latest models of Winchester arms and is an expert shot. These Indians shoot from hip or elbow without sighting. FLORIDA INDIANS CARRYING THEIR CROPS TO THE STOREHOUSES. From a drazving by the French artist he Moyne in 156^. There w-ere brought in to Fort Lauderdale in a recent year, by the Seminoles, for barter, 5,000 alligator skins; the number killed by the Indians in the State that year probably exceeded 7,000. Once a year, in the last of June or the first of July, the people gather from far and near for the Green Corn Dance, an anniversary which has been observed from time immemorial. It is a time of coming to judgment, and the infliction of punishments, of feasting and making merry. At this time also the marriages take place. The custom followed is one of those survivals common among savage races of the old days when wives were taken by capture ; the girl runs over a certain marked out course, and the man pursues ; if he overtakes her — and whether he does or not depends altogether upon whether she wishes him to — they live happy ever after. ?i. 1 O ^3 •1 :? v. ti o K -g m S g e^- < ^ 1— 1 P ^ ^ ■~" ?V -=> < 5? P s> 5 o a J "5" f^ c OTHER FLORIDA RESORTS. The St. John's River. — The tourist will hardly be satisfied with the glimpses of this noble stream obtained from the car window as the train crosses it at Jacksonville or Palatka, but will plan an excursion by steamboat, in which way alone the picturesque features of the river may be seen. The lower portions of the St. John's are a succession of magnificent reaches, or inland seas, the shores lined with forests of live oak, sweet gum, pine, magnolia and palmettos. In its upper (southern) portion the vegetation becomes more tropical ; the river now narrows to a tortuous passage and again opens into beautiful lakes, and the traveler is charmed with the novel scenery and the changing panorama. Magnolia Springs, situated on the west bank of the St. John's River, twenty-eight miles south of Jacksonville, reached by the Atlantic Coast Line, or by river steamers, is one of the older tourists resorts. It won its fame in the old days before the improved means of travel had lured so many to the new re- gion further south ; but its attractions are as strong to-day as ever before for visitors who have once looked out over the noble reaches of the river from the shaded banks of Magnolia. The St. John's River at this point broadens out into a sheet of water three miles wide, having much the appearance of a lake, which, together with the numerous creeks, furnishes abundant opportunity for boating. The Magnolia tennis courts have been the scene of some of the most successful THE ST. JOHN S AT MAGNOLIA SPRINGS. THE EAST COAST. 8i YOUNG WOMEN S DORMITORY — JOHN B. STETSON UNIVERSITY. tournaments held in the South ; and the golf links, of nine holes, rank as among" the most attractive in Florida. Shooting and fishing are excellent in the imme- diate vicinity. Magnolia Springs takes its name from a magnificent spring, whose waters, besides being remarkable for their purity and excellence as table waters^ have well-attested therapeutic cjualities, especially in rheumatic affections. One of the favorite walks from Magnolia is St. David's Path, or Lovers' Lane (ever) well-ordered resort in Florida has a Lovers' Lane), which leads for a mile and a half along the forested banks of the St. John's to Green Cove Springs. De Land is situated in the orange grove section, between the St, John's River and the Atlantic Ocean, too miles south of Jacksonville, on the Atlantic Coast Line. The town is noted for its salubrious climate and healthfulness, and for the enterprise, intelligence and high character of its people. The city is for miles surrounded by forests of the yellow southern pine, enriching the air with balsam. The atmosphere at De Land is, for Florida, remarkably dry. No lakes, rivers or swamps are in the immediate vicinity, and the deep deposit of porous sand pro- vides perfect surface drainage. Shade trees are abundant. Rows of substantial brick business buildings, all occupied, give the city an aspect of prosperity, which is enhanced by the numerous tasteful, comfortable houses, with their well-kept lawns which Hne the residence streets. De Land is the seat of the John B. Stetson University, which has a group of massive and beautiful buildings, cost- ing over $300,000; a carefully selected, rapidly growing library of 13,000 vol- umes; a comprehensive museum of natural history; distinct, well-equipped A TANGLE OF WILDERNESS. Photo copyright, 1905, by Kaiser, Daytona. THE EAST COAST. 83 laboratories for physics, chemistry and biology; a large gymnasium with all necessary apparatus ; forty-five professors and instructors, who are graduates of institutes of highest rank, and a fine student body made up of young men and women from all parts of Florida and from many States of the Union. The University includes a college of liberal arts, a school of law, a school of tech- nology, an academy preparing for any American college, normal and practice schools, a business college, a school of art, and a school of music. Lake Helen is delightfully located in a great forest of primeval pines, on the highest land east of the St. Johns, eight miles from the river, twenty from the Atlantic, and 140 from Jacksonville. The air is resinous and pure. It has no miasma from the river, nor the harshness of the Coast breeze. There is no more healthful and restful place in Florida — probably not in the world. The same environments are found in Lake Helen as in the famous resorts in the pines in Georgia and further north, with the balmy air and climate of Florida additional. The lakes abound in fish, bass from 8 to 13 pounds have been caught therein. In the wood are quail, wild turkeys and other game for the pursuit of the sportsman. Some of the finest bearing orange groves in the central part of the State are within the town limits. Roses bloom in the greatest luxuriance from January throughout the entire winter and spring. There are beautiful drives in all direc- tions, leading to many interesting places, as well as good bicycle paths. Winter Park is celebrated for its elevated situation amid the beautiful lakes of Orange County. No less than fourteen shining sheets of water may be seen from one of the hotel observatories, and the panorama includes handsome villas and fruited orange groves. Well-built, hard-surfaced roads afiford pleasant drives. The town is the winter home of numerous families from the North, and West, who have handsome residences here, and who make up a refined and cultivated society. Winter Park is the seat of Rollins College, an institution of high standard, having an admirably chosen faculty, and being equipped with all the essentials. It has a full college course, a preparatory school, and schools of music, business, fine arts, and industrial and domestic arts ; and thus affords opportunity for young people from the North to spend the winter in Florida without interruption of their education. From Jacksonville, Winter Park may be reached over the Seaboard Air Line, the Atlantic Coast Line, or the Florida East Coast Railway. OcALA is situated on the central ridge of the peninsula, and is midway be- tween Jacksonville and Tampa, on the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Air Line railways. To the east is Silver Springs and the Ocklawaha River; to the west, Blue Springs. The town is an important commercial center, and is equipped with all the conveniences of an up-to-date city. Clay roads offer delightful drives. 84 THE STANDARD GUIDE. Altamonte Springs is located 138 miles south of Jacksonville on the main line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, in the center of Orange County. There are many pretty towns, villages and cities in its vicinity : Maitland, Winter Park, the location of Rollins College ; Orlando, the county seat ; and Sanford, the terminus of the Clyde navigation on the St. Johns River. Altamonte Springs is connected by fine, hard clay roads with these and many other places of interest. The country is high, rolling, pine-covered lands, dotted with hundreds of spring-fed lakes. There are 1,100 lakes in Orange County. Bearing orange groves are numerous. There are many beautiful winter cottages, beside the prosperous homes of those who make this their permanent residence. Orlando, the county seat of Orange County, is situated in the central portion of the Florida peninsula, 147 miles south of Jacksonville, and 90 miles north of Tampa. The land upon which the city is located is elevated 120 feet above the sea and has a perfect natural drainage. The entire region is dotted all over with pretty lakes, thirteen of them being within the corporate limits of Orlando. Fish are plentiful in all of them. Orlando has graded public schools and two academies; well-paved streets and 150 miles of modern improved highways, unsurpassed for automobiling, wheeling and carriage driving. There is here the only polo club south of Camden ; and a modern race course gives weekly trotting matinees during the winter season. KissiMMEE is 165 miles south of Jacksonville on the Atlantic Coast Line, in the center of an excellent hunting and fishing country. The Caloosahatchee River, from Kissimmee, is one of the most interesting waterways of Florida, and the river and lake and canal trip from Kissimmee to Fort Myers is something in character and attraction quite apart from the ordinary travel routes. " Fort Myers is situated on the south bank of the Caloosahatchee River, eighteen miles east from the Gulf. It is 140 miles south of Tampa, 120 miles north of Key West, and is in the same latitude as that of Palm Beach. The surrounding country is well stocked with game ; and the fishing here is famous. Fort Myers has become the Mecca for anglers from all parts of the world, and for a number of years past this place has been recognized as the greatest tarpon fishing resort in the country. The roll of tarpon fishermen includes the name of Thomas A. Edison. The largest fish taken in 1904 was caught by Rev. C. Harvey Hartman, of Chatham, N. J. ; it measured 5 feet 8 inches, and weighed 220 pounds. A BIT OF FORT MYERS. THE EAST COAST. 85 Belleair is on the Gulf coast, 25 miles from Tampa, about 200 miles from Jacksonville, from which point it is reached by the Atlantic Coast Line. This part of the. Gulf coast is distinguished for healthfulness and a delightful climate. The fishing ranks with the best in Florida, and there are numerous opportunities for outdoor sports. The vegetation is tropical, and the scenery attractive. Some of the finest orange groves in Florida are here. The cocoanut, waving banana and camphor trees, the tangerine and grape fruit, huge rubber and cactus plants and the wonderful shell mounds, everywhere to be found in the long drives through the palm forests, are an interesting study. St. Petersburg, situated on the west coast of Florida, surrounded by the waters of Tampa Bay, within the influence of the mild and balmy breezes of the Gulf of Mexico, and the health breathing odor from the piney woods affords a most delightful place in which to spend the winter months. Long piers extending out into the bay afford tourists splendid fishing facilities. Quail and other game are abundant in the surrounding country. The town has a daily steamer service to Port Tampa and Tampa, also to the Manatee River section. St. Petersburg is reached by the Atlantic Coast Line from Jacksonville. Key West is reached from Miami by steamboats, which make tri-weekly trips. The daylight sail of 165 miles is amid the Florida Keys, with a diversity of island scenery which in itself well repays one for the excursion. Key West (Spanish Cayo Hueso — Bone Key) is a low coral island lying sixty miles south of Cape Sable, and the town is the southernmost city in the United States. Havana is only ninety miles south. The island here, at the key of the Gulf is an important strategic point ; it has one of the largest naval stations in the country, and is defended by Fort Taylor. Not far to the westward, on Garden Key of the Dry Tortugas, is the great fortification of Fort Jefferson. The picturesque char- acter of the island and town is indicated in our illustration, looking from the grim battery of Fort Taylor to the curving shores, with their palms. The cocoa .and date palms grow in profusion ; and the flora includes the royal poinciana ; the sugar maple, whose fragrance fills the air ; immense banyans, one in the bar- rack yard covering an area of 50 feet ; and gigantic cacti rising in stems 20 feet in the air. Fernandina, thirty-six miles from Jacksonville, has the finest deep-water harbor on the East Coast, and one of the most magnificent sea beaches in the world. It is the Atlantic terminus of the Seaboard Air Line. Fernandina is a very old town and possesses many interesting historic associations. Sanford, on picturesque Lake Monroe, is famous for its black bass fishing and affords good hunting in the vicinity. It is the terminus of Clyde's St. Johns River line of steamers ; and may be reached also by both the Florida East Coast and the Seaboard Air Line. ^6 THE STANDARD GUIDE. The extension of the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Air Line, with the greatly improved travel facilities thus provided, have brought into a growing popularity places in the hill and lake sections and on the West Coast. Lakeland has nine lakes within the town limits, with numerous others in the vicinity, all affording boating and fishing. The altitude of Lakeland, 265 feet, is the highest in the State. Florida has the minimum altitude record of the United States; Delaware comes next, with a highest point of 282 feet. Lake City, located amid a group of lakes, has an established reputation for healthfulness. The State Agricultural College is here. EuSTis, or Lake Eustis, and surrounded by hills, has good shooting and fishing, with woodland drives and opportunities for boating. It is on the Atlantic Coast Line, Tallahassee, the State capital, is in the rolling hill section, quite different from the prevailing flat country characteristic of Florida. The city is noted for the profusion of its roses and for its flower gardens. The air is dry and out- door living the rule. There is good shooting for ducks and quail, Maitland, seven miles from Orlando, and lying between Altamonte Springs and Winter Park, has many winter visitors drawn to it by the charms of the lake country and the resources it offers the sportsman and angler. There are many other points which might well have note as resorts during the winter and early spring months. Gainesville, one of the older cities of Florida, enjoys the advantage of a delightful climate, and every season finds its winter population largely augmented. Waldo, near which are Lake Alto and Santa Fe ; Haw^thorn, Wildwood and Tavares in the orange district ; Lees- burg, the chief commercial city of the section ; Dade City and Pasadena in the Flill Country of South Florida, and many other inland points are in growing favor and have their increasing quotas of visitors. On the Gulf Coast, resorted to by fishermen, and besides the places already named as Gulf Coast resorts. Cedar Key, Homosassa, Tarpon Springs and Sarasota and Punta Gorda should have mention, especially as fishing points. The tarpon and many other species prized by the angler abound in these waters ; and the sportsman may hardly go astray in the quest of game and fish. Tarpon Springs, on the Anclote River, is in a cottage city of visitors from the North, who winter here. Yachting and fishing are the popular amusements. Punta Gorda, on Charlotte Harbor, is a headquarters for fishermen, who find here the tarpon and many other prized game fishes. At SuwANEE Springs, on the Suwanee River, famed in song, are found the Suwanee springs, mineral waters of established great value. "Tampa is the metropolis of the West Coast of Southern Florida, and one of THE EAST COAST. 87 the most interesting cities in the State, as well as one of the most active com- mercially. It is at the head of Tampa Bay and the mouth of the Hillsborough River. The Tampa Bay Hotel is a magnificent monument of the man who spent over $3,000,000 in building this gorgeous Moorish pile and surrounding it with a botanical garden not less superb. "Below Tampa Bay, and as far south as Naples, nearly at the end of the peninsula, the coast is a succession of beautiful bays, with the picturesque vegetation of the tropics lining their white, curving beaches. The land itself undulates gracefully and grass grows down to the edge of the beach, shaded by great live-oaks, hickories, splendid palmetto trees, pines, and magnolias. The coast line waves gracefully against the exquisitely blue water, as calm as a lake just gently rippled by the never-failing breeze. At a short distance from the shore is a line of long, narrow keys, between which there are frequent passes into the Gulf of Mexico, and as you sail the peaceful waters of these protected bays, you look across the keys and see the big ships rising and falling with the swell of the Gulf. The climate is influenced by the Gulf Stream, and the vegetation is much more tropical than it would be otherwise, while the large bodies of warm salt water, together with the night breeze blowing from the Atlantic, and through the pine trees of the interior, make the region as perfect a sanitarium as could be devised. "This region is also favored in the matter of game and fish. There is an abundance of small game, even in the most thickly settled parts, and of larger kinds a few miles back from the coast. There is no finer fishing anywhere than in the rivers and bays from Tampa Bay south. Sarasota Bay is the home of the . great tarpon. There are many varieties of other fish in greatest abundance here, including kingfish, redfish, Spanish mackerel, pompano, mullet, and, indeed, all the fish native to Southern waters. The Manatee River gives a distinctive character to a large part of this region. It is one of the most beautiful rivers in the world, the subject of romantic legend and tradition. The river is two miles broad at its mouth, and for several miles up the stream it is more than a mile wide. Some six or seven miles up there are a number of little towns and villages that are the center of an active, prosperous population engaged in fruit culture and truck farming. Manatee, the oldest town of the district, is a picturesque old place, and near it is an interesting ruin, Braiden Castle, as it is called, which withstood an attack by Indians in their last outbreak in this region. Within a short distance from Manatee is Braidentown. It is progressive, has electric lights, and electric railway, good stores, a newspaper, a bank, good schools and churches, and a number of handsome residences. It is an old place, but, like the whole of this section, took on renewed life and vigor after the great freeze in the winter of 1894-95. The frost .did not reach thus far south, and the crop here has never suffered from this cause. Consequently many persons came into the county to engage in orange culture and gardening for the Northern markets." THE STANDARD GUIDE. CAST UP ON THE FLORIDA SHORE. In the Atlantic Ocean, about sixty miles due east from the Florida coast, are located the Bahama Islands, and between these and the coast is a great thoroughfare or track of vessels, both steamers and sail craft, en- gaged in commerce or transportation be- tween the northern cities and the Gulf of Mexico, the isthmus of Panama, the West Indies, northern South America and Cali- fornia. These vessels are, from time to time, exposed to the terrible storms and hurri- canes which prevail at certain seasons of the year, and in spite of the greatest care and precautions, are not unfrequently wrecked and driven ashore, or, escaping this, are compelled to throw overboard more or less of their cargoes to avoid destruction. The prevailing easterly winds, and the Gulf Stream which sets in closer to the Florida coast — near Jupiter Inlet — than elsewhere, causes a large percentage of such "burdens of the sea" to be carried on that coast, be- tween Cape Canavaral and Biscayne Bay, a distance of some two hundred miles; and the shore between these points seems to be liter- ally lined with the debris of wrecked vessels, or their cargoes, at times almost buried in sand; and, again, after change of wind, and a heavy sea, so exposed, that one could al- most walk for miles on the planks of old wrecks which have been accumulating for hundreds of years. Formerly there were few or no settlers along the coast, and only now and then a solitary "beach-comber" (one who gains his livelihood by gleaning from the sea- shore), or, perhaps, some shipwrecked sailors, or a few wandering Indians, ever ap- peared to note what might be cast ashore. But since the country near the coast has be- come peopled, the settlers regularly walk the beach, particularly after a storm, gathering up whatever they find worth saving, and carrying it above the reach of the waves, where it is left until a convenient season for taking it home, and by common consent, such removal above high-water mark, es- tablishes ownership. Many of the dwellings along the coast are built of lumber and timber thus saved; and no small quantity of family stores are thus gathered; firkins of butter and lard, cans of fruit, boxes of sardines, barrels without number, demijohns of brandy, crates of garlic, bales of cotton, and when, as sometimes happen, a large steamer goes ashore, the beach is strewn for miles with goods and merchandise, and people gather, from far and near, to get what they can from the wreck. A ramble along the unfrequented beach is always interesting, and somewhat exciting, and would drive away the blues from the veriest misanthrope in existence. The dash- ing of the huge breakers, the movements of mammoth sharks, the vast schools of mullet, the graceful flights of the uncouth pelican, the tumbling porpoise, and the hundreds of sea-gulls on the ocean side, while shells, in almost myriad forms are strewn along the sands, and an ever-varying succession of articles washed ashore, and going to decay on the bank above, all "combine to make up a scene of interest. The most common and plentiful articles to be found are bottles — bottles of every size and shape and color, round, square and ob- long, nearly all empty, most of them having a suspicious smell, when uncorked, of gin or brandy, but the contents, if any, are usually too salt to be palatable. Sometimes a bot- tle comes ashore, in which, sealed tight, to keep dry, is a record of some vessel foundered in a far-away sea, or of human beings, in a distant part of the world, re- duced to dire extremity, and trusting to this as their only hope of making known their fate. Sometimes a board is found, on which is written in blood, the name of a vessel, and the record, "Foundered at Sea," with name and date, and this is all that is ever known of a staunch vessel, and gallant crew. Children's toys, crutches, ladies' bonnets, lead pencils, shoes and stockings, and old- fashioned hoop skirts, are not uncommon, while, occasionally, the old hulk of a Spanish galleon, which has been buried in the sand for years, is uncovered, and the silver and gold, which it may have carried, is sometimes brought to the surface. Trunks, filled with' valuables, have been carried up on the beach, and instances are known where large sums THE STANDARD GUIDE. 89 of money have been found in them. Cocoanuts come ashore, and after lying buried in sand for a time, sprout and grow, until transplanted by the settlers to a more congenial spot. Sea beans, vegetable-ivory, and other nuts and fruits are common, all along the coast. Strange fish, which can be likened to nothing else on earth, are mingled with the debris; and a collection of relics from this coast would represent almost all nations, but all tell a tale of sufifering and disaster, which can but sadden the thought- ful, and awaken the sympathies of all. Boston Floridian. THE RAILROAD TO KEY WEST. The most notable railroad enterprise now in progress, and one of the most remarkable ever undertaken, is the extension of the Florida East Coast Railway from Miami to Key West. Some details of the work, which is now in course of construction, are given in a report by Thomas P. Ghastry in the Baltimore Manufacturers' Record. Mr. Ghastry quotes Mr. Flagler as saying: "I have long thought of a railroad to Key West, but the engineering difHculties seemed insurmountable. When the Panama Canal was decided on I determined to put to an en- gineering test the practicability of a railroad from the mainland of Florida to the port of Key West. Tides, currents, winds, all sorts of things, had to be reckoned with. The survey has been made, the practicability proven, and New York and Key West are to be connected by rail. Here is a memo- randum from my engineers showing what it all means." The facts of the memorandum are these: The distance from Miami to Key West is 154 miles. Of this, 28 miles is completed to Homestead, the present terminus of the road. The work from Homestead south is made up in round numbers of 60 miles rock em- bankment through the waters separating the mainland from Key Largo and through the waters separating the dififerent keys. There are to be four concrete viaducts 31 feet above the water — one from Long Key to Conch Key, 10,500 feet; a viaduct across Knight's Key channel, 7,300 feet; a viaduct across Moser Key Channel, 7,800, and a viaduct across Bahia Honda Key channel, 4,950 feet, making a total of concrete viaduct ■30»550 feet, equivalent to 5.78 miles. These viaducts are to be constructed of re- inforced concrete, 50-foot spans resting on piers set into solid rock and strengthened with piles. The base of the pier at rock sur- face is 28 feet, and at the springing line of arch 20 feet 7 inches. From the water to the crown of the arch will be 25 feet. To that should be added the thickness of the arch at the crown, ballast, ties, etc., making the track 31 feet above the level of the water. Of the water openings there are seven, 25 feet each. These are in the solid embank- ment, and are only intended for rowboats and small craft. Of drawbridges there are to be three, with openings aggregating 410 feet. The remain- ing distance, about 65 miles, is made up of the islands or keys over which the road passes. After leaving the mainland the first key traversed is Key Largo, the largest of the entire group of Florida keys, being some 40 miles in length. Of this, however, the rail- road traverses only 15 miles. The names of the keys south of Key Largo, in order are as follows: Plantation Key, Windley's Key, Upper Matecumbe, Lower Matecumbe, Long Key, Conch Keys, Grassy Key, Crawl Key, Key Vaca, Knight's Key, Little Duck Key, Missouri Key, Ohio Key, Bahia Honda, West Summerland Key, Cudjoe, Sugar Loaf Key, Saddle Bunch Keys, Big Coppit Key, Rockland Key, Boca Chica, Stock Island, and Key West. There are a number of other keys in plain sight of the line of the road which the road does not traverse. Many of these keys are beautiful, being covered with groves of cocoanuts, pineapples, etc. Terminal facilities at Key West will com- prise a dry dock and ten covered piers, each 800 feet in length and 100 feet in width, with basin 200 feet between piers. The ten piers 90 THE STANDARD GUIDE. .will furnish berths for forty ships 400 feet in length with a depth of water ranging from .20 to 30 feet. Mr. J. C. Meredith at Miami, •Fla., is constructing engineer in charge of all the work. We quote also a report of an interview with Mr. Flagler published in the New York Herald: "I had a special interview with Mr. Flagler regarding the details of this remarkable work, which has now reached a point known as Homestead, twenty-eight miles southwest from Miami. The road will traverse for a considerable distance a ridge of slight eleva- tion of oolitic limestone, and passing beyond this will reach sand, the mangrove, that strange tree which reaches its roots down- ward into the water from the limbs above, being for a long distance the principal vege- tation. Then the road will strike considerable stretches of water, more or less shallow, bat always the foundation will be one of the finest and most substantial imaginable, name- ly, coral rock. "The construction will be of the most ex- pensiA'e and durable character, and every- thing will make for absolute safety. The first survey was for a line to Cape Sable, but when this was made, Mr. Flagler found that ,he was sixty miles from Key West and twelve miles from what is known as the three-fathom line of the Gulf. He therefore decided to undertake the greater proposition, and so changed the line from Homestead, and is building more nearly along what may be called the general line of the coast. "In a scenic way this road will be notable. The views it will give of those beautiful Southern waters, with all their tenderness of tint, with the scores of "keys' or islands and islets, great and small, will make it like a voyage in wonderland. The line will pass from key to key, and the first deep water it will strike will be at what is known as Knight's Key, where there will be a channel thirteen feet in depth. "Several drawbridges will be constructed, some for the use of the small vessels which are engaged in the sponge fisheries, the seat of the sponge trade being Key West. One of the drawbridges will be for the special convenience of pleasure craft, including houseboats, so that the latter can thread their way through the mazes of the keys and thus avoid the broader waters of the Gulf or of the Atlantic Ocean. "The solidity of the bottom of this won- derful piece of railway construction will be equaled by that of the roadbed itself; in other words, the latter will be partly of coral rock quarried from the keys, and made entirely solid, and partly of cement or steel. "Mr. Flagler has, of course, the best en- gineers, and these assure him that steel can be so treated as to withstand easily the cor- rosion usual in that climate and under those conditions. "He will build piers, these to be cylinders of steel in some cases where the water is deepest, say four feet in diameter, and filled with cement, while in other cases there will be piers of cement, with arched spans of fifty feet, also of cement, strengthened with steel. The roadbed will in all that part of the con- struction be twenty-seven feet above the water, so that there will be entire safety, the danger from storms practically amounting to nothing owing to the natural shelter which is given the line by the formation of the keys. "One of the largest to be traversed is Key Largo, and another very important one is Bahia Honda, which is only forty miles from the eastern end of the Island of Key West. The latter island will be the terminus of this most important road. Below Ba'liia Honda there will be the most important of the bridge construction, this being about seven miles in length, and the total cost of the bridge alone will run into the millions. In all the world there will be nothing like it. "At one point for almost three miles the line will run entirely over the water. Mr. Flagler remarked with a smile that travelers over this route would not be troubled with dust. The deepest water to be built over is twenty to twenty-five feet. "The charter which Mr. Flagler originally obtained from the State of Florida for the Florida East Coast Road called for its con- struction within a certain period to the island of Key West, which is named as its deep- water terminal, and hence it is going there. He cannot say what the total cost will be, but it will amount to many millions, as he is THE STANDARD GUIDE. 91 determined to have the solidity unquestioned and every appointment most thorough. "The position of Florida with relation to important Southern points, to wit, Cuba and the Panama Canal, is perhaps not generally known. Key West is much to the westward of Florida, and in fact, it and Tallahassee, the Florida capital, are on a line north and south, while a line drawn from Miami to the southward will be found to pass midway through Cuba and then strike Colon, one of the terminals of the isthmian canal. - "Key West literally dominates Cuba, and ■Mr. Flagler will construct on the former island a splendid system of terminals, filling in a vast stretch of the shore with material very probably a singular kind of white mud found a little distance away, which has great hardness and makes an admirable soil. "Space will also be provided for a dry- dock, with complete facilities. In other words, the plant at the terminal is to be on 3. scale much larger than anything yet seen in that part of the country. Mr. Flagler says he cannot himself estimate the cost oft this extension of his road, as he does not yet know how much of it will be what is known as rock fill and how much cement; but what is best and strongest will be used, so as to bid defiance to wind or wave and make the road absolutely safe, no matter what the weather may be. "The road will pass through the most tropical and fertile parts of Florida, with un- bounded possibilities for the growth of truck and fruit, for the opening of new pleasure re- sorts and for new haunts for the fisherman and the hunter, and will then pass on to Key West, whence there will be afforded excep- tional facilities for travel to Cuba, for steam- ers far larger than any ever used in those waters are to form part of the system. In other words, the road is meant to grasp the Cuban passenger traffic. "Season by season the travel to Cuba from this country grows greater and greater, and last season the steamers in use were actually unable to handle it. Mr. Flagler is himself one of the largest holders of stock in Cuban railways, and he knows the possibilities of that 'garden island.' He was there last win- ter and spent a week as the guest of another distinguished railway president, Sir William Van Home, who is in charge of the leading railways in Cuba. Mr. Flagler found to his surprise that only one-eighth of the arable land there had ever been put in cultivation. "Speaking of the possibilities of lower Florida, Mr. Flagler remarked that until re- cently he himself had not known how ex- tremely fertile the soil was south of Miami. It is true that south of that river the grape- fruit and other citrus fruits grow to greater abundance than elsewhere. Grapefruit trees are seen bearing four to five hundred pounds of this fruit. "The development of orange culture below the Miami is sure to be very marked. The Florida orange is generally regarded as the best on earth. Even the oranges from Cali- fornia when transplanted to Florida improve greatly. The oranges in Cuba are inferior, but now the Florida orange is being intro- duced in that island. Mr. Flagler, while in Cuba last March, met a gentleman, a native, who had set out three hundred, thousand Florida orange trees, and who said he ex- pected great results from them." IN SPANISH ST. AUGUSTINE. Le Sieur Causse, an honest French mariner of the eighteenth century, who was shipwrecked on the Bahamas, plundered by pirates, and in the end forced to turn pirate himself, and who left in a manuscript care- fully cherished by his descendants, an account of his sea life, found his way about the year 1750 to St. Augustine; and gives a racy and curious picture of what he saw here: "In Havana we found a French corsair, commanded by M. Ferret, who also owned the vessel. It mounted six three-pounder guns, twelve swivel guns, and had seventy men of all sorts and conditions, including Spaniards, Turks, Genoese, and English. As I was now quite destitute, and had nothing left in the world but my shirt and breeches, there seemed nothing better for me than to embark on board this ship, especially as M. Ferret offered me the post of lieutenant. He took at the same time several of our people. After victualling the ship, we set sail for the 92 THE STANDARD GUIDE. English strait. When two days out we saw a Httle ship careening under the island of Samana. To ascertain what she was M. Ferret lowered the long boat, and I was ordered to take nine men, and if she turned out to be English, to seize her. When already near to her, some English sailors who had concealed themselves behind the rocks, opened a volley of musketry fire upon us, which only wounded three of us. Our wish was to land and drive them out, but M. Ferret by signal recalled us to the ship, and our corsair was moved in to half cannon shot distance, almost grounding, and we cannon- aded her till we had rendered her useless. "When we were off St. Augustine, in Florida, we determined to careen and repitch our vessel. So in answer to our signal for a pilot a launch came ofif from the shore and took us in tow. By hard rowing they brought us over the bar, so that we were able to sail up the river. Next day we came to anchor before the town of St. Augustine, which we saluted with thirteen guns. The boat was lowered, and M. Ferret paid a visit to the governor, who received him with every at- tention, offering to supply us with all we needed. Next day the governor came on board, and we set before him a collation of a varied sort, on which he complimented us. Indeed this little dcjciincr was of the gayest. We drank to the prosperity of our countries with the accompaniment of salvos of cannon, and the cheers of the men who went into the rigging. When the governor left he in- vited all the officers to the Government House next day. "The hour being at hand for our appear- ance there, many of us represented to M. Ferret that we could not present ourselves before the governor decently, as most of us had only one shirt and one pair of breeches, which made him laugh much. Being deter- mined to take us along with him, he lent us all the clothing he had, and although it was his very best, yet our appearance was com- ical enough. Some of us had lace up clothes without vests, others nothing but vests and big breeches. Thus then in grand parade, each of us with a sword at his side, we pro- ceeded to the Government House, where we were received by the governor himself and introduced to the company. We sat down to a dinner served by the cook, Dubord, and had good wine dessert. At 3 o'clock we ad- journed to another hall and danced minuets with some beautiful Spanish ladies. After- wards we went to the church, where the gov- ernor had us placed in a large covered pew by his side. It had a curtain of crimson velvet and was opposite the pulpit. The preacher was Recollet Father. At the sec- ond part of the discourse we were surprised to see him produce a skull upon which he placed a wig. After he had spoken in an im- passioned manner words which, though we could not understand them, were evidently good moralities, he took the peruque off this skull and in its stead placed a head-dress and a veil. Doubtless this part of his discourse was addressed to the women. At which re- markable scene some of us could not resist laughter. For my own part, I bit my lips to save myself from exploding. I could have wished to have been outside. In concluding his sermon he took a crucifix, and as if he noticed that what he had said had not suffi- ciently moved his audience, I understood very well that he cried out several times, 'You are not willing to weep? You are not willing to weep for your God? Very well, I will take Him away." Then he descended from the pulpit and left the church in a rage, taking the crucifix with him; and immediately everybody rushed out after him, through the streets, telling their rosaries. There only remained in the church a few women faint- ing and without help. Such an impression had the monk made upon them! He present- ly returned, still followed by, the crowd, into the church, pronounced the benediction, and all was over. "We next went with the governor to see the races, which are chiefly entertaining on account of the large assemblage of people of both sexes. The race itself is a very small matter. About sixty horses were made to run one after another, while their riders tried to seize the head of a cock who is fastened by the feet to a cord tied across the street above their heads. "Some weeks after, having completed our careen and provisioned our ship, we took farewell of the worthy governor and got out of the river." THE STANDARD GUIDE. 93 WHITEHALL. The following description of Whitehall, the Palm Beach residence of Mr. Henry M. Flagler, is taken from the Palm Beach Nezvs: "Whitehall is a standing object lesson to all who are interested in architectural taste, the suitings of means to ends, the adapta- tion of style to environment. "It is beautiful as a palace, without being pretentious; hox does it so much represent a lavish outlay upon marble, brick and mortar, as it does a dwelling, suited to a sub-tropical environment, and a fitting temple for the dis- play of the rare treasures within. "This point has frequently been made that the distinction of Whitehall is in its rare in- terior decoration and furnishing; yet there is another view possible, and it is of interest to all who contemplate a country house, either for permanent or temporary residence. "The land was raised, made regular in outline by a sea wall and filling-in, green lawns appeared, great palms and extensive shrubberies were transplanted, and yet the logical requirements of tropical nature are inviolate. "The style of architecture adopted is in harmony with the environments of palms, blue water and blue sky. The low, broad treatment of the Spanish style, distinguished by interior courts, long arcades, overhang- ing leaves and white walls, has proven its fitness to the South by a long residence in the tropical islands and countries of Spain's ancient empire. The South is the land of glowing color and vivid contrast. Amid vistas of green palms, what «i-o-Fe— appro- priate than snowy walls, separated from the blue above by the dominant red of the tiled roof and accentuated by the secondary spot of red below — the blossoms of the hibiscus? "The building is oriented, its columned portico facing the east, down a broad walk flanked with brilliant banks of hibiscus. The plan is a square with interior court, and the general treatment throughout, harmonious and symmetrical. "The visitor who enters the bronze portal finds himself at once within the main hall, one hundred and ten feet long, with a domed ceiling above, and facing him the grand mar- ble stairway. To the left is the library, in Italian Renaissance style; to the right is the entrance to the salon, the main treat- ment of which is in period of Louis XVI. "The left or south wing includes the music room, hung with fine paintings, the ball room and private suite of the master of the house. Of these the ball room, of the perfect type of the time of Louis XV., a harmony of white and gold, is to many connoisseurs the most perfectly beautiful conception in the whole scheme of decoration. "The right or east wing includes the grand dining room, treated in Frangois I. design, the breakfast room and various departments of the cuisine. "In each room there is some touch — the tapestry, curtains, or even it may be but an oil painting on the wall — that calls one back to the Spanish motive of the whole, while through the windows are ever visible the palms, and the tropical sunshine that char- acterize the spot sought by Spain's great idealist, Ponce de Leon. "The treatment of the second story is equally impressive. The sixteen bedrooms are each a masterpiece in itself. The differ- ent styles illustrated vary from the Colonial and modern American to the Elizabethan or the unrivalled period of the 'Grand Monarque.' "The bedrooms are in continuous suite, each furnished with complete appointments, opening on the one hand upon the exterior, on the other upon the interior hall overlook- ing the court within. "The impression of the whole is com- pleteness, harmony, perfection. "First of all a general plan, perfectly adapt- ed in point of beauty and comfort, to the conditions prescribed by Mother Nature, and faithfully carried out in the treatment of the ground, the architecture of the building, and the color treatment of the whole. "The interior is a harmony of different styles of decoration, each complete in itself, no one jarring upon its neighbor, and all uni- form in richness and luxuriance without os- tentation. "This sketch is but an impression, an at- tempt to trace in broad outlines a remark- ably successful handling of the peculiar op- portunities that await taste and discrimina- tion in Palm Beach. No hint can be given of the perfection of detail. That must be seen, to be appreciated." 94 THE STANDARD GUIDE. FISHING AMONG THE FLORIDA KEYS. A . St. y. Newberry in Forest and Streai. From Miami to Key West and beyond ex- tends a shallow sea dotted with small and large islets. Toward the north and west these- are little but mud, mangroves and mosquitoes, but toward the west and south they often show white beaches of coral sand and sorrietimes a little soil capable of culti- vation, while cocoanut palms are not infre- quent. The belt of islets is ten to forty miles in width, and around the inner ones stretch wide sounds of shallow water and broad flats of sand or mud barely covered by the tide. Between the outer keys are frequent channels called creeks, through which the tide ebbs and flows, and beyond the outer line on the east coast is a belt of shoal water from three to five miles wide extending to the Florida Reef, from Avhich the bottom plunges down- ward rapidly to the channel of the great Gulf Stream. On the West Coast the water is shoal all through the Bay of Florida, deep- ening gradually toward the Gulf of Mexico. The whole region naturally divides itself into two districts, the East Coast and West Coast, as they are commonly distinguished, the ter- ritory between the keys being rather similar to and generally included with the latter. These two districts differ considerably in the character of their waters, and the in- habitants thereof, the East Coast being Avashed by water of crystal clearness, peopled by the Spanish mackerel, kingfish, barracuda, amberjacks, and others that rarely appear on the western shore, while the waters of the West Coast are more cloudy, and inhabited by the great rays, the sawfish, the sheeps- head and the drums, gray and red. The tarpon frequents both coasts, but appears earlier and is, I think, more numerous on the west side, while sharks are common everywhere. The eastern fish and fishing have been most fully and carefully described by Mr. W. H. Gregg in his admirable work, "When, Where and How to Catch Fish on the East Coast of Florida," and Mr. Chas. F. Holder, in -his fascinating volume, "The Big Game Fishes of the United States," has written most exhaustively and lovingly of the principal tenants of both districts. Anyone contem- plating a fishing trip to Florida will find these two books give abundant information as well as the keenest pleasure. To get the best results the northern fisher- man might leave Miami about the middle of February, spend two weeks on the East Coast, and reach Marco or Punta Rassa a'bout March i, by which time he ought to find plenty of tarpon. Doing this he is not likely to meet with many "northers," which put an end to all fishing while they blow, and still will be early enough to escape any great heat and the worst of the flies, which last are present in places favorable for them at all seasons, but are not very bad until spring, when the West Coast is said to be almost intolerable, and even the more favored East is not free from the scourge. In the excessively clear waters of the East, fish have every opportunity to see the angler and his line, and they do not fail to make the most of them. As a consequence nearly all are extremely shy and madden one by the calmest indifference to the most seductive baits. To obtain success one must get his bait to the fish while himself at a consider- able distance, and this must be done either by trolling or by making a long cast or let- ting the sinker run down with the tide, and the bait lie on the bottom until a fish strikes. Of course a running sinker must be used, so that the lightest nibble can be felt. If these fish were surface feeders, one could have ideal sport with the fly, and I understand that this has been successfully tried by one or two anglers when fishing in shallow waters. There seem to be few large flies in the country, and the fish live on minnows or crustaceans, so the fly is not offered to them as a fly, but as a strange moving, and there- fore living, object, which is presented and snatched away until a rush is made at it and the unwise investigator is hooked in conse- quence. Mr. Dimmock, whom I met at Marco, and who has done wonders with the THE STANDARD GUIDE. 95 camera and with the spear, tells me that he has had excellent sport with channel bass and small tarpon by using the fly in this manner. In the channels between the keys fishing is greatly dependent on the state of the tide, as fish seem to travel back and forth with the currents while feeding, and when the tide is running strongly it is very difficult to feel the delicate nibble which is usually all that is given. Slack water and the hour or so preceding and following it is the favor- able period, and if fish are not taken then you had better try some other place. On the outer reef this is not so much the case, and one can often find success at any stage of the tide. Florida fish are, however, very freaky and uncertain, like most other fish, and often choose their time for biting and for refusing to do so without apparent reason; but patience and diligence will bring suc- cess in the South as in the North. As most of these fish are bottom feeders, a pretty heavy sinker is usually necessary for still-fishing, and this dead weight is of course a nuisance in fishing and a great hindrance and disavantage in playing a fish when hooked. In the channels and shoal water one can generally use moderately light tackle, though it is always possible that you may hook something large enough to endanger your rig. On the reef to use light tackle is to court disaster, as you are practically cer- tain to strike a monster that even the heaviest rig will barely save. At Alligator Reef my companion had his line broken twice, and twice had the full two hundred 3^ards carried away by some irresistible power. Having never before used a tarpon rod or a twenty-one thread line, I grew to think them equal to any strain that could be exerted, so twice had the line broken at the leader knot through holding big amberjacks too tight, and, having hooked two big sharks while trolling for kingfish, succeeded in both cases in breaking the line without losing much, more by good luck than by any skill. Some months ago I was asked to join in a discussion as to whether fresh or salt-water fish were the stronger. Having then had but little salt-water experience, I did not feel qualified to express an opinion. Now, how- ever, my conviction is fixed beyond shaking that the salt-water fish, weight for weight, is greatly the more powerful. No one who has seen the rushes and leaps of a barracuda, felt the mighty surges of an amber jack or the wild dashes of a kingfish, can for a moment doubt that to any of these the heaviest salmon tackle would be as a thread of gossamer. Using a 24-ounce 6-foot tarpon rod and a multiplier holding 200 yards of 21- thread line (tested to a dead pull of 42 pounds), and equipped with a pad brake, I have repeatedly had more than a hundred yards torn from the reel, in spite of the great- est pressure that my thumb on the brake and my gloved left hand clasped around line and rod, could possibly exert, by fish that proved when gaffed to weigh only twenty pounds or thereabout. After playing and landing my largest amberfish — four feet long and weigh- ing forty-five pounds — my left arm at the elbow ached very sharply, and I actually had to rest for ten minutes before daring to risk it in another such struggle. Our fishing was done from the big launch and was difficult in consequence; it would have been much easier if done from small boats which the fish could tow. The play of the great pelagic fishes caught on or outside the reef is interestingly dif- ferent. The barracuda, sabre-toothed and ' pike-like, makes fierce and long side runs, and often leaps repeatedly clear from the water; the kingfish, splendid in blue and silver and iridescent with pink and purple, takes the bait with a rush that often carries him ten feet clear of the waves, the squid in his jaws, and then dashes wildly from side to side, away, down, up and everywhere. The amber jack does not leap, but marches away with a force that nothing seems able to check, utterly refuses to yield to pressure, never seems to tire, and is of all fish I have met, the one that fights longest and steadiest, with a fund of reserve power that it seems impossible to exhaust. The huge grouper, battleship of fishes, resists heavily and im- movably, and is only too apt to get into a rock and leave you trying to lift the State of Florida. 96 THE STANDARD GUIDE. DRAINING THE EVERGLADES. The draining of the Everglades is a project which has long engaged attention. In 185s the Florida Legislature created the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improve- ment Fund, to whom was intrusted the drainage, reclamation and internal improve- of the public domain, embracing nearly twenty million' acres, which had been granted to Florida by Congress in 1841 and 1850. In 1856 Lieut. J. C. Miles, in a report to Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, wrote of the region: "An area of about 4,000 square miles, embracing more than half the portion of the State south of Lake Okeecho- bee. The sub-soil of this vast region is a coraline limestone. * * * Upon this sur- face lies an immense accumulation of sand, alluvial deposits and decayed vegetable matter, forming a mass of sand and mud from two feet to ten feet or more in depth, that overspreads all but a few points of the first strata. Upon the mud rests a sheet of water, the depth varying with the conformation of the bottom, but seldom at dry seasons, greater than three feet. The whole is filled with rank growth of coarse grass, eight to ten feet high, having a serrated edge like a saw, from which it obtains its name of saw grass. In many portions of the Everglades the saw grass is so thick as to be impene- trable, but it is intersected by numerous nar- row tortuous channels that form a kind of labyrinth, where outlets present themselves in every direction, however, terminating at long or short distances, in impenetrable bar- riers of grass. The surface water is quickly afifected by rain, the alternate rising and fall- ing during the wet seasons being very rapid. The difference of level between highest and lowest stages of water is from two to three feet." The Everglades lie in a depressed basin which is cut off from the Gulf and the Atlan- tic by a run of limestone or coral rock. By the alluvial deposits of the ages this basin has been filled up until the surface has risen above the level of the sea; and at certain i:)oints, where the inclosing rock run is low, the Everglade waters have overflown the barrier or cut a way through it, as with the Miami, New Hillsboro, Middle, Arch and Snake rivers on the east, and the Chocklus- kie and Caloosahatchee on the west. The reclamation of the region by providing arti- ficial canals to draw ofif the water has been pronounced a feasible engineering work. Mr. J. E. Ingraham, who has explored the Everglades, writes in Success of one phase of the drainage work: "There are great agricultural possibilities in the Florida Everglades. Though they are yet merely an expansive waste of swamp and lake and jungle, I venture to predict that they will be the location of hundreds of fertile farms within ten years, and will by degrees develop' into one of the most productive tracts of land in the world. The barrier to the utilization of the Everglades has been, of course, the water which covers the greater part of them to a depth of from one to six feet. But it has been found entirely practi- cal to drain off the water, work to this end has already been begun, and is being pushed rapidly. When it is completed, a tract of land 160 miles long and 6 miles wide will have been opened to cultivation. The size of this region is not as important as the re- markable productivity of the soil. The latter is not only absolutely virgin', but has been fertilized by animal and vegetable life through many centuries. I am confident that its crops will lift Florida to a place among the leading agricultural States. "The project of draining the Everglades attracted the attention of Henry B. Plant in the early nineties, but he was by no means sure that the scheme was feasible, so I, acting unacr his direction, undertook an expedition through the region. Despite its proximity to centers of population, it was then for the first time thoroughly explored by white men. Ours was virtually a voyage of discovery. We paddled our light boats on lakes and camped on islands that I have good reason to believe had never before been visited by any human being but Seminole Indians, and by these but rarely. We underwent so many hardships that some of our party were com- THE STANDARD GUIDE. 97 Ijclled to turn back, but our efforts were not in vain, for we ascertained the important fact that the Everglades, along the whole i6o miles of the eastern side, are rimmed by a rock ledge. We furthermore learned that all of the lakes are several feet above sea level, and we decided that there was nothing what- ever to prevent the water of the lakes flow- ing into the ocean and leaving the land drained if vents could be made in this long- ledge of rock. The chief question before us pertained to the practicability of cutting- through the ledge in various places, and dredging out outlets into the Atlantic, which is not more than two or three miles away at numerous points. "Experiment proved that this work would present no great difficulties. It was merely a matter of a good deal of digging. Henry M. Flagler took up the project, and it is being carried out by his lieutenants. We are not only making artificial outlets through the rock, but are also, by ditching and dredging, turning large bodies of water into rivers and creeks which flow to the ocean. The work has progressed far enough to enable me to predict confidently the opening in Florida, within a very few years, of a great tract of land of almost unprecedented fertility." The work has been taken up by the State, under the supervision of the Board of Trus- tees of the Internal Improvement Fund, of which Governor Napoleon B. Browan is the chairman. 'l\vo powerful dredges arc, at this writing, under construction in the New River, at Fort Lauderdale. One is named the Everglades, the other the Okeechobee; and both will dredge their way up the river into the Everglades toward Lake Okeecho- bee. TARPON AT FORT MYERS. F7-om the Fort Myers Press. It is on account of the tarpon fishing in the Caloosahatchee River that Fort Myers has become the mecca for anglers from all parts of the world, and for a number of years past this place has been recognized as the greatest tarpon fishing resort in the country. The sport began to attract attention in the winter of 1890. In that year Mr. W. H. Wood landed a tarpon with rod and reel, weighing 117 pounds. The Forest and Stream published a fine cut of the tarpon with an in- teresting account of the sport, which attracted the attention of anglers everywhere. From that time every sportsman and follower of Izaak Walton was not content until he had played the big, gamey, silver king. The tar- pon is royal game, and sportsmen come from all parts of the world to seek him. The tarpon is no common fish, and no com- mon implements will capture him. Your rod should only be seven feet long, and the reel four inches in diameter, and should be made of tempered steel and German silver. The line is 30D to 400 yards in length, while the snood is made of various materials that are not easily cut by the tarpon. The hook should be a No. 10, three inches in length and thoroughly tested, for if your fish breaks away your heart will break, too. The outfit should cost you $25, but you can easily pay five times that sum for one that will give no better service. Then get a good guide, a light boat large enough for comfort, with a revolving arm chair for you to sit in. A good Fort Myers guide will keep the run of the fish and take you to the spot where you are inost likely to find the fish feeding. It may be at Red Fish Point, Niggerhead, Whiskey Creek, Four Mile Island, the bulkhead across the river from the hotel, or up near the jetties. The tarpon is a shy feeder, and his mouth is tender. He will take the bait and run some distance before he is satisfied there is noth- ing wrong. While doing this the tyro is apt to "strike" too soon, for even the slightest resistance of the reel, added to the weight of the line, will make him drop the hook. But at last he bolts the bait and starts oft' for another item in the menu. When the tentative pull becomes a steady drag, strike hard, and you have him. Give him the butt now, with your feet against the thwart, and vour whole frame 98 THE STANDARD GUIDE. tingling. Be careful that you do not bite off the amber mouth-piece to your briar pipe or drop it overboard as you yell, for you have your work cut out; he is rarely under fifty pounds, and more often over loo pounds, frequently going over 150 pounds. His majesty quivers through all his glitter- ing length when he feels the pain in his "innards," and the indignity of a check. He shakes his head from side to side till the taut line sings and then his curved dorsal cuts the surface and he bolts. Let him go — nothing short of a mule could stop him, and the task is beyond your strength or your tackle. The guide rows hard to assist you to keep as much as you can of your line, for his rush will be long. Keep cool and trust to your boatman. Give him no slack. He reaches deep water, and he plunges; down, down, he goes, and the strain on your line is lessened. You are approaching a crisis. Straight upward he comes, and you gasp, for there is no pull, and you think he is free. No, up still — he reaches the sur- face, and out he springs, a long symmetrical bar of gleaming silver, doubling as it rises, till, at the apex of the leap the tail nears the mouth and a blow is struck at the little line that would fell an ox. But your line is slack, your point lowered, he beats only the air, and he plunges again, sullenly this time. You feel his disappointment, and you almost grieve with him that so grand a coup was in- effectual. There is another rush, but a shorter one; another leap and a sullen plunge. Gather your line as he goes down. Then he tries other tactics. On the bottom or near it he grinds his jaws like scissors and tries in vain to cut these elusive threads that bind him to his fate^ntangible to him, but strong as links of steel. He dashes his head from side to side and twists about. Keep your line taut, or he will entangle it about his body and have you at a disad- vantage. Leave him alone in his struggles, bring your boat nearer and reach for a drink. Your lips are dry and your fingers tremble, but he gives you little time, for another rush is coming. Up again, but not so high does he glitter in the sunshine, and as the great oar of a tail swings round you see much of the spring has departed, and there is a look in the great eyes that gives you a thrill of pity, for the dumb agony of a great despair is in them. Back again to the blue waters to try a last hope. He goes straight to the bottom. One moment he seeks the right spot, and then he grinds his lips against a rough surface — a stone if he can find it, or a floor of shells. Heedless of the pain, he grinds and grinds to cut the line. At last he realizes that he is only wearing away his flesh. Then he comes within six feet of the surface and heads for open water. But he is weak; row after him, and take in your line; nothing but bad management can lose him now, and he knows- it. There are short rushes from side to side, then he doubles back, and tries to pass under your boat to foul the line. In vain, for your boatman has shot you off, and he loses one more point in the game. Then he ventures a leap, and opens his immense jaws as if to take an emetic of air and throw out that ''pinning sorrow sharper than a ser- pent's tooth." Then he sulks. Reel him in now; the sport is done, and the rest is the mere work of towing him in to be correctly weighed and measured for record. Usually the expert tarpon fisher will sub- due one of these mighty fighters in twenty minutes, the novice will take a much longer time, often playing the fish for several hours. Mr. Geo. T. Bonner hooked a 151-pounder in the mouth, and played the fish six hours- and fifteen minutes before he brought him near enough to gaff'. Then the guide, Wilf Bartley, who weighs 180 pounds, was actually jerked out of the boat by the tarpon when he attempted to gaff' him. Many thrilling ad- ventures could be told here. PICTURESQUE NASSAU. The passage across ihe Gulf Stream to the "Isles of June" is in effect but a slight extension of the Florida tour. From Miami to Nassau the distance is only 145 miles — a short excursion, which may hardly be said to involve going to sea. For the tourist Nassau has many attractions ; its climate is peculiarly grateful to the fugitive from the rigors and sudden changes of the Northern winter and spring. Basking in floods of perpetual sunshine and swept by soft ocean breezes, the Bahamas enjoy a temperature which is remarkably equable ; from October to June the mercury ranges from 65 to 80 degrees ; oi^cial records show for January 70 degrees, February 71 degrees, March ^2 degrees, and April 75 degrees. This is a summer land, though the calendar marks the winter season ; and the whole aspect of the island is of summer and summer life. The houses are built with generous piazzas and latticed verandas, and are embowered amid roses, jasmines and oleanders. Orange, lemon and lime are evervwhere. Slender CHARLOTTE STREET. lOO THE STANDARD GUIDE. i~rf3SK -«H|g^^«*^ife THE NASSAU MARKET. palms uplift their plumes against the sky. Here we are in the tropics, but the tropics tempered by the gratefully invigorating influences of the sea. Nassau is the capital of the Bahamas. The Governor, who is appointed by the Crown, resides here. The population numbers 15,000, of whom four-fifths are colored. The city is admirably governed ; the white residents are for the most part descendants of English colonial families ; there is here that spirit of hospi- tality which is never wanting in countries where the doors always stand open. The island is of coral formation. The native rock is an admirable road-building material ; the roads of New Providence are noted for their excellence, and driving and wheeling are favorite amusements. One may visit the palm groves and make test of the milk fresh from the cocoanut; prove the excellence of the Bahama pineapples, newly picked from the stem ; or inspect the plantations of sisal hemp, Vv'hich looks like the century plant. The water excursions include a visit to the Sea Gardens, a point in the chan- nel where the bottom is covered with fan-leaf coral of many vivid hues, amid which swim fishes of graceful form and brilliant colors. Rowboats are provided with glass plates in the bottom, through which the marine life may be studied. Night excursions are made to the "Lake of Fire." This is an artificial pond NASSAU. lOI NASSAU FROM THE COLONIAL. IN GRANT S TOWN. I02 THE STANDARD GUIDE. FORT FINCASTLE OR SHIP FORT. which was built as a storage reservoir for live fish and green turtles, and which has become phosphorescent in an extraordinary degree. The island is of coral formation, and one peculiarity to attract attention is the prevailing absence of soil and the astonishing way the trees grow from the rock — or, for that matter, on the top of a wall. There are no running streams, no wild animals except hares, and of snakes only the innocent and harmless chicken- snake. life in Nassau is for the most part repose and light-hearted, care-free indo- lence. The principal industries of the Bahamas are sponging and wrecking. In old days the place was a secure stronghold of the famous pirate Elack-Beard, legends of whose escapades, exploits and ferocity still linger about the island. During our Civil War Nassau was headquarters of the blockade runners, who sailed from here to run the blockades of Confederate ports ; there were three hun- dred such entries and departures in a single year. In those times cotton was king, and the value of Nassau imports and exports amounted in one year to fifty mil- lions of dollars. NASSAU. 103 X. -ziii- *• *'■'■ \ HNMnni THE HARBOR FROM THE COLONIAL. GROUNDS OF THE ROYAL VICTORIA. 104 THE STANDARD GUIDE. THE QUEEN S STAIRCASE. The feature of Nassau which is most pleasing is the wonderfully brilliant coloring of the sea, in shades of green and pink, purple and blue, in all the rich tones and combinations and changing efifects of the sky and clouds at sunset. The coloring is due in part to the character of the bottom; a sand bottom gives the light color, and stretches of vegetable growth cause the dark shading. The sheltered harbor, the shining beaches of outlying keys, with the vivid green of their verdure, and the deepening tones of the sea, blending- in the distance with the sky, so that one may not determine where the sea ends and the sky begins — all this, as the sun lowers in the west, afifords an entrancing scene, to look upon which is the rarest pleasure in Nassau and the best remembered picture of a holiday in the Bahamas. The Queen's Staircase is a series of steps cut in the side of an old stone quarry and leading up from the street below to the height on which stands Fort Fin- castle. The fort, built in 1789, is now a ruin. Its resemblance to a vessel has given it the name of Ship Fort, and the likeness is enhanced by the flags on the staflf which signal the sighting of. ships at sea. Fort Charlotte, a massive fortification \-%'-lJ io6 THE STANDARD GUIDE. CEIBA OR SILK COTTON TREE. hewn out of the solid rock, on the hill west of the town, also serves as a signal station to report to the town the movements of shipping. The fort, completed in 1788, was named after Queen Charlotte. An obelisk on the hill near the fort is a mark for pilots entering the harbor. On the esplanade at the foot of the hill a modest monument commemorates the heroism of five men who in 1861 lost their lives "whilst gallantly volunteering their services in the effort to save two men belonging to the pilot boat which had been upset by a heavy sea." A third forti- fication is Fort Montague, on the shore at the eastern entrance to the harbor ; like the others, it is in ruin ; and the old cannon have no story to tell of valiant defense against a Spanish foe. Among the novel forms of vegetation which interest the visitor the most remarkable is the ancient ceiba or silk cotton tree near the public buildings, whose immense buttresses are shown in our illustration. Close by is a grove of the royal poinciana. Another tree to attract notice is the whistling bean, named from the sound produced by the wind blowing upon its seed pods ; it is also called "old woman's tongue" because it is never quiet. The small boys importune tlie stranger to buy the "sand box bean," a seed pod which takes its name from the old ink sanding box, which is resembles. NASSAU. 107 The negro settlements of Congo Town and Grant's Town, lying just outside of Nassau on the west, are extremely curious collections of thatched huts and little houses, with cocoanut palms and oranges, and diminutive garden patches, surrounded by walls of rock. It is all rock here; when they plant they use the axe instead of the spade. The people are descendants of slaves and of companies of Africans rescued from slave ships by British men-of-war, and given asylum here. They have preserved many of the primitive African ways. Everything tells of an extreme simplicity of living, the barest of housing and the most meao-re fare ; it is all on a small scale ; even the people themselves are small. Among Ihe novel customs of Congo Town are the night markets, when fires are kindled by the roadside, for the display of vegetables and fruit ; and the fire dances, in which the dancing is about a fire outdoors. t r**m COLUMBUS CATHEDRAL IN HAVANA. Cuba. if*jf The "Standard Guide to Cuba" and the "Standard Guide to Havana," the new handbooks for tourists, published by Messrs. Foster & Reynolds, are very complete in scope, beautiful in illustration and prac- tical in their usefulness to travelers. See advertisement on another page. Cuba is truly tropical. The lush vegetation is that of the torrid zone. The encircling seas give the island a climate which, in winter and spring, is delicious. As surely as the sunrise, comes the sea breeze to temper the heat. The atmos- phere is marvelously clear and transparent. The beauty of the scenery is a revelation — the tinted seas, the mountain ranges, lovely valleys and highly culti- vated plains in a succession of panoramas which surprise and delight. The attractions are endless. The island is healthful ; there is no yellow fever, nor any more danger of it than in the Southern States. Travel is safe and con- venient. The railroads have modern equipment and are well managed. The steamships — the Herrera Line on the north shore and the Menendez Line on the south coast — are clean and commodious and set good tables, and the trip on either coast from one land-locked harbor to another is an enjoyable ex- perience. After Havana and Matanzas, the most interesting place to visit is Santiago, and after that comes Cienfuegos. Havana is considered one of the most picturescjue cities of the Western Hemisphere, and is extremely quaint in many of its aspects, and therefore inter- esting. Its architecture and streets are of a distant past, while its bustle and commercial activity remind one of the modern metropolis. There are enough sights in and around the city to keep the tourist busy as long as he elects to remain. One of the most interesting of trips is that to Matanzas, located on the United Railways of Havana, some fifty-five miles from Havana. At a half hour's drive from the city, Cuba's most famous natural attractions may be seen — the Yumuri Valley and Bellamar Caves, The United Railways of Havana issue coupon tickets including the round-trip fare between Havana and Matanzas, an excellent lunch, a volanta (or carriage) drive through the best streets of the town, and to the Yumuri Valley and Bellamar Caves, and admission to the caves. Parties leave Havana daily under the conduction of a competent guide- interpreter in the employ of the company — whose services are absolutely gratis. The Cuban Railroad, which runs from Santa Clara to Santiago, a distance of 374 miles, is of the American standard and equipment, and affords for the tourist not only many scenic attractions, but the best means of learning the great agricultural and commercial resources of the island, which are awaiting develop- ment. The Cuba Company has acquired hundreds of square miles of fertile farming lands along its line, and has devised a system of farm villages, in which groups of thirty and forty acre farms radiate from a central cluster of farm- houses, built around a common — an admirable system, which makes for sociabil- ity and the amenities of living. On the IVay Home. Savannah, with its twenty-four parks and its broad streets shaded with magnificent oaks, its man}' handsome residences, and its flower gardens which bloom the year around, is one of the most attractive cities in the South. Forsyth Park, the Pulaski Monument, and the Jasper Monument should have attention, while the busy scenes of Bay street and the river front offer an excellent oppor- tunity to study the vast commercial interests of which Savannah is the center. Bonaventure Cemetery is renowned for its ancient live-oaks, trees as majestic and impressive as any to be found on the Atlantic Coast. Charleston is full of objects of interest to every American. Here in the harbor is Fort Sumter, with dismantled walls, but flying the Stars and Stripes above it. At Moultrieville is the grave of Osceola, the Seminole, who died while imprisoned in Fort Moultrie. The new fortifications just finished by the United States Government are the largest in extent on the Atlantic coast. The Mag- nolia Gardens, filled with japonicas, rose bushes and azaleas, present a spectacle of floral magnificence, and the continent may be challenged to equal the superb effect. Artists make pilgrimages to Charleston in the spring to paint its won- derful flowers. The Chicora Golf Club has a fine course, with cozy club house, where tourists will be welcome. There are miles of fine shell roads for the car- riage and bicvcle, leading along broad avenues lined with handsome residences and through groves of ancient oaks draped with silver moss. On the road around the Battery an excellent view of the harbor and many historical points of interest is obtained. Then there is old St. Michael's, the ante-Revolutionary Church, with its historic chimes and tall tower. PiNEHURST, North Carolina, is situated in a pine-clad sand-hill region of marked healthfulness and having a genial and equable climate. The town is unique ; it was laid out by landscape architects as a beautiful residence park ; is entirely under one ownership and control, and has been developed into a model village of refined homes. Each year, as its fame goes abroad, it attracts a grow- ing number of permanent residents and tourists tarrying on the way home from South to North. It is reached by both the Southern Railway and the Seaboard Air Line. Chattanooga may well have a place in one's itinerary. Historical associa- tions cluster thick about it — Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Chicka- mauga. The National Park, to which State after State has contributed its memorials of those who served in the Civil War, has made Chattanooga a point of pious pilgrimage for many thousands. The view from the bluff of Lookout Mountain is one of the most imposing and at the same time one of the most beauti- ful mountain prospects to be found in America. ON THE WAY HOME. in Aiken and Augusta are the winter homes of many northern people, and are favorite stopping places on the way home. Both have ample resources for the entertainment of the visitor. Camden has abiding interest for the tourist because of the graces and adorn- ments lavished upon it by nature and the historical associations which cling to it. Richmond, the venerable capital of the James, has many attractions in its beautiful site and picturesque surroundings, and its historic associations. The Capitol building, which dates from the last century, contains with other treasured heirlooms of the past Houdon's Statue of Washington, a copy of which is in the National Statuary Hall at Washington. Capitol Square has for chief adorn- ment Crawford's noble work, the Washington Monument, and here, too, are statues of Clay and Stonewall Jackson, and elsewhere the Lee Monument. Old Point Comfort holds an unique place. Situation, climate, scenery and surroundings conspire to make it the most popular of all-the-year-around seaside resorts. The locality is one rendered ever famous by the momentous events which took place here in the sea conflicts of the Civil War. From the hotel piazzas one looks out over the broad waters where, in their terrific duel, the Monitor and the Merrimac changed the modes of naval warfare. Old Point is the seat of Fort Monroe, the largest fortification on the continent, and Hamp- ton Roads is a rendezvous of the White Squadron. Proximity to Washington and ease of access from New York make it the favorite resort of many distin- guished people, and its social features most brilliant. Hot Springs, Virginia, on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, is at an elevation of 2,500 feet in a picturesque valley, amid magnificent mountain surroundings. The springs, which give the place its name, have been famous for generations; to-day Hot Springs maintains its prestige as one of the most important and fashionable health and pleasure resorts of the continent. WHITNEY S OLD HOUSE. ©ESlEe ^LOILHES "The Land of the Sky" is that portion of Western North CaroHna lying between the Bhie Ridge Mountains and the Iron, Smoky and Unaka ranges of Eastern Tennessee. It is a superb elevated plateau, the lowest point of which is more than 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. It is protected in winter from chilling winds by the surrounding mountains. Geographically, it is situated in the most favored portion of the temperate zone. Topographically, it is moun- tainous, and is largely covered with forests in which the long leaf or turpentine pine predominates. It is traversed by splendid rivers, and dotted with beautiful skies. Its scenery is unrivaled, even by the more famous localities of the far West, and its accessibility is such that it can be reached either from the North, the East, the South, or the Middle West in a few hours, whereas the scenic glories of the West requires several days in which to reach them. To reach this favored section the traveler from the East should take one of the through trains of the Southern Raihvay, through Washington, Lynchburg, and Salisbury, N. C. Close connection is made at Salisbury with the main line trains to and from the East, and elegant Pullman drawing room sleeping cars afford superb service, so that passengers from New York can take the through Pullman sleeping car at that point in the evening, and the following day at noon reach Asheville or Hot Springs in perfect comfort and without change of cars. From Florida and the South the through trains of the Southern Railway take the traveler through Columbia and Spartanburg, affording through Pullman car service. From the North and West the most direct route is through Cincinnati, or through Chattanooga and Knoxville. From Nashville the Southern Railway operates its own line through Harriman and Knoxville. So it matters not from what direction you may be coming, passengers will find the Southern Railway prepared to afford the very best schedule and through car service. THE LAND OF THE SKY. 113 "The Land of the Sky" is about equal to Switzerland in area, and greatly resembles it in its majestic natural beauty and sublimity. The greater profusion of vegetation here, however, gives a softness of effect to its marvelous land- scapes that mark the principal difference between this country and that of the European Alps. The charm of this land is real and apparent; its delights are an actuality. Perhaps the most notable and complete surrender to the fascination of its physical charms is its choice by George Vanderbilt, Esq., as a site for his magnifi- cent estate, "Biltmore," within two miles of the city of Asheville, and nearly the exact center of this scenic wonderland. Mr. Vanderbilt's residence — which is said to have cost more than $3,000,000 — occupies the most commanding site in this splendid domain, and is considered the masterpiece of its designer, the late Richard M. Hunt, America's most famous architect. Asheville, that Mecca of health-seekers, the spot best known among the resorts of this splendid region, stands higher above the sea level (2,288 feet) than any other city in America east of the Rockies. The visitor will find Asheville a progressive, modern city. Its streets are well paved and lighted, and trolley lines run to all the suburbs. The city has an opera house, clubs, an art gallery, a public library, a handsome new audi- torium, and hotels which enjoy wide- spread and well de- served repute for their excellence. The ,^^^-_^^^_-^ ■.'-a.^.^^__r two largest houses, ^S^^^^^^^HBUBS^^K^^Km f the Battery Park and the Kenilworth Inn, are each beautifully located, the former in a handsome private park in the very cen- ter of the city. Ken- ilworth Inn is located about two miles from the city proper, at Biltmore, where is also situated Mr ^^^ land of the sky is filled with scenic surprises. George W. Vanderbilt's magnificent residential property, the finest estate in America. The Albemarle Manor, built after the fashion of a quaint English inn, is also a very excellent hotel, as are also the Victoria Inn and Margo 114 THE STANDARD GUIDE. Terrace. There are quite a number of hotels of less importance which aflford excellent accommodations at moderate prices. Stretching from Asheville on the northwest for thirty-four miles is the lovely French Broad River, along which the Southern Railway winds. The foaming stream here darts out and in between rocky clififs now gleaming in a broad patch of sunlight, now leaping along in the shadow of great boulders, ever fascinating in its wild and unrestrained beauty — a water sprite on a madcap chase. High among these mountains, in a beautiful valley, are the Hot Springs of North Carolina, which yearly offer relief to hundreds in search of health and strength. But the crowning glory of the place is its hot waters, which are thrown up from the earth in a number of springs, the temperature of which ranges from 96 to no degrees. The curative properties of the water of these springs is shown in the marked remedial effect in diseases of the liver and kidneys, in rheumatism, gout, and sciatica. Persons suffering from dyspepsia, insomnia, or nervous troubles also find great relief. The Mountain Park Hotel, located here, is comfortable and modern in its appointments. Another highly favored region is on the branch of the Southern Railway lead- ing from Asheville to Spartanburg, S. C, including Tryon, Saluda, Henderson- ville, Flat Rock, and the Beautiful Sapphire country. The Beautiful Sapphire country is a region full of delightful surprises to the tourist, sportsman and health-seeker. No other section contains more clear, cold and wonderfully picturesque streams, so many grand waterfalls, such wide- sweeping mountain views, such beautiful lakes and verdure-clad valleys. Lakes Toxaway, Fairfield and Sapphire, in the heart of North Carolina moun- tains, are duplicates of the most beautiful gems of the Adirondacks. Nowhere else in the South, at this altitude, are there such bodies of water of wonderful beauty and greatly varied characters. The hotels of the Toxaway Company — Toxaway Inn, Lake Toxaway, N. C, altitude 3,100 feet; Fairfield Inn, Lake Fairfield, N. C, altitude 3,300 feet; Sapphire Inn, Lake Sapphire, N. C, alti- tude 3,300 feet ; Franklin Inn, Brevard, N. C, altitude 2,250 feet ; The Lodge, Mount Toxaway, N. C, altitude 5,000 feet, superbly located in this beautiful region — are large and modern, and the service and cuisine are equal to that of the best metropolitan hostelries. Toxaway Inn is now open for the winter season, and the advantages of Lake Toxaway as a winter resort are unsurpassed. To those who have been spending a time under the bright and languid skies of Florida, and who do not wish to risk the sudden transition from summer to winter, which threatens all who return north, until spring has fairly set in. the beautiful mountain region of western North Carolina holds out alluring attrac- tions, because of its superb and unsurpassed natural scenery, and its excellent climate, free from extremes of heat and cold. TOURIST ROUTES. ONE Ob THE FAS I NEW YiiKK AND FLORIDA TRAINS ON THE SOUTHERN S DOUliLE TRACK. THREE DAILY TRAINS ^ettveen Florida and the J^orth and Ea^t ALL POINTS NORTH and EAST best reached via SOUTHER.N R.AILWAY This System buith its connections _forfns the great trunK.tine, operating high-class •Cestibtxled trains toith Superb "Dining Car Ser-vice, betbueen Florida and New York, and Points Cast, affording not only the most perfect service, in the way of Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars, Obser- vation Cars, Dining Cars and Day Coaches, but quick and most satisfactory time between all' points. "THE SOUTHERN'S PALM LIMITED" One of the most superb a-nd modffrnly equipped traLirvs in ihe world, leaves New York, via Penn. R. R., daily, except Sunday, at 12:55 P. M., leaves \Va,hinglon, via Southern Railway, U:55 P. M., arriving Jacksonville 2:40 P. M., and St. Augustine 3:50 P. M., following day. Returning, this train leaves St. Augustine, via 1^'lorida East Coast Railway, 11:10 A. M., daily, except Sunday; leaves Jacksonville, Southern Railway, 12:20 P. M. ; arrives V\'ashington 10:15 A. M., and New York 4:15 P. M., following day. This train is composed of Pullman Compartment, Observation and Drawing Room Sleeping Cars be- tween New York and St. Augustine; also Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Car between New York, Aiken and Augusta. High-Class Dining Car Service and Club Cars. Entire Train Brilliantly Electric Lighted. "THE NEW YORK AND FLORIDA EXPRESS" Leaves New York, via Penn. R, R., daily at 3:35 P, M.; leaves Washington, via S(>uthern Railway, 9:50 P M., arriving Jacksonville 8:05 P. M. fjllowing day, making direct connection for Miami, Port Tampa and Cuba ; returning, leaves Jacksonville, via Southern Railway, 9:05 A M., arriving Washington 9:50 A. M., and New York 4:15 P. M., following day. This train is composed of Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars between New York and Port Tampa, and day coaches between Washington and Jacksonville. Dining Car serves meals en route. Also Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars between New York and Augusta. "THE WASHINGTON AND FLORIDA LIMITED" Leaves New York, via Penn. R. R., at 12:10 n't; leaves Washington, via Southern Railway, 10:51 A. M., arriving Jacksonville 9:00 A. M., following day. Returning, leaves Jacksonville, via Southern Railway, 7:55 P. iVL, arriving Washington 9:50 P. M.. following evening, and "New York, 6:30 A. M. This train is composed of elegant Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars between New York and Jacksonville, and day coaches between \\'ashington and Jacksonville. Dining Car Service, high standard of excellence. Close connection at Jacksonville to and from the not«d resorts on the Cast Coast and West Coast of Florida. Connection also at Miami and Tampa to and frorrv Key Wesr. Havana and Nassau. QUICKEST ROUTE BETWEEN HAVANA AND NEW YORK. Apply for Polde-s and "Detailed In_formation. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 10 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 15 THROUGH HISTORIC VIRGINIA. SOUTHERN RAILWAY — THE DOUBLE-TRACK LINE. THE SOUTHERN'S PALM LIMITED BETWEEN FLORIDA AND THE EAST, Via SOUTHERN RAILWAY ,yolid Train between .yt Augustine and J^ekef yorK.. This train went inio service again oa January 8, 1903, and the success with which the Southern's Palm Limited has met heretofore, only insures its greater popularity this seas-'n Train leaves New York and St. Augustine, respectively, daily except Sunday. Ent" re Train Lighted \vith Electricity. Pennsylvania Ra.ilroa>.d. SoutKerrv R.a.ilwai.y, - Florida East Coast Ra.ilway. NORTHBOUND. Leave St. Augustine, - Leave Jacksonville, - . - Leave Savannah, ... - Leave Columbia, Arrive Washington, Arrive Baltimore, Arrive West Philadelphia. Arrive New York, K.OX/ T E: Betweerv New York a^nd WaLshington. Bet'ween Washington a.nd JsLcksonville. Bet\veen Jacksonville and St. Augustine. ^C HE. HM LE: SOUTHBOUND. Leave New York, - - - - 12:55 P. M. Leave West Philadelphia,- - - 3:25 P.M. Leave Baltimore, 5:36 P. M. Leave Washington. . - - - 6:55 P. M. Arrive Columbia, - - - - 7:16 A. M. Arrive Savannah. - - - - 10:30 A. M. Arrive Jacksonville. - - - - 2:40 P. M. Arrive St. Augustine. - - - 3:50 P. M. - 11:10 A. M. 12:20 P. M. - 4:25 P. M. 9:25 P. M. - 10:15 A. M. 11 :30 A. M. - 1:45 P. M 4:15 P. M. Latest models of Pullman Compartment, Observation, and Drawing Room Sleeping Cars oetween New York and St. Augustine ; also Pullman Drawing Room Stale Room Sleeping Car between New York, Aiken and Augusta. High-Clasj "Dining Car Ser-cice and Club Cars. Connection at Columbia for Summerville and Charleston, at Blackville for Aiken and Augusta, at Jesup for Brunswick (Jekyl Island), and at Jacksonville for points on East and West Coast of Florida. For Folders and Detailed Information, app'y to J. C. LUSK, District Passenger A ent, - - - - 103 West Bay Street, Jacksonville, Fla. °^ C. W. SCH/M/DT, City Passenger and Ticket Agent, - 103 West Bay Street, Jacksonville, Fla. A. S. r//W£4rr, Eis ern Passenger Agent, L S. BROWN, General Agent, 1185 Broadway, New York City 705 Fifteenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. H. B. SPENCER, General Manager, S. H. HARDWICK, P. T. M., Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. W. H TAYLOE, G. P. A., BROOKS MORGAN, A. G. P. A., Washington, D. C. Schedule in effect January 8, 1906 Atlanta, Ga. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miaoii (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). i6 j>> _________ J ■■■■■■■■ 1 jg 1 -m*'--^ - ?' 1 f INTERIOR NEW PULLMAN DRAWING ROOM SLEEPING CAR ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Between Florida and the North the Most Direct Route is via SOUTHER.N RAILWAY Two Fi)Lst Through TnArvs ^he CHICAGO and FLORIDA SPECIAL « ^he FLORIDA LIMITED ROUTE OP THE CHICAGO AND FLORIDA SPECIAL: Between Chicago and Clnclnnaii, . . = Big Four Route. Between Ciaclaaati and Chattanooga, - - Queen and Crescent Rou*e. Between C-attanooga and Jacksonvlll'', - • Southern Railway, via Atlanta and Macon. Between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, ■ Florida East Coast Rai way. NORTHBOUND. SCHEDULE. SOUTHBOUND. Leave St. Augustine, F. E. C. Ry.. . . 8:05 A. M. Leave Jacksonville, Southern Ry., . . 9:15 A. M. Leave Macon, Southern Ry 3:40 P. M. Leave Atlanta, Southern Ry 6:00 P. M. Arrive Chattanooga, Southern Ry. , . . 10:25 P. M. Arrive Cincinnati, 0- & C. Route, . . 7:55 A. M. Arrive Louisville, Southern Ry., . . 8:45 A. M. Arrive Cleveland, Big Four, . . . 3:00 P. M. Arrive Toledo, C, H. & D 2:20 P.M. Arrive Detroit, Pere Marquette, . . 4:10 P. M. Arrive Chicago, Big Four 5:30 P.M. This train is composed of Pullman equipment of the most modern construction, and ranks among in America. Through Sleeping Cars between Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, Columbus, Louisville, Cincinnati and St. Augustine. UNEXCELLED DINING CAR SERVICE. Ng n? OBSERVATION CAR This train leaves Chicago and St. Augustine, respectively, daily except Sunday. Leave Chicago, Big Four, Leave Detroit, .... Leave Toledo, . . . . Leave Cleveland, Leave Louisville, .... Leave Cincinnati, Q. & C. Route, Leave Chattanooga, Southern Ry., Arrive Atlanta, Southern Ry., Arrive Macon, Southern Ry., Arrive Jacksonville, Southern Ry., Arrive St. Augustine, F. E. C. Ry. . 1:00 P. M. 12:35 P. M. . 2:15 P. M. 12:30 P. M. . 7:45 P. M. 9:25 P. M. . 7:15 A. M. 11:35 A. M. . 1:55 P. M. 8:50 P. M. . 10:00 P. M. the finest trains FLORIDA LIMITED Slt''^' '^'- '^''^"^^ ruUman CHICAGO. CINCINNATI ping Cars, betbueen AND ST. AUGUSTINE NORTHBOUND. Leave St. Augustine, F. E. C. Ry., Leave Jacksonville, Southern Ry., . Leave Macon, Southern Ry., Leave Atlanta, Southern Ry., Arrive Chattanooga, Southern Ry., Arrive Cincinnati, Q. &. C. Route, Arrive Louisville, Southern Ry., Arrive Chicago Monon Route, SCHEDULE. SOUTHBOUND. . 6:10 P. M. 7:45 P. M. . 2:55 A. M. 5:20 A. M. 9:45 A. M. . 7:40 P.M. 8:00 P.M. . 7:23 A. M. Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars between Chicago and St. Augustine, and Cincinnati and St. Dining Car serves all meals en route. Dining Car Service of the highest standard of excellence. Close connection at Jacksonville and St. Augustine to and from Res- rts on East Coast and West Coast Apply to any agent of the above mentioned lines for detailed information. Leave Chicago, Monon Route, Leave Cincinnati, Q. &. C. Route, , Leave Louisville, Southern Ry., . Arrive Chattanooga, Q. & C. Route, Arrive Atlanta, Southern Ry., Arrive Macon, Southern Ry., . Arrive Jacksonville, Southern Ry., Arrive St. Augustine, F. E. C. Ry., 9:00 P. M. 8:30 A.M. 8:00 A. M. 6:15 P. M. 11:04 P. M. 1:30 A.M. 8:50 A.M. 10.00 A. M. Augustine. of Florida. TOURIST ROUTES. iSTORiG Potomac f E«MB©*If' Cy©!» %' ** ##.'i|iiiTnTrx NEW AND POPULAR ROUTE BETWEEN Washington, D. C, Old Point Comfort, Norfolk, Virginia Beach and the South. The new and maeniticent Steel Palace Steamers of this line, the steamers "Newport News," "Norfolk" and "Washington," most luxuriously fitted throughout, having Steam Heat in staterooms, Electric Lights and Call BelL in each room, leave Norfolk and Washington daily on the following schedule : SOUTHBOUND. Leave WASHINGTON 6.30 P. M. ALEXANDRIA 7.00 " Arrive FORTRESS MONROE, .. .7.00 A. M. •' NORFOLK 8.00 " " PORTSMOUTH 8.15 " NORTHBOUND. Leave PORTSMOUTH 500 P.M. NORFOLK 6.00 " " FORTRESS MONROE. ...7.00 " Arrive ALEXANDRIA 6.30 A.M. " WASHINGTON ..,7.00 " Close connection made with all rail lines at Norfolk, Fortress Monroe and Washington, D. C, for all points Nor:h, South, East and West. Passengers going or returning to Wilmington, Raleigh, Charlot'e, Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta, Jacksonville and principal Southern cities, are given an opportunity by this route to stop over at the National Capital, Fortress Monroe ot Virginia Beach. By taking this route the passenger is aflforded a pleasant ride on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, thus breaking the monotony of an all-rail ride. The excellence of the meals furnished on these magnificent steamers has been a great factor in their popularity. The dining-room service is a la carte, meals being served at hours convenient to the passengers Ask for tickets via the new Norfolk and Washington line of steamers. JNO. CALLAHAN, 2d Vice-Pres. and Gen'l Manager, Washington, D. C. WM. H. CALLAHAN, G. P. A., Washington, D. C. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 10 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.i 18 TOURIST ROUTES. GINIAnOT PBJNGS OPEN ALL THE YEAR 2.500 FEET ELEVATION In the Virginia Mountains tijhere ihe Climate, Waters, "Baths, Hotels and S'cenery ha-Ve no E qual in Americ a Luxurious baths and most curative waters known for rlieumatism, gout, obesity and nervous troubles. Complete Hydro-Therapeutic Apparatus. Club House with lounging and recreation rooms, Squash Court, Buffet, &c. Fine Golf Course, Tennis Courts, Swimming Pool, superior livery and outdoor pastimes. THE NEW HOMESTEAD improved in many ways for Season of 1906, is unquestionably the representative all-year-round Resort Hotel of the country. Contains 400 guest rooms and 300 pri- vate baths. Broker's office with direct New York wire. A beautiful SUN PARLOR, and PALM ROOM, 100x40 ft. in dimensions, has just been added to the Homestead. Seaboard Air Line a.i\d Atlantic Coast Line Trains connect at Richmond, Va., with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (the former in the new Main Street Station). 8 HOURS FR.OM RICHMOND TO VIRGINIA HOT SPR.INGS. Stop-over Allowc^d for Virginia Hot Springs onall through ticlvets to Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago and the West. Side-Trip Tickets from Richmond to the Springs to be used in connection with E.x- cursion Tickets from points north of Washington may be secured at Richrnond. Pullman reservations and railway information may be secured in advance by addressing- W. O. Warthen, District Passenger Agent, C. & O. Ry., Richmond, Va. For hotel accommodations at the Springs address Fred Sterry, Man- ager, Hot Springs, Bath County, Virginia. Mr. Sterry also manages the ROYAL POINCIANA and the BREAK- ERS at Palm Beach, Florida, wliere he may be consulted or addressed during the season. H. W. FULLER, General Passenger Ajent. WASHINGTON, D. C. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.), 19 TOURIST ROUTES. Wheiv You Go Home Secure Your Tickets Via SAILING Savannah to Boston- Direct, every Monday and Thursday, 5:00 p. M. Savannah to New York- Direct, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday (on tide.) Convenient Schedules from all points in Florida to Savannah. Large comfortable ships, elegantly equipped, all outside staterooms, steam heated, electric lighted, ventilation perfect. JVO CROWDIffG—ALl* 7*ASrS'£JVGK'RSr A 'RE, T'ROVI'DE'D WITH A 'BE.'RTH Beautiful dining saloons ; tables supplied with all the luxuries of the Northern and Southern markets. The Green Folder ivill gt-Ve you sailing dales, diagrams of ships and other •Valuable information For tickets and reservation of space, call on your nearest Railroad Ticket Agent, or C. E. OAK, Ticket Agent, 4 East Bay Street, Jacksonville, Fla. J. A. VON DOHLEN, Traveling: Pass. Agt., 4 E. Bay St., Jacksonville, Fla. W. B. CLEMENTS, City Passenger & Ticket Agt., Zt Bull St., Savannah, Ga. W. H. PLEASANTS Vice-Pres. and Gen'l Manager J. C. HORTON General Passenger Agent Pier 35. N. R.. New York MMWMMM^Mt' ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 20 TOURIST ROUTES. Port Tampac Miacmi Key West ^ To enjoyr the VacaHon Veriod *Visit CUBA or the BAHAMA SHORT f«f AlUrkC DELIGHTFUL Idl^Ami^d SEA TRIPS. via the FLORIDA ROUTE FREQUENT SAILINGS. The Peivinsular and Occidental Steamship Company ChaLS. L. Myers, FrsLnk M. Jolly, P. J. Saunders, Manager Trav. Pass. Agervt Traffic Agent JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA ^yisK^J^or oxir Itlxxstrcited Folder ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, ,«tthe Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach -ffacins Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 21 TOURIST ROUTES. Kinest Trains "Beautiful Scenery. Short est "Routes. TO AND FROM FLORIDA •via Oueen and €re$cent Route SoutKern Railw^ay and Connecting Lines CHICAGO (t FLOHIDA SPECIAL Through Pullman service between Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, To- ledo, Louisville, Cincinnati, Jacksonville and St. Augustine without change, via Chattanooga ("Lookout Mountain") and Atlanta, FLORIDA LIMITED Through Pullman service between Chicago and Cincinnati, Jackson- ville and St. Augustine, via Chattanooga ("Lookout Mountain") and Atlanta. QUEEN __jf iTrCt^o Fall, /AP~^»I4'^''y V/SELLOWS FALLS Suncooky HESTEP ■; flSd^hoda.nf\ N».viga^tion Co. ROYAL BRITISH MAIL ROUTE To Egypt, India, Australia, the Straits, China and Japan Frequent sailings. The largest, fastest and best ships. The "P. & O." cruising yacht " Vectis" makes periodical cruises in the Summer months to Norway, Baltic Capitals and the North Cape, and in the Winter to interesting and historical points in the Mediterranean. Send for prospectus. Full information, rates, sailings, plans of ships from American office shown below. UNION CASTLE LINE ROYAL MAIL SERVICE TO SOUTH AND EAST AFRICA Weekly service of Mail and Intermediate Steamers calling at Madeira, the Canary Islands, Cape Town, Aigoa Bay, Mossel Bay, East London, Natal, Delagoa Bay, Beira, and Other East African Ports Return tickets issued. Surgeon and stewardess carried. Superior accomodations and cuisine. For rates, reservations, schedules and all other information, apply to American agents shown below. International Palace Hotels Company A chain of superb hostelries maintaining the highest standard of management, service and cuisine, and connected by the trains de luxe of the International Sleeping Car Company. Among these are the following : RIVIERA PALACE OF MONTE CARLO PERA PALACE HOTEL, Constantinople RIVIERA PALACE OF CIMIEZ, Nice ROYAL CASTLE OF ARDENNE, Ardenne ROYAL PALACE HOTEL, Ostend AVENIDA PALACE, Lisbon ABAZZIA, Austria THE ELYSEE PALACE, Paris American Booking Office Sho'wn ISelow CHIEF AMERICAN OFFICE OF THE ABOVE COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL SLEEPING CAR COMPANY 281 Fifth Avenue, New York ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 10 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 30 TOURIST RESORTS. Michigan Summer R.esorts In the Spring let your fancy turn to plans for your Summer vacation. There is REST AND RECREATION in a season at any of the summer resorts along the shores of the GREAT INLAND SEAS Write to H. F. MOELLER, General Passenger Agent, Pere Marquette Railroad DETROIT. MICHIGAN. for illustrated literature giving information of the hotels, boarding houses, etc., of this region. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jaclisonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 31 TOURIST RESORTS. Canadian National Park BANFF SPRINGS HOTEL. Where are you gomg next Summer? You had better try the CANADIAN R.OCKIES Magfnificent Scenery, Cool, Bracing: Air, Excellent Accommodation FIRST CLASS HOTELS at Banff. Lake Louise. Field. E)merald Lake and Glacier, -i^^ For further information and descriptive pamplilets apply to the STANDARD GUIDE INFORMATION OFFICE, or any agent of the CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY E. V. SKINNER, A. T. M., C. E. E. USSHER, G. P A., ROBERT KERR, P. T. M., 458 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Montreal, P. Q. Montreal, P. Q. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.)» St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 32 NIAGARA TO THE SEA. The grandest trip in America for health and pleasure. The Thousand Islands, Rapids, Montreal, Quebec and the famed Saguenay River, with its stupendous Capes " Trinity" and "I<;ternity.'' Send dc. postage for illustrated guide to ThoS. Henry, Traffic Manager, Montreal, Canada. ^HAND-^NIGHTLESS DAYS IF you want to get away from the beaten paths of travel — if you want an outing that is different from any you have ever taken — and yet enjoy all the comforts of modern travel — go to Alaska and the World-Famous Klondike The Land of Nightless Days From Seattle or Vancouver to Skaguay is the most beautiful ocean voyage in the world — over quiet waters, stopping en route at Ketchikan, Wrangel, Juneau and other interesting places. From Skaguay the journey is by rail along the mountain sides, over the famous White Pass to White Horse and thence in a first-class river steamer to Dawson in the Klondike— through the picturesque Five Finger Rapids, along towering granite bluffs and among countless green-clad islands. This trip of 3,000 miles of marvelous Northland scenery — of mountains, glaciers, fiords, cascades, lakes, valleys and beautiful flowers, quaint totem poles and interesting mining scenes, is described in an illustrated booklet we have issued, and which will be sent you on request. HERMAN WEIG, General Agt., 103 La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois M.J. B.WHITE, G.F. & P. A. 413 Granville Street, Vancouver, B. C, raiiHij.ufS'jr<.i!i!T;!Tm 33 > 'OUND THE World ^N" PACIFIC TOURS SLONDON i^ m^ ... HONG KONG % ^ J THE OCEANIC S.S. CO. Have just issued a folder descriptive of some of the interesting things to be seen in Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand and Australia. The Company performs a fast and regular mail and passenger service from San Francisco to those places. The folder is neatly gotten up, and contains beautiful half-tones, outline maps of Pacific Islands and Australia, in colors. Information is given about the Circular Pacific Tour, visiting, in addition to the places men- tioned, Manila, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Yokohama, and costing only $5 15.00 from San Francisco back to San Francisco. The new popular service to Tahiti is described, and a few specimen Round the World Tours, with prices, are shown. Mailed Free on Application to B. K. DENBIGH, G. E. Agt.. 427 Broadway, New York, or OCEANIC S.S. CO., 653 Market Street, San Francisco fc ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of tlie Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 10 Hogan St.). St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank BIdg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 34 TOURIST ROUTES. A Territory of Widely Varying Natural Attractions Quickly Reached from New York City LONG ISLAND Sea Coast of the Empire State 250 MILES OF COAST LINE On Ocean, Sound and Bays TRENDING East and West it lies across the path and is cooled in Summer by the prevailing South winds from the ocean. Unexcelled Surf and Still Water Bathing, Boating, Yachting, Driving, Automobiling and Golfing. Wooded Highlands on the North Shore, RoUing Country in the Central Section, Superb Beaches on the Ocean Shore, all in close touch with New York City by Trains, Telegraph and Telephone. "LONG ISLAND": A handsomely illustrated des- criptive book. Postage, 8 cents. Free on application or mailed on receipt of postage by the GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT. LONG ISLAND RAILROAD A. L. LANGDON Traffic Manager 263 Fifth HOWARD M. SMITH General Passenger Agent Avenue, Ne\v York City The Luxury of Travel With "Cook" in India ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY- FIVE OFFICES ABROAD With efficient resident staff, unique facilities everywhere, enable Thos. Cook & Son to secure for their patrons in all parts of the world superior and exclusive service. Interpreters in uniform are stationed at the chief ports and railroad stations in Europe and elsewhere ; at the offices travelers can obtain railroad and steamship tickets by all routes, good at any time; sleeping car and steamer berths ; information, time tables and printed matter ; foreign money, letters of credit, cable transfers, etc.; baggage and accident insurance; baggage and freight checked, forwarded or stored, and EVERY REQUISITE FOR THE ITRAVELER. Select Tourist Parties at appropriate seasons, to all parts \oi America, Europe, Egypt and Holy Land, Japan, Round the World, etc. Established 1841 THOS. COOK ®. SON NEW YORK: 261 and 1185 Broadway, and 649 Madison Avenue BOSTON: 332 Washington Street PHILADELPHIA: 830 Chestnut Street CHICAGO: 234 South Clark Street SAN FRANCISCO: 621 Market Street ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of tlie Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). r:i TOURIST ROUTES. LEAVE WINTER BEHIND YOU Take a Trip to the Tropics On one of (he lavishly equipped "AdmiraLls," the Twin-Screw U. S. NeLiI SteaLinships of the UNITED FRUIT COMPANY They afford the most delightful salt water trip of the winter months. Within 24 hours after leaving, you are in the warm airs of the Gulf Stream. Hotel accommodations in Jamaica satisfy every desire. Weekly sailings from Boston and Philadelphia. Steamships "Brookline" and "Barnstable" weekly from Baltimore. ROUND TRIP, $45 ONE WAY. $25 Including Meals and Berth "A HaLppy Month in JaLmaica" is a fascinating booklet we send on request. For this and complete information, write to one of these addresses. Division Passenger Agent, United Fruit Co. Long Wharf, Boston 5 N. Wharves, Philadelphia 104 E. PrsLtt St., Baltimore 321 St. Chaj-les St., New Orleans Or R.ayn\ond ®. Whitcomb Co., Thos. Cook ®. Sons, or Local Tourist Agent ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach {Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 2>^ TOURIST RESORTS. HOTEL TITCHFIELD PORT ANTONIO, JAMAICA, B. W. I. The Largest and FINEST RESORT HOTEL in the West Indies. American Plan. Location Unsurpassed in the World. Facili- ties for Riding, Driving, Automobiling, Boating, Fishing, Tennis, and all outdoor sports and recreations. SEA BATHING UNEQUALED ANYWHERE Opens for the Tourist Season of 1905-6, on Monday, December 1 8th AIN5LIE & GRABOW, Managers on Office: 270 Commonwealth Avenue ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 10 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). TOURIST RESORTS. 'She GLEN SPRINGS WATKINS GLEN New York ^^e AMERICAN NAUHEIM A health resort and hotel of the highest class. Modern bathing establishment. Curative Mineral Waters for Gout. Rheumatism. Neuralgia. Sciatica, diseases of the Nervous System and of the Heart and Kidney. THE NAUHEIM BATHS AND RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS for diseases of the Heart and Blood Vessels. The only place in America using a NATURAL BRINE for the Nauheim Baths. S™!r NAUHEIM SPRING is a stronger iodo-bromo-muriated brine than that of BAD NAUHEIM. VALUABLE SPRINGS FOR CROUNOTHERAPY Especially valuable in Diabetes, Gout, Digestive Disorders and Anemia. Climate Mild, Dry and Equable, No Malaria Location overlooks thirty miles of Seneca Lake. Golf hnks, tennis courts, bowling alleys, etc. WM. r. LErriNGWELL, President. Watkins, N. Y. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, St the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 10 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 38 TOURIST RESORTS. Hotel CKamplaLin CLINTON COUNTY, N. Y. EDWARD L. BROWN, - - - MANAGER. THE HOTEL CHAMPLAIN Is on Bluff Point, the most commanding promontory on Lake Champlain. Its grounds consist of 450 acres of beautiful park and woodland, roadways and lawns ; seven miles of forest, cliff and lakeside walks, and the finest i8-hole hotel Golf course to be found. The finest fresh water bath- ing in the North. Boating, yachting, fishing, shooting, golf and tennis. Through Drawing Room and Sleeping Cars from New York, Albany, Troy, Saratoga, Lake George, Saranac, Lake Placid, and Montreal. Depot and Steamboat Landing on the grounds. For plan of Rooms, Rates, etc., apply to E. L. BROWN, MANAGER, Lincoln Safe Deposit ODmpany, 42d Street, New York City. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised* at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jaclssonville (210 Hogan St.)> St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.).- 39 TOURIST RESORTS. DANSVILLE, NEW YORK Jackson Health Resort mmg ^^^H^^^HbHTJ". I J Wr^^^H^^r^^^^Sm M^^d ■HHH iHiy Has been known for twenty years as The Jackson Sanatorium. The word sanatorium, which is appli- cable to all institutions where therapeutic measures are employed for any form of illness, was used for the first time in the United States by Dr. Jackson to designate a health institution when he built, in 1883, the first fire-proof structure erected in this country for that purpose. The general adoption at the present time of the name Sanatorium by proprietors of institutions for the insane or mentally unbalanced, and for cases of drug habit, has led to the error of confounding The Jackson Sanatorium with such establishments. Some persons who are not familiar with the character of this Health Institution have had an impression, because of its name — Sanatorium — that people afflicted with mental disorders were received and treated by its physicians. As the Jackson Sanatorium is not a place where insane people are received or where cases of drug habit are made a specialty, its name has been changed in order to correct such misapprehension on the part of the public. This renowned institution, holding to the distinctive character and methods which for forty-five years have made its work so successful and its manner of life so helpful and attractive to health and rest seekers, will be known hereafter as The Jackson Health Resort. Staff of Regularly Educated and Experienced Physicians, elegant Fire-proof building — brick and iron; all Modern Conveiviences. Special attention to the scientific administration ol Water, Electricity, Massage, Swedish JVlovement, Rest Cure and Dietaries to meet the needs of chronic invalids. The Schott System of Naviheim BatKs acrid Exercises for Heacrt Disease^^ Famous Northern Health Resort On Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Ry., from New York to Buffalo witliout cfiange. Send for illustrated literature, addressing J, AR.THUR JACKSON. M.D., Mana^ger. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jaclssonville (2 10 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 40 TOURIST RESORTS. l5/>e CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL Fifty-First Boulevard and LaLke Shore, Chicago, Is the finest summer and winter hotel on the Great Lakes for families, tourists and transient guests. Has nearly 1,000 feet of broad veranda, like the above. Built of stone and pressed brick. ^50 large rooms, all outside. No courts. Furnished throughout in mahogany. S20 private bath rooms. Just 10 minutes by Illinois Central Express from the shopping and theater district of the city. Coo! in summer, away from the city's dust, noise and smoke. Golf, tennis, boating, bathing and fishing. Send for handsome, new, illustrated booklet. American and European Plans. ^ R.. M. GR.AY, Ma.rva>.ger. imt>0ttm0»iit*fm9»m0»tm0>ti0*m»0>m00»m0m000m^»*t»m^m»mmmm0t0m^tia»tm^»M0ttf>«>0t0m0>«>0tfm^«>0tt** i""* THE VIRGINIA HOTEL Northwest Corner Rush and Ohio Sts., (North Side) CHICAGO, ILL. A Massive Fireproof Structure, containing 400 rooms replete with all modern accessories and provided with every requisite for the most exacting patrons. Situated in the fashionable residential district of the north side, and within ten minutes walk of all Retail Stores, Theatres, Public Library, Masonic Temple, Art Institute, Etc. Conducted on the European Plan, with a Cuisine of Acknowledged Excellence. Especially adapted for Transient Visitors who desire to be located away from the noise, congestion and dis- comforts of the Business Center. A Booklet, Illustrative and Descriptive of this Hotel, will be sent upon application. GEORGE W. REYNOLDS, Proprietor Formerly Manager Hotel del Monte, in California, and late of the Chicago Beach Hotel ^¥$ti0>itt»i0t*m0»i0t0>ttftiitt0>t*tm0fmti»tt»m0mti0m*i»t0f>t^timt0ii^ dmmmmW' ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado). Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 41 TOURIST RESORTS. i0vt0imi0»itmimm0*mMmm0*m0»tm0*i»0tm>t^tt00t9m^ttm>m* Correct Hotels in New York City v^ v^ v^ TO STOP AT v^ v^ v^ THE ST. DENIS Broadway and Eleventh Street THE MARTINIQUE Broadway and Thirty-third St. Rates and booklets orv application Wm. Taylor ® Son, Proprietors ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jaclisonville (210 Hogan St.)» St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach aj! HOTEL FLANDERS 133-135-137 West 47th Street New York City Transient and Permanent Guests Restaurant the Best Well Recommended by All Its Patrons ^d ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 44 TOURIST RESORTS. f±^. New Hotel Albert Corner lllh ^i. and University Place New York City One block wesi of Broadway The only absolutely fireproof transient hotel below 23d Street. A moderate-priced house, with all modern conveniences, including long dis- tance phone in every room. Rooms from $1.00 per day up. 100 rooms with private bath from $2.00 per day up. A first-class restaurant, where Club Breakfasts and meals at fixed prices are served. The best Hotel value in New York City Send for Guide and Booklet. V. ASK MR. FOSTER j ^ABou^THE jyj^^ Gregorian Hotel THIRTY-FIFTH STREET, WEST. Bet< Fifth Ave. and Herald Square, IN NEW YORK CITY. The Most Beautiful Hotel in the Metropolis. : EUROPEAN PLAN. : IRGINIA NAVIGATION CO. JAMES R.IVER ROUTE Between RICHMOND. NEWPORT NEWS. OLD POINT COMFORT. PORTSMOUTH a^ivd NORFOLK. VA. The Fajt and Elegant Saloon Steamer TOCAHOJ^TAS Leaves Richmond Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 7:00 a. m.; Petersburg, 8:00 a. m., arriving at Old Point Comfort4:3o p. m.; Norfolk, 5:30 P- m. , „, , Leaves Norfolk Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 7:00 a. m.; Old Point, 8:00 a. m., arriving at Petersburg, 3:00 p. m.; Richmond 5:30 P- m. Fare One Way, $1.50; Round Trip, $2.50. JAMESTOWN, 1607. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 45 TOURISr RIISOKTS. r M^«MWM^«M«M«*«MW««lMMIMM^WM)WMlMMMMMIMMMMMIIIM^^ THE HOSPICE OPEN WINTER AND SUMMER Address THE HOSPICE, Niagara Falls, Can. V>*fMM«t« OF MX. CARMEL NIAGAHA FALLS CANADA Magnificently situated on the high bluff, overlooking the Great Cata- racts of the Niagara River, the Gorge and Rapids, all the Islands of the Upper River and the Mon- ster Electric Power Plants. UNRIVALLED IN POINT OF VIEW The guests and visitors to THE HOSPICE are accorded all the luxuries, ap- pointrhents and service of a first- class modern hotel. Rooms en suite with private bath. itfi NEW ORLEANS "THE GATEWAY OF THE MISSISSIPPI." The Coming Great City of the Great So\itK. The Largest Cotton. Rice and Sugar Market in the World. THE MOST POPULAR. WINTER. RESORT IN AMERICA. Continuous Horse Ra.cing, Golf Links, Hunting ak.nd Fishing, Comfort, Heahh. Plea.sure. s§ n§ v^ NEW Si. Charles Hotel Modern, Fireproof, First-class. Accommodating One Thousand Guests. Turkish, Russian, Roman and Plain Baths. Luxurious Sun Baths and Palm Garden. ANDREW R. BLAKELY ®. CO., Ltd., Props. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.). St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (.Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 4b TOURIST RESORTS. HOTEL ASPINWALL, "^^121 1 ENOX, the most fashionable and exclusive resort in America, with its magnificent scenery ** and excellent roads, is an ideal place for those seeking health or pleasure. The Hotel Aspin- wall is new and equipped with every convenience. Water of exceptional purity and softness. Modern sanitary plumbing. Drainage perfect. Elevation, 1,460 feet. Cottages for rent and building sites for sale. Send for booklet. l^i^l^"™^"^*t*^*^^^^^^^'^'^*^'^^*D^^^^^^*^*^^'D^^^^*^'0^^^*P^*t'^^^^^"^«^*^*^l^l^l^l^l^ H K K If THE NORTHFIELD, Summer Season, June to October AMBERT G. MOODY, Manager H. S. STONE, Assistant Manager SET HIGH AMDN A finely equipped hotel, in ideal scenic and historic surroundings. Four hours from Albany, three from Boston and five from New York. j^ good livery, careful and pleasino Jf walks and drives. -:- -:- EAST NORTHFIELD, I MASS. ^ I Apartments Open the Entire % I Year 5 St M St S€ M 3f $ s X 3t X St 3t 3t St St Rooms en suite with private bath, steam heat, electric lights. e. Golf, Tennis, Automobiling, Mountain Climbing. Beautiful -:- -:- Send for illustrated booklet and full information. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 47 TOURIST RESORTS. HOTEL LENOX — European Plan ~ Boylston and Exeter Streets BACK BAY, BOSTON C. A. GLEASON, Manager A Modern Hotel Absolutely Fireproof Conveniently near Boston ®. Albany, and Ne^v York, New Haven (El Hartford Back Bay Stations. Electric cars to all parts of the city and suburbs. :: :: :: :: THE ALDINE HOTEL, CHESTNUT ST., above 19tli St., PHILADELPHIA. ROOMS, $1.50 to $5.00 per day, European Plan, AND $4.00 to $7,00 per day, American Plan, 5. MURRAY MITCHELL, Proprietor. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.). St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 48 TOURIST RESORTS. The SKoreham WASHINGTON. D. C. The LesLding FashiorvaLble Hotel Metropolitan Standard of Excellence Absolutely Modern and High Class in all detail AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN JOHN T. DEVINE, Proprietor ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.). St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (P-rado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.X 49 TOURIST RESORTS. MI^«MI»MM«WMWMW^%MMN«*4«MMM^%MIIMMM*AMMiMWMnM^ NEW MODERN WASHINGTON, D. C. HOTEL DRISCOLL Facing the U. S. Capitol and Grounds Corner FIRST and B Streets, N. W. A strictly first-class Hotel with finest modern improvements. Located centrally for all depots, churches, theatres and points of interest. The many modern conveniences to be had include electric lisfhts, electric elevator, steam heat, sanitary plumbing, billiard room, barber shop, telephone in every room, filtered water for all uses. Well furnished rooms are arranged single or en suite with private bath at reasonable rates. Cuisine and service of the highest standard. Send for illustrated booklet. American Plan from $3.00 per day. Ons block from B. & 0. Depot. European Plan from $1.50 per day. Five blocks from Penn. Depot. Electric cars pass the doors for all parts of the city. T. A. McKEE, Manager, HOTEL GORDON Sixteenth and I Streets, IN THE SELECT RESIDEN- TI.\L DISTRICT OF WM. P. KENNEY, PROPRIETOR WASHINGTON, D. C. THE HOTEL GORDON, containing one hundred and fifty rooms and fifty-five baths, is situated on the cor- ner of Sixteenth and I Streets, and is considered the most beautifully located hotel in Washington. It is within two minutes' walk of the White House, Treasury, State, War and Navy Departments, is surrounded by the beauti- ful homes of foreign Ambas- sadors and American Statesmen, and is easily accessible to car lines for all parts of the city. The building is a modern si.x-story structure, and among the many conveniences are Telephones in Rooms, Electric Light, Steam Heat, Buffet, Bil- liard Room and Barber Shop. Exclusively American Plan, $3.00 to $^.00 per day. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (, First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado>, Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 50 TOURIST RESORTS. THE ST. JAMES, European. WASHINGTON, D. C. Cor. Penna. Ave. and 6th S<. BEST family and transient hotel at the National Capital. It has about it the atmosphere of comfort and homelikeness so fasci- nating to the tourist and to the traveling man. All rooms are equipped with local and long distance telephones, steam heat and electric light. Single rooms, $1.00 and up- wards; suite, with bath, $3.00 to $6.00 per day. ^vi LEVI WOODBURY, Prop. H. T. WHEELER, Manager. GOLF TENNIS BOATING FISHING OLD POINT COMFORT Open All the Year HOTEL CHAMBERLIN The most delightfully situated resort on the coast. Game preserve of 10,000 acres for the hotel guests exclusively. Interesting illustrated booklets free. Address GEORGE F. ADAMS. Manager, - - - FORTRESS MONROE. VA. 100 Score Cards for Bridge sent on receipt of 10 cents in stamps. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poineiana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 51 TOURIST RESORTS. THE JEFFERSON RICHMOND. VIRGINIA European Plan Exclusively Modern in Every Detail, Elegant in all Appointments Long Distance Phones in Every Room Turkish and Roman Baths. Rates. $1.50 per day and up'ward Work of reconstructing the burnt portion of the Hotel is progressing rapidly, and will be completed in the Fall of 1906. The new construction will be absolutely fire-proof. During the rebuilding the 'Franklin street end of the Jefferson will remain open and solicits your patronage. P. M. FRY. Manager Cbe freaonia, 132M323 H St., N. W., WASHINGTON, • - - - D. C. Centrally located; new; thoroughly equipped with every modern appliance; a cuisine unexcelled, American Plan, $2 per day, $12 per week. Euro- pean Plan, $1 per day and up. Special excursion rates. Address WM. W. DANENHOWER, Prop. RICHMOND HOTEL 17tK and H Streets Select residential section American Plan Washington, D. C. Two blocks from White House $3.00 per day upwards CLIFFORD M. LEWIS. Proprietor ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 52 TOURIST RESORTS. PINE BEACH HOTEL Pine Beach, Norfolk Co., Va. Absolutely New. Modern in all its Appointments and Equipment. OPEN THE YEAR ROUND. ONE of the finest seaside hotels on the Atlantic coast, situated on Sewell's Point, on the south shore of the Hampton Roads, where the Elizabeth and James Rivers meet to cast their waters into the Chesa- peake Bay. In plain view are Norfolk, Old Point Comfort, Newport News, Hampton, Soldiers' Home, and just across Hampton Roads stands famous Fortress Monroe. Golf Links. In the heart of the Jamestown Exposition Grounds. BOATING. FISHING. BATHING. Every room an outside one. 75 with private bath, single or en suite. Steam heat in each room. Beautiful sun parlors. Large ballroom. Superb dining room. Every convenience. WM. C. ROYER, Manager. When ii\ Washington Register at THE BUCKINGHAM. 'pHE BUCKINGHAM, on McPHERSON PARK, is in the very center of the most attractive and fashionable part of the city, two blocks from the Ex- ecutive IVlansion, Treasury, State, War and Navy buildings, and v^'ithin easy access of the theaters and shopping district. The I interior is planned for ^comfort and convenience. Desirable rooms for tran- sients. For ladies travel- ing alone this hotel affords special induce- ments. Cuisine and service are the very best, and up to date. The regular tariff of charges is $2.50, $3.00, $4.00 per day, American Plan. A. L. BLISS, OWNER. F. K.WETMORE, MANAGER. The Arlington Virginia Beach, Va. The Arlington is located on the most desirable part of the Beach, within two hundred feet of the surf, with an unobstructed view of the ocean from nearly every point. Has hot and cold water, baths and toilets on each floor, gas in each room, and is open throughout the year. It takes a pardonable pride in the refinement and distinction of its clientele and in its established reputation for catering only to persons of discrimination and breeding. The Management makes no secret of the fact that it re- gards the gratifying success enjoyed by the Arlington as due to the enviable reputation it has so consistently built up. Home-like accommodation. First-class service. Rea- sonable rates. Write for booklet. W. J. WRIGHT. Manager Virginia Beach, Va. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 10 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami(First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 53 TOURIST RESORTS. ^'There's J^o "Place LiKe Charleston." CHARLESTON HOTEL RIDDOCK 0»i>H0fit>0mm THE DUVAL JACKSONVILLE. FLORIDA FRANK M. TVRPIN, Proprietor The most centrally located Hotel in the City. Opposite Government Buildingand Post Office. Convenient to depots, wharves, express and tele- graph offices. Rooms with private baths, single and en suite ^ "^ Liberally conducted on American plan only ^ ^ A. B. HUMPHREY, Manager THE ONLY EXCLUSIVE TRUNK STORE IN FLORIDA Florida Trunk Co. Trunks, Valises, Traveling Bags, Fancy Leather Goods. Alligator Goods a Specialty, MOTTO: Honest Goods, Conser-Vati'Ve Methods, Lotitest "Prices, "bl^ West Bay Street, Jacksonville, Fla. Bell Phone 1005 S. H. ETTER., Prop. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.). St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.), 56 THE STANDARD GUIDE. tbe florida times-Union THE GREAT STATE PAPER DAILY, SUNDAY AND SEMI-WEEKLY PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED ESTABLISHED in the year 1865 Advertising: Ask for Rates Call for Sample Copies ^ Full Associated Press Service. ^ ^ Wide Circulation PUBLISHED AT JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA SMMWWM«W«MIWMM«««WaMWWW«MMMIM*MMMWHMm^^ ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and nrinted matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 57 TOURIST RESORTS. MRS. CONN ALLY'S ^I^Z HOME 331 W. Church St.. Jacksonville, Fla. Centrally located. Hot and cold running water in every room. Private baths. Electric bells. Furnace heat. Table cuisine unexcelled. American and European plan. MRS. K. H. CONNALLY, Prop. GEO. T. CHRISTIE HUGH B. CHRISTIE CHRISTIE (a CHRISTIE Real Estate Brokers Jacksonville, Florida We can lend your money at six, seven and eight per cent, on improved city property NEW Hotel Victoria JACKSONVILLE. FLORIDA Corner Main and Adams Streets R. BIXLER. Proprietor The service and appointments of this hotel are first-class and up to the most modern methods JACKSONVILLE SIGHT-SEEING AUTO Leaves P. 0. 10 A. M. and 2.30 P. M. Daily For tickets and further infornnaLtion "Ask Mn Foster" NEW BROWN HOUSE MELBOURNE. FLORIDA Centrally Located, Corner New Haven Avenue Fine view of Indian River aLnd Ocean. Finest hunting a.nd fishing. Rates $2.00 per day and up. GEO. M. BROWN. Proprietor OPEN ALL THE YEAR EUROPEAN PLAN OCALA HOUSE Only five miles from the world-renowned Silver Springs, which can be reached by tallyho over hard clay road, and there naphtha launches can be obtained at any hour at reasonable rates. Rooms, 75c. to $1.50 per day. Special rates by the week. For rates and information address C. M. WHITESIDE. Ocala, Florida ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jaclisonville (210 Hogan St.). St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 58 TOURIST RESORTS. THE METROPOLIS The Greatt FaLinily Paper of Florida Associated Press Telegraphic News THE METROPOLIS JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA Average Daily Sworn Circulation, 1905, 9,000 Advertising Rates upon Application. CARTER ®. RVSSELL PUBLISHING CO. JaLcksonville, FloridaL. THE METROPOLIS ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.). St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 59 TOURIST RESORTS. <» <» S6e Buckingham, ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA. CHE BUCKINGHAM is on Granada Street, between the Ponce de Leon and the Alcazar, in the very center of the brilliant life of St Augustine: and yet set amid its palms it has a situation which is charmingly retired and cozy. Spacious grounds beautified with palms, flowers and shrubbery surround the house. The verandas are broad, the rooms large and sunny, the appointments modern throughout, with electric bells, baths, open fireplaces, and everything for comfort. The cuisine and service are unsurpassed, in all respects THE BUCKINGHAM is a hotel of the first class. Jt ^ ^ Jt ^ ^ Terms, $2^0 per Day and op* Special Weekly and Monthly Rates. For particulars, adciress the proprietor, EVERETT I. MATHEWSON. SUMMER ADDRESS, MATHEWSON HOUSE, NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. 1. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 1 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 6o TOURIST RESORTS. Florida. Ho\ise^ ''TOURISTS' AND TRAVELERS' FAVORITE:" St. Augvistine» Florida. ^HIS popular house V^ is most centrally V located. Has all J modern improve- -^ ments including K STEAM HEAT, 1 and more rooms with ^ SOUTHERN 'ff' EXPOSURE ■« 2. than any other hotel in town. Accommo- dates 2^o. FLORIDA HOUSE, FRONTING ST. GEORGE STREET. RATES: $2.50 to $3.50 Per Day* Special Weekly Rates. F. C. HAYDEN, Manager. FLORIDA HOI SE, FROM ING TREASURY STREET, FACING SOUTH. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami CPirs* National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (! 333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 6i TOURIST RESORTS. LYON - BUILDING (STRICTLY FIREPROOF) Cor. Kin^ and St. George Sts. ST. AUGUSTINE. FLA. tt&& 60 Choice Hotel "Room-f Kurnished Opposite Post Office. Most Central Location in the City. ROOMS Only $3.00 Per Week Vpward 0. B. SMITH, Manager E^^:^«>«« o ♦ o ♦ o ♦ o ♦ o ? ,0 ; ,0 ♦ .0 1 )^^y:)^r<>^^-m^o^):m:^^ t I ^ The St. Augustine EVENING RECORD IS READ by more Hotel people and their guests than any paper printed on the East Coast of Florida. On sale in every Hotel, at every News Stand and on all Trains from Jacksonville to Miami. For Advertising Rates, Address D. E TKompsorv, Gen. Mgr., St. Augustine, Fla. i 5 \ y ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami(First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 62 TOURIST RESORTS. Hotel St. George St. Axigvistine, FloridoL Enlarged and Impro*Ued Since Last Season ELEVATOR - STEAM HEAT - PRIVATE BATHS $4.00 Per Day M. B. MONTGOMERY, of Huestis House. SaLraLtogaL. Owner e^nd Proprietor ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised* •t the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jaclssonville (210 Hogan St.)» St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facine Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 63 TOURIST RESORTS. itt>n0>it0ttmf*ii0i0»t0*l>0iftif*tmf0m0*ii0nm0*i>t»tm^im THE SURPRISE STORE ST. AUGUSTINE. FLORIDA Is the largest department store on the East Coast, and is well stocked in every department with the newest and most desirable merchandise to be found Especial attention is called to the immense stock of Wash Goods, Hosiery, Laces and Embroideries, Corsets, Muslin and Knit Underwear, Suits, Skirts and Waists. Men's Clothing, Hats, Shirts, Hosiery and Underwear. Prompt attention given all mail orders and inquiries. THE SURPRISE STORE CO. ST. AUGUSTINE. FLORIDA HOTEL CHAUTAUQUA 11 King Street Opposite Plaza and Slave Market St. Augustine, Fla. A Family Hotel Rates, $2.00 per Day and Up Special Weekly and Monthly Rates MRS. M. CRJTTENDEN. Proprietress Colonial Cottage 22 Cookman Avenue Chautauqua, N. Y. on O'-ITE HALI MM ^.IM-i \ 1 I l\ll's GROVE, NLAK A-Ml'IIITHEATKE ROOM AND BOARD AT REASONABLE RATES MRS. M. CRJTTENDEN, Proprietress ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.). St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Banlc Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 64 TOURIST RESORTS. THE ZOO Si. Augustine, Florida, Zoological Garden San Marco Ave., 0pp. City Water Works Sand Hill Cranes Three feet high and measuring six feet across from tip of wings, who dance and sing to music. (A show in themselves.) Live Alligators, Turtles, Snakes, Animals and Birds of every description Admission, ... - 25 Cents GEO. W. JOHNSON, Manager For R.eaLl Cstate ^^t\d Insvirance Also Furnished Houses GO TO EUGENE L. BARNES 212 St. George St. St. Augustine, Fla. PHONE 75 ARNOLD KURTH DEALER IN ANCIENT AND MODERN Curiosities a^rvd Jewelry From Every Quarter of the Globe St George SU rSa House St Augustine, Fla. SARATOGA SPRINGS— from June to September 15th Ti« OLD HOUSE J. p. dodge: 54 North St. George Street ST. AUGUSTINE ^y?. T). 1565 A quatint and interesting plaLCe to visit Ancient city souvenirs in a.ttra.ctive forn\s Wa.tches, Clocks and Jewelry Repairing ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach ^Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 65 TOURIST RESORTS. JOS. T. PACETTI 0i»>m^t>0t»»t TAKE FLORIDA HOME WITH YOU SEE KAISER At Palm Beach and Daytona, Florida "We devote all our energy and ability in the making of pictures to depict Florida as you know it." " We have won our reputation on high-grade Kodak finishing because we give you the bast possible results from your films." " Amateurs throughout the country are sending us their work by mail." ' ' We sell everything for the Kodaker. ' ' "Our Florida scenes in black and white and water-color are more than photographs." "They are art gems." S t^K KAISBR. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hojan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 6q TOURIST RESORTS. ^£ NEW SEASIDE INN ^.tT.f^t Now open for the season of 1905-6 under the management of the owmer, Horace F. Stewart. Directly on the Automobile Racing Course. Handsome and new, situated on Daytona Beach, the Hotel is modern in ail its appointments, with large, airy, pleasant rooms, overlooking the ocean, and opposite Keating's fine Casino and Pier. Rates, $2.50 per day. Special by the week. SURF BATHING IS UNEXCELLED. CARNELL'S FLORIDA FRUIT PRESERVES HOMEMADE GUAVA JELLY « SWEET ORANGE MARMALADE « WILD ORANGE MARMALADE GRAPE-FRUIT MARMALADE * GUAVA CHEESE « CHINESE PRESERVED KUMQUAT PRESERVED FIGS « SWEKT PICKLED FIGS « CANDIED ORANGE PEEL The Homemade Guava Jelly, Marmalades and Tropical Preserves manufactured by J as. Carnell, are among the most delicious of Florida fruit products. Their purity and exquisite delicacy of flavor have given them an established reputation. Mr. Carnell received the Highest Award at the Pan-American Exposition and all First Prizes at the Florida State Fair of 1901 for Guava Jelly and Tropical Preserves. For price list, address J as, Carnell, Ormond, Florida. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana"' Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave). 70 TOURIST RESORTS. THE PALMETTO ^^^^^^^^ DAYTONA, FLORIDA ^ = OPEN FROM DECEMBER TO MAY C. O. CHAMBERLIN Proprietor T^HE PALMETTO has a most desirable location on the river ^ side of the city, facing the Halifax, which at this point is nearly a mile in width. It is a pleasant house, with large parlors, comfort- able chambers and broad piazzas. The house has been enlarged for this season. New private baths. Cuisine and service of high stan- dard. Terms, $3 00 per day and up. Reasonable weekly rates, and special for those remaining during the season. Se7id for booklet. SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS FOR AUTOMOBILISTS Summer Hotel: ADIRONDACK INN, Sacandaga Park, New York ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, ■at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach ^(Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 71 TOURIST RESORTS. '^/}e COLONNADES SEABREEZE— DAYTONA. FLORIDA J^eU) Oivnership J^etgf Management Now Open, Season 1905-1906 ^ . r p h j &a h". 3, '3 ffc F S rK t SI lill BUILT in an ideal location at Seabreeze, on the Peninsula, opposite Daytona, one hundred and ten miles south of Jacksonville. Newly Furnished, Modern Improvements, Electric Lights, Steam Heat, Colonial Piazza and the spacious Sun Parlor makes the hotel one of the finest on the East Coast. Rooms en suite, with or without private bath. Cuisine unexcelled. Rates, $3.00 per day and up. Special rate for week or season. Write for booklet. Capacity 230. Boating, Fishing, Hunting, Dancing, Bathing, and Permanent Or- chestra. J. GIMLICH, Owner GEO. H. BENNETT, Manager ^ ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.)> St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). TOURIST RESORTS. The Pirves Ridgewood Avenue, Daytona., Fla.. MRS. J. B. HINSKY. Proprietress Telephone, Furnace Heat, ^^ Electric Lights, Private Baths. New and Homelike Appointments J. W. WILKINSON, IS ^he ^eal Ej^rtate Man DAYTONA, FLORIDA SCHMIDT'S VILLA BS^^SnY.Yl^^ Facing Halifax River Sunny sooms, single or en suite, with or without bath. A cheerful, home-like hotel. Rates, $3.00 per day and upward. HENRY SCHMIDT. Proprietor AN OCEAN TRIP ON ONE OF THE COMMODIOUS STEAMERS OF The Mallory Steamship Line^ is the most enjoyable mode of travel to or from Florida. The GEORGIA- FLORIDA SERVICE is between BRUNSWICK, GA . and NEW YORK. Brunswick has direct rail connection with all Florida points. DELIGHTFUL TRIPS, both novel and new, are offered the Florida tourist for the return to the North or further journeyings South. Take boat from Miami to Key Wes*. or Port Tampa to Key West, where connection is made every Saturday with the Mallory Steamships reaching New York early on Tuesday following. For Illustrated Route Book, address C. H. MALLORY ®. CO.. 129 Front Street. New York, or A. W. PYE. Passenger Agent. 214 W. Bay St.. JACKSONVILLE. FLA. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 73 TOURIST RESORTS. Orange City Mineral Spring Water ONE of the m~st important subjects if not the most important to tourists, is that of pure drinking water. A sufficient food supply is available almost an3rwhere, but pure drinking water is in many- places difficult to obtain. For people living in Florida and elsewhere and for tourists generally the serious problem of pure drinking water is happily solved by the utilizing of a spring by the Orange City Mineral Spring Co., at Orange City, Florida. This water has been found to be of special value in kidney complaints, rheumatism and other ills to which th° human system is subject. This fountain was discovered after penetrating to a depth of 100 feet, when the drill dropped 17 feet. The water issues from a depth of about 75 feet below the sea level. Bottling works are in operation, and the water is on the market. A further indisputable proof of its excellence was given by the St. Louis Official Award Ribbon Com- mittee by authority of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, where the Orange City Mineral Spring Water was entered in competition with nearly all the famous Spring and Mineral waters known in the United States, including the famous Poland Springs, Me., the result being that the commissioners conceded to the Orange City Mineral Spring Water the highest possible award. The State Fair held at Jacksonville, Florida, in 1901, issued a diploma for the Orange City Mineral Springs Water, and this was the only award given any spring water displayed at the fair. The analysis of this water shows it to be practically pure, and as to health giving properties there is no water known that excels it. "A sanitary analysis of the Orange City Spring Water gives the following results : Parts per Million Parts per Million Parts per Million Free Ammonia, . . .00 Oxygen Consumed, . 1.05 Nitrates, .... 1.00 Albuminoid Ammonia, .05 Nitrites, 00 All data proves this water to be quite free from organic matters — to be a good, healthful, palatable drinking water, and one admirably adapted to use for domestic and general purposes. ERASTUS G. SMITH, Ph. D., Prof, of Chemistry, Beloit College, Beloit, Wis." THE ORANGE CITY MINERAL SPRING COMPANY, C. A. Bullen, Manager, ORANGE CITY, FLORIDA MILDRED VILLA First-class, modern house, overlooking the Halifax River. Gas lighted, well heated, table unexcelled. A. M. Watson. Proprietor ORMOND. FLORIDA RIVER VIEW HOTEL ^l^o^^^^I Situated on high ground overlooking the Indian River. Surrounded by a fine orange grove, andjt by an immense pine forest. The Highest, Healthiest, and Dryest spot in Florida. Electric lights, Baths, large Sulphur Swimming Pool. Best of Fishing, Hunting and Boating. All Northern help. An ideal Winter Home. Rates: $2.50 to $3.00. Booklet. W. G. LORE, Proprietor ^ Stigge4:tion:- The next best thing to seeing Florida is to receive from a friend in Florida a copy of the beautiful book "Florida and Nassau in Sunlight Pictures," published by Foster & Reynolds, and sold everywhere on the East Coast. ^ J^ ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach "(Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 74 TOURIST RESORTS. New Rockledge Hotel AND COTTAGES, ROCKLEDGE ^ ^ ^ ^ FLORIDA. Situated in the Midst of a F\ill Bearing Orange Grove and Fronting on the Indian River. nORTHERN help selected for their efficiency from flrst-cIass summer resorts. During the past summer a large addition has been built to this hotel con- taining an assembly room and many rooms en suite with private bath. The public rooms have all been enlarged and the house steam heated, thus assuring former patrons and new guests greater comfort than ever before. The hotel affords, for the exclusive entertainment of its guests: Launches, boats for fishing, (no better fishing in the state), bowling alleys and a livery. = ^ = ^ =^ Rales, $3.00 per day and upward. Special weekly. First-class Orchestra. Casino. H. R. (Si P. A. SHARES, Proprietors. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 75 TOURIST RESORTS. 5 i 1 i i \ THE PLAZA, Rockledge, Floridac. \ I BEAUTIFULLY LOCATED ON THE BANKS OF THE INDIAN RIVER EAST COAST DEPOT ON HOTEL GROUNDS, Bearing OroLnge Groves Belonging to the PlazoL. Accommodations for 250. <^ Steam Heat, ^ Private Baths, Rates, $5.00 to $4.00 per Day. SPECIAL WEEKLY. H. R. ^ P. A. SHARES, Proprietors. S ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jaclssonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach .(Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 76 TOURIST RESORTS. YOUNG WOMEN S DORMITORY — JOHN B. STETSON UNIVERSITY. John B. Stetson University FOUR COLLEGES AND FIVE TECHNICAL SCHOOLS DeLand, Florida AFFILIATED WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS.— The standards are those of the University of Chicago. Stetson's graduates receive their degrees from both Stetson and Chicago. See the Chicago and Stetson catalogs. COLLEGE OF LAW.— Graduates of this college are admitted to practice law in Florida without examination. COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCHOOL OF MECHANIC ARTS.— Mechanical, Civil, Electrical Engineering and Manual Training courses leading to degrees. Fine new building, costly equipment. COLLEGE OF BUSINESS.— Banking in all its branches. Bookkeeping by best methods. Shorthand and Type- writing. Elective courses open in other departments. Large Faculty and commodious building. PREPAR.ATOR.Y ACADEMY.— Graduates prepared to enter Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Michigan, Chicago and all first-class Colleges. NOR.MAL AND MODEL SCHOOLS.— 1. Kindergarten in its own building. 2. Primary and Grammar School in separate building. These Schools especially prepare Public School teachers. i4USIC SCHOOL. — A $10,000.00 pipe organ, a dozen pianos, separate building, large faculty, thorough courses of study. AR.T SCHOOL.— New Studio. Costly casts, models, etc. Stetson has a faculty of 48 professors and instructors. They hold degrees from the Universities of Chicago, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr, Bucknell, University of Michigan, Dennison and other Universities. There are over $300,000.00 in buildings and equipment; nearly a quarter million dollar endowment; an endowed library of over 13,000 volumes ; a beautiful chapel with costly furnishings, including stained glass windows, 7 oil paintings, a $10,000.00 pipe organ; a Gymnasium with complete apparatus ; an enclosed Athletic Field, running track, tennis courts, baseball diamond and gridiron, besides swimming, golf, rowing and other sports ; separate buildings for men and women ; five large laboratories for Chemistry, Physics, Bacteriology, Mineralogy and Biology ; several large museums and shops ; electric lights, electric bells, steam heat, cement walks, shell roads, broad avenues, spacious campus, shrubbery and trees ; social, literary, musical and other students' clubs ; star lecture courses ; Christian and not sectarian teaching. The location is beautiful and healthful, and the expenses are low. For catalogs, views, folders and information, address the President, LINCOLN HULLEY, A.M., Ph.D., DeLand, Florida. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 10 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach '(Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Banli Bldg.), Havana (Prado\ Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 77 TOURIST RESORTS. ^s Harlan-in-the-Pines LAKE HELEN FLO RIDA rs isi^^ii^ ^ LAKE HELEN AND THE HARLAN HOTEL Comfortable and homelike. All modern improvements and conveniences. Tennis, croquet, billiards, pool, hoveling and boating are provided for at the Harlan. A livery is connected with the housa. Conducted as a first-class family hotel, under same management as 1903 and 1904. Terms: $3.00 per day. $12 to $20 per week. M. B. MAHON. Prop. PUTNAM INN V. W. GOULD. Proprieior DeLand. - - Florida. — r- ^ -n- ^ t'^ Jf^a, — _ - .' ii«-^'" ?" h M ^^" ..*- """^ All the comforts of home All the conveniences of the best hotel service For description of De Land see page 81 Send them a copy of the Standard Guide with its unique Coquina Cover and its hundred pictures ASK MR. FOSTER for funher information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised^ at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 78 TOURIST RESORTS. Fountam City H ouse South Beach Street, Daytona, Florida v« v< N? M. L. WAGMAN. Proprietor Also of ELMWOOD HALL. Saratoga Springs, N. Y. All modern improvements. Located on water front, fine view of the Halifax River. Rates, $2.00 to $3.00 a day. ONLY THE BEST TREID'S CAFE 9 ^ 11 Hogan Street JACKSONVILLE Open Day and Night Everything in Season PUTNAM HOUSE, ^t^o^^ol Open from December to April Accommodations for 400 Guests Rates, $3.00 to $5.00 per Day Special Reduced Weekly Rattes. $15.00 and Upward Elevator, Electric Bells, Steam Heat and Private Baths. Palatka Heights Spring Water used exclusively in the hotel for all purposes, is soft and palatable and free from sulphur, and for purity and healthfulness is unexcelled. Palatka is the starting point for Ocklawaha and Upper St. Johns River Tours, and headquarters for Dunn's Creek and Rice Creek, Lake George and Crescent Lake Fishing Trips. L. H. Daily News ^ New York Agents : FOSTER & REYNOLDS, 346 Broadway. Room 8f0. s ^ # % T # fW I . . . f. is the only Daily Society Paper published in Florida. It receives by wire, and prints every morning the Stock Reports and im- portant news despatches, and contains all the Society Nev/s of the Palm Beach Colony. THE NEWS is sold at the dining-room door at the Hotel Royal Poinciana and at the Breakers every morning at breakfast time, ten hours in advance of the arrival of any other daily paper. We are confident that we are not claiming too much when we say that the NEWS is read by all the Winter visitors at Palm Beach and is therefore the best advertising mediutn that can be used by those who wish to reach these people. For sample copy and advertising rates address g Dean Publishing Co., i Publishers PALM BEACH DAILY NEWS, | PALM BEACH, FLA. I a ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at ihe Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 82 TOURIST RESORTS. HOTEL "THE PALMS, 95 WEST PALM BEACH Ng Ng FLORIDA Ne se A homelike hotel, well appointed, giving the comforts without the cost of the more expensive ones. Fronting on beautiful Lake Worth, opposite the Royal Poinciana Hotel. Enlarged this year by a four-story stone addition, making it one of the attractive hotels of West Palm Beach. Excellent fishing in Lake Worth, also in the bodies of fresh water three quarters of a mile away. White waitresses and cooks from the famous White Mountain hotels are employed, insuring first-class service to guests. Electric lights and bells throughout the hotel. Private and public baths. The hotel remains open until May 1. Rates, $2.50 per day upward. For further particulars address HOTEL "THE PALMS." West Palm Beach. Florida "ANTHONY 99 (4 Stores) Our Line of Outing Shoes, Light Weight Clothing, Straw Hats and Men's Furnishings superior to any shown in the South. =^ Palm Beach W. Palm Beach Daytona Miami, Fla. Anthony's Shoes are Silent Salesmen ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed m:;tter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 1 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). TOURIST RESORTS. Give Me Facts of What You Want I am Responsible for My Reply and Will Stand the Closest Investigation As to Character, Responsibility, etc. E. A, WADDELL MIAMI, FLORIDA REAL ESTATE Information Bureau Manager for the Cutler Estate and Others Also City and Country Property Florida Lands of All Description on the EAST and WEST COASTS Cosmopolitan in My Dealings and Invite Correspon- dence or sl Personatl Interview ^^ ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advert'sed. at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.). St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldi?.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 84 TOURIST RESORTS. S£ Everglade Hotel MIAMI. FLORIDA New Stone Annex with large rooms and private baths. Located in Central Part of the City; one block from Post Office, Royal Palm Park. River and Bay. Rates, $2.50 and up per day Special by the Week ^ v^ v^ R. S. FLANAGAN. Proprietor Miami Automobile Co. Miami, Florida Headquarters for the only first-class Cars for Hire. Storage, Repairing and Supplies. Garage near Post-Office, Thir- teenth Street. Take the Miami Automobile Co. Cars, they don't break down. Phone 199. THE OAKS Corner 13th Street and Avenue B One block from Royal Palm Hotel Facing Royal Palm Park $2.50 per day and up N. B. MacGRIFF, Proprietor THE BAY VIEW UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Next to Terminal Pier. Opposite Depot. No carriage necessary. All modern improvements. Fine view of Ba/. Rates $2.00 per day and up CHARLES MacKILLIP, Proprietor LAKESIDE HOTEL (ON lake: WEIR) Most beautifully situated, 85 feet above surface of Lake, in high rolling pine region. Best of hunting and fishing. Orange grove free to guests. Rates, $7.00 to $8.00 per week. Modern improvements. Illustrated booklet. L. T. CLAWSON. Prop., Weirsdale, Florida March Villas, MidLini 215 13th St., Opposite Royal Palm Park 117 9th St., on Biscayne Bay Private baths Distilled watc r for drinking MRS. W. C. MARCH, Proprietress Cbe Peacock Tnn : : gocoanut Gfovc, Tlorida : : <^ OPEN ALL THE RATES $2.50 PER DAY YEAR AND UP G. F. SCHNEIDER & SON, Props. Q" lET, homelike, and adapted to persons seeking rest and the beauties of this perfect climate and life on Biscayne Bay, The most southerly hotel on th: mainland. Tropical fruits, trees and vegetation. Sea-bathing all winter. The finest fishing and sailing in the world. Good cooking and cleanliness our specialty. Fine place for con valescents, but no consumptives admitted. :: :: :: " SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 85 TOURIST RESORTS. SAe MINNEAPOLIS MIAMI. FLORIDA Now open in the charming Ciiy of Miami, in the extreme south of Florida Located on Seventh St. between Avenue B and Avenue C MRS. E. A. RUSSELL, of Minneapolis.Minn. Mrs. Russell will be pleased to entertain her friends from Minne- apolis and elsewhere, in her new home in the Southland. Pine Top Camp Thirty-five Miles by Steamer Below Kissimmee Quail, Snipe, Deer, Bear. The best fishing in Florida. Terms, $10 per week. Ns^ S^ N^ C. (SL L. P. BLOW ^f. ALTAMONTE ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, ^ FLORIDA Pure spring water. Good shooting and fishing. Abundance of oranges from our own grove. Northern white service. Rates, $4 per day. $14 to $21 per week. Suinmer Hotel: Pearl Point, on Lake George. N. Y, J. G. a.nd H. R. STUART HOTEL KISSIMMEE KISSIMMEE. FLORIDA One hundred and sixty miles south of Jacksonville. Fine gjlf links, f.ee to guests. Best of hunting and fishing. $2.50 aLnd $3.00 per da.y $10.00 to $15.00 per week Send for Booklet H. C. CHAPMAN. Proprietor ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 86 TOURIST RESORTS MM(MMiMMIMHI^4AMMW^%MIMa^%MMM HOTEL ROYAL PALM Fort Myers, F 1 o r i d ©l Situated on the Caloosahatchee River among large Orange and Grapefruit Groves, in the garden spot of Florida. Orange trees 60 and 70 years old on the hotel grounds. First Prize for Citrus Fruit. The finest hunting and fishing. The spring v^ater on the hotel property, in connexion with the dry climate, has made many rheumatic cures. Blue Ridge (Va.) Spring w^ater free to guests. Term, $4.00 per day and up. Send for booklet. Atlantic Coast Line Sleeper leaves Jacksonville every evening for Fort Myers. PHILIP F. BROWN. Manager = Also Proprietor Blue Ridge Springs, Virginia = *'*'*****^'****M^'**<*'** THOSE intending to travel will find it to their interest to communicate with Raymond & Whitcomb Co. , whose patrons include the better class of the American traveling public. This firm maintains, at large expense, a bureau for supplying the traveling public with information about resorts, their hotels and attractions, the best routes for reaching them, the cost of railway and steamship tickets to all parts of the world, and other needful information. Detailed itineraries of contemplated trips will be prepared on request ; these will give the train service, the names of hotels, places where the time can be spent to the best advantage, etc. ; in brief, such information as is needed by every traveler. Special vestibuled trains to Mexico, California and the Pacific Coast, equipped with dining, library, observation and sleeping cars with private rooms, are provided exclusively by this firm, and are intended for the convenience and comfort of the most fastidious. The time schedules are arranged to include the interesting scenery by daylight. Tours to Florida, Mexico, West Indies, Porto Rico, Europe, JoLpan, Around the World, etc. Railroad and SteaLinship Tickets. Priva.te CaLrs. Foreign Money, Letters of Credit, Travelers' Cheques. ^ 5 RAYMOND vanee Springs Hotel and Cottages on Suw^anee River JOHN S. BOWEN, General Manager Suwanee, Florida ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 10 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 90 TOURIST RESORTS. tShe GREAT SOUTHERN GULFPOR.T, MISS. f nlp'spS'ime nif jg^ ■ff Opened July 25, 1903. Steam Heat, Electric Lights, Elevator, Orchestra. Hot and cold water and telephone in every room, and all modern appointments. -GAGE, Cl.A'RK., Manager = THE MONTICELLO NORFOLK. VIRGINIA An Absolutely Modern and Fireproof Hotel Situated at the corners of City Hall Avenue, Granby Street and Monticello Avenue. Con- tains every feature of the builders' art which conduces to the comfort, safety and plea- sure of the traveling public. Fine Cafes Pleasant Rooms Every Convenience Superb Dining Room CHAS.H.CONSOLVO Manager ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Banii Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). •91 TOURIST RESORTS. MECKLENBURG at CHASE CITY, VA. On Southern Railvv^ay. ninety miles south of Richmond, Va. THE MECKLENBURG is a new and up-to-date hotel, steam heated, electric lighted and first class in every respect. All out- side rooms and perfect ventilation. 18,000 acres of game preserves. The finest Mydriatic Department in the South, every known bath, including the Schott System of Nauheim baths. Just the place to break your homeward trip. Table and service unsurpassed. The celebrated mineral waters for which this place is noted, received the highest awards at the Chicago World's Fair and St. Louis Exposition. For further information ask MR. FOSTER or address MECKLENBURG MINERAL SPRINGS CO., Chase City. Va. »'%/%^%/%^%/%'%^'^%''%%'%/%>'%^%/%'%/%^%/%>'%^'%/%''%/%'%/%-%/%'%^%^^ Oe Read l^ouse, Site of the Historic Criitciifleld House. ARTESIAN WELL WATER USED THROUGHOUT THE HOTEL. PRIVATE BATHS. CHATTANOOGA, TENN. Opposite Union Depot FINEST TURKISH BATH-ROOMS IN THE SOUTH. PORCELAIN LINED TUBS. • ElectHc Cars pass the notel for Cookout mountain, mission RJdflC, Uallombrosa and all suburbs. « « EUROPEAN plan, $1.00 and up. SAWL R. READ, - - - PROPRIETOR. v'%/%/%^%^>%/%^ ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 92 NATURAL BRIDGE,VIRGINIA ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD Situated in the midst of picturesque scen- ery, high up between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains. A place of pilgrimage for tourists from all paits of the world. HOTELS OPEN ALL THE YEAR, with accommodations for 200 guests. Ex- cellent in appointments, cuisine and service. Fine Orchestra, Excellent Livery, Saddle Horses a specialty. An ideal resort for health, rest and pleasure. Directly on the line of the Shenandoah Val- Jl ley Division of the N. & W. Ry., and the ^^ James River Division of the C. & O. Ry. Union Station. For booklet, rates, etc., address C. H. PAXTON. Manager, Natural Bridge. Vac. Narragansett Pier THE NEW MATHEWSON Rhode IslaLnd A Magnificent Modern Hotel for Those who Appreciate High-Class Service and Environment. Situated Directly Facing the Ocean ^« ^ V* Open June 25 to September 15. 1906 Finest surf bathing. No annoyance from mosquitoes. Good fishing and sailing. Excellent macadam roads. Golf and tennis. Pure spring water from the Mathewson Spring. Telephone in every room. Elec- tric lights. Elevators. Orchestra. Quarter mile piazza promenade. Large number new bathrooms have been added. Hand- some illustrated book free. S. W. and E. I. MATHEWSON Managers ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach ^Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.)- 93 TOURIST RESORTS. BATTERY PARK HOTEL S COTTAGES ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. 'THIS MAGNIFICENT HOTEL is situated in private park in the center of Asheville, the most attractive •■• resort in America. Fine Golf Links, Excellent Orchestra, Superb Scener>. Good Macadam Roads. No consumptives received. Illustrated Booklet free. 2). C. WADDELL, Jr.. Proprietor. F. -K. BATJB^'. Manager. MARGO TERRACE Corner H8k.ywood St. and French Broad Ave. ASHEVILLE, N. C. The most desirable location in Asheville. The wide veranda and sun parlor command the finest views of mountains and surrounding country. Margo Terrace is conducted as a select family hotel, is handsomely furnished, modern throughout, affording lovely rooms with private bath ; excellent table. Moderate rates. Address, P. H. BRANCH. Proprietor Asheville, N. C WRIGHT'S HOTEL COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA Cor. Plain and Richardson Streets A HOTEL With all modern conveniences. Steam heat and open fireplaces. Rooms en suite with bath and toilet. Public baths and toilets on each floor. Large Sample Rooms. $2.50 to $4.00 per day. Special rates by Letters of inquiry promptly answered. W. C. WRIGHT. Proprietor week or month. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Banis Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.X 94 TOURIST RESORTS. X^E MANOR ^^^^^^"^^"^ ''A^-K- * ASHEVILLE 5 NORTH CAROLINA AN EXCLUSIVE INN. ■mf^- ^ 8 THE MANOR, open the year round, is neither a hotel nor a boarding house; it differs from both. It is unique in itself. It provides a perfectly comfortable place to live, at- tractive in its surroundings, complete but modest in its appointments, and carrying that air of refinement essential to the comfort of cultivated people. The Manor has come to be known as the most home-like public house in the South, and is particularly adapted for persons making a prolonged stay in the mountains. Cottages in connection are rented by room, or suite, or entire cottage. The table is good. Electric lights, steam heat and open wood fire- places. Golf, tennis and other amusements. For further information, address ALBEMARLE PARK COMPANY, Asheville. N. C. Victoria Inn ASHEVILLE J^orlh Carolina OPEN ALL THE YEAR. Altitude 2500 feet. Fine spring water. Modern in appointment. Select and homelike. 80 Bedrooms. Fine walks and drives. Unsurpassed views. Short distance from street car line. Rates |3.50 per day and upward ; $12.50 per week and upward. Send for Booklet. MRS. A. D. MAR.TIN, Proprietress. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 1 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciaha), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 95 TOURIST RESORTS. Flat Rock North Carolina Heidelberg House An Ideal Winter and Spring Resort for Refined People {a) Situated amid the most picturesque of the "Over hills of Ottaray." (b) Beautiful lake and mountain views. (c) Well built and equipped house (steam heat, open fires, private baths) . {d) Luxurious table, elegant and home- like appointments. {e) Sixty-acre park, lawns, terraces, shrubberies. (/) Elevation 2,221 feet above the sea. {^) Climate dry, equable and invigor- ating. (h) Country life with city comforts. (/) Golf, tennis, boating, shooting, fishing, riding, driving. (;■) Easy of access, one mile from station (Asheville & Spartanburg Branch of Southern Railway) . (k) Open throughout the year. Write for Booklet and Rates to ARTHUR R. GUERARD. M. D.. - - Proprietor !5>i>?»i»t»?ii>?ii»tit*t>^»i»?>i*?>^>?>'.*t>^»i«^*^>i»i>i>^>?>t>^>t»t>t>^»i^.>^>^>?>i>?>^>?*i>^>?*?>?*i>?-n>?H>?>?>t>^5 ^ OAK. HALL >s TRYON, NORTH CAROLINA Is one of the Best Equipped Hotels in the South a Private and Public Baths, Gas, Electric Bells, Steam Heat and Sun Parlor, st K ' X J? No place more healthy or desirable as a resting place, between ^ I Florida and the North I tf FOR FURTHER INFORMATION APPLY TO 5 ^ F. E. HELLEN - - - ... PROPRIETOR « TRYON, NORTH CAROLINA, or MELROSE HIGHLANDS, MASS. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 96 THE STANDARD GUIDE. WATERMAN'S IDEAL FOUNTAIN PEN This Fountain Pen is the standard writing instrument of the world, everywhere known and recommended by experts to be the best. It excels in simplicity of construction, in the quality of the materials used, and in perfection of workman- ship. The most important feature is the improved Spoon Feed, which conducts the ink from the reservoir to the gold pen with absolute uniformity and certainty, and without danger of blotting. Holders are made in a great variety of styles and sizes, and prices are given for pens and holders complete, with an ink-filler and a box to hold them. No. 24 Chased No. 14 Plain No. 14 Silver Filled No. 14 Chased Havana or on any pleasure ^^^ tffiWWfYffff^ Waterman's Ideal Is easy to fill, easy to clean, never gets out of order, writes without fail or flood, is always to be distinguished as genuine by the word " Ideal " stamped on the pen. Dealers everywhere keep a good assortment, and pens may be exchanged to suit the individual hand at any of our pen offices. L. E. WATERMAN CO.. 175 Broadway. New York 8 School Street, Boston 160 State Street, Chicago 136 St. James Street, Montreal 1 'Na.me on Every Piece' CHOCOLATE BONBONS ARE Pure, Uniform, Superfine, DELICIOUS LOWNEY'S delicate bonbons are made of the costliest materials to be had. Those covered with light coatings from Ceylon cocoa beans have a smooth, mild flavor. Most Northerners prefer our rich, dark coating made from South American beans. FOR SALE THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH THE WALTER M. LOWNEY CO., Boston, Mass. ^KMWMMMWM^ mJ ASK MR. FOSTER (or further information and printed matter of the Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices; Jacksonville (210 Hogan St.), St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami(First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 97 THE STANDARD GUIDE. f ; The latest instrument of the oldest and most suc- cessful makers of piano playing devices is the AngelMs Piatno IT CONSISTS of an excellent upright piano entirely within the case of which is installed the mechanism of the Angelus. It is no larger than an ordinary piano and has practically the same appearance. As the tone and touch are not impaired, this instrument is perfectly satis- factory to the accomplished musician who plays it by the keyboard, as well as to everyone who plays it by means of the perforated rolls. We introduced the Angelus in 1895 and for the past ten years we have been constantly improving and developing our piano player to its present point of superiority. The Angelus Piano is our latest product and is the result of our years of experience and success. When the Angelus is built within the case of a Knabe Piano the instrument is styled the Knabe-Angelus. Write for beautiful catalogue and the name of our nearest local agency. THE WILCOX ®. WHITE COMPANY Bstablished 1876 Meriden, Connecticut, U. S. A. ASK MR. FOSTER for further information and printed matter of tlie Hotels, Routes and Resorts here advertised, at the Standard Guide Travel Offices: Jacksonville (2 10 Hogan St.)» St. Augustine (Cordova Corner), Palm Beach (Facing Royal Poinciana), Miami (First National Bank Bldg.), Havana (Prado), Washington (1333 Pennsylvania Ave.). 98 SEVEN ^^Aiy^) PRIZES Awarded by the International Jury at St. Louis Two Hundred and Two Entries of Singer Sewing=Machines in Fourteen Groups AS FOLLOWS Group 17. Group 28. Group 34. Group 35. Group 38. Group 43. Group 44. Group 51. Group 53. Singer Machines for Book and Pamphlet Stitching. Singer Machines for Book and Pamphlet Stitching. Singer Machines for StHching Bags, Brushes, Trunks and Fine L eather Articles. Singer Machines for Stitching Rubber, Leather and Canvas Beltirig. Cabinet Work for Singer Machines. Singer Machines for Stitch