{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3744", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Pfass\\nBook.\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "FROM SNOU TO SUN", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "FLORIDA.\\nWinter Pleasure Tours\\nUNDER PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED SYSTEM\\nPennsylvania Railroad.\\nTWO WEEKS IN THE SUNNY SOUTH.\\nSPECIAL TRAINS OF PULLMAN VESTIBULE DRAWING-ROOM\\nSLEEPING AND DINING CARS.\\nJ. R. WOOD, GEO. W. BOYD,\\nGeneral Passenger Agent. Assistant General Passenger Agent.", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1890, by\\nTHE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY,\\nIn the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.\\nAUm, Lane Scott, Printers, PhUadelpUa.\\nPS", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Pennsylvania Tours\\nTO\\nFLORIDA.\\nWINTER AND EARLY SPRING, i.\\nV|x\\\\NY persons, mindful of the value of the glorious\\ninfluences of the Southern sun, and wedded to\\nthe genial atmosphere of Florida, tempered by\\nwarm ocean currents and proximity to the tropics,\\ncould not be persuaded to change their annual\\nmigratory trip there for a choice of any other\\nspot in the States. This is, perhaps, perfectly natural, for they\\nknow whereof they speak, and tis true, no section has so much\\nof pleasure and health in store for the tourist, and few points are\\ndrawn nearer the North by the development and marvelous trans-\\nportation facilities of this present age. After a six months con-\\nsecutive business life, to the average American there comes an\\nimperative demand for rest, and man and woman alike rhust\\nthrow off the dual yoke of toil and social obligations and flee to\\nsome radically new scene and life, there to absorb the subtle in-\\nfluence of change preparatory to entering again the arena of a\\nseason of renewed activity.\\nLast year, despite the phenomenal character of the weather.\\nSouthern travel was comparatively heavy, due undoubtedly to the\\nfact that every one who could, fled from the humidity of our open\\nwinter, to the less fickle domain of the South. This year, how-\\never, every prognostication points to severe and cold weather, and\\nin view of this fact, and of many applications already received, the\\n(5)", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Pennsylvania Railroad Company announces a series of winter and\\nspring tours, to be conducted under the exclusive direction of its\\nPersonally-Conducted Sj^stem, to Jacksonville, Fla. The com-\\npany appreciates the popular sentiment expressed by liberal pat-\\nronage for the past three years in similarly arranged tours, and\\npromises to repeat the successful ventures of past seasons in this\\nwinter of 1891.\\nThe arrangements perfected are much more comprehensive and\\ncomplete than ever before, and present a rare opportunity for recre-\\nation and pleasure at what is highly essential, desirable dates.\\nTHE DAYS OF STARTING AND RETURNING.\\nA series of five tours from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,\\nWashington, and other principal points on the Pennsylvania Sys-\\ntem is fixed for the following dates\\nTuesday, January 2oth, 1891.\\nTuesday, February 3D, 1891.\\nTuesday, February 17TH, 1891.\\nTuesday, March 3D, 1891.\\nTuesday, March 17TH, 1891.\\nEach one of the tours will admit of a visit of two whole weeks\\nin the flowery State, and the returning parties will leave Jackson-\\nsonville for home on the dates following\\nFirst Tour, Thursday, February 5th.\\nSecond Tour, Thursday, February 19TH.\\nThird Tour, Thursday, March 5TH.\\nFourth Tour, Thursday, March 19TH.\\nFifth Tour, Thursday, April 2d.\\nThe period allowed is amply sufficient to admit of a thorough\\ntour of all the interesting places in the Peninsula.\\nWHAT PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED MEANS.\\nThe tours will be conducted under the supervision of the Tour-\\nist Agent and Chaperon of the Pennsylvania Railroad.", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Undoubtedly one of the most original and highly satisfactory\\ncreations of the Pennsylvania Railroad is the inauguration of per-\\nsonally-conducted tours under the supervision and direction of a\\nTourist Agent and Chaperon. The former, a man of broad ex-\\nperience, makes all arrangements that may be required, has a\\nperfect knowledge of all routes, attends to the prompt forward-\\ning of the train, and in every w^ay looks to the comfort and en-\\njoyment of his fellow-travelers.\\nThe Chaperon, entirely an original conception of the Pennsyl-\\nvania Railroad, has especial charge of ladies, particularly those\\nunaccompanied by parents or escort, and also invalids, minister-\\ning to their necessities and needs in a most intelligent manner, as\\nexperience has thoroughly educated her in the intricacies of rail-\\nway travel and usage.\\nIn the Chaperon the ladies find both a companion and guide.\\nWhile furnishing all information that one could wish, and looking\\nwith watchful eyes after the comfort and pleasure of those in her\\ncharge, the Chaperon also stands to unescorted ladies in the exact\\nrelation that her title implies.\\nMARKED FEATURES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA TOURS.\\nThe marked success and popularity of the Pennsylvania Tours\\nto Florida is due to several causes. The complete appointment\\nof the special trains, the liberality of the rate and the return limit\\nof tickets, are features that have attracted the traveling public, but\\nthe most popular characteristic of these, as well as other tours of\\nthe Pennsylvania Railroad Company, is the freedom of movement\\nallowed the tourists after their arrival at destination. No fixed\\nprogramme is set for them in Florida, but having arrived at Jack-\\nsonville they are at perfect liberty to dispose of their time as they\\nsee fit. They may travel over the State individually or in small\\nparties, may stop wherever they choose and stay as long as is desir-\\nable, only keeping in view the return date, and arranging their\\nmigrations so as to be in Jacksonville in time to take the special\\ntrain for home on the date fixed for its departure. This plan im-\\nposes no compulsory conditions as to their movement on the tour-\\nists, and at the same time secures to them all the benefits of the\\npersonally-conducted system.", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "HOW THE TOURISTS TRAVEL.\\nEach party will be transported from New York to Jacksonville\\nin a special train of Pullman Vestibule Sleeping-, and Dining Cars.\\nThe train will be in direct charge of the Tourist Agent, who, aid-\\ned by the Chaperon, will relieve the tourists of all the incidental\\ncares of a long trip. The train will run through on a fast schedule\\nin both directions. The route lies over the Pennsylvania Railroad\\nto Quantico, the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail-", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "road to Richmond, the Atlantic Coast Line to Savannah, and the\\nSavannah, Florida and Western Railway to Jacksonville. The\\nreturning party will travel by the same route. The dining car feat-\\nure is a most, desirable one, and cannot fail to engage the appre-\\nciation of all travelers. All the meals necessary en route will be\\nserved in the dining car, the expense of the same being covered\\nby the price of the tickets.\\nTHE RATES AND CONDITIONS OF THE TICKETS.\\nThe excursion tickets for these tours will be sold from New\\nYork at $50, Philadelphia I48, and from other stations named on\\nother pages in this pamphlet at the rates there quoted. The\\nprice of the tickets includes railway transportation, Pullman\\nsleeping-car accommodations, and meals en route in both direc-\\ntions. The tickets will be accepted for passage only on the special\\ntrain. They will be valid for two weeks, and must be used for the\\nreturn trip only on the special train appointed to leave Jackson-\\nville on the date fixed for the return of the particular tour in\\nquestion.\\nThe tourists, upon reaching Jacksonville, will be left to pur-\\nsue their own course until the return date, when they will take the\\nspecial train at that point for the homew-ard trip.\\nBaggage should be checked through to Jacksonville via the\\nAtlantic Coast Line.\\nThe company reserves the right to attach special cars to regu-\\nlar trains, if, from any cause, the number of the party should be\\ntoo small to warrant the running of a special train.\\nA SUGGESTION.\\nThe number of persons for which accommodations can be pro-\\nvided on a special train of Pullman drawing-room cars is neces-\\nsarily limited. For these tours it is fixed at one hundred and fifty.\\nIt is prudent, therefore, that those who desire to join the party\\nshould make early application for tickets, and register their names\\nfor sleeping-car accommodations.\\nTickets may be secured at the ticket offices of the Pennsylvania\\nRailroad Company in New York, Jersey City, Newark, Eliza-", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "beth, Trenton, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, and Wash-\\nington, and the other stations from which rates are quoted, or\\nby addressing Tourist Agent, Pennsylvania Railroad, 233 South\\nFourth Street, Philadelphia, 849 Broadway, New York, or 205\\nWashington Street. Boston.\\nROUND-TRIP RATES.\\nRound-trip tickets including railroad fare, sleeping-car accom-\\nmodations, and meals en route in both directions, will be sold to\\nJacksonville at the following rates. The tickets are good for use\\nonly on the special trains on the date named on the ticket, except\\nthat from points not reached by the special, regular trains making\\nclose connection with the special may be used. The connection\\nwith the special should be made in every case at the nearest avail-\\nable station. Tickets for use of children between 5 and 12 years\\nwill be sold at two-thirds of these rates.\\nAltoona, Pa I50 65\\nAtlantic City, N. J 49 00\\nAuburn, Pa 50 00\\nBaltimore, Md 48 00\\nBellefonte, Pa., via Tyrone 51 00\\nBelvidere, N. J 5000\\nBerlin, Md 49 35\\nBirdsboro, Pa 49 95\\nBlairsville, Pa 51 95\\nBloom Ferry, Pa 49 60\\nBordentown, N. J 49 00\\nBridgeton, N. J 49 00\\nBristol, Pa 48 60\\nBryn Mawr, Pa 48 00\\nBurlington, N.J 48 60\\nCambridge, Md 49 50\\nCanandaigua, N. Y 53 00\\nCanton, Pa 50 80\\nCape May, N. J 49 00\\nCatawissa, Pa 49 50\\nCentreville, Md 49 00\\nChelten Avenue, Pa 48 25\\nChestnut Hill, Pa, 48 40\\nChester, Pa 48 00\\nClarendon, Pa 53 55\\nClayton, Del I48 45\\nClearfield, Pa 51 15\\nCoatesville, Pa 48 00\\nColumbia, Pa 48 00\\nConewago, Pa 48 00\\nConnellsville, Pa 53 00\\nConshohocken, Pa 48 50\\nCorry, Pa 54 25\\nDover, Del 48 50\\nDowningtown, Pa 48 00\\nDelmar, Del 49 00\\nDriftwood, Pa, 51 65\\nElizabeth, N.J 49 75\\nElkton, Md 48 00\\nElmira, N. Y 51 55\\nEmporium, Pa 52 05\\nErie, Pa 55 00\\nFederalsburg, Md 49 00\\nFelton, Del 48 75\\nFrackville, Pa 50 00\\nFrankford, Pa 48 15\\nFrankford, Del 49 10\\nFranklin City, Va 49 9\u00c2\u00b0\\nFreehold, N. J 50 00\\nGreensburg, Pa 52 35", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Georgetown, Del J49 00\\nGermantown, Pa 48 25\\nGermantown Junction, Pa. .4815\\nGlassboro, N. J 4850\\nHamburg, Pa 50 00\\nHarrington, Del. 49 00\\nHarrisburg, Pa 48 00\\nHavana, N. Y 51 95\\nHavre de Grace, Md. 48 00\\nHorse Heads, N. V 51 65\\nHuntingdon, Pa, 49 95\\nIrvineton,Pa 53 80\\nJamesburg, N.J 49 75\\nJersey City, N.J 5000\\nJohnstown, Pa 51 4\u00c2\u00b0\\nKane, Pa 53 10\\nLanibertvi le, N.J 49 25\\nLancaster, Pa 48 00\\nLatrobe, Pa 52 15\\nLewistown Junction, Pa 4925\\nLock Haven, Pa 5\u00c2\u00b0 5\u00c2\u00b0\\nLong Branch, N.J 50 00\\nMt. Carniel, Pa 49 65\\nMt. Union, Pa. 49 70\\nManayunk, Pa 48 25\\nMedia, Pa 48 00\\nMerchantville, N. J 48 25\\nMiddletown, Del 48 25\\nMiddletown, Pa 48 00\\nMilford, Del 49 00\\nMillville, N.J 4900\\nMilton, Pa 49 35\\nMoorestown, N. J 4850\\nMount Holly, N.J 4860\\nMount Joy, Pa 4S 00\\nMuncy, Pa 49 75\\nNanticoke, Pa 50 25\\nNescopec, Pa 49 85\\nNewark, N. J 50 00\\nNew Brunswick, N. J 4925\\nNew Castle, Del 48 00\\nNewport, Pa 48 55\\nNew York, N. Y 50 00\\nNorristown, Pa 48 65\\nNorthumberland, Pa 49 15\\nOcean Grove, N.J 50 00\\nOxford, Md 49 25\\nParkesburg, Pa. $48 00\\nPenn Yan, N. Y 52 45\\nPerry ville, Md 48 00\\nPhiladelphia, Pa 48 00\\nPhillipsburg, N. J 4975\\nPhcenixville, Pa 49 15\\nPittsburg, Pa 53 00\\nPottstown, Pa 49 60\\nPottsville, Pa. 50 00\\nPrinceton, N.J 49 25\\nRahway, N. J 49 5\u00c2\u00b0\\nReading, Pa 50 00\\nRed Bank, N.J 50 00\\nRenovo, Pa 51 10\\nRidgway, Pa 52 65\\nRiverside, Pa 49 35\\nRiverton, N. J 48 50\\nSalem, N.J 49 00\\nSchuylkill Haven, Pa 50 00\\nSeaford, Del 49 00\\nShamokin, Pa 49 50\\nSheffield, Pa 53 45\\nShenandoah, Pa 50 00\\nSnow Hill, Md 49 65\\nStanley, N. Y. 52 75\\nSt. Clair, Pa 50 00\\nSt. Mary s, Pa 52 45\\nSunbury, Pa 49 10\\nTownsend, Del 48 35\\nTrenton, N.J 49 00\\nTroy, Pa 51 05\\nTulpohocken, Pa 48 25\\nTyrone, Pa 50 35\\nUnion town. Pa 53 00\\nVineland, N.J 49 00\\nWarren, Pa 53 70\\nWashington, D. C 48 00\\nWatkins, N. Y 52 00\\nWest Chester, Pa 48 00\\nWilcox, Pa 52 95\\nWilkesbarre, Pa 50 35\\nWilliamsport, Pa 50 00\\nWilmington, Del 48 00\\nWissahickon Heights, Pa. 48 25\\nWoodbury, N.J 48 30\\nWyoming, Del 48 60\\nYork, Pa 48 00", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "Itinerary in Detail\\nFlJOf^IDA TOUI^S.\\nSOUTH-BOUND SCHEDULE.\\nJanuary 20th February 3d and lyth March\\nLeave New York (via Pennsylvania Railroad)\\nBrooklyn (via Annex Boat)\\nJersey City (via Pennsylvania Railroad)\\nNewark\\nElizabeth\\nTrenton\\nPhiladelphia\\nWilmington, Del.\\nBaltimore\\nWashington (via Pennsylvania and Richmond\\nFredericksburg and Potomac Railroads)\\nLeave Richmond (via Atlantic Coast Line)\\nArrive Weldon\\nLeave Weldon (via Atlantic Coast Line)\\nd and 17th, 1891,\\nEastern T\\n9.20 A.\\n9.00\\n9-33\\n9-47\\n9-57\\n10.52\\n11-55\\n12.33 P.\\n2.15\\n3-25 P.\\n7-30\\n10.08\\n10.18\\nM.\\nM.\\nJanuary 21st February 4th and iSth March 4th and i8th.\\nEastern Time.\\n3-\\nLeave Wilmington\\nArrive Florence\\nLeave Florence\\nL26\\n6.44\\n6.59\\nCentral Time.\\nLeave Savannah (via Sav., Fla. and West. Railroad) 12.43 P ^I-\\nArrive Jacksonville 6.00\\nAll meals en route will be served in the dining car.", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "NORTH-BOUND SCHEDULE.\\nFebruary 5th and 19th March 5th and 19th, and April 2d, 1891.\\nCentral Time.\\nLeave Jacksonville (via Sav., Fla. and West. Railroad) 7.00 A. M.\\nFp:bruary 6th and 20th, March 6th and 20th, and April 3d, 1891.\\nEastern Time.\\nLeave Richmond (via Rich., Fred, and Pot. Railroad), 7.30 A. M.\\nArrive Washington (via Pennsylvania Railroad) about 11.24\\nBaltimore\\nWilmington, Del.\\nPhiladelphia\\nTrenton\\nElizabeth\\nNewark\\nJersey City\\nNew York\\nBrooklyn (via Annex Boat)\\n12.40 P. M.\\n2.27\\n3.10\\n4.10\\n5-15\\n5-25\\n5-42\\n5-50\\n6.15\\nAll meals 01 runte will be served in the dining car.\\nSTAFF OF THE TOURIST DEPARTMENT.\\nToutisl Agents: Chaperons\\nW. W. Lord, Jr., Mrs. H. F Bender,\\nColin Studds,\\nJ. P. McWilliams.\\nMiss E. C. Bingham.\\nAs the tourists will be left at Jacksonville to follow the bent of\\ntheir own inclinations, a few brief sketches of the principal cities\\neasily accessible from Jacksonville is appended for their guidance.", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "FbOr^IE)^.\\n-e\\n^M)INCE Ponce de Leon discovered beneath the tropical\\nskies of Florida the fountain of perpetual youth, a grand\\narmy of explorers in pursuit of that greater treasure\\nthan gold\u00e2\u0080\u0094 health\u00e2\u0080\u0094 have followed the way blazed by\\nthe romantic Spaniard, and found under the same skies\\nthe object of their quest.\\nAs a great health resort Florida stands to Americans in the\\nsame relation as the Riviera does to all Europe. It presents,\\nhowever, a greater diversity of attractions than the land washed\\nby the waters of the blue Mediterranean. To the invalid it\\npromises hope and renewed strength; to the tourist it offers\\nall the rich beauty of the semi-tropics and the tempting products\\nof a fertile soil warmed by radiant sunlight to sportsman and\\nangler it yields a bountiful return in game and fish and to the\\ndevotee of fashion it presents great hostelries, where the best\\nrepresentatives of American society while away the hours in\\nluxurious ease.\\nThe climate, of course, renders all this possible, and while that\\nelement is not absolutely perfect it is so equable, so genial, and\\nso gently tempered as to be enjoyable to weak and strong alike.\\nThe temperature is bland, but not enervating, the skies are gen-\\nerally bright, flowers bloom and fruits ripen while Northern lati-\\ntudes are clothed in snow, and there is a springlike flavor in the\\natmosphere that makes open-air exercise exhilarating. To the\\ninvalid it is indeed a land of promise. Those suffering from pul-\\nmonary and kindred affections secure a new lease on life, while\\nthose prostrated with mental or physical weakness from any cause\\ncannot fail to find in the balmy breezes, crisp air, and picturesque\\nlandscape a forgetfulness of their ills. Bright skies and fresh air\\ninvite an outdoor life, and exercise brings in its wake appetite,\\nsleep, and new strength.\\n(15)", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "i6\\nApart from its climatic advantages Florida is rich in attractions\\nfor the general traveler. The beauty of a region located almost\\nbeneath a tropical sun, with its blooming plants and rank vegeta-\\ntion, its orange groves, and its forests of pine and live oak, can-\\nnot fail to enlist the interest of every lover of nature. The world\\npresents no parallel to the steamer ride on the St. John s and the\\nOcklawaha, while a sail on the placid waters of the Indian River,\\nwith its banks crowned with orange groves, is a pleasure long to\\nbe remembered.\\nThe angler finds waters inhabited by all mannei of fish, from\\nthe gamy trout to the princely tarpon, while the facilities for boat-\\ning and sailing are ample. The gunner, too, in the hummock\\nlands may indulge his appetite for sport in hunting game that\\nranges in species from quail and wild turkey to deer. The artist\\nwill find much to engage his attention in landscape, water, and\\nsky, and the scientific explorer may revel in almost any field of\\nresearch.\\nHotels of all classes are abundant. The magnificence of the\\nPonce de Leon at St. Augustine lures many pleasure seekers to\\naccommodations within its walls, and from the luxury of this pal-\\nace down to the humble roof of the lodge in the wilderness one\\nmay secure shelter and sustenance suited to his tastes or the con-\\ndition of his exchequer.\\nIn the following pages brief descriptions of the most prominent\\npoints of interest are given, with timely information concerning\\nthem.\\nThere are so many points to which excursionists may be\\nprojected from Jacksonville and St. Augustine, that the enum-\\neration of them would require far more space than the limits of\\nthis pamphlet can afford. A few brief notes, however, may be\\nof service to the tourist.\\nJACKSONVILLE.\\n1075 miles from New York.\\nNow the terminus of the tourists journey from the North is\\nreached as the Vestibule Pullman train halts after its long run\\nthrough the living fields of the New South to the doorway of those\\nmysteriously fascinating scenes of sub-tropical growth and life in", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "17\\nFlora s land. From a scattering few explorers, who landed from\\ntheir frail crafts and cut a way through the tangled mass which\\nso effectually fringed the banks of the beautiful lakelike river of\\nSt. John s, and erected their rude shelter on a soil whose richness\\nthe like of which they had never seen sprung the first life to\\nwhat has grown into this wonderful metropolis of Jacksonville\\none of the most important cities from a commercial and social\\nstand-point in the South.\\nIt is to-day the great distributing centre from which hosts of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0travelers pouring into the land branch out to the numberless\\nplaces of interest in every direction. The city is situated on the\\nSt. John s River, twenty-five miles west of the ocean. The river\\nat this point is nearl}-^ twenty-four hundred feet wide, and as the\\ntown is located on a curve of its wide banks the water front is ex-\\ntensive and the uninterrupted view superb. The city is laid out\\nin wide avenues, shaded with grand live oaks rare flowers and\\nshrubbery of the tropics adorn the grounds surrounding villas and\\nhotels, and the sweet perfume of buds and blossoms permeates\\nthe air. On the land side the wide boulevards and smooth shell\\nroads afford fine drives, while the waters of the river and bay in-\\nvite boating and yachting. The wharves are very extensive, and\\nthe commerce by ships spreads over ocean and river.\\nAn interesting feature of the city is the permanent Sub-Tropical\\nExposition. The extensive and handsome grounds and buildings\\noccupy an eligible site within the corporate limits. The display\\nis designed to cover all the tropical products of the United States,\\nthe West Indies, the Bahamas, and Mexico. The exhibition is\\nopen during the season, and one may see there a vast collection\\nof the prolific and varied productions of the tropics artistically\\nexposed to view.\\nThe hotels of Jacksonville are numerous. Some are very hand-\\nsome structures, and all offer good entertainment.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nThe Carleton European plan. Hotel Togni S2.00 per day.\\nThe Duval $3.00 to $4.00 per day. St. James Hotel $4.00 per day.\\nThe Gienada S3. 00 per day. The Travelers S3. 00 per day.\\nHotel Oxford $4.00 per day. Tremont House.$4.oo to $5.00 per day,\\nHotel Placide Windsor Hotel Special rates,\\nAniericai} \u00c2\u00a3^nc} European plan.", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "ST. AUGUSTINE.\\n37 miles from Jacksonville. Reached by the Jacksonville, Tampa and Kej- West\\nRailway; or Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway\\nor boat on St. John s River to Tocoi, and thence by\\nrail, 14 miles, to St. Augustine.\\nNext in point of interest if not of importance to Jacksonville is\\nSt. Augustine, the oldest town in America. The city was founded\\nby the Spaniards centuries ago, and many of the present inhab-\\nitants are descendants of the original grandees. It savors yet de-\\ncidedly of the Spanish, and the quaint, old, balconied houses,\\nnarrow, winding streets, the ruins of the old walls, and the city\\ngates, combine to form an old-world picture strangely in contrast\\nwith the newness of to-day.\\nThe natural advantages of St. Augustine are many. It enjoys\\na well-founded reputation for healthfulness, and possesses a mag-\\nnificent beach, on which sea-bathing may be indulged in from the\\nyear s beginning to its end. Its grand possibilities have attracted\\nthe attention of capitalists, who have erected three of the most\\nsuperb hotels in the world. These palaces, the POnce de Leon,\\nCordova (originally christened Casa Monica), and Alcazar, are\\nbuilt of coquina, a curious shell formation. The architecture is\\nSpanish Renaissance and Mooresque the decorations and orna-\\nmentations are wrought in the same spirit, and the furnishing is in\\nkeeping with the skill which designed and the taste that executed\\nthe grand piles. They have no equals in the world, and yet they\\nharmonize most happily with their antique surroundings. Other\\nattractive features of the old town are the sea wall, the old slave\\nmarket, the Huguenot Cemetery, the Plaza de la Constitution,\\nand the Castle of San Marco, now become Fort Marion. The\\ncompletion of the handsome new bridge over the St. John s River\\nat Jacksonville renders St. Augustine far more accessible than\\nformerly.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nPonce de Leon Hotel $5.00 per day. i Hotel Cordova $5.00 per day.\\nThe Alcazar I3.50 per day.\\nAmerican House $1.50 per day.\\nCarleton Hotel $3.00 per day.\\nCleveland House, $2.00 to $2.50 per day.\\nHotel San Marco $4.00 per day.\\nThe San Salvador $2.50 to $3.00 per day.\\nMagnolia Hotel $3.00 to $4.00 per day.\\nOcean View Hotel $3.00 per day.\\nFlorida House $2.50 to $4.00 per day. Pasade la Plaza Hotel Special rates.\\nHernandez Hotel, $2.00 to $2.50 per day. The. St. George Special rates.", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "19\\nTALLAHASSEE.\\n165 miles fi-om Jacksonville, via Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad.\\nThis capital of the State has much to be very proud of. It is\\nbeautifully built on a high elevation, and the design of the broad\\nstreets and avenues shaded with evergreens and live oaks, and the\\nAMELIA BHACH, FERNANDINA.\\nbountiful and luxurious growth of flowers and shrubs, makes it a\\nveritable garden spot. Like almost all of its sister Southern cities,\\nin its annals is interwoven romantic and heroic history, and like\\nthem also are innumerable places and points of interest to be relig-\\niously visited. Here is the Lafayette Land Grant, and the noted", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "lakes swarming with ducks and brant. The Murat residence, and\\nthe grave of Prince Achille Murat, son of the King of Naples,\\nand a thousand and one places, may be visited and enjoyed to the\\nprofit of the tourist.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nBaldwin House $2.00 per day. I St. James Hotel |2. 50 to $3.00 per day.\\nNew Leon Hotel $3.00 per day. I\\nFERNANDINA.\\n36 miles from Jacksonville via Jacksonville Branch of the Florida Central\\nand Peninsular Railroad.\\nThis old Spanish town was founded in 1632, and still carries\\ntraces in the old causeways, streets, and mode of architecture of\\nthe once ruling hidalgos. The new town, about a mile and a\\nhalf from Old Fernandina, w here was witnessed some of the most\\nthrilling scenes of blockade running during the Civil War, has\\nsprung up on Amelia Island, at the mouth of the river of same\\nname. It is a port of entry, and the broad, protected body of\\nwater forms excellent facilities for yachting and the best of har-\\nbors. Its avenues are bowered by oak and orange, and the beach\\ndrive is twenty miles long. Several points of interest are close\\nby, one the estate of Dungeness, the old home of the revo-\\nlutionary hero, Nathanael Greene, granted him by the State of\\nGeorgia for services rendered his country another, Cumberland\\nIsland, seven miles by rail or steam yacht across the sound, and\\none of the most noted fishing and sporting grounds in the State\\nand the Amelia Island Lighthouse.\\nInnumerable are the minor points of interest to be found in\\nand near this mother city of Spanish birth and its new-born Amer-\\nican child Fernandina.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nEgmont Hotel :?2.oo to ;g4.oo per day. 1 Strathmore Hotel Special rates.\\nFlorida House 52.00 per day.\\nFORT GEORGE ISLAND.\\n25 miles by boat from Jacksonville.\\nThis island is at the mouth of the St. John s River, and is a\\nmost beautiful and attractive spot, offering a number of romantic", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "walks and drives through palmetto-shaded avenues and well-\\ndesigned gardens. The homestead and negro quarters of what\\nwas once an ideal plantation are still standing. The famous jetty\\nworks of the St. John s are hard by and well worth a visit in\\nthemselves. The fishing and sailing are fine and the ocean view\\nsomething superb. Mayport, just across the picturesque bay, is\\nreached from Jacksonville by rail, or Fort George Island by boat,\\nand is celebrated for its great, white sand hills and commanding\\nlocality.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTEL (Mayport).\\nBurnside House Special rates.\\nPABLO BEACH.\\n17 miles from Jacksonville, reached by the Jacksonville and Atlantic Railroad.\\nDirectly on the Atlantic Coast, commanding a magnificent\\nview and holding in its hand a delightfully tempered climate, is\\nthis seaboard. Southern city. It possesses one of the finest\\nbeaches in the world, forty miles long by about seven hundred\\nfeet wide. The hard, compact sand, pounded as smooth and pol-\\nished as a ball-room floor by the beating waves for years, affords\\na splendid drive and a bathing ground unexcelled. The village\\nis mainly a seaport sanitarium town, and affords every modern\\nfacility for the tourist or invalid.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nMurray Hall I3.00 to I4.00 per day. Ocean House. Special rates.\\nGREEN COVE SPRINGS.\\n29 miles by rail or boat, reached via Western Railway of Florida or Jacksonville,\\nTampa and Key West Railway.\\nThe wonderful Sulphur Spring, discharging 3000 gallons of\\nwater a minute, from which the place takes its name, is located\\nin a handsome grove of live oaks draped with Spanish moss,\\nin the midst of a wdde expanse of surrounding pine forests. The\\ngrounds are attractively laid out in romantic walks and parks.\\nThe bathing pools are extensive, and the baths are commended\\nnot only to invalids but to all who enjoy a plunge into limpid\\nand pellucid waters. Think of bathing in open air in December,", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "and yet this is a common everyday enjoyment here. Governor s\\nCreek is very close by, and its romantic windings present pictures\\nof rare natural beauty while offering excellent boating facilities.\\nIts transportation facilities are excellent. Three large piers jutting\\nout into the St. John s afford convenient access to sea-going ves-\\nsels and river craft of every kind, and no more fascinating scene\\ncould well be imagined than the light and shadow effects on water\\nand land as the health-restoring sun sinks down after its faithful\\nday s dut)^, leaving a wake of golden light on this beautiful winter\\nresort. Excursions may be made by boat from here to Palatka.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nClarendon Hotel $4.00 per day. Riverside House, |2. 00 to $2.50 per day.\\nMorganza Hotel, $2.50 to $3.00 per day. St. Clair Hotel I3.00 to $4.00 per day.\\nOakland Hotel $2.00 to $2.50 per day.\\nLAKE CITY.\\n60 miles from Jacksonville. Reached via Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad,\\nSavannah, Florida and Western Railway, or Georgia\\nSouthern and Florida Railroad.\\nLake City is the capital of Columbia County it well warrants\\nits appellation from its situation in the midst of a group of pretty\\nlakes, virtually making it a modern Venice. The land is high and\\nexceptionally healthy, and the city buildings are very handsome,\\nprominent among which is the State Agricultural College. One\\nmay wander through miniature dells, intersected by sparkling riv-\\nulets, in and out among magnificent moss-laden oaks and sweet-\\nscented magnolia, and amid flowers which fill the air with frag-\\nrance.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nCentral House Special rates. Thrasher House Special rates.\\nGee House Special rates.\\nPALATKA.\\n75 miles by boat, 56 miles by rail from Jacksonville, via Jacksonville, Tampa and\\nKey West Railway. 32 miles from St. Augustine.\\nThis thriving and picturesque town has grown into its influen-\\ntial life directly on the banks of the St. John s. It ranks next to\\nJacksonville as a winter resort, and is held in high favor with\\ntourists. It is the centre of a large orange-growing district, and", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "many of the most famous groves in tlie State are located in the\\nvicinity. Hart s orange grove, covering seventy acres, is one of the\\noldest and most famous in the State, and is reached by boat from\\nthe foot of Main Street. Palatka is the county-seat of Putnam,\\nand the starting point for boat excursions on the Ocklavvaha and\\nwi\\nUpper St. John s Rivers. Good shooting and fishing and bathing\\nmay be enjoyed. A favorite walk and drive is through the groves\\nsuburban to the city, which well deserve a visit, being among the\\nfinest in the State.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nThe Berkshire $3.00 per day.\\nCarleton House $2.00 per day.\\nGraham House $2.00 to $2.50 per day.\\nHotel Winthrop Special rates.\\nPutnam House $4.00 per day.\\nSaratoga Hotel $3.00 to $4.00 per day.", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24\\nTHE OCKLAWAHA.\\nStarting-point, Palatka, 56 miles by rail from Jacksonville, via Jacksonville,\\nTampa and Key West Railway.\\nSurely a trip to Florida without a steamer ride on the Ockla-\\nvvaha is not thoroughly complete, for it reveals a phase of tropi-\\ncal scenery peculiar alone to Florida. A succession of lagoons,\\nlakes, springs, and swamps combine to form this winding river,\\nand the river proper begins at Welaka, twenty-five miles above\\nPalatka.\\nA night journey up this river is one that cannot be rivaled for\\nweird and beautiful effects as the pine torch headlight on the little\\nsteamer reveals masses of tangled jungle, networks of winding\\nvines, moss, and fungi, awakening storks, cranes, herons, cur-\\nlews, alligators, snakes, turtles, and thousands of wild inmates\\nof nature s household. It will be as new and novel a sight to\\nthe traveler as ever experienced, and something never to be\\nforgotten.\\nSilver Springs, the crystal pool supposed to have been Ponce\\nde Leon s fountain of perpetual youth, is the first point reached,\\nand here the springs should be visited from the springs Ocala,\\nsix miles distant, can be reached by a side trip, or the journey\\nby the steamer may be continued through a series of lakes. The\\nreturn trip is taken by day, and is hardly less interesting than\\nthat of the night.\\nORMOND.\\n120 miles from Jacksonville, on Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax\\nRiver Railway.\\nThis charming little town is located directly on the Halifax\\nRiver it is noted for its delightful winter climate, and has gained\\na wide-spread reputation as the heart of the renowned Halifax\\nRiver orange-producing country. It has abundant resources for\\nthe amusement of every class of pleasure seeker. The walks\\nand drives among the oaks, palmettos, and orange groves are\\nfamous. There is also boating and fishing, and no lack of the\\nfine fruits.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTEL.\\nThe Ormoi)d $4.00 per day.", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "25\\nDAYTONA.\\n57 miles from Palatka, via Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway\\nor Da^- Line Steamer on St. John s River.\\nThe run from Palatka is in a southeasterly direction and through\\nthe famous Hart orange grove, over hummocks, ridges, and rolling\\npine lands, and down into the cypress swamps of Volusia County.\\nThe town is built for about two miles along the west bank of the\\nHalifax Riv^er, its streets shaded with live oaks and stately pal-\\nmettos. The ride from Palatka to this point is so varied one gets\\npossibly a better idea of the rem.arkable changes from highland to\\nlow, and the necessary variation in vegetation, than in any other\\nsimilar ride in the State.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nFountain City Hotel $2.50 per day. Ocean View House,\\nGrand View Hotel $1.30 per day. S2.50 to $3.00 per day.\\nHalifax House S2.00 per day. Palmetto Hotel, $2.00 to $2.50 per day.\\nPONCE PARK AND MOSQUITO INLET.\\nFew miles south of Daytona connection by steamer.\\nDirectly on the coast, a few miles south of Daytona, is Ponce\\nPark, built in the inappropriately-named Mosquito Inlet, a noted\\nresort for fishermen. The waters of the inlet abound with bass,\\nSpanish mackerel, bluefish, sheepshead, and various salt-water\\nvarieties. The beach here is filled with curious shells, and the\\nsand is very compact and snow white. The old lighthouse, from\\nwhose height an extended and uninterrupted view may be had, is\\nextremely picturesque. Excursions of all character emanate from\\nthis point, be they for boating, fishing, riding, or hunting.\\nPRINXIPAL HOTELS.\\nPacetti s Hotel $2.00 per day.\\nNEW SMYRNA.\\n21 miles from Lake Helen, via Atlantic and Western Railroad Company. Same\\nconnection from Jacksonville as for Lake Helen.\\nFew people visiting New Smyrna understand that the first cul-\\ntivation of this valuable and vast territory should be credited to", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26\\nan importation in 1767 of a number of Greek families. It was\\nreally the founding of a miniature Athens on American soil, and\\neven to-day some of their descendants are still living in this\\nneighborhood and in St. Augustine. It is a rich country and the\\nfavorite resort of the sportsmen. Interest attaches to the place\\nowing to its being one of the oldest settlements in Florida here\\nshell mounds and crude implements used centuries ago are found,\\nand ancient Spanish constructions while the handwork of the\\nGreeks may plainly be distinguished.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTEL.\\nOcean House $3-oo per day.\\nHAWTHORNE.\\n70 miles from Jacksonville, via Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad.\\nIt is a thriving and prosperous village, situated in the centre\\nof a rich section, being underlaid with a fine clay sub-soil, in\\nplaces mixed with shell and marl, and especially adapted to the\\nculture of the peach and orange.\\nParticular interest attaches to the place as a health resort, and\\na few miles to the south are the\\nMammoth Orange Groves,\\nof seventy thousand full bearing trees, which the train passes di-\\nrectly between for nearly a mile. Along this dividing line be-\\ntween the two groves about twelve hundred of the finest trees had\\nto be removed to make room for the construction of the railroad\\ntrack. These are the largest natural groves in Florida, and are\\nsituated in the midst of a vast, rich hummock, the trees being of\\nnatural, spontaneous growth, in the places where they now stand,\\ngrafted to the best sweet varieties.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nCommercial Hotel $2.00 to $2.50 per day.\\nGAINESVILLE.\\n50 miles from Jacksonville, via Florida Southern Railway.\\nGainesville has deservedly asserted itself as one of the most\\nimportant interior towns in the State. Its population is nigh", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "27\\ndoubled in the winter months, from the number of Northerners\\nseeking its warm, reHable climate. The advantages and con-\\nveniences of a city may be enjoyed here while seeking health or\\npleasure.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nArlington Hotel, $2.50 to $3.00 per day. Rochemont House $2.50 per day.\\nBayers Hotel $2.50 per day. St. Nicholas Hotel, Ji.ooto $3.00 per day.\\nBrown House J2.00 per day.\\nWALDO.\\n56 miles from Jacksonville, via Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad.\\nThis interesting and growing town is the junction of the Cedar\\nKey Branch, and is most beautifully situated. Near here is the\\noldest and largest orange tree in the State, which has borne ten\\nthousand oranges in one season. Lake Alto and Santa F6 are\\nbut a few miles distant, affording a charming little excursion by\\nsteamer on the Santa F^ Canal.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nRenault House $2.00 per day. Waldo House ^3.00 per day.\\nCEDAR KEY.\\n127 miles from Jacksonville, via Florida Central and Peninsular Railway.\\nCedar Key, the terminus of a division of the line on which it is\\nlocated, is a very popular resort for tourists and sportsmen. From\\na purely mercantile centre it has of late years grown into quite a\\nwinter retreat. Many and interesting are the side trips by steamer\\nfrom here for Tarpon Springs, Clear Water, Dunedin, Seaside,\\nYellow Bluff, Manatee, and Tampa. A sight well worth seeing is\\nthe diving for sponge and the cutting cedar for pencil manufacture,\\nlathloe Island, a tropical garden, has also grown into prominence\\nas a winter resort.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nBettelini House $2.00 per day. Schlemmer House $2.00 per day\\nOCALA.\\n72 miles from Jacksonville, via Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway.\\nIt is a thriving and prosperous city, the county-seat of Marion,\\nand the centre of one of the richest agricultural sections of the", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "^^^s:.a^*-", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "29\\nState, and is manifestly destined to rival other points as the dis-\\ntributing point of the great orange belt. The city is well laid out\\nand handsomely built, and one of the most influential in the State.\\nIn December, 1890, the National Farmers Alliance selected this\\ntown as the place to hold their annual convention. It is also the\\nlocation of the Semi-Tropical Exposition, a very comprehensive\\nand instructive exhibit of Florida products.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nCentral Hotel $2.00 per day. Montezuma Hotel. $2.50 per day.\\nMagnolia House $2.00 per day. Ocala House $3-\u00c2\u00b0o P^r *^^y-\\nLEESBURG.\\n106 miles from Jacksonville, via Florida Southern Railroad.\\nLeesburg is one of the oldest commercial places in this section\\nof the country. Its largest mercantile business is done with the\\nregion lying about Lakes Harris and Griffin. It is built on a nar-\\nrow peninsula separating the two lakes named, whose shores are\\nlined for long distances with what were once wild groves of or-\\nange trees, but are now fine, profitable, cultivated groves. As a\\nwinter resort it has long held an enviable reputation.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nGrand Central Hotel S3.00 per day. Lake View Hotel Special rates.\\nLake City House $2.00 per day. Leesburg House $2.00 to 52.50 per day.\\nSEVILLE.\\n84 miles from Jacksonville, via Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway.\\nThe site of Seville is in the midst of the high, pine orange belt\\nin the Fruitland Peninsula. It attracts and fascinates the eye of a\\nNorthener at once with its distinctively characteristic houses and\\npalm, orange, and lime trees with which the streets are lined. It\\nfronts on two lakes of pure water, from which it draws its supply.\\nHere are the noted groves of the wild or Seville orange, the the-\\nory being that the seeds for this remarkable growth were import-\\ned years ago by the Spanish. Saddle-horses and carriages may\\nbe engaged at the hotels, and drives of the most interesting nature\\nenjoyed in and around a prosperous and highly-cultivated region.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nHotel Seville $3.00 per day. I The Pavilion Special rates.\\nThe Grand View Special rates.", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30\\nDE LAND.\\nno miles from Jacksonville, via Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway.\\nDe Land is a delightfully picturesque town, situated in Volu-\\nsia County, on a pine elevation. It is completely belted in with\\nextensive orange groves, and here the rich tropical productions\\nthrive in abundance. As a winter resort it is held in the highest\\nestimation, due to its peculiarly healthy surroundings and the\\nvast border-lands of yellow pine, which exude their healing and\\nsoothing balm, so efficacious in nervous and lung troubles. All\\nabout this neighborhood are the most picturesque of lakes on\\nthe shores of many are beautiful residences and commodious ho-\\ntels. It is a fav^orite spot also for the sportsmen, deer, turkey,\\nwildcat being found in abundance.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nThe Carrolton $2.50 to $3.00 per day. j Putnam House $2.00 to I3.00 per day.\\nFloral Grove Hotel I2.00 per day. Parceland Hotel, $2.50 to $3.00 per day.\\nLAKE HELEN.\\n9 miles from Blue Spring, via Atlantic and Western Railroad. Connection from\\nJacksonville, via Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway, or\\nSt. John s River steamers to Blue Spring.\\nMainly a winter sanitarium, its chief popularity is due to the\\nair of its piney woods, many preferring this to the more open\\nand heroic treatment of the coast. The lake is about sixty feet\\nabove the sea level, and is a beautiful sheet of water of great\\ndepth. Its banks are studded with handsome residences, and it\\nshelters a colony who certainly get full enjoyment from life as\\ncaptured in this delicious retreat.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nHarlan Hotel $2.00 to $2.50 per day. Granville House, $1.50 to ^2.00 per day.\\nENTERPRISE.\\n123 miles from Jacksonville, reached by rail or boat\u00e2\u0080\u0094 on the line of Jacksonville,\\nTampa and Key West Railway.\\nThis point is a practical living proof of What s in a name?\\nfor it has the push, energy, industry, and active trade to justify\\nits title. Its advantageous situation certainly has given it a pre-", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "3T\\neminence over many other towns, as it is, like its neighbor San-\\nford, directly on Lake Monroe^one of the headwater bodies of\\nthe St. John s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and is likewise widely engaged in fruit cultivation.\\nIt is a particularly healthy situation, and a favorite one, while its\\norange groves supply many Northern markets.\\nPRIxNXIPAL HOTELS.\\nBrock House f4-oo per day. Live Oak House $2.00 per daj\\nSANFORD.\\n125 miles via Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway, also reached by\\nboat on St. John s River.\\nSanford is a very important railroad junction point as well as\\nthe centre of orange culture. It was originally a Spanish grant,\\nand passed from hand to hand until 1870 when it was purchased\\nby Gen. H. S. Sanford, through whose instrumentality a number\\nof Swedish families were imported, and to their toil and industry\\nthe prosperity of the present community is largely due. The pict-\\nuresque body of Lake Monroe, on whose shore it is partly built,\\nadds no smaU share to the general attractive features of the place.\\nIt has long been held in the high estimation of Florida tourists\\nand well warrants a visit.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nSanford House S3. 50 to I4.00 per day. I San Leon Hotel I2.00 to $2.50 per day.\\nSirrine Hotel $2.00 per day. I\\nm", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "AKE WORTH.", "height": "3520", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "33\\nTARPON SPRINGS.\\nI20 miles from Sanford, via Orange Belt Railway.\\nThe Orange Belt Railway completely cuts the peninsula in two,\\nrunning through it in a slightly southwesterly direction. Foremost\\namong the many attractive winter towns which have come into\\ninfluential life along its line, is Tarpon Springs, a dozen stations\\nfrom the road s terminus. The rapid clearing and building of this\\nSouth Florida town would surprise some of the Western land\\nboomers. It has the advantage of situation, the warm winds from\\nthe Gulf waters, whose power from all accounts works won-\\nders, and orange groves of number and great yield. It is dis-\\ntinctively an exclusive spot, where care has been exercised in\\nbuilding up a resort whose reputation is intended to last for more\\nthan a day.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nFernald Cottage $1.50 per day. i Tropical House $2.00 per day.\\nTarpon Springs Hotel $3.00 per day. i\\nTAVARES.\\n154 miles from Jacksonville. Terminus of Southern Division of Florida Central\\nand Peninsular Railroad.\\nThough exerting considerable influence as a railroad centre,\\nyet it is distinctively the nucleus of the orange grove cultivation.\\nAt few points in the State could a better idea of this interesting\\nculture be studied than here, and it ranks not among the least of\\nits neighbors as a winter sanitarium, for the fresh vegetables and\\npure water supply are demands it can without trouble comply\\nwith. Numerous drives and pleasure jaunts present themselves\\nfor the amusement and benefit of the tourist.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nOsceola House Special rates. Tavares Hotel 52.50 to Js.so per day.\\nTITUSVILLE.\\n158 miles southeast of Jacksonville, terminus of Jacksonville, Tampa and Key\\nWest Railway, and connection for all points on Indian River by steamer.\\nIt is to-day a growing and prosperous town. The famous\\nhummock land extends for a distance of forty miles north of the\\nresidential portion, and is some of the most fertile soil in the State.", "height": "3520", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34\\nLarge sugar plantations and vegetable gardens convince the most\\nskeptical as to fertility of the soil. To the left of the town is the\\ndense, rolling, pine district, which has been utilized as a site for\\nmany a tasty home, and discloses reasons why so many with weak\\nlungs and in search of health journey every winter to this metrop-\\nolis of the Indian River.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nGrand View Hotel I2.50 per day. Lund House 12.00 per day.\\nTHE INDIAN RIVER.\\nThe Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway runs to Titusville, the head of\\nthe river, a distance of 158 miles from Jacksonville.\\nThis river, so well known to people of the North, from the\\nfame of the oranges growing on its banks, is in length one hun-\\ndred and forty-two miles, and in many respects one of the most\\nremarkable and picturesque water- courses in Florida. From its\\nhead, a few miles above Titusville, to the southern extremity at\\nJupiter Inlet it winds in and through the wildest and most beauti-\\nful scenery in the State. Its width varies from one hundred feet\\nat the narrowest point to three miles. The Indian River Steam-\\nboat Company s boats make the run with intermediate stops,\\ndaily.\\nOn one side may be seen the high masts or trail of smoke ot\\nsteamers passing on the ocean, and on the other a tangled mass of\\ntropical vegetation, from which growth flocks of ducks and birds\\nof gay plumage rise in flight as the steamer glides by. No con-\\nception of this journey can be formed a round trip on one of these\\nsteamers will reveal scenes never to be forgotten in a lifetime.\\nROCKLEDGE.\\n17S miles from Jacksonville, via Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway to\\nTitusville, thence by boats of Indian River Steamboat Company.\\nFalse Cape and Cape Canaveral throw their protecting arms\\nfar out into the sea, and shield the productive territory to the\\nsouth from every chilly wind. It is in this sheltered nook that\\nRockledge has sprung into the prominent health and agricul-\\ntural mart of to-day. It is the capital of the famous Indian River", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "35\\nCountry, world-renowned for its oranges, and little less celebrated\\nfor the quantity and variety of its game. Undoubtedly it is one of\\nthe most delightful places in Florida.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nHotel Indian River $4.00 per day. Rockledge House $2.50 per day.\\nJUPITER LIGHT\\nLAKE WORTH.\\nReached by Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway to Titusville, where\\nsteamer is taken down the Indian River to Jupiter, and thence\\nvia Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway to Juno.\\nThis beautiful lake is one hundred miles east and three hun-\\ndred miles south of Jacksonville, and is twenty-five miles long by\\nan average mile wide, separated by a thin strip of land from the\\nocean. Along its shores for miles are cocoanut groves in full", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36\\nbearing, and some of the most palatial dwellings in the midst of\\ntropical gardens of wondrous beauty reveal themselves as the\\nsteamer glides by on the bosom of this transparent sheet of water.\\nThe cocoanut industry has become an important one, and this\\nregion, being the home of the enterprise, has necessarily become\\nvery popular with those sojourning South during the winter\\nmonths, for where the cocoanut grows no stronger assurance is\\nneeded for the desirability of soil and climate. Fruits and flowers\\nof every description bloom and ripen on its banks. Bordering the\\nbeach of Lake Worth are the towns of Juno, Oaklawn, Lake\\nWorth, Palm Beach, Figulus, and Hypoluxo.\\nIn reaching Lake Worth from the Indian River the traveler\\npasses over the celestial railway, starting at Jupiter and termi-\\nnating at Juno, with Venus and Mars sandwiched between. The\\nroad is only eight miles long, but it reaches the stars.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS (Lake Worth).\\nCocoanut Grove House $3.00 per day. Oak Lawn House I2.50 per day.\\nLake Worth Hotel $4.00 per day.\\nWINTER PARK.\\n143 miles from Jacksonville, via Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway to\\nSanford, and thence via South Florida Railroad.\\nWhen one considers that this resort known to-day all over the\\nStates and abroad was in 1881 a complete wilderness, it shows\\nwith what rapidity towns and cities are born in this wonderful\\ncountry of ours. It is a picturesque town, laid out in the shape of\\na Greek cross, bordering on the shores of a chain of pretty lakes.\\nThe region immediately surrounding is highly productive of or-\\nanges. It is undoubtedly one of the best known and most highly\\nesteemed winter homes in the far South, being extremely pict-\\nuresque and healthful. Its magnificent residences, drives, and\\nwalks are encased in the richest of tropical growths, and for miles\\nthese same residences border the banks of these lakes. The noted\\nSeminole Hotel, built in the most artistic and modern style, is\\nalive with the gayety and life of a migratory people under its rich\\nand hospitable roof.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nSeminole Hotel $4.00 per day. Rogers House |2.oo to I3.00 per day.", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "37\\nORLANDO.\\n147 miles by rail or boat via Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway to\\nSanford, thence via South Florida Railroad to Orlando.\\n4 miles south of Winter Park.\\nOrlando is the county-seat of Orange County, and the centre\\nof a fertile agricultural region, and for miles in every direction\\nthe mind and body may find pleasant diversion by new scenes\\nand active recreation. It has the reputation, like many frontier\\ntowns, of springing into existence during a night, so rapid has\\nbeen its growth. It is in the midst of a region charmingly diver-\\nsified by beautiful lakes, whose borders are lined with groves\\nsurrounding elegant villas and cosy winter cottage homes of\\nNorthern residents who, living here, can appreciate in a measure\\nthe existence of Bacon s New Atlantis. A chain of sixteen lakes\\nin the vicinity furnish fine boating and shooting, and all kinds of\\nsupplies for hunting and fishing expeditions can be procured to\\ngood advantage in the city, as well as competent guides.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nArcade Hotel \u00c2\u00ab;2.oo per day. San Juan Hotel 53.00 per day.\\nCharleston House $2.00 per day. Summerlin House $2.00 per day.\\nMagnolia House ]f2.oo per day.\\nKISSIMMEE CITY.\\n165 miles from Jacksonville, via Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway to\\nSanford, and thence via South Florida Railway.\\nThis picturesque city is situated directly on Lake Tohopeka-\\nliga. Until several years ago it was comparatively cut off from\\nall connection with the outside world, but its many attractive\\nfeatures were not long to be held under a bushel as the inves-\\ntigating spirit of the American speculator soon made manifest by\\nerecting large and comfortable hotels, and in many general ways\\nplacing it in the ranks of Florida winter homes. A line of steam-\\ners run down the river to Lake Okeechobee, through the Caloos-\\nahatchee River to Punta Rasa on the Gulf.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nKissimmee House $1.50 per day. I Tropical House. $3.00 to $4.00 per day.\\nLake House $2.00 per day.", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38\\nTAMPA.\\n249 miles from Jacksonville, via Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway.\\nThe run from Jacksonville to Tampa is not without interest, as\\nthe passenger traverses Winter Park, Orlando, and the high pine\\nlands to the Kissimmee Lake district, and thence on to that fertile\\nand productive country where the town stakes of Tampa were\\nfirst driven.\\nHere cotton, corn, rice, sugar-cane, orange, lime, lemon, ba-\\nnana, and all the fruits of a tropical zone grow in profusion. Its", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "seaport and mercantile value give it a prominent voice in all\\nmatters of State, and as a winter refuge it is not surpassed by any\\npoint on the Gulf coast.\\nPort Tampa, nine miles south of Tampa, is the terminus of the\\nPlant System of Railroads. It is situated on the shores of Tampa\\nBay, and from its wharves the steamers sail for Havana and\\nJamaica.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nBooze House $2.00 per day. The Plant Hotel $4.00 per day\\nTheAlmeria I3.00 per day. Tampa House $1.50 per day.\\nCity Hotel $2.50 per day.\\nPUNTA GORDA.\\n268 miles from Jacksonville, via Florida Southern Railway.\\nWithin easy reach of the most famous tarpon fishing-grounds\\non the coast is Punta Gorda, the most southerly railroad terminus\\non the Gulf coast. No more exciting sport exists than hooking one\\nof these game fish the tarpon. Up to five years ago this\\nfish was never taken except by harpoon or seine, and to come\\ndown now and land it with a thin, silken thread line is certainly a\\ndeviation from the old school and sport of no small account. If in\\ntwo or three hours after taking the bait the angler lands his\\nprize he is indeed fortunate. Here, at Punta Gorda, outfits,\\nguides, boats, and all necessary paraphernalia can be procured at\\nmoderate prices.\\nPRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nDe Soto House $2.50 per day. Hotel Southland $3.00 per day.\\nHotel Georgia S2.00 per day. Punta Gorda Hotel .$4.00 per day.\\nThis list could be strung out to great length, and then per-\\nhaps all the attractive places would not secure mention. These\\nsketches are intended as brief introductions to the most promi-\\nnent places that typify the distinctive life and characteristics of\\nFlorida. If the handbook serves to direct the steps of the tourist\\ninto pleasant paths its purpose will be achieved.", "height": "3520", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "florida00penn_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40\\nPennsylvania Tours\\nGOLDEN GATE\\nIs the title of a handsome illustrated Itinerary just issued by the\\nPennsylvania Railroad Company, containing full information as to\\nhow Three Weeks may be pleasantly and profitably spent in\\nCalifornia. These tours go out from Boston on February 6th,\\nMarch 2d, March 25th, and April 13th, 1891, and from New York\\nthe succeeding day, by superbly-appointed special trains of Pull-\\nman drawing-room sleeping, dining, smoking, and observation\\ncars, under the supervision of a Tourist Agent and Chaperon.\\nThe round-trip tickets, which are sold at a very low rate, consid-\\nering the high grade of the service, include all traveling expenses\\ngoing and returning and six side trips in California. Stops, rang-\\ning from twelve hours to two days, will be made at points of in\\nterest en route.\\nILLUSTRATED ITINERARIES,\\nContaining all detailed information as well as descriptive notes of\\nCalifornia may be procured by addressing Geo. W. 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