Viaggi invernali nel sud; impronte di penna e macchina fotografica di uomini, maniere, donne e cose tutto il senso dal golfo blu e New Orleans attraverso le palme alla moda Florida ai pini della Virginia. Re riflesso nell'acqua; balmy, soft, arie del sud è venuto attraverso le finestre del thetrain; c'era una sensazione di languore e vellutato nell'atmosfera. Palm Beach, come quasi tutti sanno, si trova sull'estremo sud della costa orientale di Flori-da, ed è una isola stretta lunga circa 50 km e larga circa 2 miglia al punto itslmost. È separato dalla mainlandon che è situato

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Winter journeys in the South; pen and camera impressions of men, manners, women, and things all the way from the blue Gulf and New Orleans through fashionable Florida palms to the pines of Virginia . re reflected in the water; balmy, soft, Southern airs came through the windows of thetrain; there was a languorous, velvety feeling aboutthe atmosphere. Palm Beach, as almost everyone knows, issituated on the southern extreme of the Flori-da east coast, and is a narrow island about fifteenmiles long and about two miles broad at itsbroadest point. It is separated from the mainlandon which is situated the little village of WestPalm Beach by a long, narrow sound, errone-ously called Lake Worth. On the eastern sideit is bounded by the waters of the Atlanticocean. The principal part of the island, speakingfrom the residential stand-point, is on the westernside, or the lake front. Here stands the RoyalPoinciana Hotel. Directly across the island on theocean side is the Breakers, a hotel second in sizeonly to the Poinciana. Adjacent to the Poincianabut farther north on the island are the Palm BeachHotel and the Hibiscus, good houses both of them; the visitor may choose from any of these. The16. GLIMPSE OF THE ROYAL POINCIAXA HOTEL PALMY PALM BEACH greater part of the island belongs to the FloridaEast Coast Railway Company. Parts of it theyhave sold to real estate companies, and other partsbelong to other enterprises, but it is no exaggera-tion to say that if the possessions of the East CoastCompany were taken from the island the island asa social resort would cease to exist. This was my first visit to Palm Beach, and themoment when we approached the place was an in-teresting one for me. I had heard so much aboutit! Everyone had had something to say about it.And, indeed, like it or not, Palm Beach is a place totalk about. The impressions I had formed from the , speeches of my many acquaintances and friendswere various: Palm Beach, said a wrought-up golfing manfrom Cleveland, its a

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• bookcentury1900
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• bookyear1916