Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1926, Page 93

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (.—GRAVURE SECTION—JANUARY 24, 192, BY W. E. HILL. B i il i T Y ) Copyrik ] 7 Y — 3 by the Chic - | | i : | i ' “Southward Ho,” showing a covered wagon party from New England Florida-bound, with camping outfit and the family dog attached. i F Gertie, the waitress in the Florida east coast development is not adding up the check. She is figuring out real estate profits on the back of a menu snappy rising young architect waiting for the general de- livery window to open. Next to the telegraph office, the post office is the most popular place at a Florida east coast resort. The realtor has been putting the fear of God and land values into a wary client. Says he, “Some of these > guys have no vision.” The architect is very much concerned just now with cottages in pmk stucco Spanish style and a big hotel that is to be an exact replica of the Alhambra in Spain, with Los Angeles trimmings and a few colonial touches added for hominess. The snappy realtor in the white knickers and the just as 2 - ‘a . 3 i m | Just one of these Florida bathing girls. sl Y 3 : 7. The Florida™ lady the kind that never scem to break inte : . nealtor isiveryabinsy, rotagravure. T SRy h these days. Her = b = woman s mtuition and feminine charm can do much with developments, bind- ers, titles. say nothing of ows. The early Florida settlers. Mecet Mr. and Mrs. Ponce de Leon, who arc the oldest inhabitants of Polyp Strands, having come there from Marquette, Mich.. all of four months ago. They are building a little Spanish stucco % villa in the heart of what will some day be Polyp Strands’ , : . The picture actress, residential district, within casy access of the Poi\-p Strands 4 ety 3 B 3 . i g¢ spending 2 few suburbs of the future .and only a few city biocks from { i : . s o y 2 = weeks in Fiorida the Hotel Polyp-Ritzoria, soon to be erected by Northern ¢ while they film the “apitalists. This hotel will be very grand. The main South Sea Island "™iining room will he bigger than the Union Stavion episodes. Washington, and each suite will be equipped with violet rays and a permanent waver. The Ponce de Leons are indeed fortunate to have chosen Polyp Strands. “My dear, next year there will be simply nobody here.” The lament of the ex- clusive Winter col- ony ys Mrs. Pot ter-Potter. “We are gong to Biarritz next year instead of Palm Beach. Any- way, there's a Ritz ity Mrs. Eliza Johnson Jones, one of these dear old Southern Three factors in Florida real estate. Reading from the left we have the young man who mammies you hear so much about, owns a choice lot on Main does the advertising copy 'way back in the frozen North, all about how they are going street between what will some day be the largest Spanish style to make Cremona Glades into a combination Paris and Venice, with real imported hotel in the world and what will r0oon be the largest private gondolas, etc. (See booklet, “Cremona Calls You”). Next in line is the careful capi- B 2 - e : country club in the western hemisphere. Mrs. Johnson Jones talist. Nobody slips anything over on him. Last in line, the shoestring investor, Eddie, the head h‘{lh";’P of :(I)mc[?;)r‘e\lci‘ai‘lht?::i’:‘«:“éolfia:}:?gs: has been offered $30.000 for this lot. She is holding out for caught in the act of telegraphing the boys out in Zanesville for a little extra. “Send flyer in real estate; hopes S - ©$5.000.000. $5,000 before Tuesday,” his message runs, “can quadruple in two weeks.” T e