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PT. A limfi A T.VTR WnilfiimT TT.T. -. i "L ' * ^ * %*$ fPfi $ u jcfacrfoo fe£5* #*<> £'&Ol m # ? tares »i ... **wa,j M I H H I H I M I I I I I I I M H ILLINOIS State News ( i iVmViVi n i i t i M t H i m i OMBWHERE in the United may be said, "Now is the winter ol our discontent." But not in the Sou' For in the winter flows the South's » golden flood from the North. The annual migrations of seekers after health and pleasure is now under full headway. And it is a veritable golden flood. Here are some of the facts 4 about it Tourists to Southern winter resorts--travelers ly rail, 200,000; by steamer and private yacht, 3,000; by automobile, 150,000; total, 400,000. Hotel expenses, $44,wO,OtX>. Amusements, $40,000,000, ' , !f Cottage and bungalow rents, $30,000,000. Value of homes owned by Northerners, $320,- 000,000. Yes, the migration is on. About 100 sleeping 1|ars leave New York and Chicago daily for the ]}outh, and at least 500 automobiles begin the Journey every day. • Of course, California has also a golden winter Hood from the East--which is another story. And the "North has a return flood from the 3outh in the summer--of which something later. This migration season is looked upon by those ections of the South where the Northern tourist flocks as one of harvest. Crops and fruits, for which Florida is known, take second place as {i source of revenue. The hotels are crammed o overflowing, cottages and bungalows are 'filled or the entire season at rents which make that of |i New York apartment seem fairly reasonable, (the beaches swarm with bathers forgetful of the Ice which binds the Northern waters and the jlcrack of the golf ball sounds from Asheville to fcey West. This costs' money. Just how much nobody . fenows. It used to be said that $100,000,000 was fjpent by tourists in Florida every winter, but that Was before the war, and the cost of touring has £one up. The estimates must be revised. Some approximation of the facts can be obtained, however, by diligent search among the railroad records. The season starts a little earlier In the Carollnas than in Florida, and then Saps over again after the Florida season, but the season of capacity is considered by railroad men to be approximately fifteen weeks. During this ^period the ttavel South Is fairly constant. There are two main gateways for Northern approach to the South--Chicago and New York. Out of Chicago there are running every day 50 Southern sleepers, which hold on an average of 1,000 persons. From New York by rail and boat there . leave about the same numbers, %000 persons In all. With a season of about 100 days, that reaches a total at "800,000 persons who travel bar call Mrf boat. 400,000 to Go South. <v The automobile traffic carries others who are. .'BO inconsiderable part of the whole. Fully 500 cars a day are now going South. Three persons to a car and 100 days of travel would indicate that 150,000 persons find the Southern touring a pleasant relief from bucking snow drifts. In all, about 400,000 persons will go South this year. These figures can be checked up somewhat with the hotels. There- are some famous places of recreation, which are filled from the time they open until the end of the season, hotels In resorts . such as Asheville, Pinehurst, Aiken, Southern - Pines, in the Carollnas; Augusta and Thomasville, ' In Georgia, and Bellealre, Miami, Palm Beach, St. Petersburg, Daytona and St Augustine, In Florida. The total hotel capacity of these places Is 46,- 667. The average stay at most of these hotels can be reckoned at about two weeks. 'That would give a population in these better known hotels for three months of about 280,000 persons. The other 120,000 find their wey to the smaller places , and to bungalows, cottages and boarding bouses. It is from this great majority, also, that the bulk of the revenue comes. One Is apt to think of Florida--for Florida is the Ultima Thule of the .Southland, and has more recreation places than ail the others put together--as a place dotted with million dollar homes and surrounded by a "•protecting flotilla of costly yachts. But, as a matter of fact the great majority of the people who go to Florida are neither enormously wealthy nor great spendthrifts. Bungalow colonies are growing all over the state, built by people of moderate means, who go to Florida not for pleasure only, but for their health. There are, it Is said, more old people Id Florida than any other state In the Union; they go there to keep alive. The people of wealth, whose names associated with Palm Beach have made it one of the most famous resorts in the world,«e re very few in number, but make up for that by the vtfst amounts they spen4 l« «it#HalnHM»nt Hoot of these people do not go to the hotels; they have their own homes, winter palaces by the summer sea. These varying pocketbooks have caused a great variety In the decoration and cost of the hostelrles, which seem to spring up all over Florida. There are places for the rich man, the poor man and even for the man who has a large family, bill has the money and disposition to give them a •good time. There are places where one can spend $40 a day "and up," also modest little hotels, where $3 and $4 a day Is charged for room and meals. In nearly all of them the American plan prevails. A fair average charge is $8 a day. Even this amounts to an enormous sum. For If each of the 400,000 persons stays on an average of two weeks, that brings the total of hotel charges to $44,800,000. , , Homes Owned by Northerners. Irtf The homes also are not all of magnificent tension. There are thousands of others. Around St Petersburg has grown up a large colony of reasonably priced homes, and at West Palm Beach to another group of homes owned by persons of unassuming prosperity. In Miami, which In the last ten years has grown faster than any other city in the country, and is now a bustling place of 85,000, are still other houses which are not neighborhood show places. It Is estimated that 10 per cent of the people who go to Florida own their own homes, and that the average valuation is about $8,000. 'But lp per cent of 400,000 Is 40,- 000, which gives a real estate valuation of $320,- 000,000 owned by Northerners. The tax from this . It a source of profit to the state. The cost of travel alone Is tremendous. An av- . ersge round trip fare, Including Pullman, would be about $100, and when 200,000 persons spend that It means a revenue to the roads of $20,000,- 000. And there's the gasoline! What is spent for amusement can only be gdessed at, for It is a sum that varies According to the frieans and habits of the individual. Some of those who own beautiful homes and entertain lavishly spend sums that make the ordinary travelers' expenses seem picayune, and the people who spend a month at the great hotels also part with considerable amounts for ordinary diversion. This is outside the large sums which are dropped in some of the gambling place| that may make t|ke Southern tour exciting. But it would probably not be wide of the mark tp say that an amount equal to the average living efcst of $8 a day Is spent by every visitor to the Carollnas and Florida, which would amount to more than $40,000,000. This would Include golt fishing, autolng, boating and all the diver ting •ports that are offered by the Ingenuity of the promoting population. Golf Is Popular. Golf Is perhaps the favorite diversion of tbOM who go South. There are no better courses in the country. From the time the first visitors to Asheville and Aiken tee up early In November until the returning throng from Florida again Invades the Carolina and West Virginia hills there Is a constant procession of the best golfers In the country over the magnificent courses. Many of the clubhouses are huge and costly affairs, and membership fees are sufficiently large to appall (he average individual. But there are smaller and less expensive links which are crowded with jsst as enthusiastic stick swingers as play the More exclusive links." ' Pinehurst always opens the golf season with a tournament early in November. Southern Pinee takes care of many golfers, Asheville, Aiken and Augusta all have good links, but when one reaches Florida the number of courses almost would enable one to play across courses from Jacksonville to Key West. One of the most famous is the St. Augustine golf course, one of the oldest golfing dubs in the South. Then* are two big courses at Bellealre. Ormond Beach has an excellent course, which stretches along the Atlantic, while Ormond. Daytona, Fort Pierce, Rockledge and others lead up to the Palm Beach Golf club, the oldest course in this famous resort The South pays back some of this Northern money In the summer. Chicago Is a summer resort for thousands of Southerners. Maine takes In something like $50,000,000 a suiffhier and Michigan nearly $15,000,000. Wisconsin and Minnesota are full of "resorters" all summer, many Of them from the South. . v, ' | Visitors to National Parka. The national parks and monuments last sum' mer attracted 1,058,455 visitors from all parts of the United States. Many of these tourists were from the South. Motorcars from practically every Southern state were largely In evidence. In 1917 travel to national parks totaled 488,268 visitors, which was an Increase of over 100,000 visitors for the best previous travel year. In 1918, the war year, 451,601 visitors were recorded in the same national parks. In 1919 two additional national parks were created, and travel for that year Increased to 755,325 visitors, or 67 per cent over the war year record. Also In 1919, 56,191 visitors were recorded in six national monuments, making a total travel for 1919 of 811,516. Ex pressing this astonishing growth of tourist travel in terms of percentage, travel in 1920 increased 117 per cent over 1917, 134 per cent over 1918, and 80 per cent over travel for 1919. In 1917, &4,692 private cars were recorded; in 1918 53,966; in 1919, 97,721; and last summer the tota/ number of cars entering the national parks was 128,074. These visitors spent a tot of money all along the route--many millions. Here's a prediction that Is interesting. The time is not far distant when several of the national parke will be crowded in winter with visitors enjoying wlqter sports. Up to very recently the general public has regarded the national parks In general as inaccessible and uninhabitable desolations In winter. This idea of the national parks In winter is all wrong and the public Is fast coming to realize that to able-bodied and red-blooded people they are quite as attractive In winter as in summer. Scenically they are even more magnificent in the winter; frost and snow give added beauty and sublimity both by day and night. "See America First" From the viewpoint of the red-blooded man and woman looking for winter outdoor sport three of the national parks are likely to be pre-eminent- These are Yoseinlte, Mount Rainier and Itocky Mountain. Many able-bodied and red-blooded Americans do not care to follow the summer all the year. It is a touch of frost that brings man to his full mental, moral and physical stature. And there will soon be no finer winter playground in the world than in Rocky Mountain, Yoseinlte and Mount Rainier National parks. It's a fine big country we Americans have, with all sorts of climates and all sorts of scenery. The country and the climate and the scenery are good enough--there are no better--to keep us at home most of the time. Doing our traveling and vacationing at home, we shall keep hundreds of millions of American dollars at home--and working where they will do the most good. We used to spend about $500,000,000 In sightseeing abroad every year. Now the slogan. "See America First,' has helped to keep us at home--and we are enjoying it, to the financial benefit ol the good old United States of America. v. * I Washing Out Gold Nuggets #- $tr«Mi Gravels in California and the '^faPutan Are ,Now Worked * Huge Dredges. v . _ '[ Scarcely any metal to more widely $ distributed than gold. The trouble is jto find much of it in any onfe place. The ocean is full of gold, but at four vfMta worth to the un jbeco is no profit In trying to extract it There la gold scattered all through the sand of the beach on which you repose between "dips" when you visit the seashore, but not enough to pay tor sifting It out The gold In the sea has been derived from the land, being brought tho oeeat hfrivofy. • >- •<• vL,- - } wise the gold in the beach sand, fehich Itself is the debris of inland rocks. In same regions the mountains contain much gold, which is fetched down to the lowlands with the gravels borne by streams. Such gravels may be very rich in what is called "alluvial" gold. They furnished the "placers" In California, worked by pioneer miners, with pan and rocker. Nowadays the stream gravels of California, and likewise those of the Yukon, are worked for gold by huge jyhtch. with huge scoop buckets mounted on endless chains, literally eat their way into the stream banks, tak'ing the gravel aboard, sep arating the gold from It by washing and dumping the detritus overboard. The principal by-product is pebbles which are carried away from th* dredge scow by a conveyer that deposits them at a sufficient distance t< be out of the way. In this mannei small mountains of pebbles are bull up--a waste output, but worth mone> for roadmaking and other purposes.-- Philadelphia Ledger. Springfield.--Examinations jvill be held by the state civil service commission February 26 at Alton, Anna, Carbondale, Carllnvllle, Central la, Charleston, Chester, Chicago, Danville, Dekalb, East St. Iiouis, East Mollne, Elgin, Harrlsburg, Jacksonville, Kankakee, Lincoln, Macomb, Mount Vernon, Normal, Peoria, Pontlac, Quincy. Springfield,- Streator and Urbana. The examinations will be held for the following positions: Mechanical inspector, salary $150 to $200 per month; junior prison teacher, $75 to $90; primary teacher, $50 to $75; qualified nurse, $60 to $70; university registrar, $300 to $416.66; road engineer (promotional), $250 to $333.33; securities supervisor, $225 to $275; utilities statistician, $150 to $200; supervising grain Inspector, $200 to $225; testing engineer (promotional), $250 to $333.33. Senior department bookkeeper, $125 to $200; university junior clerk, $50 to $90; university registration clerk, $75 to $150; junior physician, $125 to $150; interne, ear and eye, no salary but maintenance; assistant highway engineer, $150 to $300: chief game and fish clerk, $150 to $166.66; university assistant purchasing agent, $100 to $175; Industrial examiner, $100 to $120; chief engineer, $125 to $175; mining investigator, $150 to $200. Springfield.--Uncertainty as to what effect the warm weather of January will have on the crops of winter wheat and rye, coupled with the fact that the "root rot" menace to corn threatens more damage than last year, has unsettled predictions for this year's Illinois grain crop, according to S. D. Fessenden, United States field agent for Illinois. Acreage of winter wheat and rye Is 5 per cent less tlinn last year and is again on a prewar average, Mr. Fessenden said. Last year adverse weather conditions, combined with others, led to the abandonment of 18 per cent of the winter wheat acreage, and the year before 30 per cent was abandoned. Springtield.--More tenant farmers of Illinois went bankrupt the last three months than for any like period In many years past records in the office of the clerk of the United States District court at Springfield indicate. The records also show that more tenant fanners filed petitions in bankruptcy during the last year than any other class of tradesmen. The clerk declared that many farmers who filed the petitions told him they did not realize any profit from some of their crops, principally corn. Grocers, merchants and contractors filed the second greatest number of petitions In bankruptcy. East St. Louis.--Guy Kyle, rector of the Free Methodist church at Mount Vernon, was arraigned before United States Commissioner Hooker on a charge of stealing mail pouches containing $189,000 at Mount Vernon. He has confessed complicity In the robbery. The former rector waived preliminary hearing and was remanded to the jail. Ball was fixed at $20,000. Loren Williamson, business partner in the garage business, was arrested at Mount Vernon in connection with the robbery. Williamson has not denied participation In It. Kyle is said to have implicated Williamson In the robbery. Springfield.--Taxicabs, rooms with bath, tips and other ways and means of convenience will In future be taboo for examiners for the state public utilities commission. A bulletin order which has gone through the commission's offices classes these things as luxuries not to be paid for by the state. If any examiners Indulge in extravagance hereafter they will pay the bills out of their own pockets, the notice said. Lincoln.--Although. last year's corn ;rop was generally considered below the standard. County Farm Adviser Ebersol says Logan county will not be lacking in seed corn for next year. The 1919 crop will furnish plenty of seed, Ebersol advises. He says the grade of seed will be very good. Rock ford.--A grocery store on wheels Is the newest business venture tried at Rockford. The perambulating store is driven up to the curbing and the housewife invited to step into it and do her shopping. The vehicle is equipped after the fashion of a regulation grocery store. Harrisburg.--Jewelry valued at $7,- 000 was stolen from the home of C. V. Parker, wealthy Harrisburg merchant and delegate to the constitutional convention. The theft occurred while the family was absent. Included in the loot was a diamond necklace. Mount Carroll.--Jackrabbits are not common In northern Illinois, but two of them have been killed near Mount Carcoll within a few weeks. Elgin.--The taxpayers of Elgin at a special election vot«»d the issuance of $125,000 bonds to be utilized in paying for an extension at the municipal water supply. Springfield.--Amendment of the state law which gives a journeyman plumber the same privileges as a, master plumber will be requested of the legislature, it was Indicated when delegates to the twenty-ninth annual convention of the Illinois Master Plumbers, in session at Springfield, heard the address of their president, E. J. Benning of Chicago, * ^ Springfield.--Indorsement by Governor Small of the American Legion's plan for a state bonus for ex-service men and women will be sought by officials of the Legion soon after the bonus bill Is introduced in the legislature. The total bonus is estimated at between $68,000,000 and $70,000,000. Pullman.--Freight car shops of the Pullman company, covering nearly two square blocks at Pullman, together with seven uew refrigerator cars and 12 Pullman sleepers, were destroyed by fire at an estimated loss of $450,- 000. Springfield--The schedule of a apodal vocational training review board which will pass almost a month in Illinois investigating the needs of the state's disabled soldiers Is announced by William R. McCauley, American Legion department commander for Illinois. Medical examiners and eligibility rating men will expedite the work by immediately establishing the status of each disabled soldier who seeks to take advantage of vocational training. The vocational board will maintain headquarters at Rockford, Peoria, Champaign and Centralia, and will work territory tributary to these points. The complete scaeduie follows: Rockford--January 31 to February 5 (medical examiner and rating man In Rockford on February 4 and 5 only); Galena, January 31-February 1; Freeport, February 2-3; Belvidere, February 3-4; Woodstock, January Sf-February 2; Mount Carroll, January 31-February 2; Oregon, February 3-4. Peoria --February 7-12 (medical examiner and rating man in Peorl* on February 11 and 12 only) ; Monmouth, February 7-8; Galesburg, February 9-11; Wyoming, February 7-8; Toluca, February 9-11; Roanoke, February 7-8. Champaign-- February 14-19 (medical examiner and rating man in Champaign on Feburary 18 and 19 only) ; Kankakee, February 14-19; Pontiac, February 14- 15; Gilman, February 16-18; Bloom-, ington, February 14-16; ,Clinton, February 17-18. Centrally--February 21- 26 (medical examiner and rating man in Centralia on February 25 and 26 only) ; Vandalia, February 21-22; Effingham, February 23-24; Newton, February 21-22; Robinson, February 23-24; Greenville, February 21-22; Carlyle, February 23-24. Springfield.--Attorney General Brundage's demands upon the legislature for a huge appropriation with which to carry on a statewide war against booze sellers under the Volstead act's nuisance clause are to be met with vigorous opposition. Political leaders said that this is likely to develop Into one of the biggest rows of the session and before It is ended will cause a strauge alignment of members on the wet and dry sides. Opponents of the Brundage plans will set up the claim In the legislature that the state's attorneys of the various counties and not the attorney general's office should handle violations of the dry laws. .Springfield.--Official results of the recent election of the Illinois mine workers; as announced, show that the present state officers have been reelected. Frank Farrlngton is re-elected president with 35,218 votes. His nearest competitor, John W. Hindmash of Riverton, polled 14,834 votes. Harry Fishwick of Springfield was reelected vice president and Walter Nesbltt of Belleville, secretary-treasurer by practically the same pluralities as Farrlngton. Edward Dobbin of Belleville defeated J. M. Zimmerman of Springfield for international board member. Springfield.--Promotion of additional roads in the state of Illinois will be the aim of the Illinois State Automobile association, which will open headquarters here to be open during the time the legislature is in session. Legislation to this end will be framed by the association for presentation to the assembly. Representatives of the organization, which has a membership of 60,000, will be present to help enact laws in the Interest of, autolsts and hard road boosters. • Springfield.--Reporting the results of a survey, William T. Cross, survey officer of the state public welfare department, advises the establishment of a rehabilitation hospital to provide an Industrial training course for the phy> slcally crippled In the state. Several other recommendations for the care of physical unfortunates are made In the report. The rehabilitation act passed by the last general assembly made pro visions for the survey which has just been completed. Springfield.--Construction work on a sewage treatment plant at Marion, according to attaches of the state department of health, was abandoned In 1915, and now the city is threatened with damage suits for stream pollu tlon, abd has submitted plans for the plant for review and approval to the state department of health. Tuscola.--Tuscola is the recipient of a farm of 80 acres of land in Douglas county valued at $20,000, which is to be sold and the money utilized for the construction of a public hall. The donor is a leading citizen, who makes the gift upon the stipulation that his identity remain a secret. Springfield.--Of the 1,500 prisoners in the state prison at Jollet 450 have (moved Into the new prison which Is being constructed by prisoners, J. L. Whitman, superintendent of prisons, announced. One cellhouse is entirely complete and a second Is under construction, Whitman said. Freeport.--The annual meeting of the Northern Illinois Teachers' association will be held In Freeport begin nlng October 28, It was announced at a meeting of the officers of the association held at Freeport. Rockford.--The city council of Rockford favors abolishing tike state board of public utilities. Jollet.--In order that mothers of small children may be able to attend the services on Sunday, a checking room and nursery for babies has been opened by the Methodist church la Joliet Danville.--The largest bond ever placed In the Danville district for liquor law violation was set when Jack Colbergs, a former saloonkeeper, was held under $40,000 ball to await court action. Colbergs' wife is under $5,000 bond and four others also arrested under $3,000 bond each. This was Colbergs* fourth arrest in two months. Springfield.--John W. Rodgers, superintendent of the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' home at Normal, has forwarded his resignation to Governof Small, to take effect April 1, or as soon as his successor is appointed. Chicago.-- Railway executive# on lines centering In Chicago are devising means whereby 10,000 employees may be trimmed from the railroads' payrolls within the next 30 days. More than 20^000 men already have beeu laid off. It was learned, and the reductions in working forces are not yet at an Z 6 Bcllans Hot wafer Sure Relief RELL-ANS i#rOR INDIGESTION Cuticura Soap Is Ideal lor The Complexion Smp 25c, OUaat 25 tai 56c, TilnsSk. 1 '•M Took Tbo Draggisfs Advto . Danville, I1L--"Th® firat year after I was married I went down in health and strength. The druggist re^ ommended Dr. Pioroe'a Golden. Medical Discovery to me as tho best tonic on tb«> market. One bottle of the 'Discovery* was ail I found necessary to take. It not only strength* ened me but I gained in weight _ as well. 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