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MIAMI'S "MADNESS. FLORIDA'S AMAZING LAND BOOM. far T. H. WEIGALI.] Within the past six months Miami until recently an unimportant little sea coast resort of South-Eastern Florila, hat suddenly become the centre of one of the most remarkable land booms in all history. The popularity of Miami as a millionaires' holiday resort has given rise to wild optimism about the future of the place as a residential, farming and industrial area; and unscrupulone estate agents and "Bat catchërs" feverishly engaged in selling not only and along the sea-front but swamps the far interior.
Miami has seen, and is still seeing more fantastic fortunes made in a nigh than ever came out of the Alaskan me fields or the oil weils of Yellowstone Park. There is no gold in Florida, nor any oil worth mentioning: there is n thing, indeed, beyond a fertile solli a delightful climate. Yet land in Ma
whore only twenty-five years ago if teen square miles had been bought le $200-is now selling as a fabulous pri Get-rich-quick le per square foot. inen are exploiting on a gigantic se the curious fact that in America are millions who will buy anything prỏ. vided it be only advertised enough
When or how it will end no one can say. Everything in Florida, to-day o utterly artificial, so obscurred by the thamboyant advertising of syndicates and atterly artificial so obscured by the company promoters, that it is imposible to judge clamly what may be the real meaning of the whole amazing siturion. The probabilities would seem to be the even if Miami itself is not heading for. a collapse the surrounding territoitic which have taken advantage of the log are certainly doing so, and will r thinly curry" with them into the swamps and deserte the millions of daiare that have been apèculated on their sirable home unit industrial sites"
EASY MONEY.
To the student of human nature a to-day is one of the most extraordinary spectacles in the world. It is a mixture of Venice and Bedlam, with Bed strongly predominating., Hatless co less men-nobody wears coats in Vidini rush about the blazing streets their armus full of papers; perspiration pogr ing from them as they strain to huyor. sell some **specialty that he st come their way.
Everywhere there is dust; a thughu antomatic riveters pour out their leatin- ing music, a thousand drills aptham ners and winches add to the hoa, Everybody is real-estate inad. Terugi offer-bandings, almost entirely fled by realtors, are the scenes of indes cribable enthusiasm and cafasion. Everywhere there is hand-shaking back. slapping, and general boosting
Three-quarters of the specularsin Miami kaow nothing whatever about business but have poured in fro every corner of America and Mexico and the Argentine in frantic attap tor gather in some of the golden harjest that is to be reaped out of grat army of boobs."
Everybody drives Lar; erybody
drives, moreover, with a redesantas putting to shame the timid axitab- drivers of Paris, and the clanging and hooting and grinding of braker iddayet another note to the rand volumes sound that is never, by night or day, even for an instant stilled.
SWINDLING THE PUBIC
Every day one bears fresa sories of uillions that have been mauty bicky speculators who have bought land or swamp and passed the bus to the public. Admitting that most of these stories are grossly exaggerat there is. still no smoke without fire; a per zonally can vouch for the metho. made £75,000 in three days, not by feculating but simply by selling land commis sian for one of the larg rms of brokers. A young frien, of mine: who has just left school has been spending his vacation at Beach, and he tells me that withou aterfering with his holiday he has making 100 a week ever since had been there.
The commonest story is thiol rich man who invested £100,000 ree months age ia an estate for which has just refused sa offer of 23,000, the words of one of the adver encats in Miami-avenue, What's these of a lifetime of toil, anyway!''
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Considered purely an ple re-resorts, Miami and Palm Beach - certainly almost idyllic. Wide, gal beaches sweep down to prystal-ch that is always warm; behing her palm- groves and great sweeps of vidgreen. stretch LWLY towar briliant white Spanish houses half hen behind hibiscus and magnolia tri Boule- Tards Binty feet wide with faces that almost put a billiards tab to ahame lead on and on into the entrancing forests, with now and agai 4 graceful concrete bridge, dazzling tite,span- hing & river or a canal, analways the endless procession of tall el ric torches that at night time make tseountry highways far more brillingt han Picca dilly
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IN SWAMPS Every few miles along 13 const-line some vast fifteen-stores herit
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and in the evenings if we can afford it-you may dance in the roof garden golf-links
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or stroll about on the moot or baths by, searchlight is but cred- ible sea And when you again Sou may order your cockts Cordon Rouge or what you will; fooboy wor- rice about the Eighteenth Amendment
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in Miami, or for the matter of that liter" and industrial' contres?) ond; rumours of the vast textile factorior the in the whole of Florida.
begins to grow sceptical. Florida so far are coming to Tampa and Jacksonville Foor the millionairs plénaireecker has no particular industries and no and remembers the truth of thas beautie wall, is it any wonder the forty miles between Miami and Palm barbour worth the name. Yet when one ful maxim that a fool is born ovary Beach is an earthly paradise. But when sees what has happened at Miami dar minute. one is told impressively, of "factory ing the past few months, and hears that there are so many “realtors **!
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