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" Naples On The Gulf Being Put On The Map By It's Backers "
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For a half a century a number of leading people of the
country have been going to Naples on the Gulf, thirty-eight
miles south of Fort Myers, to spend their winters.
Gradually, a fine little coast town has grown up at this
beautiful spot on the Tamiami Trail. Henry Watterson,
General W.B. Haldeman, Bruce Haldeman, W.E. Dwight, Colonel
West, Colonel Hendry, E.W. Crayton, Judge Wilkinson, John S.
Jones, and many others have had a hand in building this
beautiful resort city on the Gulf.
It was not however, until
the Naples Improvement Company decided to go ahead and
really build a city, the things now being carried out at
Naples started. Many beautiful homes had been built, the
Naples Hotel had been established, etc. About two years ago,
when it was decided to put in a complete electric plant and
improve the water works system, the little city began to
show increased life and growth.
Modern Electric Plant
One of the best small city electric plants in the
country is installed there. It has sufficient capacity
to light a town of five thousand people. During the past
year and a half, this water works system has been
improved and extended, and the streets have been
surfaced and new sidewalks laid.
Early in the summer of 1923 Mr. Jones, the heaviest
stockholder in the Naples Improvement Co., engaged Peter
P. Schutt, who for ten years had managed the Bradford
Hotel in this city, to go to Naples and build up the
hotel and allied industries. Immediately the hotel was
remodeled and improved and several more cottages built
for rent to winter visitors. A complete bakery was
installed and other improvements made in all directions.
A new wing to the hotel is now being built and will be
ready for use not later than February 1st. Some of the
rooms will be ready by the fifteenth of the month. The
new wing has fifty rooms, all with private bath, all
steam heated, and all large rooms, the average size
being fourteen by fifteen feet.
A Wonderful Solarium
Connecting the new section of the hotel with the
original building is a solarium, which is a
perfect dream. In it's construction almost four
thousand panes of glass have been used. It is
most artistically decorated and draped, and will
certainly be a joy for all time to come for the
guests of the hotel. At one side of the sun room
is a beautiful little gift shop. In one end is a
new grand piano.
In the decoration of the hotel grounds, 147
Royal Palms have been planted, with plenty of
other tropical foliage. A hibiscus hedge
surrounds the grounds, and adds it's beautiful
foliage and flowering beauty to the scene.
A beauty parlor and a barber shop are in the
buildings adjoining the hotel. A swimming pool
36 X 800 feet is under construction now and will
be in operation in a very short time.
A new
building nearing completion will be occupied by
a moving picture theatre, a drug store, a
doctor's office, a school room and a club room
to be known as the Men's
room, or Trophy room. This new building should
be ready for occupancy within two or three
weeks.
Excellent Orchestra
A permutted
water
softening
plant has
been
installed
and all the
water in the
hotel is
perfectly
soft. A
complete
electric
refrigeration
system is in
operation in
the hotel,
and odds to
it's perfect
equipment.
Beginning
the first
day of this
month the
Naples hotel
has one of
the best
orchestras
in the
country
employed to
provide
music for
the guests
and for all
social
events at
the hotel.
Boschinnl's
Trio, a
splendid
Italian
musical
organization
from New
York City is
the
orchestra
engaged, and
from their
performance
New Years
Eve, at
which time
they made
their
initial
appearance,
the new
musical
organization
is one that
can be most
enthusiastically
recommended.
The hotal
surely made
a wise
selection.
Madame
Boschinni is
a soloist of
ability and
charm, while
all three
members of
the company
are soulful
musicians.
The Fort
Myers Press
is proud of
the work
being done
at Naples
the past two
years, and
congratulates
Mr. and Mrs.
Peter P.
Schutt,
genial host
and hostess
of the
Naples
hotel, for
what they
have
accomplished
and what
they are
still
planning to
do. It also
feels that
some words
of praise
should be
given to
Messrs
Jones,
Crayton, and
Hartley for
the big
things going
on at
Naples. All
of this
section of
the state is
interested
in the
development
of Naples On
The Gulf,
and
appreciate
these men
who have had
and are
having a
substantial
part in that
development.
Naples is
being put on
the map.
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