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Show MRS. PALMER'S "PRINCIPALITY" . . . Mrs. Potter Palmer of Washing- v-JW ton and Chicago and her father, Col. -oj 4." II- H. Honore, who is ninety-three jf x ' vv N years old, are developing their "prin- jj v 1 x cipality" in southern Florida. Mrs. ?a tJ"v-' -s; Palmer has the largest plantation in t r v s the state. Twenty experienced real " , " estate men are working under Colo- ' 1 v J vt v nel Honore, and none is more alert y4 "I expect to make a fortune," he iT '?X' -s ' sai(3. "out of my property in southern ,s s J- Florida, which I intend to hold for 20 years." XA s Colonel Honore, who is a Kentuck- -v&' ian, has approached the century mark " s ' without a care line on his smile- t 0 wreathed face and confidently expects fN'; to realize this dream of longevity. l.iftJsl Mrs. Palmer, social queen of two continents, never allows a day to pass J.t r without indulging in a tramp of eight nT miles or more on the beach that ad- 'Jsm'S, 'sA.' Jl joins her vast estate near Saratoga, unless she is hunting pirate treasure. Thousands of acres of gulf-bordering land owned by Mrs. Palmer were infested in-fested more than a century ago by pirates, including the Spanish terror, Gaspa-illa, who erected a stronghold on Gasparilla isle, site of the thriving port of Boca Grande, from which he and his band of high-sea cutthroats sallied forth in search of defenseless merchant ships. |