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changes in the entire railway system of the Southeast. New and
energetic men have entered the field, great amounts of capital have
been invested, all the old fogy boards of directors have been swept
out of existence, new managers, superintendents, and executive
officers have come to the front, all infusing a healthy and beneficial
rivalry. New railroads have been everywhere projected and begun,
and old unfinished.roads have been completed; numerous short cut-
off have been planned and rapidly completed, all greatly to the
comfort and benefit of travelers and freight. Railroad time-tables
have been everywhere overhauled and remodeled, rates of speed
increased, time of travel reduced, excellent low-priced eating-houses
conveniently established, new and attentive employees engaged,
until now, and in coming seasons, railroad travel in the South is
and will be comparable in comfort and convenience with the fa-
mous system of the West. To Mr. Haynes and Mr. Cole, the widely
known railway capitalists and managers, is Florida largely indebted
for these benefits.

 TO FLORIDA FROM THE NORTHWEST.
 To the tourist to Florida from the Northwest the famous new
Cincinnati Southern road offers elegant and superior attractions,
quick time, fine scenery, beautiful cars, and every detail of comfort
and convenience that skilled management, liberal capital, and rivalry
can devise. This, and the well-known old established Enfala line,
together with the Danville route, offer superior facilities. All have
palace-cars, with but two changes from Chicago to Jacksonville (a
daytime change), and make the distance in sixty-five to sixty-eight
hours. But these facts of the present will undoubtedly be mate-
rially changed for the better in the coming season (1881-'82), as ar-
rangements are now nearly perfected among the representatives of
the various connecting roads of the rival routes, so that the passen-
ger entering a palace-car in Chicago, Indianapolis, Cleveland, De-
troit, St. Louis, Louisville, or Nashville, will arrive in Jacksonville
in the same car; while the Chicago passenger will be but forty-
two hours en route, instead of sixty-eight, as at present.

 IN JACKSONVILLE.
 There are now four large hotels in Jacksonville, equal to any in
the country for accommodations (rates four to five dollars per day);