CHAPTER VII.

Education from Books and from Experience--Keen Intuitions--Abreast of the Progress--Mr. Plant’s After-dinner Speech at Tampa Banquet Given him by Tampa Board of Trade, March 18, 1886--Location of Tampa--In Territorial Days Had a Military Reservation--In 1884 Population about Seven Hundred--Its Cosmopolitan Population now--Many Cubans and Spaniards in Tampa--Tobacco Industry--Phosphate Abounds in this Part of the State--Much of it Shipped to the North and to Europe--Plant System Gives Impetus to the Prosperity of the Place--Its Progress the Last Five or Six Years.....68-86