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