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required Hopkins to maintain $5,000 insurance, apparently on the building itself.
Meanwhile, the corporation must have been very busy. On May 14,	1915, GCD,
in a Deed of Dedication, "conveys, warrants, assigns, transfers, sets over and dedicates to the said property owners of Clermont Harbor" the following:	lots	1 to 12, Block 42 (the
so-called "water lots" lying on the Gulf side of Front St.), the motor boat harbor, pier, bathhouse, dancing pavilion, and all sidewalks.	A
committee of three property owners was to be appointed to oversee the maintenance of the above listed items. Trustees of this dedication were to be Hopkins and F. S. Walmsley. Also mentioned was a "wharf and appurtenances thereto...projecting 900 feet toward the sound." (My older brother, Wilfred, remembers that cars could drive onto a platform at the base of the pier. Even today, remnants of the pier can be seen at very low tide, running parallel to the channel that empties the harbor.)
On September 29,	1915, a hurricane
with winds measuring at least 140 mph visited the Gulf Coast. It is known to have demolished the pier and heavily damaged the hotel. The aftermath of the storm is possibly reflected in county legal records. One year later, Hopkins borrowed an additional $2,400 on a