The morning news., 1899-03-30
MAI. MARKS IN NEW YORK.
An Old Acquaintance Writes Some
Things About Him
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press
My old friend Maj. M. R. Marks. 10
whom reference has been made in this col
umn. is interested financially in an cleo
trict propelling device that viii, he main
tains, carry ship from New York 60
Southampton In three and half days. He
speaks of it only in whispers. The only
vessel that can approach that time is the
private yacht Mystery. manufactured In
the fertile brain of III. r. Chamberlain,
London correspondent of the Sun and au-
thor of 5000 Tons of Gold" The Mys-
terry made the voyage in four days, using
compressed air as motive power.
The majors card reads on one side; IN
r. Marks, Timber Lands and Orange
Groves. 40 Wall Street, New York And
at home Orlando, Fla. Game preserves a
speciality" On the other side is: "To
Sportsmen-I have carefully selected shoot
ing and game preserves. One In South
Carolina, II 900 acres; one in Georgia, 1000
acres one in Florida, $1,000 acres one in
Florida, 105 600 atres. Two islands In the
Cuff of Mexico. One of 1900 acres; one
of 5000 acres. Each preserve has yacht
ing, sailing, abundant game, fish and oys-
ters. These properties are the best in the
South" On the corners of the card are
cuts of snipe, woodcock. quail and deer.
Maj. Marks has son % years old.
"What kind of a chap is hep I asked not
having seen him since he was a small
shaver. He's all right, and a good deal
better man than his pa. He never took a
drop of liquor in his life, he never smoked
a cigar or cigarette, he never cussed, he
lever said word TO anybody that he was
ashamed to say before his mother he new
er told lie, he never stole a thing-and
he'll fight catamountsr'
Here is an extract from Mai. Marks
speech 10 the Tennesseeans who, headed
by Bob Taylor, their fiddling Governor,
endeavored to convince the Floridians that
Tennessee was the only fit state to live in:
FLORIDA as the biggest state east of the
Mississippi river; she's got more miles of
coast line than all the Pacific states put
together, and only 800 miles less than adj
The other Atlantic states; she has eighty
five rivers and .116 creeks, both fresh and
salt, and abounding with the lovehest
scenery in the universe; one of her rivers
is navigable to its source, which cannot be
said of any other river in the world; she
has 1888 lakes of fresh, limpid water, con-
tanning every one of them fountain of
youth, and altogether nearly 5000 square
miles of surface; she has enough phos-
phate to fertilize all her sister states; she
has enough sand to to make mortar for all
the buildings and public works that can be
constructed in 100000 years; her fruits
are eaten in all parts of the world and
her vegetables are boiled in pots as far
North as Greenland; her fish outnumber
in variety and excel in flavor those of
either hemisphere; her snipe Is the game
bird of the century; her deer, her bears.
her alligators, her ducks, her geese, her
herons bring into the state every year
$1,000 600; her sugar is better than that
of Cuba; her tobacco is finer than that of
Havana; her women are the fairest under
the bright skies of heaven! Talk to me Of
your revered Andrew Jackson Who was
he but an old skinfint2 Where would he
have landed In history II 1t had not been
for Florida, who got up an Indian war IN
order that he might have a chance to make
a name and run for Presldent2,