The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-06-01

contributed more of broad -guage mind
and tireless enterprise than David S.
Woodrow, Ocala and Marion county's
leading real estate man.
He was born in the great industrial
metropolis Of Glasgow in jan, 1867,
and educated in its public schools and
at Glasgow academy
When 81 years of age he resolved
to make his future home in the land
of the free, and came direct to Ocala,
arriving here in the year of the south's
worst yellow fever visitation-1SSS
And save for perennial pilgrimages TO
Scotland where his mother still re-
sides, he has since made this city his
home and been a most potent factor
in its up-building.
Mr.. Woodrow has devoted his time
and talents to the real estate business.
making a speciality of phosphate lands.
and is the acknowledged representa-
tive realty dealer in Marion county. He
construes this calling in its broadcast
sense and never loses an opportunity
to bring capital and Industrial enter
prises TO this section whether or not
they work direct profit to himself
Recently he reorganized the Ocala
Foundry and Machine works as the
Ocala Iron Works, and increased the
capital stock from $4,000 to 100000.
The new owners intend to double its
capacity, making it possible to fill or
ders here for castings, phosphate and
sawmill machinery. etc, which hitherto
have been sent for to Georgia and
elsewhere.
Associated with him in the reorgani-
cation such well known and enterpris-
ing capitalists as George Mckay, who
Is president of the new company. Capt.
John L. Inglis, S. C.. McLannahan, of
Hollidaysburg, Pa, Walter Ray, of
Martel. Edward Holder, and others.
Mr.. Woodrow negotiated the sale of
the opera house block to the gentle
man last named and will represent
him in handling it. Among the i'm
provements he will at once make will
be the conversion of the second and
third floors into modern, handsomely
to which will be run an electric ele-
vator, the first to be installed in an
Ocala building.
Among the recent enterprises with
which Mr. Woodrow has been con-
nected-in fact solely promoted-waS
the laying out and plating of the town
of Woodmar, on the picturesque shores
of the pellucid waters of Lake Weir, Is
miles southeast of Ocala.
1t is a delightful site for a pleasure
resort town, the plateau of land on
which it is located rising from an ele-
walton of % feet at the eastern shore
front to rs feet at its western boun-
diaries. the waters of Weir standing
out in pleasant perspective and I'M
broken vista from every lot in the
town. The A. c. L. main line trav-
erses Woodmar along the lake front
from end to end. While the waters of
Lake Weir have in the past been dy-
namited and seined for its stores of
palatable fish these practices were
estopped by a special act of the last
legislature, the fish commission has
recently stocked it with large mouthed
bass, trout perch, ETC., and ere another
season it will again have taken its
former place as one of the finest fish
ing grounds of the state.
In founding the town of Woodmar
with it's many concomitants of health,
comfort and pleasure, Mr.. Woodrow
has filled want long felt by the citi-
zens of Ocala and that this is duly
appreciated is evidenced by the in
creasing demand for lots in this new
rest haven.
He who causes two blades of grass
to grow where before had been but
one, is, according to an ancient axiom,
a public benefactor, but he who by
the touch of the magic wand of intel
ligently directed capital builds up and
develops undeveloped and neglected
resources works a more perceptible
benefit, and in this regard David S.
Woodrow has earned the encomium of
public praise.