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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

of main line and thirty-five miles O.
siding in the county, traversing those
parts of the county which are in the
highest state of cultivation. These two
excellent lines furnish unexcelleG
shipping facilities from this point. anG
enables the producer to reach the
larger markets in a very short time.
- Thirty-three regular scheduled
trains arrive at and depart from Ocala
daily.
Ocala's growth has been on a very
substantial basis, there having been al
no time in its history anything like a
boom or mushroom growth. AS it's in.
dustries were built up and the sur.
rounding country filed up with thrifty
farmers, the city has grown steadily
keeping pace with the general devel-
opment of the county.
Ocala, found in 1S47, has since
grown to city of great Importance.
AS late as the close of the civil war
it was but village of less than two
hundred inhabitants. With fertile soil
for miles around the settlers of the
early days took advantage of the won
derful resources that abounded in this
section, and today the city of Ocala is
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

orange reaches the climax of perfec-
ton and richness not attained in any
other section. Large quantities of
this delicious fruit are shipped from
this section every year, from which
handsome profits are realized.
The latest report shows the bust
ness of the city to be in excellent
shape. The affairs of the city are
handled in a very satisfactory man
ner and the income is placed in a man
ner that gives universal satisfaction.
An interesting showing is made in
the postoffice receipts from the fig
ures during the past seven years:
June 30, 1903-$10, 765.02.
June 80, 191O-$21,423.1s.
From the above tgures it can be
seen that there has been an increase
in the receipts of approximately SILL
900 in the past seven years.
Ocala has an efficient and up-to-date
fire department, of which she is justly
proud There are five regular paid
men on the force, and an auxiliary
force of twenty men. The equipment
consists of four horses, two hose
trucks, one chemical engine, one hook
and ladder truck, 5000 feet of hose,
SO hydrants and other miscellaneous
equipment, representing an outlay of
more than $4,000
The telephone system in Ocala is
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

tons all have creditable edifices, and
hold regular services: Methodist, Mis-
sionary Baptist, Episcopal, Presbyte-
rian, Christian and Catholic.
Ocala has seven fraternal orders:
Masons. Woodmen of the World. Elks,
Odd Fellows, Eagles, Knights of Pyth-
las and Fraternal Union of America.
During the past two years several
miles of cement sidewalks have been
laid on the main business and resi-
dence streets, and the good work still
continues; and it will not be long be-
fore this class of walks will supercede
all others.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14
Modern Public Utilities, Educationally
Excellent, Handsome HOmes---a City
Where Life is Satisfying
Edition Compiled by Archibald Farr

To know our section is to love it.
1t is the golden mean of the universe,
where sunshine meets the frost line
and turns it into diamond dew: where
the gulf wind greets the ocean breeze
and tempers it to velvet kiss; where
the tropic buds WOO the temperate
flowers and the palm tree courts the
yew; where the ardor of spring is
ever anon, and winter has ceased to
be.
Are you tired of the bleak north?
Would you shun the tropic sun?
Would you love to live where there
are no pangs of cold and no swelter
ing heat? Come to Ocala, where the
climate and human life blend into a
mean of rare enchantment. Nothing
here is out of joint, and the world has
been set right. No undue haste is
needed, no strenuous life works here
Providence of Ocaly was discover
ed by DeSoto in 1889. DeSoto found,
where is now Marion county, a re-
markable native province called the
Province of Ocaly." The inhabitants
We're sun-worshippers, and in a gen
eral way closely resembled the Aztecs
of Mexico. The capital of this prov
ince-"Ocaly''- has been located in
the Big Hammock, south of Ocala
where are traces of an Indian mound
and fiotsam and jetsam of the long ex-
tinct race are occasionally found.
Grants by the Spanish crown of
Florida lands were made to distin-
guished subjects. These grants ex-
tended from Ponce de Icons time.
(1512) to about 1921 Those about
Ocala were mostly made in 1885, when
Florida was ceded back to Spain by
England. They are the Sanchez, AL
varez, Perpall and Catilina de Jesus
Hijuelos grants. The Spanish grants
were sustained by the United States
government when Florida was coded
to the United States in 1921.
The Seminole Indian war was wag-
ed in 1S35-1S42, between the Seminole
Indians and their negro allies Cugi-
tive slaves from Georgia, intermarried
with the Indians) and the white set
tiers. The scene was largely in what
is now Marion county, with many stir
ring episodes in the immediate vicin-
ity of Ocala's site. Fort King was To-
Gated about three miles east of Ocala
in 1885. Colonel Thompson, COM
mandant of Fort King, was ambushed
and killed by Osceola, the Seminole
chief in 1885.
Ocala's first railroad, the Florida
Central and Peninsular, now the Sea
board, was completed to Ocala in
1881.
The first bank for Ocala was es-
tablished by John F. Dunn & Co.. in
1882.
Ocala experienced a disastrous fire
on the morning of November 81, 1883.
The fire originated in a store on the
east side Of the square, which con-
sumed four blocks of buildings. in
Guiding two fine new hotels, and all of
the principal business enterprises.
The fire proved blessing in disguise,
as in place of the old-time structures
modern substantial brick
structures-were erected, which today
are the pride of our city. and have Civ
en- her the distinctive soubriquet of
the Brick City,
Ocala was incorporated February 4.
1869. The corporate limits were fixed
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

One ice factory.
One pawn shop.
Ten restaurants.
Two paint shops.
Five shoe shops.
No blind tigers"
One green house.
One moss factory.
Three seed stores.
Eleven physicians.
Three art schools.
Five barber shops.
Five racket stores.
A surgical hospital.
Four livery stables.
Free mail delivery.
Three wood yards.
One public library.
One marble works.
Two bicycle shops
One abstract office.
Two bottling works.
Three silversmiths.
One barrel factory.
Four music houses.
Three dental rooms.
A telephone system.
Two haberdasheries.
Fifteen fruit stores.
A military company.
Three planning mills.
Three wagon works.
Four pressing clubs.
One steam laundry.
Four cigar factories.
two machine shops.
Three lumber yards.
One Catholic church
Three jewelry stores
Three music schools
Ten dry goods stores
One Chinese laundr!
Two cotton ginnerie
One fertilizer factor
Two daily newspaper
One female physical
Vitrified brick street
One Christian churc
Three lime compani
Fifteen grocery store
Three furniture stor
One cold storage pls
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

Three hardware stores.
Ten benevolent orders.
Four phosphate offices.
A paid fire department.
Four railway systems.
Nearly $50 automobiles.
Three Baptist churches.
Two furniture factories.
Twelve boarding houses.
Two veterinary surgeons.
Three blacksmith shops
One kindergarten school.
Two Episcopal churches.
Thirteen Sunday schools.
One electric light plant.
One Presbyterian church
Two photograph galleries.
Four real estate agencies.
One sand mining company.
Three weekly newspapers.
Several lumber companies.
Three Methodist churches.
One moving picture show.
Miles of cement sidewalks.
One public school (colored).
Two public schools (white).
Two electric establishments.
Five fire insurance agencies.
One hair goods mandatory.
Four life insurance agencies.
One Elks' Club reading room.
One crate and basket factory.
Two brass band organizations.
Numbers of naval stores Offices.
Five dressmaking establishments.
Two undertaking establishments.
Three exclusive millinery stores.
Three wholesale grain and Fl
torres.
One colored domestic train
chool.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14
Cca'a Has

One florist.
Six saloons.
Three banks.
One foundry.
Seven hotels.
Water works.
Two theaterS.
Three dairies.
Ten churches.
One gunsmith.
Three garages.
Woman's Club.
Two tin shops.
One gas plant.
One synagogue.
Three bakeries.
Six contractors.
"No fence" law.
Fine race track.
Twenty lawyers.
Board of Trade.
Six drug stores.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1911-04-22

was reelected In 1926. At the close
of his second term he was elected,
practically without opposition, Gov
ernor Of Tennessee, and was spoken
of as a presidential possibility.
In 1929 he was married to a beau
tiful and highly accomplished young
lady of Nashville. Three months lat
ishment of everybody, he suddenly re-
signed the governoship, deserted his
young wife, and mysteriously disap-
peared. He was next heard of among
the Cherokee Indians, the friends of
his boyhood, who had been removed
to the Indian Territory.
He remained among the Indians
four years, was admitted to their coun-
ellis, was elected chief, and took I'M
to himself a wife, the daughter of a
famous warrior. In 1892 he visited
Washington in the interest of the
tribes who were being defrauded by
the rascally agents of the government.
The same year he went to Texas on
mission to the Commanche Indians
as representative of President Jack
son. Texas was just entering upon
her struggle for independence from
Mexico. and Houston was induced to
remain in the country and give his I'M
divided aid to the cause. On the out
break of hostilities he was elected
commander-in-chief of the Texan army.
BY a mastery stroke of military
strategy he succeeded in decoying
der. from his base Of supplies and ad-
ministered to him a crushing defeat
at the battle of San Jacinto, April 81,
1886.
In September following he was
elected president of the republic of
Texas, whose independence had been
previously declared on March 2. 1886,
and, after an interim of two years,
was reelected for a second term. His
influence was potent in bringing about
the annexation of Texas to the United
States in 1S45; and, on the accom-
plishment of annexation, he was elect.
ed to the United States senate, where
he sat for IL years. Two terms as
governor of the state rounded out his
Official career. He died in Huntsville,
Texas, July &c. 1863.
No other man in this country has
so fully understood the Indians char
acter as Houston. He of all men, best
understood their feelings and as.
pirations, and most deeply sympa-
,hized with them in their struggle
lgainst manifest destiny in the person
If the white man. He fully entered
nto their thought and was THE Red
Man Eloquent"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1911-04-22

wreaths and offered prayers for the
men who were swept to death on that
dreadful February night.
There are conflicting reports as to
the condition of the hull. A Spanish
board of investigation officially report
ed to the Spanish government that the
bow Is in one place, while a Cuban
board located It In another. A United
States investigation agreed with Meth
er. The water depth is from 30 to 81
feet. The vessel is Tor was) about 33
feet in height-that is, to the top of
her decks. The deck is now 10 feet
below the surface of the water. The
mainmast and the fighting top are ex-
posed-also part of the house,
turned upside down.
After their long neglect the bodies
Of the unfortunate seamen, who went
to their death on that February night
13 years ago, will find a resting place
In the Arlington National cemetery
under the stump Of the fighting mast
which now thrusts its top above the
waters of Havana bay. The decencies
will thus be satisfied. But 1t is not
sentiment alone which is directing the
activities Of the government engi-
neers. II 1t were only that their prob
lem would be immensely simplified.
The cause of the explosion remains
unknown; IN the wreck itself the en-
gineers hope to find evidence which
will explain the mystery. All their
plans. accordingly. were laid with a
view to leaving such evidence as
might exist undisturbed.
Briefly and non-technically, the plan
being used to raise the vessel is as
follows: A series of cylinders-20 In
understanding a cofferdam, are be-
ing sunk in the water, silt and mud
around the wreck. These cylinders.
when completed, will form an egg
shaped dam encircling the wreck. This
dam will be made watertight and the
water inside pumped out. Hydraulic
pumps will suck out the mud and the
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1911-04-22
CIVIC CONSCIOUSNESS.

A New York lecturer IN a recent ad-
dress undertook to demonstrate thar
some of the practices of immigrants
in this country, which are trouble
some to the authorities, have their or
igin In the best intentions and may
be easily corrected when the require
ments of the American environments
are made clear to the new arrivals.
To illustrate his point he told an in
teresting story. A certain Immigrant
mother of numerous offspring was
several times hailed to court and fined
for hurting her ashes into the city
street on which she lived, says the
Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. With
philosophic submission to arbitrary
governmental tyranny she paid her
fines and went her way. Finally.
n charitable person, explained to her,
in her own tongue why she should not
throw her ashes into the street. 1t
then appeared that in the little Polish
village whence she came she and her
neighbors had been requested by a
local authority to throw their ashes
into the road by way of impromptu
street building. Then he related a
contrasting anecdote as follows: Il
once heard one of the founders Of the
City Club say that when he came of
age he asked his excellent father to
give him some idea of what might be
his duties as a full-fedged citizen of
this great city. His father replied:
my son, as a gentleman and the son
of a gentleman, all you need know of
municipal procedure is that in order
to have your ashes properly cared for
you must bride the ashman."
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1911-04-22

- T is impossible for loyal Ameri-
can to stand anywhere in or
about Havana harbor and look
out On the tower of the Maine and
the twisted steel that once formed
her hull and not feel a sense of indig-
nation and a conviction that what fol-
lowed was a just retribution for so
dastardly an act, If the Spaniards ac-
tually committed the deed.
One feels kind of personal inter
est In the vessel that carried the flag
for years, that figured in the national
drama so tragically. that must forever
appear in the annals of our country.
Whether or not the Spaniards were
guilty of the vessels destruction is ex-
pected to be developed when the hulk
Is uncovered.
The battleship Maine was sunk in
Havana harbor 13 years ago. The
wreck Of the Maine could have been
blown up and thus disposed OF at a
cost Of $4,000. The Cuban govern
ment wanted to do that IN order to
clear the harbor. But Uncle Sam
would not have it, and so for years a
mass of twisted iron, sentineled by a
lone turret, has grinned, skull-like, at
the passing world. Congress, aroused
finally to action by public sentiment,
appropriated 100000 to be expended
in raising the Maine.
The Maine at the time of the explo-
sion was swinging with her nose to-
ward the Havana shore, and the wreck
lies in a line almost west and east,
bow and stern. The buoy to which she
was moored was about three-eighths
of a mile from the west shore of the
bay. The wreck lies in about the cen
ter Of the harbor.
On the 18th of February each year
the Americans in Havana have visit
ed the wreck and decorated it with
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1911-04-22
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| Maine and her fatal wounds viii be
exposed.
The construction of this series OF
cylinders is the work now under way
Half OF the 20 cylinders are down
now. They are made of Lackawanna
sheet steel pilings and about $50 piles
are needed for each. Each cylinder
is so feet in diameter and each pile
is rs feet in length.
Steam hammers mounted on barges
are used to drive these piles, and four
of them are at work at the same time.
The bed of the harbor is soft down to
about 60 feet. Below this the piles
must be driven into from 10 to Is feet
Of stiff clay. AS the cylinders are
completed each is filled with clay,
scooped up by an immense steam
| dredge from bank near Regia
The cylinders are connected by an
arc on the outside, which joins each
cylinder by "three-way" pile. The
| pocket between the arc and the cylin-
ders will also be filled with clay and
thus prevent leakage between the cyl
inders. In other words, there will be
20 big, round affairs that look like
gas tanks, filled with clay and locked
together around the sunken wreck. 1t
will take, it is calculated, about two
days to pump the water out of the
space within the circle of cylindrical
gas tank affairs and more time to
4. suck the mud out.
After the vessel Is exposed" the
work Of raising the Maine will begin.
| How to proceed, what course to pur-
sue, what equipment will be required.
all these are questions that only time
and the preliminary work of exposing
the wreck to view can answer. For
no one knows the vessels condition.
No one can say with accuracy wheth-
er or not the vessel can be floated.
If 1t be humanity possible, the holes in
the ships's sides will be patched up.
the water let in through the dam of
cylinders, and the hulk floated. II
the bow is beyond repair, the Maine
will be cut in two, bulkhead and
stern hoated
The Cuban government Is assisting
the United States in this work most
cordially. A wharf of sufficient size,
conveniently located in Casa Blanca,
just beneath the walls of the Cabana
fortress, has been set aside for the
work. To place the cylinders, ordin-
airy round piles are driven at the axis
of each. Around this central pile is
noated templet of wood, made I'm
sections for ease of removal. The
sheet piles are shipped in lengths OF
25, 35, 40 and so feet, and are bored
and provided with fsh-plates and
bolts for assembling into lengths OF
rs feet. The piles for complete CYL
inder are set up around a templet and
then driven to the required depth.
After any remains of the dead found
in the wreck have been removed and
the necessary examination has been
made, the actual removal of the wreck
Will be begun by whatever method is
found most economical and advan-
tageous. 1t now seems probable that
this will be to sever the shattered por-
ton of the hull from the after part. to
build bulkhead across the cut Sec
ton, to remove the shattered parts
piecemeal and finally to float the UNI
broken end away from Havana.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1911-04-22

Who says the United States is not
enlightening the world? The manu-
facture of what is called American
style furniture has become an impor-
tant industry in Spain, where the peo-
pie have a great liking for the prod
uct. This country was the pioneer in
turning out attractive furniture at
moderate prices, as 1t has been the
leader in many other innovations that
have contributed to domestic comfort
and enjoyment, and the others are
catching on. 1t is reaching the point
where that sincere flattery which
takes the form Of imitation in becom-
ing more and more pronounced. Amer
lean ideas are being adopted every
where.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1911-04-22
GEN. SAM HOUSTON
Romantic Career of "The Red
Man Eloquent"
Great Southwestern Pioneer Who
Was Chief Among the Cherokee
indians-He Best Understood
the Indians Character.

Austin, Tex.-No more unique and
in our history than Gen. Sam Houston,
of Texas. He came of a family that
emigrated from the north of Ireland,
a place which may justly boast of the
ancestry of such men as Stark, of the
Revolution; Crockett, of the Alamo,
and Jackson himself. The family was
one OF consideration, entitled to coat
armor in the old country. Though they
did not belong to the landed gentry,
they had been large and prosperous
farmers.
Houston's father was an officer OF
the brigade of rifemen that Morgan
led to Washington's assistance from
the right side of the Potomac. His
mother was one of those pioneer won.
en- of superb physique, high principles
and strength of mind and courage to
match. After the death of her hus-
band when Sam, who was born in
1898, was but Is years old, she took
the family over the Alleghanies and
settled on the borders of the Cherokee
nation in western Tennessee.
Sans educational opportunities
were meager, but he made the best
Of them and had no occasion to blush
when placed beside the most distin-
guished men of his time. According
to some, his unwillingness to clerk
in a country store, and, according to
others, the refusal of his older broth
ers to permit him to study Latin,
caused him to abandon civilization
and cast his lot with the Cherokees.
After several years he returned to
civilization and opened country
school, but soon left it to join the
army He enlisted in the Creek war
in 1913, and greatly distinguished him
self at the battle of Tohopeka, or
Horseshoe Bend, where he was twice
wounded.
The war over, he studied law, and
in 1919 was elected district attorney
Of Davidson county, Tennessee. In
1928 he was elected to congress, and
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1911-04-22

The biggest submarine yet built is
the Seal, which was launched at New
port News, Va, the other day She
is classed as a cruiser" and is 131
feet long. The Seal, It is expected.
will be capable Of making long trips
under water and is so well equipped
that she will not be conveyed by a
fighting craft on the surface, as is
now usually the case. The submarine
cruiser" will be unique addition to
the American navy. When the pro-
posed aeroplanes are constructed for
the same branch OF national defense
II would seem that our navy would
lack nothing for service on, under or
over the water.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1911-04-22

Telephone "rubbering" will be dis
couraged in New Hampshire should a
bill pending in the legislature become
a law. This measure provides a pen
atty of $40 for each offense when a
person breaks in on a telephone con-
versation. 1t is aimed especially at
the listeners" on party wires, whose
curiosity leads them into attempting
to hear talk not intended for their
ears. The practice is not confined to
New Hampshire, but 1t will be inter
esting to observe the degree of sue
cess attained in the Granite State In
dealing with the offense.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1911-04-22

enjoyments It is only when vitality is below par
that he feels the call to the rural life and its bucoc
animal delights Then he lapses from the higher
mental level of consciousness which is a compare
lively recent achievement of the down to the
the heavy mindless brute existence which preceded the
thought life by ncalcuable ages and therefore is by
that measure the stronger He wishes then to be as
world weary Chicago girl phrased it, ga human
potato"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1911-04-22
Steel
Used i'm
Small Flat
Buildings
By A. WAGNER URMST0N

these steel supports where formerly wood posts and rder through the
basement with the partitions above have been considered sufficiently strong
for buildings of this kind
The additional expense for this steel work will about $500
each for woory fiat buildings of dimensions and
10 buildings day $4,000 day. for 3O5 days in the
900 be expended for steel for the benefit Of the
This most for builders of the mod
priced fiat buildings.
Who is to blame? This will bear investigating.