The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-02-28
.0KLAWAHA RIVER ITEMS.
Notes Gathered ON the Banks of Flor
the Stars Special Writer

Silver Springs, Feb. 28-The flagship
Hiawatha of the Hart Line p1ows the
river, steaming into Silver Springs
three days of the week Captain Lane
ing is in command. The Hiawatha
carries a mate.
The Okeehumpkee, Hart Line, which
steamer has been the run since the
tourist season opened, is out the
marine railway in Palatka for a gen
eral overlapping and caulking.
On account of a break in part of the
machinery the William Howard, Capt.
Allan Gibson, did not leave the dane
ing pavilion dock here until o'clock
Sunday morning for PaIatka, just
twenty-four hours late. The Inter
Ocean liner brought up through the
forest some twenty odd tourists on
this trip.
The Sharpshooter, Capt. E. L. Mills,
with freight, motors Wednesday in
the afternoon from Silver Springs and
Connor for her regular down cruise to
Palatka She halls Norwa1k, WeIaka
and other ports on the rivers ST. Johns
and Oklawaha. She is due in this port
Monday at 10 o'clock a m.
| Acres and acres of weirdness in the
Oklawaha wilderness. Away down in
the sounds of the Narrows the Hart
Line steamers take Ave hours. consec-
utively, to cruise the Sounds" For
five hours the tourist sees nothing but
weird wilderness, and water, and fish
and birds.
From the Silver Springs head gates
| to the mouth of the Oklawaha at We
| laka there are nine hundred and nine
}ty-nine crooks in the river. Every
| time anyone takes in the full river
route aboard a steamer the sun acts
mysterious. At times Old Sol shines
| in the south. then in the north-most
always in the wrong heaven.
The City OF Ocala, the handsome and
commodious gasoline steamer from
Silver Springs. Captains c. Carmi-
chael and J. L. Smoak, owners, Capt.
Frank Mathews is command, has re-
turned from the long cruise to Jack
| sonville, where the vessel was put in
| the custom house. This swift craft
sailed Monday forenoon at 9 o'clock
| for Palatka with passengers. She re-
turned up stream today in daylight. On
| the cruise down stream to the custom
house the City of Oca1a acted kitten
| ish." She went down with small
rudder and on several crooks as crook
| ed as the devils elbow, Silver Springs
run, she hugged the scenic banks very
| kittenish'-first rubbing her high
| Roman nose against the banks, then
coming round and permitting her nice
| white, plump and long raking sides to
rub. gently at times. and in other in
stances frightful1y rough. In Jack
| sonville "they" ran the vessel up the
marine railway and put on larger
trudder
The City of Ocala spins to Sunday
Bluff next Sunday.
The Oregonian. known on the racing
|chart for motor boats as the log"
Capt Henry Mason, won first prize in
class c in the motor boat race Friday
on Lake Eustis, Eustis. Make Mason,
one of Capt. Mason's sons, was in COM
mand of the log. The Oregonian, or
1.-THE log, is only the half of cypress
Hog. The other half of this log is in
the boat house at Connor, all hewn out
iOregonian style. Capt. Mason expects
to place in this hull a speed engine,
with which he will run against any
Ispeed boat.
The 100000 cistern is anchored down.
Messrs. James r. Moorhead, civil en-
!gineer. and Mr.. C. L. Moore, of the
Oca1a Sand & Stone Company, have al
most completed the work on the els
tern over on Heather Island at the
$4,000 mansion bungalow. A dispatch
to the Ocala Banner some while ago
stated that the mansions cistern had
f1oated out of the ground and that Mr.
Moorhead and Mr.. Mooree were on the
scene trying to anchor same. The
whole bottom of the ating cistern
had to be removed and a new bottom
was put in when the cistern touched
terra firma again. The great mansion
in all it's splendor looms over the
mighty, weird Oklawaha river forest
a castle grand. The mansion of the
Oklawaha is the first of the Los Kiss
wonders. Rich and costly furniture
arrives daily for this mansion. The
owners, Mr.. Hubert and party, are due
} down the Oklawaha some time during
tn, week.
Bonnie burst, who is associated with
his father in the sawmill on the Little
iOklawaha, at Sharp's Ferry, twelve
miles below here, contemp1ates build
} ing in the near future a large river
; steamer, a freighter to handle on the
river lumber and even saw logs. The
bursts have at the present a tug and
a typical river freight barge propelled
with stern wheel. Mr.. J. E. burst sail
ed Sunday on the William Howard fol
J Palatka on a mission of river business