The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-03-14
BEAUTY Of sunday BLUFF
Albert Ansou Graham Writes Entrane-
IugIy OF an Attraction of the
Oklawaha

Silver Springs, March 14.-When the
old mas todon, which enormous fish
the prehistoric Indian signs leads us
to believe entered from the ocean at
Mayport, wiggled up the broad Saint
Johns river and at West Welaka
crawled under ground and from that
port wiggled up the Oklawaha gorge.
cutting the deep and crooked trail,
down which the raging Oklawaha now
flows, arrived at Sunday Bluff, that
high bluff of sand and shell formation
was a sunken garden, with gorgeous
flowers over the rich soil and when the
great fish. hailed by some unknown
cause, bulged his back at this point,
Sunday Bluff rose higher and still
higher, forming minute mountain.
The big fish rolled back down the enl-
bankment into the river and resumed
Its long and crooked journey to the
Blue Roads in Silver Springs. The
mast odon died on his way down the
stream. His burial ground is one mile
below Silver Springs-the Fossil Bone
yard.
Sunday Bluff, in Marion county,
reckoning from its high crest, COM
mands one of the prettiest and grand
est vistas in the Land of Florida"
The great mound is of she'll and sand
| formation, in rolling, western style. 1t
| has numerous palmetto and plum and
other trees growing on the borders
The dome had been cleared in the long
| ago. and it was set out in oranges. No
| sign Of an orange now exists here. The
| The bluff lies five miles south of
Eureka, and forty-five miles down
stream, north, from the Springs, while
on the hill crest the east is ramparted
nit Axx-fh ND
| of almost every description which are
natives of Florida. Look from the
crest westward-a sunken garden, with
| the winding Oklawaha river at the
foot Of the hill. and a long green ridge
Of pine far away to the west can be
| seen as far as the sky line. This beau
| tiful highland is the north post of the
Florida National Reserve of the Mar
ion county division.
| Indians in the long ago roamed over
and around the mounds here, and the
redmen and their children bathed in
| the winding Oklawaha-"crooked wa
Iter"-below. In the days that are to
bloom, the old, prehistoric b1uff-Sun-
day Bluff-shan be transformed INTO
upland gardens, with flowers of every
shade and with trees of special
varieties, and with castles whose
steeples pierce the blue elements.
| City of OcaIa VIII Have a Sister
| The City of Ocala is making good
and SO extraordinarily good-ploughing
the full length of the Ok1awaha in
daylight. even in the sunlight at that,
| that it is with pleasure to the whole
Oklawaha river valley and Ocala to
know that the Silver Springs Co.. of
are the head and front, shall as soon
as the lumber arrives, begin the con-
struction in the Silver Springs ship
yards of another vessel, sister ship
of the City of Ocala However the
boat to be constructed will have
faster engine and her wood hull work
/ is to be made of cedar of very light
variety.
Captain Robert Tydfngs
While Captain Frank Mathews IS
constructing the vessel Silver Springs,
Captain Robert Tydings of Ocala, will
command the City of Ocala.
| The City of Oca1a cleared at 8 A. m.
Wednesday with a heavy list of pas
sengers. She is due in the Springs TO-
day, just after sunset.
| Two little visitors from Eustis, the
I"Waverly' and the Jackson" motor
boats, hailed here late Sunday after
noon. The parties who were on them
came ashore. Captain ]. L. Snoak
registered them at his Spring View
hotel.
| After Saturdays home trip from Pa
latka, the City of Ocala will anchor in
the Blue Roads until Sunday, when
she sails at 9 a. m. on her regular Sun
Hou rrCi~ fn
1.-THE orange grove.
| Both the Glen Ira and the Spring
View are very crowded. However, Mr..
Smoak and his family provide room
for all the tourists who stop here. Mr..
Smoak has done a great good here at
Silver Springs by planting a real live
hotel Sometimes, when the steamers
call in port, heavy-laden with passen-
gers, and a great many of the tourists
stop over, Mr.. Smoke throws open the
doors Of the Glen Ira and the pretty
bungalows nearby He always accom-
modates all comers and never turns
one away.
The big Rentz mill at Silver Springs
lover the hill a quarter, employs a good
lmany men. most of them stopping with
Mr.. Smoak at the hotel
Shipping News of silver Springs
The Hart liner Hiawatha, Captain
Lancing. with passengers from Palat-
ka. Is due in port today at noon. and
she clears for Palatka at = p. m.
The Hart liner Okeehumkee, Captain
Harrison. with passengers, sailed from
Palatka today at 2:30 p. m, and she is
due here Friday at noon.
The InterOcean liner. Capt. Allan
lGibson. with passengers from Jack
lsonville and Palatka. connecting with
the McNeal on the ST. Johns. arrives
Saturday morning just before daylight
| sailing, at a. m. for Palatka and
Jacksonville. The William Howard
Ialso transfers her passengers a Pa
latka TO the steamer Heck for Sanford
land Lake Harvey.
The City of Ocala, Captain Frank
Mathews, with passengers. puts in port
at sundown this afternoon and she is
Iappointed TO clear from port Friday
forenoon at o'clock. Arriving II
Palatka at sundown, connecting Will