The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-06-04

and county appreciate it, Editor Mel
Creary, who is state senator, was
at Tallahassee, but Fore
man Bowie, who is also well known
in Ocala, showed the visitor through
the well-equipped and extensive
plant We are sorry Mr.. McCreary
wasa1't al home; we should have Xix
ed TO have seen his private grave
yard, where lie buried about dozen
papers that have been started to run
him out of business IA the last score
of years. The Sun is a mighty good
paper, and the Star hopes it will
shine till Gabriel puts us both out.
Gainesville is following Ocala's
example in paving the public square
and the streets leading out of it. The
Coast Line, as most of us know, runs
and we notice that the line was laid
with the high rail that our council
men are going to insist that the road
put down at the Ocala crossings. The
paving is steadily reaching out in all
directions and will soon couple with
all the country roads. AS a general
thing, the streets are wider than ours,
and some have parks in the center,
which are not as well kept up as they
should be. We looked at the mag
nificent public school buildings and
turned green with envy. We didn't
feel much better when we looked at
the courthouse. 1t is not as snowy
nor as conveniently built as Ocala' s,
but it's a lot more substantial. But
we have them beaten on the court
house grounds Their unkept and
frowsy campus can't compare with
the lawn and flower borders around
Marion's temple of justice. They will
mend that some of these days, tho;
a number of their people are DESTROYS
of seeing it improved.
Gainesville's federal building is on
the outlines of one of the sQuatty
said were built by the mile and sawed
off as people wanted them. It's a
good, solid building, tho. They have
no hotel as big as the Ocala or as
fine as the Harrington, but they are
we'll supplied, nevertheless. And
there are miles of streets lined with
as elegant homes as can be seen
anywhere in the South.
Mr.. Holloway directed the news
paper man to the tabernacle" where
defamation contest was being held.
The tabernacle is not like the
| tabernacle that the children of Israel
| set up in the wilderness. For one
| thing, it is bigger, and the holy of
holes and all the less sacred places
ner of the University City structure.
The Gainesville tabernacle is an i'm
mense auditorium, capable of hold
ling any audience that can be assem-
bled in this part of the world. 1t is
we'll lighted and we'll ventilated, but
its acoustic properties are not first
class.
Mr.. Wartmann and other members
of the board of control were on the
platform, listening to the declama-
lions, which were nearly over when
the scribe arrived. We had the
pleasure of seeing that noble and
honored lady, Sister Esther Carlotta,
pin the U. D. G. medal on Mr. Gordon
B. Knowles of Greenwood, who deliv-
cred the best essay on The Battle
of Marianna," an event in Florida
history that very few FIoridians are
posted on, but was a notable event
in it's day.
The occasion reminded US of the
gradual decline of oratory, which
three-score years ago was a most
necessary part of education in the
South, but in these commercial days
is falling into disuse. 1t is a pity,
for the ability to speak well in pub
lie is a public benefit as we'll as a pri-
vate accomplishment So we were
glad to see these young men voicing
thought in the old time way, and
hoped that their tribe would in
crease.
Present with Mr.. Wartmann were
two members of the board-Mr. w
d. Finlayson of Old Town and Mr.. P.
X. Young of Pensacola. The other
two members of the board, Messrs.
F. P. Fleming, Jr., of Jacksonville
and t. B. King of Arcadia were not
present. The secretary, Mr.. J. G.
kellum, was at his post in TalIahas-
see, where he holds an important of
flee with the legislature, and was
represented at Gainesville by Miss
Florence B. Stephens, the acting sec
rotary, and a most efficient one.
The party was housed at the White
House, Gainesville's biggest hotel
situated in the property of the old
East Florida Seminary, and with
very little alteration turned into a
comfortable and spacious hotel. We
were pleased to see at the clerk s
desk Mr.. B. F. Kaufman, who was
for years chief clerk at the Monte
yuma in Ocala, and made friends
with our own people as well as thou
tSandS from all over the state