The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-04-09
BOARD OF TRADE
4 Busy and Interesting Meeting Of
Our Business Senators We'd
neSday Evening

the BOARD OF trade meeting cd
nesday night: that is all who we're
not wounded or missing.
President Mackay was in the chair
with Secretary Rooney at the desk.
Minutes were read and the meeting
got down to business.
A letter was read from the St. Pc
tersburg board, asking for Ocala' s
cooperation al the meeting of the
Good Roads Association in Gaines
vile. Secretary Rooney and the
Hon. Decatur W. Davis were ap-
pointed delegates to the meeting,
with large authority to use their own
discretion as to the best route to
favor in inducing the association to
mark out a route thru Marion coun-
ty for the Jacksonville to Tampa
division of the state and national
highway. They are to favor a route
Mcintosh and kendrick, or through
Palatka and Fort Mccoy, and south
by Lake Weir and Leesburg or
Stokes Ferry and Brooksville, just
so they run it thru Marion They
were also given large powers to in
duce, enlist, suborn, kidnap and car
ry off all autos and autoists possible
to the Gainesville meeting.
The membership committee re-
ported twenty-four new names, which
added to twelve at the previous
meeting brought the roll up to
thirty-six. Messrs. J. J. Gerig, F.
w. Ditto, Maurice Strauss and Jake
Brown are the spry ones who have
/ landed these new members, and they
and the board and the public gen.
orally want to know what the others
of the committee have been doing to
let the spiderwebs be spun across
their records in such a fashion.
The following letter from Cover
nor Trammel was read:
Secretary Rooney's Commission
Tallahassee, April 6, 1914.
Hon. j. D. Rooney, Ocala, Fla.
Ny dear Sir: 1t affords me pleas
ure to appoint you as a delegate to
represent the state Of Florida at the
National Drainage Congress, to be
held in Savannah, Ga. April 22-25,
1914.
This letter will serve as your Gre
dentials. You doubtless understand
that the Legislature has made no ap-
preparation to defray the expenses
of such delegates.
Yours very truly.
Park TrammeU, Governor.
AS Mr.. Rooney was one of the
original promoters Of drainage, and
one of the charter members at
Chicago, his selection was very APP
prOpriate.
HOnoring Dozier
The following letters from our
senators and representatives were
read:
Washington, April 1, 1914.
Mr.. J. D. Rooney, Board of Trade,
Ocala, Florida:
Dear Sir: Yours with resolutions
of the Marion County Board Of Trade
as a memorial to the late L. E. Doz-
Ter, of Leesburg. has been received.
had the pleasure Of knowing Mr.
Dozier, and l share the view of your
board Of trade that Leesburg and
Florida, indeed, has lost one of its
best citizens. Yours very truly,
y. P. Bryan
Washington, April 1, 1914.
J. D. Rooney, Esq,
Secy. Board of Trade.
Ocala, Florida.
Dear Sir Resolutions adopted
by the Marion County Board of
Trade, regarding Mr.. Dozier, have
been received. and | fully concur in
your estimate of Mr. Dozier Not
only mas LeeSDuFS ana the OhId"dna
river project lost a sraunch support
er. but in the death Of Mr.. Dozier
the entire state has suffered the loss
OF a friend whose place Will be hard
TO fill. With kind regards.
Yours very sincerely.
Duncan L. Fletcher.
Washington. April /, 1914.
Mr.. J. D. Rooney.
Secretary Board Of Trade,
My dear Mr.. Rooney: l have copy
OF the resolutions OF the Marion
County Board OF Trade upon the life
work and death of Hon. L. E. Dozier.
for which 1 wish 10 thank you. He