The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-08-24
ILLUSTRATING THE
DAYLIGHT ROUTE
PICTURES TAKEN OF
SILVER SPRINGS AND THE
SILVER RIVER

beautiful Daylight Route TO Palatka, !
series OF pictures OF the scenery
Of Silver Springs and Silver river
has been taken in systematic and
thorough manner.
Mr. Ed Carmichael, Mr.. w. r.
Wright of the j. P. Bell Co. OF
Lynchburg, Va, Secretary Rooney OF
the Marion County Board of Trade,
and Photographer Reeves and rep
resentative of the Star made trip
from Silver Springs to a mile below
the mouth of the Oklawaha river
and took nearly forty different views
of the most attractive places along
the route so that the matchless
scenery of the stream can be shown
up to the best advantage.
These pictures will be developed
and printed and from them and all
the best existing pictures that can
| be had, will be taken a great many
and cuts made from them, both
| large and small, and the new litera-
| ture Of the Silver Springs transpor-
tation company's Daylight Route
will be profuseIy illustrated. This
advertising matter, better, hand
somer and more completely illus
trated, will be the size of a 32-page
standard size railroad folder, on
heavy enameled book paper, printed
in three colors. Fifty thousand
! copies will be issued for the season,
and tit will be by far the finest piece
Of advertising matter ever issued by
1 any company, or from any other
source, as far as we know, from this
county or the Silver Springs and
Oklawaha river routes. 1t will make
the folders of the Hart Line, for in
stance, look like thirty cents"
The advertising matter for the
| Daylight Route" will be ready by
the first of November and will be
circulated in systematic way. Be
fore the opening of the season the
new vessel, "Silver Springs will be
completed and a boat will make the
trip each way every day during the
season. The new vessel will carry
75 passengers very comfortably and
100 in rush time.
Much Appreciated Writeup i'm the
Metropolis
Under an excellent illustration of
the Springs and its commerce car
riers, the following excellent write
up of Silver Springs and the Okla
waha appeared in Sundays Florida
I Metropolis:
Within few days a big freighter
will make trip from Silver SPRING
to Jacksonville and back, by water
Her mission will be two-fold; she
/ will receive her maiden inspection 10y
the steamboat officials; and she viii
demonstrate for all time that the
Oklawaha river is a nayigable stream
and an important thoroughfare.
Her trip will not be the first one
for the river has been a highway OF
freight and passenger commerce fol-
half century. At the time wher
the proposed widening and deepen
ing of the channel is a contested
point in the Rivers and Harbors'
added link in an already strong case
that the project is meritorious one
The tfCrookedest River in the
\ World" which is a name admitted by
j. d. Rooney, secretary of the Ma
rion County Board of Trade, to be
pretty near the truth, will become
one of the most important waterways
in Florida if the item in the appro-
\ priation goes through, he says, 'Ev-
cry possible effort will be made by
the enthusiasts of Ocala and vicinity
to see that it does go through, too.
A delegation has already left for
Washington, and they are armed
I with masses of facts and figures that
ought to convince the most skeptical
of the solons. In addition, Senators
Bryan and Fletcher, and all repre-
sentatives whose districts are affect
ed by the project, have been asked
for personal cooperation, and have
also been invited to take the trip
Ou lHe lIeISuleT, DIS some Oh the OCdld
boosters are doing.
The project, it is safe, will effect
Jacksonville almost as vitality as it
will Silver Springs, and its sponsor
city, Ocala. The latter has, through
its business men, made the Springs
its port, much as Los Angles has
monopolized San Pedro, California.
the eXpedient in both cases being the
simple one Of buying a 'shoe-string
strip to the port, and then incorpO-
rating the latter as part OF the bust
ness center.
As proof of their good intentions
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