The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-11-17
VACATION NOTES

meet on the street tell you how we'll /
you are looking and that they are
glad to see YOU hack Z OF course
you know they are talking thru their
sStetsons hut all the same it makes
a fellow feel good. Another OF the
pleasures is that he can generally
learn a good deal about his home
place tho he may be thousand miles
away from it, for instance while in
New York we paid a visit to the
aquarium and took q look at the fin
est exhibition of live ish to be found
in the world.
The building in which the exhibi
tior is held is the old Castle Garden.
a building dear to the hearts Of the
older generation of New York, az
the building was used as circus
and place of entertainment for many
years by the great Snowman 4. F.
Barnum. Gt was in this building
that he introduced Jenny Lind to her
first American audience and It was
thru the portals OF this building af-
ter the national government took
possession, that all the thousands of
emigrants passed when they frst set
foot on the soil Of the American con-
tinent.
1t is large roof lighted building
with an supper gallery extending all
around it and every foot of wall
space 10 occupied by large glass front
ed tanks in which are to be seen
specimens OF live Ash from every
quarter of the globe. the names of
fish and their original home il paint
ed on the front OF each tank, and the
fact that interested ms the most
as It naturally would Twas that near
" one half OF the exhibits were Flor
ida fish or fish said to have been
caught OF the FLORIDA coast There
was one fish in particular around
whose tank a large audience was al
ways copyrighted, fish indiscriba~
BILE. beautiful both in shape and col
or and which bore the appropriate
name of Angel fish But TO us the
most remarkable part OF this fish
story is that it came from Key West,
where we have always supposed that
angels were somewhat scarce
1T was early In August chat We
were in New York One day we no.
ticed several hundred men arranged
| by the police in long line or 8
abreast and under the arches OF the
elevated railroad to keep them from
constructing bhe street traffic. Occa
sionaIly half dozen or more would
be passed across the street and In.
to large Office building, on investi
eating we found chat the Office waa
a steamship agency and that the mer
in line were reserversfts arranging
for passage back to their native
land. They were not very intel
IectuaI looking crowd and in fact ar
unbiased judge might say that this
country could well spare them, none
of them looked like American citizens
and If any could speak our Language
they were certainly not doing %
while waiting their turn to get te
the Office desk
/ | wonder where those men are TO
day Are they able to carry rife
or their bodies helping to fiji some
of the hundreds of trenches dug To-
that purpose? Not man in the linz
that could tell what they were go
ing back to fight for. wonder /
they found out? Did they ever re
i greet being in that line under thu
elevated, was there ever q 1onginl
! in their minds to return to r'hei
home on the western hemisphere
No one knows, we only know thi
, is war
! A few winters ago we had as on
guest lady friend from Contra
pennsylvania We drove one day on
J Lemon Ave, and when we reaches
: the summit of the hill on Whict
: is built the home of Mrs. Close, on
) friend In docking over the beautiful
r valley exclaimed, Its Chester cOun
/ ty.v We never realized the fullnes
r of the compliment until this sunme
when we spent some days in Parke:
: burg, Chester county, Pennsylvania
: and If there is piece of groun
around that town level enough I
: play baseball on we couldn't find /
r counted seyenty-eight steps u
r which the boys and girls have
! climb from the street to the frs
: floor of their high school buiIdfna
i This is not intended for a pun.
: The Presbyterian and Methods
e churches were nearly. as far abos
) the street. / was not surprised {
5 our friend being so enthusiastic owe