The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-10-29

! Silver Springs. Oct. 24.-Eyen the
weeds are immense en- the oklawaha
Weeds a Foot Thick
/ Last Sunday two little river boys
luggeI aboard the Sharp Shooter al
/ long green weed. 1t was what the
river men cali she "kearless" weed.
| The boys had stripped this weed of
all the leaves AMI on-y the dong
stem remained and at the bottom this
stem was twelve inches, and hollow;
/ in fact. II was hollow adj through.
| ! carefully ke.at an eye on the two
bows and noted their movements
with The long. green stalk. and sew
! eral times had to dodge It for the
boys 1uggTed Ir very awkard, it be-
ing 50 heavy; and I wondered what
the deuce they were going to do with
it.
T.nal9y the boys edged the stalk
over the gunwales and laid it across
the deoE. Then they managed to get.
the giant weed across two orange
boxes. pointing the large end toward
the river. While one kid held steady
| the weed the other. enc blew through
the little end. The sound was not
very Tremendous. hat the great bass
notes awoka the mighty and weird.
forest around about.
The bridge at Whites Ferry Moss
/ -
", ble ferry boat at Grahamville and
the ferry boat at Eureka have no
lanterns, signal lights. burning at
at night.
And there are no lanterns swung
out at night at the ferry OF Cedar
Landing. the ferry CT Orange Creek,
the crossing at The Tobacco Patch
a palmetto log juts cut over a
bend in the channel in the Shirt Tail
links where the river rolls through
on Its edge; a raft of piling in the
channel
S5eamers, yachts and AID other mo-
tor boats are notified to blow for aid
ferries on the Oklawaha river the
regulation whistles, which is four
blasts-two long and two short.
Strangers ON the river, that is
vessels ON the river which have been
down stream very seldom, and yes
sells that have never oruised the |
crooked course. are required to iblow
.'feelers''
Rafting at Dd5k's Bluff. Red Hot,
burst, Los Kiss, Oscecla. The Tobac-
co Patch, Hinton Forest, Graham
Vile. Gore and Mcleod, also ait Dql-
rfsoe
Signal AMI life saving stations
Grahamville and Conner
Sea (river) sick passengers. doc
tors in ocala, Welaka and Palatka.
Alligators are found on the sunny
side Of the stream, tourists.
The Little Ollawaha is closed to
navigation at the present on account
of dredge Oklawaha moving river
bottom from the shoals around the
Hinton Forest Small vessels, how
ever, may squeeze through the pur
pie stream and the canal to Muck
land.
Bar of Spirits, -schooners
san smoothly and with spalousers, =
the only salvation for the sailor this
side OF st. Augustine. maketh ap-
pear to the sailors vision two Ok
lawaha rivers when there is only
one.
/ A floating raft generally holds the
right of way of the channel. The
regular steamer service of the river
work to the raft man s interest.
There are several banks in the
Narrcws, especially on points.
The orange groves of the river
| course are oasis for the northern
folk and oranges may be picked from
the trees by them.
| eamboat captains should call at
tent:on of their passengers to the
smart little deer farm at Carmichael.
| The fawns are most beautiful; AMI
the palmetto bungalow and the
farm house and vista and farm form
che typical setting of a real southern
scene.
All begged Up i'm the Trees and Can
Not See the Comet
We are SO deeply "all-bogged-up'
| in the autumn trees down here on the
Ol1lawaha river that the comet is not
visible to US in the evening sky.
While out on the broad ST. Johns
river on the 18th of October, the
Sharp Shooters crew sighted the
Argentinans Comet low down in the
evening sky.
The comet is shooting almost d.
rect from the north star, and on