The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-02-25

Don't forget the BellevleW work
ers supper slated for Friday evening,
March 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Clark Hull, after
spending several weeks with Mr.. and
Mrs. Lou Schmidt, left on train No.
last Wednesday for Jacksonville,
where they will take the steamer for
New York City and thence on to Dam
bury, Conn. their home.
Mr.. Tremere went to Jacksonville
last Saturday night in response to
summons, spending Sunday, Monday
and part of Tuesday in that busy
nerve center at a time that things
were doing, which brings him home
full of the spirit that animates that
burg. It seems that Jacksonville had
several acts on the boards at one
time, regular three-ring circus, so
/, to speak. Last Monday was the day
before the city election and the candi-
dates and their speakers swept from
one part of the city to the other,
creating a human swirl or eddy that
rolled hither and thither, keyed up TO
the highest pitch of excitement and
ready for anything. One of the can
didates had Hemming Park packed to
the extent of its four corners, and it
| is estimated that there were from ten
to fifteen thousand raving maniacs
within the square at one time, howl
ing like mad, with pent up enthusiasm
and from pure good feelings. At an
other square corner one of the candi-
dates for mayor stood for over an
hour, surrounded by a thousand or
more persons who just stood and
howled like persons possessed of the
devil, and each attempt Of the speak
er to speak was met with a roar that
never ceased. 1t was pandemonium
broke loose, from one end of the city
to the other. Adding to the excite
ment was the constant booming and
! detonations of bombs that reminded
: the on-looker of war, and to cap the
climax, one of the candidates with a
twenty piece band at the head and a
string of big autoes filled with some
of the finest men and women of the
city formed procession and with the
streets packed solid with seething,
shouting humanity went through the
down town district like roaring hur-
ricane, and to cap the climax George
Mason gave his great ball masque,
the most unique affair ever given in
Jacksonville. All of Laura street
2 reaching from curb to curb and end
ing at Bay street on one end and at
/. Forsyth street on the other end, a
: space about sixty feet wide and zoo
e feet long, was roped off for a dane
. ing floor and with bands playing and
Y a gala spirit in the air the thousands
{ of persons present abandoned them
2 selves to the spirit of the occasion
! and to see five or six hundred persons
in costume dancing in the open street
e on the smooth asphalt paving, sur
rounded by thousands of eager, gap
ing people, who seized on any and ev-
. cry occasion to thunder out roar after
5 roar with the entire district fairly
. bathed in light from the thousands of
/ lamps and the battery of search
/ lights. The searchlights would single
j out prominent couples or groups and
) play the powerful lamps on them
giving prominence to group after
; group, or couple after couple who
: under cover of their masks, made bold
t to do things that they would not do in
: their sober, every day senses, and
2 playing to the galleries who in this
Z case were the guests who filled the
: windows and balconies of the three
!, great hotels facing the scene, as well
s as the seething mob on the street be-
e low. 1t formed a scene that Nero in
' the proudest day of ancient Rome
a would have been proud of. In the
r streets, through the great lobby and
: different public rooms of the great
: Mason hotel, everywhere and any
r where, foot of space brought q
t dancing couple or couples, and if ole
e Nero had looked down on the mad
dening scene he would have exclaim.
: ed, this is one on me. / will not try
to describe the costumes because
want to save Hamp Chambers from
the trouble of flooding the Star ofics
to keep it from burning. My, oh, my!
do not wonder that Mr.. Tremerc
gets these important summons to
Jacksonville from time to time, and
me thinks will try to fill the next en-
gagement for him the next time one
comes. Mr.. Tremere spent several
hours with the representative of 6
large California concern that is call
ing the attention of the farmers to
Luther Burbank's greatest achieve
ment, the spineless cactus, the plant
that is food to man and beast, that
makes hens lay fresh eggs, that makes
cows give sweet, rich cream, that
makes the coats of the horse and
mule sleek and shiny and makes the
fat on the ribs that won't come off
the plant food that is of perennial
growth, and grows green twelve
months in the year; the one plant fooc
that the farmer does not harvest, but
gathers and uses it from day to day
as he needs it, whether it be hot OF