The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-06-02

use, but 1 managed to croak: what
is the price,"
He looked puzzled. "Do you mean
the fare ?" he inquired.
"Aye, my son. How many bones to
the square?"
81 will take you to the business
center for a jitney. If you are poor,
| will take you free. / am going that
way anyhow"
AS had only 35 cents in my jeans
when | went to sleep, | straightway
took the pauper oath. He bowed
gravely, assisted me carefully to and
in the car, then took his own place
and started the machine.
At first the car seemed like the
autos | was used to, but looking at
the front / could not see the big and |
heavy engine over the front wheels.
There was more space than usual IN
front of the drivers seat, and there
was dashboard over the wheels like
an old-time buggy. In front of the
driver, with the steering column
passing thru it, was box of polished
wood about foot square. The car
was lighted with shaded incandescents>
in the canopy. Inoticed that the
lamps did not throw their CLEAN far
ahead, but this was not needed, as the
road was broad and we'll Illuminated.
4 hn
road or its surroundings. The former
was at least sixty feet broad, with
double car line along the middle. As
we started a street car came by from
Dunnellon, and before we had gone
more than four blocks / saw another
| coming from Ocala. Then | noticed
| that there were no trolleys, and the
cars evidently ran by their own pow
err, tho could see no engines.
Our auto moved smoothly and rap
idly, and was evidently passing thru
a residence section, for on each side
the big, stylish-looking houses loom
ed up in the dusk. To the right sud-
denly appeared a sheet of water-a
lake whose further shore was beyond
my sight.
'What water is that?" inquired.
"Scott's Lake." said the driver.
zone of the city parks is on the other
side"
Where does the water come from ?"
"There is a spring there-Scott's
spring. They bored down to the main
flow and put in a cement basin about
fifteen years ago."
A minute or two later we came to
the curve in the road where it turns
toward town. A dazzling light shone
! in our faces. / just had time to see
: it also shone along line of rails to
the left, when it seemed to be right
: over us, and then a long train rush
: ed by. The illuminated signs on the
cars read "Miami, ST. Louis and
Seattle" I had barely time to read
them when the train was gone, swift
ly but with an absence of the putting,
rafting roar in the trains l remem-
bered.
''The Comet Limited is late to-
. night" said the driver, looking at
: the clock on the dashboard, which in
dicated 1908.
"What time should it pass?"
"Twelve-one."
"What time does it leave Miami ?"
'Nine o'clock"
!, "How many stops between here and
t there?"
r zone, at Orlando 1t stops here fol-
4 power"
! "What time will it reach Seattle? p
e "Nine o'clock tomorrow morning
: thirty-six hours"
I wondered what had become of the
t Ocala and Southwestern and asked
S about it."
e "Why that is it." said the driver
: nodding his head toward the line OF
: the left. "They changed the tract
a some when they made the lake, so i
a wouldn't pass thru the Waldo suburb.
l. A minute later, he checked the ca
t Pat road gate to railway crossing
: 1t was the Seaboard, but to my sur
= prise the train that swept by, goinl
v south, was lettered "Atlantic Coas
y Line"
d "I thought the A. C. L. went thru
: town." said.
The chauffeur looked at me in sur
e price. "They took,it up twenty year
g ago." he said. did you live here be
$ fore then ?"
It 81 left in 1916" 1 said.
IS "Well, you won't know the town,
| ne replied. Twenty-Five years max
? lot of difference. came here whel
n l was ten years old, in 1920, and tn
r, town is four times the size it wa
& then"
r. What is the population asked.
a Eighty thousand in the city an
t two hundred thousand in the district.
N didn't know what the district wa
g, but thought / would soon find out.
g noticed as we rolled over the crossin
| that there were four railway track.
~ / had also noticed that the train tba