The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-06-03

gone; and from the great height at
which stood, looking down in the
square was almost like looking down /
in a we'll The hotel was forty stories I
high, and the twenty-fifth floor on
which / was equaled the tops of the
lowest buildings in my view. They
were all public buildings of some kind.
From where was could see up and
down Main street, and a good ways
down Exposition. These streets look
ed almost like canons thru high I
mountains.
/ observed with interest that there /
were no sharp corners in sight. The
squares were squares no longer, but |
the buildings were rounded so that
all the streets swept into each other
in curves, making it almost impossi-
BILE for autoists to approach without
seeing each other. This made me re-
member that 1 had remarked some
twenty-seven years previously that If
the auto had been invented at the
same time the horse was, there would
be no sharp corners in the cities.
As / could see by the Illuminated
signs, there had been little change In
the business locations, though there
was an immense change in the build
ings. The lowest were the three
banks, right on the three corners,
about twenty-five stories each. The
Holder block office building was al
most as high as the hotel, and all the
others about thirty floors each. Front
ing me on the west side was era
Iternal HAIL. filling the space from
the Ocala Bargain House to Masters.
All the floors were lettered, the Mas
ons at the top, then the Odd Fellows,
then the K. of P, floor for each
order 1 remembered and half a dozen
new ones. l Clipped in a couple of
plunks to start that shack the day
before I began DOING, but guessed
1 was in bad standing by that time.
One of the banks was lettered
Regional Bank" but / won't say
which one, for fear two-thirds of the
bankers in town will mob me.
Filling the entire north side of the
square, from the Ocala National to
Main street, was a huge edifice
which by the dome with the statue OF
! Minerva on top should be the court
house. Craning my neck little
made out that the edifice at the cor
ner of Main and Oklawaha was the
: Temple Theater."
/. 1t then occurred to me that / haC
! better go on the roof of the building
if / wished to see really well, and
, asked the attendant Che was too dig
nified and well dressed to call him {
servant) if / might do so. "Surely
SIR" he said, and led me to the eleva
: tor. Up we went another fifteeI
; floors. Stepping out / found mysel
; in the most beautiful roof garden
4 had ever seen. 1t was at least S0'
A feet from the ground, and in the cen
r ter of it arose for another hundre'
S feet a tower, on each side of which
}. was an electric sign, "Ocala House,
l which / was told could be seen from
3 the st. Johns river to the Gulf o
Mexico.
j / asked the attendant if ! could g
n up in this tower, but re heplied: 81
f you want to see the town, sir, hes
take flight. / will summon an aero
e plane if you desire it."
n "How much will it set me back"
s BEG pardon, sir; l do not compre
t hend."
'I mean what will be the cost"
o Nothing extra, sir; the hotel a
a ways keeps eight in use for guests.
u Ito be continued in our next)
p. S.-The writer may be too tire
y to dope out any more of this stui
: after he finishes his other work tc
night; in which case the readers ma
It be spared dose of it Friday.