The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-06-05
HOW OCALA WILL LOOK
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS HENCE
Continued from Yesterday

CONTINUED from Yesterday
AS ne spoke, he twirled his steer
ing wheel, and our craft swung its
nose down the stream. For several
minutes we SKINNED along until we
were over Carmichaers farm. No
where could / see any signs of the
double line of swamp, once so famil-
lar. The land seemed cultivated to the
waters edge. Even in the night, |
could make out the constantly sue
ceeding fields, interspersed here and
there with the orderly masses of or
ange grove foliage. Every hundred
yards or so, short distance back from
the river, was little bunch of houses,
evidently the buildings of farm. A
broad highway ran along each side
of the stream, from a quarter to half
mile back. Narrower roads cross
ing the wide ones, came down to the
river, and ran far back in the coun-
try, their lines plainly marked by the
lights, of which one hung at least
every hundred yards. Paralleling the
main road on the north bank was
trolley line-or rather tram car line,
for all the cars carried their own
power. Along this, even at this hour
in the morning, glided an owl car,
outward bound, and some three miles
away was another coming in. Some
distance south double line of lamps
marked the highway to Sharpe's fer
ry, and after crossing it curved away
to the southeast for DeLand. The riv-
er wound below like a silver ribbon,
and every few hundred yards a bunch
of lights on it's surface told that
boat was going up or down. Then up
to US foated the sound of the regu-
lar changing beat of wheels on rails,
and a long sword of white light stab
| bed thru the darkness to the south
east, followed by rushing row of
shining eyes, throwing their CLEAN to
right and left, as the southbound
Comet Limited from the PARKWAY
Pacific coast shot along over Rentz's
old log road, now a highway of bal
lasted steel, in its race to meet the
morning sun as it rose from the At
| lantic off the Indian river inlet
The aviator brought the mono
plane around, and as we glided back
toward the city the fragrance of the
rose gardens at Arden came up to US.
Meantime l thought that with all the
motive power visible even in the wee,
sma' hours 1 had seen no smoke and
scented no smell. Devoured with
curiosity 1 inquired: whats your
power-gasoline? ?"
The aviator was silent minute,
then let off a whoop of laughter.
Gasoline" said he; "I'll wager my
months pay there isn't a hundred
gallons in hundred miles. It's only
sold in pints and quarts in the drug
stores. use everybody,
everything, uses electricity. It's the
one power-we light and heat with it.
"Where is your storage battery and
engineer"
He tapped the box in front of him.
"Here is power and light for hun
dred hours, at ordinary speed. 1t
would take nae to New York and back
with several branch excursions"
He was silent minute, then ask
ed: pardon my curiosity, but where
have you been keeping yourself?"
"Out in the woods"
''You must have been over at Ches-
sahowitzka then. l understand some
people went in there when the war
broke out and have stayed ever
since"
Possible Chessahowitzka would do
better than the improbable truth, so I
let it go at that.
"How comes electricity to be so
plentiful and cheap"
He considered a minute. 'It viii
take some time to answer you, so we
will fly over Lake Weir"
He sent the plane up several hun
bred feet with a smooth glide that
again brought us over the sleepily
glimmering city. Another aeroplane
cut the air below US, going to the
southeast, and third came from the
south, evidently steering for some
point up the Seaboard. Each flashed a
light as it passed, to which my pilot
replied. He pushed a lever a little,
and the propeller behind sung louder,
and looking down / saw the dim land
scape race much more swiftly back
ward.
81 can't tell you all about cleo
tricity," said the aviator; at was
here when l came along, and l am
only thirty years old. But I can re-
member when they were having all
sorts of trouble and expense with
gasoline and steam, trusts and extor-