The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-09-12


the One Hundred Participants.
p. X. Van Valkenburgh, Florida
State Auto Association,
Orlando, Florida.
My dear Secretary:
Wired you this morning, ivan Val
kenburgh and Notes needed for get
together meeting on the evening of
the thirteenth instant: come and see
us go over the century mark"
That expresses our feelings and
needs, but on the side it gill be prop
er to say that Silver Springs Dream
are the finest eating in the entire fish
world, and the heavens are never so
beautiful as when seen from the deck
Of steamer on it's way down the run
toward them eats"
Come and bring others with you,
the lid will be or.
Sincerely yours.
r. s. ROGERS,
Secretary Ocala Motor Club.
P. S.-Bring so application blanks
We went, and what we we saw is
related by the Orlando Morning Sen
tinel:
The fish fry and Silver Springs
boat ride given Wednesday night by
the Ocala Motor club for the purpose
of putting it's membership over the
century mark was noteworthy af-
fair from every standpoint-it was
original and it was successful.
Promptly at $50 p. m. a crowd of
100 of Marion county, popular stage
assembled at the famous Silver
Springs, where two river boats, the
"Silver Springs" and the City of
Ocala' had up steam and were wait
ing.
The boats with full complement
of passengers were soon on their way
down the CLASSY, transparent Silver
Springs river, the river formed al
together by these wonderful springs,
with it's fantastic crooks and turns;
from the rail a half-dozen varieties
of the fnny and hard shelled tribe
could be seen swimming at a depth
of ten feet and more, hurrying side
by side on some quest or other
you've heard of the lion and the
lamb, well here under the water
were seen sword fish, trout, Dream,
turtle and young alligator, swimming
willy nilly, not caring.
1t soon developed that there were
two rivals, red-eyed membership COM
mittees in charge of the two boats,
and from the jibes thrown across
from one boat to the other it was ap-
parent even to the invited prospects
that there was bad blood; as the boats
rubbed in passing, a man dropped
lightly from the Silver Springs" to
the "City of Ocala," it developed la
ter that he was a spy and did valua-
BILE work: Placards bearing the
bloody letters S. S. S. were conspicu-
Gus everywhere, and the guests were
anxiously inquiring as to their mean
ing-in due time they were handed
application blanks and were informed
that the ominous letters stood for
"Sign, Sink or Swim.
BY some queer coincidence the per
sonnet of passengers and crew of the
"City of Ocala" was made up of bank
ers and lawyers, while the reverse
was true of the other boat-it carried
honest farmers and the like. MIR. A.
c.. Blowers, vice president of the
Florida State Automobile Association
was chairman of the committee
aboard the Silver Springs" and was
ably assisted in the membership drive
by DIR. III. w. Henry, president of the
Ocala Motor club, Mayor Chace, Nc
liver, Mayo, Simmons, ct al. The
committee aboard the City of Ocala"
was headed by Attorney Duval. ably
assisted by Judge Bullock, Col. R. A.
Burford, z. C. Chambliss, ct al.
A jury was hastily but carefully
empaneled on board the Duval boat
and each guest was ruthlessly hailed
into court and asked to show cause
why they should not be tried for be-