The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 18, 1926, Page 2

a tf fi gar a tt PAGE TWO Florida Flowers SOME’ SONS! OF CLERGYMEN — HOW FLAGLER [wer 272 equipment BUILT FOR. CLIMATE. AND HEALTH — HIS UNPROFITABLE RAILROAD ny (By ©. W. Barron, In Barron’s National Weekly) ; Long Key, March 1, 1926, “The Age of Mental, Virility,” by, Dorland, is a-book of great hu- man as wil'as scientific interest (now out’ of print). It tabulates the world’s doers and their age at the period of their greatest ac- complishment. Bot a more interesting book might’ be made by the author who would tabulate the achievements | of: the sons of clergymen. Clergymen's Sons Harriman, the recreator of Union Pacifie, and the. sustainer of American railroad credit in its most trying period, was the son of a clergyman whose average salary did not exceed $600 a year. The sow left a family fortune of $150,000,000, which was just an ordinary dividend.on the value of ‘what he gave in his life’s work to the railtoad system’ of the coun- try. The poet and dreamer who built Coral Gables and is now expand- ing it is the son of a Congrega- tidmal) minister from Chelsea, Mass. Henry M. Flagler, the builder of Florida; was the son of a Pres- byterian minister whose salary Flagler did not open the east coast of Florida for profit, as it is generally supposed. Neither has his estate ever realized interest on his: Florida investment as is supposed. He said he hoped'to live long enough to-get dividends on. his Florida railway investment, but never did. Nor would he if he alive today at 96 years ywas 40’ years old when he co-operated with John in the organization Standard Oil Co. He was he began in Florida, ‘i 3 20 years after he began in Flor- ida, and'10 years after he*began jet Palm Beach. Standard Oil ambitions are in- ternational. Flagler planned not alone for Key West\but for Cuba, with a ear ferry between - Key! West and Havana. Now a car can be loaded in any part of the United States or Can- ada and taken into Cuba with un- loading. There are three big car ferries that take 28 to:32 cars at a time to Havaria, across the be- ginnings of the Gulf Stream, and that part of the Florida East Coast Railway is a paying proposi- tion. The entire Flagler development in Florida railroads, hotels and land’ never earned: as much as 5 per cent) per annum until within the past three years, How Fortune Was: Invested Flagler put $75,000,000 into Florida, the larger part of his es- tate, and’ the valuation of his es- tate at the time of his death was Florida investments were not ap- praised at cost: The line from:the mainland to Key West’ cost $30,000,000, and the line to. Homestead, where the road:over .the keys: leaves the $18,000,000. his $75,000,000 investment into his: hotels. Flagler Money Stil} Going: In only $80,000,000. Of course his | mainland, is estimated to have cost | Flagler also put’ $10,000,000 of | The Florida East Coast Railroad THE KEY jhas never paid a dividend, and, holds title through a land com-| since Flagler died the estate has! |pany. . been’ putting in’ money ‘for de-| It is estimated that there are; | velopment. Up to three years ago the land company was borrowing money from the estate to pay taxes. The gross earnings of the road; It took seven years and nine |expanded last year from about|months to build 128 miles from | $20,000,000 to $30, 000,000. Of |the mainland over the Florida |the $10,000 000 increase, per- | Keys. The: finish. was Jan. 22, |haps only $2,000,000: will be-saved |1912, and Flagler, then. just. over |in the net, by reason of the traffic his 82nd birthday, was able to | congestion. ride in triumph-into Key West. He It is another popular miscon-j died the next year, 1913, but his) leeption that the Florida East estate will not be divided until | Coast Railway is rich in ‘Florida|1937. Mrs. Flagler left it to her Hlands. It.is the Flagler . estate | brother and two sisters. The {and not the railroad that owns the | brother, W. R. Kenan, Jr., and L. land originally acquired, and it/C. eoransaies now act as ‘trustees: ~ ATHREEDAYS enuHIS YOUR. DANGER SINAL Persistent coughs and ghs and colds lead to seri« ous trouble. ‘You can stop them now with an creosote: that to take, Creomulsion is a new discovery thes two-fold action; the inflamed membranes | double-tracking to Miami, with’ | modern termrinals, ~ yards; ‘motive’ | The railroad has put about 40,000 acres left out of the|* | out $80,000,000 in bonds the past |g50,000 acres Flagler originally | Tt inan ew years for developments; and acquired. * will spend $15,000,000 ‘this year, WEST CITIZEN et eeestecetees ees Le * * CONVENTIONS. 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