The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 18, 1926, Page 4

PAGE FOUR ~ : THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. L. P, ARTMAN, President. IRA J. MOON, Business Manager. Eatered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter ne 5 Member of the Associated Press = Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use Fred republication of all news dispatches credited to ‘Or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. ie SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES @ade known on application. Cards of thanks, resolutions of respect and obituary natices other than those which the paper may give as matter of news, will be charged for at the rate of 5 its a line. jotiee of church and society and all other enter- alnments from which a revenue is to be derived will ed for at the rate of 5 cents a line. ‘fitizen js an open forum and invites discussion iblic issues and subjects of local or general inter- cigns. it it will not publish anonymous communica- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Road to the Mainland. KEY WEST IS THE SOUTHERNMOST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES A more deliberately » erroneous. statement | could not be made than for, the Miami Herald to | refer to Miami as “the southernmost city of this country,” and to state that with a deeper harbor and wharf facilities “it will be the first port of call of vessels from South America, aiid from our own West. Coast, passing through the Panama Canal.” These claims are so palpably misleading as to be really ridiculous. The fact is well known that Key West is the nearest city in the United States to the Panama Canal, and the most stupid school- boy in America knows that Key West is the south- ernmost city of the Unitéd States. All Florida would be pleased-to see Miami have a fine deep harbor and » TRE an important port, for it would reflect more credit upon the state at large than the present ship landing place there, which has been referred to as the “umbrella har- bor,” because it opens and closes so often. Then large steamers with cement for Miami would not have to come to Key West and transfer their car- goes to barges in order that they can enter the Miami harbor, as they are actually doing this very day. Misrepresentations never get a city anywhere, and have never been known to benefit an improve- ment plan or project. The Miami Herald would do well to meditate for a moment upon the recent Stribling-Tunney fiasco in Miami, which attached such a stigma to the name of the Magic City and Comprehensive City Plan. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. PM Mee RCC RE eRe hee ‘The folks who built up this country did not go pike for a 40-hour week. on Many long winded orators think what the needs most is free speech. 3 : Shannen £ ‘Many persons who have not been provided ‘any office by the old political parties, think it time to have a new one. The law of gravitation is said by the scientists universal, but it does not seem to have much + on prices of necessity in this county. 3 — ‘ The boys don’t seem to worty much if the do get ahead of them in their studies, as they ‘that anyway they cannot throw a baseball —-. e politicians used to shake the plum tree, but times it has grown so big that they have up and pick the plums by hand with great | MONROE COUNTY'S BIG PROJECT . Lae PaaS ae (Times-Union) 2 Interesting information is coming out of Key West how regarding progress on the biggest road project yet undertaken in the South. It may be the biggest thing in view and promoted anywhere, ofits kind, for the long highway is to be constructed véry considerably over the waters of the Atlantic atid gulf except for the fact that there are to be many miles of actual roadway, dver islands and keys and on made land, the long bridges form the mést important part of the highways, Monroe county is doing this thing on her own responsibility and expects to make it a success The highway will extend from the mainland to Key West island, and the project involves the expenditure of about $16,000,000. - An engineering firm will submit plans for the edpstruction of the long bridges, the cost being exfimated at $12,000,000, and plans are to be sub- mitted to the county commissioners within ninety days regarding actual work. Sixty days after the approval of plans—and this may be ¢onsiderably _ingide the five months indicated’as allowed, work is expected to begin. This refers to the the three lofig bridges only, muchgwork having already been de on the highway. - © When completed this driveway from the tip of Fiprida to the big and important island called Key ‘West, will be an added “wonder” to the many won- derful things found in Florida. This is to be a past of the famous Dixie highway, and over it will pass hundreds of thousands of automobiles from fa® and near. One hundred and twenty-five miles long, this Florida end of the long trail will be a series of surprises and calculated to amaze the most blaze of tourists. ~ Hundreds of thousands of people journey over the famous Oversea division of the Florida East Coast railway, and the new highway will add to its popularity and interest, thrugh making more peo- ple understand it. ‘The people of Monroe county, however, are not exprting themselves and undertaking heavy bonded | at the public works tax section of the tre in@ebtedness merely to give a thrill to automobile tobrists. The highway connecting Key West with the mainiand section of that big county will aid in the development of the two sections as nothing else could. The project is only getting a good start, buh the people of Monroe county feel that it is wath paying for and worth watiing for. Their besmirched the reputation of the entire: Sunshine State. : Boosting is all right, if ‘based on facts. De- liberately false statements have never done anybody or anything any permanent good. THE NEED FOR FLETCHER (Tampa Tribune) Any list of Florida’s biggest assets ought to in- clude the name of Senator Duncah U. Fletcher, because men like him are just as real and almost as famous assets as Florida’s climate. Florida is almost unanimous for Fletcher, be- cause Fletcher is always working for Florida. His importance as a national figure is also recognized outside his home state, as he is the ranking Demo- erat on the commerce committee and the military affairs committee, besides holding other important Claude N. Bennett, founder and president of the Congressional Information Bureau at Washing- ton, is one of Senator Fletcher's strongest. admirers, as shown in an interview in the;Miami.Daily News. Mr. Bennett is in a position to know whereof he speaks, and here are some of his opinions: In the past, 18 years, with all the fickle- - ness that Florida has been charged with, she has stuck to two things—belief in Senator F.etcher and in the state’s future. As I see it, the two are still hand in hand. I guess I am in as good position as any- one to get a view of what goes on in congress. I know no new man could do for Florida what a veteran of Senator Fletcher's stailding can and doubt that there are many who would work up to his enviable position in the time he has been in the upper chamber, “947 It is & pleasing apparent fact that nobody can beat Senator Fletcher in the primaries. Then don’t bother him, don’t interrupt him, don’t distract his attention from big details in Washington. Don’t put him to the trouble and expense of acampaign. # ~~ Length of service is a tremendous asset in Washington,- but that isn’t Senator Fletcher’s strongest point. His ability, knowledge and fearless, though never sensational, stand for good legislation are what enabled him to at- tain this length of service. And he is a more valuable man than ever. His. powers are steadily on the increase. The ‘important thing is: Don’t” forget Senator Feltcher. He doesn’t make much noise and his friends have to attend to:that while he does the work. Fortunately, he has plenty of friends, THE KEY- ‘WEST CITIZEN | How She Gained 10 . Pounds in 22 Days Skinny Men Can Do the Same That’s going some—but skinny jmen, women and children just | can’t help putting on,good, healthy \flesh when they take McCoy’s Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets, | As chock full of vitamines as |the nasty, fishy-tasting cod liver loil itself, but these sugar-coated, | tasteless tablets are as easy to take as candy, and won’t. upset the stomach. ® One woman gained ten pounds jin twenty-two days. 60 tablets, |60 cents. Ask Key West Drug Co. or any druggist for MeCoy’s }Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets jand if you don’t gain at least 5 |pounds in 30 days your druggist jis authorized to hand you back jthe money. you paid for them. | “Get McCoy’s, the original and |genuine, and avoid imitations.” | IN THE DAY’S NEWS Lee Slater Overman, who has jannounced his candidacy for re- election to the United States sen- |ate, has been one of the repre- |sentatives of North Carolina in |the. upper house for nearly a |quarter of a century. Senator Overman is a native of North Carolina, a lawyer by profession, jand also a bank and railway presi- dent. He began his political career in 1883 when he went to the. lower house of the State legislaturé, and at intervals was re-elected up to 1900, in 1893 serving as speaker. In 1895 he began to aspire to Federal office, a result accomplished in 1903, when he was seat to the United States senate. Hz has been re- elected three times and is placed until Mggch 4 next, when his pres- ent term will expire. Senator Overman’s interest in education has been pronounced, aifd he has served as trustee of two of the leading colleges of his State. QUIETS DISTURBING RACK- ING COUGHS Healing pine tar, pure honey, jand other soothing, cough-healing ingredients, go into the making of HONEY AND TAR. No ly feared by careful harmful, and without Read the bottle given.on the package, FOLEY’S HONEY AND TAR is the superior cough remedy, “safe for children and grown persons, and reliable - for coughs, croup, tickling thréat; negvous hacking and like irrita- tion. Refuse substitutes. Key West Drug Co. marl-1m |] ——— Lady Beatty, wife of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty, is an en- thusiastie collector of old furni ture and pictures, and loves noth- ing better than wandering over Europe in search of interesting antiques. Lady Beatty is the daughter of the late Marshall Field, the great Chicago mer- chant. i Poixon Onk or 1 foulckiy with | Remedy. Ail [thorized to refund y | fails,—Aay The Spanish mother, even of the qapper class, can seldom be persuaded to separate from her | | children, and astonishment is often expressed in Spain when foreign visitors are found to have their children at home. The June primary election is fast approach- | ing. Registration books are already. open. - And as the time comes nearer, it is stil] more apparent that Fletcher will be re-nominated by. a unanimous vote from all counties of Florida. The state will | continue to stick to its senior Senator; for the very good reasons outlined by Mr. Bennett. “BUCK AND BERRY” IN CUBA Regardless of the modern modes of transpor- tation, old “Buck and Berry” are still on the job in | Cuba. The Havana Post reports that over 50,000 petitions for ox-cart license plates have been filed sury de- partment of Cuba, and that the fets will net the government about half a million dollars a year. This is the result of a new law in Cubs, and the large number of oxen shown to be employed “there is especially interesting. It seems that the Cubans still prefer the “slow but sure”. method of hanling sugar cane to the mills in the Island Re- | publie. ‘ ‘How to Stop That | | WeakeningCough | Why let a heavy, stuifborn cough | ‘wear youdown when you can get speedy | relief and often break it upcompletely | in 24 hours through a remarkable new method based on the famous Dr. King’s New Discovery for Coughs? Here is the method: You simply take one teaspoonful and hold it in your | throat for 15 or 20 seconds before | swallowing it. It has a double action. | ee eee oe Very economi- . cal, as the dose is only one teaspoonful. At all good droggists. Ask for DR-ANGS CoOucHS i left. j HISTORY. 1815—A grant covering Key ‘West and all the Florida Keys was given to Juan Salas by Don Juan de Bstrada, the then Spanish Governor of Florida. 1822—Juan Salas sold the Island of Key West to John JW. Simon- ton for the sum of $2,000. - wee 1822—he United States of America purchased Florida from Spain and Lieutenant Perry pianted the American flag in Key West. - : 1845—The State of Florida was admitted to the Union. 1860—During. the Civil War Key West was the headquarters of the Union Blockade fleet. ‘The Union forces held the fort and the City, and the citizens, although of Confed- erate sympathies, were forced to remain under Union ad- ministration. ‘ 1874—The cigar industry was established by Cubans fleeing from Spanish oppression. - = : 1888—The entire business section of the tows .was destroyed by » fire. 1898—Key West was used as a Naval Base by the American At- lantic Fleet during the Spanish-American War. ’ {912—The Florida East Coast Railroad over the Keys to Key West was completed. \ 1921—The Casa Marina Hotel, the best hotel of the Florida East Coast Railroad system and one of the finest hotels in Florida was opened. CLIMATE—The temperature ranges between 75 degrees in Win- ter and 85 degrees in Summer (Average). It is the only place in Florida which has never been touched by frost. It is 375 miles farther south than Cairo, Egypt, but has a delightful and health- ful climate, there being very little sickness. GEOGRAPHY—Key West is the gateway to the Panama Canal Zone, Central and South America, Cuba and the West Indies. It is forty-eight hours from New York by rail. Havana can be reached in five hours by boat and in forty-five minutes by air. It is expected to be the future port of entry from South America, Central America and the West Indies. MILITARY—The United States Army maintains a lery Station at Key West and during the World War it was also used as an Airplane base. called the “Gibraltar of America”! as it controlg the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico. NAVAL—The United States Navy maintains a Navy Yard at Key West as well as.a submarine base. There are also a coaling station, fuel oil station and one of the largest radio stations in the world. The United States Marine Corps also has a station at Key West. INDUSTRIES—The chief industries are cigar making, commer- “MOTELS—The leading hotels are the Casa Marina, built and* operated by the Florida East Coast Railroad Com- pany, the La Concha, a modern fire-proof hotel, the Over-Sea Commercial Hotel and the Jefferson Com- mercial Hotel. CIVIC—Good Schools, Churches. Fire and Police Protection— one of the best Fire Departments in the United States. | , Paved Streets. Good City Parks. Municipal Golf Course. NEWSPAPERS—The Morning Call, The Key West Citizen. RAILROADS—The Florida East Coast Railroad cperates trains to and from New York and intermediate’ points. ra ¢ Railroad Car ferries ply between Key West and) Havana. It is expected that the Seaboard Air Line will construct a railroad into Key West, thus assuring direct communication with the West Coast of Florida, the Gulf Ports and the Central States, STEAMSHIPS—The Mallory Line to New York and Galveston. The Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Com- pany to Tampa and Havana, The Gulf & South+ ‘ern Steamship Company to Miami and New Or< leans. : t é ‘ MISCELLANEOUS—Beautifully colored water. Wonderful” Yachting. Best fishing in Florida. Golf and Tennis. Bathing the year round. Coun+ try Club (under construction). The Over: Sea Highway over the Keys, connecting Key. ~ West with the mainland, will be the most- remarkable highway in the South when completed. a * < ADVANTAGES—1. Tropical climate. 2. The Over-Sea High- way, now under ‘construction, paralleling the Florida East Coast Railroad over the Keys will permit through automobile travel. from New York to Key West and, with the car ferry serv= ice, practically through travel from Canada and any point in the United States to Havana, 3. Fresh water to be piped in. ‘This improve- ment has been favorably acted upon by the Florifia legislature. 4. There ave many new developments on the intermediate Keys. Most of the Keys are being purchased in their entirety and are being converted into beautiful estates, 5.. Key West is the County seat of Monroe County. 6.. Considerable new construction is now being carried on throughout the City and good deal ‘more is contemplated for the im- mediate future. Among the proposed improve> ments is a boulevard which is to be a shore drive around the Island. This construction has already been authorized and the contract awarded. 7. The rise in the value of Key West property has only recently commenced, 8. There is n reason why Key West will not golf and tennis, etc., equal or will equal those” of any Florida resort, while the fishing is much the best of any on the Coast. 9. Keys are a Yachtman’s Paradise bors and beautiful scenery and bound to be headquarters for southern half of the Keys, _ lt’s Summer All Winter In Key West