The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 24, 1926, Page 1

Wire Day Service VOLUME XLVII. No. 71. Ladies of St. Paul’s Church Plan Staging Entertainment “HEARTS AND BLOS-|- SOMS” TITLE OF COMIC OPERETTA TO BE GIVEN APRIL 15 The <ast of characters for the comie operetta, “Hearts and Blos- somhs,” to be persented on the eve- ning of April 15 by St. Paul's Choir Guild, has now been sel- ected. This delightful play in two acts is being put on under the director- ship of Le Roy Blackwell, choir- master of St. Paul’s. It is being given for the pipe organ fund. The characters are all mem- bers of the guild, with the excep- tion of Harry Curry, who will take one of the leading roles. The following will enact, the parts: Mrs. Rafael Solano, Jr., as Mrs. Horace Manning, who believes in dreams. + Miss Doris Johnson, ‘as June, Mrs. Manning’s daughter, young pretty and.romantic. Miss Beulah Kitchin, as Marie June's sister, younger, just as pretty and even more romantic. Sam Goldsmith, as Matthew the absent-minded man. Edmund Curry, as Philip Br ‘Matthew Brandon's nephew. Blackwell, as Jerry Hig- gins, poor but promising. Miss Mary Curry, as Malindy, a young lady of color, 4 as Samson Bona- bret be song ued bell boy. Mrs. Edmund Curry, as Bileen, nephew, who is in love with June. Mrs. Manning holds a grudge Uncle Matthew and for to continue her friend- Philip. | June decide: is a family feud and Merry to solve the mys- tery, find the document and the: mother’s favor. Bonaparte, a colored bell boy at the hotel, while mov- ing Uncie Matthew's bags, lets one of them fall open. A small book drops unnoticed on the lawn. BAND CONCERT The following program will be rendered at Bayview Park this evening, beginning at 7:45 o’clock; Part I March, I Diavoli Rossi—Rivela. Overture, Orpheus—Offenback. Fox Trot, Let It Rain, Let It Pour—Friend. Comique, The Village Band— Gaunt. Fox Trot, I Miss My Swiss— Baer. Part Il Selection, Selected. Waltz, Sobre Los Olas (Over! The Waves)—Rosas. Fox Trot, Ah-Ah—Clark, Merch, A Frangesa—Costa. Sporano Solo, (a) Glow Worm —Lincke; (b) Aloha Oc—Reeves. (Hawaiian Farewell Song)—Mrs. Eva B. Torano. The Star Spangled Banner— Key. HUBERT REASON, Conductor. ANNUAL LADIES’ NIGHT AT HOTEL CASA MARINA| ROTARY CLUB CELEBRATES “ENJOYABLE EVENT AT POPULAR HOSTELRY LAST EVENING The Rotary C:ub celebrated its annual ladies’ night at the Hotel Casa Marina last evening. Ap- proximately 150° guests were pres- ent at this delightful gathering. Besides the special dinner, a splendid musical program and stunts were given. Everyone, es- pecially the, Jadies, enjoyed the songs and piano numbers. The. evening's program Was a: “America.” Song, “I’ve Been Kissed”—By the Ladies. i Announcements -— Secretary “Bugs.” Initiation—New Babies: John N.. Costar and Lieut. Stark’ J. ‘Warner. “Prairie Flower”—Will Warren Contest—New Rotes: Arthur Gomez, Livingston Munro, Henry Gaffney, Jr., Otto Kirchheiner Vining Harris, Henry “Mallory Tom Ketchings, Harry Hale, Char- lie Muldrow, Atlen Schlendorf. Maurice Taylor, Will Demeritt. Billie Malone’s Annual Speech} on Rotary. Song—“My Turkey.” ~ ‘s Twenty-first Birthday| Rotary’ —Will Warren, Song—“Till “We Meet Again.” Dancing in the hotel bal:room lasted until midnight. EDWIN TORRES: IMPROVING AT MiAM! HOSPITAL TELEGRAM RECEIVED TODAY DR. GARCIA TO TAKE TREATMENT IN NEW YORK DISTINGUISHED CUBAN OF. FICIAL*ARRIVES HERE YES- TERDAY; LEAVES ON NIGHT TRAIN Stretched upon a bed of sick- ness, suffering intense agony from an attack of gall stones which has been troubling him for some time, Dr. Pelayo Garcia of Havana. Cuba, passed through here last night on his way to New York where one of the most noted phy- sicians of that city will be con- | sulted about his condition in the hopes of relief. Accompany Dr. Garcia were the members of his immediate family—Mrs. Garcia his daughter Corina, two sons, Dr. Fabian Garcia and Herminio Gar- cia, and sister-in-law, Mrs. Tomas. His law partner, Dr. Orestes Fer- rara and Mrs. Ferrara, and Dr. Pedro R. Capote, secretary of the | Cuban legation in London, were members of the party, while the well known Cuban physician, Dr |D. T. Laine, had charge of the |sick man and was looking after his state of health, Dr. Garcia and the other mem- bers of the family are well known to Key Westers and their many friends here ‘will extend sympa- | thies to the sick man and earnestly wish for his recovery. He is ex- speaker of the Cuban house of representatives during the first administration of the republic junder Palma, His son, Dr. Fabian is a‘graduate of Columbia, and in addition to having a law practice in Havana is‘a member of the New York law firm of Weiss & Pels. Dr. Orestes Ferrara, in addition |to his own publie personality and political prominence (being an ex- speaker of the house of represen- tatives under the administration | of General Gomez and professor { | ability thrilled many local audi- ences with her excellent rendi- The party upon arrival in New York will get in touch with Dr. S. A. Brown, dean of Bellevue Medi- eal College, a personal friend of Dr. Garcia, who will be consulted and render whatever assistance he ean to the prominent Cuban. _ Those in the private car north- | bound last night arrived here yes- terday afternoon from Havana on the P. & ©. steamship Cuba and immediately boarded the car for New York. , Cuban Consul Domingo Milord | of Key West was present on the ‘arrival of the Cuba, and gave all | the assistance in his power to the party while here. t | | | UNLOAD CEMENT | CARGO TO BE TRANSFERRED | ON BOARD SCHOONER ‘MAYNARD The schooner Maynard will start loading cement tomorrow KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1926. TALE OF THE Key West had a railroad near- ly half a century before the great Flagler System was ever dreamed of. It was a sure-enough railroad, with locomotive, cars and every- thing. It was not a very long railroad, but one of the busiest ones that was ever built. The track extended from Fort Taylor to the towers. These old defense units were for decades referred to as towers 1 and 2, but in re- cent years they have been given the name of Martello Towers. The material for building these old towers was brought to Fort Taylor on ships and then convey- led by this railroad to where the jold towers now stand. There were jno paved streets to cross and very |few houses to pass, a dense growth lof tropical trees lining both sides lof the railway most all the way. That has been a long, long time ago, yet there are a number of “old timers” here today who re- call with much interest the Sun- day rides they took on this rail- road when they were boys and girls, . Key Westers were in charge of road system. It was under the general supervision of Claude Babcock, father of George “Bab- cock of this city, and a Mr. Lord, father of John Lord, was foreman of the cars. 2 Capt. Billie Shaw, a licensed sea pilot for the past 54 years, now living in this city, was a young man then, and he helped to dig the foundation for the first tow- er. In addition to the stalwart Key Westers engaged in the con- struction work, 150 burly Irish- men were bi it from New York and placed on the job. The: brick- masons were paid “top i per day. Laborers on the job averaged about $1.25 per day. Capt. Shaw says work was start- ed first on the tower nearest the Casa Marina. He remembers Capt. Shaw thinks that they came from Pensacola. The sand, he Says, was taken from South Beach. and hauled to the towers on the railroad. Fort Taylor was prac- Capt. Shaw says work of building all three of them was going on at the same time for a long period. When excavations were made for the foundations of the towers, ‘water rushed in, and all the young men of the crew were put to pumping it out. Capt. Shaw was among them, and he says it was certainly “some job.” There were no gasoline nor electric motors with elevators to lift the brick and mortar to the bricklayers on the high scaffolds. This material was carried up lad- of the workmen. It was like the old Irishman who wrote back to the old country that he had a job to carry the brick up, and men up there did all the work. So far as can be recalled by Capt. Shaw, these old towers were Also Key West’s First Railroad and the Island City’s. Unique Position During Days of Civil War the operation of this little rail-| wages, for those days, receiving $2.50; tically completed at this time, but |’ ders in hods held on the shoulders} over here where he didn’t have to) iwork at all. All he had to do was|ped with modern and mammoth | Atlanta (clear) TWO TOWERS never used for coast defense, and perhaps the only service they have been to the government was when tower 2 was occupied by uniformed men during the war with Germany, and was probably used for storing ammunition and military supplies. Tower 1 was} so dilapidated as to be of little use at that time. Abraham Lincoln was president of the United Statés and Jeffer- son Davis was president of the Confederate States of -America/ when Key West’s first railroad was in operation and the work of building the towers was in progress. Since Florida had seceded from the Union, it would be natural to suppose that the construction of} the towers was financed by the} Confederate government. But not so. They were built by the government of the United States. Key West occupied a unique position during the Civil war period, and it is doubtful if a similar case has existed since the| annals of time. Florida withdrew from the Union, but Key West never did. The Union flag float- ed over Key West all through the time of the war between the} states. Only one time was the| Confederate flag ever hoisted in} ‘Key West, Capt. Shaw says, and it’ was then quickly hadled down by soldiers of the Union army. It was about the 1859 when Capt. Shaw worked for about three months on building the He says he brought} a lot of ice ships from the North} into the harbor, load4d_,with lake ice for Key West. ‘The ice, he ‘Says, was stored on the ships in h a way that it simply froze ‘houses here for storing the cargoes f frozen water. Ice was almost Fore ing the year of 1840, or there- about, Capt. Shaw: remembers, and was nearing completion when work stafted on’ the towers. Fort Taylor was not manned until the | Civil war started, and it was oc- cupied by Union troops through- out the’sixties. The fort was in command of Capt. Brandon, while Major French with a flashing cavalry troop was often to be seen |parading the streets of Key West. The construction work on. the; |Fort Taylor and the towers was} {at all times under the supervision of Capt. McFarlane, of the Union| army. He had two nice large} brick buildings constructed to} house the men who were engaged) in the work, The left wing of Fort Taylor was built during the Spanish- American war, Capt. Shaw states. The granite came from Pennsyl- vania and the sand from Mobile. He piloted the boats bearing the material to. port here anil remem- bers definitely where they came | from. One or two small guns {been mounted on the towers, and t have. Fort Taylor has been well equip-; leannon for many years, but so far as is known, neither of the three; [has ever been used in actual coast | defense at war time. j “For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS John Nolen, Eminent City — Plan Expert, Forecasts © Key West’s Great Future WORK NOLEN HAS DONE IN FLORIDA * ON CITY PLANNING AND REPLANNING In his list of 42 towns and cities, Mr. Nolen has made re- planning studies of four in Florida: Beach, Sarasota and Clearwater. St. Petersburg, West Palm He has made regional plans for St. Petersburg, Sarasota, Clearwater, and Myakka River. He has laid out these new towns or developments: Clewis- ton, Belleair, Venice-Nokomis, Bay Point in Venice, Maximo Es- tates, St. Petersburg, St. Augustine Beach, San Jose Estates, Jack- ville, Belmont-on-the-Gulf, Bryant View in Jacksonville. AFFAIR TO BE PUT ON UN- DER AUSPICES OF TROOP 4, BOY SCOUTS OM AMER- ICA There will be a musical and drama entertainment staged on Thursday evening, March 25, at the Monroe County High School at 8 o’clock, under the auspices Violin’ duet, Richard Curry and Millard Johnson. ee Recitation, William Pinder. Violin sold, Joe Jaycocks. Recitation, Kathleen Watkins. Introduction of “Maud” the Violin solo, Richard Curry. Sketch, “A Good Way To Break Bad News,” Officers Knowles and Jenks, 3 . Cornet solo, Ralph Johnson. Stunts_by Brown. and Cruz. Saxophone’solo, Kimball Curtis. “Plantation Melodies,” J. Jay- cocks, R. Curry, R. Johnson, K. Curtis and M. Johnson. Sketch, “Scouting Dramatized,” Secoutmaster and Members of Troop 4. Closing, Troop Circle and Taps. THE WEATHER Covesecesecccoscosoucose Stations Abilene (clear) . |treop mascot. Boston (pt. cloudy) - Buffalo (cloudy) —.. Charleston (clear) . Chieago (cloudy) ... Corpus Christi (clear Galveston (clear) . Hatteras (clear Huron (cloudy) Park. in Gainesville, and Bay reel NING IN CLIFTON marriage of Josepk Gives The Citizen An Ex- clusive Interview on Subject PLAN FIRST, THEN ZONE, HE ADVISES Asserts Regional Layout-Is Likewise A Pri Necessity (By Frank W. Lovering) (Special to The Citizen) . CAMBRIDGE, Mass. March 24.—Here is what John Nolen, President of the National Con- is i F 22 5 3 i z q He & i ze Fa s 3 i iE i i h 3 i : & = g H i ‘! ie HI Re z 2 = & Invitations have been received| © in the city announcing the ap- proaching r Cook, Jr:, son of Mr, and Mrs “Inventory Congress” Planned — Uncle Matthew, who is yery ab- from the Nordsee, ‘preparatory. to 5 ps re — dag joo te} TO EFFECT THAT BULLETS 'shipment te Miami. 3 city to attend to the signing i he schooner A. Earnest Mills; WERE EXTRACTED BY SUR: witli have chimplahen salending co-| GEONS IN CASE jment from the Nordsee by this evening and will proceed with! jher cargo to Miami. | The unloading of the Nordsee COL. PETER 0. KNIGHT | Will be completed by Saturday, it} is predicted. Several schooners! QN COMMITTEE OF lawaited the Roslagen and Nord-| see, which arrived from Denmark | with large cargoes of cement. Due | to the embargo on building! materials on the Florida East} Coast Railroad to the mainland,) shipments from this port had to be made by water. Joseph Cook of Key West, to Mis Margaret Konig, of Clifton, N. J. the happy event of which will take place in that city tomorrow eve ning. | The romance of this couple be Jacksonville (clear) - |KEY WEST (clear) . Outlook | wxisvite (ices ) Miami (cloudy) .. 2 __| New Orleans (clear) . } ‘New York (cloudy) . |formation relative to population | Tampa (cloudy) |. so that the questign may be’ Williston. (cloudy) handled intelligently. } A questionnaire has been sent) ARRANGEMENTS FOR (|‘e every toca! Chamber of Com-) ‘py K. A. Bohaker, formerly a merce in the state by the Florids| well known dentist of Boston, is CONFERENCE jState Chamber of Commerce at/the guest of Samuel J. Wilde, the request of the committee and/ Boston banker, in this city. |when the information requested) Dee Pre os Valet! Kop pF btetson |has been tabulated it is believed a ed witl — fairly good line on what may be Spénding the past two months fg Be ge ip has been afiiliated lexpected during the next four Miami. Several -years ago he was) for past few years. : years will have been obtained.|2® instructor in Tufts Dental Col-| Mr. Cook’s numerous friends in i ? il : i aes — in 19307 What wil lThe questionnaire seeks the popu.| lege, Boston, of which is a gradu-| this city wish for him ahd hit jthe census then show for Tampa, |iation figure of 1920, the popula- | #*€- bride-to-be all happiness in their GIFT SHOPPE Miami, Jacksonville, Largo, Pensa-|tion found by the state when the t cola, Key West, Lake Wales? pee gare of 1925 was conducted, Is now conducting a cut price |) teat but and an estimate of what the popu- sale. Many articles suitable ||. ** © Rot = guessing con \lation is expected to be when the for Easter presents or prises ja subject for discussion at the federal census is taken in 1930. avon hey ek " }“Plorida Takes Inventory Con-| The congress is to be held for’ j] are on isplay ‘and marked ‘st |i gress” to be held at West Palm the purpose of. taking inventory Sika Gas jeg! come |! Beach, April 16th. The Commit-°f everything that pertains to the! CASA MARINA GIFT SHOPPE important documents Philip does not have time to ex- his departure to June, sc On Florida’s Future Mrs. Stella Curry, brother of Edwin Torres, shot in Miami yesterday, received a telegram today from her brother, A. Aurelio Torres, stating that the patient in the hospital had spent a good night, with the bullets having been extracted. The woman charged with the shooting at the time, who afterward took a dose of poison, died in the hospital during the night. A fall account of the shoot- ing was published in the ¢ol- umns of The Citizen yester- day afternoon on receipt of information over the Asso- ciated Press wires. Considerable improvement is said to be shown in the con- dition of Mr. Torres, who was taken te ene of the hos- pitals following the shooting. should anything happen to separate them. Samson tells June that Philir| has gone and she thinks Unele; Matthew has sent him away fo: the purpose of separating them | The parasol is picked up and the! ease falls unnoticed to the lawn | (Continved on Page 5) HER DAUGHTER had loved her long ago. Now |! had returned to steal the of her daughter. Into gay swirl of Paris, where |) had gone to forget the past, ON VISIT TO CITY } JACKSONVILLE, March 24.— | What will be the popuiation’ of CASA MARINA LAST |DINNER DANCE of the Season |tee on Arrangements for the con-/ m statistics are of vital gress, headed by Col. Peter ©. importance an exhaustive inquiry Knight, of Tampa, is seeking in- ‘of the subject is te be undertaken.” i