The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 10, 1926, Page 1

Full Associated Press Leased Wire Day Service VOLUME XLVII, No. 86. Tidewater Construction Co. Completes Steel Bridge Connecting Key Largo With Mainland REMAINDER OF ROAD- BED UNDER CON-| STRUCTION TO BE) READY IN 30 DAYS The bridge built by the Tide- water Construction Company, con- necting Key Largo with the main- land; has been completed, accord-} ing to an announcement made by the contractors and county. engi- neer. The road is being surfaced Tapidly, and the contractors plan} t6,. complete the road within thirty The completion of this road and bridge means that Monroe Courity has made ready for use her portion of the highway con- necting Key Largo with the main- In order to complete the road in its entirety, Dade: County must finish her section. The bridge just constructed is draw-bridge structure, lo- at Barnes Sound. Two ap- were also built at : g ° 5 If mile of roadway surfaced and oiled will be completed. end of the Over-Sea » the last pile will be today in the Simlar Sound which connects Geiger’s and Saddle Bunches, Immediately after the work is on the Simlar Sound the employes will be sent wt = = e i gf r KEY WEST, FLORIDA) SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1926, ‘FORMAL OPENING ' COUNTRY CLUB REALTY BOARD 10 | GIVE DINNER — AT LA CONCHA REGULAR WEEKLY LUNCH- EON NOT ye BE GIVEN The Key West Realty Board will give a dinner Thursday even- ing at 8 o’clock. at the Hotel La Consha for the visiting realtors expected on that day in Key West. The regular weekly luncheon on Monday will not*be given next week, . Paul O. Meredith, secretary of the state association, and William Herrin, of the national association, will be the guests of the realtors on this ocasion, Ten prominent business men have also been in- vited to be present on this occa- sion. This will be a strictly business meeting and.only members of the board: will be in attendance. “A report having gone forth that la- lies wi'l be present on invitation is denied by V. A. Johnson, presi- “| dent of the board, who asks The Citizen to correct the impression. CARD PARTY ON MONDAY NT gar Loaf Creek to start the} AFFAIR TO BE GIVEN FOR of the bridge there. BENEFIT OF CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS Arrangements: are being made _ ON WEDNESDAY CHAIRMAN OF = a C0 | ANNOUNCEMENT OF POST- ROBERT SPOTTSWOOD PRESIDENT OF CLUB. i | : |J. OTTO KIRCHHEINER WILL| ¢ LEAVE TUESDAY FOR TAL.) will not have its formal opening | LAHASSEE TO ATTEND CON-| Until Wednesday evening, accord- PONEMENT IS MADE BY | 4 _, GOING ON TRIP | ' ti |< The Key West Country Club | VENTION This opening has been post- poned due to the absence from the city of Judge Jefferson B. Browne, who went north on @ short vacation several days ag He will return in time J: Otto Kirchheiner, chairman} of the Monroe county commission- ers, will leave Tuesday for Talla- hassee where Fons A. Hathaway, | state road commissioner, has call-| higseocial Scuction £43 air of the eae el The reception and dance whic! county commissioners: of three) mt y is open to member's only will counties. , | ” " “d orgie . < jone of the finest society event: Chairmen of the commissioners | that has ever taken place in Key |of Monroe, Dade and Collier | West, marking the completion of counties will meet to discuss the| the new club. The club no" location .of the Tamiami Trail) boasts of 150 members, the presi through these counties. dent stated, and they, their wive: Mr. Hathaway’s wire to _Mr.| sweethearts and relatives will Kirchheiner follows: | present at this affair. 3 “Pursuant to the resolution of| The club itself is beautifull the department. authorizii the! furnished. The upper or dane: ‘chairman to call a conference of | oor is decorated with attractiv the chairmen of the county eom- drapes and comfortable seats line: missioners of Dade, Collier and against the“long windows. Thi : breezes blow back. and fort! Monroe Soentien: with Teference te jaeross the fine dance floor, mak+ the location of the Tamiami Trail) ing :t an exceedingly comfortable through these counties,,I have set place in which to dance. April 15, 10 o’elock, at Talla-)"" Food -will. be served below hassee as the hour and the place! stairs onthe first floor, where for such conference and respect-| every facility for cooking fully request your attendance. F.|been arranged for. A servit A. Hathaway.” counter is also located on . the Jn a recent letter, Mr. Hath- away stated that he ‘thought that ball floor. q the someieee’ were. working along the line that would arrive Ceveveperovcccccecce : WORLD- at an ‘amicable’ ayreemeht. He stated that he believed that they | Secee were working along a line now Luling, Texas, oil tank is ing to an announcement made by | Robert F. Spottswood, president: | for, thik} For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West 'BIRS FUNERAL —_ONSUNDAY FATHER OF YOUTH ARRIVES ON TRAIN THIS AFTERNOON Anthony Birs, Sr., father of little Anthony Birs, who died Wednesday morning from in- juries received while at play, ar- rived in the city from New Jer- jisey this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock to, be present at the funeral ser- vice tomorrow. The body-of the boy will be jconveyed from the Lopez -parlors te the residence of his aunt, Mrs. J. A. McRae, 523 Elizabeth street, tomorrow afternoon at 1 o’clock, there to remain until the funeral, which will, start at 4:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon and will be from this residence to the First Baptist ehurch. Rev. W. K. E. James, pastor of the First Baptist church, and Rev. E, L. Ley, pastor of the ‘Methedist Memorial church, will be the officiating ministers. Uni- Publicity Director Of American Red Cross Arrives In Key West HENRY T. REED TO CON- FER WITH LOCAL OF- FICERS RELATIVE TO ACTIVITIES Henry TT. Reed, publicity di- rector for the American Red Cross, Washington, D. C., arrived this morning to look over: the chapter in Key West. Mr. Reed stated that he was in- terested in the work of the Red Cross here because of the city’s jpeculiar location and is anxious to.see the organization well knit- ted here. He said that he was jespecially desirous. of seeing dis- aster preparedness, as it would take. so long to secure relief for Key West, “I am indeed gratified at the development that has so far tak- en place,” Mr. Reed declared. He stated that good work had been accomplished in the roll call drive. He was also pleased at the |junior Red Cross enrollment in the public schools, which is almost double that ‘of last year. This junior organization of the Red Cross is meeting with formed Boy Scouts will act as pall cials, Flashes of Life Seococececococosecsooses (By Associated Press) LEIPSIC.—Harry Nelson, pro- fessional faster is in the hoose- gow, having been taken from a eage in which, the police found, he had lived for a month by re- ceiving soup and malt through a rubber tube. LOS ANGELES:—As sergeant Sweetman puts it, policemen don’t use their mental faculties while on duty. Asked if he was human, he replied: “I am a police officer.” + All this in the muni- cipal court when the sergeant was testifying that “Desire Under the dience but did not effect him. N9W BRUNSWICK, N. Rutgers has wild clever and speedy pitchers in its varsity nine: Their names are Wolf, Fox and Rabbit. MIAMI.—Mrs. . Ruth Bryan Owen who is running for con- gress, believes the place for wom- en is in the home, but the home is no longer confined to four walls, isan enlargement home activities. PHILADELPHIA. — A jury which included five women has convieted a negro of first degree murder in an hour and a half. PRICE FIVE CENTS New York Engineering Corporation Contemplates _ Realty Investments In Key West On Large Scale REPRESENTATIVE SENT ~ HERE OBTAINS MUCH ‘ DATA ON PROPERTY VALUES John W. Burke, representative of the J. G. White Engineering Corporation, New York City, who came here for a conference with Capt. Clark D. Stearns relative to the fresh water supply pipe ~ line from the mainland Elms” had a bad effect on the au- |‘ Lae * e for» card party to be given omjthat will make a satisfactory ad-|.t on fire by lightning in t Monday evening, beginning at 8)justment of this whole matter,! ays; San Luis Obispo fire oeloek, at_Mrs, Mary McKnight’s| working out the location of the| out; Brea; Calif, fire threaté ificein La Concha Hotel, which|Tamiqmi ‘Trail through Collier, | town, 4 »pwill be for the benefit of the Dade and Monroe coun Catholic. Daughters of America. «, - * *& + > re g's with Saddle Bunches is 6,000 feet in length. Watkins, county the and the surfacing of one } ‘of road on Saddle Bunches approximately 3,000 feet of on the Key Largo end Pro- 1 and 2 will be competed their entirety. Under this : contract there were approxi- “Mately 10.3 miles of road work and 2.9 miles of bridge work. construction was over the difficult and inaccessible parts the ea te le course, is is ex- aeoree i the proposed toll brid- ges. The difficulty encountered ‘by contractors and engineers will never fully be appreciated since the autoist travels in such a hur- ry usually that only bumps in the ‘road or an uneven bridge timber “comes to his attention. : Nevertheless, when one con-} #iders the Key Largo end of the construction built through a dense mangrove swamp where trees as} high as sixty feet rear their heads, | where the rock is fourteen feet} below the surface of decayed veg-| etable matter, peat and loam; where a fill five feet in height and 24 feet wide across the top had to be constructed over a mat-| tress of adjacent timbers and peat eh'nked and packed in between the interstices; where six small creeks had to be bridged. one long span ‘across the waters of Barnes Sound! and Cards Sound; with a stee! draw bridge on concrete piers) te provide for navigation had to! be constructed. When one realizes that every piece of machinery had to be brought to the job on lighters and every piece of bridge timber in the | same manner; when amrosquitoes : ‘were so derise that clouds of them | AMUSEMENTS eencceees MONROE THEATRE TODAY—*“The » Fool.” Roach Comedy. TOMORROW — “The Silent Pal.” Comedy, “Yes, Yes, Robd- bie.” A STRAND THEATRE TODAY — “Lightnin’.” Also TOMORROW — “Seil.” geed comedy. iso completion of this | ressed so poorly,” Mr, j the various contracts. There will be’ bridge "games played, also Five Hundred, with |prizes to be awarded, with re- freshments also to be served. fairly swarmed up from the un- derbrush; when the clearing gang chopped trees down under high water, mark; ‘when drag lines slipped off the heavy wood mats and required a week or more of time to get them back on their feet then-one can truly appreciate the tremendous difficulty that was encountered in the construction of this unit, the county engineer stated. ° ““Of course, it seems to the on- looker that undue time has been consumed in this construction and to some extent it is undoubtedly true. On the other hand, if we |began construction of her portion of the connecting linkin this over- sea highway program, months | ahead of the arrival of our equip- | ment, and over construction where |no single bridge has been, planned, | and the fact that this county wil be several months yet completing! her portion of the work, we have to admit that we have not prog- Watkins, said. More Accessible “The future road and small bridge construction that: has been let by contract by the county lies adjacent to railroad and is thas more accessible. We do not anti- cipate any extreme nor delays in the completion of It is very probable that within a year we will be able to ride to No Name Key from th's city and from Mi- ami to Lower Matecumbe. “Having been very closely as- sociated with the work of_ this county for the past five years or so and keenly interested in the progress of the road from an en- gineering and civic, standpoint, poss'bly as much as any single in- dividual, I might suggest that a great deal of credit is due the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County in their judicious handling ef one of the most gi- gantic engineering prob'ems of the world, undoubtedly the great- est highway feat that has ever been attempted. Also the contractor is due credit for attempting a job abeut whieh he had no previous preced- ents established en which to base b's estimates of cost, except work done by the Railroad years ago, and attempting said construction on a contract bid far below any of bis competitors, Although, we have actually saved money by having let the contract to him.” 4 | consider that’ our sister county! a a es ae Setiaté” agtées ‘to vote’ Monday on Steck-Brookhart Iowa seat contest, while house denies Cool- idge favors Steck. ad IS BIG SUCCESS ; MUCH GOOD DERIVED 18 STATEMENT iE BY MAYOR YY “Courtesy Week” which has been observed ip Key West dur-| ing ‘the .past week was a most) noticeable success, Mayor Curry said this morning. \ “Mueh good has been derived from setting aside a time in which to be especially courteous,” the! |mayor of the city stated. Police and others have been co- | operating with the mayor in mak. | Electric Company is announced in Sixteen convicts overpower guards at Nashville, Tenn., penis tentiary and escape on street car ductor. message from Premier Mussolini assuring powers his visit to Tri- poli with 16 warships carries no menace to peace. * Merger of public utilities in 68 communities’in six states and New jing this week a success. Taxi iNew York. | drivers also did thtir share to-/ | wards observing the week. | | The chamber of commerce|dad drown 35 and destroys 60 |sponsored the observan¢e of | houses. “courtesy week” afd secured the| support and cooperation of its ee eae Flood of Tigris River at Bag- $s ee after robbing motorman and con-}. Italian foreign office publishes! Brunswick into Central Gas and! and a sister, Sarah Ann Birs. Sur- viving him arg also his - ‘grand- mother, Mrs. Sarah Lowe, who idolized him, and. a large number of other relatives in this city. | will be largely attended. j ECY ‘SCOUTS TO ATTEND: FUNERAL | All members of Troop 4, Boy | Scouts, jat their headquarters on ‘Duval | street Sunday afternoon at 3:30 in full dress uniform with black jmeckties for the purpose of at- }tending the funeral of Anthony |Birs at 4:30 o'clock. TROOP REPORTER. REPORT VESSEL | ATOTALLOSS I also one brother, Benjamin. Birs, It is expected that the funeral | are requested to assemble | KEY WEST TIRE COMPANY TO ADOPT NEW RULES APRIL 15 Announcement is made in this | issue of The Citizen of a change in rules of the Key West Tire { Company, effective April 15. Louis Pellicier, who had long _ | been connected with the firm, takes over the service department, and wil have complete charge of that de it. | No charges will be made to any- jone after that date, according to | Reggie Pritchard, of that firm. | Mr. Pritehard says that the com- members. eer easeseer eganeceanses P. & O. 8.5. Ciba, Captain White, arrived from Havana at’ 3:45 P. M. with 172 passengers and U. S. Mail. difficulties | F. E. C. Car Ferry Joseph R. Parrot, Captain Harrington, ar- tived from Havana at 6:00 P, M. yesterday with 28 cars imports, and sai'ed for “Havana at 10:30 P. M. with 26 cars exports. { F. E. C. Car Ferry Henry M. Flagler Captain Hansen, arrived from Havana at 7:30 P. M. yes- terday with 25 cars imports and sailed for Havana at midnight with 26 cars exports, P. & O. S. 8. Governor Cobb, Captain J, J. Phelan, will arrive from Havana this afternoon with passengers and U. S. mail and will sail for Port Tampa at 7:30 P. M. with passengers, and freight. | RETURN TODAY Mrs, J. S. Warner, mother of | Lieut. Stark Warner, and Mrs./ Sarah D. Nicely return this after- 1 noon from Havana after spending several days in the Cuban capital. This evening they will leave for their home in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. stopping en reute at Charleston, Richmond and other cities in the north. i i French and Spanish officials; RUM RUNNER STRANDED ON/ pany will be in a position to save jdecide to invite Riffian tribesmen | their customers money on tires, | to meet for peace talk Thursday at Oudjda, near the Algerian frontier. Henry Miller, dean managtrs dics of pneumonia New York. * ee President expects farm relief legislation at this session of con- SS. a) Greek government officials put down’ revolt of soldiers started by three officers at Salonika. a Charley Hoff at Chicago breaks pole vault record fer seventh time since coming to America. Washington cfew beats Cali- fornia in three-mile race at Lake Washington by six lengths. SETS DATE FOR ROAD MEETING AT HALLAHASSEE (hy Ansocrted Prens) TALLAHASSEE, April 10.— Dr. s A. Hathaway, chairman of the State Road Department, to- day named Thursday, April 15 as e date fer a conference in Talla- hassee with chairmen of -the boards of county commissioners of Dade, Monroe and Collier counties for the purpose of select- ing a location fer the proposed Tamiami Trail. Moroecan- of actor- in} REEF SHORT TIME AGO | oils and gas by omitting the ex- | pense of a bookkeeper and reduc- ling to a minimum bad debts. Coupon books, having a value of. $10.00, are offered for $9.50. These coupons. are good for either oil, gas, service or tires. In ad- dition to saving money by pur- The Narkeeta, which was found abandoned off Chandeleur Island several days ago and seized by jthe C. G. 251, is a total loss, ac- ¢ to an announcement made by Chief Pay Clerk Earl Dodge, Coast Guard Department. The rum runner was stranded on a teef with 1,025 cases of ex- pensive liquors on beard. The major portion of the liquor was destroyed, and the coast guard at- tempted to salvage the ship but AT BOCA CHICA tempts. |YOUNG FOLKS LEAVE THIS The crew of the Narkeeta was MORNING MOTOR last reported near New pkey m Papers on board showed that Pat} CARS Tatum was the master of the lost! 1. The vessel, it_was found,! under the British register, from Honduras. j $50 REW The Key West Electric Com- pany will pay a reward of $50}) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of person of persons guilty of cutting up |] bus seats and seat back ap- bolstering. B. L. GROOMS, Manager. guards against running out of gas without having change handy. Read announcement. PICNIC PARTY chasing these books, the customer | | DAYTON, | Jones, hill-bred and mountain nered Kentucky youth who | to be collateral by the famous admiral |has felt the eall of the | has applied for enlistment in | navy, but because of under | must have parental consent. | H? i if 2 ¢ igs Fe i3 Delegate To East Coast Convention | "3, Otto Kirebheiner, chairman jof the county commissioners, has i ! H i sok LEESE i iz a He j : : i E HE : We et ret Hl if I