The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 29, 1926, Page 5

THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 19 Notes of The Passing Day se eertececocese~se Mrs. DiNegro Ill The’ many friends of Mrs. Al- bert L. DiNegro will regret to learn that she is il] at her home,| 983 Love Lane, and wish for her a@ speedy recovery. a 8 Girl Scouts To Meet There will be a meeting of Troop 4, Girl Scouts, held tomor- ro~;, afternoon at their headquart- -ets in the Scottish Rite Hall, be- ginning at 5 o'clock, and a full at- tendance of members is requested. : “2 * Mallory Due Saturday « The steamship Henry R. Mallory is due to arrive in port on Satur- day night from New York en route to Galveston with passengers and freight on board. The steamer has considerable freight for this| port. ‘Troop (4 Meets Friday There will be a meeting of Troop * * 4; Boy Scouts, held on Friday night | at their hall on Duval street un- der the direction of Scoutmaster Jenks. All members are request- ed to be in attendance as matters pertaining to the coming dance and cake walk will be discussed at 26, Cuba From Tampa | The P. & O. steamship Cuba, |Captain W. M. White, will arrive Tampa. The steamer will leave again for Havana on the arrival of the train from the north. 9 8 Cobb From Havana The steamship Governor Cobb arrived in port yesterday after- noon from Havana with a large number of passengers on board. Several of those arriving on the boat left on the evening train en route north. ees Meeting Friday Night The members of Troop 1, Boy Scouts of America, will assemble jat their headquarters on Division street tomorrow evening when {several matters of much impo! jance will be taken up for dis. cussion, A full attendance of {members is desired. oe. Eureka Due On Monday | The schooner Eureka will ar- rive in port on Monday afternoon from Caxambas with a load 0: freight which will be unloaded at the Mallory dock for shipment * in port temorrow morning from} this time. + + Athletic Association Meeting ‘There will be a meeting of. the; Key West Athletic Association held on Tuesday, May 11, when an| * |which will arrive here from Gal- veston en route to New York. s+ 8 Giving Away Money Strange things happen each north on the steamship Concho} \, election of officers will be held,’ and other business of interest to the organization transacted. .The meeting has been called by Secre- tary, U. J. Delgado. Personal day, but the strangest that has come to our attention is the giv- ling away of real money as ap- pears on another page of this is- | sue, Mention evccce rr errr rrr irr iiiiyy Mrs.- Jacob’ ‘Edwards, accom- panied by her sons, Mortimer and Edward, left over the East Coast this afternoon for Miami, where they will remain indefinitely. Miss Marie Goehring, who had been spending a short visit in Key ‘West with relatives, rcturned to Miami-récently, where she is now making her residence. : y M. Bentley, of Philadel- tative of the Peng) |; who had been ogre @ short business visit. in City, was a passenger over the East Coast last light en route north. Mrs. A: R. Sweeting, i Heel by ‘her two children, who ‘s been spending several weeks'| ‘visiting in Key West with rela- tives, were passengers leaving yes- terday over the Flagler System en . Miami where they are rants their residence, Mrs. Roland M. Johnson and children, who had been spending several weeks visiting in Key West with relatives, were passen- gers leaving yesterday afternoon over the East Coast -en route to their home in West Palm Beach. accom~ Mrs, John Warren will leave to-| morrow afternoon over the East Coast for her home in Live Oak,, : | Fla. Mrs, Warren will be accom-! panied on the trip by her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. D. Z. Filer and son, Charles. Mr. tind Mrs. Filer and som will return) will remain for several wecks'| LESS THAN MR. LADD’S SIX WEEKS for it to jump from $500 | to Key West within the next week.’ Mrs. Clara Senecal, aged has _ been ‘appointed sheriff Clinton. county, New York, 60,| of| by Governor Al Smith to succeed her} League of Canada, an organization | WITH HIM THEY WERE ASKING $5,000 AN ACRE. If you doubt fate husband, A son will be her| devoted to the welfare of sick and| that FACT, Mr. Ladd, ask them—you know them, chief deputy. J. B. Russell, who had been spending a while visiting Jackson- villé and other points, returned to. the city this morning. over — the Flagler System. T. R. Miller, real estate dealer of Jacksonville, who had been | spending a few days’ business visit lin Key West, was a passenger leaving over the East Coast last night en route to his home. } Lewis. M: Connor, prominent lumber dealer of Cincinnati, 0., who had been in the city for the past several days attending: to business matters, was a passenger leaving last evening over the East Coast en route to his home, Sydney H. Lowe, of Key Largo, returne'l to his home last night over the East Coast following sev- eral days’ business visit in the Island C€ity. Mr. Lowe has con- siderable land ‘holdings in that section, and spent the time here in realty transactions. Captain Frederick Albury, for- merly of Key West, but who is now residing in Miami where he is en- gaged in the fishing industry, left last night over the Flagler Sys- jtem en route to the Magic City. {following several days’ business tg here. | Miss Cornelia Lowe was in- eluded in the passengers: leaving yesterday afternoon over the Flag- ler System for Miami where she ‘visit with relatives and friends. Mrs. F, W. Wolcott of Hamil- jton, Ont.,. is the founder and | president of the Ladies’ Carry-On idisabled veterans. CASTORIA For Infants and Children tn Use For Over 39 Years paces hing quatre ot 124 DUVAL STREET i FOR REAL ESTATE AND RENTALS SEE THE KEY WEST INVESTMENT CO. PHONE No. 688-W. WM. CATES, Manager. GRADUATION DRESSES We have received a beautiful line of White Graduation Dresses by Express, purchased especially You are welcome to come in GLAD TO SHOW YOU AND THERE TION TO BUY. Let us show R. KI 706 DUVAL ST. for this occasion. aad inspect these dresses. IS. NO OBLIGA- yu, Prices attractive. RCHIK PHONE 128 \ \ CLEAR TO KEY WESTERS As Mr, Ladd made it a point to launch.a personal attack on Sen-} ator Malone while he is absent from Key West, several friends de-} cided this morning to say a few words in his behalf. The questions Mr. Ladd asked will be answered further on in this article, but what; we wish to. do first is to direct his attention to St. John, VIU, % wherein Jesus says: “_’. . He that is without sin among you, © let him first.cast a stone ... .” ‘ : Even Senator Malone’s worst enemies will not accuse him of being sanctimonious, He makes no pretence of being The Perfect | Man; he readily admits that he is only human, like all the rest of us, with the exception of Mr. Ladd, who is superhuman and: therefore The Perfect Man; Senator Malone will tell you further that he has made many mistakes, and that he is not “without sin,” as Mr. Ladd would have you believe he is. We feel sorry for Mr. Ladd. . We realize that he ant believe | us when we say that, for it is impossible for a-man like him, who wastes much of his vitality in éntertaining petty spites and: atreds, | | to conceive the possibility of anybody who is opposed to lifm feeling sorry for him. But it is: true, very true, that he, of all men, was foolish enough to question th@“fonesty of Mr. Malene or anybody else. compelied us to write this article. this campaign was started. We had determined not to indulge in personalities, and we had hoped that Mr. Ladd would follow the same course. of Monroe county hangs in the balance in this campaign, ‘ad, instead |* of showing Christian fortitude, we are compelled to show Christian indignation at the surreptitious attempts that are being made to dis-} rupt Monroe county by taking away from it some of its most valu-| able territory. ‘Sveigh him in the balance” to see if he also is “found want- First of all, what, “manner of man” is this Mr. Ladd who “first We could shovel mud to the extent of a page in the us to ing.” cast ‘a stone?” will be brief, and cite only one instance to show what “manner of man” Mr. Ladd was before he entered politics, and another instance to show what he has been since he entered politics. Walter W. Thémpson, when he was manager of the now defunct Consumers’ Ice Company, placed a great trust in Mr. Ladd. Mr. Ladd was lavish in his assurances that he would fylfill his-truth faithfully. But what did Mr. Ladd do? Hundreds of Key Westers know the story, and it is unnecessary to:relate it in detail-here. - Suffice it to say that when Mr. Ladd bought the stock. Mr. Thompson had directed *| him to buy, he slyly, uhknown to Mr. _Thompson, turned it over to the opposing interests, and. Mr. Thompson found himself. shortly’ after- wards out of his job. Ne. 2 occurred during the time Mr. Ladd first ran for caavele Though he knew perfectly well that Key West has only one city health offiger, he ‘promised the position during the campaign to two Key West physicians, and finally, in an attempt to save his face, ditt not appoint either of them. to say we did not question the sincerity. of his promise. We could have mentioned instances wherein he did not keep his promises, but we purposely refrained from even the slightest suggestion of mud- | slinging. But now that he has started the mudshoveling, we will ask Key Westers this question: Is Mr. Ladd any more likely to keep his promise to you not to divide Monroe county than he-Kept his promises to those two physi- cians—promiises that he knew when he made them it. was impossible for him to fulfill? Mr. Ladd asked Mr. Malone a series of questions about a-Key Largo tract he bought for a little more than $500 an acre and sold six weeks later for $2,500. Yes, Mr. Malone bought the property for $500 and sold it for $2,500. Incidentally, Mr. Malone;Mr. Ladd, Mr. Strunk and three other Key Westers, some six or eight months before that purchase, bought two tracts of 115 acres on Key Largo. One tract was bought from R. C. Perky for $110 an acre and the other indireetly from this same Model Land Company for $100 an acre. Months later Mr. Ladd, Mr. Strunk, Mr. Malone and the three other Key Westers sold the property for $400 an acre, and BEFORE MR. MALONE GOT HIS SHARE OF THAT SALE HE WAS NEGOTIAT- TRACT. S The company held out for $500 an acre, and, before contracting to buy at that rate, Mr. Malone wired to a Key West real estate agent to learn if the price of Key Largo land had increased to that extent, and was told that prices on-Key Largo were skyhooting. :As Key Westers are aware,'the prices of Key Largo acreage were. increasing so fast overnight it wellnigh took one’s breath away. It required | to $2,500 an acre, and it-took LESS THAN FOUR WEEKS for it to} jump from $2,500 to $5,000. “As a matter of fact, TWO WEEKS af- i ter the time the*Key Westers contracted to buy Mr. Malone’s tract | for $2,500, a small tract on Key Largo had sold for $6,500, an acre, and a WEEK BEFORE MR. MALONE’S BUYERS HAD. CLOSED} | Yes, Mr. Ladd, Mr. Malone’ has a Florida East Coast Railway , just the same as your mentor, P. L. Wilson, has, and your other | icker, W. J. Krome has.. Mr. Malone has his pass because he is | | the local attorney of the railroad at the munificent salary of TWEN- | | TY-FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR. Of course, Mr. Malone is paid a fee | | by the railroad when he acts as their attorney in a ease—just the } same as you pay a lawyer a fee to handle your business. | You, Mr. Ladd, nursing your petty spites and hatreds, may re-| | fetse to believe anything we say, but we assure you that it is the| | TRUTH, the whele TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH that Mr.) } | Malone did not know any more about that water bill being held up| | in the engrossing room of the sénate than you knew, or any other | Key Wester knew, What object could he possibly have for holding} it up? We are familiar, Mr. Ladd, with the insidious Propagansia | tabout the railroad not wanting a pipe line of water extended to} Key West. But the ridiculousness of that propaganda can be readily} appreciated by anybody who knows that it costs the railroad hun- | dreds of thousands of dollars yearly to bring water to Key West, and | that most of that money could be saved were the railroad able to} | buy water here. Besides, Mr, Ladd, as every Key Wester who reads) the Citizen-knows, the railroad officials; when Capt. Stearns, chair-| man of the Board of Water Commissioners, called on them, showed every disposition to facilitate the extension of the water pipe line} rem the mainland to this city. The propaganda said that the rail-{ read was not going te let the commissioners use its right of way for! the pipe, all of which, as readers of The Citizen know, turned out; to be false. Mr. Ladd, Key West has at least two sincere friends in Home-/ ‘tead, and they are keeping us informed of the movements of the} Redland county adveeates who are supporting you. Their latest move | & to try to find a way to make Key Westers believe that they are/ against you, and it will not surprise us the least bit should one had the Homestead papers carry a story to that effect. But the Redland county advocates can no more pull-the wodl/ over Key Westers’ eyes than you can rab mud into them in an at- | tempt to bliad them te the 0 ANDING ISSUE in this. campaign. | We are singérely sorry We are sincerely sorry alsosthjat he has} As readers of ‘The Citizen are aware, Senator Malore and his{ friends have not said ONE WORD against Mr. Ladd personally since | Were this an ordinary case the right thing for us towdo would?¢ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘/MR. LADD’S MUDDY WATER IS They know of the plot that has been ed, in Homestead to try to slice Monroe county. You may say TIVELY those county division: firveFen are not yet denied that they are, though that denial. , Up to date you have carefully avoided in any way). We have been told that you -ha ‘expressed surprise that jmany of the thinking people of Key. West | | Malone. But they are not working for o jare they working against. you as a man.- | | roe county and against the Redland |.of Monroe county. It.so happens that ly opposing Mr. Malone’s election and as. cahdidacy. z faintest shadow of a doubt, what other course can we expect of Key Westers, who love their city, love their county? Many of Mr. Malone’s supporters him, but, as we said, they are gets working for him—they are gold, shall-not prevail against the people of. Key West. (Paid Political Adve) ee True te —s All members of the Key West Athletic Association are hereby requested to be present at a meet- ing to be held on Tuesday, May 11th, 1926, at which time the an- nual election of officers will be held. UJ. DELGADO, apl 29-11t STi ee teary aren wh pod iene at saree We have 10 care loads of Building. Material on hand: and more cafm. : CEMENT pe to show Christian fortitude by treating Mr. Ladd’s scurzility with |; he contempt that it richly deserves, but it so happens that the future |) BUILDERS’ HARDWARE BEAVER WALL BOARD : wooD LATH METAL LATH : i ig > = & } se scgiee sis sweues Mr. Ladd, because of his attacks on Senator Malone, ‘has forced} Citizen in answering that question, but we are not going to dq it. We} Readers of The Citizen will recall. that when Mr. Ladd said that} he “was against the’ dividing of Monroe county, we made it a poitt *f ‘apr8- 15-22-29 again been illustrated, The Aid Society of New York ains divorces for clients at a fee as low ING WITH THE°MODEL LAND COMPANY TO BUY THE SECOND {as. twenty-five cents and handled 878,346 cases last yea a 5 3s AINTS SCREEN WIRE OULDING gS 4 ceived by the Board of— Public Works, Key West, Fla., until 8:00 P. M. 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