The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 12, 1926, Page 8

Sep me PAGE EIGHT, Rum Runners =Beat Cape Cod cee a me ‘Binder Boys LAND BOOM IN MASSACHUSETTS REPORTED NOT SO GOOD -«<FROM MONETARY STANDPOINT WHEN ACTIVITIES OF (ANTI-PROHIBITION INTERESTS ARE COMPARED WITH [ANNIS, Mass., where “the bended’ elbow of | hold a land boom, at fever heat for nine months, wilich rivals: re- eent years in Florida in intensity, but-upon an arca vastly less in its extent. ant the insignia of the order ere eed flaunted along the reaches of “the Cape,” t and appealing signs, antes working in 24- fpr chins ardent salesmen in ‘lying in wait at the gates of the developments in a score of the'teash, draglines and steam shovels, acres of stakes, dozens of : of them shut tight @ houses here and ing» in methods or in means to propogate a great New England }. Yum-runners are ‘ peputed | Bi. Soom more ‘real business aldiig. the shores of the Cape than ve a different; at Son temperature is differ- summer resort on the south- coast of the Cape. “Its streets seethe with the motor the rich, but it is a New and for al- 12.—Down' jove witnesses say. are “pooty steep.” This dredge has a power plant that generates 32,000 volts of | electricity, which it forces through cables running out to rotary suc- tion pumps moored to pontoons. From thsee pontoons, large pipes extend back to the scene of the “fill” and through them the sandy bottoms are forced with water into the meadows till they lay like great yellow barren fields gleam- ing in the brilliant sun. In one case an apple orchard Jay in the path of development and as the fill flattened out the salt , water soaked the roots of the trees and they gave up the ghost and passed away. Today these trees, a year ago so valuable, are sere and dead, mute monuments to the avarice of man. Osterville, 2 few miles away is the scene of frantic gestures which are being made around the name, “Oyster Harbor.” This was a considerable area of scrub pine and oak forest, jammed with un- | derbrush and mosquitoes and con- ¢| taining in its higher levels fine cranberry. bogs. DuPont, the powder man from New Jersey, has erected here a house for summer occupancy that is said among the natives to have cost two million dollars. It faces the water, but is confronted by flat sand dunes that are inacces- ible except by boat. Behind the house was a tract of several acres of low soil bordered with pine trees. The dredge went to work| in here; the low area is level full! of sand, and the pine trees are brown blotches against the dark green of the living foliage further on behind. A great grove killed| by the salt water which was ‘and the appeal of old New! thrown by the dredge about its ay in its every) | Pots, crooked but| in its Cape capitate ‘the entrance to Oyster farmhouses; in its great square Stide the prospect on. | From five io seven cars, each with woaiting salesmen, stand at Harbor to To see the development the visitor is di- homes where ae AS. seangelied reted by countless signs to ‘“Fol- in peace and it of the ocean loved. ’ rs of a mile from aianitinent new “Queen’s| a wooden block with a! ethrough the. middle of it “w massive windmill towering “fts roof to give local color! building—just about of a mile away, a has finished its work of a inarshland several! in extent, This dredge ‘been from Miami. hours ¢ach, 24 hours a day it Fi working three chifts of 3 It! 1 low the (outline picture of a) Fish.” This is presumably a sil-| houette of a codfish done in black. The mouth of each fish | points the same way the mouth | of every other fish does—along a new winding road that circles the | development. One follows ihe fish to several clearings where small armies of men are working. Then he is compelled to stop, for the way is barred with pine logs and a big steam shovel is gouging out the future driveway off there | among the slaughtered treetops. | Acreage raiher than small lots| are sold here. Three or four very fine houses have been built. each ‘ote hundred dollars an hour,| with a white-painted and typically 4 every 24 hours, st this inlet to “areas and E i at rates which some, There is no gas, no telephone | service, no sewerage, no asphalt roadway, little view of the ocean, and few lot stakes. Poles are be- ing set and two electric light wires run along the principal » road. Automatic water systems_ supply the houses of which few or none have been sold. Old settlers on the Cape deplore the draping of the once beautiful with the dirty umber plumes of margins of the cranberry bogs dead scrub pine. Salt water dredging has done for certain sections of these cran- berry bogs in Oyster Harbor what it has done for the apple orchard three-quarters of a mile from Hy- annis at “Hyannis Harbor.” Possibly twenty-five develop- ments were visited by the writer on this trip up and down the Cape within a radius of 20 miles of Hy- annis. In every case the situa- tion was about the same, except that some of the little office buildings had closed their shutters; in one case the names of the agents had been painted from the signs. ‘Where on Washington's Birth- day the Cape in this vicinity seethed with pre-Spring activities, today there were signs of a slack- ening. Despiie ‘the vast amounts of advertising there was no need of traffie police to ward of land- hungry hordes. Sales are being made, of course, but not many cottages are building, and yet Hy- annis goes on sedately as before, a Cape town made wealthy season in and season out by those who in the chill of Northern winters go South for further recreation. These well-to-do have their homes on the edge of the ocean, they are guarded by acres of woodland from the prying eyes of the en- vious who may seek to spy them hundreds of feet back from for- bidding gates. month or two month dwellers in the boarding houses and hotels of the Cape that have made and will continue to make the Cape what it has been and what it is. An advertisement printed only a day or two ago coyly misquotes the love-making of John Alden and Priscilla. In Longfellow’s poem, |“The Courtship of Myles Stand- | ish,” Priscilla says, “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?” Ad writers imported from land ro- deos in inland Florida have trans- posed this shy bid for a wedding festivity. Two young people garbed in Pilgrim dress are gazing at a typical Cape cottage standing on the sheer edge of the ocean. And she says to him; “Why don’t | we buy. for ourselves, John?” This is one—just one of many. For miles’ and miles through | Barnstable or Hyannis; or “the Port;” at Oysterville and Center- | ville, at Yarmouth, at Buzzards Bay, along the canal, and accord- ing to all at Provincetown, acreage has been bought and stalked. The scrub pine and serub oak have been cut and slashed; roads have built, or have not been built but have been named wih gaudy signs, | small lots and large ones have been laid out, temporary office | buildings erected, and the sale has been on where it is not off. { The prospect is about the sami ‘here many laborers are dark- pataned chaps from warmer climes, sucking | low Cape Cod picket fence square | negroes, Portugese, and some Ital- and mud from the bottoms! in front of it, marking off a yard | ians. spew it over the which has been landscaped to as to}a foreman, make land for appear very attractive. They work in crews under [site of a hotel. There the elev- bg ca tee for a community golf, our: oa \\ ones OQGGONE “TELL HERS ATS OuR MAS UMBRELLER By Williams tim SIT \ ‘ RIGHT IM GONNA AN'-L GOT MORE RIGHT N'ONDER IT “TH'N SOME OTHER PEEPUL! Ni‘ ay | We ce Rouen ie out from the main highways set} And it is these people, and the; information available | away off to the tip of the Cape} been | Here is:the proposed ; CRIMINAL COURT CONVENES TODAY SEVERAL NON-JURY CASES ARE DISPOSED OF THIS “MORNING Criminal’ court of record for Monroe county opened this morn- ing and will probably continue throughout the week. Through ‘invitation of Judge J. Vining Harris, the Rev. L. Munro, pastor. of the First Methodist church, offered prayer at the open- ing hour. The docket was sound- ed and a jury drawn. Two non- jury cases. were disposed of be- fore noon today. Salvador Digon, an Italian, en- tered a plea of guilty to -the charge of unlawful possession of liquor and was fined $100 and costs. Roy Pinder, drunkenness, plead- ed guilty,;fine $5 and costs or six days in jail. Court will reconvene tomorrow morning when the disposition of. jury cases will be taken up. Porch Gates, made of the best hardwood, varnished. Held to- gether with strong rivets. I can} sell you these cheaper than the mail order houses. Albury’s Hard- ware Store. july12-1t All Emerson Fans are guaran- teed for five years. july12-tf course; nearby the tenth hole. Here a thoroughfare to the bath-| ing beach. And so on. In Florida millions of inland) acres were cut free of under- brush, and gaunt pine trees stand like sentries over lands that will never be fit for anything but truck farms. The tenaciovs saw- palmetto has suffered its snaky prostrate irunk to be dragged from | —— half-seclusion in the earth by coughing tractors. The smoke of burning pine stumps scents the summer and winter air. In Cape Cod’s acres, too, the underbrush has vanished and gaunt pine-trees of another type and cl'me and habi'at stand like sen! tries over land ‘that will never bé fit for anything but cranberry bogs or pasture. The marvellous uncurling fronds of the common} fern or “brake” of the New En-| gland country have beén slavgh- tered with the first sap of anoth#t springtime jusi coursing up theit veins; their roots have beéh dragged from the pungent soil BY tractor plough and mattock. The smoke of burning pine stumfs scents the summer air. « “A look means a lot,” and Na- ture seems dest.ned to \ake con-1 trol of many of the acres that} man has devastated on Cape Cod as well as:in the ill-located area: of Flor'da, and restore them quite} soon to her own. Indeed, a look means a lot in Florida or along ihe shores of his- toric old Cape Cod today. The day of the bird-dog and binder- boy are numbered. CHICKENS FRESH KILLED CHICKENS Delivered At Your Door Daily ARCHIE THOMPSON Phone 879 1001 Eaton St. POINT VIEW SUBDIVISION ON THE ySLAND OF BOCA CHICA WHERE you will be within % minutes north of KEY WEST Classified Column 00000000080 0CCOOCOOSOOOSEEOOOOOOSOOOOOONSOSOSSO® Advertisements under this epee will be inserted in The Citizen at the rate of 1c a word for each in- sertion, but the minimum for the first insertion in every instance ia 25e. Advertisers should give their! ou address as well as their tele- phone number if they desire a sults. | Payments for classified Savers | tisements is invariably in advance,| but regular advertisers with ledger | accounts may have their advertise- | ; ments charged. FOR RENT FURNISHED HOUSE. Apply 825) Duval. july9-3tx | eonecccccccccosccs | FOR SALE REARS MES ERR eee oe FOR PRINTED SOCIETY STA- TIONERY, The Artman 125 Duval street. Phone 66. LAUNCH FOR. SALE—Fully equipped. Apply to “G,” care Citizen office. july1-12tx OLD PAPERS for | for sale. 100 for a nickle. The Key West ae 125 Duval street. |FOR. SALE—General Electric Motor. © Five horsepower, 1,800 R. P. M., 22.1 Ampheres, 110 Volt, 60 Cvcle. This motor is in splendid werking condition | and the price is right. Apply to Citizen office. mar2 FURNISHED apartment, White | sireet. Apply 503 Duval street.! June 28-tf FURNISHED apartments; modern| conveniences. 503 Duval street. | Phone 880. June 5-tf! CORNER GREENE AND ANN} STREETS—Opposite City Hall —Suitable for storage rooms, garage, repair shops, ete. Ap-| ply The Citizen, . _-d2c20! FOUND FOUND—Pair shell rim glasses. Owner can obtain same by prov- ing property and paying “or this advertisement. july8-tf REAL ESTATE BARGAIN LOTS on Grinell sereak | 106 ft. 9 in. by 108 ft. 6 in; | reasonable price. Address P. 0. Box 92. mar 11 ‘'ALUABLE CORNER—Southard and Elizabeth; 69 ft. on Eliza- beth, 100 ft. 6 in. on Southard. Easy payments. Address P. 0. Box 536, maril WANTED WA, ED—Those who desire ol hae visiting cards to give us orders,» The: Artman Pres? 125 Duval street, in The Citizen building. FEMALE HELP WANTED LADIES—Eern $10 per 100. Gilding greeting cards. Easy work. No selling.. Stamped envelope brings particulars. Broadway Card Co., 33 Greene Sten. Y. july12-itx | RUBBER STAMPS — When in; need of Rubber Stamps, see the Artman Press, 125 Duval street, Key. West Florida. tf SHAFTING AND PULLEYS FOR SALE CHEAP. Apply Citizen office. ae MISCELLANEOUS 1 PLAIN AND FANCY SEWING. | Reasonable rates. Work guar- anteed. 125 Ann_ street. july7-5tx P.O. Box 18 Key West, Fla. THE HOUSEWIFE READ THE FOLLOWING LIST OF ARTICLES: ALUMINUM WARE, WHITE ENAMEL WARE, GREY» AND BLUE ENAMEL WARE, TIN WARE, GLASS WARE, EARTHEN WARE, DINNER SETS, CHINA WARE, NESCO OIL STOVES (OVENS), NEW PERFECTION OIL STOVES (SUPERFEX), REFRIGERATORS (ALL KINDS AND SIZES), SCREEN WIRE, FLOOR MOPS AND POLISHES. We also have dusters, brushes, floor mate, floom brooms, clothes baskets, clothes lines, water coolers, ice cream freezers, kitchen knives, forks and spoons, table ware, electric pumpe. In fect, if it’s anything else for the home, we have it. Wm. Curry’s Sons Co. HERE are scores of buyers all. over Key West and along the Florida Keys who are waiting for your advertise-. ment to appear in The Citizen. They may not know they are waiting; you may not know it. “ee But put your ad in and see what happens. Second Sheets We have a large quantity of A CITY of with your CHOICE OF CHURCHES T of schools, postoftice, . Where you will be 2 10 minutes of the KEY WEST CITY GOLF CLUB 18,000 inhabitants ONE is an OPPORTUNITY IF you secure a lot where pou can spend your VACATION A LOCATION that you will al- ways love TO CALL YOUR HOME WHERE you can spend your time any time for it is SUMMER ALL WINTER on year. 1 AM OFFERING YOU A SAPE INVESTMENT. OUR LOTS ARE 50x100 OUR price, $1000, Our terms, $25 down, then $25 & month, for three inenths, the balance of the finest golf courses |} in the state of Florida. This are fond of fishing to |} OUR ISLANDS the whole ]) im quarterly payments of $507) each untit the full amount is paid. Por further informai address Cc. J. HUELSENKAMP Suite ‘3 a wl i * — aga Bitg. medium Manila Second Sheets which we secured at a very low figure and will sell them as long as they last for Call and see them or ’Phone grade 90200 o 00000090980590 0000028000 CUSESTO SO SUOOOOL DENSESESEOLCOROES reeveceee teeeseesecee your order to e Artman Press ’Phone 66 eeesee oes 2es000se) | 900900909 Sseces pSeessss: pet Oe 208080 » pee seeeseuceese ccsccscsesovonsecscsosensss: