The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 6, 1926, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT “FAITH IN FLORIDA By CLAYTON SEDGWICK COOPER (Author, Traveler and Lecturer) * “An old Hindu is quoted as say- {trade winds through the year, peo- ing, ‘I love health, therefore my iple have not been enervated but body shall be always young; I|made capable of doing greater love beauty, therefore my soul|work than they have ever been shall never die; I love friendship, |able to do in the north. People thérefore my heart will continue jhave come down here to retire and forever to beat in the hearts of | within a comparatively few months my friends,” said Mr. Cooper. have so truly renewed their physi- -Plorida would seem to be a |¢al vigor that they have been able fitting hatitat for these words of to begin ther careers over again. the Hindu poet. It is the land|We believe in Florida because par excellence for the renewal of |Florida adds years to the life's _health. It is the state where the |8pan. It is literally a fountain of sense of beauty is born again. It|youth. If all other activities if also a meeting place for a cos- {should fail, Florida would alway: mopolitan association in the air|be a Mecca for the world’s hu- of informal hospitality and friend- |manity seeking health. ship. “We believe in Florida also be- “@A great Florida Exposition jg |cause of its vast contribution to being planned for the coming the beautiful, to the artistic, to months in the north, and five the cultural and charming side of great trains are to carry these ex-|life. Here where every. morning céptional advantages of our state |is the opening of a beautiful sum- to the north, to the east and to the |mer day, here where we awake to ‘west, co that. the real truth about |the singing of birds, here where Florida may be brought home to |the very-air is song and where the tens of thousands of Americans. |8¢4 is a constant panorama pf The Faith in Florida club, now be-| Change -and delight—here is veri- ing organized, has for its aim the|tably a paradise of nature. The providing of ways and means for|Very name Florida—a flower—is counteracting unfair and unjust| significant of its attraction. The propaganda against a great state. | beauty of this state gets into the It would seem that, as a matter |blood and draws people back to of course, the many thousands of |it as. inevitably as the. flower Florida residents, together with| turns its face to the sunshine. It other thousands of visitors and |is said if you once drink the waters ftiends of the state, would be!0f-the Nile you will. return’ to ready to join hands in this club, | drink them again. Likewise it has organized purely in the interest Proven true that those who are of Florida, and ‘not for profit,’ once captured by the charm of é#inee no state in the union has a Florida’s natural beauty are bound more loyal or more representative to turn again to her as to their of people who believe in its natural home, drawn as was Ulyss- future and who aré ready to co- ¢ by siren’s singing. operate for its greatest good. “Add to this. beauty of pature “We have faith in Florida be- the growing sense of cultural un- cause it is the state of good health. derstanding coming in our beauti- 82-FOOT LEAP TO DEATH age 19, leaped 82 feet from High- road below. land will be sought for both win- ter and summer homes. We be- lieve that the present stabilization of land values is preparing the way for even greater real estate developments than the state has the peak of real estate values has not been reached in Florida. We believe that we shall have this coming winter a larger number of people in the state than ever be- fore in the history of Florida and that business of all kinds will feel the impulse of this great migra- tion. “More than all we believe in Florida’s people. We believe that these great trains which are to carry Florida’s products and literally her climate (since the cars will be heated each day in accordance with the day’s tem- perature in Florida) and wherein Florida’s representative cjtizens will speak to northern crowds about the things that they actual- ly know, will bring about a new point of view on the part of Am- ericans towards the kind of peo- ple who have been coming to this state. After all the human equa- tion is a great factor in determin- ing residence, Florida is made up of the most cosmopolitan popula- tion of any state in the union North and south and east and west are all represented here. It is a new amalgam in which the spirit of happiness and play and good health are mingled with the fasci- nation of building here a new em- pire beneath the low arched south- ern skies. The spirit of idealism in Floridians, their tremendous audacity in building and under- LONDON—Henry Chelmsford, gate Archway to his death on a the sun shines and the sea rolls on our beautiful beaches, Florida before known. We believe that THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Ladies of. Parsonage Aid Society Making Next Tuesday evening the ladies of the Parsonage Aid So- ciety of the First Methodist church will give a delightful so- cial at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. McInnis, on North Beach. An excellent program for this interesting event is being prepared and will be published later. Re- freshments will be served, and everyone present will be expected to tell a joke. COUNTY BOARD _ HEARS COMPLAINTS Continued From Page One) cers Bailey and Watkins were kept inside on clerical work te such an extent that they could not properly keep tab on the field work. Andrew L. Lopez, newly ap- pointed Justice of the Peace for the first district, was present in connection with his written re- quest for the county: to furnish him with office furniture, fixtures and accessories for his court room, also to provide $8 a month for his office rent. He also asked for a supply of legal forms, and stated thai a seal is the only thing he had found that was used by his prede- cessor, The matter was referred to Commissioner William R. Por- ter, with power to act. Senator Wm. H. Malone, county attorney, had prepared for publi- cation a legal notice of the refer- endum to be held August 17 to 3ecure an expression from the cit- izens relative to the guarantee of nierest asked by the C. A. P. Turner Company in connection vith the toll bridge proposition. The notice gives location of voting dlaces and names of election man- sgers selected. It is being pub- Plans To Give Social|ro tue FREE HOLDERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, OR QUALIFIED ELECTORS: The Board of County Commis- Five Hours of Torture sioners have been in negotiations | with contractors and capitalists, seeking to secure the construction of toll bridges from No Name Key, Florida, to Lower Matecumbe, Florida, connecting up the two ends of the Monroe County high- way. It has been submitted to the Board of County Commission- ers that in the event the Board will grant a franchise to a private corporation permitting the cor- poration to construct these bridges at a cost of approximately $13,- 000,000.00, $10,000,000.00 iv six per cent bonds and $3,500,000.00 stock, that the corporation would construct the toll bridges accord- ing to the plans and specific: on file with the County Commis- sioners. The company to be per- mitted to collect tolls to the ex- tent of twelve and one-half per cent’.of the bonds and stock is- sues. and any excess over said twelye, and one-half collected in tolls, to. revert to Monroe €oun- ty, and at the expiration of Twen- ty-five wears the ownership of said bridges will revert to Mon- ‘County. provided, Monroe Connie will lease the bridges from the-earporation at an annual lease nf $600.000.00 for the term of Twenty-five vears. which sum to he paid from the first tolls eollect- ed. and in the event sufficient tolls are not collected amounting to $600,000.00. then Monroe Coun- ty is te nav the. deficienev. The cornoration te operate the bridges and pay all expenses iricluding sinking fund of bonds without anv additional exn-nse to the County. It is theref>re snbmitted to the free ‘holders »f Monroe County who are qualified electors, wheth- er Monroe County should enter MRS W.u FLETCHER the Wirt FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1926: * | SPECIAL NOTICE CITY TAK- PAYERS The Tax Assessor of the City of Key West, Florida, having. sub- mitted to the City Council hie preliminary assessment roll - for the year 1926, for approval, -all persons desiring to have correc- tions thereof made, whether in | Esting valuation of property oF otherwise, are hereby . notified that the said assessment roll will _ be in the City Clerk's office, ac- cessible to the public, beginning Saturday, August 7, 1926, to and including Thursday August 19th, 1926, for said purpose. The Clerk’s office will be open for said period from 9 a. m. to 12 m. and from 2 p. m. to. 5p. m. daily, except Saturdays and Sun- days, Saturdays will be from 9 a. m. to 12 m. . . Any person desiring a ¢orrec+ tion. as above shall file with the City Clerk on or before Thursday ugus: 19th, 1926, his or her pe- tition to the City Council, setting forth his or her objections to said assessment and the corrections de- sired to be made, The City Council will meet-at the City Hall, Thursday August 19th, 1926 at 8:00 p. m. for the purpose of equalizing the assess- ments and making proper correc- | tions, and will reconvene from | day to day until all of said peti-. | tions shall have been heard and | equalization of assessments are | completed. ae WALLACE PINDER, City Clerk. | sveust 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 28, 14 Scesccascacercceseseooess aa Pineapples at times attain « WH FLETCHER the Huspanp | Weight of seventeen pounds. - Walker H. Fletcher, St. Paul (Minn:) manufacturer, tied Ed-| ward Horrigan, his life-long | KEY WEST TIN SHOP friend, in a chair and iortured| JAS. A. FEENEY, Prep, him for five hours because. he! — ;* said, Horrigan had kissed Mrs.|“Everything In Sheet Metal” | | | taking large things, the generous ‘ished among the legal notices, in and free hospitality and cordiality | The Citizen today. franchise on the terms outlined of the people—all these are Flor- Pee eee ee ea jabgve or not. An informal elec- ida assets and give faith for Flor-] <LEPHANT WRECKS ENGINE | tj will be held on the 17th day ida’s future. of August, 1926, for the purpose “We may have differences of CALCUTTA.—An elephant | 9; ascertainin the wishes of the opinion in politics, in religion and| wrecked a locomotive near Siml lified electors who are free- Fletcher. He threatened Horri. thard Sti | gan with a gun, burned him with matches, struck him with a whip, | or. Tunes 9nd ae Sts. and- beat him with his fists, after binding him. One of Horrigan’s | eyes is closed as a result of the beating. Horrigan and Mrs. | npr Fleicher deny Fletcher’s charges, How Fletcher tied Horrigan | OME ME, and tortured him is shown in the large photo, which was posed by| a Sar a | Telephone 518 P. 0, Bex 220 In the early sixties we find books ful buildings, in the beautification | representing the advantages of of our parks and driveways, in Flerida solely from the point of ©Ur cultural institutions, churches, view of a health resort. People schools, colleges, hospitals and have always come to this state to ‘charming residences and you have escape the cold and trying winters one of the reasons why people be- of the north. Here frail constitu- lieve in Florida. } jinto said contract, and grant said o reporters. tions have been renewed, here “We also have faith in Florida’s — ae been escape ae Loy page ae eG We hoa and pneumonia and a score jin the soundness of our banking of ailments consequent upon the institutions. .We believe in our severe northern winters. Here new transportation activities into parents bring their children who, which millions of dollars of north- have been ailing and Florida’s sun-|ern capital are being poured at shine and out-of-door life has built | present. We believe in our new up young bodies and given physi- harbors being built along our ex- eal constitution for the work of tensive coast lines. We believe in our new industries and in the ~ “We believe in Florida because large plans for the agricultural ‘experienced the fact: that development of- our “back coun- m this wonde! climate, with'try.” We believe in our real es- invigoration of tha constant tate, for we know that as long as in business methods—there is one thing that brings together the en tre population of ‘this new state. and that is an unquestioned faith in its health and culture, in its business and its men. The slogan of Florida is and will be ‘For ward'!” Mr. Cooper delivered this ad dress at the great open air megt™ ing at Miami, July 31st, held“un- der the auspices of Chamber of Commerce at wi ‘ime the first “Faith in Wforida Club” was or- ganized. | Edison Pays Fribute to Inv Who Stood High in Former Western Electric Co. Chief Engineer Took Out 441 Patents * The recent death of Charles E. Seribner, one of the three greatest ‘electrical inventors this country has Jenown in the last two or three dec- ades, has elicited the following tribute from Thomas A. Edison: — *T had the greatest admiration for “Mr, Scribner's imaginative power and his ability to visualize and anticipate im minute detai) the requi Pie vast technique that has ally built up in the electrical industry. Mr, Seribner was the most industrious inventor | ever have known. He was ently indefatigable and his im- agination seemed to be boundless.” Mr. Scribner's story is that of a boy inventor whose high promise attracted the attention of the late E. M. Bar ton, former president of the Western Electric Company, at the outset of bis garcer. In atter years he became chief engineer of the company, a position which he held 23 years. After the death of Steinmetz he was credited with holding more patents in the elec trical field than any other man save his friend, Mr. Edison. In the course of whis'42 years of active service he took ont'a total of 441. He was 68 when The late C. E. Scritner. ectrical i | —a* \ Field Studying Industry A dozen Jersey City high school boys visited the Western Electric Com- pany's plant at Kearny, N. J., during Boys’ Week, inspected the works from top to bottom and then were assigned to various tasks. It was their first intimate glimpse into industrial life. In all, 152 boys inspected 55 Jersey City plants. In each the boys were shown the entire system and then put to work as the heads of divisions or to getting his repeater tried out by the Western Union Compa “As he and his banker friend left General Stager’s office, it occurred to me to get his address, and I sent someone after him for that purpose, with the thought that I might offer him some definite emoloyment. I did jnot see the opportunity to employ him directly in the Western ctric, but within the course of a succeeded in getting an appropriation of $25 a month from the Gold & Telegraph Company for an as- ant to the inspector of Gray print- rs, of which there were probably 25 to 50 lines in and around Chicago. “I wrote to Scribner, offering him he died at his summer home in Jericho, Vermont. In his early days worked with Mr. of inventions, The first switchboards to be used ays Mr. Scribner |occasions, I noticed in conierenge wit muitiple | boy, whose blond hair feil in disorder mmercially }over his for dd. A part of our on a large scale were of Mr. Serib- | business at that was making mod. bers design. The electrical circuits els for inventors, and the unusual employed — in inter - communication, | thing in this case was that there were Fwltchboards and signalling apparatus, | Nene of the conventional signs of an as devised by him, have been adopted | inventor about the boy ; pot only throughout this country, but} “At this period the automatic tele in nearly all countries in the world | graph repeater, invented by Hicks, was He was a fellow oi t! considered one of the most important stitute of Electrical | inventions in electricity since the 1900 his work was rev Morse system had come into use, Ex- award of a gold medu! perimenters who tey years later would gnized by the at the Paris jthe place at $25 a month. Shortt jyjaiterward he appeared with a letter | non a number} one of the workinen a rosy-cheeked | ron his father to me, asking me to find a suitable boarding place for his son. T took him to my house for the first r and found a boarding place for him the next day. He was to as- sist C. H. Rudd, the inspector of Gray printers. “At the end of another year the business of the Western Electric had gtown somewhat and we were able to find employment for the young elec- trician. His repeater never came into commercial use. The telephone super- seed the printers, and the boy elec- Exposition. Mr. Scribner was be fa 1858, but spent his Tedo. In 1880 he Brown, also of Tol vived. In 1876 he » taking with hiw his Atitomatic telegraph story of his first days pany he served so lone fram the following acc Mr. Barton shortly be “In the Fall of 187 Western Electric Manwiacturing Com- was on the third floor of the Kinzie Street building, with the shop office, which was lighted by a skylight, ip the center of the room, while the general office was downstairs. Miaiting the shop on a nomber of in New York ~yhoed in To- red Margaret whom he invention— repeater. The with the com: | spend their time in irician Became one of the foremost en- | gincers and the foremost inventor of | telephonic apparatus in the world. He | did not give much attention to the con- | struction of telephone transmitters and { receivers, but his personality is im-; pressed upon the apparatus used in/ connection with those instruments to | a degree which is unparalleled in the history of the industry “Ii 1 had not happened to meet young Scribner in the shop office when he was carrying away his repeater, and if it had not been for the chance meeting the next day in General Sta ger's office, at which time I obtained bis address, his career and the career vising telephones and who now would try to devise im provements in wireless.telegraphy were at that time giving their attention to telegraph repeaters. “The boy in question was Charles E. Scribner of Toledo, Ohio, who had devised and patented a repeater which was thought by himself and others to be of commercial value. He had come . 0 have the model made orkmanship in our shop. » later, probably the next day, 1 visited the office of Gen- eral Stager at the Western Union headquarters in Chicago. It happened that young Scribner was calling on General Stager with the cashier of one of the Western Electric would un of the Chicago hanks, to whom he had doubtedly have resaited ditferently a letter of aptrodaction, with a view {than they did” but. died of its own injuries, “CLASSIFIED: LOLUMN WWevecccccccccccccscces FOR REN FURNISHED apartment, White sireet. Apply 503 Duval sre June'28-Ff FURNISHED apartments, all mod- ern improvements at Campbell Buildings. Paul Boysen, 619 Fleming street. aug2-12tx UTIFUL furnished home on Flagler avenue, Gandge, at tached. Must furnish good ref-' erence Address “Home” care The Citizen. aug. 5-dtx AGENTS WANTED WANT experienced Automobile Insurance salesman to be rep- resentative im KEY WEST and MONROE County. Liberal Agency Contract to right party. Write for full informa- tion. State experience and quali- fications. R. B. PLUMMER, BELT AUTOMOBILE INSUR- ANCE, P.O. Box No. . 2947— MIAMI, Fila. aug5-3t { WANTED YOUNG MAN desires position as stenographer. Willing to start 611 William treet. aug4-4tx FURNISHED APARTMENT or cottage, preferably near ocean. Box 324, Key West. aug. 5-4tx BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES WILL FURNISH small boat if some one will furnish the ex- perience to go fishing at square halves. Address “W" care Key West Citizen. aug. 5-2tx I FOR SALE FOR SALE—Seven touring car. ‘on for selling. Citizen. FOR SALE—1 in good condition. $175, terms. Apply manager Athletic Club. aug. 5-3tx passenger Going away rea- Address “C,” aug3-3tx | | i } j | SUMMERTIME Is The Time To Have Your Plumbing Done ‘ Prompt Service At This Season JOHN C. PARK Plamber and Supplies | 328 Simonton St. Phone 348 +e leumbe, Florida, or over such other “| Key, at small salary for experience. | i Ford touring; ders, whether said County shall into said contract or not. e form of the ballot to be used. at said election shall be: ‘Mark an X in front of your choice. | Shall Monroe County enter into ja contract pledging to par $600,000.00, or any part thereof ; that may be needed, to secure the leonstruction of toll bridges under }franchise contract, from No Name Key, Florida, to Lower Mate- route as may be selected, in order to connect said oversea highway or not. Shall Monroe County enter into a contract pledging to pay $600,- 000.00, or any part thereof, that may be needed, to secure the con- struction of toll bridges under franchise contract, from No Name Florida, to Lower Mate- cumbe, Florida, or over. such other route as may be selected, in or- der to connect said oversea high- way or not. The following is a list of polling places and inspectors of said elec- tion: PRECINCT NO. 1 Place: County Court House. Inspectors: Dr. W. J. Bartlum, |Ed. Mulrennan. PRECINCT NO. 2 Place: City Hall. Inspectors: F. F. Hoffman, Guy -barner. ‘PRECINCT NO. 3 Place; Harris School. Ins ors: Geo. A. T. Rob- erts, Jos. C. Whalton. PRECINCT NO. 4 Place: Rogelio Gomez Office. Inspectors: T. Luther Pinder, George Morris. PRECINCT NO. 5 | Place: Cor. Varela and Division | Sts. | Inspectors: Jonathan Cates, C. C. Symonette. PRECINCT NO. 7 | Place: School House, | Harbor, Fla. Inspectors: John W. Pinder. PRECINCT NO. 8 Place: Pine Crest, Fla. Inspectors: Robert H. Kirk- Hand, Harry Sullivan. | Rock | Roger Albury,/ | } | .| opments survive. | achi bandit chief captured in 1923, | PRECINCT NO. 9 Place: School House, Mate-} icumbe, Fla. Inspectors: Preston Pinder. J. OTTO KIRCHHEINER, Chairman. BRAXTON B. WARREN. WILLIAM R. PORTER. CARL BERVALDL W. HILTON CURRY. Attest: dD, Z. FILER, Clerk. B. Lee Pinder, READJUSTMENT IN LAND DEVELOPMENTS (Continued from Page One) Only by accident can one ayy such an investment. Yet there are many beautiful tracts in Florida} that will increase in value and on/ which will be built ‘many beauti- ful homes to be enjoyed by those able to spend the winter in a warmer climate. But ‘paper pro- fits’ of the last year or so are gone—only the substantial devel- so without sound judgmen “It more than ever evidences! the truism that there is no royal road to fortune and that it is only by hard work and the judgment of a keen mind that one can ob- tain wealth.. In this, (oo, Florida ean be considered, for the tillage of the soil and the wonderful crops that can be produced there offer new fields to one willing to engage in this productive field of endeav- or. Unwise speculation ventures in land very often result in fail- ure; they must have a solid found- ation just as the home itself. “That Florida’s real estate con- dition would adjust itself after in- flation to the proper level was un-} doubtedly evident to all astute! real estate men. ~ The. Floridian | is welcoming this adjustment. | Such a condition was on its way at Cape Cod, but wisdom: pre- vailed. Only legitimate growth is now taking place there and,/ happily, inflation is no longer a} source of worry to those who have | the sane growih of Cape Cod at heart. } Land values have not increased | anywhere near in proportion to other commodities and our subur-| ban cities and towns have shown} such active interest in conserving! the beauty and desirability of | suburbs that they are actually cre- | ating the demand. themselves. Zoning the various districts, re- stricting the distance between | buildings and requiring setbacks | from the street insuring ample{ breathing space have made these} districts even more desirable. BANDIT CHIEF ESCAPES BOMBAY.—Mie Khan, the Bal- has escaped. | It means $2.50 for you to read| Electrie Company ad. Aug. 4-tf WALTER'S GALVANIZED TIN SHINGLES Cornell Wall Board, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Carey’s Cement Roofing. H. B. Davis 100 Per Cent Pure Paint and Oils. PHONE 240 William and Caroline Sts. | DELMONICO RESTAURANT A. LOPEZ & CO., Proprs. Fish a Specialty TRAVELS 1,000,000 MILES | 1 | GLASGOW.—During 45 yaers ' as a railway guard David Ross has} traveled more than a million miles. | Jock Ingram, a blind ex-soldier, Meals at All Hours won the London to Brighton walk-| 218 Duval St. Key West; Fla. ing contest for the third success-| ive year and received a $500 cuy. | Baa a em, BARGAIN LOTS Grinnell Street Size 106 ft. 9 in. x 108 ft. 6 in. Priced Reasonably Address P. O. 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