The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 11, 1938, Page 4

\ ‘DESCRIPTION OF KEY WEST TO BE PUBLISHED IN NEW GUIDE The description of Key West, Scoeseececcoocececoseceeeesecesoseseesesesee which will appear in “U. S. One. SYNOPSIS: A widespread re- wolt of savage Dyak tribes makes it impossible for my uncle, James + Clyde, to run ony guns to his client, the besieged rajah. Our trading-vessel, the Linkang, is strongly fortified, but the Forres- ters’ Avon is defenseless. Trop- ‘ical Balingong bay is a strange Place to find a young English girl, and my uncle tries to persuade . Christine, and her brother Rob- ert, to leave. Cooi and serene, Christine insists on remaining for @ definite purpose. i Chapter Four James Clyde, Gun-runner “(CHRISTINE FORRESTER and her brothes are here for ex- actly the same reason we are,” my uncle said. “They're trying to take advantage of the revolt. Evidently they've cooked u2 some hare. ‘That's the trouble nowadays. Ev. erybody thinks he has to get rich. Clean up quick and retire. That’s all they think about. Nobody ex- Pects to just live along and work any more. Every last rattlebrain and his brother is out after some killing.” ell," pointed oul, so ar sir.” | warships, the gui jsound a man‘as a country black> smith; as necessary as wheat The traders were foreve> appealing. to British. Dutch, or Spanis= squad- hips ever came, vith their_ un: hot shallow | knew such ropes as’ were known, years before I joined him. He no | longer searched out his cuntraband | cargoes; they were eagerly urged }upon him through many channels. A hundred rajahs -espectéd nis name; 100 traders would have val- ued a partnership with James | Clyde above any oth2: thing. | In this case my uncle had rigged jfor himself an uausually advan- tageous deal Sumantang is an island, but it us big. Its sultan, who ruled from the capital of Saremba. | was far away. The rajah of Balin- gong, tributary to Saremba and | under a rajah appointed by the sul- jtan, was relatively rich in levies, |but’ weakly deferded. I suppose 110,000 Dyak warriors could have jeonverged upon Balingong. if all of the Dyak chiefs could have got together. And that vast coast line for a that's an_ entirely digerent long time had been stewing in re- “Those rattlebrain$ are after a big killing,” growléd ’ €lyde. “Weill,” I sa » matter!” my uncle growled at me. “Will you kee> to the point?” It was not a different matter. , That my uncle ».as a gun-runner | is more easily explainec than you might think. After the days of ‘49 8 youngster, arriving on the; coast of America too late} for California's golden boom, fi 2 i Bi He a ; 2 5 : i | ; tich possession of a ship for a new avenuto the Spanish—without know- res contained. where not even a trader dared at- a landing. and a good half of | were not on the map flags meant lit- nearest thing to trade se- even to the bare possi- of trade—was the friendship vidual rajahs. This was by first beating them off came at you as pirates. then by helping the rajahs in own >rivate wars by selling arms. Once the friendship of ‘was to the advantage of the trader make that rajah as strong as possible—by “neans of more arms. An Advantageous Deal ENCE the gun-runner. Techni- cally he was without legal i ae had no place in inter- CLASSIFIES CLICK Proof that the Classified Ad. bring results. was again demon strated yesterday when Miss Lois reported that an adver- A tisemvent She inserted on Monday of this week telling of a garnet ring she had lost, brought the lost articieto her on the following day. A Citizen reader found the Ting, read the advertisement— and returned it to the owner. th | id, “30 are you, sir.” | volt. Unable to get anything out of the Sultan of Sarentba ir. the way of defense. Rajah Mantusen of Balingong was not only in the market for gun powder, but willing to pay high for it He was able to pay. The 40 cr 50 tribes of Dyaks |who paid tribute to Balingong {were poorer than a monkey on a raft, but they provided a thin trickle of wealth which was well worth while when put through Balingong’s single strainer. It was the type of set-up for which adven- | turers like my uncle perpetually searched. With countless disappointments behind him, he never talked much about what he expected from Bal- Rut I knew that a single complete delivery would free him forever of trading again Christine's Father ONLY f could figure out just theif pla is, maybe 1 eal with them.” he i. “of course. I do eir plan i. Their plan these fool kids of his are on that, the same as me.” {I had never seen tt: man myself, I knew how he looked: and I did }mot believe that ..nthony Forres- | ter had cooked up such a plan. The face as shown in a stee! engraving was a fine-drawn. intellectual face: it was ascetic and thoughtful—a dreamer’s face. In a sense it repre- sented everything that Clyde and I were not. It was not the face of 3 }man who rushes into places with | contraband. “I still can’t believe they're run- ning guns.” I objected. “For one thing. if she has the same business bere that we have, why doesn’t | she offer to join up with you? She's | heard of you before—she said so. She knows who you are and what you're able to do. If she wants to | get her guns to Mantusen, the best | thing in the world for her to | would be to throw in wit!. you Yi [she doesn't even think of that. {plain to me that the cir’ }get rid of us, the same as we | to get id of her.” (Copercefia. 1958. 4ian Leitas) | Clylie won't leave the Forresters: What will be do, tomorrow? CORRECTION 1 was suspicious of this. Though | From Maine to Florida”, first of the highway guides m the Ameri- can Guide Series, prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project, WPA, to be published February.28 by Mod- ern Age Books, Ine., 155 East 44th Street, New ‘York City, follows: “At 168.6 m. the highway forks, providing two routes leading: into Kes W 6st, 216.2 m. (6 alt: 12,832 pop.): “Airports: Miami-Key Airways, at Yacht ‘Basin, two-blocks from center of city; taxi'25¢ per.pas- senger; Pan-American, Roosevelt Bivd., 3 m.,, taxi 50c. “Piers. Gulf side of island for P. & O. Steamers to Tampa & Ha- vana. “Information Service. Hospital- ity House, Elks Lodge Bidg., Du- val St.; House Dept, WPA Bldg.. Eaton St. “Key West, seat of Monroe Co., and the southernmost city of the United States, covers an entire subtropical coral island, one mile wide and three and a half miles long. Coco-palms flourish, and Spanish limes, dates, pomegran- ates, and sapodillas grow wild. | The place was called Cayo Hueso (bone key) by Spanish explorers as early as the 16th century be- cause many~human bones were found here. 7 “The island.was granted, in 1815, by Ferdinand VII to Don Juan Pablo Salas as a reward for military service. It was not set- tled until 1822, when it became a naval base of the United States. “About half the inhabitants are descendants of white people of British birth who came here from Virginia, New England, and the West Indies; about one-quarter are descendants of Cubans and Spaniards; and roughly one-sixth are Negroes who have lived—or whose parents lived—in Bahama or the West Indies. The popula- tion is bilingual, speaking both Spanish and English. “The earliest businessmen of the island were pirates; the first legal business to develop was wreck salvaging- So many ships Werte wrecked on the nearby reefs and so rich were the car-} goes that, in 1846, a time of un- usually severe storms, $1,600,000 worth of shipwrecked property was brought in. The establish- ment of the lighthouses gradually Some réturn of prosperity came during the Civil War when naval activity fneteased. After the be- ginning of the Cuban revolution im 1868 Cubans, many of them Cigar makers, came to Key West; im 1874 a modern cigar factory was established, becoming the nucleus of an industry that gave the city its next wave of pros- perity. Sponge fishing also be- came important. In time labor troubles in the cigar industry in- creased, and by 1906 the business began to move away to Gulf coast cities. In the meantime the place had begun to lose its importance @s @ supply station for coal-burn- ing ships. The opening of the Florida East Coast Ry. in 1912 MIAMI, Feb. 11 (FNS).—Indica- | tions are that the followers of the sports of kings and queens will! deposit sixty million dollars in the pari-mutuel windows of Flor- ide horse and dog racing plants this season, according to a state- ment by Parks Glover, secretary to the State Racing Commission, made public this week. This will be an increase of ten million dol- lars over the fifty million dollars bet at the tracks last year and will give each of Florida's 67 gave another economic reprieve, | but the effect was only, temporary as practically all the cigar. fac- tories had left and the sponge- fishing industry had declined. An- other blow came in 1925 when the Federal Government reduced the size of the army base; in 1932 the Naval base became inactive and the Coast Guard > headquarters was*'transferred to» St. Peters- burg. The city is the locale of Ernest Hemingway's novel, To Have and Have Not. “In 1934 the Governor ‘of the State placed the affairs of. the county in the hands of the FERA, which began the rehabilitation of the city by developing it as a win- ter resort. The whole place was cléaned up; streets and promen- ades were landscaped, modern fa- cilities were installed, new build- ings were erected, and charming old ones were repaired. A yacht basin and other tourist attractions were developed. During the first resort season more than 35,000 visitors arrived, about 3,000 re- maining throughout the winter. “The Sponge Dock, foot of Grinnell St., is one of the busiest spots on the island. The auction here is worth seeing. : “In the Turtle Crawls, N. end,of Margaret St. are often seen.speci- mens hundreds of years old and weighing several hundred pounds. Boats that come to the adjacent dock frequently bring in..large jewfish, sharks, and the like. Near the crawls aré’a canning plant and a_ turtle-soup. factory.‘ The butchering takes place shortly after noon nearly every day. “In the Open-Air Aquarium, foot of Whitehead St, are many brilliantly colored tropical fishes. “Fort Taylor, entered from An- gela St. has played an important part in the history of the city since its foundations were laid in 1845. “The Ernest Hemingway Resi- dence (private), corner of, Olivia and Whitehead Sts. was built shortly after the Civil, War- “From Key West:.Lighthouse (open dawn to sunset), cormer of; Whitehead and Division Sts,.is an exceptional view of. this, and} nearby islands. Aviaries on the, grounds hold hundreds. of tropical birds. ; “The Bahama -Houses,.stand close together, the. Bartlum: resi+ dence on Eaton./Street aud: tha;avith: polaroid i +eld BR. Moulton, researcher lands, by Capt. Joe. Bartha. in, the early part of the, 19th cen,,, tury; when the family in the early thirties decided to move here, the, house was taken apart, Joaded > aboard a schooner, and rebuilt,on . its present site. The Roberts place. was likewise brought frgm the Bahamas. These houses are con- structed entirely of white pine and, though unpretentious, have | a simple dignity and an air of comfort. They differ from most Key West buildings in having low ceilings, but are like them in having delicate balustrades on the porches and large shuttered open- ings”. And in getting business revived and going again. it is gonna be} the same, and whatever gettin’ ahead is bein" done, it will be by the average kind of person who is still gettin’ up at 630 A. M. and not by the fellers yp there in the tree tops. And the commotion in thé high places, it just keeps people upset and confused. and not knowin” what is comin’ next. ike when a hawk flies over—the chickens run under the house, and do-not come out till the danger is over. Bat one of these days, people alee ~etll getfed wp, as you might say. cavitemd ghey gill mosey put there , = high branches—and | Hale for days. $193,425 at the Fronton (Jai Alsi): and $6,161,482 at the dog tracks. The total amount bet as of that pick, off a few PLAN TO HOLD LATIN FESTIVAL IN TAMPA, FLA. NA DEL TOBACO TO'BEGRY! Tshebn’t lists Aidelilined jniuch 7 and reomoanr it GIST (URAC TMAS secve - ore ly in_a naval expansion race. dates ond plant lor dhe boning ot | Which’ Bas he" Prehidential ap- Florida's colorfyl Latin Festi &\proval ‘calls fdr major expansion ‘La Verbena del Tobaco, were an-70f the navy over a period of sev- nounced this week, and tonstruc- eral years. A large number of tion of the pavilions, stage and|™inor ships will be built, plus settings will bé started Within a | 5¢Verel capital ships—heavy men- few days at Phillips Field, ac-_ of-war, mounting 16-inch guns, cording to the statement of Ivo A. | and costing scores of millions. seem to be responsible for the program to revitalize and enlarge (the navy. First, the warlike atti- tude of Japan and her apparent and |higerents (as. illustrated by the isinking of the Panay), has brought the State Department to the view that the United States must make it apparent to Nippon Ttaliana. In these pavilions eral hundred men and women, wearing the picturesque costumes of their races, will present their if neces- | ith’ greater | busigiess de- to: be: bujlt there. Manuel Apari- cie,-welidrnown director of Latin shews, made a special trip to Ha- vana where he contracted for the . S a" services of a group of professional amount of iabor, skilled, sémi- entertainers and a famous girl skilled and unskilled. It demands orchestra. pen pamper mag ngee wg More than 100 newspaper fren dustries, from himber to steel. will be entertained by officials of -TAus, a big seule naval expansion the Festival at a dinner at the Co- Plan is of no small significance in lumbia restaurant on February employing labor, distributing 12. Russell Kay, secretary of the Money throughout the basic in- Florida Press Association, will be dustties, and bolstering business master of ceremonies. in.general, for a short period. oo Theoretically, Great Britain and | Device the United States have the New Ends Glare = Yorid's greatest navies, with Ja- —Science has deok at The : img except from certain been overcome by using TH sh Be § 4 u @uinine and iodine crystals ‘ter out the rays that ‘Until now there available it i ds and i 113 modern fighting ships ESTATE Notice fs hereby given to all ‘whom it may concern. that on Monday, the 28th day of A. D._1338, at 10:38 o'clock A_ M. Leey E Lowe, as geardian of Wi- fiam Herman Lowe, John Atkins Loewe, Donald Scott Lowe. Alfred Sands Lowe and Frederick ~N Sane ee be si Com: Windsor Lane and GQlivia and running thence. Southeasteriy eight (138) feet and inches; thence a ins Ninety-five (95) feet; thence at right angles in a Southeaster!: Fifty (56) feet: Dati th "¥éurs; with the low down, | © date was $17,173,871, which isan’ * increase of $2,000,000 over the igteke occurred in yester- same period of last year. : vertisement by Pollock's Nearly @ half miillion dollars weiry Store, 519 Duval street. was bet in one day's play at the diamond ring advertised for Miami Jockey Club when 10,500 sacrifice sale at $250.00—should people placed bets amounting to have been described as weighing a total of $463,000 trying to pick over “one” carat, instead of “two” the winners January 31. carats. ——_ _ Braddock. $19,942 richer after Subscribe to The Citizen—20e his victory over Farr, looks ahead weekly. , te chance to regain title. : PIRATES COVE FAMOUS FISHING CAMP in@ je total of 869,000 tons. 4 has 171 ships weigh- trig’ 708,000 tons. 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