The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 17, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Mrs. Phelan Is Chairman Of Garden Club Flower Sho Mrs. Pauline Phelan this year will serve as general chairman of the Key West Tropical Flower Show, it was announced follow- ing a meeting last night of Key West Garden Club and Tree Guild: The show will be held March 1, 2 and 3. A letter received by the club last night from Commander W. Ww | .A general publicity program jhere and on the mainland is |planned to attract general atten- | tion to the show, the only one of its kind in this country. i Plants For Sale | Mrs. Phelan announced today that the Garden Club will spon- W. Demeritt of the Coast Guard S°r @ plant sale this weekend, to announced that authority tobe held at Mrs. Norberg Thomp- use the old lighthouse building son’s residence, 1319 Duval street. back of Coast Guard headquar-| Mrs. Phelan will be on hand ters had been granted. |Thursday afternoon from 1 to 5 Mrs. Phelan has been assured, p. m. and on Friday all day. of the cooperation of the mem-| Annuals, including carnations, bers of the club in arranging this;phlox, mignonettes, larkspur, outstanding Key West event. She | petunia, snap dragons and others will call a meeting soon to an-/will be sold and rose plants will nounce the members of the com- also be featured. An advertise- | | | KEY WEST WOMEN Their Homes and Gardens) ee By MYRTLE COSGROVE MRS. ALBERT MILLS’ GARDEN “Jack, the giant killer”, most intriguing of fairy stories, el lates with great gusto the amaz- | ing growth of the bean stalks to/| the castle of the giant. And all| in the space of a single night!. . .|jor, 13th Coast Artillery, execu-| A runner-up of this streamlined | bean is the tropical vegetation | that flourishes so luxuriantly in| south Florida. . .Maintaining a| 12 months’ schedule, no snow or ice retarding their development, | small wender that THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BATTERY ‘E TO PRACTICE Battery “E”, 13th Coast Artil- lery, will conduct target practices at Fort Taylor, firing 37mm (sub- caliber) ammunition on January 18, 19 ad 22, and firing 3” serv- ice ammunition on January 25 and 30, it was announced today by Webster F. Putnam, Jr., ma- tive. The target practices will be eld between the hours of 1:00 p. m. and 3:30 p. m. on the dates listed above. The danger area during these [BROWNE CRITICIZES BRIDGE ADVERTISING | (Continued from Page One) 'Key West than the type of copy} |that has been released? } “I have been watching the pro- igress of the Commission since | |the attempt to raise rates with |the hope of receiving additional | |revenue. Then the excellent idea! of special week-end rates during | one of the fall months. records will show fewer tolls over | the Highway than any previous fall month since the road open- trees and |Practices will be up to about 5,-/ed. There surely were thousands plants in this section grow with |900 yards for the subcaliber prac-|of people visiting the Miami area such astonishing rapidity. . .An tice and up to about 12,000 yards {who might have been interested “Greater Miami had more tour- | world and wind up at the warm- lists at that time than at any oth-|est resort in America. ler fall period, yet I think your | Miami, for if he did he might lose his Miami merchants’ ac- counts. “Perhaps I have dwelt at length on something that has passed. I let it go at the time. Had hoped that when the $12,000.00 adver- tising schedule started there} would be evidence of sincere and experienced effort to prepane: copy that would create a real desire in the minds of those peo- ple in Miami and other places to see the beauties of the most unique automobile trip in the! “‘Smoother than an ocean voyage’, says a Commission ad in| the Miami newspaper. One can’t take an ocean voyage to Key |West without a private yacht. I presume it is Key West that the | writer of the ad referred to. Isn’t | |. practically every bridge smooth- | mittees to be in charge of vari- | ment elsewhere in this issue ous phases of the show. | | Junior icin Comes For Visit Howard F. Berton, prominent business man of Atlanta, Ga., ar- rived on the noon bus today to! join his wife on a short vacation trip. Mrs. Berton is spending the | winter here, staying at the home of Mrs. Jennie Seymour on Eliza- beth street. } oer | . } CASA MARINA NOTES, eocccccccccccccce THE FIRST TENNIS TOURN- | AMENT of the winter season! was held yesterday on the cham-| It | pionship Casa Marina courts. was a round robin mixed dou- bles event with five teams in the competition. The team losing the least games while playing each} of the other teams was declared the winner. The honor went to the duo of Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Sudler, of Chicago, one of the best mixed doubles teams to play here in some time. In four matches they lost only three games while winning 24. In the runner-up position were Mr. and’ Mrs. C. H. Hetherington, of Ridgewood, N. J., who lost but five games and, of those, four were to the Sudlers. For a while it semed as though they; might defeat the champions but after leading two games to one; the Chicagoans came on to take the set six games to two. Other teams competing were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wiggins, Mrs. S. S. Durfee and Dr. James P. Wil- liams, and Mrs. Davis Hosmer and Dr. John W. McGuire. EDDIE CASSITY, the tennis professional, will be arranging tournaments of this type every week and later in the season a singles championship for both women and men will be contest- ed. MR. AND MRS. W. M. CRAMP Philadelphia left yesterday | after severai days at the Casa Marina. Mr. Cramp was the American consul to Warsaw, Po- Jand, and was one of the last of Americans to leave the doom- y. They will spend several weeks in Florida visiting many of the cities on the West Coast before returning to their home in Philadelphia. of ROBERT P. NEWTON, who has been at the Casa Marina for the past two weeks left yesterday for his home in New York. Mr. Newton will return next month for another visit. LAST NIGHT was Bingo night and many of the guests turned out for one of America’s most popular indoor games. YESTERDAY was supposed to have been a bad day for fish- ing. However, Dr, and Mrs. John Sloan, of New York, who arrived at the Casa Marina yesterday morning, wanted to go fishing} and so out they went. They! were aboard the cruiser “Mary B” with Ted Canova, the skip- per. At that, the anglers did not} get started until late in the aft- ernoon and when they returned | the fish box contained one of the} best catches of the season. In ad- ;Stone Church Service gives prices of the plants. Meet Tomorrow Members of the Junior Wom-' en’ Club will meet tomorrow afternoon in the Woman’s Club building on Division street to en- | joy a social hour. President Susan LaKin will call the group to order at 5 o’clock. Dance Tonight At Raul’s Club Regular Wednesday evening dance at Raul’s Club on Roose- velt Boulevard will be held this evening at the usual hour of 10 o'clock. Music for dancing will be furnished by Ray Baldwin's Na- tive Hawaiian Orchestra. There will be no admission or cover charge. CLUB TO FEATURE NAVY WIVES’ MEET At the regular meeting of the (Fellow- unanimously ship) Club it was | decided to conduct Ladies’ Night next Tuesday evening when the wives of the navy men stationed in Key West would be special guests of the club. Upon motion duly made, sec- onded and carried the secretary was instructed to write represen- tatives in Washington requesting that they give attention to the transportation problem now fac- ing the city as a result of the cur- tailment of service by the P. & O. Steamship Company between this port and Havana, Cuba. The committee recently ap- pointed to investigate the fire alarm system in Key West gave a report of the accomplishments thus far and received instructions | to continue in their efforts to as- certain whether or not a more satisfactory system could be pro- the tropics hovers about Mrs.|itls can illustrate the fact that | vided. Adrian O’Sweeney gave a de- tailed report on the progress made by the city-wide recreation committee organized to provide adequate recreation for the en- listed personnel stationed at this port. At the conclusion of the report President Six appointed Albert Carey, Gerald Saunders and Chas. H. Ketchum to repre- sent the club on the general com- mittee. HOT STUFF IN ARCTIC (By Associated Prexs) MOSCOW, Jan. 17.—Thanks to hothouses, inhabitants of remote Soviet Russian Arctic stations will not suffer for vegetables during the winter months. Hot-houses in which cucum- bers, tomatoes, onions and other vegetables will be grown have been built on Wrangel Island, Dickson Island, Cape Wellen, Providence Bay and other far northern stations. NAVAL DEVELOPMENT JUST BEGINNING NOW (Continued from Page One) of the barracks, the Martello Towers and Fort Taylor. “This place is packed with military and naval history”, the admiral commented. “I was here excellent illustration of this pro- |f0r_the three-inch practice, south lific growth may be seen in the |Of Fort Taylor. All craft in this | garden of Mrs. Albert Mills, 526 | area should proceed with caution. | Angela street. . For many a long} | day she wished to enlarge her} ‘er than an ocean voyage?’ The} \State Road Department was sup- |posed to continue construction (of the Highway to Key West. We, | who have traveled over the road, in seeing Key West, but the week-end ads, as run, did not con- tain copy that would create a desire in the minds of the read- garden, to obtain an entrance on | Simonton street, but two build-| ings stood between her and her | BOWERS TO APP EAR jers to come to Key West. The en- (Continued from Page One) figure in composition of popular (tire copy was addressed to those ‘people presumed to know about ; the wonders of the Highway and know that stretch the State Road Department is responsible for is roughter than the English Chan- goal. . .Being a woman who of-| songs. | times takes a hand in making| He wrote the music and was! ‘nel, The ad does state, however,” that if anyone wishes infofma- ;tion about the Highway and Kéy Key West, and it told them how cheaply they could make the dreams come true, she set about removing these hindrances to her | plans. In a few months the hous- | es were torn down. . .When the} last bit cf debris was removed, | foundations for a bigger and bet- | ter garden were begun. . .Today, exactly a year later, a large gar. den, well-planned and _beauti fully executed, filled with full- grown trees, plants and flowers, occupies the space once used by the buildings. Quite a record} even for Key West!. . .Mrs. Mills’ method of procedure in obtaining results is most instructive. Here it is, step by step: first, three | feet of top soil was removed, ex- | posing bare rocks which were left undisturbed for drainage. Next, a filler of old leaves and coconut limbs was added; then the top soil replaced. . .Bermuda grass seeds were then planted. In 16 days the ground was covered by a velvety green lawn. . .Mrs. Mills advocates planting Bermuda grass in sunny sites and the St. Augustine variety in shade... Trees, full-grown, were next add- ed. It is interesting to learn that not one was lost in transplanting. | Later, vines, annuals, and plants in mass formation were put in. . .| Mrs. Mills stresses two facts: that well water has been used exclu- sively in her garden and that fe ‘trees and plants were purchased the majority of them being the gift of friends. . .In demolishing old houses, the disposition of cis- | terns is always a problem, This| has been solved by turning them | into deep, mirror-like pools, | |fringed by aquatic plants. . .De-| \spite the rank growth of vegeta- | {tion which provides a perfect re- treat for mosquitoes, few are to be found in the garden. This is due to the fact that the pools are | stocked with mosquito runners, a | tiny specie of fish that feed on \the larvae of these vicious in-| |sects. . .The languorous beauty of Mills’ garden. Lofty trees cast} long cool shadows across the| green sward; pink pond lilies} float serenely on placid pools; | palm trees sway gently in gulf; breezes; bees hum drowsily in lime blossoms; tiny yellow but- | terflies flit to and fro in the warm, mellow sunshine. Surely | the spirit of St. Dorothea, peace saint of gardens and flowers. | hovers over this haven of rest! and beauty. . .Numerous exotic} trees are to be found here. Out-| ‘standing is a particularly fine} |specimen of the breadfruit (Auto- | carpus Incisa). The luxuriant foliage consists of huge, leathery | leaves cut deeply into several blunt lobes. This tree was pro- pagated from a root cutting by | Miss Mollie Parker. Mrs. Mills attributes its unusual growth to the plentiful use of fertilizer and | |the severe pruning of the leaves! which is said to cause the strength to return to trunk and) roots, . .Probably the greatest | curiosity is the limberger tree |(Morinda Citrifolia), bearing a whitish-yellow fruit marked off in hexagonal figures and which |bears a marked resemblance to cheese, both in taste and odor. . One of the few traveler’s palms (Ravenala Madagascariensis) in| Key West can be found here. From its trunk spreads a fan- shape crown of thick stems much | | starred in half a dozen Broadway musical shows, was featured with McIntyre & Heath and the Roger Brothers, and often played as many as half a dozen return en- gagements in a single season in Hammerstein’s Victoria when it |was the goal of vaudeville head- ners. His close friendships included the late Will Rogers, Marie Dressler and many other cele- brities who shared the bills with him at the turn of the century— the Four Cohans, Emma Ray, the Four Mortons, Charles T. Aldrich, Nat M. Wills, George Sidney, Bernard Dillon, Hilda Thonyas. mous singers of his songs were McCormack, Caruso, Schumann- Heink, Tetrazzini, Lillian Rus- sell, Della Fox, Al Jolson, Emma Carus, Spencer Kelly, Camille D’Arville. PUBLISHER STERN HERE (Continued from Page One) hope that we may never have to use our fleets and our army, but we need them = as_ insurance against aggression in this troubled world. “I believe that Key West will benefit substantially from the expansion and development of ur army and navy forces. I be- ieve Key West is destined to be- ” |come one of the most important} 1. national defense to enjoy a great points in our system and prosperity.” When last seen leaving ward Duval street with the idea of finding somewhere along its} length a man willing and anxious to give him a good stiff battle. “Td rather fish, although I was Mr. Stern’s ment. play chess like fishing”, a little time and money, backed by a tropical climate, may not grow beans of Jack the giant kill- | er’s calibre, but they are pretty good aids in developing a rare and colorful garden. (Next Week: The Watlington House) Pecercvosevocesseoneces. Renfrew of the Royal Mounted FIGHTING MAD also SELECTED SHORTS CASA MARINA Key West's HOTEL DE LUXE American Plan 200 Delightful Rooms, Each With Private Bath Beautiful Cocktail Lounge DANCING NIGHTLY Casa Marina Orchestra PETER SCHUTT Manager | bridge journey. It was just a} West the reader may write a Johnny and} Some of the fa-/ The | Citizen office he was headed to-. chess | than ; parting com-! | bridge going somewhere that had!jetter to Marathon and ask if! special rates. It might havejthere is any reason why he}; ‘been the.Gandy Bridge or the | should make or want to make the St. Johns River Bridge. The most unusual automobile trip in , jcopy was all right for “The Key \the world to the Southernmost | | West Citizen’ to carry, for through | City in the U.S.A. And the only | that media Key Westers were re- inducement offered is the price minded they could go to Miami| to go over a bridge smoother than jduring the week-ends and spend! an ocean trip. | their money there instead of stay- “ “Surely the Commission should jing in Key West and spending! know better than to allow such poet same money at home. ie waste of money. The Commis- It is my understanding that|sion is paying around $2,000.00 the Overseas Highway was built! for Mr, Byron to write copy to! and financed by guarantees of | bring traffic over the Highway to | Monroe County to help bring|Key West, and someone on the) people to Key West. I am sure Commission ought to see that the | that if you will write to any un-|Commission gets value received | ibiased advertising agency they jor perhaps it is just another ad- | would prepare copy of such sales |vertising gift. If the latter be; appeal that tourists would leave | true then, in my opinion, it | Miami and come to Key West./would have been better to save Ha of course, as Mark Byron | the entire $12,000.00 advertising |is dependent on a living, at the | appropriation, rather than use it ;present time, from the Miami/in an apparent attempt to keep! merchants he is naturally not in-! people in Miami instead of send-? ‘terested in writing copy which ‘ing them over the Highway to would take people away, from|Key West. In case the balance | of the Highway advertising is to | ' | | | | | | ANSWERS TO ec ee | ' TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ Beware Coughs | ——— | from common colds Below are the Answers to Today’s | Daily Quiz printed on Page 2 Mercury. | | 2. Words that are alike in} sound but unlike in sense. | | 3. Petsamo. | The Balkan Peninsula. Dams. Lick Observatory. States of the Union. Krip-tog’-a-mus; not kript- o-gam’-us. | Clinch. On an island in the Bay of San Francisco. The Bettye Raymonde Restaurant LUNCH — TEA — DINNER 512 Caroline Street Open 11 a. m. to; 8:30 p. m. | LUNCHEON 35¢ up! |DINNER - 65c up "MONROE THEATER Chester Morris—Lucille Ball FIVE CAME BACK j| and ON BORROWED TIME Matinee—Balcony 10c, Or- chestra 15-20c; Night—15-25c For Fifty Years A NAME! In Coffee In Key West STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE THAT'S A REPUTATION The “The sorriest support of its comm’ | TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR * BRAND ' CUBAN COFFEE | ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS Mr. Lehmann w i } paper publisher aski j has for sale, space. | Lopez Funeral Service Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers 24-Hour Ambulance Service “This,” the sp not go into a bakery 8 SETI SII E SSIS SILOS SS. Mr. Lehmann come which a newspaper has: first, the advertising space that is sold; | 2: SII TISTOIIIVwIsIsssses TIO OMw y, States does for the support of its newspaper.” nar secretary of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce, gave his opinion of the value to a community of the local newspaper, in his speech at the weekly Kiwanis Club luncheon in the Valdez Hotel .. . educational organization in a city is in the habit of coming to the news- other form of business, or business man in our community. Yet we will go to the newspaper owner and ask. him to give away the space he has to sell; perhaps not realizing that that commodity, like any other merchandise, costs money to produce.” WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940 be of the same type, some action |Key West and thereby help other should be immediately taken to|property owners as well as my- stop it. | self. “Would the Olympia Theatre in| “Respectfully yours, Miami, for instance, advertise its | “JOSEPH E. BROWNE”. location and prices without mak-|Key West, Fla., ing mention of its attractions? {January J1, 1940. “This is written to help the) Bridges bring more people to! Subscribe to The Citizen. For Real Economy For Real Service For Real Protection DELIVERED DAILY EVERYWHERE » Thompson Enterprises INCORPORATED ICE DIVISION PHONE NO. 8 Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. Fast, Dependable Etnies and Express Service tween— MIAMI AND KEY WEST sd ALSO SERVING ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS ‘ —between— MIAMI and KEY WEST Express Schedule: LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EX- CEPT SUNDAYS) AT 1:00 o'clock A. M. and arriving at Miami at 7:00 o'clock A. M. LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) AT 1:00 o'clock A. M. and arriving at Key West at 7:00 o'clock A. M. Local Schedule: LEAVES KEY WEST AT 3:00 o'clock A. M, and arrives Miami ai 3:00 o'clock P. M. on MONDAYS, WED- NESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. LEAVES MIAMI AT’ 9:00 o'clock A. M. and arrives Key West at 4:00 o'clock P. M. on TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS AND SATURDAYS. FREE PICK-UP and DELIVERY SERVICE FULL CARGO INSURANCE Office: 813 Caroline St. Phones 92 and 68 WAREHOUSE—Cor. Eaton and Francis Sts. # tt Home Newspaper newspaper in the United States does more for the unity than the finest community in the United Thus Karl Lehmann, ent off €6- point out that every civic, religious and ing him to give away free the one commodity he ithe eaker stated, “was something we would ask of no We would and ask the baker to give us a loaf of his bread. proceeded to enumerate the various sources of in- COMPLAINT SERVICE... like banana leaves. The base of | dition to fifteen various kinds of briefly in 1924, but did not have game fish there was a_ thirty- | opportunity to. get around the eight pound barracuda, which| city like I did today. It is a measured nearly five feet. Mr. | nice little city. I would like to and Mrs. Sloan were so enthused |egme back soon, and shall if it they went out again this morn- | can be arranged.” ing to make a day of it. Admiral Allen also said aaa the climate here, cold as it was WITH A BREAK in the wea-|to natives, had helped him. He ther several fishing parties plan- | had just recovered from an at- ned to leave the Casa Marina tack of flu when he started for dock this morning. Many of the Key West a week ago. Admiral captains have reported that tar-| Allen was scheduled to leave pon have been sighted and as|Key West today en route to soon as the wind swings to the/Charleston, S. C., his head- south there should be a good | quarters, but was dallying with chance to bring home some ofthe idea of remaining a day or the gamest fish that infest these|two longer when The Citizen waters. | Went to press, that these stems store water which | can be tapped by thirsty travel- | ers—hence the name. Contrary to the old adage about saving for a rainy day, this tree stores up for the dry ones. . .The Gliricidia is now in bloom, festooned with | dainty, light pink flowers, much like the northern locust. . .One ot | the most striking trees is the star ; apple (Chrysophyllum Cainito). If the fruit is cut into cross sec- | tions, the black seeds and core} form a perfect star. The foliage | is exquisite, the leaves being of a satiny green on the upper side | and a golden brown underneath | keg -Nothing better than this beau- tiful and artistic creation of Mrs. ITIP LILLLLLL LL If you By 6 Between 6 do not Receive Your Copy of The CITIZEN P.M. PHONE—WESTERN UNION and 7 P. M. and a Western Union Messenger Boy will deliver your copy of The Citizen. SLOIDIIIUIODOVIILO DS. second, the money derived from the sale of the papér to the publi third, if the plant is equipped for such work, commercial printing .. . The speaker closed his talk with the statement, “if an editor were to tell you this you would think he had an ulterior motive; now I’m telling you with an ulterior motive, too. I want to see you improve your city. more, to the community. An editor gladly gives all the space he can afford, and It is only fair for the community to. return this service the only way it can, by purchasing advertising space and subscriptions from the editor.”—Sanford Herald. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SOTLTLDIIODIDOLTTIIIIT ODL LD. “Key West’s Home Newspaper” WOOP OIIIIDIOLIDIOIIIIIIIIIII OSS.