The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 2, 1942, Page 4

PAGE FOUR NAVAL REVIEW IN KEY WEST HARBOR 68 Y. MUTILATED THE KEY WEST CITIZEN *. re ‘Railroad Rails Of Civil’ : ARS AGO War Days Salvaged In’ Scrap Drive Forwarded : To Headquarters * . * Officers in the Key West. Army {Barracks, in cédmmenting on the scrap metz] that has been collect- ed in this city. oke about the old rails that have been found along the line of the small-sized railraad, with a narrow gauge, thet ran between the Martello Towers and Fort Taylor. H Today, The Citizen reproduces a sketch of the railway as it ap- peared almost tiree-quarters of a century <¢go. Many oldtimers still recall the rail and recall ‘a small bridge over which a part of it passed between the towers, Six weeks or so ago an army officer presented the Key Wesi Cramber of Commerce with a six-foot length of rail, which may now be seen in a_window at the chambe office”. The rail is * thickly encruste i dibprusty ee The write-us “6f* tHe artictt that } wes’ published:¢with the sketch, in Havper’s Weekly, fol- lows: This sketch, which more than 6 ars ago, is the work of Granville Perkins, an artist of that day, and was pub- lished in Harper's Weekly — for April 18, 1874, with this descrip- tive note: | “The N 1 Review, Key West, was made from the Martello Tower; Fort Taylor and Fleet in the Distance”. ; It has been impossible to find: shown in the sketch, jutting out anybody who knows anything into the water near Fort Taylor. about the pond in the foreground; ‘The lighthouse was de: and at the right of the railway jn October, 1846, when Key track. {was struck by the most terrific There was a body of inland wa-'and disastrous hurricane in_ its ter near the First Martello Tow- history. In those days there was er, that was called Grassy Pond,!a cemetery in the Fort Taylor but it was directly north of: the reservation, near where the base- tower and included a part ofjpall grounds are now, and, so what is now the Martello Tower! powerful were the séas that swept subdivision. lover the cemetery, coffins were The perspective of the picture'torn out of the ground. is good in many respects, but as} The year before construction at - the lighthouse is wrongly locat-; Fort Taylor had been started, but ed, probably the same thing the foundation and a part of the happened to Grassy Pond, which! superstructure that had been fin- lies west of the tower in the'jshed were washed away by the drawing, instead of north of it, hurricane. However, work on the &s was actually the case. \fort was resumed The Key West lighthouse has after tha storm. had only two locations. It was! Work on another lighthouse at first situated at Whitehead’s was also begun shortly after- Point, which is that strip of land, ward, and it was built on immediately present site at Whitehead Division streets. It ever, much lower than it is to day. In the sketch the lighthouse seems to be on the waterfront, somewhere in the vicinity of the Marine Hospital, which was con- structed in 184! but, although damaged considerably, withstood the force of the hurricane. The narrow-gauge railway, shown in the sketch, was at first used to convey building material to the First Martello Tower sit and, during the Civil War, to car- ry shells and other munitions to the towe Besides cannon, powerful mor- tars were used in both the tower and Fort Taylor. Shells, thrown et great elevations and distance: rimac during the tually motive power and found it hard and Fort Taylor. There is san to maneuver out of the range of along the beach in the vicinity 1 mortar, even though the shell!cf the Picnic Trees, the so-called only as an auxil traveled slowly end could be fol-'Butcher Pen property and La decade owed easily by the naked eye. ;Casa Marina. ed their propellers could be lift The cactus plant, beside the! Only a few years ago ed out of water, which was donc track and nearest the tower, is.was as beautiful a stretch of sandy together with the stopping of er the prickly pear, which was plen-!beach as one wished to see be- gines, when the ships were favor tiful in Key West up to 30 years;tween the Coral Isle Casino and ed by propitious winds. or so zgo. The other cactus, the/the J. Vining Harris property. In 1874. when the sentinel or the column, was com-! Most of it has been washec made, Key West was already fa paratively scarce in a wild state.! but it will be washed up agzin, if mous as a manufacturing cent« There are many representative! the future is to be judged by the of clear Havana cigars, but the plants of that kind in Key West j past. fist. or whoever wrote the now, but they are cultivated. *{ At-the time the brief description of the Sand comes and sand goes along | made, which was m; the smooth shore front of Key,er steam was first t : West, as it does on many other as a means of propulsion, the he islands of coral formation, and,; United Si navy, aS was the judging by the sketch, there was case with every other navy in the not any sand at all in 1874. Atj}world at that time, did. not en- from mortars, were effective. in| present there are several stretch- tirely depend upon steam as a a small amount those days, because most ships!es of sand along the beach be-' motive power. Despite the show-. with the cigar industry of morc depended entirely on sails for!tween the First Martello Tower ing of the Monitor and the Mer-)than a million dollars every year i ‘ was, how all nava ships were onstruct there mentioned as the business” the salvaging of wreck which brought into the nout $200.000 annually. But t! sketch was Here with the picture NAVAL TARGET city to ) with the drawing, apparently as not aware of that fact, for “principal city compared i built-up secti we now Call the fact that b s the write-w PRACTICE preceding Economic Highlights — National And International Problems Inseparable From Local. Welfare \ i JAPAN WILL NEVER SURRENDER, SOME EXPERTS BELIEVE | Before Pearl Harbor, the feel-;the United Nations, many rea- ing was generally held in this|soned, the warlords ~ country that Japan was a third-! face at home and rate’ military power which could! military government would be be soundly defeated in a matter replaced by a popular gover “of weeks or.months. Alleged ex-}ment which would sue for peace. “perts had long written that Ja-! That is a heartening theory, epan’s military equipment was in-|perhaps — but, unfortunately, _ferior, that herenavy- was+in no!'men who are in the best position - Way.-ae match for eursy and* that}t6 understand the Japanese} “she Was on the \eree gf econom- | character have small faith in it. ic collapse. Sinee Deeember 7,’ Ambassador Grew, who repre- ~we have learned: how tyagically | sented the United States in Tokyo wrong those experts were. Jap-|for ten years, and who recently anese planes and ships are ex-' returned to this country as part cellent’ in. both design and con- of the exchange of diplomats be- struction, Japanese army strik-| tween belligerents, has made a ing power is very great, and her number of extremely interesting generals know the art of war-|speeches and statements on the! farer The individual Japanese subject. Mr. Grew says, in es- Soldier is crafty, brave, cruel,'sence, that Japanese leaders «fearless of death, and fanatically | have completely “sold” the Jap- determined on victory. anese people on this war. An Up to recently, the bulk of the, British and anti-American propa- “American people also held an- ganda has been an official Jap- «other theory concerning Japan./anese activity for many years, They believed that the majority} and has been carefully nurtured “of the Japanese people were pa-| by the controlled Jap press and cific and desirous of peace, and radio. The unspeakable treat- that the nation was thrust into ment given captured United N; «-war-by a handful of warlords’ tions soldiers by the Japanese in «2vho_ controlled the Japanese Hong Kong and elsewhere, is the army, navy and civil govern- | direct reflection of that propa- ment. Once Japanese“ forceS; ganda. The ordinary Japanese were given sharp. set-backs ‘b¥ | trooper reflects the point of view would lose the present 2910ld. 94 JOB PRINTING} Modern machinery and efficient methods enable us to offer you superior printing service at fair prices. Consider us when you place your next print- ing order, The Artman Press THE CITIZEN BUILDING PHONE 51 ) , ‘ lot the common people of Japan! The Teutonic fanaticism is hard- precedented scale. It is gener- STARTS IN BRITAIN —and he is as cruel and fanat- ical as his leaders. The civilian population of Ja- pan ha: spted, apparently willingly, sacrifices which are ly on the same scale as that of lly believed that her defenses the Oriental with his implicit against raic faith that deaht in battle will be| yoo. are very good followed by an eternity in the ee ee ee Islands happiest and most abundant of The Solomon Islands almost incredible. In Japanjheavens. The Japanese people, marked the start of our offensiy everything is rationed. The , these authorities argue, wil! nev-'in the Pa Before that, we clothing and the food available!/er accepet defeat, or ask for, were almost entirely engaged in for civilians is qualitatively and peace. They will go on fighting gefensive operations. How lor quantitatively bad — everything'—and increase their barbaric it will be before we can tak must go to the army and navy. | practices—to the very end. There- the offensive on a major sc: The masses of the people eke out | fore, the only way to beat Japan cither in the Pacifie or in an existence on rations which is to scourge her at home. It i: rope, is a question that can only — would cause swift starvation in important that we take the ter- pe answered by the High Com- { most countries. But they don’t ritories she has conquered, with’ mand—and when the time comes complain. They are convinced their rich r ss—but it will it win speak with deeds, not that the price is well worth p: not prove de words. It is a gigantic under- ing for the “glorious destiny”, The Japanes 2 f which their Samurai leaders have; roughly about the size of the)~ © promised. They work tremend-! single state of “Montana. 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