The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 13, 1947, Page 6

ietpemoaa seg hae ee a PAGE SIX Pek bth adh ch dindaadha data dadidintndntn ta tartantntintintntnrlintn tutti tnt! Date Set For -F, WeLOVERING RECALLS VIVIDLY <tc Guardsman’ ef * * * * * Article In The Citizen Brings Back Ford Memories ” HIS FIRST VISIT TO KEY WES | At a meeting of the board of t aneeserar f “The Guatdsman” was set fo: a . — ° ie was si r Written fot the Key West Citizen the week of April 7th. By FRANK W. LOVERING | Members of the cast say “The| gusset a few days ago in The Citizén"that if the Miami! Guardsman” promises to be one Suh Sox were to train at Key West the players might be! of the best productions of the housed in the East Martello Tower barracks, already under|Key West Players, who already lease from the Army to the city, instantly reminded the writer have an enviable reputation for of his first visit to Cayo Hueso in 1921 when the genial James | successful stagings. 2 L. Johnson introduced mé to the East Tower dnd an interésting! Rehearsals have been going sidelight on early Key Westa————_____ history. | We went up Flagler Avenue in| Mr. Johnson's car—there was no} boulevard then around the is-| land—and pioneered across caked | remnants of the early salt ponds to the great entrance on the northwest face of the double- walled brick fortification. o Jim directed me to use caution in climbing the circular stairs to, the parapet ,and shortly we stood ; . there among the corroded metal of ancient gun emplacements on the ocean faces of the bastile. Never had it been our privilege to ste a fort of that type, and -the, study of it intrigued me. The sixth sense attributed to. newspa-! per people was quickly at work! in the writer and with the assist- ance of Judge Jefferson B. Browne's “Key West, the Old and the New”, and referenc2s at the Public Library, considerable ma- terial was secured about the Mar- tello Towers which has been of Lazarovici. Experienced players, such as Lt. Comdr. Jack Nolen, Mrs. Janice White, Mrs. Emily Goddard and Joseph Lazarovici, ‘are playing the _ leading roles. George Mills White, Lee Pollock {and Lorraine Pepper are giving | excellent support in their respec-! | tive roles. | | | foot-step sent jand we entered the second huge} |brick cylinder through a_ torn opening that let shortly to a flight! of spiral stairs. a chamelon—the |watching out jafternoon for used to be stored. The water wag. }gutters from which it flowed through galvanized pipes to the! stone vaults below. | There are dungeons in the Martellos wherein one could be t value in the preparation of ter’ immediately lost, and so lost be grea’ prep: ter’s edge close by the outer wall Overwhelmed’ with thé deste tg articles concerning the earlier of the Tower. I did, and have : . Key West through a period of both of them now.) return with no delay to the exit, more than 27 years. Tradition says the brick ea aaa iy wee RECUR TY Towers and Fort Taylor in thatWowers ana in Fort Taylor | never known there except bourne There is an intimate connection as well as in Fort Jefferson, 63 between the East and West Mar- miles west in the Gulf, were hand- tello Towers and old Fort Taylor made in yards at Pensacola. This FRANK W. LOVERING sirous of negotiating the living |tomb which is made such by, In Barn Theater] : | directors of the Key West Play-|. 3 |ers, held Monday evening, in the}: asdbdaseeeesacsssasassisaeas Barn Theater, the opening date)’ well under the direction of Maida | ‘j One must needs step gingerly !bermission to use " that _memorablefeolonial mansion in this fashion, Miliilinitiiniiiiiiinitiiiimmun yawning cisterns| provided a fire in which rainwater for the troops |'stalled. caught during the wet season in| Hadcliffe students lodged in the jas a torch by an adventurer de-the Revolution. Its graceful pro- |} “CHILDREN’S HOUR” was written in this 188-year-old mafision | AP Newsteatures : AMBRIDGE, Mass.—The 188-year-old Henry Wadswo! little turncoat—scurrying away;} 4 Longfellow house in Cambridge's exclusive Brattle St. has | Songs were sung and included a m turned into a rooming house because of the housing shortage. The Cambridgé board of appeals has granted Miss Anna L. Thorp, the poet’s grandniece, g—_—$—$ $ @ $$ the historic escape is in-| Parson Einforces * * |Hunts Down Lawbreakers “guests.” x * x Washington slept here. The ‘The Good Life structure was his headquar- | liflli/iuiiisnnnstinttsvinisneehyeeevistiadyondninnnunini , ters for some time after he RICHMOND, Ky. —(AP) —The came to Cambridge to take com-~ | Rey. W. E. Davis of Berea is a mand of the Continental Army. | cix-foot, one-inch, 200-pound * The house was built in 1759 by | Dispicles of Christ minister, hold- Col. John Vassall, a refugee in! ing pastorates in four . rural churches. But that wasn’t énough to keep him busy, so he started after lawbreakers. Eleven persons, including three attic, now occupy the house un- der the technical classification of portions and pilastered entrance! make it an outstanding example | bécause when the war between may be true, but certainly the thé States opened with the firing granite door- and window-sills on Sumter in 1861, material for and lintels came from Concord, the towers was carried on a little N. H., for they are of genuine railroad from the Fort Taylor New Hampshire granite, good for wharf to the West Tower, adja- the ages. cent now to the grdunds of Casa} The Martello Towers were in- Marina hotel; and through that tended to supplement heavier fortification to the East Tower types of fortifications. They two miles further up-island. | Were equipped with mortars and This was the pioneering rail- heavy guns of range sufficient * road on the island and it came in those days to throw shells far brick walls two feet thick, and #|0f New England Georgian archi- reinforced concrete roof, tecture. The two towers at Key West} This is not the first time it} | were built by stalwart citizens|was used as a rooming house. jas foremen, directing the effort | Longfellow originally came there | jot 150 burly Irishmen imported{as a young Harvard professor to }for the fob from the sidewalks| lodge with the Widow Craigie. lof the earlier little ol’ N’Yawk.|Later he married his landlady’s | |The brick masons received $2.50 daughter and lived in the house | |per day—doubtles 10-hour} for 50 years. day—and the laborers $1.50. Much of his poetry was writ- The West Tower was startédf ten in the study, notably the first. Sand for the mortar was} popular “Children’s Hour.” a One sortie led to the arrest of eight persons and confiscation of 100 bottles of whisky, two slot machines and several cases of beer in his dry county. The Citi- zens Committee for Civic Right- eousness prevailed upon Coun- ty Judge J. L. Matherly to name Davis county policeman. Fiscal court voted the 44-year- old minister an annual salary of $1,800 and named him chief of the one-man force. The Beé Hive Club held its| regular monthly mééting at the} homie of Mrs, Vidlet Stickney of | Stump lane, Tuesday evening. After the business session the members and visitors enjoyed a social hour. A wWaist-méasuring gdme was Played to the amusement of all. Mrs. Annette Roberts won the prize for the largest waist, and Mrs. Betty Johnson for smallest waist. Door prize was won by Mrs. Zena Felton. Mrs. Agnes McFarland and. Mrs. Sara Penni- man, visitors from Massachusetts, were each présented with a Flor- ida souvenir gift by Mrs. Bloney Valdez. : Mrs. Rose Hoffman gave an amusing reading and Mrs. Penni- man gave a talk on the activities of her club in Massachusetts. comic duet by Mrs. Camille Rob- tinson and Mrs. Leona Collins. De- ‘licious refreshments were serv- ed by the hostess. Those attending were Mes- dames Sara Penniman, Agnes McFarland, _ Rose Hoffman, Julia Knight, Pearl Papy, Ca- mille Robinson, Leona Collins, Annette. Roberts, Zena Felton, Jennie Curry, Betty Johnson, Josephine Johnson, Myrtle Sands, Bloney Valdez and the hostess. “ NATIONAT JS AIRLINES Dr. Glenn Clark, former pro- 2 of creative living at Mac- alester College, St. Paul, Minn., born Des Moines, Ia., 65 years ago. the Rocking Chair Ma Hoskitis has a favorit réck- Quick as @ wink hé Nd cht bw ite? Soe et 44% bécause the Government saw the . strategic location of Key West : before the internal struggle start- ed. (A. horse-car railroad came to the city in 1894, the electric railway in 1900, and the Florida « East Coast Extension was opened January 22, 1912—and was aban-! doned following the memorable up-Keys hurricane of Labor Day, 1935). The second tower, or East Mar- tello, as it is more familiarl; known to Key Westers, is in an excellent state of preservation. The railroad passed through both structures. This writer a few years ago secured from the files of the War Department at Wash- ington photostatic copies of the original plans for the towers with! the line of railway extending} through them from Fort Taylor. It was a short little line, but com-| pletely equipped with steam loco- motives, cars and switches, and during construction of the Tow- ers there was no busier of railroad in the world. Children Rode Sundays Sundays the workmen used to give great pleasure to the chil- dren of that Key West of the Yesterdays by allowing them to ride from the Fort to and through the Towers to the end of the line, and back again. Probably nobody is alive in Key West to- day who was a youngster then, but the tradition lives in the hearts and minds of numerous of their descendants. Not a trace of the railroad re- mains, and succeeding years have greatly changed the shore line. A few years after this writer first! saw East Martello he went there again with Capt. and Mrs. Clark D, Stearns. The captain, now gone, Was commandant at the Key West Naval Station, and my wife and I were the Stear: section! {somewhat circular enough to hit ships some distance at sea. The idea of the Towers was taken from defences of the same type in use then along the coast of Great Britain, and es- pecially on the Kentish coast, for| defence against possible French invasion. : First “Tower” In Corsica The first known Martello Tow- er was erected in Corsica and was known then as the Mortella. That particular fort maintained de- termined resistance to a superior British force in 1794 and because of this successful repulse Eng- land began to copy the pattern, and the United States adapted and improved on the design for jshore protection as the Civil War loomed through the clouds of in- surrection. Martello Towers are invariably in form with walls of great thickness. The East Tower has double _ brick walls filled with broken stone and debris. This was for the purpose of making ineffectual possible shell fire from the early gunboats in an attack by sea. The roofs were -bombproof— against projectiles made in those forgotten ¢ —and the buildings were two s s high with vault- ed ceilings showing some of the finest brickwork extant today. The bottom of the tower was used for storage and the upper section for troop quarters. It was common practise to mount one traversing gun on each roof. The men were protected by high parapet. On the Martello Towers the guard wa ordinarily composed of from six to twelve soldiers. Admittance to a Tower was by way of a single door five feet wide and eleven feet high. A cir- a , cular areaway leads completely around within, and inside Buests. (The night of the 1926 ee hurricane, Ca 4 “ Stonpre Secondary tower also circular. e, Capt. and Mrs. Stearns Time had effaced the once cov- were guests in our home at Med-' i ered passageway of East Mar- oe cr wpgece gl telegram tello meee Miner 1 was intro- rich neeanaal: te ee had lost quced to the fortification by Mr. witcking on the Niany river is Johnson, and the holes where the th Houskboat “Bvergiada brick were morticed in stood ‘ i » gaping in the brilliant sun. pe chai igo abers M. Thomp- |” we walked across a grassy car- 4 ley had left during pet where almost eve other occupancy with a caretaker for a few weks to visit friends in the! 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Both struc-} “Edith with golden hair” of the tures were progressing at the} poem—is a tenant there now. same time, as well as emergency See work at Fort Taylor. : Your Horoscope There were no donky, engines re Ss to hoist material. Once the super-] THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1947 structure was a few feet off the;—Today gives a person of power- | ground the laborers carried brick {ful emotions with great magnetic ; and mortar up ladders through|powers and strong in parental | a maze of scaffolding to the ma-}love. This person should use self- | sons. Capt. Walter McFarland of jrestraint in association with the | the United States Army Engi-|PPosite sex and let no careless- | neers was in charge of all the mess sovern the selection of a | work, and he e: had built two|Mate, that an otherwise able life i : 5 be not spoiled by the dangers in-, | large brick barracks to house the] 4i.ateq in this direction. 5 ‘ \ The fact that Florida seceded Subscribe to The Citizen—2% ! from the Union has often been weekly. i misinterpreted to lend seeming ‘ truth to careless statements that the two Martellos and Fort Tay- lor were financed by the Con- federate government. But that is wrong. The Union flag has al- ways flown above the Island City except for the historic moment] YOU", MOTORS. Do this when the Confederate standard costly breakdowns and spoilage. {was hoisted by a handful of| Pick Up and Delivery Service Southern. sympathizers during}. Phone 739 for ae Efficient | the War Between the States. 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