The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 19, 1947, Page 3

+e t . a Three ‘featherbgun books con: little \ ers held at old Fort Jefferson aind 8 quired ‘by the National © Park eae | Service for the museum at Fort Fort | La. » ta Fort: : “Jefferson National’ Monument, 1864. The garrison of. > Dry’ Tortugas, Florida. © then wag.about 25 offigers andy, "= Originally, the books were a, $00. “ ‘but in addition there | Me wedding present . from the pris- j was an ¢ crew (construc- _oners to Capt. Henry D. Brown’ tion wa os on) and some of thé ‘fort’ garrison.’ They are 200 ‘“milit isonera, most of “edelicate .sea flora from the un; Me soldiers. _ Alice Janette Brown.” Evidently | the Confederacy more effective ¢ a app aras pe qo make small m ees apap laes in 1288 sufficently Fuzsbean te 1, ie: sil ches cae, to Wid on oe a ee taining ‘the handiwork of prison- | the. ico 0 during the War between the States have’ recently been ac- ' filed with pressed specimns of , whom ‘were. court-martialed Fed- Ga. ~ derwater gardens’ of the famous In 1844 the moat around ~ Tortugas Islands,:: / — ff hig Sage excavated | -: Capt. Brown received the gifts: bri ‘to ~ in 1864’or 1865,’at' which time he , the €ar go vessels, and saan Sens Rahs, left the fort temporarily to meet ‘gung. were being . mounted. Ri chard -¥. | Mellen: tte . and marry his bride. ; Toward this. sort of . back-break- burgh banker ‘born art 4a fhe largest’ of the books is! ™ e. lobar, the - ci WFC | yeahs ago. ee about eight by nine inches, Sich ot enthusiastic. The overseer |" Neal O'Hara of Boston, column-. jae ges on which small sea explained their attitude in some'i.t horn. Middiébofo, Mass., 54 “hash of many: different variéties “—s Sa years ago. ‘were carefully composed andl of the 190: prisoners, less} Dr, Cyril ‘N. H. Long, Yale bio- \chemist-physiologist, ‘bora. in’ han oy of them report them- “pressed so. skillfully that. they 1. selves for daily duty; and those England, 46: years ago. .. atill retain ° thelr: delicate colar- who do report for duty, render|* Mrs. Anni H. Rosenberg of pan tat e service. In making this|New York, holder: of many -im-. BAR sa lies “books sen enlias e: I do not wish to be|portant State and Federal posts, ‘though they have fewer speci- {Understood that they absolutely |harn in Hungery, 45 years. ago.: mens. than ‘the larger. volume, | refuse to do the work, they “are Abe Fortas, lawyer, ex-under- they are perhaps even more val: ordered to do, but that they man-|secretary of the inecset, eae in ] ‘ ‘uable’ since they . fae ye jeave a doing’ igi a. Me born London, Canada, (5 years Ola a “To Emme a es Na abs ‘from H. D.:Browh; Capt. ‘120th } These po hy wever, ap- N. Y. Vol."<Both lettering! and|Plied-only to the main aber were obviously done by | force. Fhe prisoners. who were i - tent artist, who entitled | “mechanics,” and. those on duty ‘the little volumes “Gems | in the mess hall or -on similar ‘during of ‘te Sea soe the. Dry Tortu- ‘jobs worked quite willingly,| states. gas.’ -probably appreciative of ‘their’ SHortly after the outbreuk. of : “The only clue to abe. artists’s|relatively good fortune in having | war in 1861, many prisoners. were identity is found in a pencil; !éss arduous assignments. sent ito the fort to serve: termw at magi of ‘Bird’ Key, ‘framed in} The J10th ‘shipped. out of Tor-} hard Jabor. In 1867. yellow fever wreath oat, red sea moss, and! tues in. July . 1865, so Capt.) decimated the. -inhabi and rown. and his. bride were . no} bro fame. to mypel mkge’) oft ‘arid (higidoubt gone befare the arrival of ee ; prisoner, 2 Dr. vel woe by Bk not botan-/'Dr. Samuel A, Mudd, the most|W. Whitehurst of Key West, he be Owever, tor none ‘of ‘the|famous of the Fort Jefferson} of whom -rul heir lives: a "plants is -nanted. -Lprisoners. Dr, @fudd, together | fight the epidemic. : The quality: of the. work ‘tn’ ‘the | with several other alleged con-| ‘ _ yboaks is amazing, The covers are|spirators in the assassination of | tently adtive through the Span- “yidhly. toned, ‘stamped mororea,} President Lincoln, reached’ Tor}, j at, when it un- ‘Cafefully selected specimens of}tugas on July 24th; 1865. ° ~ puch brief development ‘as a : sea plants’ range dncolor-{: The ‘books ‘came to the Na-/ naval base. In 1935 the’ fort and ation from pie Fetple through tional Park Service through book fii dealer J, J. Yipsey of Broad- moor, cole Springs, Colo., who hed obfained them from}; . Frank Perkins, daughter .of |. 4 Capt. Brown. ument is under. the jyriadiction ing ¢ ; vy ae Mealdunigeag” a giant ae of the National Park Service, in the, Tortugas. $| United States ue ef the Lal serine erate painted of ‘the Gulf of Mexico, 65 milés | Interior. Jt is the six onthe page bya: master artist;|west of Key’ West, was. built by Southeastern Nason Monu- only’ by looking at the back of}the United States in the years|ments adiministered Coardi- the: sheet, where the imprint of teHowing 1948. It_was ‘intended | nating Siupetiutenseat Q. Ray- the press shows clearly, can one} the: sea lang from. the| mond Vinten from the $+. ‘Aug: tell: St. the artistry is Mother Gulf to the Atlantic, but after}ustine, Fla. headquarters. . ' Nalure alone. 30 ‘years of construction it was: The. books have been studied ; That the. books were long treas-{ still unfinished and imgprove- {and given preservative treatment as ‘ured: ‘by Captain Brown's family} ménts in artillery made it ob-|py National.Park Servi Fiistor- - ds indicated. by a pencil sketch of| solete, Although the fort never ian anugy. a¢ St, Aug-, eh ey glory vine on one. page saw battle action, it helped ta’ ustine, and are new “being” with this signature: “Drawn by|mdke the Federal blockade of| delivered to, Cystodian Russell A. be at Fort yelierstn, . the War between the