The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 1, 1947, Page 6

AGE FOUR owe E. F. Coe Really ) Pushed - Everglades Park Proposal (Used With Permission of The Miami Herald) T= originator of the Everglades National Park is Emest F.’ pounced for the expanded sum- Coe, , 81, of 4131 El Prado, Coconut Grove. He devoted 1 years of his life to the idea. With the zeal of an evangelist, "jetic League at a meeting held he preached it to all who would *- listen and some who would not. ! When the cause seemed ost, 54 Marriages Are Coe worked the harder. | His lanky, six-foot figure, usuall; it; his arise da malic! bere i | More than twice as many mai - ji vie as divorces were recorde mustache and light - rimmed enecraleg 4 roe County during th ere aanngadacitaeniece ce ae month of June. ficials, businessmen and club- |, Fifty-four couples women throughout Florida June for marriage licenses. and elsewhere. He talked to them and wrote to them about the park. He never let them ‘ried than in any other month thi: at the office of County Judg forget ‘it. Raymond R. Lord. O'Connor and Al McCarthy of 4 raeme ti ni sbesesgetes and From 1928 to 1946, when he 4 total of 23 petitions for di-|the Navy and wrestling lessons another ob aparece fell and fractured a knee cap,'yorces were filed in June with by R. H. Artberg, also a Navy Pected to represent the Navy. Coe was the park's press agent Circuit Court Clerk Ross C. Saw-'man. Arrangements for the All veterans organizations and a and: lobbyist. Mainly because of number of Boy Scouts, Girl yer. his -work, the idea spread and — won support. AIRE Apply To Wed * How did he happen to think of it in the first place? Coe gives the credit to his wife, Anna, who died in July, 1941. Long a nature lover, he had made many trips into the park aréa and was shocked to dis- cover its rare birds being kill- ed, its orchids uprooted, its U. S. Navy, Quickner, 21, of ‘marriage license yesterday wit! ;the bill would have been brough’ Reported In June: r-{ Ply the wieners and rolls for a applied in was more couples that were mar-j Classes in a few days was an- year, according to a report today j Vernon G. Stubbs, 22, of the and Delilah D. 1126 Margaret ‘street, filed an application for a County Judge Raymond R. Lord. ‘PAL Group Lists i ugh Diamandi R And | Weds Miss Ponce Dance, Roast And | | . 1 i stree iami, \ Boxing For Kids eRe ae hee ot thas { daughter, Alicia Mae, to Romolo :Diamandi, son of Mr. and Mrs. |Hugh Diamandi of Key West, ‘Sunday, in the rectory. of St. : : {Mary's Star of the Sea Catholi | last night at the St. Mary's Parish! Gy ch, Peer eee eee conten Following the ceremony a re- City Commissioner Louis Car- ception sas’ held at St. Mary’s bonell, a member of the Board ' ad Parish Center.. The newlyweds of Directors, volunteered to sup-! icf by plane for a week's honey. : ; ; moon in Cuba, Upon their return iwiener roast to be given in the}, ) 00 a a near future for the PAL young-! they awl soos key, Wert | sters. The PAL organization will! 5 prope onc cus t supeivsthauadan! | 2 FIREWORKS SHOWS | Commencement (Continued tron Page One) least two .bands—the Key West High School band, possibly in its new crimson uniforms, and the Welters Cornet band, will march. Mr. and Mrs. Mariano Ponce, i | A number of events were an- 8 mer program of the Police Ath- of athletic: s | nounced by President Louis M. J.; Eisner, former police chief. Box- e,ing lessons will be givén by Ed classes were made with Lt. Mau- rice Smith of the Naval Base athletic office. Gift of a set of Scouts, civic and fraternal socie- ties, both white and colored, are ‘expected to participate. boxing gloves from Bruce Sayles, | Jr., was gratefully acknowledged.| On the afternoon of the It was decided to hold another! Fourth a series of contests and PAL dance a week from Thurs-| dances is scheduled for South day at the Parish enter, from | Beach. Races by members of the h| 7 to 9 p. m., by popular request.; Key West Outboard Club are A communication from the pro-|one of the highlights on the gram chairman of the forthcom- program. Saturday’s events will include a concert by the High School band, general family pic- ing State Convention of Florida Peace Officers at Orlando w it deer, tutkey and other game neer extinction. ' Coe was deploring all this at breakfast with his wife onc day/ in 1928 in their Cocoanut Grove | home. “Wouldn't they be saved for future generations, under feder- before the Senate. I told him,! ‘They have passed your bill.’ He said, ‘I will call it onto the floor} of the senate right away.’ And he; did.” Coe hes borne his share of scorn for the Everglades Na- tional park. He remembers the read assuring Charlie local PAL official, of an oppor. tunity to speak on the Key West | PAL movement. Last year Hick-! en’s display of shellwork by PAL boys and girls caused a sensa-} tion at the convention. H Hicke' n,' nic, and a show sponsored by the Jayshees. One of the main events at South Beach on the Fourth will be the Bathing Beauty Contest at 4 p. m., sponsored by the Jun- {ior Chamber‘of Commerce. The al protection, if the area were to become a national park?” Mrs. Coe asked. From that moment, Coe dedi- cated himself to the idea. x clusive club in ' Washington when he went there as a vis- itor. Many of them had been stun; when the Florida boom bur: and they said, ‘Oh, this fellow attitude of members of an ex- ; Mayor W. W. Demeritt, a!event is open to all residents of member of the Board of Direc-| Key West between 18 and 25, tors, congratulated Eisner on the; married or single. Registration He was 62 years old at the time. His training and experi- ence helped make him the No.! One advocate of the Everglades National Park. Born in New Haven, Conn., March 21, 1866, Coe is a graduate of the Yale school of fine arts. He was a landscape architect in New Haven, and the work led to an intrest in national parks. He visited Yssemite, Grand Canyon and Glacier na- tional parks. With his wife, a New Haven woinan, Coe made a trip to Eu-| He and another to Japan, where | hé studied the landscaping of temple grounds. i “In our travels about’ this country, including Florida, we de- cided to locate here,” Coe re- lated. | They came to Miami in 1925, just up here to unload some land; the. speculators want to get off their, hands.” But Coe preached his gospel, and the clubhouse hall over-| flowed when he took part in a forum on the park project. The idea might have died Coe. Too many people had too many troubles to be interested in a grandiose national park plan. But Coe kept the spark alive from @ ramshackle office | in the Civic Center building. | “I didn’t do it for aggrandize-i ment, nor certainly for this’ world’s goods,” he said reflec- tively. “It: was an impulse Ii couldn’t set aside. The Ever-! glades National park owes me, nothing.” | Now that it is a reality, he has. not abandoned it. Coe ‘says the ed r KEY WEST RECRUIT COMPLETES TRAIN (Specia! to The Citizen) GREAT LAKES, Ill, July 1.—' Jaycees, Jayshees | Head Forbes, son of Mr. and Mrs.| B. M. Forbes of 2810 Seidenbur; during the depression but for | avenuc, Key West. has compl uit training at the Na Training Center, Calif., and has been advanced to! -. } seaman second class Recruit training is the sharp} m | break between civilian and Na-‘ principles of a sailor's life. —SPECI for WEDNESDAY San KANTOR'S a AL VALUES— active program of the organiza- forms may be. secured at Pol- g | tion. | lock’s jewelry store on Duval Another meeting will be held! street. The first prize will be a Monday at 8 p. m., at the Cen- | trophy. donated by Pollock's. ter. ‘ash prizes will be given the | winner and runners-up. at | Concession booths 5 |South Beach and Bay N | have been let to the Boy Scouts, and Veterans The y will take a booth, possibly at both places, and the Girl Scouts may Diego.| also take a booth. | val life in which the new Navy n learns _the fundamental and THURSDAY find settled in Coconut Grove. oe fe“It had been my purpose to} association he f . bontinue landscape work in Flo-| "eady, to help, if such. help rida, but the. Everglades. Nation: al_park project called for a wider range of activities.” Coe explain- | ed. ff In 1929, he organized the | Everglades National Park asso- giation, supported by volun- | tary contributions, to foster | the project. . Coe spent most of three years in Washington working for en- actment of the 1934 law specify- known to be essential to human ing how the park should be cre-| ‘eusrition, plus liver and iron. ated. . “ Coe was in the House gallery | He oes when the measure was approv- - ed, “I ran to the senate chamber,|| GARDNER'S PHARMACY and sent a message to Sen. Dun-| 1114 Division St., Cor. Varela ean U. Fletcher. It might have' Phone 177 been weeks or months before SOLAR WATER HEATERS ORDER NOW for Immediate Delivery FIRST COST IS THE LAST COST! Large Heating Unit - Heavy Duty - Galvanized or Copper Tanks ———GUARANTEED. FHA TERMS @No Down Payment Small Monthly Payment FREE ESTIMATE————— MADE IN KEY WEST Working Mode! On Demonstration ° — LEE BROS. 614 GREENE ST. PHONE 4 el di Aa Ne Sa ea Homart Asphalt FLOOR TILE Back Again In All Colors, but Limited Quantities!! 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