The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 14, 1947, Page 7

i | i = eg = he all F THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1947 The | Citizen’s Columnist Continues ... Written Exclusively for the Key West Citizen * By FRANK W. LOVERING KEY WEST AND THE HURRICANE PRACTICALLY STRANGERS FroM the time John W. Simonton bought the Island of Key * * “THE KEY WEST STORY” * West of Juan Pablo Salas, a Spaniard, February 19, 1822, but four hurricanes of intensity have swept across it up to the | present year—a century and a quarter. The disastrous storm of Labor Day, 1935, which spelled the doom of Henry M. Flagler’s marvelous railroad across the Flor- ida Keys between the mainland and this city, occurred almost | to the day 100 years after the first hurricane which the newly-' pO ER Se settled village knew. Of that big blow, Senator. St phen R. Mallory whose name is almost synonomous with that of the Island City, wrote: “In considering the extent and violence of the late gale, s est which our coast has ever e perienced, we dwell with. sati: faction upon the courage of. our people for lives and property. In the ordin- ary course of maritime pursuits the loss of all the masts of a vessel, her boats, anchor ete., is considered an event of some importance; but the rapid- ity and apparent ease with which ; much greater disasters were overcome by the wreckers, when upon their celerity depends the fate ond proprty of the ship- wrecked, offers yet another proof of what may do when all his energies are brought into action, stimulated by powerful motives and under the guidance of sound judgment. “One of the wrecking schoon- ers was driven by the late gale upon a bank and left high and dry, but her perservering with the aid of eleven men, actu- ally cut a canal 200 yards long, and in 24 hours the ship was at sea again. “Another craft lost all her anchors, cables, boats and rigging but the conviction he had noth- ing else to lose aroused her stout-hearted master to greater ¢ exertion; and with the aid of two and an old gun an anchor, he succeeded in ing free of the reef, and hed a wreck to relieve her her large and valuable cargo. Island Population Then 800 That was in 1835 when more than 700 or. ed in the young Key West. There was no telegraphic comunication and the boat mails were a month apart, The Island City is in the of West Indian hur after that of which § lory wrote in 18 never been but three mum_ intensity, 1846; October 11, tober 17, 1910. Other gales have cither blown themselves out across the Straits of Florida which span the 90 small jury md for lane but or Mal- re have ma? Ua and Oc- of on October 1909, All Cream 4c=-45¢e Mortons Chicken 912 oz. Jar A-la-King 23¢ WOODBURY SOAP 2-a..21e Heart's Delight WHOLE No, 2'2 Apricots . 3d]e Heavy Syrup Brands Can Matches vide Oleomargarine..39¢ CRISCO $429 e 1] U.S. No. 1 WHITE POTATOES 5 Ibs. 25¢ ! southernmost city to charge up| miles between Key West and Ha- | van: or have \Weered swiftl northeast and pa: Amerie: ; along the Keys as was the case the preservation of! cables, ' . trade not ye 800 people div. Spe (er GEORGE'S GROCERY PROMPT FREE CHRIS HABERLAND, Owner 1500 Newton Street PHONE “We Reserve the Right to Limit Quantities on All Items” |of the 1935 blow, heading back into the Atlantic or cruising around the state. The early September hurri- cane of 1835 strewed the strag- glingly irresponsible the island coastline to Hueso with the wreckage of the old-time wooden ships which the Caribbean broiler caught in its relent! talons. Twelve or fourten large ves- sels were stranded along the reef, and most of the wrecking! ships—craft used in the lu of salvaging boats tive peround either lost or sd. The _ lightship | stove in on her! and masts, boats and lan- were blown away. The! crew escaped only by a slight! turn of the hand of fate. The hurricanee of 1909 and 1910, two of the most severe ever ‘the A experienced in Florida, and not { exceeded by that. which hit Mi- ami in 1 were coincident with the re-arrival of Halley’s comet. Hurricanes and Halley's Comet keys down! Cayo i driven ! But when one of these ! ‘central velocity of w |there. kong THE KEY WEST CITIZEN — - ! trees had been felled with their ory counter to Espy’s was othe | ancis of weather tops pointed eastward. But as he reached * the fallen trees changed progres- sively, and that finally all had been blown down with their tops to the west. A Yaie professor, Olmstead, yheard of Redfield’s strange re- jport, got the saddle maker to jwrite a paper about his experi- ence, and today “Redfield’s Re- marks on the Prevailing Storms of the Atlantic Coast” is some- thing of a classic. Winds had been blowing mil- lions of years between the worlds but it took an observant New England saddler to discover the whirlwind. Redfield’s report ran into sharp criticism and strictly counter to the storm theory of Ameri leading meterologist of the day, James Pollard Es; He had been proclaimed the p of Sir Isaac Newton by the French Academy of Science. That a Connecticut mechanic should advance a the- “ summer travels south. ast, silent pools of cold air, p from the Arctic Circle, areas that do not foster ‘high’ > > > > > < Duval and FRANK W.LOVERING |% Angeia Sts. i tropical southeast but—the ss) 2 cret of the movement is thi R » » > > id | gets far enough south it rn ‘afoul of the warm trade winc blowing across South America toward Europe. The trouble starts then and The cold air from the northern ‘regions fights the cool air from the contending wind are stirred like the ingredients in a mixinig bowl. The twist i counter-clock-wise with an early hundred mi This is a curious fact develop. The hu will spin ed by meterological records keep its shape for days, \ which ave supported by the ‘ing at ft eightontlesns *SAVE on Single Items of the Rev. Fr, Benito jn a zig-zag course that is wholly |} SAVE on Month’s Supply a Jesuit pri who was di- rector of the Havana ¢ rvatory a hundred and more y uncanny. r. Vines had few instruments. The ne of 18. Comet. He believed it because his | prescience told him such would happen long before the fearful hurricane occurred—that the | aimles: ago. | His accuracy in predicting storms \, rm records ran back to 1493, the ‘field had oc after Columbus sailed from ney immedi priest believed . the September gale. As he rode north a was influenced |he noted a phenomenon. In his by the re-appearance of Halley’s | Connecticut_home thousands of [ao Store Clo scheduled return of the celesti-‘ r would be accorapani- tobv of great intensity and frequency in the Caribbean. Hur nes are believed by sailors to come from south of the ai trave! equator. Actually they bree near the North Pole. The Indian storms do move out of the DELIVERY ONE BLOCK FROM NORTH BEACH INN 714 MEAT .... 39¢ PURE POUND LARD... 25¢ Old Glory RED No. 2 Can aL BEANS .. 15e Sunsweet PRUNE Qt. Bri. JUICE... 29e BUNCH Green Top Carrots .. 10¢ CONTADINA Tomato Paste 2 1. 25¢e Coffee. Ib. 45c oe SOAP FLAKES Lg. Pkg. 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