The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 19, 1950, Page 7

SEPORER 19, wing Tells History Of Construction Of Martello Towers Ia Island City Relieves Combination Of Fortress And Eabiidts Wil Be A Tromp Card In Pack By FRANK W. LOVERING (Writes For The Citizen) Without reducing the st fraction the value of the whack oe tay Historical Society will East ; believes from. thirty. e, that the fortress _ itself will han the exhibits—that the e courtesy of the Ni n the new Key West original—-which was called @ the two, throug): WHE make a trump ¢ ie im its v hietery in the zs oad fexs were born Var Gee Rey Woe ee" a ee operg Ce Gee fhe State: ave been im-} but for’ Mr, John+| up the stairs-and from} top of the tower viewed the € m every direction. | Natives And Irish ts tw towers were! That known as/ rtello adjacent .to ~ the} Casa Marina, -was begun! It has been used recently, e Art and Historical group: art Key Westers assisted by City, handled The brick masons were $2.56 a day. and tsborers 1.25. Sand for the mortar Beach bythe Island € railroad, narrow guage line that rang from.a wharf near: Fort Taylor, through West Martello to and into East Martello. The work on both fortifications went ahead at the same time, and _ |} Work was also catried on to com- ie plete Fort Taylor. There were no S1BER | aonkey engines then'to hoist the construction (material to the ¥-| workmen once the stpérstructure got above the ground; and Tabor- ers lugged the brick and mortar: wp ladders through a maze of seaffolding. The walls are of. great: thick- ness, inside and. outside — shells packed with rubble. This was to’ make ineffective possible De- ery architecture an example-of} ng. MARTELLO towers in Eng-} PICK AND SHOVELS — mij Gen Lewis A. Pick. Army Engineers, z ceremonies on Engineer projects. chief of -U. shovels used and in Port Jeffer: Gulf. The - grat and doors and were cut in Co: Shire. ‘They are of th New Hampshire granite, agés. The idea of er was that it shou supplementary + with armamént—mortars; and guns efficient then,to throv shelisfar enpugh to ‘hit’ vessels) some distance at sea. There*is* ‘in ~ existence. a- l @rawing printed _ in Harper's ‘Weekly for April 18, 1874, nine Yéars after the end of Wa: on the roof. of West Martello Tower and sketched :a, view: to- ward Fort’ Taylor. . The: artist shows a United “States fleet pass- ing the fort in-review. There are seventeen vessels in the . back. ground, but the official records of the occasion. set.the. fleet at 26.} All.were sailing “ships though steam was then used for auxiliary ‘power. * Pond Digjocated At about the point where the drive gate opens to the Casa Ma- tina grounds at White and Reyn- olds Streets, a pond appears in the illustration. Grassy Pond was orth of West hiet-—proof thenufactured Gays. Each tower was two stor- and the slayer of his - scalp... Thus of the chiefs of the lace still known. as Jones’ Town, still an Indian } center, still a lone spot on the jmap. His real name was some- shows..some_of his souvenir an island in a cit¥| variously spelled. He came ‘to | bury his Indian comrades accord- ing to Indian custom. Old Sam Jones was not a Calusa. He was ief of the Mikasuki tribe. He a great medicine man, knew roots, barks, etc, but Was an old man when the Seminole War be- gan. When the war was over e had about seventeen warriors and a large number of women in is clan: The Mikasukis had a bad reputation, even: among< the Indians. They were a roving, Syosy-like people; not very hon- est, and not highly respected by other Indians, although they con. stitute a considerable portion of the Indians we call Seminoles. The question is often asked, “Who were the Calusas?” The following is a_resume of the descriptions fartello Tow Yugoslavs Recruit Former Foes As Technicians —wWealthy a pauper in Marshal Josip 's Communist govern- Ment have been hunting for hard- threaded men of experience to put > eount-y's economy on - its. feet. Sometimes. the policy has been: @ bitter pill for the Yugosiavs to swallow for it involves the hiri of technical experts—at wages far*higher. than the average per- ut only a .tew years ago. Yugoslavia has beet re¢ruiting workers from such places &5:Germany and Italy and thas been’ paying © them—in wages and allowances—mucly more than.they could earn <at home for doing the same work. Wanted: Guns, Noi Butter : *“PASADENA, Calif). —A typographical error flooded the: local: Army Ordinance*Office with: | calls from: make-s of blueberry: placed the Key West light. That light never had but two locations, first on the tip of the land known “Whitehead’s or Lighthouse Point extending (into the ocean Gfawing) at the east of/ Pay and second at Dies, apple sauce, egg underwear, vegetable pelling de~ vices and typewriter ribbons. Capt. Edward N. Dean had to explain to each caller that a partment of Commerce — bulletin which advised prospective Army SCUCEeeeuuuceuseucenene ‘thing like Ar-pe-i-ka, although War. Nothing is known of their linguistic relationships. “Nobody related. Some’ Indian boys of this tribe attended=a mission ‘ school in Havana in the. sixteenth cen- tury. A Jesuit-by.the name of Rogel and an assistant. studied their language, -but.mo records have ever been found: Fontaneda,