The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 3, 1951, Page 10

a FR STE SEN til IZ} ~ ey*y - é = s od SOHSSSESSSEH GH @ gébanoe a. . <AGE TEN AMPANS WHOLEHEARTI BACK RESTORING MARTI HOME MRS. ROSARIO SORIANO IS IN * FOREFRONT OF MARTI PROGRAM By FRANK W. LOVERING TAMPA.—As enthusiasm grows for the restoration of Ybor City with the purchase by Cuban business men of the residence of Jose Marti, leader of the revolution that made Cuba free, many items of great interest are appearing in the foreground of the plan. The Marti home will be rebuilt and transformed into a museum of the hectic period that brought on the Spanish-American War and Cuba Libre. In the forefront of the movement which will bring back typically Latin architecture and the life of the time, are able young business leaders, among them the Ybor City Rotary and Optimist Clubs and the Chamber of Commerce, and the Ybor City Lions Club now on All Ybor City is cooperating in the the way to being chartered. effort. In the Tampa Sunday Tribune, D. B. McKay writes that the full fruition of the plan “will promote civic pride, and from the business standpoint, it will pay.” Many visitors will be drawn to the Quarter, and patronage of cafes, restaurants, shops, department stores and the lesser merchantile establishments will consequently be heavy. There are Spanish and Italian foods to be enjoyed, the dulces and beverages and novelties in clothing to be bought in ‘the shops, such as_ the picturesque mantilla, and the high and some- times gorgeous combs with which the women adorn their hair. Woman Enthusiast Among those in the forefront of the program is Mrs. Rosario So- riano, daughter of A. F. O’Hal- loran, identified with the early days of the cigar industry after it was removed from Key West following the strike at Seiden- berg’s factory in the Island City. She visited Mr. McKay and talked interestingly of the days of long ago. In the stirring epoch ‘The Moilern ra of the revolution she was, Mr. McKay says, “a vivacious young girl who espoused the cause of Cuban freedom with great devo- tion. She raised thousands of gifts from the cigar factories and} dollars for the cause, soliciting} in other ways. ¢ “Marti, the great Cuban lead-| Grimaldi, in payment for arms er, took notice of her work by} Marti purchased for the revolu- presenting her a valuable dia-|t mond ring and a revolver which had been given him by Gen.!} Maximo Gomez, commander of the revolutionary forces.” She will place the mementoes in the new Marti Museum when it is completed in his memory, highly as she prizes the posses sions. Mr. McK. has met Mr Soriano and s e retains the| charm and v y which char-| acterized her as a girl. ! The president of Ybor City’s Columbia Bank, A. J. Grimaldi, has many items of interest which he will place in the new Marti Museum. 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You can go away for a weekend or even a vacation without a single worry —the automatic, electrically operated controls will keep the water at a constant temperature, in perfect safety. City Electric System Historic Knife neer City steamship and railroad} Florida ports, hoping thus to} | agent. cripple tl volution” by halting} Among souvenirs of the rev- | tobacco S. ; | But s outwitted by Tac KBY West Civ ize DLY carried to Cuba by Juai Guai- berto Gomez, In that McKinl the C ~~ ‘Sealed Bids For | * . y tariff bill ost put| ff E. cigar business into the} re scape discard, Jose R. San Feliz a > A k d lected y photographs. Among |+ tars AS e m Mr. McKay _Were) Sealed bids have 3 of Marti, Maximo Gon those pictu been invited pi . for the fabrication and insta and a group of young Tampa Cu-| tion of steel fire escape stairs, | bans organized under the naMe| Specification No. 53, Com-| Sle cluded that of the de-jmander Conrad E. Grohs, Naval] stre uitleship — “Maine”—| Station public works officer, an- “Club Politico Independiente | Maine.” ‘ | Another photograph shows Mar nounced. The work includes the removal f present wood stairs, excava- a Use. !HURSDAY, MAY 34, 1951 carpentry work, structural steel work and painting. Drawings and specifications are now ready fot transmittal to prospective bid- ders. | Specification No. 27453 and other bidding information may be obtained on application to the Officer-in-charge of Construction, Naval Station,. Key West Florida. Bids will be received until 11 a. tm, May 23, 195%, .. when they will be publicly opened at the office of the public works officer, Station, U.S. Naval Key West jtion, concrete work, incidental tr the ti at the en ce of Ybor cigar factory, with friends around him. Marti that day made the statement that the funds given tk Lt ost of the revolution victory by the cigar-| kers returned to Cuba > dreds to join in the revolution, and those \ behind in Ybor evercome by the time that their ulness we educed. But, Col. J the serious | imposed by Weyler, | or-general, ac-] botcher of | 1en he put an embargo | hipments to this; Weyler learned that | cigar factory em- | raising money for | d ammunition being} 1 out of Tampa and other | of your property up to $2500.00 most PLENTY OF... FRANK W. LOVERING lina, Fla., given his father, John Metal or Paper Roofings sical Paints - Lumber - Nails— The senior Grimaldi was a pio-} si olution is a cigarmaker‘s knife (chaveta), which is owned by Mrs. Soriano. It was that iden- tical knife which her uncle, shipments thereafter of tobacco] stock to Hamburg, and through} hat foreign port, to Tampa. 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