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KEY WEST BUILDS
ROAD OVER OCEAN
TO JOIN MAINLAND
AUTO BOULEVARD, ACROSS 125
MILES OF SEA>\ PROVIDED
BY BOND ISSUES.
KEY WEST, Fla., May 22.—(£>)—
Plans for the strangest automobile
road ever projected and unlike any
other road that has ever been built
for it will pass across 125 miles of
ocean, received a great impetus
•when Monroe county, in which Key
West is the only city, voted bonds
of $2,600,000 to push along the
boulevard Which will skip over the
Florida Keys to the mainland.
The road has already been start
ed. The present is the second bond
issue. The first was for $300,000
and was passed a year ago last
November. The road’s engineers
will create stupendous causeways,
on which the motorist will at times
be almost out of sight of the low
lying, mangrove-bordered islets.
The road will have no parallel in
automobile history. It will have as
its closest model the amazing
overseas extension of the Florida
East Coast Railway, completed to
Key West in March, 1912, by the
late Henry M. Flagler, at a cost of
$31,000,000. But the automobile
road will not take so direct a route
as the railroad. It will take advan
tage of the contours of the keys
or islets, that lie between Key
West and the mainland to a greater
extent than was advisable for the
railroad, where the cutting down
of distance was essential. But it
will present the same scenic mar
vels. It will be part of a boulevard
that is proposed to extend down
the Atlantic coast from Maine to
Miami and thence to Key West. It
will not be neces’sary to wait for
the bridging of the entire gap be
fore the auto road is opened be
tween Key West and the mainland.
The bonds call for two auto ferry
boats across the longest channels,
and these will be in service until
the bridging of those channels is
completed.
Bonds Voted.
Key West has a population of
17,000. In three years she has
voted $2,900,000 for the auto road
and some $250,000 for a golf links
on Stock Island, the next island on
the way to the mainland. Nine
holes of the municipal golf course
are finished, and a velvet-green car
pet of Bermuda grass grows from
the white marl rock, which was
blasted with 9,000 pounds of dyna
mite and crushed -with scarifiers.
Progress has already been made
on the- overseas automobile road.
There is a good new bridge be
tween Key West island and Stock
island. It is the first bridge in the
new road. There is a good asphalt
road from Key West to and across
Stock island. A dredger Is today
throwing up an embankment for
the road from Stock island tdNBaddle
Bunches, the next islands in the
chain to the mainland.
(World-famed Long Key, one of the
greatest big game fishing rounds
on earth, with a world's record of
thirty-seven sail fish cauht, and
liberated in a single day, and count
less other denizens of the deep, is
on the route.
From the road one will see
sharks, little fellows, two to four
feet long, as well as leopard sharks,
reaching up to seventeen feet, In
these waters.
Shark Leather.
On Big Pine Key, not far from
Marathon station, on the Florida
East Coast Railway’s Overseas ex
tension, there is a shark leather
factory. From twenty-five to 100
sharks are caught daily. The indus
try has now been operating two
years, and there seems to be no
diminution in the supply.
Tarpon may be caught almost
anywhere along the automobile
route.
Commercial shark fishing is only
one of the industries in Key West’s
“Back Country,” which consists of
sea and shoals. It is these indus
tries and the development of the
land in the hundreds of keys that
will pay the bonds for the new
auto road. The enhancement of land
values in the keys is already many
times in excess of the value of the
bonds. Cocoanut palms, though not
native to the keys, have developed
amazingly. Hundreds of miles of
shortline are bordered by these pic
turesque palms; It is proposed to
raise them commercially. Already
they are sold to tourists.
Wonderful plans are under way
for the keys. Islands that will
have embankments and beautiful es
planades built around their shores,
and serve as sites of millionaire pal
aces and hotels.
A beautiful marine boulevard will
be built around Key West as* a
termination to the overseas auto
road.
Alaska reindeer meat is growing in
favor on the Pacific coast.
Freighter Oduna In
Port with Big Cargo
Under command of Captain Ernest
Lanstrom, former pilot of the vessel,
the freighter Oduna of the Alaska
Steamship Company arrived in port
this morning at 5:20 o’clock from Se
attle with a large general cargo and
hundreds of tons of bridge steel for
the Alaska Railroad.
Capt. Vic Westerlund, veteran skip
per in the service of the company,
who has commanded the Oduna for
the last three years, is laid up in a
Juneau hospital, with a broken arm,
sustained last week when he fell from
the bridge of his vessel to the deck.
According to local information,
Captain Westerlund slipped in cross
ing an open! space on the bridge deck,
falling to the deck below. He was
picked up unconscious and rushed to
the Juneau hospital. It is reported he
suffered a compound fracture of his
arm and numerous concussions being
very ill from the shock.
The freighter’s manifest shows gives
383 tons of bridge steel for the rail
road; 90 tons of lubricating oils and
gosaline for the Standard Oil Com
pany, besides many tons of general
supplies for Latouche, Valdez, Cor
dova, and numerous canneries in the
district. The Oduna is scheduled to
move over to the oil dock this after
noon and will undoubtedly get under
way for the south late tonight or at
an early hour tomorrow. The work
of unloading the massive steel spans
and other bridge material to the flat
cars went forward today smoothly and
in quick order. It is stated most of
this shipment of steel will go into
the huge Healy river bridge.
They Prospect with
Electricity, Sweden
SEATTLE, May 22.—(IF)—Prospect
ing by electricity is the newest sys
tem in the finding of ores in Swe
den, Hans Lundberg, field manager
for the Swedish-American Prospect
ing Corporation who is visiting in
New York, said. He added that it
not only finds the ore, but boundar
ies are determined and established
by the device.
Zealous uplifters at Shreveport,
La., lured John Barker from his home
and flogged him because his 17-year
old daughter, riding a bicycle for
exercise as recommended by a phy
sician, wore knickers. This the good
gentlemen looked upon as a mofal
menace, which they sought to remove
by the ingenious method mentioned.
Fire Mifliam a Day Is
Spent for Cosmetics
CHICAGO, May 22.—(^—Ameri
can women are spending as much
money for beauty culture now as
men ever spent in saloons, according
to Charles Nestle of New York, beau
ty specialist. ‘^More than 30,000,000
women over 21 years of age in this
country, spent $5,000,000 per day for
cosmetics," said Nestle. "The an
nual consumption of rouge alone
amounted to 17,856,000 boxes last
year, while other beautifiers, cold
creams and face powders, are han
dled across the counters at the rate
of 55,047,000 and 250,902,000 packages
a year, respectively. "More than
$150,000,000 is spent annually for
permanent waves, while $7,500,000 is
spent for hair dye.”
13-YEAR-OLD HEN STILL
LAYING ON OHIO FARM
ATHENS, O., May 22.—(jP)—The
oldest hen in Ohio, perhaps, is own
ed by Virginia Fink, of Gloucester,
near here. It is thirteen years old
and is still laying. It is a Buff Or
phington and goes by the name of
‘‘Betty.’ According to Virginia, "Bet
ty" will be permitted to die of old
age, if she has her way about it.
“Betty” is being used as a nurse
maid for all the sick and wreak chicks
in her owner’s flock and is credited
with being a perfect "mother.”
Strengthens Weak Eyes
Old fashioned camphor, withhazel,
hydristis, etc., as mixed in Lavoptik
eye wash, strengthens eyes and re
lieves any case weak, strained or sore
eyes. Acts surprisingly quick. Alum
inum eye cup free. Seward Drug Co.
Cal M. Brosius
Nails, fifty varieties, Automobile Glass,
Glass, Locks, Hinges,
Stockholm Tar, R00f Pitch,
BB1. Lime, Paints.
Glass Cutting,
Terps, Oils,
Fibered Plaster,
Stains, Putty,
Corner Lath,
Belting, Cement,
Doors,
Hyd. Lime,
Plate Glass,
Colors,
Chimney Brick,
Varnish,
Corner Bead,
Mirrors,
Medusa,
White Atlas,
Keens,
Metal Lath,
Cedar, Oak, Maple,
Arch Brick,
Fire Clay,
Plaster Pans,
Hickory, Iron Bark,
Beaver Board,
Gal. Cor. Iron,
Pulleys,
Flooring,
Fir, Spruce, Maple,
Ceiling,
Rustic,
Windows,
Lumber,
Fir Lath,
Fire Brick,
Spruce Finish,
Mouldings,
Z-Lath,
Plaster Board,
Mahogany,
Roof Paper,
Building Paper,
Asbestos Paper,
Shingles,
Sash Rail,
Fir Finish,
LIBB^dEardSoTpD07 GLASS’ SiDgle aDd D°uble’ Strength,
ASBF<m?S^dQ^Tfr0dUCtS’ Rubber Matting, White Sand,
ASBESTOS STRIP SHINGLES, HYDRAULIC ELEVATORS
... METAL basement sash and frames
Sidewalk Coal Hole Coyer a Sidewalk Walk Lights, Etc.
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GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
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VAN GILDER HOTEL
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
•TEAM HEAT
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HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock