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The bee., 1906-09-13
TOBACCO SpO|LS
Revolution in Cuba Makes Saw.
ing Of Crop Impossible.
CONGRESSIONAL TALK COMES
HIGH BUT WE MUST HAVE IT.

good" says an old saw; and,
while slaves of My Lady Nlco-
tine the world over have just
cause to regard the insurrection
in Cuba with fear and trembling,
American tobacco growers in the
sunny South are likely to reap
rich profit in consequence. A
moment more deadly in its ef-
fects on the tobacco industry
could not have been chosen for
the uprising. Some Of I'll e
choicest tobacco in the world is
raised in the Pinar del Rio prov
ince of Cuba, where the revo
lutionists are holding forth With
an earnestness which makes it
impossible for the tobacco grow.
ers to attend to the now fully
lripened crop. A few days more
aud it viii be hopelessly ruined.
Last years crop was short be
cause of heavy rains in the is
land, which not only ruined the
unharvested crop, but rendered
large areas of the finest tobacco
lands unfit for tillage. This fact
accounted, in large measure, for
the very satisfactory prices re-
ceived for the American pro-
duct. Reserve supplies were
very much depleted, and If the
present Cuban crop is not forth
looming at the proper time,
prices for domestic grades are
likely to 70 sky high. The situa-
tion is viewed with particular
anxiety by Washington cigar
manufacturers and dealers, whose
trade demands the finest quail.
ties of tobacco in large quanti-
ties. Much of this comes from
the famous Vuolto Abayo dis
trlct, and If the lnsurrection
should extent to that province,
the results are too dire for con-
temptation. Very little tobacco
from Cuba has been received by
local manufacturers this year,
and they declare that all ap-
peals for fresh supply are vain.
If talk be cheap, then the re-
cords of the Government Print
ing Office-the largest, printing
tablishment in the world
show the exception which proves
the rule. Approximately &c.
0O0,O 900 year are required to
run this immense plant, which is
now taking advantage of the
sumner recess to catch up with
its one job of printing Congress
sional talk and the government
records and documents. T h g
most important items of cost are
coal and gas, which amount to
some 100000 a year; but even
the seemingly most trivial sup
plies account for thousands of
dollars in the grand total. About
10000 pounds of common book
ink are required for ordinary
work, besides thousands of
pounds of job ink, embossing
varnish, and many special makes
of ultra m marine, poster red and
label red inks. for the finer work !;
and it takes nearly 200, 900
towels and II tons Of soap to re-
move the surplus INK from the
hands of the employees. The
laundering of the towels alone
costs nearly So, 500 year. About
5000 barrels of sawdust are
used every year, chiefly In keep
ing spittoons in a sanitary con-
dltion. Fifty thousand pounds of
glue, 200 barrels of flour, $8,-
900 worth of thread, $4,000
pounds of twine, $4,000 worth
of cotton and book cloths are
some of the other items of ex-
pense. Here than four tons of
glue, 30 barrels of flour, 10000
yards of cloth, five car loads of
binders board, a ton Of thread,
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HIS wife has either died Of II or left
him. I got one divorce because my
husband read HIS paper. That was in
Dakota. He not only read 1t all
through breakfast. but he began
again at dinner, then kept the gas
burning till about in the morning
reading IL, so I couldn't sleep. It
ought TO be a penitentiary offense.
well, anyway, this brutal, we'll
preserved, rosy and self-suffcient
man in the restaurant read his paper
till you'd have thought he would have
ouit out of decency, II nothing else.
he began at the beginning and read
every blessed word on the first page.
I was beginning on the soup when he
turned the paper over, He was eat
ing. too. at the same time, mind you.
While he fed his face he propped the
paper up against the vinegar bottles
and read. have never seen anything
so perfectly outrageous and impolite,
and as for his poor little wren-like
wifel She sat there timidly eating,
too. and taking furtive peeps at the
other people In the room who weren't
married and were having good time.
81 never felt so sorry for woman
IN nv life. When you come 20 look
al her she was rather pretty, too. She
Rad sweet sort Of eyes and nice hair.
m she had been with somebody who
cared. for her aud was trying 70 make
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hundred feet wide with basins two
ltund ~ feet wide between. The
great piers will afford berths- fol
forty boats four hundred feet long
The depth of the water is from TWEEN
ty to forty feet.
With these harbor facilities, Key
West will almost Immediately rank
with New Orleans. Mobile and Gal
weston as a commercial port. The
Importance of Key West as south
ern naval base and the weekly pres
ence of Unitd States naval craft, are
in themselves a guarantee that the
government will maintain a good
Cepth in the harbors- and channels
allowing the entry of vessels drawing
much water
While Mr.. F1agler does not feel
even after the Havana car-ferry is in
operation, that the Florida East Coast
railway can expect to compete with
steamers from Havana to New York
and New Orleans in heavy through
freight traffic, he does believe that
q large portion of the passenger,
fast freight. and express business be-
tween Cuba and the United States
will be secured.
Three years is the time allowed for
the completion and actual operation
of rolling stock over the Key West
extention. Engineers who have to
deal with big problems in railroad
buildfng. and who have been inform
ed of Mr.. Flagler's plans have I'M
hesitatingly said that it is one Of the
most difficult feats to be undertaken
by any transportation system in re-
cent years. 1t will afford one Of the
most convincing examples in the en-
tire country Of the value of reinforc-
ed concrete construction. The idea
of riding for nearly a hundred miles.
the greater part of the journey al
most in contact with water, while but
a short distance away foam-tOssed
combers of the Atlantic Ocean and
the Gulf of MexiO can be seen from
the car windows, is, in itself suff1-
GENTLY unique to attract passengers
to the land of sunshine and flowers.
The mileage of the Florida East
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that. It was perfectly disgraceful.
was awfully glad there was no body
I knew in the room. II there had
been I'd have been disgraced for life.
Honestly, when a man of that age
does wake up it is something terrible.
OF course, after the fashion of men
of his age who are in the habit Of
taking care of themselves, he had
about everything that was going, and
something more besides, at that table
d'hote dinner. / noticed that he or
dered a special brand of wine, while
hts poor little wife drank the usual
pink ink.
THAT was bad enough, but when
he ordered a cognac with his coffee,
then a long cigar, then deliberately
placed the cigar over the flame and
watched it burn without even ask
ing her to look and take pleasure in
1t, he Just seemed to me to be about
one of the worst brutes OF men 1 ever
encountered. Looking over at me all
the time and smiling and smiling so
he began to attract the attention Of
everybody in the room.
Smiling and going on so-what
vain creatures men are anyway! -
that at last the little wife, getting
desperate, got up, and left the table.
Now, what do you think OF that? De-
iberately got up and left the table!
well. was Just about scared to
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duration while seated in the cars OF
d train.
Recognizing the importance and
volume Of Cuban travel, as well as
The future freight-carTying outlook
Mr.. Flagler has long been planning
the extension Of his railroad from
Naimi to some point where a deep
IOomy harbor would accommodate
ships drawing more water than is af
forded at Maimi From this latter
FORT it is one hundred and sixty-five
miles by boat to Key West, and two
hundred and forty miles to Havana,
while it is but ninety miles from Key
West to the Cuban capital.
Since the Spanish-American war,
Cuba has has experienced a tremen-
GDu5 commercial development, and
as a winter resort it has also become
very popular. The new line which
Mr.. Flagler is now building promises
TO afford much bstter facilities of
communication between our island
neighbOrs and the American main
land.
Construction Of the Road.
In slzirting the lower edge Of the
FlOrl0a peninsula, the long chain OF
islands extending out from the main
land is being made use of as far as
possible, but only about sixty-five
miles Of the new road will be built
OF natural foundation. The remain
der is to be built on rock embank-
ments and reinforced concrete-ach
viaducts.
Starting at Homestead, the new line
runs southwest, leaving the main
land at the crossing of Jewish creek
and running out to Key Largo. the
longest of the keys. For about If
teen miles it will run through the
center of this narrow island, and then
follow the row of the keys out to Key
West.
Nearly thirty islands are to be used
for short stretches. Rock embank-
ments will be built where the inter
vening water is shallow; but where
the water ~ deeper and the openings
are exposed 70 storms by breaks in
the outer reefs. the concrete-arch via
duct construction viii be used.
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laid on ton of this above the level of
the concrete coping. The base OF
rail will accordingly be about thirty
one feet above the mean low water
level.
Mr.. j. C.. Meredith, Mr.. Fiagler's
constructing engineer, estimates that
the amount of material to be USED
in the concrete arches is two hun
dTed and six THOUSAND and one hun
cred cubic yards OF sand, two hun
bred barrels of hydraulic cement, one
hundred and seventy-six thousand
and nine hundred cubic yards of stone
and four thousand and eight hundred
and ten tons Of steel.
At Bahia Honda harbOr, forty miles
southeast of Key West, where there
is from eighteen to twenty feet of
water and a good entrance channel, a
working base will be established; and
when the road is completed to that
point, a temporary service to Havana
will be inaugur ed. AS a matter of
fact. Bahia Honda really offers an ex-
cellent seaport terminus. 1t is but
twenty miles farther away from Ha-
vana than Key West. The reef Dor
Gering it is broken by a wide, deep
approach channel from the ocean, and
deep-draugh vessels could enter with
cut danger.
The floating equipment, engaged in
the construction work consists of six
tugs; one stern-wheel steamer; six
teen barges, twenty-five by one hun
dred feet; twenty-four barges, thirty
by one hundred feet; twelve baTges,
twenty by eighty feet; one sand
Gredge; one earth dredge. for filing
the concrete viaducts; eight barges,
forty by seventy feet, with concrete
mixers and hoists; eight pile drivers:
eight towing launches; one despatch
boat; four quarter boats; and one
hundred dinghies. This fleet will be
increased as the work progresses.
Docks and Terminals.
Extensive docks and terminals
will be built in Key West. The pres
ent plans include the construction of
one large drydock and ten wharves
each eight hundred feet long and one
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FLORIDA POLITICS AND POLITICIANS

r,,4 FORGET ParkhiII.

Cont Forget ParkhiII.
Charlie Parkhill' is the way we
s,esk of the Jefferson county boy
NJ is a candidate for one OF the two
-rsriceships. This is a bit undigni-
led now. perhaps, for a handle for
one wearing the judicial ermine.
..Justice'' ParkhiH sounds better.
mont forget TO mark an tx" before
lis name.-Monticello News.
Fer Railroad Commissioner.
The withdrawal Of Jefferson B.
Browne as a candidate for railroad
commissioner leaves the race open
n OILY four other candidates for the
two places to be filled. The candi-
dates are r. Hudson Burr, present
incumbent E. B. Bailey, Of Jefferson,
7. J. Appleyard, of Columbia, and N
A. Bitch, Of Levy.-Madison New
Enterprise.
Just Kept Faith.
Governor Broward has committed
the objectionable sin, in the estima-
ton Of the iand-sharks and the rail-
roadside has kept faith with the
7eople.-Laurel Hill Southern Home.
Supreme Court Judges.
Nominations are 10 be made at the
primary election of May 18th of two
Justices Of the Supreme Court. The
places 70 be filed are now held by
Justices James b. Whitfield and
Charles B. ParkhiH who are serving
parts of full terms. These very able
and popular judges are candidates
for the two whole terms to be filed
a. the coming primary.
For a number Of yeans the State
Supreme Court was several years be
hind with its work. and there was
much complaint over the long delays
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the evening pleasant, 1 could imagine
how her eyes would have lighted up
and made her beautiful. 1t makes all
the difference in the world. I can
remember when / looked like that
when sat by and ate my dinner in
silence and sadness while my hus-
band read, but it wasn't long at a
time any time, thank goodnessi
by the time 1 had got to my
chicken 1 concluded that something
ought to be done. / determined that
would see IL couldn't wake that
old duffer up and make him quit read
ing his paper, because nobody that
ever came in contact with me ever
read his paper for any length Of time,
unless he was married to me.
"As he turned over the third page
Of his paper and happened to look up
over IL in my direction, / sent him
one Of my most electric glances, to-
gether with something that very
nearly bordered upon a smile. He was
several minutes getting the paper
arranged against the vinegar bottles
for looking at me. Then he answered
the inadvertent smile with grin. /
dropped my eyes for fear the little
wife might see, and when raised
them modestly once more he was sti1
looking at me.
~ have to tell you how that old
duifer tried to hirt with me after
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~ nee in awhile" said the
VII little widow, II have TO
dine alone. Not often,
thank heaven, but when /
Do can hardly stand It. It happened
last night The young man who pre-
tends 70 be In love with me wrote
hat he was sick. That means he was
going out with his other girl. That's
he trouble about having been mar
Red lot Of times. You get 20 know
men 50 well.
Il any rate, I went down to a lit
de table d'hote place / so TO when /
have 20 dine alone, and took a seat
al a table. had no sooner done so
Than beheld almost directly In front
81 ne. IN the middle OF the dining
toon, q couple. The man was gray
haired, but well-preserved. One Of
those men who take good care Of
themselves. And the woman was a
little Insignificant thing dressed in
tray. Demure, unpretending, just
Tie sort OF creature you'd expect him
9 take FOR wife by way OF contrast.
knew they were married as soon
As looked at them, because he was
reading HIS paper. What have suf-
lsned from that psper reading! It
would al several volumes. The min
We a man gets married he begins TO
Me his SRpers, HeSkeeRszit -ugttin
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I In the rock embankments ther9
will be a number of twenty-five foo,
openings to permit the passage of
row-boats and small craft; and where
the tracks cross three important
channels, drawbridges will be put in
10 pass larger vessels.
The cOncrete-arch viaducts will be
the most difficult part of the work.
There are four of these, aggregating
SIS miles in length. They will be
from Long Key to COnch Key (ten
thousand and five hundred fest),
scross knights Key channel (seven
thOusano and three hundred fest);
and across Bahia Honda channel
tour thousand and nine hundred and
fifty feet). The standard form of
construction to be used is fifty-foOt
reinforced, concrete, circular-arcn
spans and piers; but in some places
sixty-fOOt spans will be used. The
water is from ten to thirty feet
deep in most places, ana the bottom
is limestone; but as these waters
are frequently disturbed by severe
and sudden storms, much difficulty is
looked for in placing the concrete.
AN uldJCIlttly luCluG-uB I06 broken
stone for the concrete, must be daliv-
cred by boat from Maimi The
stone is quarried near this town, and
it will be used. on the greater part of
the work
Storm Proof Piers.
Because of the severity of the
Southern coast storms, the piers will
be firmly anchored to the bottom to
pervent them shifting out of line.
Into the rocky bottom, piles will be
sunk, and carried up to within two
feet of the line of the arches.
Abutment piers are to be put in at
every fifth arch; and in these, TWEEN
ty-eight piles will be used; in the in
termediate piers, twanty-one piles
will be sunk. The arches will be re-
inforced with circumferential square
corrugated bars near the outside sur
faces, and with TRAVERSE bars which
are tied together with one-half inch,
round radial bars.
In between the spandrel walls,
earth filling will be used, and ballast
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Coast Railway at the present time is
5O1.86, subdivided as follows: Jack
sOnville to Homestead, main line
1886; Titusville branch, AZ miles
Orange City Junction branch, PA
miles; Mayport division, 26 miles
other branches, 7.6 miles. When the
Key West extension of 126 miles is
completed, the system will have a TO-
tai mileage of 628. The value Of the
road is indeterminate, since it's own
ers furnish no financial statements
It's stock is in few hands, and changes
of ownership are almost unheard Of;
it is not quoted in the financial re-
ports. and its profits and earnings are
of little concern to outsiders.
The older part Of the Florida East
Coast Railway is one of the prettiest
routes in the eastern half of the
United States, traversing as It does
a section upon which has been Law
ished all of the attention that a vast
fortune has afforded.
The rapid evolution from primitive,
unknown little clusters Of cabins and
boarding houses scattered among the
cOcOanut and palm groves in south
ern Florida, to perhaps the most con-
spicuOus and magnificent winter re-
sorts in the country, has been a
striking example of modern progress
and enterprise. The change has been
effected in twelve years.
Mr.. FlagIer's Great Work.
Late in the eighties, Henry NJ.
Flagler began to build a railroad
south from st. Augustine along the
Atlantic coast The pathway of steel
was pushed down through the pine
and palm forests into the Jungle
lands. Resorts and towns immediate
ly sprang up along the way. A chain
Of hotels costing millions, and of
their kind the most luxurious in the
country, were constructed; anu
around them. in several instances,
cottage colonies were started, to
which came wealthy pleasure seekers
who spend their winters in the semi
tropical climate.
One would think that Mr.. FlagleT
with SO much of the general develop
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ment Of Florida already accomplished
would be content to rest. But he
does not seem to rest at all. After
the railroad had been extended to
Miami bay, and after Miami-called
the Magic City because of its rap
ii grOwth-had risen on the PALM
dotted shore, everyone thought that
here there would be a halt But it
soon appeared that the halt was
long way of. and that the most i'm
posing features Of Mr.. Flagler's plans
for Florida we're yet TO be developed.
The road was extended into a for
lOrn wilderness. but the people no
longer wondered. Aside from learn
ing that this wilderness can be con-
Verted into one of the cOuntry's gar
den spots, they have been brought to
realize the impressive fact that a
railrOad through to Key West, the
most sOuthernly point in the United
States, will bring this country into
the closest and quickest possible
touch with the West Indies and
South America, and the great volume
Of shipping that will some day be-
going through the Panama canal
With an immense interchange OF
the products of the northern and
southern parts Of the Western Hem
i5phere passing through it's harbOr,
Key West will become a great port.
A main highway of trade will stretchB
through Florida. The commerce OF
the New World will be stimulated
Again reveTting to the wonder OF
the new Flagler extension, it has
been said that E. III. Hartman re-
garded the Lucin cutoff across Great
Salt Lake in Utah-bUilt for the pur-
pose of eliminating about one hundred
miles of track on the Union Pacific
as the monumental achievement OF
his life. Engineering eXpsrts, how
ever assert that the feat of bridging
the keys is a much greater one; and
economic authorities declare that no
similar enterprise OF modern times,
with the exception Of the Panams,
canal. can be compared with it IL
commercial benefits to the Unite8
States.
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in securing final adjudications of
litigation. Under the present organ
ization Of the court, however, the
work has been brought UP to date
and cases are now decided prompt
ly after they are submitted.
The present Justices, who have
labOred faithfully and well to bring
about this great improvement In the
Supreme Court, have merited the
warm approval of the people of Flor
iOa. Public sentiment seems to be
strongly in favor of continuing the
present very satisfactory service of
the Supreme Court, and Justices
Whitfield and Parkhill will doubtless
be nominated in the primary for one
full term each. 1t has been the rule
in this state to give all judges one
full term, and there seems to be no
reason why there should be a de-
parture from this rule in the cases
Of Judges Whitfield and Parkhill--
Gainesville Sun,
-
New Blood in Office.
Wouldn't il be a good scheme to
nave a few of the types of the New
South" in Office? We have progress
sive men all over the South who are
up to the times, and they are the
men We want to manage the affairs
of the present DAY. The South is ad-
vancing anG we want men with adj
ysnced ideas.-Gainesville Sun.
Prefer the Larger Sphere.
Most newspaper men had rather be
spectators in that legislature than
play upon its stage and that is why
80 many of them refuse to help make
it a newspaper legislature. After all
the newspapers sphere is a larger
one than the legislative hall. 1t has
its own battles to fight and though
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Through trains to Cuba! A railroad
track which stretches one hundred
miles out into the ocean from the
southernmost tip of the FforiOa main
land! Twin lines Of steel that jump
from one 10 another Of the long, low
coral islands which stretch away like
g string of beads from the peninsula
O. the southwest More than five
miles Of tremendous concrete ar
cbes; and more than fifty Of rock
and earth embsnkments, over which
solid Pullman trains will run into the
city Of Key West!
Henry NJ. Flagler. multimilliOnaire,
sometimes called the King of Flor
ida" dreamed it one January after
room, as he sat under the palms that
grow about his subtrOpical nome. Be
ing a man given to making his
dreams come true, he woke up, and
set a multitude Of men to work. Al
ready the road is fast being con-
structed. Within three years you
uay bOari a sleeping car in Chicago
and never leave it until the engine
whistles for Havana, Cuba.
The average cost of extending Mr..
Flagler's East Coast Railway system
over the southern keys and islands
10 the city Of Key West, will be $685.
600 a mile The railrOad-which be-
sins al Jacksonville and the present
terminus of which is Homestead,
twenty-eight miles south Of Maimi
as to be heightened one hundred and
twenty-six miles, at a total cost of
letween ten and twelve millions Of
dollars
Il is but a part Of a plan whereby
its originator hopes in the near fu-
ture 70 enable passengers to ride
from American cities to the pretty,
pslm-shaded Cuban capital, without
leaving the cars after going aboard
n the United States. With the CON-
petiOn of the line TO Key West, huge
Csr-ferTies viii be put on regular
schedule between the Florida termin-
a and Havana and trains will be con-
veyed afloat. Passengers will then
enjoy the unique novelty Of an ocean
trip of between four and five hours /