Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-17
KEY WEST THROUGH The.
BEAUTIFUL CREEKS
.A11oUNG The KEYS


or less dimensions about his home. The
bathing place was on the south beach.
easily reached by the street cars or by
foot by passing through the Cuban quar-
ter of the city for the roads are good
all across the island. On this side of the
beach was La Brisa, a big building, with
it's large ballroom and wide porches. Here
the different clubs and societies of the
city held their entertainments and dances.
X
Key West is famous for the beauty of
its women Their pretty faces. their won
derful eyes, small hands and tiny feet
have been sung of by the poets: but the
prevalent idea that nature has been more
bountiful to the senoritas in the matter
of beauty than to the fair daughters OF
other lands is a mistaken one. They pos
sess no physical supremacy over the
women Of other nationalities. 1t is their
manner. their vivacity. their grace and
naivete that produce the illusion and
make them so charming. They live to be
loved. admired and fiattered. and it is
part of their religion to make themselves
fascinating The American girl could
learn whole volumes from them in the
arts of coquetry and courtship and the
sciences of Irritation and fascination.
Every Spanish woman is a study in color:
nature seems to have taught her just
where to place crimson rose among her
dark tresses and how to combine her
black lace with yellow. There is nothing
particularly distinguishing about the dap
per little don, unless 1t is his proverbial
LONELINESS, for he Is as unattractive as
his lady is fair.
Key West has two lighthouses. the
northwest passage light marks the north
west extremity OF the broad sand bar
lying west of the channel 1t is fixed
white light thrown in a red sector, N.
NV. over the deeper water on the bar.
The light Is on red and white screw
pile structure. fifty feet high. the light
visible at twelve and half nautical
miles. Through this channel pass nearly
all vessels bound north and south to
and from Europe, the West Indies and
the gulf ports. The other lighthouse ID
within the city. on the southwest point.
with fixed light seventy-two feet above
the water. guiding the vessels to the city.
Near the naval storehouse is monu-
ment Of dark gray granite, erected In
1866 to the memory OF the sailors and
soldiers who died in the service at this
station during the civil war. These struc-
lures may or may not have been destroy
ed-they probably were.
In the outskirts of the city in the GEN.
ter Of the island. near the Cuban quar-
ter where the small Spanish cottages
cluster. is the city cemetery. The great
stretch of the sea can be seen on either
side, as it is about equally distant from 1t.
In the Slanting shadows of the mess
green trees one sees the cleaning slabs.
crosses and monuments in the wide-swept
cemetery. and here. in the potter's field.
are the graves of the men who lost their
lives in the battleship Maine in Havana
harbor on the night of February Is, 1898.
It is a by-corner Of the island, and with
out care or attention. where for two CEN
turtles Spaniards. negroes and fisherfolk
put their dead and have forgotten them.
Perhaps half Of the graves are those OF
unknown sailors, whose sleeping places
are unmarked. Most of the Inscriptions
on the tombstones in the cemetery are
in Spanish.
The graves of, our sailor heroes OF the
Maine were dug in coral sand. There are
twenty-four of them. Very close to
these mounds Is a group Of thirty-siX
naval seamep who died of yellow fever.
The little twelve-inch slab at the head of
each group contains the names and words
United States Navy"