The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-09-23
THE EXTENSION
BEING PUSHED
Dad Will Be Completed to Key
West in Ten Months
FINE PROGRESS MADE
~. D,v;sion Sees End of Work - First
Construction Train into Key West
Last Friday Was Welcomed

ooecial from Key West says or ders
,.no hood issued within the past few
Ia.s n hurry work on the extension of
.Ss Florida East Coast between that
.ity and Knights Key Dock, and while
,sIng every possible precaution in view
~ ss. nossibIe hurricane there is much
.st;vitv being displayed. From the
~ ~ status of the work there seems
~ Doubt that within ten and possibly
acht months a train service will be
;nsngurated from that city to Jackson
Vile Vile, and St. Augustine and incidentally
the entire United States and Canada.
Mr. Henry M. Flaglep is very anxious
with this and now, despite handicaps
and loses that would have shattered
snv combination of promoters, Mr..
Fla Msoler sees his ideasand hopes shap-
nirg themselves into absolute reality.
The quarter boats now at Boot Key
| Harbor are being Overhauled and re-
haired quickly and as soon as possible
thev will be sent out along the line
where new camps are to be established
and work on small sections between
the main camps taken up. There are a
number of spots where gangs are need
I'd for few months making repairs
that have been allowed to go undone
until the road was shaping itself and
nearing completion. Within six months
the yiaducts from BOca Chica to Knights
| Kew Dock will all be completed.
Division Engineer Cotton of the Key
| West camp and Division Engineer
Smiley of Boca Chica have already
shaken hands over temporary trestle
work connecting the permanent con-
struction between here and Boca Chlca
md now Engineer Smiley with great,
! n increased force Of engineers, skill
artisans and laborers is going. up to
meet the forces. of Division Engineer
CDe Of Pigeon Key. who are rapidly
manning Moser Channel with the great
vaduct Of one hundred and seventy
piers and dozen arches. Of these
one hundred and twenty-eight are fully
completed and steel rail is laid on one
hundred. Twenty-Five more are nearly
done and from now on, barring pac
weather. the will 60 up at the rate OF
four week.
Meanwhile Resident Engineer Hunt,
Of Bohia Honda, is working between
the Pigeon Key and Boca Cnica forces
and is making remarkable showing
The construction of the arch work al
Bahia Honda will be done in the same
manner and with the same speed a'
those between this city and Boca Chlca
and, with u larger force at command,
1t is even expected that greater head
way will be made.
Next week new camps will be opened
at Niles Channel and Pine Channel b.
BocaChica and PigeonKey outfits. I'm
gineers will be drawn from each cam
and unskiled labor shipped direct. IN
company is having no trouble on on
labor question as men are arriving o'
every steamer from New York an'
many men who are able and Wiling III
splendid opportunities awaiting them
Il is regretable feature, but a facT
that in the construction of this road
FIOrida's artery, men from this sectio
have failed to take advantage OF III
opportunities offered them and the re
uIt Is that ninety per cent OF the pes
postions are held today by men 1ro'
he West and the North. This IS espe
Plally 80 in the construction work an
botanical engineering. The enginee
orps, however, balances about eve
Nd the navigation forces, quite natol
Wy are in favor Of sailors and MARI
rs from the East Coast. THIS ais
pplies to the clerical forces.
The Key West Advertiser OF Sep.e,l
yer II contains brief account OF III
lrst train to arrive. 1t was constru'
lon train and did not connect with I'd
ther end of the line. but nevertheles
was train, and the Advertiser say:
The first traininto Key West arr We "
nday evening attended by only mn
nthusiasm considering 1t was the mo-
mportant happening in history OF GU.
This morning was verified the pre-
eecy Of the late editor and proprlele
The Advertiser In our issue OF MAI
y. a9W when the nearest railroad sue
ION was Palm Beach,: "Ali aooal
or Boca Chica!-are the SOUNDS wllc
vi greet our ears--in the near lu'ui
when the railroad is completed :.
FUNDED like fairy tale then but SOM
mes even fairy tales. come true. -
There has been great energy, alo.'
ns end of the line 1.-THE week, con
letting the last fill on,this side OF !. !.
lawbridge. laying apd ilevenng y i
ack and altering the lin6ot tne .e ,;
hone connections. This work is 81,
Fcgressing. but the line il ~ opef;a'm -,
g "All aboard for Boca; Chica! "
heard daily with "Ahaboard ior D
arpet!" to follow January u.