The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-05-07
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS DISCUSS
BOULEVARD CONSTRUCTION WORK
MATTERS PERTAINING
TO ROADWAY BUILD
ING IN GENERAL TAX
EN- UP AT MEETING

Monroe county commissioners
convened in regular session at the
county court house last night.
George w. Reynolds acted as clerk
of the board in the absence of d.
z. Filler, who is in Live Oak on a
vacation, expecting to return next
Thursday. Mr.. Reynolds was for
merly clerk of circuit court here
for about 20 years, and was per-
fectly at home on the job last
night.
A committee consisting of seven
ladies from the local lodge of
Pythian Sisters, with Z. A. Bar
bee as spokesman, appeared before
the board praying for permission
to bring carnival show TO this
city in the month of january 1927
to raise money for charity. The
ladies hope to get the Johnny J.
Jones shows as they are considered
the best on the road, their sPokes-
man said. They had already ap-
peared before the city council and
succeeded in getting tksir permis-
sion, now the sought the favor of
the county commissioners. They
got it.
The clerk read a communication
from the First Title Guarantee and
Abstract Company severely eriti-
cizing the service afforded them
at the Office of the circuit court
clerk, stating that the Office is fre-
quently closed when it should be
open and accessible to the public,
that the subordinates in the Office
had declined to furnish informa-
tion over the phone, and that fire.
quently people could not get to
the vaults to examine records that
should be availghle fpr public ps.e
during business hours. l.. K.
Warner was present and comment
ed upon the letter. He said it
meant nothing personal about the
clerk, but that it had become al
most impossible to get to the
vaults to examine records. That
number of citizens had complain
ed about it, and that the matter
had just simply come to show
down, and was being referred to
the commissioners for relief. A
committee composed of Kireh-
he:ner, Porter and Bervaldi was
appointed to investigate the COM
plants.
Representatives of the Tide
water Construction Company we're
present, and considerable time
was spent in discussing the nature
of the sea wall best suited for use
in construction of the beach boule-
ward. No definite decision was
reached.
Cut Expenses
The monthly cost of the eats
consumed by FIVE men aboard tho
house boat at Key Largo t0talled
entirely too much this month 10
please the comfniss. omers, and
they proceeded to trim down this
expense. Commissioner Hilton
Curry entered a motion, which
was carried, to allow the men
$l.00 day for eats. That the
county would furnish the cook If
they wanted one.
George r. Cook, repre- entiue
the Chevalier Corporation, wa ut
the meeting last night. he stated
that his company had spent ss26,-
600 on the Tamiami trail in Mon-
roe county, and that il the state
road department had adopted the
Monroe county route the cro4
state road could have been pass.
able by August Of the present
year, at the rate work IL progreg
ing there now. The machines are
now in two miles Of the Dade
county line and the shovels two
miles in The wake Of the machine.
The road Is being built at the rate
Of 400 feet a day, and conditions
are very favorable to road con
struction.
Makes Report
Chairman Kirchheiaer nude a
report % the joint meeting Of the
Dade and Monroe conmi8 ionera
IN Miami. He read the resoiat on
adopted at that meeting ard tele-
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