The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-21
Plan To Concentrate Most
Efforts On Completion OF
Key West Sewerage Project
Piping And Other Ma
terials To Be Used Are
Expected To Arrive In
City Soon

w. A. McMullien, Jr., director
of WPA projects in Florida, and
Thomas D. Orr, director of the
WPA administration in Key West,
told The Citizen today that much
of the activities in Key West are
to be concentrated on the sew
erage project which is to be COM
pleted as soon as possible.
Large shipments of pipe and
other materials are at Barnes
Sound and will be moved to Key
West at the earliest possible mo-
ment. This material and some
equipment has been held up be-
cause of unsettled weather con-
ditions, it was said.
Mr.. McMullen arrived yester
day with Mr.. Orr and has been
going over the situation since his
arrival, to get a comprehensive
and withal intimate idea of con-
ditions here so as to be in posi-
ton to definitely say what is re-
quired and can be done to in
crease activity in the Key West
district.
The ground work, both Mr.. Nc
Mullen and Mr.. Orr said, has been
laid for other projects which will
q be-PurA insaffaetsak Az easiy date
and further Mr.. Orr's plans for
putting more money in circula-
ton, which was one of his ideas,
expressed before he left last week
for Jacksonville.
Working On Matter
Asked about the situation on
the Keys relative to employing
Key Westers on the work, Mr.. Orr
said that he and Mr.. McMullen
and officials in Jacksonville are
agreed that workers from Key
West should be employed on the
projects in Monroe county and
steps had been taken to have this
matter Strengthened out.
Mr.. Orr then said that within
the next few days workmen from
Key West would be sent to the
Keys and work on all projects
which are located in Monroe
county.
Mr.. McMullen remarked that
he had been in Key West some
years ago, but that conditions
then were so much better than
they are at present. During that
time there were number of cigar
factories working, and he was as
founded to learn that only one or
two small places were now max
ing Key West cigars.
While discussing the removal
of persons employed in govern
mental activities due to the de-
struction of the Florida East
Coast Railway lines over the
Keys, Mr.. Orr took from his
drawer a clipping from the news
paper the St. Petersburg indie
pendent and remarking he was
keeping in touch with everything
effecting Key West, handed it to
The Citizen.
Gives Description
The article describes the cleo
ton of officers for the Jeffer-
sonian Democratic club and gives
excerpts from talks delivered by
some of those attending. One of
the talks was by Major A. J.
Angle, U. S. custom collector, in
which he says:
"The Key West customs might
be moved to St. Petersburg since
Key West no longer is a port of
d call, the result of the storm last
fall which wrecked the overseas
railroad"
This is another of the matters
in which Mr.. Orr said he is deeply
interested and is ready to do any
thing within his power for the
betterment of Key West. Like
thousands of others he is eager to
see the railroad restored and will
do all he can to see this brought
about, he said.
Another visitor in Key West to-
day from WPA headquarters in
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