The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-29
KEY WEST FOR FISHERMEN
(Times-Union)

(IImeS-Unlon)
'fWhile Key West awaits the completion OF
the $3,6O0OO0 Causeway to connect her isolation
with the mainland, the question in the minds OF
many devotees is whether the new link of over
seas roadway will spoil the isolated pcturesquenes
and inherent charm of the Island of Keys" says
the Boston Transcript. This stepchild community
which is S75 miles further south than Cairo Egypt
has long been known the stretch of narrow reefs
life different from all Florida" The Transcript
goes on to say:
Key West each Spring becomes magnet
Tor the big game water sports, and is an
anglers paradise where fish stories come
true" states C. E. Bell, general passenger
agent of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, who
tells how thousands each year seek the anooz-
ing coral hamlets of the Keys From numer-
Gus docks, pier and bridges hundreds of
anglers follow the fascinating sport and bring
in fish from thousand pounds and even
larger. The native life and sedateness is
transformed when fishermen from all rarts of
the country come knocking at the door for
the great catches.
One of the charms of the resort lie; in its
architecture where houses built over century
ago crooked little flower-filled lanes and
picturesque alleys resemble the dwellings of
old Virginia and Spain of the West Indies
Evidences of pirate days are still seen recall
ing the roaring buccaneers who used Key West
as place to careen their ships between raids
the Spanlh Main. An Old World atmos-
phere pervades the string of islands. Spanish
is heard from the dignified old balonied
houses, cupolaed and yellow-shuttered, with
native habits, customs and bicycle riding add
ing to the illusion of foreign land. In the
resort, which is Spanish in atmosphere, one
may still hear the cockneyed speech as hand
ed down from English tars and the New Eng
land clipper ship aailors who settled down on
the Island after helping Commodore Porter
raid out the freebooters of the Spanish Main.
The story is much more informative about
Key West telling OF the way the flower seed wa
brought there by seafaring men from all over the
world, and planted, to grow beautiful and in
eelSSCiIS III the ydIuS anu SdfueHS MS IS one
of the charms of Key West" it is told, found
in rare and abundant foliage flowers and trees
Here the royal poinciana, as bright as the burning
bush of Biblical legend, blooms several months OF
the year with East Indian palms, Spanish lines
and the nght-blooming cereus. Tourists who seek
the unusual will find Key West a one-street town
OF little houses, looking out the lush of tropi
cal growth"
1t is not likely that the completion of the
Causeway will lessen the charms and attractions
of Key West for fishermen or tourists; it will
still be Ear from Shore and the isolation that was
actually ended when the great Overseas Railway
was built by Henry Flagler, years ago, is not de-
plored The Transcript suggests in its headlines
that Key Wet SAUNDERS until Spring" but the
fact is that it slunbers right on through the year
to great extent-and is always interesting.
As in all tropical countries the people do not try
to work in the middle of the day Key West is
tropical; and the only part of Florida that can be
called. Fishermen, sportsmen, pleasure-seekers,
tourists, will continue to visit Key West-even as
they go to the islands of the Caribbean Sea, and
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