The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-07
Executive Secretary OF
Organization Is Send
ing Out Much Valuable
Information

Comprised in a letter which is
now being sent out by the cham
Der of commerce is the statement
that 80 per cent of the corre-
sPOndents of the chamber are in
terested in on or all of three
things. Climate, health and the
highway. To comprehensively in
form correspondents a letter has
been written by Executive Secre,
tary S. c. Singleton, which gives
deaiIed information on these sub
jeets:
"This is the only frost free city
in the United States. No frost
has ever been recorded here. Fog
is very seldom observed. Most of
the rainfall occurs between June
and September. Winter is the
dry season. Summer tempera-
lures seldom exceed 80 degrees.
Being within the influence of the
trade winds, refreshing breeZes
are prevalent. Heat prostrations
are unknown.
''There is much transformation
abroad on the subject of hurri-
canes. Hurricanes are a terrify-
ing exhibition of natures power.
The occurrence of one within a
radius of 500 miles is good for
columns of sensational newspaper
stories. There is always 48 hours
warning of one approaching, and
no one warned and housed need
feel any personal apprehension.
There has not been a hurricane
in Key West in 10 years. There
is reason, and we may expect it
TO operate in the future as it has
in the past. Our splendid trees
tell the story, and the writer lives
in a two story frame house which,
like many others, has stood UNI
shaken for rs years.
In the subject of health the
letter continues: Malaria is I'M
known. The quality of our els
tern supplied water is evidenced
hy years of entric diseases. Our
iairies rate among the highest in
the state. House flies are COM
paratively rare. Mosquitoes have
been less troublesome this sum.
mer than we have found them in
many northern cities. They re-
spond to local control. Their fly
ing range is limited and they are
Of a variety known as 'pestferous'
and not disease bearing. The abb
sence of shock due to extreme
changes in temperature, seems 70
tend toward retardihg suntas
annuation. The climate is kind to
elderly people. #&E 81
Lieutenant Henry b. POM
dexter, commandment of the c.
c. c. convalescent camp, located
at Fort Taylor. this city,
makes the following statement;
4 have seen men so badly Grip
pied with rheumatism they bad TO
be taken off the boat on their ar
rival. and in Is days they have
been able TO go in SWIMMING. In
every instance eonvalescents have
left here improved in health and
weighing from 10 to 20 pounds
more than when they arrived We
have the longest days in the win
ter and the shortest in summer,
20 be found in the United States,
This and our position out in the
waters Of the Atlantic Ocean and
the Gulf of Mexico. accounts for
our equable climate. Absence of
dust and smoke. and the more di-
rectly overhead sun, with its in
creased radio activity, justify the
statement that there IS no sun.
light in the United States equal
in healing power 10 that OF the
sunlight IN Key West"
In his dissertation on the high.
way the secretary has this TO an
nounce; key West is reached at
this writing by plane, steamer
and motor bus. the latter operat-
ing over the highway ana ferry.
We expect the highway bridges 70
be completed and the ferries ELF
minated some time in February.
next year. I can add that there
IS no place in the country where
the fishermen can have finer
sport"