The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-18

he was ironing his clothes.
who met the party at the C.C.C.
! Camp at West Summerland Key;
Arthur B. Hale, chairman of state
road department.; group of rep
resentatives 'fronas Governor Fred
Cone, including Mary Byron, III,
John P. Stokes, E. G. Sewell,
Parks Glover, Alexander Orr, Jr.,
and Fred M. Hudson; John Slade,
chairman of Overseas Highway
Commission.
A large group of newspaper
men, photographers and news
reelmen arrived in an Aero Car.
Newsrell Companies represented
were Metro-Go ldwyn-Mayer Met
rotone News, Paramount News,
International News, Associated
Press Photos. News agencies
represented were Associated
Press, United Press, International
News Service; New York Times,
New York Daily News, Philadel-
phia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune,
N. Y. Herald Tribune and Time
Magazine. - ~
l.~~l' Special Boat 10
TO the water at the end of a
gangplank near the President at
the officers cahana in the Naval
Station was a gigboat, which the
President was to use to fish the
Key West reef tonight. He will
proceed directly to the reef and
the Cruiser Houston will shortly
follow. When darkness falls and
, his piscatorial efforts are well
rewarded with the multifarious
strikes of the great coral barrier
of the lower Keys he will board
the Houston and spend the night
there.
The Presidents plans for the
night and tomorrow are not
known. 1t is believed that the
Houston will proceed directly to
the Caribbean area where the
war games are now in progress,
which are aimed to keep an enc
my fleet well out at sea in order
to protect the Panama Canal.
However, President Roosevelt
may proceed to- Tortugas where
he spent some time fishing a few
years ago: -, ar.4.g .}%c g.. ,3L..
20 - oMany Newsmen ;.aoao
Around the President was a
battery Of newspaper reporters
and news cameramen from all
the major&eofnpanies. u Mr.. Roose-
Welt faced the audience of digni-
taries, who came with him over
the Highway this morning, in
Guiding Congressional, naval and
military officials and spoke into
a microphone, which transmitted
his words by telephone to Miami
where it was broadcast over the
nation by the National Broad
casting Company. To his right
spread out the cool walks with
coconut and other tropical trees
overspreading macadam roads
concrete sidewalks. The destroy
ers Warrington and Childs were
to his right at Pier B locked
alongside each other. Airplane
Tender Owl was locked along
another section of the same pier.
Farther beyond these ships spread
the large buildings of the Seven
tn Lighthouse District.
Scenes Around FDR
T Before the. President was the
green, little officers swimming
cabana inside of which were a
wealth of tropical potted plants.
The protected Sub Base, whose
half-mile dong arm of Breakwa-
ter now encompasses a Yacht
Basin and new, naval all-steel
piers. Farther out could be haz-
lily seen the Keys spreading down
sixty miles to Tortugas and Fort
Jefferson. The President was in
sight of the Main Ship Channel,
Southwest Channel, and North
west Channel, all of them capable
of being used by large ships.
Farther out to the Presidents left
about a mile off Old Fort Tay-
lor, a fort built in 1885, lay the
U.S.S. Cruiser Houston in a blue
haze. Twenty or more yachts
berthed at the Basin had their
flags out in colorful array.
Small launches and large excur-
sion boats piled in and out of the
Sub Basin.
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