The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-01-19
NATURE NOTES
Reprinted From Port Allegany tPenna.)
Reporter and Argus
BY J. c. GALLOWAY

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]. c. Galloway again writes
vividly of Key West and its at
fractions for the benefit of his
northern friends in Port Allie
gany, Penn. Recently The Citi-
zen reproduced in two parts the
description Mr.. Galloway WROTE
i of the people, homes and flowers
of Key West, which was printed
in his home town newspaper.
Mr. and Mrs. Galloway plan to
leave this city next week follow
ing an extended visit.
The following article appeared
in the Reporter and Argus .on
January H.
well, friends, we are going to
invite the whole bunch of you to
come down to Key West for today
and look around. Lots of folks
do come for a day only, and no
matter where you come from you
will be welcome; we saw a car
with Alaska license the other
day, sAnd another with one from
Hawaii, the latter driven by a
young lady with faultless
cream-in-the- coffee complexion.
So come on down and we will
show you around a bit. Not that
we have seen half of it ourselves,
but nobody sees it all in day,
either. '' 80
eff you drive, you will come
down the Overseas. Highway, it
being the only one there is, which
crosses a narrow channel (not
much, if any, wider than Ports
Mill Street Bridge, where there
is an arch reading Welcome to
Key West. Right or left, it is
three miles to the city on curved
boulevards; the left or south one
with the Atlantic at its sea-wall,
the north one along the island
shoals of the Gulf. We take the
north one, with a row of young
coconut palms along the sea-wall
and pink and green sea beyond,
set. with dark green islands; while
there are shallow lakes and man
grove tangles inside; come to a
charming picture of the yacht
basin with shaded homes along
the waterside, enter Division
Street, with the park on the left
and richly foliaged colorful lawns
on the right; run through small
business section; pass the big
graded school building; and soon
after the park-like grounds of the
Convent of Mary Immaculate,
and by and by turn right on Du-
val, the Main Street of the city
EOld and narrow, it is a one-way
street. See that little cottage
store on the right. with the odd
Caribbean TASKS and bottles and
strange looking antique stuff
there? We ought to walk by
some time and investigate that
or maybe Bertha Helmer will
anyway today while we are look
ing at something else. Here
about the mammoth five-and-ten
Key Vests only chain store, is
the main business district; the
La Concha Hotel and the Cham
Der of Commerce are here; but
we go on and turn at the Madrid
Club, close to the water front
and one of the ship docks. Now
we are getting somewhere. Here
is the Art Center, and next it, in
its green lawn is the Aquarium
But this time we will go on. This
is a general section; here is the
building devoted to lighthouse
matters; and the Navy grounds
and buildings, walled in from the
street. We turn down Whitehead
street past them, and a block to
the right is the Weather Bureau
Visitors are welcome to these
places or some of them, but we
will go down Whitehead to the
Lighthouse, in the middle of the
city. Here the grounds are small
but park-like, heavily shaded;
palms outside the sidewalk, stone
fence within.
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