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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01
BY J. c. GALLOWAY

The Citizen presents herewith
another in the series entitled,
Mature Notes, from the pen OF
]. c. Galloway.
These articles appear regularly
IN the Port Allegany Penna)
Reporter and Argus, and were
composed while Mr.. and Mrs.
Galloway were guests in this
city during December and jan
uary.
Following is the latest article:
What do they eat in Key
West?' The old-time classic an
swer would be 'Grit3 and Grunts'
and if there is anything better
for the foundation of a meal, we
don't know what it is. A grunt is
pale and deep gold, enameled in
sky blue and purple enamel, and
has a scarlet mouth, and looks
like d kings ransom in jewels;
and it comes on the table snow
white and crusted all over with
russell gold; and with a dish of
white grits beside it, say, folks,
you can eat, and no millionaire
has anything on you. But there
is plenty else to go with it down
here.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01
Service Wives
Meet Tomorrow

The regular meeting of the
Service Mems Wives Club will be
held tomorrow afternoon at loo
o'clock in the American Legion
Hall. corner of Whitehead and
United streets.
All service wives are urged to
be present as matters pertaining
TO their recreation and welfare
will be announced by Mrs. z.
Williamson, president.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01
THE ISLAND CITY


A VERY NICE DEVELOP
MENT on Boca Chica which is
typical of the keys is the Berg
doll camp about five miles above
Boca Chica channel. There is a
central lounge with a huge fire
place, purely for that home
feeling, Mr.. Bergdoll says.
Beautiful furnishings feature this
central inn. The cottages are
very neat and give one an elated
feeling while looking out over the
broad Atlantic flying its flags
of every conceivable shade of
blue and green. The fishing
nearby is very good with fine bar
and rocky bottoms everywhere.
The development is on a sandy
knoll which has been half hidden
for years by long trailing vines
and grass. Bergdoll has cleaned
all off and the views in the eve
ming with some of the tallest
coconut palms on the Florida
keys arching beautifully over the
water is gorgeous. The days are
delightfully."- cool and very sunny.
Construction of the houses is
unique. Framework and outside
boarding goes up first. There is
ventilation in the lower portion
of the walls. The inside is finish
ed with plywood and makes a
very luxurious interior.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

HOUSE and TWO LOTS, nine
rooms, all modern conven-
fences, beautiful lawn, double
garage. All taxes paid, furn-
ished, radio, piano, typewriter,
etc. $4,000 cash or $500 down.
balance in IL years. Robt. j.
Lewis, 1911 Won Phister street.
dec11-s
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01
MENTION

Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Taylor, who
had been visiting in Key West
for the past three days and were
guests at the Hotel La Concha,
left over the highway this morn
ing for Miami en- route to Tampa
to attend the Gasparilla Fair.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

MRS. ALEC BRUN. of Copen-
hagen, Denmark, has arrived to
be with her husband, who is
master of the F. w. Meade of the
Fort Jefferson run. Mrs. Brun
brings a tale of the ship being
searched in every port to see that
no fleeing jews were around.
Wartime restrictions are very
harsh over there at present. With
Mrs. Brun is a little son, Left
Robert. An older son remains in
Copenhagen to finish Junior
High School and the intention is
eventually for him to be here. If
you will remember Alex Brun
telephoned long distance to Den
mark some three months ago ad-
vising his wife to come to Key
West. Family affairs were
Strengthened up and Mrs. Brun is
now enjoying American freedom
from war and Key West sun
shine.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

Mrs. A. r. Wing, who had been
visiting in the city for stay of
five weeks with Mr.. Wing, who
is a member of the personnel of
the neutrality squadron assigned
to this port, left on the morning
bus for her home in Pensacola.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01
COLUMN
MISCELLANEOUS

ANYONE who
saw a little boy run over at the
corner of Simonton and South
ard Tuesday afternoon shortly
after three o'clock kindly COM
municate with Box r, clio The
Citizen. feb1-2tx
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

MANUEL PARDO. of Wash
ington, D. c., is at the Casa Ma
rina for several days. Mr.. Pardo
is the son of the former president
of Peru and is now in the Peru
Wan Embassy in Washington.
This is the first time he has ever
been in Key West, having spent
most of his time in California.
However, he admitted that he
now likes the climate in Florida
much better. He is an ardent
sportsman, playing a fine game of
golf and tennis. While here he
has devoted most of his time to
tennis and is constant figure on
the Casa Marina courts.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

FOR SALE lots, each 50x100.
Run from Washington to Won
Phister street. $3.50. Apply
rear 1917 Petronia street.
apr14-S
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

Senator and Mrs. William A.
MacWilliams of st. Augustine,
who spent several days in Key
West as the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph E. Browne at the
jefferson Hotel, left yesterday
for Miami where they took the
boat last evening for Havana.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

"Of course, if you are too old
and set in your ways you can 60
TO the stores and get just what
you are accustomed to eat at
home, though you might miss
some of your favorite chainstore
brands, for there are no chain
groceries here. But there is no
reason why you should miss a
lot of fun; and you can have
plenty OF interesting adventures
in food in Key West. The Cham
Der of Commerce folders seldom
mention the grocery stores among
the entertainment features of a
city; but browse around them
both the big ones where every
body goes, and the bright ordin-
airy size, and the little neighbor-
hood stores where the owners live
in-and you will find a lot of
novelties and surprises.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

TWO HOUSES on Grinnell
street, 525 and 529. Apply to
Charles E. Watkins, C O Frank
r. Shaddock, 152 NV. And
Street, Miami, Fla. jan31-wk
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

The importation of horned cat
tie from Scotland and Ireland in
to England was prohibited by
law in 1868.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01
FOR SALE

FOURTEEN FIT. tom
CYPRESS BOAT; Four HORSE
Johnson Cupboard Motor; Four
Life Preservers, One Fire Ex-
tingusher; Pair of Oars and
Row Locks; Anchor with Rope
all for $4,000. Apply 1917
Petronia street. jun27-s
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01
MRS. E. ]. HALLICAN, of Da-

MRS. E. ]. HALLIGAN. of Da-
venport, and her brother, E. P.
Walsh, of New York, left yester-
day. They have been at the Casa
Marina for the past two weeks.
Mrs. Halligan will first go to
Washington for a few days before
returning to Iowa. While in the
Capitol City she will visit her
son, who is student at George
town University.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

TED CANoVA of the 'rMary
B" had Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Colt
aboard and they brought in bar
racuda, dolphin and bonita.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01
AMONG THOSE SEEN at tn

AMONG THOSE SEEN at the
cocktail hour were Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Hoffman, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dewitt Balch, Mr.. and Mrs. c. H.
Stuart, Mr.. and Mrs. Lester S.
Kafer. L. P. Ordway and his
daughter, Katherine, were hosts
to Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Caulkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Hitchcock en-
tertaned Col. and Mrs. Henry
Barrett and Mr.. and Mrs. Cyril
Marshall. Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall
were also dinner guests of the
Hitchcocks.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

TWO LOTS on Washington
street near White. $3.50 for
quick sale. Apply 1919 Pearl
street. jan5-S
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

TWO STORY HOUSE AND LOT.
GIG Francis Street. $2500.00-
$4,000 down, balance $500
monthly, go interest. Price re-
duced for cash. Apply Box
RI, The Citizen. jan22-s
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

"Of course, you can get pota-
toes if you want to; but grits is
Tor is it are?) so much better you
won't want to bother with pota-
toes much. Besides there are
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

Remember those big pink
conch shells that serve as door
stops in the parlor? They bring
in the big ones from the reefs; or
you can wade out in the shoals
and find tender, partly grown
ones, that brandish a brown
cutlaSs about when you handle
them. Drop them in boiling wa
ter for a moment and slip them
out of their pink apartments; dis
card the soft parts and cube the
ivory meat, and with vegetables
they make a delicious chowder
akin to that made from CLANS.
And if you choose, you may sea-
son it with just a pinch of Cuban
'cOmino' which is the 'cumin'
seed of the Bible. You will like
hat, too. We have heard that
octopus is also delicious, but we
have not tried that yet.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01
B. c. HoPEMAN AND c. B.

COLE were out aboard the Allen
roc, Mr.. Hopeman's cruiser, and
their catch included several good
sized bonita. u.xn.ua-..
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

FIRST SAIL was brought in by
Mrs. P. T. Williams of Indianapo-
lis, Ind. It measured four feet
five inches and weighed eight
pounds. She had been out three
times previously but this was
her first sail and she is having
it mounted. Her huband and
daughter, Dorothy, were the 9th
er anglers. Together they land
ed three barracuda, one bonita,
one dolphin and a shark. The
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

THREE PFLEUGER TEMPLAR
REELS. In good working con-
dition. Will sell cheap. Also,
have Redwing 1886 horsepow-
er motor with many new parts.
Will sell entirely or by parts.
Apply Box P, The Citizen.
jan19-tf
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

LAST EVENING was perfect
for dancing and a great many of
the hotel guests and Key Westers
took advantage of it to crowd the
patio. Among those seen was
one party of Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
lace Kirke, Admiral Hutchinson
Cone, General and Mrs. Cancp-
bell King, General and Mrs. Fred
Dalton, Captain and Mrs. A. S.
Carpenter, William r. Porter,
Magruder Dent, Clifford Mallory,
and Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Stuart.
In another party were Mr.. and
Mrs. E. H. Foster, Miss Eleanor
Foster, and Mr.. and Mrs. J. l..
Kempthorne. Another group en-
joying the dancing were Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Hitchcock and Mr.. and
Mrs. Cyril Marshall.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

Here in Key West the Ameri-
can Fruit company does not OPP
crate and bananas are often
small and much inferior in quail
ity to those everywhere in the
north, and usually higher in price.
But one may adventure in them
nevertheless. There are plump
little ones three inches long
called Apple bananas, or more
often, hog bananas; long small
ones, the principal variety, that
might be Cavendish, like those
we once grew in the greenhouse
at home. And you may see a
bunch of red bananas now and
then. But the first you will see
will be the long green plantains;
10 inches long and like horns as
they hang on the bunch. You
wont want to miss trying them.
Wait until they are yellow and
black; then peel them and cut
them crosswise and fry them, and
they come on the table the love-
Hest golden buttons with a tiny
bit of brown stitching in the CEN
ter. They are fit to set before a
queen; but once you taste them,
the queen won't get any unless
it's your own queen. They are
more smooth, and more delicate,
than sweet potatoes. Better have
them fully ripe. though; other
wise, like other bananas, there
may be slight acidity you may
not like quite so well.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

COMPLETELY FURNISH HE'D
HOUSE AND THREE LOTS at
corner of Patterson Avenue
and 5th Street, facing north
side boulevard. $7,0O0.00-$1,
10000 down and balance $4,000
monthly, go interest. Price
reduced for cash. Ideal loca-
ton for Cabin Camp. Also,
several vacant lots-low prices,
terms. Apply Box RI, The
Citizen. jan22-S
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

A. w. Steinmetz, member of
the air corps of the U. S. Army,
who had been visiting in the
city for two days, left on the
early bus for Miami and will
there entrain for Philadelphia.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

Mrs. P. Orloff, who had been
visiting as the guest of her
daughter, Mrs. Edgar Sanchez,
for several days, left on the 7
o'clock bus for her home in Mi
ami.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

SECOND SHEETS-5OO for SOC
The Artman Press. nov19-tf
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

But your fish course does not
have to be grunts all the time.
There is any number of other
delicious fish in pink and blue,
green or silver, gray or brown;
and if you choose a red grouper
of about 8 or 10 pounds, you will
just about hit the top. Almost
anyone you ask about cooking
fish will tell you to cover it with
lime juice and lay it in the ice
box for a few hours. We don't
know why yet, but these folks
know. That is what you do with
those lovely pearly crawfish tails,
too. And then there are turtle
steaks-but we have those yet to
try.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01
POSITION WANTED

POSITION WANTED: Expert
enced secretary, stenographer
and typist desires position.
Best references. Box D, The
Citizen. feb1-s
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

Ten Presidents of the United
States were Episcopalians.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

Mrs. John H. Mcneil, who had
been visiting as the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Alvin E. Pope at their
apartment at 901 North Beach,
left on the morning bus for her
home in Trenton, N. j.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

Mr.. AND MRS. DEWITT
BALCH and Mr.. and Mrs. Her
bert Hoffman fished from the
Legion" with jake Key. Their
catch included grouper and bar
racuda. Mrs. Balch hooked a
good-sized sail but the tackle was
too light and the fish broke the
line. y 81
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

THE HOT TIP which flashed
forth today is that the Key West
Works Progress Administration
Area will shortly be abolished.
The Key West area will be trans
ferred to Miami. Slowly but
surely, what folks have been pre-
dieting for years may come
about. The nations relief pro-
gram is being brought closer and
closer together until at last moth
ing will be there. Remaining to
be completed under W.P.A. spon-
sorship and which is immediate
ly pressing is: connecting of
main sewer lines to sidewalk
lines, completion of Garrison
Blight City Yacht Basin, building
of county beach just north of
Rest Beach, completion of Keys
and Key West drainage program
in the anti-mosquito program,
athletic field on Flagler avenue.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

NO Low COST HOME has
been sold as yet under the plan
being advocated by local
agency, but the first loan for
renovation has gone through. 1t
is this first loan which entailed
such legal work. Others are ex-
pected to move faster. The prof.
ect plans greater housing for Key
West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

PERSONAL CARDS, SIPS per
100. THE ARTMAN PRESS :
iun25-tt
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

Mortimer Fullerton, world
wide traveller, who had been in
Key West for one week, left on
the early bus for a visit to the
Gasparilla Festival in Tampa.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

COMPLETELY FURNISH ED
HOTEL AND APARTMENT
HOUSE, 1104 Division Street.
Everything new, all conven-
fences, Is rooms, 4 baths. 3d.
5O0.00-$2,OOO.0O down, balance
$4,000 monthly So interest.
Price reduced for cash. Apply
Box RI, The Citizen. jan22- s
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

ENGLISH BICYCLE, Lady's
model. Will pay cash. Apply
Capt. Brun, Boat Atlantic, Gulf
Dock. feb1-1tx
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

FIVE BOATS went out yester-
day from the Casa Marina dock
and two returned with sailfish.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

Another in this series of Ma
ture Notes" will be presented in
The Citizen in an early issue.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

SUTTON LINES states that
decking and steel housing were
requirements laid down by
Steamboat Inspectors for the
Florida to make the Fort Jeffer-
son run. The boilers, contrary to
a report in this column, were
tested at a satisfactory pressure
Mr.. Sutton will wait until next
summer and take the boat, prob
ably to Tampa, to be completely
outfitted in accordance with re-
quirements, then bring it to Key
West all ready to make the run.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01

: Other Things. once we stopped IN
a little corner store, and looked
around. What's that?' we said,
when we saw a bin of what
looked like the corncobs grand
mother used to cork the molasSes
jug with. That's eddys. 1t comes
from Cuba when the boat comes
in on Thursdays. You cook it
like potatoes. We bought some
They looked like calabium bulbs
to us, and they probably were.
'Eddys?' said Charles Aguerro at
the filling station. Yes, they are
good. You peel them and boil
them, and then fry them with
onions or garlic. We ate ours
planned boiled, and found them
better than many potatoes, but
no better than the best.
About halfway on Elizabeth
street there is a vegetable garden
on an otherwise vacant lot, and
sign out. We eyed it several
times as we passed, and one day
stopped, as there were long rows
of casSava there, clusters of clean
green stalks four feet tall with
many leaves at top. Turnips, and
chard and spinach, cabbage and
collards, lettuce and parsley and
we don't know what all were
there too. 'Cassava won't be
ready until February, said the
weathered old Cuban whose gar
den it is. 1t takes a year to
grow. But later we found some
long cylindrical roots in a gro
Gerry display. They looked like
sausages with fibrous red brown
bark. 'Cassava', said the pro-
prietor. 1t comes on the boat
from Cuba. Peeled and cooked,
it came on the table looking like
potato, but split down the grain
like wood. The Eden lady took
one taste. That's good, she
said; we will have that again.
The texture is rich and smooth;
the flavor nutty and satisfying;
one thinks of oyster plant, but
cassava is more refined and deli
cate. No wonder it is the bread
of most of South America and
Africa. But if there are black
threads inside, don't take it; that's
blight, and you won't like it. 1t
should be SnoW-White.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01
ANSWERS TO
TODAY'S DAILY QUIZ
Below are the Answers to TodaY's
Daily Quiz printed on Page 2

l. Asteroids.
2. Polo.
3. Scotland.
4. 80.
5. Count Stephen Csaky. 4
g. Cleveland Indians.
2. Scarlet carnation.
g. Franz.
g. AT the time of the spring
e. and autumn equinoXes.
10. 9Klondike gold rush.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-01
WANTED

GOOD COOK and housekeeper.
% Family of three. Denison, 628
F." White Street. ;an31- 2tx
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16

Crusade. It's purpose is to help little chloren
everywhere in terms of their too otten Ter
rible reed with the pennies of little Amerl-
cans who are so blessed with security. But
the coming of these homeless children to
the South in the past should give a special
bond between children in safety in the South
and children in trouble in the world A good
deal of money and energy has been expended
among us in tracing ancestry back 10 early
times and to personages in those tlnes' but
some of us at any rate are the descendants
Of those children who were sent so lar across
so wide a sea from homelessness IN England.
And none of us even in the greatest security
today can count in this moderh clVlllZalion
which so often resembles a madhouse any
certainty in security for our own chlloren IN
the future. All of us are too much one Win
driven and bewildered and hurt children of
our times to disregard them. Our children are
only asked now to share their pennies with
other mems children whose destiny IN the
years ahead may not be so different from that
of our own. Those pennies will not only feed
children, they will nourish also the quick
warm-heartedness of childhood in an lncreas-
ingly insensitive world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16

senting the city's population -
said. 10
The census supervisor said ~,
some Of the enumerators, in Ie,, oaa'
individual blanks to be filea
had made it impossible for all ~ ,%
returns to be in by now. The ina,
viduals in filling out the Mo-,
mailed them to Washingtcn
either to the Lumberton office sas
not to the enumerator in thei~ 5fr.,
ion, he said.
Several of the local enumaro
have entirely completed the co,,''
in their divisions. One enu,ner..a.
he pointed out, not only got evoY,.
n residing along the river bY,
went out on the river and recorT,S
several house-boat dweIlers.
Darlington said that reporls
far are nothing to get a,arroeS
about.
Don't worry" he said, "evocyo,.
will be counted before it's all n,srH
harrington will meet with r,,,,
enumerators in room Fps al tha
customhouse this morning ar .
o'clock for a discussion of the farm,
census. He will return to I5,mra.
ton this afternoon and plans in 70
turn here probably next week for .
personal reecheck on the population
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
THE PRESSING NEED

For some time past the Star has champion
ed the cause Of traffic safety, with particular
reference to the enforcement of rules prohib.
iting jay walking and signal crashing by
pedestrians. The Star has felt that security
of life and limb would be better assured if
these hazards were eliminated.
Now, after carefully observing conditions
at intersections protected by traffic signals,
tbs Star is convinced that the danger of be.
ing run down and MANNED or killed is less
from jay walking and even from signal
crashing than from permitting automobiles
to make a right turn on the red light.
AS long as this hazard exists at intersec.
tions, persons afoot are safer in crossing at
mid-block than at corners. There they have
only to watch vehicles approaching from the
right or the left, but at intersections must
also guard themselves from attack at the
rear.
This is not to condone jaywalking. AS a
general thing it is p~erilous. But if it affords
a larger degree of safety than is found at
street crossings what is to be said against it?
Surely pedestrians are justified in pursuing
a course which imposes least risk of injury.
The need is for abrogation Of the ordinance
permitting right turns on red lights.