1674-3 Jane Fisherr Y s--.-s--rsr-sr i -
THE MIAMI PILRALD Randay. Xafeh :E. 1N3
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Miami Beach Was Her Birthday Present
By KURT LL?DTKE
Herold UWt WO*
• In a Lincoln Road tram
,pray.d garish gold. the v.:d-
ew of the man.who bui:t M:-•
arni Reacn rode alone and
anonymous.
nn." saved In Jane Esh-
er. Nn one knew who she
• w 14. or who silt had been
She -sat erect nn the (tow
<eat, an cider:y but not n:d
woman in a wide-britntr.r.',
straw hat Her yellow kn:r
jacket clashed with the be:ze
dre<4 t:^der ne.l:h. •S e
set:cd. -
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The Srtth p.,
rad.. went n.+rth si..ng %ta.h-
Inclon .Venue. Carl Fisher.
r:e.,rg• e'.•ttin.. th••. flan-
rna.t. and .1. N. Lurn eut
the mad Ihr..utth p..Inw•tlo
Jungle
_') t cer.t;:ry h•c:•y r .ern
ar.t wa%ed. Fe p[.• in
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hlth:r.g ser.'1 w•':'e. It
c .' ;aa to:n' the kn,-,
and down to -the e:hows. lt'e
-.ser; 1,, church is >1:afri and
live pricer there za.e me the
eT •:enc f••r i'.
' I tsert h.•rre and cr:ed. I
1...:n hu:'t. Car: pi• hie arras
a -..rd me and said: 'beauti-
f tt air, are r:1•te to h.`
he
'Then he stopped a minute
and thought and he said '1'I1
do It.' He had pictures taken
of girl. In bathing sults and
he sent them to all the pa-
p•rs.' That was how cheese -
raise Marled."
The • laud - people In the
s rnsrl that stood in the sun
t•i w atrh the parade looked
ar the tram and were funny.
"livres my dire." yelled a
r.;an ;n bermttdas. "How
a''olt a ride!'"
Mrs. Fisher, who once
maned the land the man
stood nn. smiled and waved.
'Thank you," she said.
remember -when w'e riot
Mame here. 'We had to walk
over nn the wooden bridge
that George (•oltins built. 1
thought Carl was erazy.
"I was married when I was
I3, my aunt and my mother.
ton. That was • 1910. You
figure how old that is. Carl.
was 37, but I was in love. My
birthday is Monday. I used to
think It was nice because _It
came just a(ter,the city !vas
incorporated.
"Carl used to tell me the
city was my birthday
present."
The tramcar( chugged by
• Johns Discount House. Up
ahead was Cobb's, where
Carl Fisher's office once
stood. He died in 1939.
'The- most exciting time
URA the war, with all the
soldiers here. But I loved the
polo games, too, on' Fire -
stone's fields. Julius Fleisch-
mann 'died there, of a heart
attack.
. "Everybody thought• Mr.
Fisher bought Rode. the ele-
phant, foe the tourists, but
somehow• that got -*twisted
around. That was a present
to me, from a family that
owned a circa. In French
Lick, Indiana. They sent her.
And the largest dog In The
world. It was an Irish wolf-
hound. It was nine feet, pine
Inches from top to tall. -
" When they got here,
there'wasn't any sort of con-
veyance big enough 'to of.
them. We sent Julius — he
was our boy — over to the
,railroad station and he
walked Rosie back across the
bridge. it was something to
see. -
"I got the dog a room In
the Flamingo Hotel." •
The tramcart moved past
the convention hall and the
reviewing stand. Mrs. Fisher
pointed to the rose beds. -
"Aren't they lovely?" she
said. "1 grow• roses, now...
Naval Reserve Float, With Seaside Skyline in Background
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