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1667-2 Fisher Island A. itu .ri tutu its ares .Jllare I ract illi. L title Sam � . By STITREY TRUMBL.LL Mena, mat lamer Government Boat Is Only Link Between "°' # "a els h• ; CTA\DING at Greater tined to eras, .auilk Th• J Evac la kept mowed like the Miami's front door from Mainland and Fill Built By Carl Fisher 2ree t os a weltkept roll the sea.there's an Island that .and the enure macre Is as remote from most Dade : orament tract hi a model citizens a shill. of n.ahe... • It uher an added bred home(arm near Lessor;on. Reach Jou a few sales intoes away, going arrain� a 200foo: Two doctors are on constant lees a to art G. Fish, Ky. ( tial,of as many as 20 yacht. duty. V.'Ith the boarding oftl • - • • er, developer of Miami Beach. The buBdings scattered around rooms This design mill Is Tess• eers' nonmedical men, they Everyone who traces the cause- and orer the half mile by three- The estate is so sprawled out hush,and camera are u reel. work 12•hour xhtfu.Mlunl rosy way or who madequartsrs 41 late,aprcanttraeonle of that there are electric scooters come errand the Place as the hereDe a constants trek of ha- has entered oto take the guests shout the plague. from the sea which "Vold be hard to equal. place There's a yacht slip that nmu boats and other small ships has seen It.but There are storm-ripped and would provide Space for van- In addition to this sctirity, comingW. 6omeumea the ga.- only those who dilapidate army barracks that ma/erbllt's big Alva. and for Ma Wood has a big.warehouse type er menu"es tsmard a many as have business are mementos of the war days yachts of any visitinnga friends. Quonset filled with machinery •sassla a day. en or sorial can- when a defense battery A huge crane can plc 'em out• for carrying out his Ideal tarts with its was loco there.And there la of the water up to about 12 * * three land own- the Moore estate that tons and whisk them under the e e • n ever get ramb over the southeast rover of what was once a aft. BOATS of this am there. t etas!K lane ha t PABai\G 61iiME.Vrc tin a •bit Y provide the only link with These threw a William K.Van- p '• mare familiar with the third the mainland. In Fisher's day are the United - derbik ft is colossal in * * States public Its elegy There are 11 builds - activity over there, the quan i. he visualized and fought TRCIOLZL Ings in architectural style ROOD has no e oa the use moon ti . mightily fora bridge connecting health service that D a tly Moorish, island,but he 4 the hergest lard- It's'a model community of It with Mainland. He wane. and Its ship quarantine station: w-er over there. Throughout nine brown concrete and•r^^. ed that island to house the con- millionaire Gar Wood.the spool These rawer from testiest me war be was buv with hush. tiled roof hulid^es headed a-.. Menial docks of;he area boat kine. and millionaire Ed. little seat rottage• mhi.h h,:sh hull designs.Now he has rent:, b'' Dr. John H. Linsnn• The late K 0.Sewell.mayor ward S.Moore,whose hobby .a wouldo2 rest for more than a crew of some 20 workmen medical director and medical of. of Miami and a fellow who 'the famous Circle M thorough- !1.500 tt season on Miami busy revamping one of his sea- !leer in charge. never knew when he wan • _.��^���, •-._ licked,fought Mot as mightily - to rat them nn the Miami side. Sewell won. By history's strange trick of repeating itself. Miami Beach— recently as 14 months ago—re. sewed the drum beating for a • fern link to that island and • Nen a bridgefrom there to Vin glnia Key. The Wand still lees • within the munlcipal boundaries of Miami Beach. • FISHER put some 63.000.000 Into the Island development,am •cording to the memory of C.tV,• Chase. Jr.. his ales manager r and aecreuny.treasurer at the time,and who slid is active In the real estate business at Miami Beach. Only about 61.000.000 worth of pronerty had been sold on. the 7gland when the boom • co:lapsed. The Fisher development in. eluded the pumping in of nal. t.lions of yards of and and deep dredging all around the Island ha: :lad been a tip of Miami proper until the first ship chan- nel was dredged through. • Fisher also built a moo.. learn there, with the family etched above the door. It°still stands among some hurricane-killed .hu.tra I I•m pine..■nocrmpled and It..mar. hie facing carried away. Pines have sprung up on the fill all over the Island.with only a couple of narrow and roads kept open. Two trucks and the • horse kept on the Island by Dr. ' Linsori are the extent of the • traffic. r * ONLY THE MARRIKIS per. 1 sonnel of the quarantine station 1 —some half a dozen families— i• and the caretaker at the Moore • t estate spend the r.ights on the Wand. • Raccoons roam through the - pines, worried only slightly by the Island's three dogs.Of these. • . the most vigorous is Queenle,a I nondescript that has attached herself to the boat holder • s• working for Wood. Dr. L.dn- eons Scottie. Lassie. prefers sleeping in the shade to chasing • f` them. as does her daughter, Skipper. the result Of a mlaal• trance with a visiting Cocker Spaniel iA couple of domestic house- '', have "gone native" In the '� brush. These, with the penned • ' flamingos, ducks and chickens ( at the Moore estate, make up the livestock population. • y Only regular transportation to the island is yla the hoarding e boats of the public health sem,• ice running from the Miami t Beach mainland. And these are { only for visitors with official • business.